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1. Boris: Pink
This Japanese sludge-metal trio have not only given us their best album but also their most focused, melodic and (dare we say this) accessible work, an album of such ferocious power and energy that...read more
2. Boris: Akuma No Uta
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3. Boris: Amplifier Worship
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4. Boris: Boris At Last - Feedbacker
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5. A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ashes Grammar
Yes, they’ve got the shoegaze guitar sound down perfectly, but what makes this band interesting is the magnitude of their ambition (this is a 22-track opus) and how much more than guitar they occas...read more
6. Black Tambourine: S/T
I can imagine the conversation around the table at Slumberland: “So that Pains of Being Pure at Heart record is doing pretty good, huh Mike?” “Yep, the kids seem to love it.” “And they love those V...read more
7. Windsor for the Derby: Against Love
After years of being lumped into the "post-rock" ghetto (whatever and wherever that is), the roving band known as Windsor for the Derby reveals its true genre on Against Love: What this now Austin-...read more
8. School of Seven Bells: Disconnect from Desire
Sure, both the Deheza twins and Benjamin Curtis, the trio who make up School of Seven Bells, had lots of experience before forming this group, but we can still marvel at how they've managed to more...read more
9. 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
10. 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
11. Panda Bear: Tomboy
It wasn't hard to guess that for one of the most anticipated releases of the year, NYer in exile Panda Bear would play it somewhat safe: The first song on Tomboy, the follow-up to the Animal's brea...read more
12. The Horrors: Skying
Only an English band could get away with jumping trends as brazenly as this -- let alone as convincingly. For album No. 3 the Horrors have dropped all goth/darksider pretense and made a really broa...read more
13. 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
14. M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
We adore this album for many reasons, but we give it Album of the Year honors because it’s not only a collection of really wonderful songs, but because it’s an ...read more
15. Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters: Underrated Silence
After Ulrich Schnauss, an established artist in the field of ambient music (ambience, tones, drones, melodies that sparkle and shine), had done production work for Mark Peters's band Engineers, it ...read more