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Est. 2001
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Glorious Noise Recommended

Sonic Youth - The Eternal

Sonic Youth - The EternalSonic Youth is back with their best work since Washing Machine.

Iron Maiden - Flight 666 The Film

Iron Maiden - Flight 666The latest visual offering in the band's extensive video collection proves that Iron Maiden is the best live band in the world today.

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us

A trippy blend of old school analog synths fronted by primitive robotic vocoder. This time produced by Dave Fridmann.

Mastodon - Crack The Skye

Mastodon - Crack The SkyeThe album that will finally test the patience of the alternative elite that has supported them. True metalheads will love it.

William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark

William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The DarkAfter three fine and sadly overlooked records on Southern Records, the Iowa native moves the current home of Neko Case and Tom Waits for number four.

Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel - Dual Hawks

Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel - Dual HawksEverything great about American underground rock music: next to every challenging element is a melodic hook, housed in a unique formula that sounds both reassuringly familiar and wonderfully unique.

Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night

Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At NightAn efficient half-hour package of love's trials and tribulations.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post PavilionWhat happens when a person attempts to listen to Animal Collective when they're not baked? One brave GLONO contributor sets down the bong long enough to find out.

Spiritualized - Songs In A & E

Spiritualized - Songs In A + EAfter a nearly fatal bout of pneumonia, Jason Pierce resurrects his band, his career, and his life.

Neil Young - Sugar Mountain-Live At Canterbury House 1968

Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968The latest from Neil Young's archival series captures the artist at the beginning of his solo career and justifies our madness for him. Just when you're ready to bail on the old nutter you're finding that you're leaving too soon.

Deerhunter - Microcastle

Deerhunter - MicrocastleWhen Deerhunter isn't amassing squalor, they're deconstructing it, softly spun with pianos, tremolo, and layers of reverb soaked guitars.

Erykah Badu - New Ameryka, Pt. 1: 4th World War

Erykah Badu - New Ameryka, Pt. 1: 4th World WarDocumenting the general feeling that we are at a low ebb where the only place to go is up, Badu creates a major piece of work, challenging but rewarding.

Motorhead - Motorizer

Motorhead - MotorizerMotorhead's twenty-fourth album is an ass-kicking testament to the band's consistency and contribution to rock music.

Portishead - Third

Portishead - ThirdBeth Gibbons sounds as miserable as ever and the content of her lyrics...like Gibbons, herself...are older and more complex.

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Oasis - Dig Out Your SoulA review of Manchester big mouths' new album—for fans only. The rest of you can carry on listening to !!! or The Cool Kids.

Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

Okkervil River - The Stand InsWill Sheff leads his group through the sequel to The Stage Names and goes out of his way to dismantle the very idea of hero worship.

The Broken West - Now Or Heaven

The Broken West - Now Or HeavenAn unexpected left turn from the nifty power-pop of their debut album.

Lost Classics: Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

Talk Talk - Spirit Of EdenA look back at the 1988 album that launched Mark Hollis out of the New Wave ghetto and into something much deeper.

Meshuggah - ObZen

 Meshuggah - ObZen Get your Friday Facial from Glorious Noise in the ongoing series, Faces Don't Lie: Expressive Record Reviews with Dylan Burr.

U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky

U2 - Under a Blood Red SkyWith songs pulled from shows across the summer of 1983, it perfectly encapsulates everything that made U2 so exciting at the time.

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