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New album from Slaughter Beach, Dog has an ode to the bygone Boot & Saddle Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Boot & Saddle Bar, 1131 S Broad St, Philadelphia as seen on Tuesday morning November 10, 2020. The South Philadelphia music venue has closed. Slaughter Beach, Dog (Lame-O ***) The last song on the fourth album by Slaughter Beach, Dog is called “Notes From A Brief Engagement (At The Boot & Saddle).” Yes, the song is in part an ode to the South Philly club that became the most prominent Philadelphia venue los...

Bandcamp / Buy Nearly two decades have passed since the release of the Notwist’s Neon Golden. An ingenious synthesis of indie rock and electronica, the album was a shining example of “plinkerpop,” Morr Music founder Thomas Morr’s term for a wave of delicate, humanistic electronic pop music that emerged around the turn of the millennium. The Notwist’s core duo of Markus and Micha Acher—two brothers from old-world Bavaria in the south of Germany—have at times tried to tweak their formula, with mixed success. Ricocheting between guitar rock, shoegaze, an...

New Music Reviews (2/1) KEXP Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Arlo Parks, Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive) This young London artist’s promising debut full-length is a dreamy blend of R&B, trip-hop and dream-pop inflected with folk, jazz and other styles, combining acoustic guitars, atmospheric synths and gentle downtempo beats with her honeyed vocals and lyrical reflections on the emotional challenges of transitioning to adulthood ...

Epik High, [OURS Co.] Epik High Is Here might sound like the title of a nascent group’s wide-eyed debut, but veteran Korean alt hip-hop outfit Epik High has been making music since 2001. The first part of the tenth studio album from Tablo, Mithra Jin, and DJ Tukutz continues their penchant for genre-warping bangers, deep introspection, and blessed collaborations with some of the most notable Korean artists in the industry. The 10-track effort’s greatest example of this is the Latin-infused leading single “Rosario.” Enlisting the star power of pop firestarter CL and rapper Zico proves...

The Notwist Forge Musical Links from Broken Global Barriers on 'Vertigo Days' Published Jan 27, 2021 7 After three decades of bandhood and counting, German outfit the Notwist, formed by brothers Micha and Markus Acher, have long illustrated the limitations of genre tags. Initially rising to greater attention in the late '90s and early '00s, their sound was often lumped into the "folktronica" files along with artists like Four Tet and the Books. Their instrumentation was more idiosyncratic and jazz-adjacent, layering woodwinds and live drumming into the mix, mostly in service of songs rather ...