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Mastodon – Leviathan Isis – Panopticon Burnt by the Sun – Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good Old man gloom – Christmas Pig Destroyer – Terrifier Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm Sunn 0))) – White 2 Tusk – Tree of No Return These Arms Are Snakes – Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Arcade Fire – Funeral Madvillain – Madvillainy Jill Scott – Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds, Vol. 2 MF Doom – MM..Food? Viktor Vaughn AKA MF Doom – Venomous Villain Handsome…

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A list of words that spell out the patterns and sounds of two.thousand.seven A year … made better by the noise 1. Akron/Family – Love Is Simple 2. Sunn 0))) – Oracle 3. Lesbian – Power Hor 4. Bonnie Prince Billy – Ask Forgiveness 5. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb 6. Torche – In Return 7. Oxbow – The Narcotic Story 8. Battles – Mirrored 9. Acid Mothers Temple – Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars 10. Jesu – Conqueror 11. Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works 12. Angels Of Light – We Are Him 13. Thurston Moore – Trees…

30 TOPS – – – – 30 – casiotone for the painfully alone – etiquette (tomlab) makes the postal service sound like the telegram 29 – the thermals – the body, the blood, the machine (sub pop) makes green day sound really, really old 28 – indian jewelry – invasive exotics (monitor) doom-plated psych-rock from the bowels of the bowels 27 – grizzly bear – yellow house (warp) winner of my first annual scott dellamore album layout of the year award 26 – skygreen leopards – disciples of california (jagjaguwar) straight up heartache; another notch in the jagjag belt 25…

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Buy new or used through Amazon The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (French Kiss) When I was in my early teens and first “discovering” rock n’ roll and the unique salvation it represented, all of my favorite songs and albums bled into one singular experience, a looping hits compilation of sensation and memory that was so pure, romantic and uninhibited, and one that contrasts so distinctly with the detached, exhaustingly analytical way I approach most music these days, that I have a hard time even remotely identifying with it. Years before I bogged myself down with trivia, music was a…