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People: 3xawoman [CD]

Norbert Rodenkirchen/Robbie Lee: Opalescence [CD]

Higgins Patrick: Tocsin [CD]

Taxidermists are two friends from Massachusetts. Guitarist and singer Cooper Handy and drummer Salvadore McNamara have been playing together since they met (on Myspace) in 2007. Honesty Box is the compulsive, insistent music of 21-year-old kids who grew up on Polvo not Pearl Jam, the Kinks not Kanye: eight propulsive tracks which never lose momentum, convulsing into ecstatic sludgy outbursts when you least expect it. This record captures the spirit of Western Mass for a new generation.This is the fourth Taxidermists LP, but the first available outside Massachusetts, and the first in Hi-Fi. Written on a farm in Hadley, perfected on tour, and recorded by Elisha Wiesner at his Studio Double Platinum on Martha's Vineyard. Mastered by the legendary Bob Weston in Chicago.

Lea Bertucci & Leila Bordreuil: L'onde Souter... [CD]

Higgins, Patrick: Bachanalia [CD]

Turn on 'Dust Clouds May Exist,' the debut album by Creature Automatic, and hear something familiar and something completely new. This is pop music that makes pop music strange again. At its core, 'Dust Clouds May Exist' is classic songwriting: flawlessly crafted, featuring catchy hooks and memorable riffs, exuberant and melancholy. But it's also an experimental opus, with Lee playing some of the fabulously unusual instruments he's become known for: mellotrons, crumhorns, and portatif organ alongside the usual guitars, drums, and piano. For fans of Brian Eno's early songs, Robert Wyatt, Richard Youngs, and raucous experimentation.