Tame Impala - Deadbeat
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I'm not a huge fan of Tame Impala's recent trend toward dance music or whatever you want to call it, the beats and the melodies were never the secret sauce.
Two Stars.
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Sloan - Based on the Bestseller
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Keep on keepin' on.
Two Stars.
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Prince - Around the World in a Day
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Every time I walk into a record store, I try to find an old used copy of some Prince album or another. Gotta catch 'em all.
Two Stars.
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Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
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At some point, I started to confuse Eddie Vedder's singing voice with Lou Barlow.
Two Stars.
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Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
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I've only read a few of Murakami's novels now, but this one is pretty emblematic of the experience. Kafka is either an intense, bookish teenager with an unfortunate curse, or maybe just a sociopath. Nakata is an old man, "not very bright", who can talk to cats. Kafka runs away from home, and Nakata goes on a quest. The whole thing is pretty Oedipal.
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