Recent Thrilling Releases

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  Vijay Iyer / Vijay Iyer Sextet
  Far from Over
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  The pianist draws upon late-'60s Miles Davis and Mwandishi-era Herbie Hancock for this daring, exploratory sextet date.

  - Matt Collar
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  Downtown Boys
  Cost of Living
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  Striking and powerful third album from these leftist punks raises the stakes and provides rallying cries for troubled times.

  - Mark Deming
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  Jan St. Werner
  Spectric Acid
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  Mouse on Mars' Jan St. Werner delivers an exercise in sheer force with this bludgeoning album of pounding jackhammer rhythms.

  - Paul Simpson
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  T. Rex
  Remixes
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  Fifteen remix artists put a new spin on Marc Bolan's glam-era classics, with highly uneven results.

  - Mark Deming
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  Medicine
  2.0 Extraneous
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  Collecting B-sides and rarities, this release is slightly more interesting than the 2003 album from noise pop group Medicine.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Xordox
  Neospection
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  Foetus mastermind J.G. Thirlwell debuts his outer space sci-fi electro alias Xordox with this thrilling full-length for Editions Mego.

  - Paul Simpson