![]() | Offend Maggie by Deerhoof
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.45 This one punches on through! Deerhoof has always been good but that comes to a head here.
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![]() | Seventh Tree (Deluxe Edition) by Goldfrapp
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $12.83 This is the "Hounds of Love" of this decade as far as I'm concerned. Probably their best and that is saying something.
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![]() | Third by Portishead
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.23 How can they still be this good? The only bad thing about them is the patience they require.
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![]() | Accelerate by R.E.M.
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.06 This is their best album since New Adventures in Hi-fi...isn't that great?
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![]() | In Rainbows by Radiohead
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.88 Thom Yorke's whining once again rises to artistic excellence.
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![]() | 19 by Adele
Buy used from: $2.51 Very very good. She has a distinctive voice and uses something all the great soul singers employ....inflection.
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![]() | Safe Trip Home by Dido
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.17 Adult music at its best...again.
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![]() | Murs for President by Murs
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.92 One hell of an album...this one should elect him President of slept on rappers with a day job.
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![]() | Rook by Shearwater
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.95 the end of "I was a cloud" is lovely. The rest of the album is almost as lovely.
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![]() | Microcastle by Deerhunter
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.64 One of the best alternative albums I've heard in years....great late decade stuff.
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![]() | The Hawk Is Howling by Mogwai
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $8.95 this one's a masterpiece..like tortoise and ratatat had a baby.
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![]() | Devotion by Beach House
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $55.31 very very nice....there is devotion here
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![]() | Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.98 the best electronic album of 2008
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![]() | Luminarium by Tape
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $10.63 I couldn't believe when I heard "parade"...i made a song very similar to it four years ago....i believe in esp
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![]() | Scared Famous by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Buy used from: $6.25 haunting echoes that sound like yesterday calling from tomorrow.
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![]() | Silent Movie by Quiet Village
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.09 try streaming "Broken Promises" to your XBOX during Call of Duty...you'll break all their promises.
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![]() | Preparations by Prefuse 73
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.97 another slice and paste electronic hip hop banger from prefuse.
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![]() | Alpinisms by School of Seven Bells
Buy used from: $8.18 There is something retro in this that makes the nostalgia trip you'll get almost as good as an acid hit.
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![]() | WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip by Madlib
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.16 it is essential that you get the two emusic companion discs to go along with this
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![]() | The Rhumb Line by Ra Ra Riot
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.09 the Kate Bush cover is actually good...and the rest of the record is worthwhile too. A rare find.
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![]() | Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.21 sometimes the buzz actually lives up...this was quite good.
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![]() | To Survive by Joan As Police Woman
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $2.50 the best record of its kind in 2008.
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![]() | The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming by Club 8
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.94 They're really nice aren't they?
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![]() | High Places by High Places
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.29 Playing like a lower fidelity School of Seven Bells, High Places sounds like a bunch of third graders that know what the hell they're doing.
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![]() | New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War by Erykah Badu
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.72 continuing to take DIY to a whole new level, she makes what could very well be her best.
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![]() | Nas by Nas
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $2.95 you gotta listen to "Testify"
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![]() | Un Dia by Juana Molina
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.40 South America's Lisa Germano is still strong....as proven by Un Dia
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![]() | Mediocre by Ximena Sariñana
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.54 My Spanish is really bad but even I can tell these are really good songs.
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![]() | Viva La Vida by Coldplay
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.91 They are huge...but I don't think they've ever made a bad album. Brian Eno gives them a slightly different edge here.
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![]() | Digi Snacks by RZA as Bobby Digital
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.73 RZA finally makes an album that lives up to his brand.
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![]() | The Renaissance by Q-Tip
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.20 this was good enough to make you remember why you loved A Tribe Called Quest so much in the first place.
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![]() | Santogold by Santogold
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.00 In the mode of M.I.A....but not so much that it isn't distinctive on its own. There are some burners here.
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![]() | Growing Pains by Mary J Blige
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $1.78 She has really been on a great run since 2005. Essential contemporary R&B.
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![]() | Self Portrait by Lalah Hathaway
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.59 Great album from daughter of R&B legend
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![]() | Living & The Dead by Jolie Holland
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.98 another quiet & melancholy group of songs from someone who does that so well.
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