Adds'n'Passes 2013.07.15

Band	Album	Label	Verdict	Words
Ashrae Fax	Static Crash!	Never Better	ADD	ethereal pop/noise, kills it considering it's from 2003
Barbarossa	Bloodlines	Memphis Industries	ADD	slow smooth dark good
Bare Mutants	The Affliction	In The Red	ADD
Bare Mutants	The Affliction	In The Red	ADD	I think it's the dude from the Ponys, Gummare?
Bretzer, Travis	Making Love	Mexican Summer	ADD	riyl mac de marco, tony castles
Callinan, Kirin J	Embracism	Terrible	ADD	for those who can't get enough Scott Walker
Coke Weed	Back To Soft	S/R	ADD	folk-ish rock leans on nostalgia
Hart, Grant	The Argument	Domino	ADD	hermit-esque Husker Du drummer makes bizzare Story-of-Genesis concept album
Hot Chip	Dark and Stormy	Domino	ADD	every middle-aged dude's favorite drink (feat daphni, major lazer)
La Machine	Phases & Repetition	Castleface	ADD	reissue of lo fi dub jam from Rhode Island crew
Love Language, The	Ruby Red	Merge	ADD	feat a boatload of musicians and such, Carolina pop
Lynch, David	The Big Dreams	Sacred Bones	ADD	follow up to "crazy clown time"  lynchian blues
Part Time	PDA	Mexican Summer	ADD	kinda rips off the smiths, ariel pink, and wild nothing, but still good
Pollard, Robert	Honey Locust Honky Tonk	GBV inc.	ADD	robby goes all western.
Scott & Charlene's Wedding	Any Port In A Storm	Fire	ADD	keepin it coming, riyl twerps, parquet courts
Scott, Jackson	Melbourne	Fat Possum	ADD	if you love the 90s, or anything.
Smith Westerns	Soft Will	Mom & Pop	ADD	With Smesterns
Soft Metals	Lenses	Captured Tracks	ADD	art house electro duo stuff
Surf City	We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This	Fire	ADD	from new zealand and sound like the clean
Tijuana Panthers	Semi Sweet	Innovative Leisure	ADD	cali punk, lookin at the garage sale
V/A	PDX Pop Now 2013	PDX	ADD	feat. Chromatics, Wampire, & much more
Weekend	Jinx	Slumberland	ADD	a little haunting, nice though, now in the brooklyn scene
A Great Big Pile of Leaves	You're Always on My Mind	Topshelf	PASS
Alexander, Shane	Ladera	Buddhaland	PASS
Bombadil	Metrics of Affection	Ramseur	PASS
Change!	Dark Side of the Love Letter	S/R	PASS
Coles, Maya Jane	Comfort	iamme	PASS
Ebony Bones	Behold, A Pale Horse		PASS
Family Crest, The	The Headwinds EP	Tender Loving Empire	PASS
Fugitives, The	Bigger Than Luck	Light Organ	PASS
Gogol Bordello	Pura Vida Conspiracy	ATO	PASS
Grisly Hand, The	Country Singles	S/R	PASS
Hey! Hello!	S/T	The End	PASS
Hornell, Matthew	Have It All	S/R	PASS
Kingswood	Change Of Heart	S/R	PASS
Leerone	Heart Shaped Bullets	S/R	PASS
Maps	Vicissistude	Mute	PASS
Meyer, Emi	Galaxy's Skirt	Curious Creature	PASS
Morning Episodes, The	Never Felt So Alive	S/R	PASS
Palms	S/R	Ipecac	PASS
Patachi Kid	S/T	S/R	PASS
Pluto Jonze	S/T	S/R	PASS
Speedwell	Start To Finish	Coolidge	PASS
Swimm	S/T	S/R	PASS
Szabo	Get Wasted	S/R	PASS
Tecla	We Are the Lucky Ones	Sony	PASS
Tie These Hands	Come On	S/R	PASS

Adds'n'Passes 2013.06.11

Band	Album	Label	Distributor	Date	Verdict	Words
Camera Obscura	Desire Lines	4AD		2013.06.11	ADD	Scottish indie poppers make 5th
Dream, The	IV Play	Def Jam		2013.06.11	ADD	goofball mainstream hip hop, have fun with it
Feathers	If All Now Here	S/R	Syndicate	2013.06.11	ADD	4 women play synths, sounds 2002
Gore, Ell V	Sex Static	Last Gang		2013.06.11	ADD	dingy garage and good
Light Heat	S/T	Ribbon	Substance	2013.06.11	ADD	pretty solid pop rock
Queens of the Stone Age	Like Clockwork	Matador		2013.06.11	ADD	QOTSAAAAA. Matador 1st #1 ?
Skip & Die	Riots in the Jungle	Crammed		2013.06.11	ADD	white people denounce capitalism, good
Spectrals	Sob Story	Slumberland	Terrorbird	2013.06.11	ADD	way different from first release.. Twangy sparkles
Surfer Blood	Pythons	Sire		2013.06.11	ADD	these guys!
Blue Blazer	Follow the Sun	S/R	Clermont	2013.06.11	PASS
Jimmy Eat World	Damage	Exotic Location		2013.06.11	PASS
Midnight Faces	Fornication	Broken Factory	Clermont	2013.06.11	PASS
MixHell	Spaces	Last Gang		2013.06.11	PASS
Multiple Cat	The Return of the Multiple Cat	Guilt Ridden Pop	Terrorbird	2013.06.11	PASS
Portugal. The Man	Evil Friends	Atlantic	Syndicate	2013.06.11	PASS
Providence	S/T	Brazen		2013.06.11	PASS

Adds'n'Passes 2013.06.03

Band	Album	Label	Distributor	Verdict	Words
Bleeker, Alex & the Freaks	How Far Away	Woodsist	Never Better	ADD	AB of Real Estate, solo effort from our pals at Woodsist
Callaci, Dennis & Simon Joyner	New Secrets	Shrimper	AAM	ADD	twisted lofi nerd rock
CSS	Planta	SQE		ADD	groovy lady group makes weirdo electro pop
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.	Patterns			ADD	have D.E.Jr-squared hit indie-pop fame?
Future Bible Heroes	Partygoing	Merge		ADD	got Stephen Merritt, of magneto fields
Gold Panda	Half of Where You Live	Ghostly	Terrorbird	ADD	finally! 2nd album, electronic producer
Hopkins, Jon	Immunity	Domino	Never Better	ADD	london producer
King Tuff	Was Dead	Burger	AAM	ADD	reissue of first album, previously released on limited vinyl
Mantles, The	Long Enough to Leave	Slumberland	Terrorbird	ADD	garage pop folk rock
Oblivians	Desperation	In the Red	AAM	ADD	it's actually new music from Oblivians!
Pastels, The	Slow Summits	Domino	Man A Plan	ADD	scott-twee jangles and breezes through dejection
Queen Kwong	Bad Lieutenant	Instant	Never Better	ADD	EP of pretty solid rock, riyl dum dum girls
Sonny & the Sunsets	Antenna to the Afterworld	Polyvinyl	Terrorbird	ADD	9th record, deals with the murder of a friend
Sundfor, Susanne	The Silicone Veil	Sonnet	Terrorbird	ADD	us release of critically acclaimed norwegian soundscapes
Torres	Torres	S/R	Never Better	ADD	Nashville lady makes nice music. Will probably sign soon
Amaker, Brent & the Rodeo	Year of the Dragon	Fin	Terrorbird	PASS
Capital Cities	In a Tidal Wave of Mystery	Lazy Hooks		PASS
Coma Cinema	Posthumous Release	Fork & Spoon	Terrorbird	PASS
Damiani, Dave	Watch What Happens	Hard Knocks		PASS
Greg Friedman	Can't Talk Now	Populuxe		PASS
Irontom	Nitro EP	S/R	Planetary	PASS
Japanese Girls	The Sharkweek EP	Light Organ	Substance	PASS
KT Tunstall	Invisible Empire / Crescent Moon	Blue Note		PASS
Quadron	Avalanche	Vested		PASS
Walla	Nature EP	S/R	Never Better	PASS

Adds'n'Passes 2013.05.30

Band	Album	Label	Distributor	Verdict	Words
Brazos	Saltwater	Dead Oceans		ADD	haven't heard from this dude in forever! Adventuresome
Broncho	Can't Get Past the Lips	Fairfax	AAM	ADD	pretty good garage/punk
Date Palms	The Dusted Sessions	Thrill Jockey		ADD	out there space drone, recorded during a solar eclipse
Free Time	Free Time	Underwater Peoples	Never Better	ADD	down under, connections to Twerps, solid UP release
Friedberger, Eleanor	Personal Record	Merge		ADD	she keeps on keepin on
GRMLN	Empire	Carpark	Terrorbird	ADD	Socal Yoodoo gonna get you movin
Hooded Fang	Gravez	Full Time Hobby	Terrorbird	ADD	canucks get surfy, psychedelic and raaaad
Marling, Laura	Once I Was an Eagle	Ribbon		ADD	dark female singer-songwriter, dom-endorsed
Mount Kimbie	Cold Spring Fault Less Youth	Warp	Terrorbird	ADD	so good, london duo on their gaame
Niblett, Scout	It's Up to Emma	Drag City	Never Better	ADD	another gem, she moved to Portland
Saturday Looks Good To Me	One Kiss Ends It All	Polyvinyl	AAM	ADD	better than the cover art.  Easy pop rock
TEEN	Carolina	Carpark	Terrorbird	ADD	booklyn quartet, harmony poppy carparky
Tricky	False Idols	!K7		ADD	it's tricky
AciD	AciD	Hub City	Syndicate	PASS
Adams, Austin	The Other Side	Tinderbox		PASS
Await Rescue	Everyone You Know	Tinderbox		PASS
Bastille	Haunt EP	Virgin		PASS
Big Deal	June Gloom	Mute		PASS
Blood Drive	S/T	Relapse		PASS
Castle, Jerry	Desperate Parade	S/R		PASS
Crystal Fighters	Cave Rave	Atlantic		PASS
Eldren	S/T	Tinderbox		PASS
Front Bottoms, The	Talon of the Hawk	Bar/None	Syndicate	PASS
Gypsy and the Cat	The Late Blue	Alsation	AAM	PASS
Hidden Hospitals	EP	Tinderbox		PASS
Jaw Kneecap	Prime	Mia Mind		PASS
King Congo And The Pink Monkeybirds	Haunted Head	In The Red	AAM	PASS
Koji	Crooked in my Mind	Run For Cover	Syndicate	PASS
Longboat	Unpopular Songs for Unpopular People	S/R	Planetary	PASS
Marlin, Mike	Grand Reveal	S/R		PASS
Monocle	Transpacific Sound Paradise	Hidden Shoal	Pirtlegimp	PASS
Nova Albion	Nature	S/R	Substance	PASS
One Mile Final	S/T	Tinderbox		PASS
Paper Kites, The	Woodland EP	Nettwork	Pirate	PASS
Pilot for a Day	Better Air	Tinderbox		PASS
Pilot Rouge	Helen of Troy	Tinderbox		PASS
Poor Young Things	The Heart. The Head. The End	Bumstead	Planetary	PASS
Presbrey, Kevin	Dust Unto Dust	Tinderbox		PASS
Radio Silent	Lost in the Tall Grass	Musso		PASS
Rhamel	Coming Rightout of Bklyn	S/R		PASS
Rogue Wave	Nightingale Floors	Vagrant		PASS
Saunders, Lindsey	Nothing Normal	Tinderbox		PASS
Secret Colours	Peach	S/R		PASS
Shannon and the Clams	Dreams in the Rat House	Hardly Art		PASS
Slightly Stoopid & Friends	Live at Roberto's	Stoopid		PASS
Sol Cat	S/T	Tinderbox		PASS
Southwire	S/T	Chaperone	Vitriol	PASS
Stranglers, The	Giants	S/R	Distiller	PASS
Sun, Kae	Afriyie	S?R	Planetary	PASS
Superlative, The	Chester	Tinderbox		PASS
Tullycraft	Lost in Light Rotation	Magic Marker	Vitriol	PASS
V/A	Metal Postcard Records Sampler	Metal Postcard	Planetary	PASS
V/A	Music from True Blood	ATO		PASS
Vanstee	We Are	S/R	Vitriol	PASS
Bazar, Halason	Space Junk	Crash Symbols	Pirtlegimp	PASS*	bad CD, requested another

Adds'n'Passes 2013.05.17

Band	Album	Label	Distributor	Verdict	Words
Big Black Delta	S/T	Maters of Bates	AAM	ADD	M83-esque
Club 8	Above the City	Labrador	Terrorbird	ADD	8th from the swedes
Cronin, Mikal	MCII	Merge		ADD	LA kid
Dean Blunt	The Redeemer	Hippos in Tanks		ADD	half of Hype Williams, getting human
Emma Louise	vs Head vs Heart	Frenchkiss	Never Better	ADD	intimate, delicate, songwriting
Gold & Youth	Beyond Wilderness	Arts n Crafts	AAM	ADD	good canada
Grandchildren	Golden Age	Ernest Jenning	Vitriol	ADD	riyl yeasayer, local natives
HOTT MT	I Made This	Manimal	Terrorbird	ADD	psych + thai pop and all sorts of good
Invisible Hand	Squirrel Jail	Fun Not Fun	the band	ADD	did they get it from that geico commercial
Lynch, Julian	Lines	Underwater People	Never Better	ADD	jangly, tangly, julian-lynchy
Majical Cloudz	Impersonator	Matador		ADD	chillcave
Moon King	Obsession II	One Big Silence	Terrorbird	ADD	reverby dream pop stuff
PacificUV	After the Dream You Are Awake	Mazarine	AAM	ADD	a little different from their earlier stuff
Phoenix Foundation, The	Fandango	S/R	Substance	ADD	nice instrumenting
Saswatch	Leave It All Behind	Northside	Planetary	ADD	soul revival, lookin at you eisenman
Treetop Flyers	The Mountain Moves	Partisan		ADD	laurel canyon vibes
Tunng	Turbines	Full Time Hobby		ADD	shakin stuff up since 2003
V/A	Made In Iceland VI	IMX	Planetary	ADD	Olaf Arnalds, Pascal Pinon, moar
V/A : Enjoy the Experience	Homemade Records 1958-1992	Now-Again	Sinecure	ADD	really awesome
Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	XL		ADD	get vamped
W H I T E	III	Aagoo		ADD	groovy
Wampire	Curiosity	Polyvinyl	Never Better	ADD	offbeat catchy pop jam
Wild Nothing	Empty Estate	Captured Tracks	Never Better	ADD	supposedly more accessible? It was already?
Air Dubai	Warning	Hopeless	Planetary	PASS
Birds and Arrows	Coyotes	Redeye		PASS
BNLX	S/T	Susstones	Planetary	PASS
Buffalo Tales	Roadtrip Confessions	Foyle	Planetary	PASS
Camera2	This is Not  A Sad Song	S/R		PASS
Chester Bay	Changes With The Midwest Moon	S/R	Tinderbox	PASS
Claps	Glory Glory	Moon Glyph		PASS
Firefriend	With Tales	S/R	Powderfinger	PASS
Fitz and the Tantrums	More Than Just a Dream	Elektra	Planetary	PASS
Hooverphonic	The Night Before	Columbia	Planetary	PASS
JF Soul Marinelli	Electricity	S/R	Powderfinger	PASS
Nelson, John Mark	Waiting and Waiting	S/R	Syndicate	PASS
PJ's My Cousin Too	S/T	S/R	Tinderbox	PASS
Point Judith	Sail On	S/R		PASS
War Poets	S/T	S/R	Tinderbox	PASS
White Prism	EP	S/R	Never Better	PASS

Adds'n'Passes 2013.05.06

Band	Album	Label	Verdict	Words
Amidon, Sam	Bright Sunny South	Nonesuch	ADD	nice guitarin and song singin
Baptist Generals, The	Jackleg Devotional to the Heart	Sub Pop	ADD	dirt is good
Bibio	Silver Wilkinson	Warp	ADD	Stephen Wilkinson does it agaiiin, the team on his back
Black Bug	Reflecting the Light	Hozac	ADD	moon lazer triangles
Brother JT	The Svelteness of Boogietude	Thrill Jockey	ADD	"I like things"
Brothers in Law	Hard Times	Watta Lab	ADD	jangly indie from Spain does pretty well
Charli XCX	True Romance	atlantic	ADD	electro poppin
Child of Lov, The	S/T	Double 6	ADD	sluggy hip hop feat Damon Albarn and MF DOOM
Classixx	Hanging Gardens	Innovative Leisure	ADD	feat. Nancy Whang of LCD
Daughter	If You Leave	Glassnote	ADD	cathartic and woozy, riyl cat power, bat for lashes
Deerhunter	Monomania	4AD	ADD	mr. cox and friends
Dungeonesse	S/T	Secretly Canadian	ADD	Jenn Wasner makes great pop "bangers n slow jamz"
Elephant9	Atlantis	Rune Grammofon	ADD	proggy
Grand General	S/T	Rune Grammofon	ADD	sounds like RG
Hedvig Mollestad Trio	All of them Witches	Rune Grammofon	ADD	more prog experimentation
Hval, Jenny	Innocence is Kinky	Rune Grammofon	ADD	she watches people f*** on her computer
Iggy and the Stooges	Ready to Die	Fat Possum	ADD	"I'm on my knees for those double-Ds" - iggy
Jones, Glenn	My Garden State	Thrill Jockey	ADD	that's a big banjo
Lorna	Heart of Wire	Words on Music	ADD	super calm songwriting, lots o' instrumentals
Man or Astro-Man?	Defcon 5…4…3…	C. Vessels	ADD	spacey surf rawwwk
Peals	Walking Field	Thrill Jockey	ADD	members of Future Islands and Double Dagger
Pure X	Crawling Up the Stairs	Acephale	ADD	texas trio likes molly and tunes
Savages	Silence Yourself	Matador	ADD	los salvajes
She & Him	Volume 3	Merge	ADD	ward & deschanel
Small Black	Limits of Desire	Jagjaguwar	ADD	the chillwave champs of yore trim the fat
Sonogram	How We Saw Tomorrow	Simulacra	ADD	minimal, experimental, geometric
Starlington, Georgiana	Paper Moon	Hozac	ADD	keeping up with the hineses
Still Corners	Strange Pleasures	Sub Pop	ADD	supposedly not as good as their debut, but hey
Survival	S/T	Thrill Jockey	ADD	dude from Liturgy makes other music
UBT	Ego Orientation	Psychic Handshake	ADD	relatively groovy
We Are Loud Whispers	Suchness	Hardly Art	ADD	woozy ephemera
Wolf Eyes	No Answer: Lower Floors	De Stijl	ADD	experimental noise collective from michigan
Blue Sky Drive	S/T	S/R	PASS
Blue-Eyed Son	Shadows on the Son	Eenie Meenie	PASS
Blum, Mal	Tempest in a Teacup	Betterweather	PASS
Bree	S/T	Werewolf	PASS
Bridges and Powerlines	Better	S/R	PASS
Cosmic Suckerpunch	Breathe	S/R	PASS
Endino, Jack	Rumble	Fin	PASS
Fake Babies	EP	Telegraph	PASS
Fortress Social Club	Dreamin the Life	S/R	PASS
Hailer	Another Way	S/R	PASS
Hockey	Wyeth IS	Forever Racing	PASS
Hodges, Dillon	Rumspringa	Cork	PASS
Hyde, Karl	Edgeland	S/R	PASS
Last Good Tooth	Not Without Work and Rest	Team Love	PASS
Lion, Snoop	Reincarnated	RCA	PASS
MacRae, Graham	Dundrearies	S/R	PASS
Mercutio	S/T	S/R	PASS
Mexican Dubwiser	Revolution Radio	Kin Kon	PASS
Mother Falcon	You Knew	S/R	PASS
Norma	The Invisible Mother	Novoton	PASS
Odell, Tom	Songs from Another Love	RCA	PASS
Postelles, The	…And It Shook Me	Plus One	PASS
Radiation City	Animals in the Median	Tender Loving Empire	PASS
Rouge, The	Blurry	Atlantic	PASS
Saint Alvia	Static Psalms	canada	PASS
Seven Saturdays	S/T	Lunada	PASS
Sonen	Inside the Sun	S/R	PASS
Sputnik	Rising	S/R	PASS
Tiger Party	S/T	S/R	PASS
Tim & Adam	S/T	S/R	PASS
Una	The Laughing Man	S/R	PASS
Wiesner, Chance	Takin' A Chance on Love	S/R	PASS

Adds'n'Passes 2013.04.22

Band	Album	Label	Verdict	Words
!!!	THR!!!ER	Warp	ADD	supposed!y different from any past !!! re!eases
Beacon	The Ways We Separate	Ghostly	ADD	brooklyn duo make R&B, yeah.
de Tren, Marquis & Bonny Billie	Solemns	Drag City	ADD	takin it to church!
Hands	Synesthesia	Kill Rock Stars	ADD	grooving LA synth-pop
Irony Butterfly	Ground 7"	little Pablo	ADD	addin some vinyl
Junip	S/T	Mute	ADD	we now have the LP, feat. Jose Gonzales
Major Lazer	Free The Universe	Secretly Canadian	ADD	about time! Bubble Butt
Meat Puppets	Rat Farm	Megaforce	ADD	30 years of meat handling
No Joy	Wait to Pleasure	Mexican Summer	ADD	montreal shoegaze, these guys are rad
Phoenix	Bankrupt!	Glassnote	ADD	I guess they're grammy-winners
Rubinos, Xenia	Magic Trix	Jaba Jaba	ADD	weird rythms, loopy, tune-yard-esque
Thermals	Desperate Ground	Saddle Creek	ADD	saddle creek debut (dino jr. / sonic youth prod.)
Young Galaxy	Ultramarine	Paper Bag	ADD	shimmery glimmery electro pop
ZZ Ward	Record Store Day 7"	Hollywood	ADD	addin some vinyl
Breakbot	By Your Side	Ed Banger	PASS
Cali Giraffes	All My Life	Fin	PASS
Cobalt & the Hired Guns	Everybody Wins	S/R	PASS
Crackling, The	Mary Magdalene	File Under	PASS
Dangerous Muse	Red	S/R	PASS
Dead Confederate	In the Marrow	Spiderbomb	PASS
Dyson, Mia	The Moment	Co Op	PASS
Eksi Ekso	Archfiend	Retroversal	PASS
Freshly Ground	Take Me to the Dance	South Africa	PASS	to Folk/World
Girl Named T	Wait By the Rabbit Hole	Signshop	PASS
Great American Robber Barons, The	Reno Nevada and Other Songs	Tinderbox	PASS
Hunt, Rollin	The Phoney	Moniker	PASS
Kalweit and the Spokes	Mulch	Tinderbox	PASS
Kolstad, Sandra	Nothing Lasts Forever	Trust Me	PASS
Leroy Justice	Above the Weather	S/R	PASS
Liquid Air	The Sea	S/R	PASS
Loon Lake	Thirty Three	S/R	PASS
Loque	S/T	S/R	PASS
Lost Alone	I'm A UFO in this City	The End	PASS
Met City	S/T	S/R	PASS
MO	Pilgrim Single	Neon Gold	PASS
neybuzz, the	MGs Funk Workshop	S/R	PASS
Picture and the Frame, The	S/T	S/R	PASS
Pretty & Nice	Golden Rules for Golden People	Rory	PASS
Reckless Ones	S/T	S/R	PASS
Red Paintings, The	You're Not One of Them	The End	PASS
Richey, Kim	Thorn In My Heart	Yep Roc	PASS	to folk/eclectic woman
Rouge, Ciel	EP	S/R	PASS
St. Anne's Place	Earth Shaker	Tinderbox	PASS
Toliver, Marques	Land of CanAan	Bella Union	PASS
Watermelon	Sleepover	S/R	PASS
Weeks, The	Dear Bo Jackson	Serpents & Snakes	PASS
Whale Fire	Before You Run	S/R	PASS
Wolf People	Fain	Jagjaguwar	PASS