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Rafter — Sweaty Magic

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) September 11, 2008 11:48 am
There's a song on this quickie EP called "Salt" on which Rafter sings "you belong in my world with me" over the peculiar combo of Prince funk guitar, indie handclaps, street jazz saxophone freestyling and a robotic drone. By the end of this seven-song collection there's no place on earth you'd rather be. Though Rafter's...
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Rafter — Sex, Death, Cassette

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) February 12, 2008 3:59 pm
The greatness of Rafter's Sex, Death, Cassette is 100 per cent reflected on the album cover. Do people even pay attention to album covers anymore? They should! Especially if it's as important to the record as it is to this one. A splattered mess of rainbows, skulls, hearts, ghetto blasters, forests and lightning, the artwork is a perfect preview...
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Rafter — Music For Total Chickens

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) April 17, 2007 8:46 pm
Rafter Roberts seems like one weird dude. The latest great folk hope from the Asthmatic Kitty crew, Rafter plays an unusual strain of folk that he treats with odd electronic fills, snippets of female vocals and various other bits and bytes of studio nonsense. Music for Total Chickens is chock full of these descriptors and, at worst, it's a curious...
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Rafter — Animal Feelings

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) April 14, 2010 3:55 pm
Animal Feelings takes San Diego unspoken hero Robert Rafter out of the bedroom and into the streets for a party! The guy still likes to pile loads of sounds into one song, but this time things are less jangly-junkyard and more tight white-guy-R&B-pop. Animal Feelings is kind of like a shiny, happy Beck, and songs like "A Frame"...
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Rafter Will Float His Sex Death Cassette In January

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By Michelle Singerman (CHARTattack) November 1, 2007 4:00 pm
Alt.folk-pop-rock artist Rafter Roberts will release his second solo album under his first name through Sufjan Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label on Jan. 22. The 19-track Sex Death Cassette is the follow-up to Music For Total Chickens, which came out in January. Another record called 10 Songs, which was recorded in 1998, was released as a digital...
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