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Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

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Local H - Twelve Angry Months

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Screaming Females - What if Someone is Watching Their TV?

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Getatchew Mekurya with The Ex and Guests - Moa Anbessa

seen/heard  °  listen °  CD/DVD

Ida Maria - Fortress Around My Heart

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Stars Like Fleas - The Ken Burns Effect

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Seun Kuti + Fela's Egypt 80 - Many Things

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Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza

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Erykah Baduh - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War

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Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

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I'm Sick of Hearing 'bout the Haves and Have-Nots

posted 04/05/2007

Shame on us for all we have done.  God have mercy on our dirty little hearts.

The new Nine Inch Nails record gets better with every listen, and listening's all I've been doing for the past 24 hours.  Nothing else matters right now.  Nothing.

I'd been worried.  The leaked tracks sounded good, but I didn't hear any songs.  But "Survivalism" feels more like a single in the context of the album than it does as a single.  I don't think there's an "Only," here, but that's okay.  Because there's a "Capital G" and a "Vessel" and a "Zero Sum."  If it doesn't feel as necessary and cathartic as Spiral or as epic and frustrating and definitive as Fragile, Year Zero is still so very much better than With Teeth.  Less sex, more fucked-up shit.

I pushed a button and elected him to office and - uh!

He pushed a button and he dropped a bomb.

You pushed a button and can watch it on the television.

Those motherfuckers didn't last too long.

Oh, there are familiar-sounding bits.  And plenty of ratatat for people who like to use Reznor's lyrics as target practice.  Whatever.

It's a second-coming that refuses to get apocalyptic.  And Trent's hosting an antichristening:  If your fishy little fingers don't already stink from snatching the thing, you can stream the record here.  Then preorder it, because this is America and we like to reward good work.  Now nod your head because you know that I'm right.  Alright!

I'm trying to get "HYPERPOWER" to play at 12.  Because 11's not enough, not enough.  I need a song so loud I can't hear anything else.   I don't want to know.

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