The hype mill, stoked in part by McCartney himself, promoted this CD as nothing less than a posthumous chapter in the Beatles' saga ("a new little piece of Beatles," in Paul's words). Nonsense, for this is really just the latest of McCartney's excursions into electronica, an interest of his that dates back to the Beatles' boundary-shredding experiments with musique concrFte and the Moog synthesizer in the 1960s. It is a series of five electronic collages, with occasional eruptions of a ne...   [ read more ]

CD $17.08

VINYL FORMAT. Flowers is the latest full length from Seattle's bleak and ominous Factums and is their second for the Sacred Bones label. Recorded between 2006 and 2007, but only now seeing a proper release, Flowers is dark and disturbing spread over 22 tracks that fluctuate from sound collage and soundtrack-esque moments with more structure songwriting and flashes of the abrasive electropunk that has garnered well deserved comparisons to Chrome, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, and much of the early Wa...   [ read more ]

12" $13.99

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VINYL FORMAT. "Instead of simply adding club beats or sonic collage techniques, Radiohead strives to incorporate the unsettling 'intelligent techno' sound of Autechre and Aphex Twin, characterized by its skittering beats and stylishly dark sonic surfaces, for Kid A. To their immense credit, Radiohead don't sound like carpetbaggers, because they share the same post-post-modern vantage point as their inspirations. As a result, Kid A is easily the most successful electronica album from a rock band -- it doesn...   [ read more ]

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