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Listen to Tunnelvision, by Here we go magic because it’s soothing and lovely and I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.

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This is really quite difficult.
I’ll have to go by what Last.fm says, which is good - as it means those are the albums I’ve been listening to a lot, rather than picking out 10 albums I think are cool.

My top ten artists, of the last 12 months, are:

10. Grouper
09. Julianna Barwick
08. Crystal Stilts
07. Grizzly Bear
06. The Aislers Set
05. Animal Collective
04. High Places
03. Caribou
02. No Age
01. Beach House

Now, seeing as not all of those artists have released an album in 2008 (I’m still waiting for the next Grizzly Bear album and oh, for another Aislers Set album) - I’ll revise over the past three months.

10. Broken Social Scene
09. M.I.A.
08. Crystal Stilts
07. The Aislers Set
06. Atlas Sound
05. Jana Hunter
04. Animal Collective
03. Department of Eagles
02. Deerhunter
01. Beach House

Without further ado. This is my top ten albums list.

10. Amiina - Kurr
09. Headless Heroes - The Silence of Love
08. No Age - Nouns
07. (I wanted Jana Hnter - There’s No Home here, but that’s from 2007).
so…. let’s have… Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
06. Beach House - Devotion
05. Crystal Stilts (EP)
04. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
03. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
02. Deerhunter - Microcastle
01. Deerhunter - Wierd Era Contd.

I was reminded recently by a flyer I picked up at the Curzon to watch the remastered DVD of Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. While I haven’t got round to watching it just yet, this review means I will shortly;

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a “baroque, surrealist folk tale of a teenage girl’s dreams and hallucinations as she experiences her first menstruation. Repeat encounters with witchcraft, vampires, the living dead, perverted monks and doppelganger distant cousins punctuate her journey into womanhood as the truth about her family’s dubious past unfolds before her weeping eyes.”

Finder’s Keepers re-released Lubos Fiser’s soundtrack a while back. Whilst trying to locate the soundtrack, I stumbled across both the original soundtrack, by Lubos Fisher and The Valerie Project.

The Valerie Project is an homage to the original soundtrack, recreated by Greg Weeks, Brooke Sietinsons and Helena Espvall of Espers. The new soundtrack is meant to be performed live to a sound film, with the original soundtrack turned off or the original music removed. For those who missed those live performances, the LP was released on Drag City last year [via Pitchfork]. Both are recommended listening.

You can listen to a few tracks from a live recording of the Valerie Project here.

[Disclaimer: Sorry if I'm a little late on this one.]

The new Animal Collective album is due on the 12th of January next year [pre-order from Domino here]. Whilst debating whether to attend ATP NY to see both Animal Collective and Panda Bear, I was mesmerised by the album artwork [via Waves at Night]. Don’t stare at it too long… 

There’s been plenty of trouble over at the Grizzly Bear blog - after a copy of Brother Sport was put up. I’m not sure which version this was, I’m guessing it wasn’t the NPR Live session. Still, if you haven’t heard it - have a listen.  

No Age have released Teen Creeps on 7″.

I love this track, I love the artwork, I love No Age.

Get it from Sub Pop here.

Listen to the new B-Side - Intimate Descriptions below.

I’m lamenting summer already, this mixtape may well reflect that.

Here’s my favtape mixtape #1.

Huffduffer is a very simple idea which works so well.

Find audio files from the web, pop them in your own podcast.
You’ll just need to paste in the link to an audio file, then write a little about the audio file you’re ‘huffduffing’.

Here’s mine, with a little Atlas Sound just in time for Hallowe’en.

If you’re really keen, you can subscribe to a podcast of all that i’ll huffduff in future.

Beach House playing at Tamarama Beach, Sydney.

Victoria covers TLC at the end. Oh, if only she knew the words.

(via shoot the player).

Having mistakenly jumbled Juana Molina with Jason Molina after a confusing hair-in-face photograph mix-up, it’s all cleared up. Juana Molina, quite clearly, is female. She’s got a beautiful voice and her new album (her 5th) due to be released on Domino is a perfect blend of coos and sighs and handclaps. Domino say it’s adventurous and magical. Juana sings…

“One day I will sing the songs with no lyrics and everyone can imagine for themselves if it’s about love, disappointment, banalities or about Plato.”

“Lost Wisdom” by Mt. Eerie, LP/CD (in stores Oct. 7th, 2008)

Voice in Headphones is wonderful, beautiful, layered. Phil Elverum singing over Julie Doiron’s chorus of Bjork’s Undo, “It’s not meant to be a strife, it’s not meant to be a struggle uphill.”