Author: pitchfork

Eat Skull: III

In the context of Led Zeppelin’s discography, III is the “soft” record. Before then, Zeppelin was known as a bunch of knuckle-dragging lemon-squeezers who distorted the blues with consciousness-shifting levels of pure volume....

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Psychic Ills: One Track Mind

“I found out I never knew where it was going/ And it might take a while,” Psychic Ills sing on One Track Mind. For the psych-dabblers (who celebrate their tenth birthday this year), this could have been the mantra...

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Dur-Dur Band: Vol. 5

One of the greatest gifts recorded music gives us is a little piece of life from places we may never otherwise know. There was a time when Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, was often referred to as the “pearl of the...

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