1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion * * * * *
2. Orphans & Vandals – I Am Alive And You Are Dead * * * * 1/2
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz * * * * 1/2
4. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle * * * * 1/2
5. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest * * * *
6. The Ballet – Bear Life * * * *
7. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast * * * *
8. The Gossip – Music for Men * * * *
9. Sonic Youth – The Eternal * * * *
10. Cotton Jones – Paranoid Cocoon * * * *
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest time, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau, Journals (1857)