The Twilight Saga - New Moon Soundtrack
The soundtrack for New Moon features more big-name bands than its predecessor and, of the eleven artists that contributed a song for Twilight, Muse is the only group to return.
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Discovery - LP
Discovery is a new side project of Wes Miles from Ra Ra Riot and Rostam Batmanglij from Vampire Weekend. They also enlist the help of Ezra Koenig (also from Vampire Weekend) and Angel Deradoorian (from Dirty Projectors) for a couple of songs. Additionally, Batmanglij and Koenig are former members of Dirty Projectors…so there’s a lot of cross-pollination going on.
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That Pitchfork Sound
There are several bands that I cannot seem to get into and most of them seem to be nearly universally liked by the public at large. The first examples that spring to mind are Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent, Dirty Projectors, Bon Iver, and Fleet Foxes.
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Top 3 Overrated Albums of 2008
There were quite a few albums that showed up multiple times when I cross-referenced the best albums of 2008 and this list is skewed against the ones that were on the most Top 10 lists. The other criterion is that I didn’t like them, but they are only scored by frequency of recommendation…I dislike these all equally and I’m sharing this information to further elucidate my musical tastes.
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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The cover art on this album is a great optical illusion that, if Wikipedia is to be believed, is based on the works of Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. This illusion is what originally caught my attention and I can say, without reservation, that it is the best thing about this album.
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