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Frankie Cosmos :: Close It Quietly

Frankie Cosmos :: Close It Quietly

Sweetness and sunshine without overstepping into cloying and saccharine, with chiming guitars and subtle keyboard hooks providing a bed for clear female croonings.

Mikal Cronin :: Switched-On Seeker

Mikal Cronin :: Switched-On Seeker

A fully synthesized version of Cronin’s previous album, this retake offers the same moody melodies as “Seeker”, this time filled to the brim with the warble and saw of old-tyme synthes.

The Mountain Goats :: Songs for Pierre Chuvin

The Mountain Goats :: Songs for Pierre Chuvin

No topic is too esoteric for John Darnielle to base an entire Mountain Goats album on, not even the persecution of pagans as a wave of Christianity moved through Europe in the middle ages.