Best of 2009 (Electronica/Pop/Techno/Dance)
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Bromst is one hour of the most thrilling and exuberant pop we heard all year, as well as one of the most fresh, exciting and inventive in the electronic-pop field. Deacon, of Baltimore’s aptl...read more
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What a year for the UK artist known as Bibio, a.k.a. Stephen James Wilkinson. Not long ago he hovered just under the folktronica radar as a Boards of Canada acolyte. This year he jumped from Mush t...read more
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Across the almost 50 minutes and 23 tracks of this experimental “mini-album,” Birmingham’s suave mod-futurists Broadcast trade snippety notions with longtime album artist and Ghost Box Music founde...read more
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Philadelphia’s Cold Cave channels a Joy Division-recalling style of ominous synth-pop on their debut—but update it with coed vocals, a fierce electronic backbone and icy-hot sexual tension. Former ...read more
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electronica
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experimental
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folk
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indie