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Beach House- Devotion
2008- Carpark Records
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Standout songs:
Wedding Bell
Gila
Heart of Chambers

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Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
2007- Sub Pop Records
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Standout songs:
Ode to LRC
No One's Gonna Love You
Cigarettes, Wedding Bands

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Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
2007- Self Released
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Standout songs:
Skinny Love
Blindsided
Flume

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Dan Deacon- Spiderman of the Rings
2007- Carpark Records
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Standout songs:
Crystal Cat
Wham City
Snake Mistakes

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The Junior Boys- Dead Horse EP
2007- Domino Records
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Standout songs:
In the Morning (Hot Chip Remix)
FM (Tensnake Remix)
Like a Child (Carl Craig Remix)

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Fujiya and Miyagi- Transparent Things
2007- Deaf Dumb and Blind Communications
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Standout songs:
Ankle Injuries
Collarbone
Cassettesingle

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Panda Bear- Person Pitch
2007- Paw Trakcs Records
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Standout songs:
Bros
Comfy in Nautica
Im Not

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Secret Mommy- Plays
2007- Ache Records
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Standout songs:
Kool-Aid River
String Lake
To Burry a Tent

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Junior Boys- So This Is Goodbye
2006- Domino Records
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Standout songs:
Count Souvenirs
In the Morning
The Equalizer

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TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
2006- Interscope Records
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Standout songs:
I Was a Lover
Wolf Like Me
A Method

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Emily Haines and the Soft Skeletons- Knives Don't Have Your Back
2006- Last Gang Records
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Standout songs:
Our Hell
Crowd Surf Off a Cliff
Nothing and Nowhere

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Herbert- Scale
2006- !K7 Records
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Standout songs:
Something Isn't Right
Harmonise
The Movers and the Shakers

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Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2006- Anti- Records
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Standout songs:
Star Witness
Hold On, Hold On
A Widow's Toast

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Akron Family- S/T
2005- Young God Records
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Standout songs:
I'll Be on the Water
Running, Returning
We All Will

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Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary
2005- Sub Pop Records
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Standout songs:
I'll Believe in Anything
I Am a Runner, and You Are My Father's Son
Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts

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Sufjan Stevens- Illinois
2005- Ashtmatic Kitty Records
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Standout songs:
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
Jacksonville

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Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
2005- Sub Pop Records
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Standout songs:
The Fox
Entertain
Rollercoaster

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Thunderbirds Are Now!- Justamustache
2005- French Kiss Records
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Standout songs:
From: Skulls
Eat This City
This World Is Made of Paper

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The Decemberists- Picaresque
2005- Kill Rock Stars
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Standout songs:
The Infanta
We Both Go Down Together
16 Military Wives

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Andrew Bird- & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
2005- Righteous Babe Records
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Standout songs:
Sovay
A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
Skin Is, My

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LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem
2005- DFA Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
Tribulations
Movement

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Solvent- Apples and Synthesizers
2004- Ghostly International Records
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here
Standout songs:
My Radio
First Step
Science With Synthesizers

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Junior Boys- Last Exit
2004- Kin Records
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Standout songs:
Bellona
Neon Rider
Teach Me How to Fight

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The Plastic Constellations- Mazatlan
2004- 2024 Records
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here
Standout songs:
Davico
Mazatlan
We Came to Play

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AC Newman- The Slow Wonder
2004- Matador Records
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Standout songs:
Miracle Drug
On the Table
35 in the Shade

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Franz Ferdinand - S/T
2004- Domino Records
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Standout songs:
Jaqueline
Darts of Pleasure
Come on Home

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The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
2003- Alien 8 Recordings
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Standout songs:
Tuff Ghosts
Jellybones
I Was Born (a Unicorn)

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Goldcard - S/T
2003- Off Records
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Standout songs:
Destroy and Recreate
Rabbit
Picture of a Horse

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The Shins- Chutes too Narrow
2003- Sub Pop Records
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Standout songs:
Kissing the Lipless
So Says I
Saint Simon

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The Rapture- Echoes
2003- DFA Records
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Standout songs:
House of Jealous Lovers
Olio
Heaven

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The Russian Futurists- Let's Get Ready to Crumble
2003- Upper Class Records
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here
Standout songs:
Let's Get Ready to Crumble
When the Sun Drops Like an Anvil
The Plight of the Flightess Bird

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Deathray Davies- Midnight at the Black Nail Polish Factory
2003- Glurp Records
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Standout songs:
The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower
Maggie Doesn't Blink
Gone With the Tide

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Stars - Heart
2003- Paper Bag Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
What the Snowman Learned About Love
Elevator Love Letter
Life Effect

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All Girl Summer Fun Band- 2
2003- K Records
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here
Standout songs:
Down South, 10 Hours, I-5
Jason Lee
Video Game Heart

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The New Pornographers- Electric Version
2003- Matador Records
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Standout songs:
Electric Version
All For Swinging You Around
The Laws Have Changed
Miss Teen Word Power
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His and Her Vanities- Self-Titled
2003- Science of Sound
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here
Standout songs:
Alfonso
52 Pickup
Looking Thru Lab Eyes

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Les Savy Fav- Let's Stay Friends
2007- Frenchkiss Records
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Standout songs:
Patty Lee
Pots & Pans
Brace Yourself

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Yeasayer- All Hour Cymbals
2007- We Are Free
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Standout songs:
2080
Sunrise
Forgiveness

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Handsome Furs- Plague Park
2007- Sub Pop Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Handsome Furs Hate This City
Dumb Animals
What We Had

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Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
2007- Ghostly International Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Midnight Lovers
Deserter
Death to Feelers

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The National- Boxer
2007- Beggars Banquet Records
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Standout songs:
Fake Empire
Brainy
Mistaken for Strangers

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Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2007- Polyvinyl Records
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Standout songs:
Suffer for Fashion
The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse

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Menomena- Friend and Foe
2007- Barsuk Records
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Standout songs:
Muscle and Flow
Pelican
Air Aid

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El Perro Del Mar- El Perro Del Mar
2006- Memphis Industries
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here here
Standout songs:
Party
God Only Knows
Here Comes That Feeling

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Califone- Roots and Crowns
2006- Thrill Jockey Records
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Standout songs:
The Orchids
Spider's House
Three-Legged Animal

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Grizzly Bear- Yellow House
2006- Warp Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
The Knife
Lullabye
On a Neck, On a Spit

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Hot Chip- The Warning
2006- Astralwerks
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here and here
Standout songs:
(Just Like We) Breakdown
And I Was a Boy From School
Over and Over

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Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
2006- Absolutely Kosher
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Standout songs:
Stadiums and Shrines II
Us Ones in Between
The Men Are Called Horsemen There

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Tapes 'N Tapes- The Loon
2006- Ibid
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Standout songs:
Just Drums
The Illiad
Manitoba

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Animal Collective- Feels
2005- Fat Cat
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Standout songs:
Did You See the Words
Grass
Banshee Beat

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Feist- Let It Die
2005- Polydor
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Standout songs:
Let It Die
One Evening
Mushaboom

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Royksopp- The Understanding
2005- Astralwerks Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Only This Moment
Circuit Breaker
Follow My Ruin

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The Hold Steady- Separation Sunday
2005- French Kiss Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Stevie Nix
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Hornets! Hornets!

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The National- Alligator
2005- Beggars Banquet Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Karen
Friends of Mine
Mr. November

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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney- Superwolf
2005- Drag City Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
My Home Is the Sea
Beast For Thee
Only Someone Running

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Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
2005- Atlantic Records
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here
Standout songs:
Banquet
Like Eating Glass
Helicopter

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Matters and Dunaway- High Tech
2004- Symmetric Records
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here
Standout songs:
Memorial
RNA
Kinesis

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The Arcade Fire- Funeral
2004- Merge Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Une Annee Sans Lumiere
Crown of Love

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The One AM Radio- A Name Writ in Water
2004- Level Plane Records
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here
Standout songs:
What You Gave Away
Those Distant Lights
Lucky

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Joanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mender
2004- Drag City Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
"En Gallop"
Bridges and Balloons
Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

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Of Montreal- Satanic Panic in the Attic
2004- Polyvinyl Records
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Standout songs:
Disconnect the Dots
Rapture Rapes the Muses
Eros' Entropic Tundra

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Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles
2004- 5RC Records
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Standout songs:
Crank Heart
I Luv the Valley (Oh!)
Brian the Vampire

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Girls Are Short- Early North American
2003- Upper Class Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
earlynorthamerican
Sunshine
Osaka

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The Wrens- The Meadowlands
2003- Absolutely Kosher Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
This Boy Is Exhausted
Faster Gun
Happy

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The Books- The Lemon of Pink
2003- Tomlab
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here and here
Standout songs:
That Right Ain't Shit
S Is for Evrysing
There Is No There

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The Constantines- Shine a Light
2003- Sub Pop
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here and here
Standout songs:
On to You
Poison
Shine a Light

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The Heavenly States- Self-Titled
2003- Future Farmer Recordings
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here and here
Standout songs:
The Story Of
My Friends
Beyond the Great Beyond

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Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2003- Capitol Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
2+2=5
I Will
Punch-Up at a Wedding
Myxomatosis

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Blur- Think Tank
2003- Virgin Records
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here and here
Standout songs:
Ambulance
Out of Time
Battery in Your Leg
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The Decemberists- Castaways and Cut-Outs
2003- Kill Rock Stars
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here and here
Standout songs:
Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
Cautionary Song
July, July

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Broken Social Scene- You Forgot It in People
2002- Arts and Crafts
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here and here
Standout songs:
Stars and Sons
Almost Crimes
Anthems for a 17-Year Old Girl

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