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British_pharaoh 07-16-2008 02:04 PM

The Subways - All Or Nothing

Zombeels 07-18-2008 12:24 AM

The M's - Real Close Ones
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
Electric President - Sleep Well
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Ratatat - LP3
Venus - The Red Room
Telepathic Butterflies - Breakfast In Suburbia
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Why? - Alopecia
Vampire Weekend - ST
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
Beck - Modern Guilt
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams
Tapes N' Tapes - Walk It Off

15Steps 07-18-2008 03:05 AM

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the lonely 7/10
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 8.5/10
Fleet foxes - Fleet foxes 9.5/10
Sigur ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust 7.5/10
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 8.5/10
Flogging Molly - Float 9.0/10

Son of JayJamJah 07-18-2008 09:00 PM

Beck's Modern Guilt has really grown on me and along with Van Morrison's "Keep it Simple" are my favorite releases this year so far.

Muzak 07-18-2008 09:11 PM

so far:

Opeth- Watershed
Crystal Castles- S/T
Protest the Hero- Fortress
Sigur ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Children of Bodom- Blooddrunk
Less Than Jake- GNV FLA

lucifer_sam 07-18-2008 09:37 PM

****, I completely forgot the new Hold Steady album was coming out. Metacritic's giving it good reviews. I'm gonna hit it up tonight see what I think about it...

Jonz 07-19-2008 06:44 AM

Fav to least:

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster…
The Kooks - Konk
Islands - Arm's Way
Feeder - Silent Cry
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
The National - The Virginia (EP)
Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt
The Long Blondes - Couples
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
Nada Surf - Lucky
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
She and Him - Volume One
The Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards It Did (EP)
R.E.M - Accelerate
Youth Group - The Night Is Ours (ranked last because I've only had one listen, and nothing jumped out. Sounded kinda **** compared to CTD, but it may take time).

Vexed 07-19-2008 04:30 PM

This is very loosely ordered. I'm crap at ordering lists past my favourite 1 or 2.

DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
The Roots - Rising Down
iTAL tEK - Cyclical
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Protest the Hero - Fortress
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Beck - Modern Guilt
Boris - Smile
Meshuggah - obZen
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Immortal Technique - The 3rd World
Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Opeth - Watershed
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare


an EP
Ólafur Arnalds - Variations of Static

And a Mixtape
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing

The worst
Ringo Starr - Liverpool 8

jackhammer 07-19-2008 05:16 PM

^^^
A nice varied list there. Good call on Benga. That is slowly growing on me.

Muzak 07-19-2008 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vexed (Post 498932)
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare

damn forgot about that one. Amazing album. Failing Winds of Hopeless Greed is easily my favorite song off there. :beer:


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