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The Pitchfork Guide to Summer Festivals 2008

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No Age:
Nouns

No Age follow their 2007 EP compilation, Weirdo Rippers, with a gorgeously thick Sub Pop debut-- a hazy, delirious expanse that's friendly and warm and, best of all, unpredictable. Like Times New Viking, No Age bury their addictive sing-alongs in layers of effects and fuzz: Nouns is so cacophonous, so fertile, and so ripe with sound that it's hard to comprehend how just two people manage to make so much noise while still sounding subdued and mysterious. [Amanda Petrusich]

Portishead:
Third

As radical reinventions go, Third-- the first Portishead studio album since 1997-- is surprisingly natural. Darker and bleaker lyrically than their previous work, Third is a sort of re-debut-- the band's sound after it has excised every possible remnant of trip-hop from it. Instead, Third is a psychedelic rock album, with an abrasive and jittery electro-industrial number, analog freakouts, free jazz horns, droning, rhythmically dense garage-kraut, and other sonic detours. [Nate Patrin]

Fri: 05-23-08:
Free Kitten
Inherit

The first album in more than 10 years from Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz-- with help this time from Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We and J Mascis-- finds the duo's scattershot genre-hopping whittled down to a more concise two-pronged approach. [David Raposa]

Fri: 05-23-08:
HEALTH
DISCO

HEALTH's debut album attempted to artfully reconcile dance/digital elements with rock/noise textures. The group goes one step further on this remix album, which features contributions from Crystal Castles, Acid Girls, Thrust Lab, and many more.
[Recommended] | [William Bowers]

Crystal Stilts: Crystal Stilts
Weirdly life-affirming and very fun, Crystal Stilts are moody-sounding fuckers who make fabulous stripped-down, C86-like garage-pop. [Mike McGonigal]

The Drift: Memory Drawings
The second full-length from this San Francisco post-rock quartet, who have toured with labelmates Explosions in the Sky and Mono, skirts dub, krautrock, and jazz while remaining difficult to pin down. [Mike Orme]

Neva Dinova: You May Already Be Dreaming
Bright Eyes associates' third full-length is their first on Saddle Creek, and their brand of earnest, countrified indie brings to mind an earlier time in the label's history. [Ian Cohen]

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Fri: 05-23-08:
Column: Poptimist #15
This month, Poptimist takes a stab at thinking through what having a "favorite album" means. [Tom Ewing]

Thu: 05-22-08:
Guest List: Frightened Rabbit
Frightened Rabbit's Grant Hutchison reveals his love for a chart-topping rising pop star, dissects trendy American indie flicks, and praises his favorite long-running British DJ. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] [Grant Hutchison]

Wed: 05-21-08:
Column: Show No Mercy
This month we speak to Indianapolis' Gates of Slumber about their new album, Conquerer, longstanding obsession with the fantasy author Robert E. Howard, and the band's awesome post-St. Vitus sound. Plus, conversations with Virginia's Wrnlrd and Danish black metal artist Nortt [above]. [Brandon Stosuy]

Tue: 05-20-08:
Column: Through the Cracks #5
This month we celebrate the Ghost Box label, whose artists treat their source materials and influences-- British occult texts, science and informational films, the loose hokum of 60s counterculture, and the straight fits of academia and bureaucracy-- as clues and suggestions. [Mike Powell]

Mon: 05-19-08:
Interview: Paul Westerberg
Former Replacements leader Paul Westerberg holds court on a career that often settled for glorious failure while the suckers and sell-outs walked off with all the fame and success. [Joshua Klein]

Fri: 05-16-08:
Column: Puritan Blister #37
Surely music writing isn't just music's pubic dandruff, or a redundant accessory, like a fannypack for a fannypack? With his students' help, Puritan Blister is going to find out. [William Bowers]