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Artist:	FOG
Title:	10th Avenue Freakout
Label:	LEX RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LEX 033CD

"After three acclaimed releases with Ninja Tune, Andrew Broder brought his Fog project to Lex Records in 2004. With Lex, Broder has found the encouragement to develop his well-deserved reputation as a sonic-maverick, creating marvelous sounds out of meager studio dust. Recorded almost entirely within the confines of his Minneapolis home (on 10th Avenue, of course), Broder's new album features contributions from several notable avant-garde musicians, including George Cartwright (Curlew), Michael Lewis (Happy Apple) and Dosh (Anticon)- not to mention contribution from all members of the Fog live band and production assistance from Tom Herbers (Low). Only a music-maker as assured as Broder could corral such a group into smoothing away the usual contradictions of contemporary music. This is indie rock that'll make you smile, free jazz you can dance to, and electronic music you will actually want to engage with again and again."

Artist:	FOG
Title:	Diggler's Romance
Label:	METROLINE LIMITED (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MLTD 042EP

Fog presents an excellent EP for Metroline. "Diggler's Job" is a breezy house number with pimping keys and a beautiful bass bounce. There's plenty of movement in the percussion and a light touch that just begs for summer to come. "Shout Romance" is a shade tougher with its up-front kicks and acid-tinged bass line. It has slow burn intensity that is nicely counterbalanced by smooth, reverb-soaked vintage synths. The Jackspot remix really brings out the funk in those synths.

Artist:	FOG
Title:	Fog
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 062CD

"Andrew Broder aka Fog started to make this album with one simple question on his mind. Is there more to using a turntable to make your music than as a vehicle for showing how good you are at playing the turntable? The answer is complicated, but it's also beautiful, as well as funny, sometimes sad and, in its own downbeat way, sort of uplifting. Or to put it another way, the answer can be yes. Influenced by post-rock, folk and blues as much as hip hop, Broder has aimed to make a record which moves you, rather than just making you bob your head and your mind reveling in the technique. It's a risky strategy, leaving Fog open to all manner of snide asides, but we think he succeeds admirably. This is still a cut and paste album but it also uses guitars and Broder's singing to make a unique sounding record of single-minded strangeness."

Artist:	FOG
Title:	Ether Teeth
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 077CD

"Ether Teeth, Fog's second LP, is, in his own words, 'a heavy-headed hopeful opus, an urban vaudevillian symphony about birds, war, mystery, jealousy, old tyme dudes and most importantly L-O-V-E. (I know, I know...)'. So what does it sound like? We could give you some trite Neil Young-meets-Kid-Koala-and-Randy-Newman-at-the-Anticon-house straw to grasp at, but it would only piss you off and wouldn't get you any closer to where Broder's going. Let's just say that it's a pretty unique record from a pretty unique man, a great big American symphony made out of scraps and after-thoughts, somehow sophisticated and naive in equal measure."

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