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![Review: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones – Quatorze Pièces de Menace](/uploads/300/6737-dale%20cooper%20quartet-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones – Quatorze Pièces...
Quatorze Pièces de Menace starts with near perfect treatise explaining a term like “dark jazz” to the masses. This 20-plus minute opus tracks a slow-build progression from dark ambience to slow industrial clang, to Birth of the Cool–era Miles Davis cool jazz, to swells of post-rock guitars and swathes of noise. … read more
![Review: Cults – Static](/uploads/300/6692-cults-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Cults – Static
Her high-toned vocals complement the sparkly ’50s-style guitar tunes they lay on, though on tracks like “Always Forever,” they remind me of an excited girl talking to a dog (“Hi, puppy!”). … read more
![Review: The Coathangers/Audacity – Split 7 in.](/uploads/300/6707-thecoathangers-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: The Coathangers/Audacity – Split 7 in.
The Coathangers are vinyl addicts, releasing a series of 7″ splits every six months through Suicide Squeeze with a variety of punk peers the past couple years. … read more
![Review: Callow – Blue Spells](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/callow-blue-spells.webp)
Review: Callow – Blue Spells
The overly mesmerizing disposition of Blue Spells won’t sober up lovesick music listeners like garden-variety pop songs would, but serves more as a “hair-of-the-dog” cure and further inebriates them via beautiful minimalistic slowcore. … read more
![Review: Cage the Elephant – Melophobia](/uploads/300/6687-cage%20the%20elephant-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Cage the Elephant – Melophobia
Drawing on more classic rock influences, CTE attempt to distance themselves from the Pixies-esque sound on their previous album, Thank You, Happy Birthday, instead opting for a much more refined sound. … read more
![Review: Brief Lives – Whistleblower 7”](/uploads/300/6683-brief%20lives-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Brief Lives – Whistleblower 7”
I prefer the B-side, “No Voice.” This track captures the DC punk sound better by slightly upping the speed with a steady thumping beat and quick guitar creating the backing the vocals call for. … read more
![Review: Breathe Owl Breathe – Passage of Pegasus](/uploads/300/6685-breatheowlbreathe-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Breathe Owl Breathe – Passage of Pegasus
Breathe Owl Breathe = Destroyer + David Bowie … read more
![Review: Blitzen Trapper – VII](/uploads/300/6682-blitzen%20trapper-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Blitzen Trapper – VII
Blitzen Trapper = The Eagles + Pavement + Fleet Foxes … read more
![Review: Blackout – We Are Here](/uploads/300/6680-blackout-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Blackout – We Are Here
While this may sound like a formula for your garden-variety sludge, Blackout spare no opportunity to reimagine the genre. Oh yeah, and don’t forget your bong. … read more
![Review: BL’AST! – BLOOD!](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/blast-blood.jpg)
Review: BL’AST! – BLOOD!
Dave Grohl. Is there anything he can’t do? He’s a well-known singer/songwriter, has “former Nirvana drummer” on his résumé, and now he’s resurrected the ’80s hardcore band BL’AST! by mixing a collection of unearthed tracks in their newly released album. … read more