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Critiques CD: Joker | The Vision

Joker’s anticipated debut album takes experimental dubstep and polishes its surface to a brilliantly sophisticated pop gloss. From bone-crushing dubstep to hard-hitting hip-hop and deliciously light, evocative electro cheese, the young British producer manages to mix the grimy and the glamorous seamlessly. The album’s title track has an epic vocal pop sensibility that marries perfectly with Joker’s whirring electro dubstep, while the instrumental “Level 6” is pure pop funkiness and a song like “Slaughter House” is high on vocal melodrama and melody built on a sparse foundation. The Vision is a sight for sore ears and is well worth repeated listens.

Critiques CD: Bonnie Prince Billy | Wolfroy Goes to Town

Continuing to mine and refine the songbook(s) of an American past long gone, Will Oldham strips things down to spare minimalism on this latest incarnation of his longest running character. Instead of trying to get to the bottom of who and what he is, kick back and soak up the mellowed chill emanating from Wolfroy…, an album that sees nary more than an acoustic or slightly electrifi ed guitar strumming left-field folk tweets and right-field country ditties, his blunt vocals matched and pushed to new heights by his lady cohort Angel Olsen. Breathtakingly simple, heartfelt and honest.

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