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Interpol

Interpol

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New York's gloom kings fail to muster former majesty
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Bjork/Dirty Projectors - Mount Wittenberg Orca

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Meeting of avant-garde minds results in modestly revelatory vocalese
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Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below

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Unwashed Hollywood swingers or folk-rock saviors? Or both?
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Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

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London quartet hoots, hollers, ransacks universe for meaning
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Weezer - Hurley

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Rivers and Co. rebound from Raditude.
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Superchunk - Majesty Shredding

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The little punk band that could, and did -- does it again
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Underworld - Barking

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Electronica eccentrics earn the right to go pop
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Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone

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Tweedy forgoes makeover on batch of inspired belting
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Screaming Females - Castle Talk

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Rowdy basement-punk din now a tightly coiled roar
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Robert Plant - Band of Joy

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Zep's conjure man seeks salvation deep in the hills
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Brandon Flowers - Flamingo

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Killers crooner mistakenly cranks up the melodrama
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The Drums - The Drums

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Fearless fops hark back to era of synths and quiffs
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Chromeo - Business Casual

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Tireless '80s excavators suavely tweak come-ons
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Olof Arnalds - Innundir Skinni

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Ethereal, pixie-ish, and yes, she knows Björk!
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Weezer, 'Hurley'
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Of Montreal, 'False Priest'
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Katy Perry, 'Teenage Dream'
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Grinderman, 'Grinderman 2'
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