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Mitch Knox, Journalist

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Album Review: This Town Needs Guns 13.0.0.0.0
13.0.0.0.0 genuinely makes you believe that maybe these really could be the best days yet.
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Writer's Poll - Mitch Knox
Mitch Knox loved him some Pinback in 2012.
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Album Review: Bats - The Sleep Of Reason
If the sleep of reason brings forth monsters, as the excellent title track and the painting from which said title is drawn suggest, then The Sleep Of Reason has done its job.
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Album Review: Pinback - Information Retrieved
All in all, Crow and Smith have certainly delivered another beauty of a listen, all nuance and interplay and the road less travelled – but even now, literally at least six listens in, it’s still impossible to tell you why.
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Album Review: Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
Folds is as sharp as ever, but his years as a straight-up pop songwriter have taken a toll.
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Album Review: Minus The Bear Infinity Overhead
The band’s fifth album kicks off with the truly grating Steel And Blood, perhaps the most Omni-esque song on the album, whereby frontman Jake Snider instantly loses all previously amassed points for being a suave bastard by coming across like a lounge singer trying desperately to incite some kind of carnal reaction from a pool of disinterested soccer mums.
Features / Music
Hertz So Good
"Merriweather… was a great experience for us, even just creatively, writing the songs, recording the songs, and it was something that to us was really kind of special."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bigsound Live 2012
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Solving Problems Like Maria
"I started watching Seinfeld, because I have had conversations with people where they quote Seinfeld and I say, ‘I’ve never seen it,’ and they’re like, ‘What are you talking about?’ … so now seemed like the best time to start watching all the freaking seasons."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Splendour In The Grass 2012
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SITG: Day Three
"I considered hanging around for Angus Stone's set, then remembered that I actually needed to stay awake to drive home, so thought better of it and departed."
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Day Two: Raking, Raving And 'Rithmetic Rocking
Day Two - What is my cup of tea though, is angular, technical math rock.