This album is positively monumental. At one moment you are in a punk-rock house party in Brooklyn and then you are transported to a Berlin nightclub at 3am and then you wake up with a hangover on a Sunday morning as sunlight hits your face. The DFA-supplied beats are perfect, the tinny Gang-of-Rapture guitar is artful, and the basslines are incessant. But what really makes this album important, and more than just a Williamsburg art-rock document, are the slower tracks. There's a lovely power-pop song that ...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. This album is positively monumental. At one moment you're in a punk-rock house party in Brooklyn; then you're transported to a Berlin nightclub at 3am; and then you wake up with a hangover on a Sunday morning as sunlight hits your face. The DFA-supplied beats are perfect, the tinny Gang-of-Rapture guitar is artful, and the basslines are incessant. But what really makes this album important, and more than just a Williamsburg art-rock document, are the slower tracks. There's a lovely power-pop ...   [ read more ]

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Traditional music of the Andes is honored on this fusion album by Echoes of Incas. Half the composing team is Arturo Garcia Orozco from Mexico; he plays guitar, huancara, ocarinas, whistles, indigenous percussion instruments, and special effects. Konrad Rhee, from the United States, is the other key composer; he plays flute, samponas, and charango (the distinctive ten-string guitar made from an armadillo shell). The album opens with "Huayras Puncco," a ride-the-wind extravaganza with a hot, hea...   [ read more ]

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