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Xiu Xiu
Nina
There's something satisfying about listening to a group of artists crash head-on into an experiment and find clarity among the fragments
Slant Magazine
Xiu Xiu
Nina
Along with celebrating the boldest parts of Stewart and Simone's art, Nina marks the return of Xiu Xiu's uncompromising side at its often exhilarating best
All Music
Xiu Xiu
Nina
He rips his heart and throat out for her, even if no one else is really asking. But in the end, it ends up being a work for Xiu Xiu fans, rather than Simone ones
The 405
Xiu Xiu
Nina
What Stewart has produced is a wild, discordant plunge into the legacy of a legend; a visceral interpretation that could only emanate from his creative bowels. Nina would undoubtedly approve
Under The Radar
Beachwood Sparks
Desert Skies
Sixteen years after these initial sessions — ten of which they spent on hiatus — they remain a surprisingly divisive band, with detractors accusing them of imitating rather than innovating. Desert Skies does absolutely nothing to answer that criticism
Pitchfork
Beachwood Sparks
Desert Skies
A broader range of influences can be heard. The Byrds and Burritos are clear from the start, but strains of underground rock borrowed from Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. are prevalent as well
Paste Magazine
Beachwood Sparks
Desert Skies
The unaffected, if admittedly now and then a little gauche, Desert Skies is well worth considering as a high point of Beachwood Sparks’ recording history
The Line Of Best Fit
Britney Spears
Britney Jean
As the last in Spears’ five-album commitment to RCA, Britney Jean is an effort that gives off a more overpowering stench of contractual obligation than any other record this year
Sputnik Music (staff)
M.I.A.
Matangi
It’s drenched in attitude, bursting with melody and full of postmodern outrageousness
Fact
bEEdEEgEE
Sum/One
An incoherent mess with neither substance nor wit
Loud And Quiet
Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP 2
The only way is downward from here; it seems an impossibility that Eminem will ever create another album worthy of Slim Shady
Entertainment.ie
Britney Spears
Britney Jean
The short story is that it’s going to have a few songs on the radio, and you’ll probably forget about them the moment the next Katy Perry song comes on
Consequence Of Sound
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