Metronomy - The English Riviera (2011)

Hot damn I love this band! This new album is so much more refined then "Night's Out." Don't get me wrong, I love that album too as it encompasses a raw electro-indie-i-just-had-my-heart-broken-but-let's-dance-anyway kinda thing. This album takes that, and bakes it to perfection with slightly less teenage angst.

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DOM - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (2011)

AND I'M BACK FROM SUMMER VAY-K!!! Ok, so I definitely still have a note on my desk from 3 weeks ago telling me to check out this DOM character, which i just got around to yesterday.... A MAN WAS I MISSING OUT! In a recent interview Dom declined to share his last name, and blurred the line between fact and fiction so nonchalantly that it became hard to know if anything he said could be believed at all. Supposedly the basis for his anonymity is seeded in the many debts he owes to a wide range of sinister individuals.

Dom makes sunburned guitar pop with fat hooks and stargaze synths that sound triumphant, heartbreaking, and totally immediate.

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Wye Oak - Civilian (2011)

Baltimore rep'n hard.

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Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)

I really don't have to say anything about Bon Iver. You are most likely already aware of their awesome sauce.

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Junior Boys - It's All True (2011)

Happy electro-indie-dance-tastic.

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Seapony - Go With Me (2011)

Seattle's Seapony makes me happy. lo-fo 60's indie pop for the win.

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Battles - Gloss Drop (2011)

New Battles. Somehow they lost a dude and got even better. I believe that's called the subtractive property of unequally-more-awesome-now. Sorry Tyondai Braxton.

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