25.) Walkmen - You and Me
24.) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
23.) Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
22.) Marnie Stern - This Is It...
21.) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
20.) MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
19.) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
18. M83 - Saturday= Youth
17. Beck - Modern Guilt
16.HEALTH - //DISCO
15. No Age - Nouns
14. Foals - Antidotes
13. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
12.Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
11.) Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
10.) Breeders - Mountain Battles
09.) Mother Mother - O My <3
08.) King Khan and the Shrines - The Supreme Genius...
07.) Animal Collective - Water Curses
06.) Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
05.) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
In the snow buried Neighborhood Winn Butler sang of, I would imagine that if you went two blocks and took a left you would stumble onto the Fleet Fox abode.
Though their sounds aren't necessarily the similar, yet they share the same preoccupation with lost wintry never-lands. Like something unearthed from another era, Fleet Foxes' Vashti Bunyon-esque odes to withered seasons feels beautifully unknowledgeable of the here and now.
04.) Beach House - Devotion
The musical seance that is Devotion finds itself filled with spooky hymns, conjured spells and the ghosts of lovers bygone. The eleven tracks elegantly gaze both into the inky darkness as well staring blindly into sunlight all with childlike curiosity. Bedding down catchy guitar riffs with the hum of organs, all elevated by Victoria Legrand's sleepy spectre wails.
03.) Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
The very nature alone conjured by Bradford cox & co. more often than not gives some reviewers the incentive to sit up straight, click over to thesaurus.com get their 2 cents in on the abstractions of the bands musings and probably sound smart along the way.
"unfinished subdivision cul-de-sacs 12 on a Friday night rolling my first cigarette listening to the train roll by the square waffle house 4 am staring out the window kennesaw mountain supposed to be at school."
This is from something someone wrote for Deerhunter on the itunes site; it has no periods, is probably spelled wrong in places and is perhaps the most overwhelmingly accurate thing ive ever read in relation to Cox's work. Needn't say more.
02.) Stereolab - Chemical Chords
For over a decade now Stereolab has been one of the most creative groundbreaking and secretly influential bands ever to exist; they serve as almost more a giving tree for more than a dozen more immediate minded acts .
The baseline (not bassline) of their of fuzzy retro pop formula has been repackaged and rebranded into more accessible(and successful) sounds for years now: Sufjan Stevens, Bradford Cox, Bell and Sebastian, Of Montreal, Jon Brion, and most notably Deerhoof
(who at times have annoyed greatly by creating a sound that is often pure Stereolab subtracting the Ritalin) their sounds directly nurtured from Mary Hansens work. Here Chemical Chords, another musical gem has them moving forward well post Ms. Hansen, may she rest in piece.
01.) Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
The big talk is all on Cox's other venture Deerhunter. Let the Blind Lead strikes most as the creeping suspicion to Microcastles more straight revelation.
However what's struck me after several listens is the albums true expanse. 2008 has proved to be a singles happy year; with its lack of coherent, start to finish albums. Bradfords works go high onto my lists due to his unrelenting love for music itself. Unlike Microcastles' succinct stop and start of songs, Let the Blind is his most thematically strong work to date, a concept album about a wayward fantasy world viewed through the eyes of an ailing child.
His pop sensibilities and influences trickle out here as well unlike the untrusting paranoid freak out art that was Cryptograms. Let The Blind is more one soundtrack to unoccupied spaces and lost memories here than song list and stands only to benefit being heard whole.
In the snow buried Neighborhood Winn Butler sang of, I would imagine that if you went two blocks and took a left you would stumble onto the Fleet Fox abode.
Though their sounds aren't necessarily the similar, yet they share the same preoccupation with lost wintry never-lands. Like something unearthed from another era, Fleet Foxes' Vashti Bunyon-esque odes to withered seasons feels beautifully unknowledgeable of the here and now.
The musical seance that is Devotion finds itself filled with spooky hymns, conjured spells and the ghosts of lovers bygone. The eleven tracks elegantly gaze both into the inky darkness as well staring blindly into sunlight all with childlike curiosity. Bedding down catchy guitar riffs with the hum of organs, all elevated by Victoria Legrand's sleepy spectre wails.
The very nature alone conjured by Bradford cox & co. more often than not gives some reviewers the incentive to sit up straight, click over to thesaurus.com get their 2 cents in on the abstractions of the bands musings and probably sound smart along the way.
"unfinished subdivision cul-de-sacs 12 on a Friday night rolling my first cigarette listening to the train roll by the square waffle house 4 am staring out the window kennesaw mountain supposed to be at school."
This is from something someone wrote for Deerhunter on the itunes site; it has no periods, is probably spelled wrong in places and is perhaps the most overwhelmingly accurate thing ive ever read in relation to Cox's work. Needn't say more.
For over a decade now Stereolab has been one of the most creative groundbreaking and secretly influential bands ever to exist; they serve as almost more a giving tree for more than a dozen more immediate minded acts .
The baseline (not bassline) of their of fuzzy retro pop formula has been repackaged and rebranded into more accessible(and successful) sounds for years now: Sufjan Stevens, Bradford Cox, Bell and Sebastian, Of Montreal, Jon Brion, and most notably Deerhoof
(who at times have annoyed greatly by creating a sound that is often pure Stereolab subtracting the Ritalin) their sounds directly nurtured from Mary Hansens work. Here Chemical Chords, another musical gem has them moving forward well post Ms. Hansen, may she rest in piece.
The big talk is all on Cox's other venture Deerhunter. Let the Blind Lead strikes most as the creeping suspicion to Microcastles more straight revelation.However what's struck me after several listens is the albums true expanse. 2008 has proved to be a singles happy year; with its lack of coherent, start to finish albums. Bradfords works go high onto my lists due to his unrelenting love for music itself. Unlike Microcastles' succinct stop and start of songs, Let the Blind is his most thematically strong work to date, a concept album about a wayward fantasy world viewed through the eyes of an ailing child.
His pop sensibilities and influences trickle out here as well unlike the untrusting paranoid freak out art that was Cryptograms. Let The Blind is more one soundtrack to unoccupied spaces and lost memories here than song list and stands only to benefit being heard whole.
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