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drug rug - paint the fence invisible

by Robin Hilton at npr.org

Drug Rug seems like an entirely random name for a band. But apparently it's what you call a kind of striped poncho "hippies" wore back in the '60s and '70s. Drug Rug the band is a duo featuring the music of Thomas Allen and Sarah Cronin, and their songs owe a lot to the bands of those decades, particularly groups like The Byrds or The Velvet Underground. Allen and Cronin say their latest album, Paint the Fence Invisible, was inspired by "early folk musicians, comic books, campgrounds, funny hats," and the images of Garth Williams, the illustrator who did the artwork for books like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. That might explain the playfulness and innocence that you can hear in Drug Rug's music. Allen and Cronin make lovely, two-part harmonies, with joyful melodies and propulsive rhythms. It's the perfect batch of songs for the dog days of Summer.

biblio - ambivalence avenue

Ambivalence Avenue moves the focus from the flaws of media to their capacity for precision, and takes fewer cues from nature than from the urban sounds-- including Dilla and Madlib-- that Bibio admits discovering in recent years. By jettisoning a limiting aesthetic, he reveals his abilities to be startlingly vast, and one of our most predictable electronic musicians becomes a wild card.

— Brian Howe, June 26, 2009 (pitchforkmedia)

ducktails - self titled

from tinymixtapes.com

Ducktails is Matthew Mondanile, a New Jerseyian whose pop is drenched in a warm drone. There is a pretty amazingly realized aesthetic running through this stuff, with all its plastic nostalgias — like Ninja Turtles pizza, fake palm trees, sugary cereal — and the lo-fi tape fuzz that also permeates his other projects, Predator Vision, Real Estate, and Dreams In Mirror Field. It’s home recording with one of the comfiest feels you’ll find, reminiscent of Ariel Pink but with an exploratory nudge. Matthew prefers cassettes as scuffed-up homes for this stuff, but he’s just released a vinyl full-length on LA DIY label Not Not Fun.





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