November 2011
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Robyn // Body Talk Pt. 3
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 22ND 2010 Robyn’s Body Talk series was pop music’s most ambitious undertaking of 2010. Individually, the three releases served to gently break the much-ignored Swede into the mainstream with equal thrust. It’s interesting that along with the release of this less-than-stellar-and-should-really-be-called-an-EP final installation came the release...
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Twin Shadow // Forget
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 15TH 2010 Twin Shadow’s debut Forget was produced by Grizzly Bear bassist Chris Taylor, and it’s a fact worth remembering. It appears one thing we can deduce in the year since Forget was released is that, despite its reliance on ‘that which has gone before’, it formed a solid blueprint thanks to its stylish grooves later found on...
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Girl Talk // All Day
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 15TH 2010 All Day was the first record I heard by Girl Talk, and it has left a pretty mediocre impression on someone who was always intrigued by the potential of sampling and mixing in music. Since I Left You by The Avalanches is one of my favourite records of the past ten years and others such as …..Endtroducing by DJ Shadow inspire more respect for their...