'Beam is a vehicle for the lovely songs and voice of Helene Renaut. She's very French, but has been living in the San Francisco area for a while. She possesses a sweet, lilting voice that has the habit of staying within arm's reach of pitch, which is quite unique for a French female pop singer. The songs she has written for this debut record are pastoral beauties that call to mind Donovan, early Joni Mitchell, Hope Sandoval, Ladybug Transistor, and their family of bands, fellow French poppers like Ivy, an...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Both smart and smartass, theatrical without being pompous, and, as always, funny. BD's breath-defying flow teeters precariously on top of samples of classical music, jazz drumming, and proggy guitar parts, without ever losing sight of the electronic music that helped define his sound. Mindfully engaging and booty shaking at the same time. A wholly unique take on what an underground hip-hop album should be. Recommended if you like Animal Collective, Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio.

LP $16.99

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Quiet please; Kemado Records would like everyone to listen up: "In honor of Pitchfork's review of Lansing-Dreiden's A Sectioned Beam, we are offering the CDEP on Insound for $5.40 - one dollar for every point awarded the EP by Pitchfork. The animus for our felicitation is most creditably articulated via the supervenient pericope, from Pitchfork's abstract of Lansing-Dreiden's The Incomplete Triangle CD:". . .their obstinate pretension is a petulance I won't reward until they admit to taking advantage of a ...   [ read more ]

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