 | Two Dancers by Wild Beasts
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $6.88 Hoot and howl baby #1, if you don't have or ever listened to this record, please do. It's not heavy or poppy, it's just good well made music that's different than what most bands are capable of achieving.
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 | Exploding Head by Place to Bury Strangers
Buy new: $15.93 / Used from: $4.99 I love this album and this band, the first record just killed it too. Blast it loud, it deserves it. Play it for someone who has no idea and take in their facial expression when hearing it. "In your heart"
For me personally listening to this drives a certain stimulation - I just get amped by the music and think of wild things, it induces wild things too.
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 | Post-Nothing by Japandroids
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.99 I saw this on pitchforks daily album review one day and it hasn't came off my mp3 player since, almost all year! It's stupidly good, "french kiss some french girls!" Everyone else seems to like it too...
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 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.41 Everything these guys touch turns to gold. All their albums are just superb pop -- this one maybe their best yet -- everyone else thinks so...
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 | I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose (Dig) by Bombay Bicycle Club
Buy used from: $24.37 I can't get enough of this album, I don't know how many times I've listened to it. It's not very complicated and a lot of the album has the same sounds/tones running through it, but the lyrics and arrangements are just stunningly good.
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 | Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $7.29 We all know how good this crazy, trippy album is...it's like the ultimate ear candy of music....
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 | To Lose My Life . . . by White Lies
Buy new: $10.45 / Used from: $1.61 I have no idea why I didn't see this on anyone's best lists this year. Freaking every track is solid. Definitely give this a try, it has a nice dark edge for pop music.
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 | Fever Ray by Fever Ray
Buy new: $14.77 / Used from: $9.30 The Knife and Fever Ray = very similar, very good, creapy, hypnotic electronica. God I love Sweeden, where would indie music be without that country?
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 | Primary Colours by The Horrors
Buy new: $8.83 / Used from: $8.99 |
 | Day of Mourning by Despised Icon
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.16 I do love me some technical metal, it didn't get much harder than this all year.
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 | Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Buy new: $13.09 / Used from: $5.35 |
 | Quicken the Heart by Maxïmo Park
Buy new: $14.07 / Used from: $0.79 Same ol' great catchy lyrics and up-tempo rock, what's not to like? It sounded like a lot of gents were underwhelmed by this record (well when there's Phoenix..), I thought it was a nice transition from their first two records. Still my favorite band.
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 | Axe to Fall by Converge
Buy new: $12.37 / Used from: $4.98 Get your agression, let this stuff just flow through you, blast crazy loud...no music or band tops the intensity of these guys, just the best at what they do.
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 | Tarot Sport (Dig) by Fuck Buttons
Buy new: $14.82 / Used from: $4.49 Surf Solar, that's all you need. Turn it up, speed up.
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 | Yesterday & Today by The Field
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $7.71 Ah my favorite electronica / minimal sounds of the year. The first album kicked butt too. 2 songs: "Yesterday and Today" and "The More I Do"
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 | Seek Magic (Blue Vinyl Edition) by Memory Tapes
Crazy good groove music, it was a lot better than I expected, the vinyl edition is expensive though!
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 | A Brief History of Love by The Big Pink
Buy new: $12.63 / Used from: $5.53 All the dynamics you want in a new indie band, heavy electronica with great lyrics.
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 | The Tropic Rot by Poison The Well
Buy new: $14.44 / Used from: $2.01 3 words: return to form - this is post-hardcore's best.
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 | Daisy by Brand New
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.99 Great song: At the Bottom!
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 | In This Light & on This Evening by Editors
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.39 They made about a 90 degree move from their other records, but I still dig the new sound, hopefully they make another full blown rock album though.
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 | XX by The XX
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $11.97 It's alright, it's so modest by nature, but after a million listens it's still good, still alright!
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 | Dragonslayer by Sunset Rubdown
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.50 I just love the last epic song on this thing, just mind bending.
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 | Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.99 Is it a joke, I don't know, but it's pretty good...check out "we are the people"...
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 | Future Will Come by The Juan Maclean
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.60 One song is it man..."Happy House", just freaking epic and great...
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 | Winds Poem (Dig) by Mount Eerie
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.98 It's the first thing I've heard in a while that sounds again like the Glow Pt. 2 by the microphones, they're back! I love it, dark and cosy, the way it should be.
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