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1. Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me
A blitzkrieg fusion of hardcore punk, Sonic Youth-style noise freak-outs, heavy metal, and melodic hard rock in the vein of Neil Young, You're Living All Over Me was a turning point in American un...read more
2. Dinosaur Jr.: Bug
Relatively cleaner-produced and more accessible than You're Living All Over Me, Bug expanded on the strengths of its predecessor, and established Dinosaur Jr. as a major band in the American under...read more
3. Dinosaur Jr.: Dinosaur
Released before the group was forced to change its name to Dinosaur Jr. by an obscure psychedelic group, the band's debut, Dinosaur, is a noisy, impressive, but uneven array of pseudo-hardcore num...read more
4. Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind
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5. Dinosaur Jr.: Where You Been
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6. Dinosaur Jr.: Whatever's Cool With Me
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7. Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Cynics may wonder how many albums we need by an instrumental indie-rock band. If the band is Explosions in the Sky, the answer is “all of them and more,” since they just keep getting be...read more
8. James Blackshaw: The Cloud of Unknowing
There are so many levels on which to appreciate the music of James Blackshaw. For guitarists, there’s the sheer how-does-he-do-it of his dazzling technique, used to produce three simultaneous...read more
9. Six Organs of Admittance: RTX
This two-disc set (for the price of one) reissues rare material: two splits, a subscription, a previously unreleased track, and a limited edition, ranging from 1998 to 2003. This is Ben Chasny at h...read more
10. Sonic Youth: The Eternal
Sonic Youth’s return to the indie ranks resulted in no major changes from their previous song album, 2006’s Rather Ripped. The Eternal still features lots of moody mid-tempo grooves; the text...read more
11. James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game
After garnering a reputation for combining the best elements of John Fahey and Sandy Bull in his beautiful, intricate 12-string-guitar playing, English virtuoso James Blackshaw started branching ou...read more
12. Jack Rose: Luck in the Valley
This is our last earthly transmission from Jack Rose, a master of the guitar who’d been granted access to the instrument’s ancient book of secrets, only to be taken from us — all ...read more
13. Ty Segall: Melted
Ty Segall is shaping up to be one of those fractured-genius sorta rockers, in the style of his buddy Johnny Dwyer (of the Oh Sees). After dropping a debut slice of garage-brilliance, Lemons, last y...read more
14. Noveller: Desert Fires
Noveller is the nom de guitar of Brooklynite Sarah Lipstate, whose last album, 2009's Red Rainbows, was a jarring, technicolor rampage through sculpted noise and crashing dynamics. For Desert Fires...read more
15. The Fun Years: God Was Like, No
Kind of feels like I've been waiting for this sound for a long time (news to me that this group has several albums and self-released home recordings) — rough waves set in mellow ambient seas, a sou...read more
16. Tamaryn: The Waves
The Waves sounds like the last shoegaze album ever, an expansive coda that finds airy mournfulness in seas of guitar and vocals that open up like a desert sky. Tamaryn's namesake singer, a New Zeal...read more
17. Thurston Moore: Demolished Thoughts
Here's how you know Beck's a great producer: A few minutes into Thurston Moore's gorgeous new "solo" album, you've forgotten that he twiddled knobs on Demolished Thoughts. Despite the violence in i...read more
18. Mark McGuire: A Young Person's Guide to...
Such is the singular and whole appeal of this sprawling two-disc set from Mark McGuire that it's kind of mind-blowing when you learn it cherry-picks from a horde of cassette and CD-r releases by th...read more
19. Noveller: Glacial Glow
As in, that which may follow Desert Fires. Sound Fix fave Noveller delivers her fourth album, Glacial Glow, her most meditative effort yet. Crystallizing a direction in which she's been moving over...read more
20. Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams
It's true that Dum Dum Girls are one of many good bands drawing on '60s Spector-pop to have arisen over the past few years, both here in the States and (as proved by the recent arrival of Veronica ...read more
21. John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You
One of the more impressive box sets we've seen this year (if not longer), this mammoth work—more than 10 years in the making—throws back the veils of time to tell the story of how John Fahey came t...read more