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Yesterday | Fugue State Aphasiacon 2005

2010 album chart of the year part 1

But in a year of over-rated, undercooked indie follow-ups , I played this one over and over again.

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Related Topix: Indie

Sun Dec 27, 2009

Driffield Today

Critics' album of the year revealed

Psychedelic dance act Animal Collective's record Merriweather Post Pavilion has been hailed album of the year in a prestigious poll of music critics.

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Related Topix: Indie

Sat Dec 26, 2009

A VC

Top 10 Records Of 2009

After getting completely into Merriweather, I went back into their catalog and also got deeply into Strawberry Jam , Feels , and Sung Tongs .

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Related Topix: Indie, The Dirty Projectors, Pop/Rock

Thu Dec 24, 2009

Canada.com

Best of 2009: Music

Lady Gaga, performing above in Singapore, later kicked off her Monster Ball tour in Montreal.

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Related Topix: Indie

NPR

2009's Top 12 New Discoveries, From KEXP

December 21, 2009 from KEXP - As 2009 winds down and the year-end best-of lists come flooding in, a lot of the same bands pop up again and again.

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Related Topix: Indie, Rachel, Folk, The Long Winters, New York

Tue Dec 22, 2009

Adotas

Facebook Grabs Search Term of the Year

As 2009 curls up into a tiny ball and disappears into infinity, the "best-of" lists are rolling in.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Indie

Sun Dec 20, 2009

411mania.com

411 Music Ten Deep 12.18.09: Top Ten Albums from 2009

Yep, we've finally reached 2009 and I don't know if you feel the same way, but I've had a lot of fun going back and looking at some great music from the last ten years.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, Indie, Music, Entertainment

Fri Dec 18, 2009

The Epoch Times

The 10 Best Albums of 2009

A work of staggering precocity, this set primal rhythms to the much debated operatic vocal range of Hayden Thorpe and the Nutella-rich voice of Tom Fleming, and told tales of sexual misadventure and bothersome boot boys.

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Related Topix: Indie, Electronic, The Avalanches

Thu Dec 17, 2009

Victoria Advocate

The Riff Report: The top 10 albums of 2009

We're near the end of the year and new releases have slowed to a crawl just in time for that favorite activity of all critics: list-making. So in this special edition of the Riff Report, we present our top 10 albums of 2009, selected and written up by PopMatters staff and highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a ...

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Related Topix: Indie, Domino, Hip-Hop, North Carolina

Tue Dec 15, 2009

Stereogum

Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009

Each year when Pitchfork posts their annual Top 100 Songs Of XXXX you can be sure to find a number of hip-hop and popular radio tracks filtered into the electronic and indie stuff.

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Related Topix: Indie, The Dirty Projectors, Pop/Rock, Horror Movies, Taken, Thriller, Drama Movies

Mon Dec 14, 2009

Stereogum

Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums, Songs Of The '00s

I read this New York Times piece about how we're frantically trying to find a pithy, reductive nickname for this decade that's closing.

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Related Topix: Indie, Radiohead, Pop/Rock

Sat Dec 12, 2009

Binghamton University Pipe Dream Home

Best and biggest of 2009

If the year 2009 has taught us one thing, it's that bigger is always better. From record-breaking films like "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" to stellar personalities like Lady Gaga, 2009 did it up in style.

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Related Topix: Indie

Fri Dec 11, 2009

Scoop

Animal Collective founding member Brian Weitz speaks to Nightline

Saturday, 12 December 2009, 12:00am Source: TV3 A childhood friendship and a shared love of fellow American band Pavement and horror movies grew into New York-based band Animal Collective Link: Animal Collective founding member Brian Weitz speaks to Nightline In association with Scoop introducing MotoringScoop.com AVIS : Hot deals for hot summer ...

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Related Topix: Indie

KHWB-TV Houston

AP's best rock albums of 2009 topped by Animal Collective, Wilco

As a medium, the rock album is so under siege that even Radiohead made noise in 2009 about giving it up for downloadable singles and EPs.

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Related Topix: Wilco, Indie, Pop/Rock, Entertainment

Thu Dec 10, 2009

The New Zealand Herald

Review: Animal Collective at the Powerstation

The jungle boys from Animal Collective are enigmatic live. And in New Zealand for one show last night, they turned crowd of tight-panted indie kids into a liberated agrarian tribe.

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Related Topix: Indie

Metromix Los Angeles

Best albums of 2009: our critics' year-end lists

'Tis the season for top 10 lists! Ours include St. Vincent, Animal Collective and plenty of surprise picks.

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Related Topix: Indie, Music, Entertainment

Wed Dec 09, 2009

Daily Egyptian

The best albums of 2009

It is a supremely consistent mixing of genres, all combining to create this year's best pop record.

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Related Topix: 9, Latin, Lucero, Pop/Rock, Indie, Gary Metro, The Decemberists

UR Chicago

12.09.09 | Animal Collective | Fall Be Kind

Animal Collective Fall Be Kind Domino Available digitally now, physically on December 14th, 2009 by Michael Thomas Fall Be Kind falls short of Merriweather Post Pavilion, leaving the listener in a state of confusion.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

Obscure Sound

Big Spidera s Back

Repetition and pretentiousness are sometimes aligned in music, especially when something not even worth hearing once is repeated continuously.

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OhNoTheyDidnt

Help Animal Collective's Deakin Go to Africa

Entry tags: concert / tour dates Joshua Dibb , better known as part-time Animal Collective member Deakin , wants to go to Africa.

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