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    Saint Cloud

    Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud

    I listen to Waxahatchee and I'm confused. This album, Saint Cloud, has this kind of adult contemporary, singer-songwriter type thing. Like a more traditional Sheryl Crow
    Have We Met

    Destroyer: Have We Met

    Destroyer is almost an idea more than it is a band. It's a thing that lives inside Dan Bejar's head. It makes almost no sense when you pull back from it, and almost less
    It's Real

    Ex Hex: It’s Real

    I don't know much about Pat Benatar other than the fact she was a style icon. And played some 80s rock tunes that stylized power chords and put some ballz into the genre
    Power Chords

    Mike Krol: Power Chords

    Mike Krol’s Power Chords is like an ode to what music ought to be. No, seriously. There’s so...
    Fall Into the Sun

    Swearin’: Fall Into the Sun

    There’s something warm and inviting about boy/girl singing. Even if it’s not at the same time. Like Blake...
    Turkey

    Mike Krol: Turkey

    Jay Reatard may be gone but his spirit lives on in the disturbingly manic Mike Krol. Clocking in...
    Rips

    Ex Hex: Rips

    This irony here — or not so much irony, but pity — is that this is the album Wild...
    MCII

    Mikal Cronin: MCII

    What rock music these days isn’t in some varying throwback style? What’s old is new and all that....
    Wild Flag

    Wild Flag: Wild Flag

    Welcome to Sleater-Kinney’s less annoying little cousin. Not to say that all Sleater-Kinney is annoying, but there’s only...
    Kaputt

    Destroyer: Kaputt

    My reaction to this album was somewhat akin to my reaction the first time I heard Spoon’s Girls...