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1.Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by: David Byrne, Brian Eno November 25, 2008
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Byrne has always appealed to my Asperger's side. I might have been the only 12 year old who bought "Stop Making Sense" and "Little Creatures" and wanted more. In doing this review, I am going to stick to just Byrne's lyrical albums as a comparison and avoid his instrumental works. As others have noted here, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" is one of Byrne's finest albums. That being said, there are a few mediocre songs like "I Feel My Stuff", "The River", "Poor Boy" and "The Lighthouse", but these are minor interferences. They do not bring the album down as a whole. The rest of the songs are true Byrne gems like "Home", "My Big Nurse", "Everything That Happens", "Life Is Long", "Strange Overtones", "Wanted For Life" and "One Fine Day"--I like them all equally, ... Read More

2.In Rainbows by: Radiohead January 01, 2008
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Anyone who gave this less than 4 and a half stars is not doing it justice.

3.Dear Science, by: TV on the Radio September 23, 2008
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The sound of a band of talented originals flowering into a sound of collective genius. The already brilliant group finds a way on this album to stay on mission while bringing a new accessibility to their sound. The vocals are better sung and better recorded than before. The variety of sound worlds brings to mind records like Bowie's Scary Monsters. There is also an emotional connection in this music that is new for them. One of the best of the year and likely the decade. The deluxe edition is well worth it for the extra tracks and remixes. Buy it now and prepare the hair on the back of your neck to stand at attention.

4.Microcastle by: Deerhunter October 28, 2008
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I liked "Cryptograms" PIL-type assaults better than its bliss-out comedown tracks. This new CD may, therefore, please listeners who favor the softer side, akin more to Bradford Cox's solo project Atlas Sound. Since I love shoegazing, "Microcastles" satisfied me especially in its later tracks on disc one. These built up to thunderous feedback, and like tracks 3 and 5 on the first disc, showed a fuller band sound that appealed more to me than the many songs that, stripped-down and simpler, seemed more like home demos recorded by Cox himself. The strongest tunes, as on the previous CD, remain those with a full-on wave of mutilation. They can begin softly, tentatively, before cresting, nearly without you realizing it, into giant splashes of sonic boom. This characteristic of Deerhunter's delivery, to ... Read More

5.Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust by: Sigur Ros June 24, 2008
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The fifth studio album from Iceland's supremely inventive dreamscapists is their poppiest outing to date. A happy album from Sigur Rós sounds like an unlikely concept. The band specialise in music that is about as sunny as an Arctic winter - vast tundras of sound, dark with melancholy and loneliness. So their fifth album comes as a surprise. The brisk opener, "Gobbledigook", all jumped-up drums and manic vocals, sets the tone: its poppy energy crackles on through much of this collection. But then along comes a song that changes everything. From innocuous beginnings - Jónsi Birgisson's fragile voice, a lone piano - "Ára Bátur" swells into an epic, swallowing a whole choir and the London Sinfonietta. It is so ambitious and successful a piece of music that it threatens to overwhelm ... Read More

6.Carried to Dust by: Calexico September 09, 2008
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I happened to have seen them, live, in Omaha, NE, and I was unaware of this album. I checked a few clips, and remember some of the songs They are mesmerizing. Their style is what it is. Eclectic for sure, but their own. Not outstanding, but excellent.

7.Rain Dogs by: Tom Waits June 15, 1990
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Was flipping through a page for Bruce Dickinson's solo albums and I found this in the "related" section, so I had to drop in here quickly and give my two cents. Anyways, when I first heard this album, it was my first Waits album, and it was very different! Yet I inevitably loved it, his voice was very unique and easy on the ears. Great lyrics too, something I've never heard before as well. Just the opening lines of "Singapore" was enough to get me hooked. Downtown Train is definitely my favorite song on the album on here, and some other great classic tracks include Gun Street Girl, Clap Hands, Diamonds and Gold, and Blind Love. He's definitely better than a lot of the crap we hear on the radio and TV nowadays. So anyways, if you want something different, be sure to give Waits a try, he has a ... Read More

8.Heima starring: Sigur Ros directed by: Dean DeBlois December 04, 2007
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The extraordinary, soaring beauty of "Heima" is beyond compare to almost anything I've seen or heard on the screen. The makers of this film have crafted a near-perfect document of sound and vision. Produced with just enough studio and cutting-room floor trickery, "Heima" showcases the Icelandic homeland with a singular reverence for its awesome natural majesty while presenting the musicians as humble subjects of the people for whom they perform. It is a moving, emotional film that I guarantee will transport you to a higher plane.

9.Kid A by: Radiohead October 03, 2000
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This is the best album cover ever in rock and roll history as far as I'm concerned, the music inside is just gravy. Nothing could top OK Computer, so Radiohead didn't even try - they very wisely went in a completely different direction into almost another genre altogether. OK Computer is basically a straight up rock record but Kid A is pretty much electronic music. The first song, "Everything in it's Right Place" is one of the best in Radiohead's live set - it sounds much better live is what I'm trying to say - but the studio version is still very captivating, especially with good speakers. "How To Disappear Completely" almost matches the intensity of "Exit Music" from the previous record. I think the peak of the record is "In Limbo", maybe the scariest song I've ever heard from a major rock band and that includes Pink Floyd. ... Read More

10.Swordfishtrombones by: Tom Waits June 15, 1990
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I used to love this album in the late 80s and early 90s, but recently started listening to it again after a long hiatus (my wife hates TW, it ended up). Let me say this album is something of a minor miracle. It's hard to describe how evocative it is, but there is something about the coupling of the musical production and the lyrical imagination that is pure magic. When Waits creates the character of the American soldier on shore leave, who talked baseball with a lieutenant and shot billiards with a midget until the rain stopped, who bought a razor and some gum and knife and a t-shirt with horses on the front, the ambiance is enhanced by the clinging cowbells, thumping bass and other musical innovations that bring this scene to an almost theatrical life. Unlike today's iPod culture which encouraged the consumption of "singles" ... Read More

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