• Interpol

    Interpol
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    New York's gloom kings fail to muster former majesty
  • Bjork/Dirty Projectors

    Mount Wittenberg Orca
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    Meeting of avant-garde minds results in modestly revelatory vocalese
  • Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

    Up From Below
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    Unwashed Hollywood swingers or folk-rock saviors? Or both?
  • Mumford and Sons

    Sigh No More
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    London quartet hoots, hollers, ransacks universe for meaning
  • Weezer

    Hurley
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    Rivers and Co. rebound from Raditude.
  • Superchunk

    Majesty Shredding
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    The little punk band that could, and did -- does it again
  • Underworld

    Barking
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    Electronica eccentrics earn the right to go pop
  • Mavis Staples

    You Are Not Alone
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    Tweedy forgoes makeover on batch of inspired belting
  • Screaming Females

    Castle Talk
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    Rowdy basement-punk din now a tightly coiled roar
  • Robert Plant

    Band of Joy
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    Zep's conjure man seeks salvation deep in the hills