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 ]

CD $9.99

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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 ]

LP $14.99

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The Strokes  Room on Fire , The Shins  Chutes Too Narrow , Various Artists  DFA Records Presents: Compilation #1

Rivulets -- Nathan Amundson's solo musical project -- is basically dusty bedroom folk music, although Amundson is an artist of the best slowcore tradition and crafts his songs with a cool and careful ambience. Of course, this might have something to do with him coming from Alaska, a land not especially renowned for its warmth, or it might have to do with his friendship with Low's Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. Sure enough, Rivulets' music echoes a bit of Low's sound; like them, Amundson is good at using a ...   [ read more ]

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