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But add a canniness with a looping pedal, which allows her to play and then layer different sounds and vocals, and give this one-woman-band the name Tune-Yards or, rather, tUnE-yArDs - and you've got one of the most hyped musical artists of recent years.
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Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll was won by "w h o k i l l," the second album by Tune-Yards, a k a Merrill Garbus.
NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2012
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The second album by the exhilarating Tune-Yards, aka America's Merrill Garbus, was near the top of many critics' end-of-year lists.
BBC News - Home 2012
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3. TUNE-YARDS "Whokill" 4AD Discursive but focused, brash but precise, shot through with rough kinetic grace, the second album by Tune-Yards, a k a Merrill Garbus, is a spring-loaded marvel.
NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2011
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Tune-Yards: it can take a while to get into the unconventional sound of Tune-Yards, unfortunately for many people that listening curve is too long.
Mark R. Collins: Totally Tweetable Reference Guide to the Buzz Bands of SXSW Mark R. Collins 2011
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Tune-Yards: it can take a while to get into the unconventional sound of Tune-Yards, unfortunately for many people that listening curve is too long.
Mark R. Collins: Totally Tweetable Reference Guide to the Buzz Bands of SXSW Mark R. Collins 2011
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Tune-Yards plays after New York's mellow, experimental pop quintet Twin Sister and before perennial weirdos Xiu Xiu at DC9.
Nightlife Agenda: Titus Andronicus, Black Tambourine, 88-Keys Fritz Hahn 2010
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When Roots drummer/Twitter celebrity Questlove went to see Dirty Projectors in New York a few months ago he was captivated by opening act Tune-Yards. "this is some of the GREATEST ish I've seen in a minute!!!!" he tweeted.
Nightlife Agenda: Titus Andronicus, Black Tambourine, 88-Keys Fritz Hahn 2010
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Owen Pallett at the Black Cat could serve as a nice followup to Tune-Yards the previous night.
Nightlife Agenda: Titus Andronicus, Black Tambourine, 88-Keys Fritz Hahn 2010
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Tune-Yards is the one-woman production of Merrill Garbus, and her debut album, "Bird-Brains" is a vibrant, genre-hopping affair highlighted by her elastic voice and curiously catchy songs.
Nightlife Agenda: Titus Andronicus, Black Tambourine, 88-Keys Fritz Hahn 2010
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