Devotchka - 100 Lovers (2011)

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Women - Public Srain (2010)

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Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

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Akron/Family - Set Em Wild, Set Em Free (2009)

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King Khan and the Shrines - What Is ! (2007)

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Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009)

Not due for release for more than a month from now, this album is a groundbreaker for David Longstreth. An awesome blend of avante-garde and traditional indie rock.

1. "Cannibal Resource" - 3:55
2. "Temecula Sunrise" - 5:05
3. "The Bride" - 2:49
4. "Stillness Is the Move" - 5:14
5. "Two Doves" - 3:42
6. "Useful Chamber" - 6:28
7. "No Intention" - 4:17
8. "Remade Horizon" - 3:55
9. "Fluorescent Half Dome" - 5:45

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Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (2009)

Highly anticipated third album from Jason Quever's cosmic dream-pop project fully delivers. Quever is a guest member of numerous bands (including Vetiver, Beach House, and Skygreen Leopards), and the living room/recording studio wizard behind numerous others (Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Cass McCombs, Donkeys, and more) .


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Crystal Antlers - Tentacles (2009)

Another band in my long line of beloved "crystal" bands. No, I'm not cooking meth in the garage.

The group explodes through the unclaimed space between ’60s garage touchs like the Music Machine & the Misunderstood, red-eyed noiseniks like Guru Guru & Les Rallizes Denudes & the mechanized motor-soul of “Osmium”-era Parliament. Between the screamers come the scenery - the Pharoah Sanders-style sax snippets that confetti the end of “Glacier,” the gentle oceanic drone-poem “Vapor Trail,” the album intro that sounds like Blue Cheer chasing Terry Riley’s “Rainbow In Curved Air”.

Due out in early April, this is an album you shouldn't sleep on.

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Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (2009)

Bat for Lashes second album sees Brighton's Natasha Khan introducing some special guests, notably Scott Walker and Yeasayer, and, more bizarrely, her alter-ego, Pearl, described by the press release as "a destructive, self-absorbed, blonde, femme fatale of a persona who acts as a direct foil to Khan's more mystical, desert-born spiritual self."

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Magik Markers - Balf Quarry (2009)

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Handsome Furs - Face Control (2009)

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A.C. Newman - Get Guilty (2009)

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Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon (2009)

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