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On this band's 2006 debut, teen singer Jemima Pearl's imaginative lines about love as a scrap between a "wildcat" and a "worm," as well as her saucy suggestion that her boyfriend was a "parasol," emerged from a blur of garage-rock destruction. Here,

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Like his fellow English psychedelic contemporary Syd Barrett and folkie vocal doppelganger Leonard Cohen, this former Soft Machine bassist's career has been marked more by underground influence and self-imposed exile than by pop hits.

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This Missouri band's music is so plainly likable that they should consider running for public office -- even the off-putting name wouldn't deter any voters who appreciate the shy prettiness of the Shins and the sweeter, least brash moments of the New Pornographers.

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All blues-punk duos, the Black Keys included, start with a reverence for the source material and the thrill of ruled composition. They get ragged for a while (in the Keys' case, for four albums), eventually establishing bona fides. Then comes the futzing around (see the thick thrum of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army").

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These Pittsburgh agit-punks have always painted their politics with a massively broad brush, which is why they've been able to move to a major label with less underground static than their old Fat Wreck Chords labelmates Against Me!

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"Knee Deep at ATP" perfectly distills the Los Campesinos!