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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Posted in Lists, tagged Folk, Indie, Bon Iver, Justin Vernon, Jagjaguwar, OST, Sufjan Stevens, DM Stith, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Electronic, Radiohead, Brooklyn, There Will Be Blood, Anticon, My Brightest Diamond, Year End, Heavy Ghost, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, Jonny Greenwood, Nonesuch Records, For Emma, Forever Ago, Anathallo, Canopy Glow, The Acorn, Glory Hope Mountain, Paper Bag Records, Damien Jurado, Caught in the Trees, Secretly Canadian, The National, Boxer, Beggar's Banquet, Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Illinois, Shara Wordan, Vermont, Lakewood, Pity Dance, Braid of Voices, Björk, Osso String Quartet, Inside A Boy, Ice and Storm, Apple, P. T. Anderson, Proven Lands, HW / Hope of New Fields, Blood Bank, Wisconsin, Flume, Skinny Love, The Wolves (Act I and II), Noni’s Field, Cafetorium, John J. Audubon, Rolf Klausener, Gloria Esperanza Montoya, Crooked Legs, Low Gravity, Lullaby (Mountain), Ghost of David, Where Shall You Take Me?, Caskets, Everything Trying, Sheets, Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Panda Newsome, Matt Berninger, Bryan Devendorf, Mistaken For Strangers, Slow Show, Ada, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Ashes Of American Flags, Poor Places, Midwest, Chicago, The BQE, The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!, Casimir Pulaski Day, The Seer's Tower on December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
10. DM Stith – Heavy Ghost
09. My Brightest Diamond – A Thousand Shark’s Teeth
08. Jonny Greenwood – There Will Be Blood
07. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
06. Anathallo – Canopy Glow
05. The Acorn – Glory Hope Mountain
04. Damien Jurado – Caught in the Trees
03. The National – Boxer
02. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
01. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
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Posted in Lists, tagged The Decemberists, TV On The Radio, Akron/Family, The XX, David Bowie, Return To Cookie Mountain, xx, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, Why?, Alopecia, Matisyahu, The Hazards of Love, Shara Worden, Lavender Diamond, Becky Starke, Jim James, My Morning Jacket, Architecture In Helsinki, Places Like This, Conor Oberst, Daniel Rossen, Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Kid A, Department of Eagles, Grizzly Bear, In Ear Park, Fred Nicolaus, Staff Picks, Top 10, Decade, Brooklyn, New York, 4AD, Interscope, Dead Oceans, Young Turks, Eli Sunday, There Will Be Blood, Haiti, Anticon, Yoni Wolf, Capitol Records, Polyvinyl, My Brightest Diamond, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, Parlophone, Year End, Grizzly Band on October 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
10. TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
09. Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
08. The XX – XX
07. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
06. Why? – Alopecia
05. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
04. Architecture in Helsinki – Places Like This
03. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake Its Morning
02. Radiohead – Kid A
01. Department of Eagles – In Ear Park
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