Articles by Chris Whibbs

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  Mono & World's End Girlfriend

  Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  Just around six months after their pinnacle of post-rock release, You Are There, Japan’s Mono have teamed up with fellow country-mate, and...

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  Corrina Repp

  The Absent and the Distant

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  Though it should be the music that matters, it is the label that also draws some listeners to make their purchase. If it’s on Asthmatic Kit...

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  Early Day Miners

  Offshore

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  When looking for inspiration in music, it’s sometimes hard to push through the stylistic wall that the artist has already put up in place....

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  The Awkward Stage

  Heaven is for Easy Girls

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. For the Awkward Stage’s main songwriter, Shane Nelken, he’s puttered...

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  Califone

  Roots & Crowns

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  Having the word "roots” in the title is decidedly apt, as Califone seem to have left the haze of, at least, Heron King Blues, behind and go...

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  Grizzly Bear

  Yellow House

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  It all started so simply. Edward Droste and a guitar made Horn of Plenty as an experiment to test his songwriting mettle. But, it led to in...

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  The Dears

  Gang of Losers

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Change is in the cards for this follow-up to the appropriately epic, No Cities Left. Where that album was cold and unforgiving, Losers warm...

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  A Northern Chorus

  Before We All Go to Pieces

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  With the successful release of the incredible Bitter Hands Resign last year, people seemed to be clamouring for all things A Northern Choru...