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10 Records You Probably Haven’t Heard

(except maybe Animal Collective)

(Dec. 24, 2009) Lumen Tähden — Kuupuu (Time Lag)

First proper full-length release from Finland’s Jonna Karanka, mixing muffled sing-song folk, bubbling electronics and jumbled avant-improv in a lo-fi haze. Beautiful and haunting.

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Flaming Tunes — Gareth Williams and Mary Currie (Life and Living)

A reissue (!) of a small-run cassette from the mid-’80s. Williams was the “non-musician” member of legendary experimental post-punk band This Heat, though he left in the early ’80s to study dance in India. Upon returning, he recorded this rich, evocative work of lo-fi experimental pop. Pianos, clarinets, synths and other discreet instruments dance around drum machines and William’s inwardly-calm, ruminative vocals, all fed through the post-This Heat deconstruction machine to form an elegant, moving recording.

Vertical Ascent — Moritz Von Oswald Trio (Honest Jon’s)

Beautifully textured “improvisational” techno from a master of the genre. Vladislav Delay on metal percussion!

Destination Tokyo — Nisennenmondai (Smalltown Supersound)

First real stateside release from this all-girl trio from Tokyo that play a perfect kind of lolloping no-wave/kraut-rock/disco hybrid that somehow no one has thought of before. Guitar lines like peaked-out lasers, looping hypno-funk basslines somehow devoid of funk, and drums with more high-hat than anyone, ever.

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