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Infected Mushroom

Trance - Released January 27, 2017 | Mushroom Touring Inc.

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The Fall of Troy

Rock - Released May 1, 2007 | Equal Vision Records

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Sister Squares

Electronic - Released March 3, 2023 | Merge Records

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Katie DeMartini

Pop - Released April 21, 2023 | kaitlyn

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Ty Segall

Pop - Released August 25, 2014 | Drag City Records

It's not exactly a secret that Ty Segall has been allowing his inner popmeister to take the spotlight with greater frequency as his solo career has gained traction, and with 2014's Manipulator, he's delivered one of his most satisfying fusions of pop songcraft and rock & roll snazz. The album opens with the title song, a glorious Brian Wilson homage built around vintage keyboards, but on most of the tracks, Segall's guitars take center stage, and while the expected buzzy chaos is still a major part of his sound, the acoustic textures of "The Clock" and "Green Belly," and the dueling electric/acoustic lines on "Don't You Want to Know (Sue)," show that his picking can be neat and precise when he wants it to be (and the former suggests he's been listening to his old T. Rex albums). When Segall does stomp on the fuzzbox and let rip on rave-ups like "The Crawler" and "It's Over," he's still capable of making his guitar howl like a wounded dinosaur, but the songs here rely far less on lo-fi noise, and the potent grooves of "Mister Main" and the string-laden melodies of "Stick Around" are '70s-style wonders, not dependent on 21st century noise to connect. Ultimately, it's the chunky, elemental melodies of numbers like "The Singer" and "Feel" that make Manipulator so satisfying, and the production is just dirty enough to make the most of Segall's guitars, while still allowing the finer details of the performances to shine through. Manipulator is a reminder that Ty Segall knows his rock & roll, but he knows a lot more than just that, and this '70s-inspired madness results in one of Segall's best and most pleasurable efforts to date.© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Astro Tough

Audiobooks

Alternative & Indie - Released October 1, 2021 | Heavenly Recordings

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The 2018 debut of the studio project audiobooks -- the duo of producer/engineer David Wrench and singer/artist/model Evangeline Ling -- was a theatrical, form-shifting work born largely out of improvisation. When they re-teamed for the follow-up, they took a more deliberate, streamlined approach, focusing on their playfully arty, club-minded post-punk and techno tracks for the creation of Astro Tough. A nonetheless moody, volatile set of songs, it also finds the duo committing to Ling as sole vocalist. They set the scene with pulsing bass, upbeat hi-hat chicks, and a repeated melodic synth hook on opener "The Doll," whose vocals in the first half consist of a spoken word narrative involving a child and a lost doll. Adding layers of synths to looped beats, the second half switches to DJ-friendly sung vocal samples that include the phrase "So hard to let go." Elsewhere, "First Move" has a more melodic, dance-pop disposition, while "Driven by Beef" features an increasingly outraged Ling as she rants about acne and enemies atop overdriven synth bass and skittering drums. Wry highlight "The English Manipulator" ("He was so rude and well-mannered") offers another danceable narrative, this time with colorful bleeps and bloops ornamenting dramatic sung-spoken recollections and the contrasting melodic choruses. When audiobooks occasionally opt out of dance spaces for something more jazz-rock-oriented ("Blue Tits") or for the melancholy Baroque pop of closer "Farmer," these tracks still manage to sound like they belong, as they play into the album's self-medicating, easily triggered emotional arc. A welcome evolution from the debut, Astro Tough's lingering inconsistency is part of the fun.© Marcy Donelson /TiVo
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Primitive Plus

Edan

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released January 1, 2000 | Lewis Recordings

"There can be no future without a past." Never before has an album exemplified that hip-hop credo with more maverick boldness than Primitive Plus. It is a wild, weird, instantly left-field rap masterpiece from one seriously bugged-out, innovative loner. Edan, a Boston suburbanite, plays the bedroom-geek wunderkind on "One Man Arsenal" who does triple time on production, behind the turntables, and rocking the microphone and also gives a throwback to b-boy partying like it's 1989. The result is an unholy amalgam of decidedly far-out nonconformity, the acute verbal lacerations of Rakim, and Kool Keith's untamable flights of fantasy ("Ultra '88" is, in fact, a tribute to the Ultramagnetic MC's). Like the latter legend, Edan packs a wicked sense of humor and brandishes it often with a sometimes barbed but always hilariously nutso outcome (on "Emcees Smoke Crack," for instance, he characteristically cops to smoking not crack but aluminum). It allows him to facetiously lampoon conventional rap pretenses and attitudes even as he wallows in them with obviously reverent glee, effectively honoring the genre as a true devotee while managing to stand outside it as a commentator. It is a line that Primitive Plus expertly straddles throughout. Electro and '80s street beats knock about with old-school audio snippets, vintage samples, and video-game sci-fi backdrops, then collide headlong with eclectic pop and rock production techniques, resulting in a rich, layered, complex musical undergirding that is electric boogaloo fresh on the one hand and extremely forward-looking and path-clearing on the other. The album blasts the cobwebs from hip-hop's rusted infrastructure, gives it a wax and polish to make in presentable in the present, then promptly rides it into the space age. In other words, it simultaneously blazes a trail backwards and ahead. Not surprisingly, it took an English label to release the album. This is psychedelic hip-hop that can make you dizzy with its embarrassment of delights. A message to Beck: Here are your real two turntables and a microphone. © Stanton Swihart /TiVo
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Phase Fatale

Techno - Released July 1, 2022 | BPitch Control

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Edan

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released January 1, 2001 | Lewis Recordings

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Wingtip

Pop - Released March 31, 2023 | Nettwerk Music Group

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The Damned

Rock - Released September 18, 2020 | Spinefarm

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Tapered

Soul - Released March 10, 2023 | 2219958 Records DK

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Native Daughters

Progressive Rock - Released March 16, 2023 | Snappy Little Numbers

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Man, the Manipulator

Soulo

Electronic - Released January 10, 2006 | Plug Research

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Drawing Secret Circles

Manipulator

Metal - Released November 3, 2023 | Dead Red Queen, Wise Grinds, Here is Nowhere, Psychocontrol

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The Great Manipulator

Black Lung

Experimental - Released May 24, 2019 | Metropolis Records

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Gaia

Pop - Released March 18, 2022 | marvinosroom records

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Manipulator EP

Mike Rud

Miscellaneous - Released February 3, 2020 | Counter Pulse

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Voidbound + Unearthed

Manipulator

Metal - Released May 4, 2012 | Soulseller

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Desert Storm

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Folk/Americana - Released November 1, 2006 | 667638 Records DK

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