Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

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Genre: Indie Rock

Similar Artists: Wolf Parade, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes

Sunset Rubdown needs no further introduction. This album is so clever.

Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (2007)

1. The Mending of the Gown
   
2. Magic vs. Midas
   
3. Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days
   
4. The Courtesan Has Sung
   
5. Winged/Wicked Things
   
6. Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns
   
7. Stallion
   
8. For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)
   
9. The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life
   
10. Setting vs. Rising
    
11. Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!
    
12. Child-Heart Losers

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Alaska in Winter - Dance Party in the Balkans

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Genre: Electronic, Indie, Experimental, Glitch

Similar Artists: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Beirut (barely)

Perhaps Alaska in Winter's claim to fame was the resplendent Zach Condon-starrer "Close Your Eyes - We Are Blind", which could have passed off as a Beirut single.

Vocoder. Melancholia. Glitch. Beauty. Addiction


Alaska in Winter - Dance Party in the Balkans (2007)

1. The Homeless and the Hummingbirds
   
2. Your Red Dress (Wedding Song At Cemetery)
   
3. The Beautiful Burial Flowers We Will Never See
   
4. Balkan Lowrider Anthem
   
5. Lovely Lovely Love
   
6. Twenty Four Hours in Lake of Ice
   
7. Dance Party in the Balkans
   
8. Harmonijak
   
9. Staring At The Sun
   
10. Horsey Horse
    
11. Rain on Every Weekend
    
12. Don't Read Dostoyevsky
    
13. Close Your Eyes - We Are Blind

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Why? - Alopecia

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Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Hip Hop

Similar Artists: cLOUDDEAD, Subtle, Dosh, Alias

Useless Fact: I stole the title of this blog on a line from the great song "By Torpedo or Crohn's".

Why? - Alopecia (2008)

1. The Vowels, Pt. 2
   
2. Good Friday
   
3. These Few Presidents
   
4. The Hollows
   
5. Song of the Sad Assassin
   
6. Gnashville
   
7. Fatalist Palmistry
   
8. The Fall of Mr. Fifths
   
9. Brook & Waxing
   
10. A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under
    
11. Twenty Eight
    
12. Simeon's Dilemma
    
13. By Torpedo or Crohn's
    
14. Exegesis
    

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A Whisper in the Noise - Through the Ides of March

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Genre: Art Rock

Similar Artists: iLiKETRAiNS, Get Well Soon, Gravenhurst

There is something dark and foreboding about this record. Yes. Beautiful sleep paralysis.

A Whisper in the Noise - Through the Ides of March (2003)

1. The Wall Of You
2. Silence
3. Anymore
4. Seeing You
5. A Child
6. The Sound Of Longing
7. The Song You Hate
8. An Autumn's Song
9. In The Dark
10. Last Night

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Fifths of Seven - Spry from Bitter Anise Folds

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Genre: Instrumental, Folk, Folkloric Eastern European

Similar Artists: A Silver Mt. Zion, A Journey Down the Well

This album is worth your attention. You don't even need to know that the project involves Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug! (Or maybe you have to!)

Fifths of Seven - Spry from Bitter Anise Folds (2005)

1. Rosa Centifolia
   
2. Sweet Grace for Devious
   
3. Out from Behind the Rigid Bellows
   
4. Waiting
   
5. Coeur, Arteries and Veins
   
6. Echoes from a Wandered Path
   
7. For You Alone in the Smoldering City
   
8. Bless Our Wandering Dreamers

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Miracle Fortress - Five Roses

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Genre: Indie Pop, Electronic

Similar Artists: Plants and Animals, The Russian Futurists, Sunset Rubdown, The Most Serene Republic, Young Galaxy

Miracle Fortress - Five Roses (2007)

1. Whirrs
2. Have You Seen in Your Dreams
3. Next Train
4. Maybe Lately
5. Beach Baby
6. Hold Your Secrets to Your Heart
7. Little Trees
8. Poetaster
9. Five Roses
10. Blasphemy
11. Fortune
12. This Thing About You

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