• Say Anything

    Say Anything
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    Clever emo lad's self-conscious self-loathing.
  • Spiral Stairs

    The Real Feel
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    Ex-Pavement goofball prescribes playfulness.
  • Tegan and Sara

    Sainthood
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    Canada's most intense sister act grows up (but not apart) in public.
  • The Flaming Lips

    Embryonic
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    With all the plushies gone, Wayne Coyne's fantasia takes an inscrutably dark turn.
  • Flight of the Conchords

    I Told You I Was Freaky
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    Even quality jokes wilt when they're rehashed.
  • Devendra Banhart

    What Will We Be
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    Folkie pied piper reins in the freakiness (a little).
  • Karen O and the Kids

    Where the Wild Things Are Motion Picture Soundtrack
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    Yeah Yeah Yeahs diva cuts her inner tomboy loose
  • Alec Ounsworth

    Mo Beauty
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    Clap Your Hands yelper enjoys a solo rebirth.
  • Kiss

    Sonic Boom
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    Rock elders in best-LP-since-Love Gun shocker!
  • Kings of Convenience

    Declaration of Dependence
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    Acoustic twosome strum and pluck away the pain.