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I wait all year for a moment like this – putting on a new album that’s been sitting on the release calendar for months, tantalizing me. Often, of course, these moments are anticlimactic – not disappointing, always, but it’s hard for a record to live up to whatever hype I’ve built up for it in my head. For most of the year, I’m listening to albums I thought would be great but are merely good, or great albums I didn’t even know were coming out, or albums I thought would be boring and are, or the occasional complete bomb.

So it’s moments like this – putting on the new Telekinesis record and having it kill from the first notes of acoustic guitar that grace album opener “You Turn Clear in the Sun,” then having every song barrel forward like front/onlyman Michael Benjamin Lerner is afraid if he slows up, you might stop listening. Continue reading »