Air - Moon Safari (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
The 10th anniversary of Air’s full-length debut Moon Safari is as good a time as any to reappraise the electronica classic and, refreshingly, find that time has not dulled the sharp edge of one of the best albums of the ’90s.
 
 
 
Frank Black - SVN FNGRS
Frank Black’s mini-album SVN FNGRS is just as conceptual as last year’s Black Francis album Bluefinger was, drawing inspiration from Irish mythology instead of the life and death of Dutch painter/punk Herman Brood. Musically speaking, SVN FNGRS is even better than Bluefinger, delivering Black’s cranky weirdness, poetic ballads and storytelling in a highly concentrated dose.
 
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
The ’80s revival has been in full swing for awhile, but Anthony Gonzalez — a.k.a. M83 — adds an impressionistic touch to it on Saturdays = Youth, giving that decade’s tinny, brittle, unrepentantly fake and sometimes downright tacky sounds a new, but still nostalgic, life as dreamy synth-pop.
 
 
Robyn - Robyn
Robyn’s self-titled album has been available in various countries for awhile now — it was released in her native Sweden in 2005 on her own Konichiwa label — but it’s still a remarkably fresh-sounding collection of independent-minded pop songs. She covers a wider amount of musical territory than she was ever allowed to on her major label-funded albums, dashing from cheeky, hip-hop influenced tracks to clear-eyed ballads with an ease and excitement that’s contagious.

Absentstar - Sea Trials
Alkaline Trio - Remains
Ellen Allien - Boogybytes, Vol. 4
American Princes - Other People
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
Asia - Phoenix
Jon Balke - Book of Velocities
Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words
Ketil Bjørnstad/Terje Rypdal - Life in Leipzig
Braille - The IV Edition
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
Mariah Carey - E=MC2
Commander Cody - Live in the Ozone: 1973 US Tour
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
Dave Douglas - Moonshine
Everclear - The Vegas Years
The Gossip - Live in Liverpool (CD/DVD)
The Hoosiers - The Trick to Life
James - Hey Ma
Nik Kershaw - You’ve Got to Laugh
The Kooks - Konk
Kottonmouth Kings - The Kottonmouth Xperience, Vol. 2
Marilyn Mazur/Jan Garbarek - Elixir
James McMurty - Just Us Kids
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus - Best of Both Worlds Concert
Morgan Heritage - Mission in Progress
Elliott Murphy - Notes from the Underground
The Naked Brothers Band - I Don’t Want to Go to School (Bonus Tracks)
Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
Tristan Prettyman - Hello
Professor Longhair - The London Concert
Rush - Snakes & Arrows Live
Sally Shapiro - Remix Romance, Vol. 1
Southside Johnny - 1978 Live in Boston
Tangele - Tangele: The Pulse of Yiddish Tango
Jacob Young - Sideways
Jordan Zevon - Insides Out
Various Artists - Easy Beatles: Irresistible In-Sound Interpretations from the 60s and 70s
Original Soundtrack - Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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