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Only by the Night
~ Kings of Leon
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 (252 customer reviews)
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Rca
September 23, 2008
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Despite a wave of criticism asserting that Kings of Leon's fourth full-length is "too commercial," ...
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Santogold
~ Santogold
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 (86 customer reviews)
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Downtown
April 29, 2008
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Don't call Santi White an R&B artist: on her debut album Santogold, this former music biz A&R and pop songwriter for hire is challenging race stereotypes and playing fast and loose with genre, mashing up dub, punk, and electronics to make an energetic, anger-fuelled music that blurs the lines ...
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Fleet Foxes
~ Fleet Foxes
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(214 customer reviews)
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Sub Pop
June 3, 2008
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It's now twenty years since grunge emerged from then culturally isolated Seattle and ...
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Lay It Down
~ Al Green
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(85 customer reviews)
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Blue Note Records
May 27, 2008
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Few performers have ever been so inimitable as the Reverend Al Green, so it's no surprise that the starry young collaborators who join him on the superb ...
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19
~ Adele
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(436 customer reviews)
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Columbia
June 24, 2008
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Narrow Stairs
~ Death Cab for Cutie
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(125 customer reviews)
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Atlantic
May 13, 2008
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Narrow Stairs might be the first album recorded by Death Cab for Cutie since Ben Gibbard's former solo project went unexpectedly stratospheric, but Gibbard hasn't let it go to his head. Oh, OK, maybe a little: lead-off single "I Will Possess Your Heart" is an eight minute jam that ...
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New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War
~ Erykah Badu
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 (182 customer reviews)
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Motown
February 26, 2008
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Subtitled 4th World War (when was the third, eh?), New Amerykah Part One is the first release in five years from the woman born Erica Wright. The wait was worthwhile though, as this smart, eclectic set, her fourth, adds to the grand tradition of socially conscious soul music. Literally ...
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Shine
~ Estelle
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(67 customer reviews)
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Atlantic
April 29, 2008
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Award-winning British artist Estelle never got her just desserts for her 2004 debut album ...
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Trouble in Mind
~ Hayes Carll
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(47 customer reviews)
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Lost Highway
April 8, 2008
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From the Artist
"When I started, I moved down to this place called Crystal Beach, Texas where you need to take a ferry from Galveston across the bay to get to this little peninsula on the Gulf of Mexico," recalls Carll. "It's this isolated coastal community with a wild as...
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Oracular Spectacular
~ MGMT
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(175 customer reviews)
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Sony
January 22, 2008
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The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactlyright. Here is a band that treats dizzy cross-eyed awe and a vast bounding sense of sonic weightlessness as their yardstick, jostling to surpass themselves on a track-by-track basis and ...
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For Emma, Forever Ago
~ Bon Iver
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(168 customer reviews)
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Jagjaguwar
February 19, 2008
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It's hard to believe that For Emma, Forever Ago is the work of one man. But when Justin Vernon's old band split he hauled himself (and presumably plenty of instruments and recording equipment) to his dad's hunting cabin in the woods of Wisconsin for the coldest season and worked ...
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To Survive
~ Joan as Police Woman
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(11 customer reviews)
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Cheap Lullaby
October 25, 2011
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Accelerate
~ R.E.M.
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(238 customer reviews)
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Warner Bros / Wea
April 1, 2008
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In the decade since the departure of drummer Bill Berry, R.E.M. could seem at times schizophrenic. Their albums of the era, which veered from the experimentalism of Up and reaffirmation of Reveal to 2004's more diffuse, reflective Around the Sun, often sto...
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A Larum
~ Johnny Flynn
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(71 customer reviews)
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Lost Highway
July 29, 2008
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The title, A Laurum, is Old English for "alarm," and certainly Johnny Flynn's debut is setting off bells. One of the guiding lights of Britain's folk revival, Flynn, 24 at the time of recording, is equal parts busking troubadour and past-century romantic p...
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Rockferry
~ Duffy
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(292 customer reviews)
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Mercury
May 13, 2008
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Rockferry, the Welsh singer's lovingly constructed debut album, has already succeeded beyond expectations, and although Duffy may not quite be the ingénue portrayed by a clever press campaign (she nearly won a local television talent show a few years back while a single credited to Aimee Duffy is still ...
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Moonbeams
~ Throw Me the Statue
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Secretly Canadian
February 19, 2008
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Fans of the Eels, Okkervil River, The Robot Ate Me and Pedro the Lion will find much to love in the debut release by Throw Me the Statue. Expansive indie folk that pulses with computerized rhythms, fuzzy guitars, thrift shop synthesizers and electronic flo...
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Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
~ Sigur Rós
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(91 customer reviews)
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XL Recordings
June 24, 2008
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Sigur Rós--the sound of snow-capped peaks. Or winged things flocking over vast plains. Or salmon making that final courageous, muscular leap upstream, homeward bound. Ever since the BBC so aptly enlisted the help of the band’s "Hoppipolla" single to theme the groundbreaking natural history series Planet Earth, the ever-ethereal ...
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Third
~ Portishead
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(197 customer reviews)
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Mercury
April 29, 2008
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Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s ...
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Death Magnetic
~ Metallica
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(992 customer reviews)
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Warner Bros.
September 12, 2008
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Volume One
~ M. Ward
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(142 customer reviews)
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Merge Records
March 18, 2008
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Some of us first fell in love with Zooey Deschanel's distinctive and charming voice when she crooned, "Baby it...
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Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
~ Nick Cave
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(41 customer reviews)
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Anti
April 8, 2008
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Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! finds Nick Cave back at the helm of his long-term band The Bad Seeds after some impressive soundtrack work--2005's The Assassination of Jesse James--and a busman's holiday in the raw, rocking Grinderman. As the title suggests, Lazarus finds Cave returning to familiar themes of God and ...
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Alas I Cannot Swim (Dig)
~ Laura Marling
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(27 customer reviews)
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Astralwerks
August 19, 2008
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Paper Trail
~ T.I.
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(140 customer reviews)
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Grand Hustle/Atlantic
September 30, 2008
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Modern Guilt
~ Beck
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(115 customer reviews)
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Interscope Records
July 8, 2008
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In the last few years, Beck has freely sailed the seas of electronic and alternative music, but he is now back on land with ...
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Saturdays=Youth
~ M83
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(50 customer reviews)
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Mute U.S.
April 15, 2008
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For their fifth album, Saturdays = Youth, France's M83 conjures up the 1980s in all their candy-colored glory. Even the cover portrait, showcasing models in rolled-sleeve blazers, peg-leg pants, and pastel prom dresses, evokes John Hughes' high-school classics Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club. In the liner notes, ...
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Ear Food
~ Roy Hargrove
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(34 customer reviews)
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Emarcy
July 29, 2008
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About the Artist
Discovered by Wynton Marsalis, Hargrove made his solo debut in 1990 on Novus/RCA; he made his Verve Records debut in 1994 and had recorded eight albums for the venerable label, including 2006's double release, Distractions featuring the contemporary funk/j...
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Sounds So Good
~ Ashton Shepherd
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(41 customer reviews)
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MCA Nashville
March 4, 2008
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Ashton Shepherd arrives at Sounds So Good, her memorable 2008 debut, with a long line of remarkable women to thank, starting with the feisty Loretta Lynn and leading all the way up to country...
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One Kind Favor
~ B.B. King
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(51 customer reviews)
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Geffen Records
August 26, 2008
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