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I do remember thinking how strange it was that the Sun Kil Moon album completely flew under the radar. I hardly read one word about it all year.
+1 | 1/13/11 1:43 PM
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I'll give them a little credit. "We Used to Wait", "White Sky" and "Everlasting Light" WERE the best songs on their respective albums, and I'm glad someone recognized it.
0 | 12/8/10 12:21 PM
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The Streets have had this fifth album in the works for what feels like forever.
0 | 11/24/10 11:44 AM
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This is the finest thing I've read on Stereogum in months. Thank you for encouraging me to give CocoRosie another shot.
+8 | 6/21/10 2:59 PM
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With all these guest stars, is this shaping up to be Canada's answer to Gorillaz? Also, aren't the Dap-King Horns just, you know, the Dap-Kings?
0 | 1/21/10 2:22 PM
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Alas, I don't think this will ever happen again. I could see them pulling a Portishead or a Blur & wait until 2015 for a new record, but don't hold your breath. I think they're on an amicable hiatus.
0 | 12/18/09 3:42 PM
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To this point, I think the lowest-rated album I've seen on a Pitchfork year-end list (that I remember, I may be wrong) was Hot Chip's "Made in the Dark", which got a 7.0 and was still in the top 25.
0 | 12/18/09 3:39 PM
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Zoomable version of the original Eggleston photo: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=5&intObjectID=5119458&sid=
0 | 12/1/09 2:46 AM
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No snark here. I'm just unbelievably excited for 2010.
0 | 11/25/09 6:38 PM
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Came here to say this. Better song than anything Gibbard/Tamborello/Owl City have done/will ever do.
0 | 11/6/09 9:22 AM
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I'm excited for this record, and here's why: I think I'm the only person on earth who thought Proof of Youth wasn't a carbon copy of Thunder Lightning Strike. TLS had the rush of novelty (in a good way) whereas PoY was a batch of ridiculously catchy pop songs. If you did a blind listening test with a group of people who had never heard a Go! Team record, I'd bet a majority of them would prefer PoY. They are a band that by all accounts should have faded into oblivion, but I think they have the chops to make a career of it. Parton is moving away from sampling and into classic songwriting? More power to him; I hope they pull it off. High hopes for this record.
0 | 8/11/09 5:11 PM
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Is being the Wes Anderson of indie music necessarily a good thing?
0 | 7/21/09 1:45 PM
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PJ Harvey opened for U2 when I saw them in 2001.
0 | 7/2/09 2:43 PM
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What an astounding set list. It's a shame I can't make it up to Detroit Lakes, MN (not MI) for 10KLF.
0 | 6/23/09 10:37 AM
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I initially read this as David Caruso, which was even funnier.
+1 | 6/22/09 2:53 PM
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My god, talk about an earworm. I listened to it once, and yet Kele's voice has been ringing in my head for the last hour.
0 | 6/22/09 11:03 AM
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I agree with just about everything you said, except for the PBJ part. But hey, what's so bad about differing opinions?
0 | 6/11/09 10:03 PM
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I honestly don't hear what so many people (Jim DeRogatis, for instance) heard in putting Vivian Girls in their top-5's for 2008, but this really isn't bad. Like Rob S. said, "[t]his isn't any better or worse than 90% of what's passed off as indie rock". My only caveat: would it kill them to mix the vocals just a touch higher?
0 | 5/15/09 10:17 AM
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Let's be honest: if the White Stripes are recording songs now, they could easily release a full-length by the end of summer. It could be coming out next week, for all we know.
0 | 5/7/09 11:33 PM
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So wait, what was Annie Clark's role in all of this?
0 | 5/4/09 2:27 PM
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