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MGMT

MGMT

MGMT

September 16, 2013

Indie Pop

Though MGMT have worked with Dave Fridmann in the past, the band's daring third album finds them in a better place artistically to work with the sonic auteur. Making use of the spaciousness Fridmann is so adept at capturing, MGMT's eponymous offering shows a band that has grown increasingly confident in their experiments with glammy, spaced out pop.

- Gregory Heaney

Fight Eat Sleep

Too Noisy Fish

Fight Eat Sleep

September, 2013

Avant-Garde Jazz

Recording at Oz Fritz’s California studio, this Flemish threesome proves to be one of the finest creative jazz piano trios anywhere, even while accompanying an audio snippet from a Tarkovsky film, dodging Space Invaders laser cannon, and having their session rudely interrupted by cellphone calls.

- Dave Lynch

Devotion + Doubt

Richard Buckner

Devotion + Doubt

March 11, 1997

Alt-Country

This stark and haunting album documents Buckner's heartache through darkened rooms and dusty midnight backroads. Orchestrated sparsely by acoustic instruments and unconventional arrangements, Devotion + Doubt hums and thrums through my speakers each autumn.

- Zac Johnson