I love when bands like Dirt Dress wear their influences so proudly on their sleeves.

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Looking at this list, I clearly had a dark, introspective year. So, there’s that. –@kerryrm Still Corners – Strange Pleasures Continuing what they started on Creatures Of An Hour, Still Corners deliver more of the same ethereal dream pop that I can’t resist. Strange Pleasures is like the soundtrack to a long drive across a […]

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There’s now a video for the Sky Ferreira track Lost In My Bedroom, which was one of my favorite singles of 2012.

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Wild Nothing – Nocturne Like M83’s Saturdays = Youth, Wild Nothing’s Nocturne tugs at the heartstrings of my ’80s childhood and my ’90s twee indie pop infatuation. Tennis – Young & Old This album makes me want to lay in the grass on a sunny Summer day with nothing to do. Marina & The Diamonds […]

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I still remember the very first time I heard Blank Wave Arcade. It was in the Fall of 1999. We had received it as a promo for review. Eric knew right away that I would love it. And fall in love I did. 13 years later it is still one of my all-time favorite albums, […]

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I have no idea how this slipped through the cracks this year, but I’m looking forward to listening to it on repeat until the end of the year.

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via pitchfork.

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