January 2010
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“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
– Pablo Picasso
“There was a lot of instrumental, shoegazer kind of music happening in Montreal....”
– Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, explaining the origins of his band’s sound.
“We share 60% of our genes with a banana, 90% with a mouse and over 99% with a...”
– Deepak Chopra (via maluna)
Listen to new Caribou song "Odessa"...
2007’s Andorra, the last album from Dan Snaith’s ever-mutating psych-pop projectCaribou, appeared on our year-end list and won Canada’s Polaris Music Prize, so hopes are high for the follow-up. That follow-up will arrive April 20, when Merge(in North America) and City Slang (in the UK and Europe) releases his new album, Swim. The 4/20 release date feels oddly appropriate.
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“giving an artist total freedom is castrating them. when you say to an artist,...”
– peter gabriel.
