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This week, we speak with Nate Willet of Cold War Kids on his music style and talk about their new album Robbers & Cowards.

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Holly Miranda | Magician's Private Library

We all have pressures of becoming someone but holy Holly Miranda! This southern crooner not only overcame a music crutch (religion allowed only Motown in the house), had the mob after her at one point (note: know who you’re signing a music contract with), but then ol’ Kanye West had to go and give her a shout out on his blog. Thankfully Holly Miranda knows just the right peeps on the music scene to keep her cool and plenty of tricks up her sleeve for her solo debut.

The Magician’s Private Library plays like a slowburner Tegan & Sara; bare of pop crap but blistering with MPC, synth, and bursting with pain. But without TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek’s production fingerprints all over the album, it would easily be forgettable. That’s not meant toward Miranda; her vocals are as powerfully heartbreaking as Cat Power and gorgeously suspended like Feist. But that can easily be lost in today’s crowded record bins. Sitek knew what he had and in so unwound her anxiety care of minimalistic beats, echoing bass, flat horns. By catering to her sultry voice, Sitek masterminds all of Oz by playing the mayor behind the studio glass mussing up her journey. Only opener ‘Forest Green Oh Forest Green’ strays from this formula…

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