Articles by Alex Molotkow

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  New Year's Resolution

  New Year's Resolution

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  New Year's Resolution make pleasant, shimmering, autumnal indie pop — something like Death Cab For Cutie with a Sleater-Kinney vocal delive...

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  Paso Mino

  Good People

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  When you're recreating Neil Young, there are a few directions you can take. You can make epic, sorrowful country rock songs (Magnolia Elect...

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  Sons And Daughters

  The Repulsion Box

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Indie rock is often polarised between maudlin whine-rock and embarrassing attempts at quirk, with not a lot of in between. So begins the st...

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  Thanksgiving

  In The World

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  There are some musicians who can pick up a guitar, sing over three chords and churn out a religious experience. This is the reason that, fo...

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  Chicago & New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band and Le Tigre

  Papa, Don't Lay That Shit on Me

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  The Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands formed in the early ’70s out of Second Wave feminist communities. Their intention w...

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  Cloud Cult

  Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  Listening to this album is like floating into a musical workshop on Mars. Fuzzy, grinding gears attach parts of rock onto radio pop and scr...

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  Piano Magic

  Disaffected

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  Somewhere between the Cure and Arab Strap lies Piano Magic's latest album — a combination of electronic tinged mope music and tragic ambien...

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  Thanksgiving

  The River

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  Thanksgiving's best gift as a songwriter is his careful judgement. Like a genius kid playing with Knex, he starts with a simple blueprint i...