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Guided by Voices

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Five Songs, 8/12/2022

Senyawa, "Menuju Muara" Indonesia duo Senyawa are avant garde in just about every possible way. They play homemade instruments. The music is experimental. The album was released by a bunch of different labels across the globe with no ownership rights to any of them, to...

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Five Songs, 3/25/2022

H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, "If I Were A Deep One" The arc popularity of Lovecraft's writing has been kind of an interesting one to watch. When I was a kid, Lovecraft was largely unknown outside of only a handful of turbo nerds. Call of...

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Five Songs, 2/8/2022

The Story So Far, "Line" I don't remember picking up this record, but I guess it's not a huge surprise. Pure Noise Records might be how I found it? Anyway, pleasant enough. But enough of that. Somehow Plex thinks that this album came out on...

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Five Songs, 2/2/2022

Two two twenty two. Neat date! Guided by Voices, "Hot Freaks" Bee Thousand, the Guided By Voices breakthrough record, isn't really notably different from their previous records. It's as ramshackle and distracted as their previous albums, with the same penchant for memorable melodies floating in...

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Five Songs, 11/12/2021

De La Soul, "Intro" The biggest exception to rap skits sucking is pretty much anything with Prince Paul involved. The framing device for De La Soul Is Dead, of an audio storybook detailing kids encountering the record for the first time, is delightfully self-refential and...