top 50 (stand august)
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1. rickie lee jones – the sermon on exposition boulevard
2. panda bear – person pitch
**** – ****1/2
3. cloud cult – the meaning of 8
4. windmill – puddle city racing lights
5. cats on fire – the province complains
6. hobotalk – homesick for nowhere
7. bowerbirds – hymns for a dark horse
8. the felice brother – tonight at the arizona
9. billie the vision & the dancers – where the ocean meets my hand
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10. pelle carlberg – in a nutshell
11. the boyish charms – nothing spectacular awaits
12. chris & carla – fly high brave dreamers
13. richmond fontaine – thirteen cities
14. of montreal – hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
15. wilco – sky blue sky
16. rose kemp – a handfull of hurricanes
17. the brunettes – structure & cosmetics
18. andrew bird – armchair apocrypha
19. the sea and cake – everybody
20. meg baird – dear companion
21. o’death – head home
22. bright eyes – cassadaga
23. findlay brown – separated by the sea
24. washington – astral sky
25. good shoes – think before you speak
26. michael j. sheehy – ghost on the motorway
27. the cinematic orchestra – ma fleur
28. gülcher – after nature
29. hazmat modine – bahamut
30. tinariwen – aman iman
31. deerhoof – friend opportunity
32. gruff rhys – candylion
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33. the arcade fire – neon bible
34. hafdis huld – dirty paper cup
35. malcolm middleton – a brighter beat
36. viarosa – where the killers run
37. feist – the reminder
38. bill callahan – woke on a whaleheart
39. marissa nadler – songs III: bird on the water
40. ed csupkay – das tier in mir
41. the shins – wincing the night away
42. the good the bad & the queen – s/t
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43. electrelane – no shouts no calls
44. the view – hats off to the buskers
45. the silent league – of stars and other somebodies
46. sleeping in the aviary – oh, this old thing?
47. the national – boxer
48. otis taylor – definition of a circle
49. david surkamp – dancing on the edge of a teacup
50. dinosaur jr. – beyond