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Labyrinth

Aby•Laby•Land
(CHROME)

First of all, you have to love a band that includes Claude Debussy, Ravel, Frank Zappa and The Mars Volta as direct influences.

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Do The Zombie

OK Zombie
(SELF-RELEASED)

OK Zombie opens Do the Zombie with “Like You,” a song that kicks off amid a wonderfully infectious riff that rings of vintage, lo-fi garage rock.

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Meets the Morning

Ben Purdom
(SELF-RELEASED)

With his plaintive vocals and coffeehouse-friendly acoustic backdrops, it’d be tempting to think of Ben Purdom as just another earnest Louisville singer-songwriter.

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From the Belly of the Beast

VilleBillies
(SELF-RELEASED)

Two years beyond their major-label debut, the VilleBillies return to independence with From the Belly of the Beast.

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The Concorde Fallacy

The Muckrakers
(UNIVERSAL/TOUCAN COVE)

You can stick this quotation on The Muckraker’s onesheet: The Concorde Fallacy is disarming, alluring, infectious.

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Our Call Outs

Beyond Things
(PLAN-IT-X)

Our Call Outs, the debut from Bloomington, Ind.-based aggregate Beyond Things, straddles a wide chasm between adventurous eclecticism and stilted self-consciousness.

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Caught In The Trees

Damien Jurado
(SECRETLY CANADIAN)

Damien Jurado has offered up a fourth album that is filled with mid-tempo ballads and little else.

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Me and Armini

Emiliana Torrini
(ROUGH TRADE)

Nobody knows it but everybody’s already heard Emiliana Torini.

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To Jobim With Love

Toninho Horta
(RESONANCE)

Toninho Horta is a virtuoso electric and nylon-string guitar player; his music could be defined as jazz-influenced, Brazilian music.

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Dear Science

TV On The Radio
(INTERSCOPE/4AD)

Dear Science capitalizes on TV On The Radio’s already solid experimental rock legacy.