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Engineers - Three Fact Fader

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Engineers were a band many pegged to go big, but the implosion of their label after the release of their 2004 debut threw them into limbo. The time off allowed them to slave over these 13 songs,...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Esthema - The Hereness and Nowness of Things

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This American band features a trio of guitar (electric and acoustic), violin, and oud / bouzouki backed by electric bass and drums, plus guests on percussion and cello. The lead role is most...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Faithful Breath - Fading Beauty

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Faithful Breath, who later became a German heavy metal band in the 80s, began as a symphonic progressive band releasing two LPs in the 70s: Fading Beauty and Back on My Hill....

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2011-06-01)

Faust - C'est Com... Com... Compliqué & Is Last

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Beginning in the lush, disco-free Eurozone of the 70s, beneficiaries of finally reliable synthesizers, a well-defined tradition of art music tape experimentation, post modern euphemisms, and a...

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2011-06-01)

Felonious Bosch - Toy Box

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An interesting new release by this Minneapolis / St. Paul based sextet, one that skirts a lot of musical genres (elements of pop, folk, rock, blues, jazz and experimental are all fused into their...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Fern Knight - Castings

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Drawing seemingly equal parts from dark-age folk, psychedelic mysticism, and post-rock, this latest release by Fern Knight embraces some of the more straightforward folk sound of their 2008...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Fibonacci Sequence - We Three Kings & Numerology

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This Milwaukee-based band’s name may have you expecting some sort of robotic math rock, though there’s little in the way of Frippian interlocking guitar patterns here. Instead these two...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Final Conflict - Stand Up

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Stand Up nicely sums up the Final Conflict modus operandi. Out front are the dual lead guitars and vocals of Brian Donkin and Andy Lawton (who I swear is Sean Bean’s long lost twin...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Flood - Tales from the Four Seasons

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Flood is a one man band who plays all the instruments (acoustic guitar, keyboards and clarinet, among others) on this CD which gives us four tunes, one for each season. The entire CD is a tranquil...

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(Posted by Dan Marsh 2011-06-01)

Fra Fra Sound - Dya So

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It’s a big world, and many people are free to move around it, so something like a “Dutch Afro-Caribbean” jazz band shouldn’t be too unexpected, I suppose. And given this...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)
 

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