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10 Great One-Track Albums to Lose Yourself in This Winter

By Tom Hawking on

The fancy vinyl reissue of Sleep’s proto-stoner classic Dopesmoker has been on high rotation at Flavorpill central now that we’ve descended into the depths of winter, and the necessity to get up and flip the LP halfway through has got us thinking about other great records that contain precisely one track. It’s a pleasantly music geeky topic to address for a quiet Tuesday afternoon, and we’ve amused ourselves by scouring our iTunes library for some of our favorite albums by artists with one-track minds. As it were. Check out our selections after the jump, and let us know if you have any to add. … Read More

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10 Albums Guaranteed to Make Your Ears Hurt

By Tom Hawking on

We’ve been listening a lot to the new Crystal Castles album III, which is out this week, here at Flavorpill, and while we’ve been enjoying it a lot more than we thought we would, we do rather miss the days when they sounded like someone taking a sledgehammer to a Commodore 64. Clearly, you have to be in the mood for such things, but when you are in the mood, there’s nothing more viscerally thrilling than some nasty, nasty noise music. We thought we’d share some of our favorite albums for inducing earaches. What are yours? (Incidentally, we mean albums that make your ears hurt in a good way — which means: sorry, Hadouken!/Enter Shikari/BrokenCYDE/etc, you don’t qualify.) … Read More

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Nerd Alert: Check Out the Most Credible/Obscure Album Sale Ever

By Andy Phillips on

When it comes to vinyl rips of Dutch Electronic Tape Music from the ’60s, I’m your go-to guy. But, still, there are realms of nerddom even I can’t enter. While we can’t officially endorse Mutant Sounds (an increasingly infamous repository unbelievably out-there albums) because their content is arguably illegal, we can point out that one of its contributors is clearing… Read More