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Jennifer Kelly

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Dusted editor, Aquarium Drunkard contributor, Knicks fan, sci fi writer


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“Eiko Ishibashi’s soundtrack skilfully and subtly complements the film’s themes, capturing stillness, beauty, sorrow and uncertainty,” writes Tim Clarke. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7556400...

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You got AD today, too!

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“What if we did a song, asks the fusion-freaked, post-rock-post-jazz foursome known as Emergency Group.” Jennifer Kelly reviews their latest. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7556286...

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“While his imaginative use of instruments and electronics has for years been distinctive, this recording finds Smith truly coming into his own as a composer,” writes Christian Carey. @cbcarey.bsky.social
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“The sound is fuzzy with a large helping of hook, sweet but not cloying, and very much like Bats early on, when they could still work up a sweat and frenzy,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7555381...

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Seems like he’d be good live?

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Yeah that happened last spring.

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David Bazan doesn’t really do small talk. aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/07/08/y...

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“After a flirtation with big pop, How to Dress Well’s Thomas Krell goes deep inside himself for I Am Toward You,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7554588...

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“Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White are sounding as raw and elemental as ever,” writes Tim Clarke. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7554475...

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I used to get promos from them and reviewed a bunch but apparently not enough to keep getting them.

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I believe I heard about this through my AD brethren, and holy moly, it’s a good one. daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...

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Hydrangeas are out.

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Just piano music, no narrative, but very beautiful www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/m...

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Terrible movie. youtu.be/m3CQqoarH-w?...

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In a special 4th of July/road race running random Thursday i nominate Algiers’ “Dispossession,” which reflect my anxiety about our country and also made me pick up the pace. youtu.be/JmzwOG06iUg?...

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We end our mid-year coverage with everybody’s favorite part, the writer lists.. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7550058...

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“One suspects that the humidity, heat and socio-cultural rot that inform existence in Gainesville, FL, have a good deal to do with Wharflurch’s moldering, malodorous variety of doomy death metal,” writes Jonathan Shaw. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7549945...

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I reviewed the one before it for dusted, happy to share if you’re interested

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Naked?

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I love Uranium Club.

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Both my picks — Rosali and Mdou Moctar— are reviewed in Part Two and i have a short blurb on NYSSA which i quite enjoyed.

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Part Two of this year’s mid-year round up covers everything from Polish jazz Lumpeks to rapper Z-Ro, with popular favorites Rosali and Winged Wheel in between. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7549153...

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Hey I don’t make the alphabet. I just enforce it.

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Thanks @pmmmasterson.bsky.social

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Our annual mid-year wrap up starts today. My random assignment was Chief Keef, which i’m so glad i heard. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7548247...

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“In One Evening and Other Folk Songs, Buck Curran fleshes out his psychedelic raga blues with a full band,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7548133...

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Dusted unpacks Gastr del Sol. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7545529...

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When i learned to drive again after living in New York for eight years, this was the only music that could calm me down.

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The second half of this month’s Dust runs from David Murray to Your Music Encountered in a Dream. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7545418...

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We split our monthly collection of short reviews into two parts. Part one goes from Avalanche Kaito to Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7545415...

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They’re written about as a duo so idk if she’s new? Also plays the violin.

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No i was wondering too

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Perennial

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TV buddha

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Horsegirl in Brattleboro

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Perennial band…so fun.

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Best of the Thursday shuffle is Sisters Love’s “Rise.” Thanks to Cody who made me the killer soul mix…wherever you are now. youtu.be/Sb7vBql7DBs?...

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“Laughing nails power pop’s ease and inevitability, and that’s impressive. It’s one of music’s most difficult forms, not least because it should never look like you’re trying,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7544622...

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“Whether he invokes his own melodies or those of his ancestors, he unfurls them with grace,” writes Bryon Hayes. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7544511...

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It’s too much to ask, though, right?

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Sure but also kind of amped to see TV Buddha.

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We’re going to see Horsegrl tonight instead of watching the debate. Let me know if anyone dies or shits his pants.

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So I’m listening to the new Decemberists and i get to the loooong track and it’s not bad for the first ten minutes and then i’m like “are they really doing nine minutes of fade out and fucking around” and apparently the answer is yes until the last three minutes which is a pretty solid rock song.

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Thanks Frank!

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“Yes, this is a heavy album, but luxuriously so. It’s music that stares death in the face and instead of running, hunkers down and gets comfortable,” writes Tim Clarke. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7543716...

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it really does.

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Yes!

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“A kicky, catchy, bash-and-pop variety of post-punk that has more than a whiff of the Television Personalities in it,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7543603... @slumberlandrecords.bsky.social

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“Their playing cracks open new spaces, full of violent suffering and meditative dispassion, those disparate affects sometimes simultaneously present,” writes Jonathan Shaw. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7542811...

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