Artist: mewithoutYou
Album: Catch For Us The Foxes
Label: Tooth & Nail
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Description: Post-hardcore with distinctive spoken-word vocal style and scripture-inspired lyricism.
Artist: LCD Soundsystem
Album: LCD Soundsystem
Label: DFA
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Description: Fun music doesn’t have to be bad. At all. LCD Soundsystem is fun as hell.
Artist: Suffocate For Fuck Sake
Album: Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Frontpage of the Newspaper. There’s a War Going On, and I’m Marching in Heavy Boots.
Label: n/a
Year: 2008
Country: Sweden
Description: Post-rock/post-hardcore concept album about a girl’s descent into insanity, told through a series of interview audio-samples of herself and an involved friend, integrated into the music. I highly recommend that you look up the lyrics to this if you don’t happen to understand Swedish already.
Artist: Youth Lagoon
Album: The Year of Hibernation
Label: Fat Possum
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Description: Experimental lo-fi psychwave.
Artist: Purity Ring
Album: Shrines
Label: 4AD
Year: 2012
Country: Canada
Description: Dark-ish synthpop, this is kind of what it’d sound like if Under Byen fucked M83.
Artist: The Tallest Man On Earth
Album: The Wild Hunt
Label: Dead Oceans
Year: 2010
Country: Sweden
Description: Heavily Dylan-inspired folk.
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//Added Description, removed Genre. Because I feel that not everything needs to be classified with a specific genre. Also, added Country, because it seems relevant.
Artist: The Shins
Album: Port of Morrow
Label: Columbia
Year: 2012
Genre: indie rock,
Artist: Perfume Genius
Album: Put Your Back N 2 It
Label: Matador Records
Year: 2012
Genre: singer-songwriter, chamber-pop, fragile,
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//Posted this one already, pretty damn psyched for Perfume Genius this Thursday.
Artist: tUnE-yArDs
Album: w h o k i l l
Label: 4AD
Year: 2011
Genre: experimental, freak folk, afro-beat,
//In honor of Roskilde festival, I’ll be posting some of the acts I’m most excited for.
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