Staff Reviews
Lower Dens - Nootropics
Review by RichA piece of carefully layered and textured indie rock from Lower Dens....
Nootropics is awash in a dreaminess that draws to mind the acid buzz of the Paisley Underground or the serene melancholy of Berlin-era Bowie, rather than the flaky loops of contemporary hypna-whatever. This is a pretty serious album. It's moody and often tense, densely textured, and wound up tight. Lower Dens is led by Texas-based Jana Hunter. Her development has seen her emerge from the darker corners of alternative folk/country music. Though originally finding a place on Devendra Banhart's Gnomonsong label as a solo artist, she has never quite sat flush with the gypsy-caravan-rainbow-push-poke thing that that crew cocooned themselves in. Hunter comes from the corners of freak folk where the frontier is still a menacing figure in the American psyche. And at its core this album is an American album: a piece of carefully layered, but also hauntingly sparse indie rock...that brand of American indie rock that paints pictures of 2am drives through the desert (or silent strolls throug...
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International Record Store Day happenings for Saturday 21st April, 2012!
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Grace Note/Sugar Mountain launch at Flinders Lane store...
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Staff picks for 2011 - our favourite records...
RECORD STORE DAY APRIL 21ST 2012
Facebook event page here!
20% OFF SALE – VINYL, CDs, BOOKS & DVDs
LIMITED RECORD STORE DAY RELEASES FROM:
Arcade Fire- Animal Collective- Domino Records- David Lynch- Beach [...]
Our first instore of the year and also unofficial opening party for Sugar Mountain Festival. Music supplied by Forces & Galapagoose as well as the launch of 'Grace Note [...]
Staff Picks for 2011
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Overseas
1. Russell Haswell - In It LP/DVD-A
Possibly one of the greatest home listening experiences of my life the night I brought this beast home with me. Haswell's [...]


