Some Of Us Are In This Together is one of my favorite album titles of 2011 — for nostalgic, depleted, pragmatic, hopeful, cynical, romantic, and otherwise reasons. Sonically, Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death’s sludgy, slow-mo, pained, elegiac, cathartic sixth proper LP isn’t too shabby either. As mentioned when we...

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The Day in Rock Digest for 12/15/10

Nice to see Aussie one-man dance-club soundtrack Muscles back, even if the video via which we’re making his reacquaintance is quite an eyeful. Throughout his 2007 debut LP Guns Babes Lemonade, Muscles served his sharply distorted synths and happily raved-up house tracks with often caustic, sarcastic, or simply cynical lyrics. He took t...

“Mythical” and “cynical,” an operative rhyme from “Coquet Coquette” and a word-pairing that colors this gray-toned beachfront dress-up set piece Jason Miller-directed as the first video from of Montreal’s False Priest (presently under debate via premature evaluation). It&#...