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Crystal Castles - III

I'm now completely convinced this has been a pretty good year for music. We are getting towards the end and we are still getting some great albums. It was going to be hard to top II - and I'm not sure they did - but it's still a great album nonetheless. I'm always impressed by how willing Crystal Castles are to experiment...they always come up with really interesting textures. If you liked I or II, this should satisfy.

Sounds nothing like I or II though. Still so solid though, love their darker approach

I listened to their debut earlier and it is pretty cool. Not really all that impressive, but I liked it fine.

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The Black Keys - Rubber Factory



Easily my favourite Black Keys album and one of their better tracks.

Yeah it's great. II almost as good.

way better than their later albums, although I enjoyed Brothers. That's a solid album.

And hopefully you stick around here for a bit now!

That is a fantastic album. I haven't listened to it in quite some time now actually. I may have to revisit it.

I think it sounds like a logical progression from II. It takes some of those sounds and explores them a little further. They were definitely getting darker by II.

I'm a bit indifferent about I myself, so if you liked it at all I think you should like II even more.

II is way better and III kind of lands in between I and II.

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Grimes, Geidi Primes. Psychedelic lo-fi electronica with unearthly, sweetly sung vocals. Occasionally danceable. Filled with quotes from Dune, apparently. It's not really like anything that I ever listen to, but I really like it.

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Man Is The Bastard, Mancruel. Sludgy, jazz-influenced powerviolence with several vocalists who all sound like they should be singing in a death metal band. Sometimes turns into an ambient noise band. Thank you Janszoon for turning me on to these guys, this is seriously great. Like, seriously, really, truly great.

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The Roots, Phrenology. A hip hop band with live instruments creates a record that goes everywhere from old school rap to hardcore punk to jazz. Pretty dang good. Maybe not my favorite hip hop record, but definitely a good one.

It's always nice when you recommend something to someone and they end up really liking it! :) That is such a great album.

You might also dig The Red List...

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...which is a fantastic split between Man is the Bastard side project Bastard Noise and the Canadian powerviolence band The Endless Blockade. Really good stuff imo.