 | Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust by Sigur Ros
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £2.96 Played endlessly till the ears were buzzing (9)
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 | For Emma Forever Ago by Bon Iver
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 raw, untarnished, unflinching, passion. Emma's loss was our gain (9)
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 | The Evangelist by Robert Forster
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £4.25 fitting eulogy to his songwriter partner Grant McLennan; moving, uplifting, redemptive. Converted (8.75)
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 | Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 This Talking Heads, Afrobeat, preppy offering was in an (Ivy) league of its own. Sink your fangs into it (8.75)
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 | You & Me by The Walkmen
Buy new: £8.88 Fine return to form to NYC's super purveyors of literate, angsty, virile but vulnerable indie-rock (8.75)
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 | Something for All of Us... by Brendan Canning (Broken Social Scene)
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.50 ...well maybe not all of us (don't think my neighbours would dig it) but fans of Broken Social Scene's more defined moments amongst the ramshackle feedback will find plenty to cherish here (8.75)
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 | Where the Light Gets in by Sennen
Buy new: £9.28 / Used from: £4.29 what's not to love about a band that name themselves after a Ride track and shamelessly nick inspiration and song titles from Explosions In the Sky. Bathe in it (8.5)
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 | Rook by Shearwater
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £8.99 Fans of latter-day Talk-Talk, plaintive americana and..erm..ornithology should nestle in here (8.5)
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 | Some Racing, Some Stopping by Headlights
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £4.99 overtook most other examples of american indie pop music done with effortless ease
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 | VISITER by The Dodos
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.35 Like a stripped down and less obtuse animal collective ...the only thing dead about this offering was the spelling (8.5)
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 | Sea Lion by The Ruby Suns
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £4.50 Inventively delectable. Like the Beach boys's having a distrubing dream about Africa. Made stanger by the fact it was made by a bunch of Kiwis who aren't digi-folk parodists (8.5)
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 | In Ear Park by Department of Eagles
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.20 Grizzly Bear's side project not named after my collection of golf scorecards is a reverb-laden collection of fire-side fables that soars with bald beaty (8.5)
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 | Simple by Andy Yorke
Buy new: £9.98 Aptly titled. This is pure music without pretence that comes directly from the heart, aimed directly for the heart. Free of extraneous perfume, these are songs that you can turn to (8.5)
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 | Crystal Stilts by Crystal Stilts
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £5.99 Winningly shambolic EP of exuberant. immediate, feedback drenched, scuzzy indie-rock (8.5)
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 | A Wheel Within a Wheel by Southeast Engine
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £2.69 Named after a vision recorded in Ezekiel, these are personal, Christian missives channelled variantly through the medium of spritely indie-rock and soul-baring pared-down intimacy (8.25)
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 | Modern Guilt by Beck
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.45 Right up there with Odeley and Sea Changes as his finest work, the loose limbed chameleon turned in some gloriously engaging dream-pop (8.25)
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 | Schwingstelle Fur Rauschabzug by Schlammpeitziger
Buy new: £11.69 Soulful engaging electronica as satisfying to gets one's chops around than the band name itself done in an enraged comedy hitler accent (8.25)
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 | In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.98 Auissie stadium-house that flirts with shoegaze. Floor-filling but mind engaging. (8.25)
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 | How We Lost by Windsor for the Derby
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £2.69 Worth an each-way punt if you dig anglo-centric moody rock (8.25)
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 | Third by Portishead
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £4.00 Well that's the dinner pary well and truly screwed (8)
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 | How to Walk Away by Juliana Hatfield
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £11.32 Troubled Bostonian veteran from the lemonheads early 90s grunge-lite scene. Well worth getting back together with (8)
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 | If Children by Wye Oak
Buy new: £10.79 ...listen to this and like it then there's plenty of hope for a Madder Rose reformation (8)
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 | Antidotes by Foals
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £2.23 ...to cynicism contained within. Its a good time for music when scenesters and hype revolve around post-punk afro-beat leftfield indie. Not new but clever (8)
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 | Lost Wisdom by Mount Eerie
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £9.17 Music for bracing winter-walks and a bit of light soul-searching thrown in for good measure (8)
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 | Kyte by Kyte
Buy used from: £29.60 Promising young shoegazers debut will appeal to fans of Sigur-ros and the Postal Service (8)
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