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Can You Deal? (Dead Oceans). Review by Jen Cray.

Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop Music). Review by .

Rock & Roll Submarine (UO Records). Review by Sean Slone.

Two-Way Family Favourites (Southern Domestic Recordings). Review by Sean Slone.

Kimya Dawson mothers the Chicago kids with her folkish punk rock lullabies. Chris Catania digs.

Historical Fiction (Team Science). Review by Jen Cray.

The Shapes We Make (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Aaron Shaul.

The women are doing it for themselves! This issue of Target or Flag gives you the low down on four women making music in very different styles but displaying the same independent spirit.

To Force a Fate (Lookout!). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

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Greatest Hits Vol. II (Trampoline Records). Review by Andrew Ellis.

Nothing Comes Free (self-released). Review by Stein Haukland.

Get On (Sonic Unyon). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

The Diamond Fields (self-released). Review by Stein Haukland.

Long Shot Novena (Rough Trade). Review by Stein Haukland.

That’s What We’re Here For (This is the Chopper). Review by Matt Cibula.

musicforthemorningafter (Columbia). Review by Sean Slone.

Column by David Lee Beowülf