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Joakim - Back To Wilderness

I'm not sure who else has already blogged about this masterwork, but Joakim's new album (due out on K7 in September), is a ferocious piece of genius. Musically terrifically diverse, Milky Ways (SUCH A GOOD TITLE) meanders a path somewhere between dance, post-punk, and "out there", somehow managing to carve it's own perfect story into a tradition forged by Television, ESG and more recently, Liars and his own Monsters and Silly Songs. While not necessarily appropriate for the club (unless you want to seriously creep everyone out, which can be incredibly enjoyable), the album is smart, interesting and above all, WHOLE, meant to be played the entire way through.

I give you the opening cut, 'Back ...

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    Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night of the Soul

    Aside from sounding like a Saturday morning cartoon series gone terribly RIGHT, the professor of eclectic beatism Danger Mouse & Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse fame, along with David Lynch, who needs no introduction, have recorded quite the ambitious album with one metal of a name. ...