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Dr. Dog - Fate

Loving the studio, and tripling up on the harmonies, the horns, the guitars and the energy, Fate is easily the band's best album. Maybe not necessarily the best set of songs, but definitely the best time you can have with a Dr. Dog LP - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

David Berman's always had a great sense of humor. But, humor in music is a fine line to walk. He's also continually had that dark side that's balanced the jokester in him. And I'm not going to go into the substance abuse and mental health - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Spiritualized - Songs in A & E

With 18 songs and clocking in at nearly one hour, Songs in A & E tries extremely hard to maintain its tone and direction, and for the most part, it succeeds. At times, it seems like Jason Pierce effortlessly trying to show the kids how it's done - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines

In the first few seconds of Awesome Color's second album it's apparent that the Michigan-bred Brooklyn trio's take-no-prisoners approach to pure Motor City rock and roll is more than plain homage. They're proud of their roots - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion

If there was one thing that kept me from giving my entire body, mind, heart, and soul over to Panda Bear's "Person Pitch," it was its overall synthetic production, as opposed to a more earthy, analog sound (i.e., actual instrumentation) - Tully [READ REVIEW]

Sera Cahoone - Only as the Day Is Long

Crisp and remote, the music contained within Only as the Day Is Long, Carissa's Wierd and Band of Horses contributor Sera Cahoone's second album, is pitch perfect. The pedal steel underscores melodies, the acoustic guitars are bright - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Beach House - Devotion

Buoyed by drum machines, lazy electric guitars & keyboards that fill most open space and yet remain sounding reserved, songs like "Some Things Last A Long Time" and "Turtle Island" bring a cold atmospheric feeling to Devotion - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

Since Pavement, Malkmus' solo career has been largely uneven and unsatisfying: waffling between B-side jokey songs about pirates and toe rings, to indie-pop ballad candidates for the next Garden State soundtrack or stoner jams - oklahomazeppelin [READ REVIEW]

Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha

Diamond Hoo Ha is the sound of a less burdened Supergrass attempting a return to form. Producer Nick Launay (who has worked previously with Arcade Fire and Yeah Yeah Yeahs) opts for a perhaps too-polished sound-- these tracks would have probably - RyanDaff [READ REVIEW]

Hello Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty

Move over Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. There's a new couple in town. The venerable Dan Bejar of Destroyer, the New Pornographers and Swan Lake takes a backseat to his girlfriend Sydney Vermont with their musical love child Hello, Blue Roses - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

School of Language - Sea From Shore

For an 11 song album in which 4 of the songs are variations of the same song (Rockist Parts 1-4), Sea From Shore is a surprisingly strong record. Maybe it's the fact that those 4 variations are of an incredibly strong pop song, built upon a vocal loop of - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

This four-piece of Columbia graduates are undoubtedly somewhat preppy in their style, most notably in the more straightforward guitar tracks 'Campus' and 'I Stand Corrected,' where they sound a little like The Strokes-- albeit The Strokes featuring - RyanDaff [READ REVIEW]

Magnetic Fields - Distortion

The appropriately titled eighth album, Distortion, from the Magnetic Fields draws heavy inspiration from the Jesus & Mary Chain and their fuzzed out, reverb drenched album Pscyhocandy. This is a significant departure from the synth fueled releases - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Times New Viking - Rip It Off

Taking pre-existing notions of lo-fi to the extreme, these guys distort the hell out of anything and everything they commit to tape, morphing what could have been a brash and energetic punk record, into an indecipherable and genuinely putrid sounding mess - RyanDaff [READ REVIEW]

Akron/Family - Love Is Simple

Most record stores are going to file this effort under the neo-folk, psychedelic "beardrock" movement that has been sweeping the hipster scene of-late. Love Is Simple certainly underscores the accuracy of this description and categorization. But, these - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Radiohead - In Rainbows

In Rainbows often sounds escapist, and fantastical; gone are the veiled political commentaries on Bush's stolen election and the war on Iraq, and gone is much of the urgent, paranoid neurosis that has defined Yorke's lyrics in the past - RyanDaff [READ REVIEW]

The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City

It wouldn't be a stretch to call the Fiery Furnaces the most original band on the face of the planet. To many listeners that's a deserved honor bestowed upon the siblings Friedberger, while others shirk at the thought of over-indulgence and contrarian - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

In "Plasticities," Andrew Bird's both obvious (see the song title) and covert analysis of the groupthink culture that pervades art in popular culture, he sings "this isn't our song, this isn't even a musical." Which, frankly, is too bad - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

The Rosebuds - Night Of The Furies

Armed with slowly strummed guitars, lots of vintage synthesizer effects and a drum machine, The Rosebuds have very successfully created a record that sounds both like homage and startlingly fresh. The melodies are simple and catchy and the songs are surpr - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Opsvik & Jennings - Commuter Anthems

Commuter Anthems is a would-be wet dream for the music supervisor of any indie art film. It's almost as if it is the score to some yet to be released Sundance favorite-- covering the breadth of emotions from playful to dark and menacing - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger

After an uncharacteristic absence from releasing albums, Easy Tiger marks Ryan Adams' return to the ring, apparently clean, sober, and fighting fit. 2005 had seen the prolific talent release a whole trilogy's worth of material, both with or without The Ca - RyanDaff [READ REVIEW]

Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up

So, is there a real Canadian Cultural Conspiracy (hence known as the CCC)? The most important record released in the 2000's, so far, is Neon Bible, and the Arcade Fire hysteria circa now dwarfs the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah hysteria of 2005-6 - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Guitarist Nils Cline is not Jeff Tweedy or Jay Bennett. He's on an entirely different level. I think in many ways this album belongs to him because for the first time ever there is a Wilco album that is predicated on guitar solos - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Memphis - A Little Place in the Wilderness

A Little Place in the Wilderness takes a sleepy eye into the world of dream-like, atmospheric pop, but not dreamy in the shoegazer sense. Far from it. Memphis seems more atuned to the actual dream and the sounds and senses that can accompany that world - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

All in all you've got to feel pity for poor Conor Oberst, the kid at the center of all this, because he’s in a no win situation. Such is the life of those who have been christened the New Dylan. That phrase needs to go. I mean honestly, it took Dylan 20 - Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

These knuckleheads are obviously hopped up on amphetamines as confirmation on the song "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse." I'm not sure you can even call it a song - Golden_Years [READ REVIEW]

Feathers - Feathers

This band of gypsies is seemingly harmless. They play the type of medieval music that you can hear at the local Renaissance Fair or at the popular theme restaurant Medieval Times - Golden_Years [READ REVIEW]

Love of Diagrams - Mosaic

The trio, led by the particularly stingy Monika Fikerle, find their feet in an angular and choppy riff driven Rock that has the possibility of being unique but sadly ends up sounding like a bargain bin imitation - Paperslut [READ REVIEW]

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

On Person Pitch, Noah Lennox tirelessly assembles something entirely new out of the old. Lennox's unique approach to this technique is revolutionary to the kind of music being made in the "indie" world - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

The Besnard Lakes hail from Montreal (Who doesn't at this point?). The scope and mood of The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse may remind some of a certain other Montreal band - Merlin [READ REVIEW]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is like the Vin Diesel of band names. It's like Motorhead, only better. Of course, having the Marlon Brando connection is always a plus in the cool department - Paperslut [READ REVIEW]

Kelly Jones - Only The Names Have Been Changed

What defines Kelly Jones as an artist--apart from his very distinctive voice that slides easily between raspy cries and pop loud--is his understanding and subsequent development of song - Paperslut [READ REVIEW]

Greg Ashley - Painted Garden

Despite the varying styles it contains, Painted Garden remains a coherent work of DIY psych-balladry. Ashley may reign in the bells and whistles of previous efforts, but that restraint is a welcomed variation - Merlin [READ REVIEW]

The Horrors - Strange House

The Horrors have managed to throw in some typical new-indie-Brit wordplay and like most of the NME's big things, don't really have much substance other than a few decent hooks and some uppity beats - Paperslut [READ REVIEW]

Mirah - You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This

I can't say I've heard many better female indie singer/songwriters than Mirah. It's the sort of naive innocence with which she makes the most hard to deal with, and mundane issues seem so blunt and well, stupid - Paperslut [READ REVIEW]

The View - Hats Off To The Buskers

The View aren't thinking too big with Hats Off... You're not going to find anything new here. But it's the old that they do well. The melodies are simple, the accent is thick - Paperslut [READ REVIEW]

The Klaxons - Myths of The Near Future

Heralded as the new wave of new rave, the weight of expectation on Myths of The Near Future was high. And fortunately, I'm a sucker for opening tracks. So, "Two Receivers" had me at hello - Paperslut [READ REVIEW]

Papercuts - Can't Go Back

Jason Quever has assembled a wonderfully coherent album out of the remnants of the last fifty years of pop music. Influences are easy to spot, but these songs are never cheap knock-offs - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Rob Crow - Living Well

Living Well's departure from the Pinback formula is sometimes less interesting in songwriting structure, but the variation of the instrumentation aims to make up for the lack of kinetic energy - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Apostle Of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere

Atmospheric... but dance-able? This diverse collection from Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman and cohorts combines those two seemingly disparate adjectives with great effect - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

"I Still Remember" is as strong as anything the band has ever written--its nostalgic, almost childlike view of love, seems to be a direct answer to Alarm's strongest track "This Modern Love" - Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

Clinic - Visitations

I'm never one to expect much from second albums--especially from bands who had debut albums that I loved as much as I loved Silent Alarm--but I had reason to expect that Bloc Party would prove me wrong - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On

This is a record full of all of the things that you want in a record--or at least what I want--lots of strong vocal harmonies, lots of piano & keyboards, jangly guitars & a crunchy rhythm section - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Rafter - Music For Total Chickens

Rafter attempts to heal while deconstructing the pop song and all its pompous listenability. But hark! Every now and again Mr. Roberts lets his guard down and cuddles your ear like a purring kitten - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Menomena - Friend and Foe

Friend and Foe is filled with catchy melodies, fun harmonies, delicate pianos, and tasteful guitar with plenty of strong hip-hop-based percussion and solid bass to provide a firm foundation on every track - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

The National - Alligator

As a band, The National occupy an interesting place in music, in that much of their work can be described in terms of other bands and yet there is no mistaking that these are independent works - Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

Bee Gees - The Studio Albums 1967-1968

For anyone unfamiliar with the genius of early Bee Gees, you probably aren’t. You know "To Love Somebody," "Massachusetts," and "I Started a Joke." However, those classic tunes only scratch the surface - Ryan [READ REVIEW]

Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas

Come Christmas time, most folks do their best to spread the holiday cheer to friends and family. Many times, that comes in the form of a Christmas card picturing you and your cats - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Lee Perry - Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread

This being the first release where Perry himself delivers all the lead vocals, he takes the opportunity to give the listener a glimpse into the everyday world of the urban Jamaican lifestyle - BRAF [READ REVIEW]

The Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California

On their latest, the Skygreen Leopards take to the skies previously inhabited by the Byrds. They pull off homage to the songwriting skills of McGuinn with pleasant attention to detail - Merlin [READ REVIEW]

The Blow - Paper Television

The charismatic vocals of Maricich and the laptop wizardry of Jona Bechtolt wouldn’t seem out of place streaming from a Super Sweet 16's pink iPod mini or the turntable of a Williamsburg NYU student - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Eyes Adrift - Eyes Adrift

I’ll level with you – I love side projects, supergroups, and solo albums. I think these albums, although almost universally flawed, are great indicators into a performer’s career ambitions - BVS [READ REVIEW]

Beach House - Beach House

It’s immediately apparent in the first moments of Beach House’s debut album that you are stepping into a dimly lit atmosphere of heartbreakingly gorgeous melody and warm ambience - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Joanna Newsom - Ys

At five songs and fifty-five minutes, Ys takes patience, not the same kind of puddle splash/skinned knee kind of tolerance that Milk-Eyed Mender required at times - Dharmabatteries [READ REVIEW]

Paul McCartney - McCartney

Holding this record (especially the vinyl if you can track it down) feels like a gift from a friend – personal photos, most likely not taken for public viewing, along with home-made songs that sound quaint and warm. - BVS [READ REVIEW]

John Phillips - John, The Wolf King of L.A.

File under: lost classic. John Phillips' first solo album, John, The Wolf King of L.A., is a complete masterpiece that somehow slipped through the deep cracks of the late 60's - Merlin [READ REVIEW]

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

The Hold Steady is certainly the best of the current bands aping the Boss. And that's just it... They are a great bar band playing solid, if not progressive, rock and roll of the E Street variety - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

The Decemberists are a band that are in their element when pushing things toward the grandiose. The most shocking thing about The Crane Wife is that the listener isn't crushed under the sheer weight - Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

I can’t help but to be cautious when a band is as incredibly lauded as Grizzly Bear has been over the last month. After all, I did buy the Tapes N’ Tapes album on a whim for Christ’s sake - Merlin [READ REVIEW]

Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory - Tree Colored See

Gram Parsons coined the term “Cosmic American Music” to describe his brand of music with the Flying Burrito Brothers that united country, rock, soul, and rhythm & blues. Hip hop wouldn’t enter the - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55

The daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin assembled an all star line-up to produce her second album, 5:55. The first, Lemon Incest, came 22 years earlier and was written by her legendary father - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Jana Hunter - Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom

Jana Hunter's Blank Unstaring Heirs Of Doom is the first release for Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic's label, Gnomonsong. I suppose for that reason this release has been undoubtedly lumped into - Merlin [READ REVIEW]

Ladybug Transistor - Here Comes The Rain EP

Since the release of their fifth LP, The Ladybug Transistor (2003), Ladybug Transistor has undergone a major line-up change. Jeff Baron and Sasha Bell left the band to pursue The Essex Green full time - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere

Not to be confused with the gritty thriller staring Audrey Tauto, but rather, the new project from the “sensible Libertine”, Carl Barat. (Although, both namesakes do take a parallel grimy view - Aren [READ REVIEW]

Voxtrot - Raised By Wolves

I had an argument the other day with my friend over whether or not she could accurately be considered a "hipster". She vehemently objected to this classification, claiming that she didn't have - Dharmabatteries [READ REVIEW]

Girl Talk - Night Ripper

Mashups are pretty hit or miss. Most of them have that one-time, "oh I never thought of those together!" kind of appeal, and many fail even to hold interest past the "clever" title - Dharmabatteries [READ REVIEW]

Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness

The break up record. Surely something that we’re all familiar with, and something that is inherently cool about the power of music: we can use music to identify certain moments of our lives - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

Hot Chip - The Warning

Both Alexis Taylor (the Steve Urkel, if you will, of Electro- Dance-Rock) and computer club sidekick Joe Goddard were riled after hearing repeated criticisms of debut album “Coming on Strong,” being - Aren [READ REVIEW]

Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light

At the core Brightblack Morning Light are Alabama-bred, Northern California-based singer/ guitarist, Nathan "Nabob" Shineywater, and singer/ Rhodes pianist, Rachel "Rabob" Hughes. - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the album, but I feel it is a bit unnecessary. I think Pollard loves notches in his album belt, and can easily find fans of his to collaborate with - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Baby Dayliner - Critics Pass Away

New York City's Baby Dayliner is one guy, Ethan Marunas, who attended Manhattan's LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (aka The "Fame" High School) - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat

Let me start this review off by telling you something about myself. I’m a skinny little indie kid. You know the type exactly. We’re shaggy haired, have an aversion to shaving and - Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

Vetiver - To Find Me Gone

To Find Me Gone finds Cabic wriggling out from under the thumb of Devendra Banhart and exploring the distinctly American, laid back feel of early 70's singer/songwriter material - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Cursive - Happy Hollow

On Cursive's latest album "Happy Hollow" they've traded in the cello for a 5 peice brass section, a good choice for the band. On the earlier work I had always loved the cello's creaking clashing sound - Jordan [READ REVIEW]

The Postal Service - Give Up

This is just a delightful album to listen to. I have been playing this CD regularly since I purchased it well over a year ago. The lyrics are fairly basic, covering various topics related to love and - pirategenius [READ REVIEW]

Deerhoof - The Runners Four

This album by the now San Francisco Trio (bass player just quit to focus on his other band) is quite an offering. The first thing that sticks out to me is the well recorded and down right rock-n-roll - EdLavender [READ REVIEW]

Calexico - Garden Ruin

I have been a fan of Calexico's work since Spoke was released in the mid-90s. They've worked through a variety of sounds over the years, and this album seems to begin a new chapter - pirategenius [READ REVIEW]

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not

This album felt like one, big, uninteresting run-on sentence. Maybe this is just not my style of music, and so I am just not "wired" to enjoy it, and therefore can't appreciate it. Maybe - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

I’ve never heard anything quite like Beirut. Sometimes that can be mind-blowing... Sometimes that can be some dude banging a turkey leg on a trash can and, well, not so much - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming

Up 'till now I've assumed that everyone who is reading this knows that Sunset Rubdown is Spencer Krug's side project, his band aside from Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes. So if you didn't already know - just_me [READ REVIEW]

Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

I really wanted to like this album. There was twinkle in my eye and a few goose-bumps when I initially met and hung out with their first EP, September 000. I really thought it might be love - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Isobel Campbell - Ballad of the Broken Seas

Most people remember Isobel Campbell as the angelic singer/cellist formerly of Belle & Sebastian, and Mark Lanegan as the former lead vocalist of Screaming Trees and Queens of the - just_me [READ REVIEW]

Decoder Ring - Somersault

In the late ‘90s, I was really into the “post-rock” sound, especially Canadian bands like Godspeed! You Black Emperor and Do Make Say Think, but also American bands like - Mister_Chips [READ REVIEW]

Liars - Drum's Not Dead

The album starts off with an obvious building of tension between two separate and opposing forces. One fast approaching the other, each unaware of their impending collision and yet - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Iron & Wine/Calexico - In The Reins

Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam is indie rock’s answer to William Faulkner. He intricately weaves hushed southern gothic tales that feel incredibly intimate, while at the same time there is no denying - Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

The Beach Boys - Friends

I like this record probably a little too much for how Not Brilliant it actually is overall--but then there's no accounting for taste, now is there? Mike Love, it's well established, is an incorrigible jackass - WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Loose Fur - Born Again In The U.S.A.

I had a hard time rating this album, because this seems more like a fist fulla incongruous tunes that just happen to exist on the same disc rather than a real cohesive work of audio art. It does - Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Sibylle Baier - Colour Green

While I usually view claims that an album is a 'lost classic' with an intense mistrust, 'Colour Green' is both definitely 'lost' and, for my money, is something of a minor 'classic'. It's been ages since I've had a new album on such high rotation - WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

This record by the new Subpop signing is pretty great. The brilliant Phil Ek, of "Look for the record with me on the cover!" fame, recorded it. It kinda sounds like a mix between My Morning Jacket and - WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Kelley Stoltz - Below The Branches

- WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is on Our Side

- Marcel_Ledbetter [READ REVIEW]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

- Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.

- Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later

- Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff

Shout Out Louds come on like many of the new crop of bands who freely pillage the pop of the mid sixties and early eighties but they do it with out the slightest hint of irony or wry detachment - Bluemask [READ REVIEW]

Pink Mountaintops - Axis Of Evol

- Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

- WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

The Howling Hex - 1-2-3

- WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Sparks - Kimono My House

- ttmeade [READ REVIEW]

Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary

- Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth

- Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave and the Bold

- WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

- WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Black Mountain - Black Mountain

- Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

- Mongfug [READ REVIEW]

East River Pipe - What Are You On?

- Bobby [READ REVIEW]

Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye

- Wampus [READ REVIEW]

Cat Power - The Greatest

- WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Amandine - This Is Where Our Hearts Collide

- WillGilbert [READ REVIEW]

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Summer in the Southeast

- Wampus [READ REVIEW]

The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir

- Bobby [READ REVIEW]

Death From Above 1979 - Romance Bloody Romance: Remixes & B-Sides

- Wampus [READ REVIEW]

Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers

- Wampus [READ REVIEW]

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Shearwater

Rook

Consider Rook essential summer listening. Like your "Summer Reading" list, Rook isn't really "summer-y" at all. It's heavy, dense, dramatic and beautiful and dark. Four of those five adjectives actually DO apply to summer, come to think of it... - jimtarnation [READ REVIEW]

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Staff picked track of the day

Brightblack Morning Light

Hologram Buffalo

"Recorded entirely under solar power," Brightblack Morning Light like things like tee-pees, headbands and most likely hallucinogenic drugs. More solar power to 'em. Their second album of slow motion hippie blues, Motion to Rejoin, is due September 23rd on Matador. [DOWNLOAD]

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