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Idlewild: The Remote Part
The Scottish band Idlewild staged a brief U.S. hype invasion in early 2001, following a familiar wave of fawning overseas press with the heavily promoted release of 100 Broken Windows. Seemingly dozen
Gastr Del Sol: Camoufleur
Camoufleur, Gastr Del Sol's fourth full-length album and the final collaboration between founder David Grubbs and wild card Jim O'Rourke, is not so much the pop record the two have been threatening as
Freedy Johnston: Blue Days, Black Nights
If any criticism has stuck to otherwise acclaimed singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston, it's the assertion that his major-label albums have been too mild, mannered, and mild-mannered: Slickly produced an
Quasi: Featuring Birds
For some reason, the best pop music seems to revolve around emotional turmoil. Many bands revel in this classic juxtaposition, but Quasi's queasy interband psychology may further explain a bit of its
Various Artists: Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats
The history of rap music is in many ways a history of false starts and missed opportunities. At once popular music's most cannibalistic genre and an outlet for limitless creativity, rap is littered wi
Wyclef Jean: Presents The Carnival (Featuring Refugee Allstars)
As one-third of The Fugees, the Haitian-born, Brooklyn-raised Wyclef Jean threw together rap, reggae and soul on 1996's The Score, bridging the gap between Port-au-Prince and Flatbush Avenue and makin
: Album Of The Year
Sometimes, bands break up at the right time: Soundgarden, for example, packed it in just as its overblown grunge shrieking was becoming trite and self-parodic. By quitting when it did, the band preser
Various Artists: Essential Pebbles Volume One
Today, bands are self-aware to the point where they can pick and choose which rock clichés to embrace and which to discard. Sure, they may use the clichés, but not without a knowing wink so we know it
Space Needle: The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle
Long Island's Space Needle received a good deal of acclaim for its first album, a solid ambient guitar work recorded for next to nothing on a four-track. Now the budget has gone up, but the quality, l
Dr. Dooom: First Come, First Served
For his 1996 solo debut, Kool Keith (a.k.a. Keith Thornton), formerly of the Ultramagnetic MCs, lined up a cast of underground hip-hop all-stars, securing the services of both Dan Nakamura (a.k.a. The
Harlem World: The Movement
For the artists assembling them, posse albums are a win-win proposition: They get paid for doing very little work, they get to find jobs for their friends and relatives, and no one really holds it aga
Red House Painters: Retrospective
It's encouraging to see that Red House Painters has been deemed worthy of a two-disc retrospective at this point in its career: Throughout the '90s, the San Francisco band has made some of the most el
Supreme Beings Of Leisure: Supreme Beings Of Leisure
It could have happened differently. Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons could have fixated on something other than John Barry-inspired spy music, and the first Portishead album could have spawned a legion o
Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I'm From
There are so many singer-songwriters floating about these days that you could call it a surplus if so many of them weren't worth hearing. Among the most immediately striking is Joseph Arthur, whose se
James Iha: Let It Come Down
Billy Corgan has never denied being the center of attention in The Smashing Pumpkins: His whiny voice and chaotic songs define the band, and sometimes it's easy to forget that Corgan doesn't do it all
Weezer: Pinkerton
Weezer's self-titled 1994 debut was one of that year's great guilty pleasures, a glossy slab of rock candy with the kitschy self-awareness to match its swollen arena-anthem choruses. And if songs like
Kahimi Karie: Kahimi Karie
American pop music went international long ago, but countries around the world have still elected to nourish their own pop stars to compete with the constant infusion of the Top 40. From Cuba to Austr
Prince Paul: Prince Among Thieves
When historians look back on the evolution of rap as a genre, it's likely that the late '90s will be remembered as a golden age of progressive hip hop. Just as the late '80s saw the growth and develop
Chris Isaak: Baja Sessions
Chris Isaak's new Baja Sessions wasn't recorded anywhere near the Baja region, but was reportedly "inspired" by the exotic land. That seems true enough, as these 13 songs drift lazily alongside Isaak'
Richard Thompson: Mock Tudor
With Danny Thompson (no relation), Richard Thompson turned his attention to the rise and decline of Britain in the machine age on 1997's Industry, so it only makes sense that industry's aftermath woul
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