 | In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.98 This album is better overall than the first one! New-Orderesque, combines synths with catchy guitars. Love almost all songs.
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 | X Marks Destination by The Whip
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $4.64 I keep moving this album up higher. The Whip is dance rock at its finest! New-Orderesque synths, funky melodic guitar lines, dancey drums. Love all songs.
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 | Elephant Shell by Tokyo Police Club
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.85 All TPC's CDs are top-notch indie pop/rock. Strong popping bass lines, jangly guitar, and quirky lyrics.
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 | Age of the Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.45 Cinematic and dramatic. Nice voice. Fave tracks: My Mistakes Were Made for You and Age of the Understatement.
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 | Dear Science by TV on the Radio
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.19 Brilliant combo of rock pop funkiness and beauty. 'Tight and textured.' I hear some Talking Heads & Bowie influences. Love track Golden Age.
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 | Saturdays=Youth by M83
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.49 80s synth-inspired, but different. Slower-paced lush & dreamy songs.
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 | 11i by Supreme Beings of Leisure
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.30 Mirror! Cinematic, funky & dramatic.
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 | O My Heart by Mother Mother
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.67 Pixies influenced. OMG, Body of Years is brilliant. The synth/guitar combo jams!
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 | Olly Oxen Free by Mason Proper
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.76 Pixies-influenced but softer. All of their albums are indie-tastic!
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 | Arm's Way by Islands
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $3.50 Can't really explain them, you just have to listen. Solid indie and cinematic pop/rock with good riffs. The Arm and Creeper are fave tracks.
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 | Friendly Fires by Friendly Fires
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.96 Driving punk/funk grooves! Love almost all songs. The remixes are great too. Free dl of Paris Aeroplane mix on Pitchfork media http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Friendly%20Fires%20-%20Paris%20(Aeroplane%20Remix).mp3
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 | Brain Thrust Mastery by We Are Scientists
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $3.05 Another 80s influenced. Moody, striving tempo guitar rock/synth pop.
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 | Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
Buy new: $9.96 / Used from: $6.96 Spectacular prog rock with some pop. Time to Pretend a fave. track.
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 | You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into by Does It Offend You Yeah?
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.20 Dawn of the Dead is on repeat. Epic track with great melodies.
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 | Apocalypso by The Presets
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $3.49 Yummy darker-waved electro house with fat beats and bleeps. Yippiyo-Ay on repeat. This Boy's in Love and Talk Like That also faves.
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 | Double Night Time by Morgan Geist
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.75 Electro/House/Synth/Minimal/Dirty Disco master. Palace Life and Nocebo among my faves.
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 | Sam Sparro by Sam Sparro
Buy used from: $5.08 "Savvy blend of soul, funk and modern electronica." Heavily 70s/80s influenced. Black and Gold, Too Many Questions, 21st Century Life...
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 | Hercules and Love Affair by Hercules and Love Affair
Buy used from: $15.94 Classic disco pop with beautiful emotive harmonies and funky synths.
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 | Keep Your Eyes Ahead by The Helio Sequence
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.76 Beautiful lush harmonic indie rock.
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 | Worried Well by 31 Knots
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $2.64 Compass Commands has some fun call and response vocals.
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 | Freddie and the Trojan Horse
Beautiful lush harmonic indie rock on this EP Import.
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 | Midnight Boom by The Kills
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.59 Gritty, raw, bluesy, funky, indie rock. Can't single out fave tracks.
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 | Eon by Grafton Primary
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $7.05 Fun 80s new wave electro dance pop. Since it's an aus. import, amazon didn't have much info on it. http://www.imeem.com/tag/grafton%20primary/ has full song streams.
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 | Lucky by Nada Surf
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.99 Beautiful lush harmonic indie rock.
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 | Now or Heaven
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.99 Harmonic, catchy, indie rock. The Auctioneer is the best track.
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 | LP3 by Ratatat
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.96 Electronic instrumental riffage.
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 | Oceans Will Rise
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.23 Beautiful lush harmonic indie rock.
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 | Keep Color by The Republic Tigers
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.62 Beautiful lush harmonic indie rock. Buildings and Mountains was it's main single.
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 | Chemical Chords by Stereolab
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.98 Infectiously cheerful 'Neon Beanbag' makes me smile every time. User smoothjazz_views described it best 'dreamy french pop, soaring vocal lines, squelching moog synths and xylophone.'
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 | We Started Nothing by The Ting Tings
Buy new: $9.96 / Used from: $5.08 dancey electro indie pop. Great DJ is my fave track.
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 | The Rhumb Line by Ra Ra Riot
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.39 Symphonic post punk w/ some stringed instruments. Oh La is a fave song from album.
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 | Narrow Stairs by Death Cab for Cutie
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.39 Sounds similar to their others. Cath and I Will Possess Your heart are faves.
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 | Something For All Of Us by Brendan Canning
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $2.98 Spirited progressive indie pop/rock. Churches Under the Stairs and Hit the Wall fave tracks. (BC is from Broken Social Scene).
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 | Santogold by Santogold
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.49 Successful mashup of dub, punk, electronic pop. You'll Find a Way, Say Aha and Lights Out are fave tracks.
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 | This Is The Life by Amy Macdonald
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.24 Faster tempo folk rock by young and talented Scottish singer-songwriter. Poison Prince, Let's Start a Band, and This is the Life fave tracks.
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 | o by Tilly and the Wall
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $5.49 They use a tap dancer for percussion. fun and quirky. Cacophony and Pot Kettle Black are fave tracks.
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 | Donkey by Css
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.96 Fun dancey indie rock. Rat is Dead (sounds a bit Pixies-esque but poppier) and Move fave tracks among others.
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 | Dystopia by Midnight Juggernauts
Buy used from: $24.94 Dramatic, cinematic, spacey electronica.
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 | The Sun & the Neon Light by Booka Shade
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.00 Electro house minimal dance instrumentals.
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 | Somebody Somewhere - Lifelike Remix
Buy new: $0.99 Bangin' electro house beats w/ great melodies. Single from an EP. Had to include some singles on this list cuz they're sooo good!
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