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"Creative, inventive, and sonically surprising on every track."
- Music For Robots
"With a knack for writing upbeat music with pensive and serious lyrics, AM Syndicate seem to be on the right track for success."
- Iowa State Daily
"AM Syndicate delivers a chorus of pop-conscious rock songs while lead singer Omar Chavez's drifting vocals continually distance the band's sound, finding a patch of sound unto itself."
- Culture Bully
"The Austin-based trio produce a brand of distractedly anthemic dreampop that's neither overly guitar-heavy or noisy, nor especially hazy or ambient. Instead, their songs are crystalline-sounding but with their lattices slightly skewed."
- Chromewaves
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| - THE BATTLE ROYALE |
#7 on Hype Machine's Most Popular - "Racecar" (1.18.08)
#10 on Hype Machine's Most Popular - "Scream Scream" (1.19.08)
#13 on Hype Machine's Most Popular - "Notebooks" (2.08)
"Catchy, electro-style pop."
- Pop Matters
"Furious pop songs"
- RCRD LBL
"This band has my number."
- Music For Robots
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| - CALAMITY MAGNET |
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SPIN Magazine's #3 "Download This" in their July 2008 issue.
"Mesmerizing"
- Pitchfork Media
"Meditates on the depiction of one pure artistic thought as a dense composite of different colors."
- Coke Machine Glow
"Immediately left me wanting to share it with you."
- Rock Sellout
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| - THE ETTES |
"a really nice blend of distorted garage rock and catchy pop."
- You Ain't No Picasso
"Standout."
- The Tripwire
"4 Stars. Guaranteed to rock"
- VENUS
"They rock hard and get the dance floor shaking. This band gets more ferocious each time I see them."
- BUST
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| - THE FORMS |
"But the band's brief hiatus was not spent twiddling thumbs while not working on the new LP, they also took part in a tribute album on music blog Stereogum for R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People, where they recorded a cover of "Ignoreland" in Chicago with Steve Albini, who also produced the new album."
- CMJ
"The timing of the positive press with the release of the new album could not have been planned better."
- Puddlegum
"The Forms must be the band Steve Albini brings home to meet his mother."
- Pitchfork Media
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| - HALEY BONAR |
#25 Hot Artist on Elbo (6.08)
#14 Hot Track with "Big Star" (6.08)
"She possesses a voice that's ideal for conveying mixed emotions about romance, fame, life. (7.1)"
- Pitchfork Media
"She crafts sun-blissed, tingling tunes that mellow you out and coerce you to drop what you are doing and relax. Good thing she's too cute for you to hold too much of a grudge."
- RCRD LBL
"I could listen to Haley Bonar sing anything."
- Music For Robots
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| - MURDOCKS |
"Wall-to-wall pop ... fantastic."
- Music For Robots
"Roars with the excitement of pure rock 'n' roll."
- What to Wear During An Organge Alert
"In true 'more meat than potatoes' fashion, this stuff grabs me right by the balls and gains my undivided attention."
- Rock Sellout
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| - THE OWLS |
"The Owls look as if they've stepped out of a yellowing photo from the folk era, all ties and dresses, and into the spotlight for the first time. Their music could pass for an unplugged tribute to everything tender and lovely about the Velvet Underground, the Kinks, and the non-hangover parts of the White Album."
City Pages
"Daughters and Suns shows the band continuing to delight in the softer side of the Velvet Underground (particularly Loaded's "Who Loves the Sun"), with their lush boy-girl harmonies, acoustic guitars, and plinking piano. It's a tender, nuanced song about a Belle and Sebastian-worthy protagonist who may have finally found a way to escape being ridiculed by "the clever ones," "the pretty ones," and "the funny ones." Damn, quite a trifecta.
- Pitchfork Media
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| - SINKANE |
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SPIN Magazine's #3 "Download This" in their July 2008 issue.
"Mesmerizing"
- Pitchfork Media
"Meditates on the depiction of one pure artistic thought as a dense composite of different colors."
- Coke Machine Glow
"Immediately left me wanting to share it with you."
- Rock Sellout
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| - SOLID GOLD |
"This synth-heavy single envelops you with its swirling layers from what sounds like a mad, chilled-out scientist behind the keyboard."
- My Old Kentucky Blog
"The best electronic music is sad."
- Red Threat
"Solid Gold is a nice blend of Minneapolis electronic and alternative, you wont see me saying that very often, but I tend to make exceptions."
- Hot Biscuits
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| - THE WARS OF 1812 |
"A new band that deserves your attention."
- Puddlegum |
