What is it about emotional rock that is so annoying and
frustrating? Unfortunately,
those feelings - those emotions - are
bound to come to the fore when listening to Black
Swan.
Toro Y Moi's latest full-length release, Causers of This, is one of the more spectacular entries
into a
growing movement that is occasionally referred to as ‘psych-(choose your
subgenre)’.
If you're reading this, i.e., an online music publication,
odds are pretty good that you're already familiar with the electro-tinged
indie-pop of Letting Up Despite Great Faults.
What do you do if trouble finds you? If you’re Sweden’s The Concretes, you roll with the punches, make lemonade out of lemons, and drink deeply from your country’s indie-pop well. After three EP’s, two studio albums, and a b-sides/rarities release, The Concretes were hit hard in 2006.
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