6. Grizzly Bear: 'Veckatimest' (Warp) - Inspired by an Elizabethan island off Cape Cod, 'Vectimafest' is more a state of mind. Heralded by Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold as the release of the decade, Grizzly Bear's third album is a distillation of 150 years of Americana, but how do you describe 'Vectimafest'? Symphonic folk-pop with Van Dyke Parks-esque arrangements, Smile-era vocal harmonies, a vintage smorgasbord fresh as the morning dew. The signs were muted on 'Yellow House' while Daniel Rossen's second band glowed with 'In Ear Park', but the breakthrough 'Vectimafest' hums with arcane lyrics, swoon-some vocals, baroque-indie, vintage riffs and an unchecked audacity. As necessary as sound waves! (Mark Perlaki)
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- Moderat, Memory Tapes and Vitalic?!! Great list for including those alone
- The Blueprint 3? That is one rubbish album. Shame that Jay Z hasn't made a good album for 8 years.
- Tune-Yards should have been on this list.
- Gotta be the best album list I've read so far!
- bunch of marginally talented hipster douches ruined this list.
YYY and Muse are the only ones worth buying.
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