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LIST 2009: 50 Notable Releases This Year

Posted in Album Reviews, tagged Japandroids, Post-Nothing, The Decemberists, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, DM Stith, George Gershwin, John Williams, Flaming Lips, Embryonic, Wayne Coyne, Akron/Family, The XX, xx, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, Why?, Shara Worden, Lavender Diamond, Becky Starke, Jim James, My Morning Jacket, Daniel Rossen, Department of Eagles, Grizzly Bear, My Brightest Diamond, Heavy Ghost, Björk, Blood Bank, The BQE, Animal Collective, Sea Wolf, Beach Boys, Arcade Fire, Ed Droste, The Dirty Projectors, Passion Pit, Fall Be Kind, Merriweather Post Pavillion, The Antlers, Hospice, Peter Silberman, Atlas Sound, Logos, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Eating Us, Blind Pilot, 3 Rounds and a Sound, The Builders and the Butchers, Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well, Califone, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career, Clem Snide, Hungry Bird, Dan Auerbach, Keep It Hid, Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, Dark Night of the Soul, The Dead Weather, Horehound, Hazards of Love, Derek Webb, Stockholm Syndrome, Bitte Orca, The Dodos, Time To Die, Fever Ray, Fruit Bats, Ruminant Band, fun., Aim and Ignite, Veckatimist, Ida Maria, Fortress 'Round My Heart, MF Doom, Born Like This, Miike Snow, Modest Mouse, No One's First and You're Next, Monsters of Folk, Mos Def, The Ecstatic, Mount Eerie, Wind's Poem, Neon Indian, Psychic Chasms, Manners, Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Ramona Falls, Intuit, Real Estate, White Water, White Bloom, Sing Fang Bous, Clangour, St. Vincent, Actor, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Birth, Sunset Rubdown, Dragonslayer, Volcano Choir, Unmap, White Rabbits, It's Frightening, Eskimo Snow, Y.A.C.H.T., See Mystery Lights, Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs, For Emma Forever Ago, Mullholland Drive, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Twin Peaks, Dark Was the Night, Brian Burton, Mark Linkous, James Mercer, The Shins, Suzanne Vega, Julian Casablancas, The Strokes, Iggy Pop, Scott Spillane, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jason Lytle, Grandaddy, Frank Black, Eric Johnson, Christopher Bear, Chris Taylor, Annie Clark, Vic Chesnutt on January 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Happy New Year! It is the year 2010 and alien technology has taken over the world. Humans are slaves to machines that replace all the simple things in life with a series of ones and zeros. I have harnessed the power of this secret formula and cranked out a list of 50 best releases of [...]

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Micro Beards: 15 Dec 2009

Posted in Album Reviews, tagged 3 Beards, 3.5 Beards, 4 Beards, 5 Beards, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Audio Eagle, Beach Boys, Bell, Björk, Dangerbird, Domino, Ed Droste, Final Fantasy, Liars, Micro Beards, Neon Bible, No Age, Passion Pit, Royal Bangs, Sea Wolf, Stereogum, The Dirty Projectors, Xiu Xiu on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Stereogum Presents… Enjoyed: A Tribut To Björk’s Post (3/5 beards)
Royal Bangs – Let It Beep (3.5/5 beards)
Sea Wolf – White Water, White Bloom (4/5 beards)
Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind (5/5 beards)

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