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| Artist | Album Name | Year | Description (Preferably Pretentious as Fuck) | Download | Album Art |
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| My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | 1991 | "My Bloody Valentine's entire career has been aiming toward the perfect guitar noise that Kevin Shields has in his head: a pure, warm, androgynous but deeply sexual rush of sound. Loveless is overwhelming, with Shields and Bilinda Butcher's guitars and voices blending into each other until they become a distant orchestra, the rhythm section striding in majestic lockstep, and occasional bursts of dance rhythms (as on the single "Soon") buoying the live instruments' warp and drift. Furiously loud but seductive rather than aggressive, the album flows like a lava stream from one track into another, subsuming everything in the mix into its blissful roar, and pulsing like a lover's body." | Download |  |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | In The Aeroplane Over The Sea | 1998 |
IIIIIIIIIIIII LOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU JEEEEEEEESUUUUUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSST
"[quoting pitchfork does this album a great disservice]"-Pitchfork Media If you don't like this, you are not a hipster. If you do like it, hand me a Parliament. |
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| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 2002 | "So let's just come right out and say it: after the one-two punch of Zaireeka and The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a bold and inventive work, brimming with ideas and sublime moments of brilliance." | Download |  |
| Arcade Fire | Funeral | 2004 | "Funeral caught 2004 by surprise. Nobody in the Arcade Fire had suggested big talent before and it was not preceded by hit singles or hype. Upon release, however, it blew away music critics, who gushed about its operatic scope, open-armed emotional honesty and sheer joyousness. Though it dealt with death as a common theme, its mood wasn't morose: instead it combined poignant reflection with life-affirming catharsis, concluding that recognising the sadness of death also meant recognising that life was worth celebrating." | Download |   |
| Animal Collective | Feels | 2005 | This album takes you on an ecstatic journey. From the shrill chorus of Grass to the quiet simplicity of Bees, the sounds you hear on this album are always changing, yet the Animal Collective feeling always stays constant. The energy of the album peaks and falls but the emotion is never gone. It takes you to a place you can only idealize in your mind. Feels is a triumph of modern music. | Download |   |
| Show Your Bones | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2006 | YYYs before they sold out. This is their best album, and is on many top albums of the 2000s lists. Danceable art rock. | ||
| Panda Bear | Person Pitch | 2007 | "You can feel the warmth pouring out of the music." | Download |   |
| The Weakerthans | Reunion Tour | 2007 | Reunion Tour is [pun intentional] a tour of Samson's emotional spectrum sprinkled with clever wording, catchy riffs, and unceasing energy (a departure from his usual mellowed out melancholy). Plus, he wrote another song in the perspective of a cat. If you don't see the genius in that, fuck off kindly please, this gold ain't for you. | Download |   |
| Portugal. The Man | Censored Colors | 2008 | Expiremental alternative with influences ranging from progressive to jazz. This album is a masterpiece of overlapping tracks, defining scores, and immense instrumentation. Highly recommended. | Download |   |
| Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | 2009 | A catchy pop album, easily one of 2009's |
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| The Antlers | Hospice | 2009 | The |
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| The Flaming Lips | Embryonic | 2009 | "There's a raw directness to Embryonic that's been largely absent from Lips records since the mid-90s. For the first time in years, they've made an album that actually sounds like a band playing live together in a small room." | Download |   |
| fun. | Aim and Ignite | 2009 |
Really, they didn't even have to call themselves "fun", they could have just stuck with the name "The Format", because it's the same fucking shit. |
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| Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca | 2009 |
"Here, it stands behind so many other newly apparent strengths--a testament to the leaps and bounds Longstreth has made as a songsmith and Dirty Projectors have made as a band."
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| The xx | XX | 2009 | "predominantly slow, furtive pop music, mostly about sex." |   | |
| Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 2009 | "2009 album from the French Electro-Rockers. Born out of restlessness and a steady hunt for inspiration, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is a career-defining album filled with the band's signature melding of synthetics and organics, sharp, danceable rhythms, infectious choruses with a considerable dose of aural panache and candy-colored pop sensibilities." | Download |   |
| Girls | Album | 2009 | The debut album by indie rockers "Girls". Lets hope it's their last effort. | Download |   |
| Vampire Weekend | Contra | 2010 |
"An orgasm for the ears, if you're a mentally challenged moron" - Pitchfork |
