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1. Animal Collective: Feels
While critics found it easy to lump Animal Collective in with the freak folk scene after the strumming madness of Sung Tongs, Feels may cause them to revise their opinions -- slightly. First, this...read more
2. Animal Collective: Sung Tongs
On Sung Tongs, their first record distributed by FatCat, the two-man Animal Collective come on like sun-scorched acid eaters gathered around the campfire, strumming and grinning while they weave ...read more
3. Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
Informed in equal parts by acid-fried psychosis, crop-circle field recordings and an elephants-on-the-loose circus thrash aesthetic, Animal Collective's fourth full-length album rests roughly at t...read more
4. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: House Arrest
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5. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 2: The Doldrums
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6. Akron/Family: Akron/Family
The debut from these Williamsburg freak-folksters was one of the best albums of 2005, an endlessly beautiful, rich and inventive record that established these youngsters as one of folk’s lead...read more
7. Akron/Family & Angels of Light: s/t
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8. The Decemberists: Picaresque
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9. The Decemberists: Castaways and Cutouts
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10. The Decemberists: Her Majesty, The Decemberists
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11. The Flaming Lips: At War With the Mystics
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12. The Flaming Lips: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell [EP]
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13. The Flaming Lips: Hear It Is
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14. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
We knew this day would come. The Dirty Projectors were one of those bands that just got better and better with each new release, and on Bitte Orca, 2009’s indie breakout hit and the Projector...read more
15. The Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away
Old fans who complain of not being able to keep up with the best sibling-band around may have an easier time with I’m Going Away, the Fiery Furnaces’ eighth album. (Eight albums. Man.) ...read more
16. Gorillaz: Plastic Beach
Kinda rubbed my eyes upon reading that Plastic Beach is only the third album from Gorillaz, who’ve been around for more than a decade and sort of always seem to be a topic of conversation, wh...read more
17. Of Montreal: False Priest
Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes is indie-rock's premier showman. For more than a decade Barnes has transformed himself, one album at a time, passing through stages of indie-friendly camp and gender-fool...read more
18. Deerhoof: Deerhoof vs. Evil
For Deerhoof, it's not too grand a title: This 16-year-old band, amazingly sounding as fresh and unpredictable as the day they were born, might make you think they're 12 different groups on 12 diff...read more
19. Ty Segall: Goodbye Bread
Ty Segall's weird and we dig it. His debut for Drag City is a killer rock record—just not the one we thought he was gonna make. In his past work for the Goner label (and others), Segall has shown a...read more
20. Jeffrey Lewis: A Turn in the Dream Songs
Modern-day renaissance man Jeffrey Lewis brings so many things to the table that any new record from him more or less automatically becomes the most full-spectrum entertainment experience in town. ...read more
21. Caretaker: Patience (After Sebald)
A weird and beautiful album, Patience (After Sebald), the latest from James Leyland Kirby’s Caretaker moniker, is a soundtrack to a movie about the German writer W.G. Sebald, and it’s unlike any...read more
22. The Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea
Life moves in cycles, so Magnetic Fields fans can't be too surprised to find Stephin Merritt & Co. right back where they started, on Merge Records, for their tenth album, Love at the Bottom of ...read more