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10. DJ Spooky - The Secret Song
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Released 6/10/2009


9. Systems Officer - Underslept
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Released 3/11/2009


8. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
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Released 16/3/2009


7. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
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Released 1/1/2009


6. Gomez - A New Tide
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Released 30/3/2009


5. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
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Released 28/2/2009


4. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
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Released 9/2/2009


3. A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
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Released 20/1/2009


2. The Mother Hips - Pacific Dust
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A year in which I didn't listen to anywhere near as much music as I'd have liked due to moving country, being unemployed, etc etc.

Favourite new albums:
1. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
2. Various - Dark Was The Night
3, DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
4. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
6. The Spires - A Way of Seeing
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
8. A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
9. The Bird & The Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
10. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand

When The New Pornographers tour, they are usually missing Dan Bejar and Neko Case because they themselves have other commitments to be fulfilled, but both were present at this particular show, and we are extremely lucky for it!

Openers were Imaad Wasif and The Dodos. The former was a ridiculously skinny Indian man with white clothing and his backing band, which included a violinist. They played midtempo indie rock music, sounding at time, breezy, hopeful, melancholy, and angry. A bit standard, but pretty good, and the violin was a nice touch. The latter featured a guitarist and TWO drummers (one of which is also the xylophonist!). Their songs were built around tribal, hypnotizing drumbeats and the guy's guitar playing, with the xylophone contributing incidental coloring to the vocal melodies. The xylophonist/drummer would switch off between instruments in the same song, sometimes joining the primary drummer and other times accompanying the singer on xylophone, and he got some really eerie noises out of it using a violin bow. …

A bit late but I finally have a list I'm satisfied with. As with my songs list I go by what albums I enjoy and nothing more. I generally find concepts of influence and importance to be overrated and overly relative to too many things to be taken into consideration. I try and comment as much as I can on each one and usually post a lyric I like or that encapsulates the album somehow.

100 | OutKast | Speakerboxx/The Love Below | 2003
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Ghosts and goblins run amuck
In the caverns of rhine
Slinging petty corruption
The seventh sign!

The Love Below is a somewhat experimental mix of soul, rock, rap, and pop. Speakerboxx is a classic OutKast album of wonderfully produced rap. Together they make a hell of an album. Outside of great pop tracks Hey Ya! and Roses, and some nice soul inspired pieces I think I prefer Speakerboxx. Bust, Ghetto Musick, and Church are all classic OutKast tracks with good MC's and…

This is my list of my favorite 35 albums I've listened to, or been largely exposed to, since I started college. I limited each spot to a unique artist, so while there are some artists that would have potentially taken up several spots, I wanted this list to represent more artistic diversity than just specifically the albums themselves.


35. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002
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While I'm not the biggest Wilco fan, this is my favorite album of theirs as their songwriting seems more mature and slightly darker than on Summerteeth. Wilco certainly doesn't lack in melodic hooks and excellent instrumentation.
Favorite Track: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

34. The Strange Boys - The Strange Boys and Girls Club 2009
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The Strange Boys don't really try to break new ground or blow you away with their technical prowess, but they do represent the power of a few chords and an electric guitar. …

Newman, Case, Bejar & Co. create another winner!

http://treblezine.com/reviews/3450-The_New_Pornographers_Together.html

The New Pornographers
A.C. Newman
Neko Case
Destroyer

Better late than never...

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Girls - Album
3. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
4. Passion Pit - Manners
5. The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
6. The Antlers - Hospice
7. The Deep Dark Woods - Winter Hours
8. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
9. Those Darlins - Those Darlins
10. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
11. Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler
12. The xx - xx
13. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
14. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
15. Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
16. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar
17. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
19. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
20. A.C. Newman - Get Guilty