15 Battles - Mirrored (Warp Records) : Everybody’s been talking about “Mirrored” this year, and they kind of deserve it for getting their oddtimed dissonant music to find strange acclaim from mainstream circles as well as mathheads.
14 Deejay OM - Reheated Naan and Curry (Galapagos4) : A fine hybrid of Indian samples mixed with beats. [...]

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Today I found some time to check a good portion of them. Here are some that garnered my attention. Most are indie & folk. Wow, there must be thousands of indie bands right now. Hard to make a name for you in the indie scene nowadays, eh?

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I first heard of Brooklyn’s White Magic on Aquarius records‘ newcomers list and the praises it got kinda intrigued me. During the first listen may views changed from “standard freak-folk & indie rock hybrid” to “strangely minimalistic and absorbingly beatiful freaky folk & indie hybrid“. I haven’t been listening to the album for a few [...]

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As opposed to CocoRosie, The Pierces is a very nice example of being sisters, having a non-mainstream past and an interest in music and yet wear attractive clothes and sing without frightening anyone/make them want to die. The sisters hail from Alabama and have quite an interesting and funny profile on myspace . Sounding less [...]

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It has come to my attention that we’ve not pleased our indie loving friends recently. Fear not, as I come to the rescue with 3 songs, which are delicate and fragile songs with gentle female vocals.

Berlin’s Masha Qrella is Contriva’s guitarist/bass player and this song is from her 4 piece band’s new single on [...]

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