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Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through The Mekong [Barbes, 2009]

ever wonder what a traditional psychedelic kabuki-freak tet nguyen dan festival looks like? ...yeah, probably doesn't exist. but maybe. dengue fever's album "sleepwalking through the mekong" bounces between out-of-this-world zippy poppy little lacey numbers and more traditional sounding (what the fuck do i know?) tunes. the singing is in khmer and english and, contrary to what you might believe after hearing the album, the band is not from cambodia, they're from l.a. however, many of the tracks are covers of 60's cambodian pop songs, so don't worry too much about the faker element... because they're not.

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Little Dragon - Machine Dreams [Peacefrog Records, 2009]

little dragon's first album brought the r&b grooves, then a year later they drop this. ...and who knew a band could transition so cleanly from playing music one would expect to hear in a smoky basement jazz club to music one would expect to find at a pbr dance party. what i mean to say is that this album is fantastic, the quality of the music is just there: song composition & smart use of 'space' really gives singer yukimi nagano a brilliant stage to show off her vocal abilities. the songs are catchy & techy--not nintendo techy, but just toeing the line of techy enough techy--and the album as a whole takes on a feeling of maturity and direction. definitely recommended...

» Indie Pop dance electronic

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Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth [Hometapes, 2009]

the lovechild of a threesome between the beta band, school of seven bells, and caribou is bear in heaven. ...i know it's an awkward configuration (i.e.: so many legs, so many instruments, so little overlap and such a strange result!). the music is driving and spacious with airy, ethereal vocals, robotically in-control drumming and super sweet guitar and synth work floating alternately above, beside, and beneath the beats as the music flows along. it is not a completely new sound, but that said, it's a damn good album: part chill, part dance, part indie rock, part instrumentelectro night terror...

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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Up From Below [Rough Trade, 2009]

former ima robot frontman churns out some new (better?) tunes with a circus-on-stage approach and a totally i-want-to-marry-you-now female vocalist. ...yeah, she rocks. and so does this album: the tunes are catchy and controlled and have strange secret powers over your dancing muscles. it's a sort of arcade-fire-esque tour-de-forceful-entry-into-your-brain: you just can't not listen.

» Indie psychedelic rock

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The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love [Capitol, 2009]

by spoonspoon on December 20th, 2009

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The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth [Equal Vision, 2007]

i don't know what to say other than, "it's just some quality folkish, rockish indie music from a bunch of canadian dudes." so, it's just some quality folkish, rockish indie music from a bunch of canadian dudes. has a sort of dylan vibe at times leaning towards the fleet foxes patent "salemnity" (get it? salem, massachusetts...) and then they get kinda shins on ya with distorted electric guitar hooks and heavy drums. it's really quite good.

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Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds [◘◘◘◘◘◘ Recording Club, 2006]

dude with straight hair combed over eyes plays violin, sings in falsetto. ...except his skillz on the 'lin are pretty ridiculous, his falsetto is not over-used and his music is, all things considered, pretty good. final fantasy is the brain child of Owen Pallett, who seems to drive the sound with his lyrics and his virtuosic instrumentation; the music is andrew-bird quirky with strange lyrics, interesting and varied compositional styles and some nasty violin runs... pitchfork and yourstru.ly produced a prety good live recording: link.

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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest [Warp, 2009]

attractive and sparse stripped-down folk rock that sounds kinda acoustic but really, it's not that at all. grizzly bear wrings out some pretty beautiful and intense compositions with grace and subtlety; they fool around with strange vocal arrangements and really, more than most bands playing out these days, use instrumentation wisely and appropriately, which makes for vedic calms and orchestral climaxes. and they play well live, too. glorious...

» Indie psych folk

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Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes [Sub Pop, 2008]

how does a man who looks like he just returned from a witch hunt live at large in our modern-metrosexual world? see robin pecknold, conceptioniste of the americana juggernaut, fleet foxes. ...seriously: stovetop hats! anyway, maybe it's a chiken-or-the-egg question since the music itself sounds just like the image the band projects (which is that of a group of travelers just-in-from-the-cold and stretching their legs out around the hearth with a glass of scotch and a dusty phonograph crackling in the corner.) oh, and the vocal harmonies on this album are spectacular.

» Folk Indie americana

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Flairs - Sweat Symphony [Third Side Records, 2009]

pretty good, bassy electronica from an lcd-soundsystem-obsessed french dude. ...it's not implicit--like the way james murphy sings about daft punk--but you can tell mr. lionel flairs has got a thing for the dance-punk sound. it's all-in-all a good album with some fat that could be cut... namely the jerkoff song "better than prince." ehhh. however, the there is a pretty wicked (and also infinitely offensive [and probably too disgusting for most normal people, but i find it pretty entertaining]) video for the song "trucker's delight," which can be seen here. good luck!

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