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Angel Pier - ‘Bullet Holes & Broken Sectors’

Dublin’s Angel Pier have a dark pop sound that swirls around cascading, intricate guitar patterns and gentile discordance on this four-song EP. Though they must have their share of Interpol comparisons, they have more mathematical leanings, stepping closer toward the Field Music spectrum of britpop sound. Vocals on the punchy standout chorus of “Sprites” recall [...]

25 Mar 2008 | More
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Blackhart and Strangelove - ‘Don’t Set Yourself on Fire’

Blackhart and Strangelove have this eerie bewitching quality about them; as if you are alone in a drafty old theatre, walking room to room, when an otherworldly voice seems to shatter the air and expectations in one breath, in one swoop. Tessa Black’s extraordinary vocal range is the centerpiece here, no arguments about that. Dashes [...]

25 Mar 2008 | More
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Counterfeit Disaster - ‘Counterfeit Disaster: The EP’

Kingston, NY’s Counterfeit Disaster defies their precarious name on its eponymous EP by effortlessly living up to their collective pedigree and the standards fellow locals Coheed and Cambria and 3 laid out for them. Delving deep into Eagles-esque jams, the melodic sensibility of the 80s and modern hard rock, with chiming guitars courtesy of Kurt [...]

25 Mar 2008 | More