 | Is This It by The Strokes
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £5.48 the album that kicked popular music up the arse and heralded a new wave of bands, some good, and some rubbish (the vines, anyone?). 21st century new wave started officially here.
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 | Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £1.21 angular riffs, subtle synth, spot on beats and passionate vocals. so here we are is one step closer to heaven.
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 | Funeral by Arcade Fire
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.50 this is what would have happened if a pop group came from narnia. audio inventiveness, cryptic lyrics, and his n' hers vocals make this a technical astonishment. neighborhood 2 is fabtabulous.
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 | Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of Leon
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.77 cut the crap straight rock and roll, with an added sense of frailty and emotion. probably the best american band this decade. taper jean girl, what a song!
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 | A Certain Trigger by Maxïmo Park
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £1.96 razor sharp guitars, staccato beats, and a broad geordie accent. bubblegum. the coast is always changing is a sweet tale of cameras, trains, the sea, and changing emotions.
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 | The Back Room by Editors
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.48 dark, brooding rock. echoes of joy division and boy-era U2 heard here. dark lyrics concerning loneliness and alienation
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 | Up All Night by Razorlight
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.43 trust the art, not the artist. johnny borell may be an arse, but his band's music speaks volumes over his recent outbursts of stupidity... ah well.
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 | Final Straw by Snow Patrol
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £1.69 shimmeringly cool, sophisticated album from the patrol. pure pop riffs mingled with intruiging sound effects and expansive guitars
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 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.40 a phantasmagorical journey through the universe, with songs about japanese women fighting evil pink robots, the human condition and mortality.
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 | Pushing The Senses by Feeder
Buy new: £7.28 / Used from: £0.39 mature, flowing music by a band dogged by tragedy of the death of their drummer. inspired bunch of songs, especially "bitter glass". onwards and upwards for grant and take.
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