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First Aid Kit’s ‘Ruins’ experiments with new sound but maintains folk roots

Maggie Walsh | Friday, January 26, 2018

In the fall of my freshman year, homesick and overwhelmed, I would sit at my desk and listen to music. I often turned to First Aid Kit’s nostalgic 2014 record, “Stay Gold,” as a remedy for loneliness. Now in the spring of my senior year, I’m once again sitting at my desk listening to the

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“Out of Time” Reissue Reveals a New Dimension of an Old Classic

Augie Collins | Monday, December 5, 2016

In celebration of the album’s recent 25th anniversary, R.E.M’s landmark record “Out of Time” has been reissued and expanded in style, boasting a second disc of 19 newly remixed demos. These extra tracks show the songs slowly taking shape; several drafts feature hummed or even silent sections of where lyrics had not yet been finalized.