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All content by Mason McGough

Daily Discovery: Julia Holter – Loud City Song

Mason McGough | Aug 26, 2013
Loud City Song crafts an entire environment around a meager supply of instruments and lyrics. Julia Holter accomplishes this with aplomb, but your enjoyment of this record will ultimately stem from your willingness to step into Holter's eerie world.
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Leftover Cuties (with Real Job) – August 10th Underbelly

Mason McGough | Aug 9, 2013
Earnest sentiments in music are certainly something worth appreciating. For an artist that chooses to forgo guileful pessimism and cryptic symbology, self-reflective statements of positivity are perhaps a more audacious statement than the darkest notions about longevity or listlessness.
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Daily Discovery: Moderat – II

Mason McGough | Aug 1, 2013
The complaint you will always hear from haters of electronic music is that they would prefer something with more of a human element. It's not totally unfounded; most EDM we've come to know is emotionally dead, despite its appeal to the carnal urge for dance.
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Daily Discovery: F&!k Buttons

Mason McGough | Jul 26, 2013

The electronic duo from Bristol with the name that is impossible to say over the radio (and who wrote the song that played at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics) have just released a new album...

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Daily Discovery: Mean Lady – Love Now

Mason McGough | Jul 25, 2013

It's like if Animal Collective and that girl from Camera Obscura came together to make a soundtrack for the new Wes Anderson film. For whatever reason, this is the first descriptor that came to...

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Five(ish) Surprising Albums of 2013

Mason McGough | May 21, 2013

It's been almost six months into 2013 and we've already seen our fair share of fantastic records. Whether it was high-profile surprises or under-the-radar classics, this list includes some of the records...

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SORNE Interview

Mason McGough | Oct 17, 2012

SORNE are a multimedia art collective from Austin, Texas. Considering his work a "tapestry of humanism," Morgan Sorne's elaborate tale of five siblings is concerned with the villainous extremities of...

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Hear Hums and Personnes Q&A

Mason McGough | Oct 11, 2012

  Hear Hums  Hear Hums are a Gainesville group that charge their way through watery psychedelic folk with energetic drumming. Their adventurous sound, not unlike that of Prince Rama or Animal...

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Here We Go Magic Q&A

Mason McGough | Oct 10, 2012

Here We Go Magic is a Brooklyn-based project that crafts a clever blend of ambient hypnotica and melodic indie rock." Starting as the lo-fi bedroom psychedelia of singer Luke Temple, it quickly grew...

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Album Review: Centipede Hz by Animal Collective

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2012
For a group with a track record as long as Animal Collective’s, it’s astounding how little Centipede Hz sounds like their past work. If anything, it most closely approximates the underworld sounds of Avey Tare’s solo album Down There. Animal Collective is not the band people think it is, simply because it’s never been.
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Album Review: America by Dan Deacon

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2012
America scarcely relents in its charge, building steadily upon psychedelic jams that culminate in explosive symphonies of sound. I can’t help but be reminded of a similar classic called Vision Creation Newsun by the Japanese avant-rock band Boredoms. The tone of the record is always an impenetrable elation, much like the Boredoms album.
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Album Review: NO by Old Man Gloom

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2012
“YES” seems a more appropriate name for this album, at least cosmetically. No cavern is left untrodden, no matter how dark or foreboding. And the earth-shattering metal that intersperses them is the best part.
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