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Charles Brownstein caught up with Ernest Greene AKA Washed Out on the eve of the band’s tour for the album Paracosm. CB: The definition of your new album title, Paracosm, is a detailed imaginary world or fantasy world involving humans and/or animals, or perhaps even fantasy or alien creations. Your video for Don’t Give Up alsofeatures many shots of various animals. Where do you draw on all these inspirations from? EG: I was on tour off and on for close to two years. Our home base was...

Artist: Forest Fire Album: Screens Rating: 9 Label: Fatcat I feel lucky to have been able to review this album. It’s very good from the start to the god-damned finish. I had never heard any of Forest Fire’s music until I put on their new album, Screens. From the start of the spiraling keyboards of “Waiting In The Night”, I was lightly lulled in by their laid-back approach. Forest Fire’s sound is not all aggressive, but there is an ease and confidence to it that allows you to just...

Northern Transmissions Chatted with Mike, Sadie, and Matt from ‘Speedy Ortiz’. We always love bands with a great sense of humour. Major Arcana by ‘Speedy Ortiz’ is now out on Car Park Records. NT: I heard that you guys used to steal albums from your parents collection, which are some of the ones that still stick with you today? Mike: I didn’t really ask to take all of my parents’ records, but I just figured they had no use for them. I’m keeping them safe and listening to them...

Artist: The Naked and Famous Title: In Rolling Waves Record Label: Somewhat Damaged/Fiction/Universal Rating: 7.5/10 Back in 2010 when New Zealand natives The Naked and Famous dropped their debut record, Passive Me, Aggressive You, the Kiwi’s illustrated their assured knack at carving out surefire pop brilliance, ‘Young Blood’ in particular scored the first homegrown number one in the New Zealand charts for three years. What TNAF demonstrated with their first outing was a three...