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year, my list most definitely doesn't accord with most of the indie
music rags I read. (Imagine my horror when that Hard Fi abomination made it on to Uncut's 50 best of the year. Shame on them!) |
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The
Decemberists Picaresque Completely nuts, but utterly inspired. If you ever get the chance to go and see them live, do so! |
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Andrew
Bird The Mysterious Production of Eggs Tighter and less meandering than Weather Systems, but a better album. |
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Ryan
Adams & the Cardinals Cold Roses Having put some awful recent stuff well and truly behind him, Adams is back in the rudest of health. His other two albums this year almost made the list too! |
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The
Arcade Fire Funeral They bring a certain theatrical chaos to an album of brilliant indie rock. It took me ages to realise just how good this album is. |
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Eels Blinking Lights & Other Revelations A wistful, uplifting, nostalgic, wandering collection of understated brilliance. |
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Bloc
Party Silent Alarm This year's Killers - a storming album of rock brilliance - set the bar so high that none of the subsequent 80s revivalists came close. |
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Maximo
Park A Certain Trigger May not be the longest-lived indie-pop band in history, but they've produced an irrepressible album here. |
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Smog A River Ain't Too Much To Love Hushed loveliness. It's barely recognisable as Callaghan, but there's a sparse folky lushness here that is fantastic. |
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British
Sea Power Open Season Moodier and mellower than their last effort, and takes a while to grow on you, but worth the time. |
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The Postal
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