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The Fresh and Onlys - The Fresh and Onlys
Written by Anthony Fontano

The world is jumping into 2010, but old garage rock habits still die hard. San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys keep things simple on their self-titled debut; concentrating on rock’s bare necessities. It’s like a buffet: The dishes are simple, but there’s a lot of diversity.
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St. Vincent - Actor
Written by Gustavo Bruke / Wu Ning

Released at the 5th of May by the British label 4AD, this is the second album by St. Vincent (A.K.A. Annie Clark). Produced John Congleton, the album is much like her past efforts a delicate blend of jazz and pop sensibilities framed by her quirky yet feminine vocals.
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Anthony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Written by Constantine / Wu Ning
The Crying Light, the new album by Anthony and the Johnsons has the special ability to be both powerful and fragile. Singer Antony Hagerty, who has been championed by none other than rock and roll god Lou Reed, is an enigmatic and compelling figure who started to make music while traveling the world as a child and from that time has steadily developed his reputation as emotionally powerful and unique performer.
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Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Written by William Griffith / Lin Lin

Earlier in the year a band from the UK, Wild Beats, bombarded listeners with their debut album Limbo, Ponto – a jumpy, fiery, impulsive album that was a challenge and surprise to people who took the time to listen. Some were turned off by the loose and ambitious record, which was largely defined by front man Hayden Thorpe’s shrieking, purring and bellowing falsetto. For the listeners who could accept the excessive flailing and spent time with the record, it was clear that Wild Beasts was a band worth paying attention to.
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Written by Constantine / Lin Lin

Grizzly Bear’s latest album Veckatimest is (another) one of those modern indie rock records that sounds little like indie rock, or any kind of rock for that matter.  Lead singer and songwriter Eric Droste blends virtually every style of twentieth century music into a sprawling quilt of texture and musical inspiration, and thereby carefully places another brick in the wall that is collegiate, erudite modern music.
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Crystal Antlers -Tentacles
Written by Constantine / Wu Ning

Beginning with a robotic organ riff and ending with an 8 minute long prog-rock jam session, The Crystal Antlers’ first LP Tentacles is first and foremost a wild hodgepodge of spastic beauty, confusion, dissonance and energy.  Admirably, the band possesses the ability to balance their quieter, lyrical moments with emotional, exuberant ones and never have it sound forced or contrived.
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The XX
Receiving strong to rapturous hype from the international music press before you release your first full-length is a fortuitous way to begin a music career, as I’m sure UK media darlings The xx will attest. We listen to the new album by this young British band, and give you the lowdown.Read more

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