Recent Messy Releases

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  Guided by Voices
  Mirrored Aztec
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  The band's fourth album in a 16-month period embraces power pop and clean production, with songs a cut above even their usual strong output.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Eric Copeland
  Dumb It Down
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  The Black Dice member switches gears dramatically with an album of concise pop tunes, but still can't escape his own inherent weirdness.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Mike Polizze
  Long Lost Solace Find
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  The solo debut from the leader of the abrasive Purling Hiss is a stunning turn towards gentle acoustic beauty and understated arrangements.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Various Artists
  1978: The Year the UK Turned Day-Glo
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  Excellent three-disc set chronicling the year British punk began splitting off in new directions and grew from a fad into a movement.

  - Mark Deming
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  Meridian Brothers
  Cumbia Siglo XXI
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  Eblis Álvarez's loopy exploration of cumbia via the example of a 1980s-era Colombian sci-fi disco band, neo-psychedelia, and primitive neo-electro.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Quicksails
  Blue Rise
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  Lush, elaborate synthesizer-based compositions which play like scenes from a virtual forest.

  - Paul Simpson