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On the Record: Andrew Bird, Perfume Genius, Estelle & More
Album reviews in 30 seconds or less
Andrew Bird
Break It Yourself
(Mom + Pop Music)
Sounds Like: The Chicagoan indie rock violinists’ sixth is just as you’d imagine—eerie, haunting, beautiful, and full of oddball strings, percussion, sounds and ideas.
Free Association: Very few rock dudes have mastered the human whistle like this man.
For Fans Of: Jeff Buckley x DeVotchKa.
The Magnetic Fields
Love at the Bottom of the Sea
(Merge)
Sounds Like: Fifteen short tracks that use synths, finally, after a three-LP no-synth trilogy. Their first on Merge since ’99’s 69 Love Songs, and it’s weird, trippy and spacey.
Free Association: Stephin Merritt delivers another sorta-queer batch of oddball gems.
For Fans Of: Pet Shop Boys + gay Belle & Sebastian, ABBA/Roxy Music, weird pop.
Perfume Genius
Put Your Back N 2 It
(Matador)
Sounds Like: The follow-up to Seattle’s Mike Hadreas’ excellent debut, Learning, is a more sophisticated and mature batch of hymnal-like queer laments on pain and love.
Free Association: All he needs is his voice and a piano to give you hardcore shivers.
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