The Tiny Top Ten
1. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Vice)
2. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Merge)
3. Beck - Guero (Interscope)
4. M.I.A. - Arular (XL)
5. Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again (Kranky)
6. Royksopp - The Understanding (Astralwerks)
7. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike (Memphis Industries)
8. Aqueduct - I Sold Gold (Barsuk)
9. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
10. Engineers - Engineers (Echo)
The Rest:
Robbers On High Street - Tree City
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers - The Mother of Love Emulates the Shapes of Cynthia
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Husky Rescue - Country Falls
Doves - Some Cities
Hot IQ’s - An Argument Between Brain and Feet
Goldspot - Tally of the Yes Man
Amusement Parks on Fire - Self Titled
Blue Scholars - Self Titled
Foreign Born - In the Remote Woods
The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue
Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Yeah The Deathray Davies are cool. LuchLibre from Dallas turned me onto them. I would love to see the National w/ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at the Bowery Ballroom in Sept. That will be a kick-ass show.
Nice list, my top 10:
1.Architecture in Helsinki- In Case We Die
2.Andrew Bird- Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
3.The National- Alligator
4.Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
5.LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem
6.The Magic Numbers- The Magic Numbers
7.Thunderbirds Are Now- Justamustasche
8.Aqueduct- I Sold Gold
9.Supersystem- Always Never Again
10.The Deathray Davies- The Kick and the Snare
Cool. I think I smell a little “Shout Out Louds” and “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah”
In regards to the Top Singles of the Half Year, it’s on like neck bone! I should have my list up in the next 2-3 days!
Thanks for the comments! I can’t really argue with any of your choices, since they’re many of the same as mine (though I just can’t get into M.I.A. for some reason). I’d really like to check out that Amusement Parks On Fire album.
Thunderbirds Are Now’s Just a Mustache is a killer.
OK OK Chico, techinically yes, in the UK, but it’s been import only here in the states. I might be wrong but Amazon lists it’s release as 7.26.05. WTF? It’s still a kick-ass release and KEXP has been playing a unreleased track that is quite fetching.
didn’t the go! team album come out last year?
great album that new Royksopp even if
it is kinda sappy. The LP by Black
Mountain is just STUNNING however!
OK now I’m not trying to open up a can of worms (OK I am, kinda) but Bloc Party has waaaaaay more skills than BJM and their Iggy wannabe singer. Brett back me up on this one. I know you loves the Bloc, and besides the singer is a hot hot hottie!
1.Blech! Party
2.Spoonfed
3.Ok. I love Beck. Can’t bring myself to say a single bad word about him.
4.Alright, I’ll give you M.I.A., too… and haters give her a listen cuz she rocks.
5.Out Hud. I’m still upset I couldn’t get into their show. so f*** ‘em
6.I’ll take a Royksopp sandwich please
7.The Who? Team
8.Aqueduct. His chubbiness comforts me.
9.Okkervill River. Sure, why not?
10.Enginewhos?