Daily Discovery: Okkervil River – The Silver Gymnasium

Marina Ubert | Sep 17, 2013

For Okkervil River, a song isn't just a set of chords and melodies to play to a crowd.

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Daily Discovery: AlunaGeorge – Body Music

Zach Sweat | Sep 3, 2013

On Body Music, each track is just as catchy as the last, and every expression of love just as cathartic.

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Daily Discovery: Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe

Andrea Aribe | Aug 30, 2013

Airy, majestic, ethereal... simple adjectives are perhaps the fairest way to characterize Julianna Barwick's newest album. It's a work of simplicity, but Nepenthe is hauntingly alluring.

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Daily Discovery: Moonstone Continuum – Salon Edition

Mason McGough | Aug 29, 2013

Salon Edition pushes the boundary from pastiche to satire in a way that's somewhere between guilty pleasure and downright hilarious. And it does it well.

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Daily Discovery: Volcano Choir – Repave

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2013

Volcano Choir make only the grandest of gestures. Their new album Repave is a tumultuous experience that remains adherent to a natural order.

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Daily Discovery: Dent May – Warm Blanket

Mason McGough | Aug 27, 2013

Warm Blanket has enough pervasive earworms to make for a charming post-summer listen. The skeletal sound of Dent May's new record instantly recalls Brian Wilson's writing.

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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 To Continue in The Fall [Some More Listening]

Mason McGough | Aug 7, 2013

The series is slated to start up again on the first day of the fall semester. In the meantime, I have assembled a list of new releases with links to music that you can add to your playlists if you like what you hear.

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Daily Discovery: Jagwar Ma – Howlin’

Mason McGough | Aug 5, 2013

Jagwar Ma's appeal lies squarely on their novel reassembly of familiar styles and sounds. Howlin' is a promising showcase of the visceral fun the band stands to offer.

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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: Pure Bathing Culture – Moon Tides

Mason McGough | Jul 31, 2013

Often likened to Beach House, Pure Bathing Culture struggle to reconnect the listener with the forces of nature that strike us with awe.

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