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Curiouser and CuriouserBroadcast, TenderButtons, Warp Records"Tender Buttons' simplicity makes it more demanding than Broadcast's other work; it requires more than just a few listens to sink in.-- Heather Phares, AMGI didn't give Tender But-tons the chance it deserv-ed upon its 2005 release. Iheard "America's Boy" and"Black Cat" on KEXP, and they sounded fine, but more convention-ally structured than before. It wasn't that Broadcast had sold out or gone pop, but that those two tracks weren't as strange or oth-erworldly as the material with which I had first fallen in love.Then they joined forces with the Focus Group for 2009's In-vestigate Witch Cults
The Doors of PerceptionMoonDuo, Mazes,SacredBonesRecords"It feels asif the doorshave beenflung wideopen." --ZachKelly, PitchforkI expected good things from Moon Duo's first full-length bas-ed on previous EPs and this year's outstanding single "WhenYou Cut," but the new album has surpassed my expectations.Though their influences have always been fairly obvious, Mazesreveals more of their own unique personality. Their inspirationshaven't changed, but they bring a greater degree of warmth thanbefore. There's something surprisingly organic about these mot-orik rhythms, even if "motorik" usually implies coldness (nowbased in Colorado, they recorded in the
Movie ofthe Month:Part 28I recentlyreviewed thefollowing DVDfor Video Librarian, and thought the results were worth sharing.CARANCHO [***](Pablo Trapero, Argentina, 2010, 107 mins.)"Engaging nihilistic neo-noir from Argentine New Waverabout ambulance chasing lawyer trying to escape the per-ils of his profession. Car accidents and bloody bruisingsgalore. I can already see the Soderbergh remake."--Anthony Kaufman, indieWIREAccording to Pablo Trapero's gritty thriller, Argentina has somany traffic accidents that "the compensation market is boom-ing" (an opening intertitle notes 22 per day, 8,000 per year).Ricardo Darín (El Aura, The Secret in Their Eyes)
Siouxsie's Soul Sister"Husik's music is clear-ly the sum of her inspi-rations: '60s psychede-lia, '70s sci-fi movies,and '90s indie-rock."-- Keith Moerer, SalonBozo (1991), the full-length debut from multi-instrumentalist Lida Hu-sik, marks one of my fav-orite records of the 1990s.Here are two videos feat-uring her haunting vocals combined with two of her finer melodies.The first features a still of the creepy-cool photo on the cover. The second is where things get even more interesting with grainy, black-and-white images that capture the spooky beauty of Husik's music.According to her notes, Shimmy Disc founder and Bongwater mem-ber Kramer produced b
May ReviewsThese are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.Amazon DVDs: Mercy - The Complete Series [five-disc set], The Other Woman (Don Roos directs Natalie Portman), and HBO's five-part Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes directs Kate Winslet).Amazon Theatricals: Circumstance and Forks over Knives.Still playing (or yet to open): (Pom Wonderful Presents) The Great-est Movie Ever Sold, Meek's Cutoff, Miral, and Water for Elephants.Flavorwire: I get a mention in this piece by Jason Gross.Though we salute a good number of writers here, this list is obvious-ly incomplete. There are great writers who are no longer with us (Pen-ny Valentine), who
 
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