Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy9 reviews Múm Fat Cat, 2007 Headphone Commute Review + My favorite group for several years now, this is incredible + Guilty Rocks + this album is different but very good.             Oh Perilous World18 reviews Rasputina Filthy Bonnet, 2007 smiling + Oh how they've grown + Good Stuff + Almost everybody has... has snail fever + Anchor in real life             Idiot Savants The Durutti Column Artful Records, 2007 2007 album from Vini Reilly, the Manchester guitarist who has been releasing unique and emotionally-stirring albums for three decades. The Durutti Column were one of the first bands signed to the legendary Factory Records in the late '70s and continued to record for the label until they closed their doors in the '90s. Since then, he has continued to release albums of sheer beauty, split evenly ...             Silent Shout10 reviews The Knife Mute U.S., 2007 GREAT Record! + Must Have for Fans, Great Introduction for the Uninitiated + Surreal and Imaginative + Unique Electronic Music, Great Visuals + My new favorite CD             A Mad and Faithful Telling11 reviews DeVotchKa Anti, 2008 Epitome of eclectic rock + It's more diverse than I expected-Love it! + Simply brillaint + Wonderful             Autumn of the Seraphs26 reviews Pinback Touch & Go Records, 2007 Pinback: A Succinct Offering + PINBACK is PEERLESS... proven again by Autumn of the Seraphs + Possibly a new fave! While I'm not terribly familar with Pinback's earlier work, hearing two tracks from "Autumn of the Seraphs" on college radio was enough to make me purchase the record. I bought the record on vinyl so I can't speak for the sound quality of the CD, but the succinct arrangements of each song really ...             Hoar Frost Sheen2 reviews Luna Trick Flowforth Productions, 2008 This one shines.... + Gets Better & Better Follows "Total Submersion" and is every bit as good - with solid grooves and biting lyrics. Staniforth takes on both political and religious issues - delivering a diverse range of songs that are one minute industrial/electronica - and dreamy psychedelia the next. One of many standouts is the ...             Nux Vomica5 reviews The Veils Rough Trade, 2007 Oh fate, your face + I rarely find something this good... + Here to Stay + Beautifully melodic, though the words don't always match the music + Wild and lovely             Spider Smile Tarwater Morr Music, 2007             Total Submersion3 reviews Luna Trick Flowforth Productions, 2008 Is it 1993 again? + I was totally Submerged.... + Totally In Love with Total Submersion! If Barry White had grown up in England in the early 80s and listened to Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, and Debussy might he have been Luna Trick's Dan Staniforth? Luna Trick effectively marries many influences- think trip hop, glam goth, pre- Let's Dance Bowie, Nine Inch Nails industrial and cobbles a ...             Ys95 reviews Joanna Newsom Drag City, 2006 New album, new direction, but same great talent and sensibilities + not your normal CD + Stories from the Kingdom of Ys Joanna Newsom, as I should have expected, charts a new course for her impressive second full length album, Ys, from that of her also beautiful debut, The Milk Eyed Mender. Though very different, it is no less deeply felt, fresh, and memorable, and again, all together beautiful. Though her singing ...             Gang of Losers8 reviews The Dears Arts & Crafts, 2006 Best of 2006: Picks up where "No Cities Left" stopped + It Will Grow On You + It's so honest, it's hard not to love it + Earnest, Thoughtful             Hvarf/Heim24 reviews Sigur Rós Xl Recordings, 2007 Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim + Odds-and-ends but quite nice anyway + Gorgeous + Great sound!!! + Great new (old) CD             Our Love to Admire88 reviews Interpol Capitol Records, 2007 listen alone + A natural progression for Interpol + Our Love to Admire + Cold charm for the masses             The Flying Club Cup16 reviews Beirut BA DA BING, 2007 Loved it! + interesting, different + Homesick, fully grown children + Frech Flair             Boxer60 reviews The National Beggars Banquet, 2007 A great rock album + Enjoy It's literate, soulful, tuneful. This is music for adults -- in the tradition of Blood on the Tracks and Court and Spark. The songs get better the more you listen to them.             The Western Lands2 reviews Gravenhurst Warp Records, 2007 Familiar Elements in New Combinations + Equals "Fires" in consistency of mood Intrigued by an unusual description of the band in the All Music Guide (which described them as something like "My Bloody Valentine meet Fairport Convention") I decided to pick this album up unheard. That description is a little misleading, the cover of Fairport's "Farewell, Farewell" and the ...             Saturnalia22 reviews The Gutter Twins Sub Pop, 2008 This Much Anticipated Album Really Delivers + Come dance 'round the hangin' tree! + FIerce,buy it + One Of The Best Albums In Years + Awsome             White Chalk71 reviews PJ Harvey Island, 2007 When I hear the delicate melodies + these hills will rot your bones + Cloistered Originality + Moody, haunting, great...             Memory Man25 reviews Aqualung Sony, 2007 One word - SOLID! + Packed with great songs + Beautiful + The best yet..