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Iron & WIne - Resurrection Fern (The Shepherd’s Dog)

Department of Eagles - Around the Bay (In Ear Park)
The Pica Beats - Poor Old Ra (Beating Back the Clas of the Cold)
Two Hours Traffic - Sure Can Start (Little Jabs)

TV On the Radio - Halfway Home (Dear Science,)
Pink Mountaintops - Can You Do That Dance? (Pink Mountaintops)
The Magnetic Fields - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off (69 Love Songs)

The Dodos - Fools (Visiter)
Orillia Opry - I Lied (Lighthouse for Stragglers’ Eyes)
Daniel Martin Moore - In These Hearts Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Stray Age)

Rae Spoon - Off the Grid, Underground (Superior You Are Inferior)
Les Savy Fav - Brace Yourself (Let’s Stay Friends)
Sunset Rubdown - Us Ones In Between (Shut Up I Am Dreaming)

Born Ruffians - Hedonistic Me (Red, Yellow and Blue)
Plants and Animals - Lola Who? (with/avec EP)
Lambchop - Please Rise (OH (ohio))

Eamon McGrath - Wild Dogs (Wild Dogs)
Lake - Oh, the Places We’ll Go (Oh, the Places We’ll Go)
Volcano! - Performance Evaluation Shuffle (Paperwork)

Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes (Some Are Lakes)
Of Montreal - Alter Eagle (Id Engager 7” Single0
Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh (Single Edit) (Receivers)

Herman Dune - When the Sun Rose Up This Morning (Next Year In Zion)
El Guincho - Kalise (Alegranza)
Jenny Lewis - Bad Man’s World (Acid Tongue)

Mogwai - I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead (The Hawk Is Howling)

Friendly Fires - In the Hospital (Friendly Fires)

Built To Spill - Goin’ Against Your Mind (You In Reverse)

Azeda Booth - Kensington (In Flesh Tones)
Panda Bear - Bros (Person Pitch)

Your Heart Breaks - I Could Say Ark (Love Is A Long Dark Road (Love Is All You Need))
Mother Mother - Burning Life (Oh My Heart)
Karl Blau - Before Telling Dragons (Nature’s Got Away)

These United States - Pleasure and Pain and Pride and Me (Crimes)
Mariee Sioux - Bundles (Faces in the Rocks)

Try Me Bicycle - R Brown (Voicings)
The New Year - Wages of Sleep (The New Year)
Final Fantasy - The Ballad of No-Face (Spectrum, 14th Century)

Jupiter One - Intro for Ani Enorda (Jupiter One)
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

Blitzen Trapper - Gold for Bread (Furr)
Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive (At Mount Zoomer)

Universe Narrows - Lots of Space (The Little Machine)
The Rakes - The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect

Beck - Orphans (Modern Guilt)

Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nowhere With You (Make A Little Noise DVD)

Tokyo Police Club - Cut Cut Paste (Smith EP)
Pavement - Western Homes (Wowee Zowee - Sordid Sentinels Edition)
Andy Dixon - Save Your Names (The Mice of Mt. Career)

Bishop Allen - Vain (February)
The Broken West - Perfect Games (Now Or Heaven)
Birdmonster - New Country (From the Mountain to the Sea)

Royal City - Space Basement (Alone At the Microphone)
Yo La Tengo - Moby Octopad (I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)
Calexico - Two Silver Trees (Carried To Dust)

Destroyer - Goddess of Drought (This Night)
Lampchop - National Talk Like A Pirate Day (OH (ohio))
Lownote - Never Say Goodnight (No Place for Romance)

Gunther - World of Grammar (Nuclear Stallions)
Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh (Single Edit) (Receivers)
Miracle Fortress - Poetaster (Five Roses)

Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Weeping Pilgrim (Help Me to Sing: Songs of the Sacred Harp)
Buckingham Nicks - Long Distance WInner (Buckingham Hicks)
Final Fantasy - Horsetail Feather (Plays To Please)
The Shins - Know Your Onion (Oh, Inverted World)

Antena - Achilles (Camino del Sol EP)
M.I.A. - Sunshowers (Arular)
Tricky - C’mon Baby (Knowle West Boy)

Bodies of Water - Darling, Be Here (A Certain Feeling)
Angels & Airwaves - Star of Bethlehem (I-Empire)
Conor Oberst - Danny Callahan (Conor Oberst)

The Walkmen - Dónde está la Playa (You & Me)
Dosh - Fireball (Daytrotter Session, 23 September 2008)

Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud (The Hawk Is Howling)

Ra Ra Riot - St. Peter’s Day Festival (The Rhumb Line)

Horse Feathers - Curs In the Weeds (House with No Home)
David Vandervelde - Someone Like You (Waiting for the Sunrise)
Arms - Tiger Tamer (Shitty Little Disco)

Death Vessel - Bruno’s Torso (Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us)
Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship - Sure Enough (Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship)
Beirut - Postcards from Italy (Gulag Orkestar)

Jeff Hanson - If Only I Knew (Madam Owl)
Azeda Booth - First Little Britches (In Flesh Tones)
Asobi Seksu - Lions and Tigers (Citrus)

Akron/Family - Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music for Moms (Love Is Simple)
Birdmonster - Lost At Sea (From the Mountain to the Sea)
Born Ruffians - This Sentence Will Ruin/Save Your Life (Born Ruffians)

Bowerbirds - In Our Talons (Danger at Sea)
Archive - Sit Back Down (Lights)
Stereolab - Chemical Chords (Chemical Chords)

The Music Tapes - Majesty (Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes)
The Magnetic Fields - I’ll Dream Alone (Distortion)
TV On the Radio - King Eternal (Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes)

Albert Hammond, Jr. - GfC (¿Cómo Te Llama?)
Foals - Olympic Airways (Antidotes)
Bloc Party - Better Than Heaven (Intimacy)

Oxford Collapse - Vernon-Jackson (Bits)
Dr. Dog - The Old Days (Fate)

Arizona Amp and Alternator - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (Arizona Amp and Alternator)

Whiskeytown - 16 Days (Strangers Almanac)

Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
Band of Horses - The Funeral (Everything All the Time)
Kimya Dawson - Louie (Alphabutt)

Grand Archives - Torn Blue Foam Couch (The Grand Archives)
Architecture In Helsinki - Maybe You Can Owe Me (In Case We Die)
The Mountain Goats and Kaki King - Thank You Mario But Princess Is In Another Castle (Black Pear Tree EP)

Bears - Another Tiger Romance (Simple Machinery)
Forest City Lovers - Song For Morrie (The Sun and the Wind)
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood (Fleet Foxes)

The Moldy Peaches - Lucky Number Nine (The Moldy Peaches)
The Dodos - Winter (Visiter)
Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Furr)

The New Year - MMV (The New Year)
Middle States - No Curse No Drunk No Fight (Happy Fun Party)
Soft Black - Are You Still? (Pearl With No Shiny/Are You Still? 7” Single)

Chad VanGaalen - TMNT Mask (Soft Airplane)
Flight of the Conchords - Bret, You Got It Going On (Terminal Sales Vol. 3: Happy Birthday To Me)
Junior Pantherz - Hated It (Song for the Gang)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
Devendra Banhart - Lover (Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon)
The Broken West - Gwen, Now and Then (Now or Heaven)

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed (Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson)
The Walkmen - On the Water (You & Me)
Grizzly Bear - On A Neck, On A Spit (Yellow House)

Animal Collective - For Reverend Green (Strawberry Jam)
The Neighbourhood Council - Lemonade

TV On the Radio - Dancing Choose (Dear Science,)

Dr. Dog - The Ark (Fate)

Billie the Vision & the Dancers - Summercat (Summercat)
Veda Hille - Lucklucky (This Riot Life)
The Curse of Company - The Parade Devine (Leo Magnets Joins A Gang)

Last of the Blacksmiths - Autumn Vacation (Young Family Song)
Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (Fevers & Mirrors)
Human Highway - My Beach (Moody Motorcycle)

Cameron Latimer - Empty Saddle (Fallen Apart)
Absentee - Shared (Victory Shorts)
The National - Driver, Surprise Me (Alligator Bonus Tracks)

Foals - Like Swimming (Antidotes)
31Knots - Worried but Not Well (Worried Well)
Oxford Collapse - Children’s Crusade (Bits)

Kings of Leon - Red Morning Light (Youth & Young Manhood)
Birdmonster - The Iditarod (From the Mountain to the Sea)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

Young Coyotes - Hell Is… (Young Coyotes)
Parenthetical Girls - Four Words (Entanglements)
Stereolab - The Ecstatic Static (Chemical Chords)

Run On Sentence - The Afterlife Pt. 1 (DECA: A HUSH 10th Anniversary Compilation)
Department of Eagles - Deadly Disclosure CV (On the Conversion of Fear)
Azeda Booth - Ran (In Flesh Tones)

Wolf Parade - Soldier’s Grin (At Mount Zoomer)
TV on the Radio - Golden Age (Dear Science,)
Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook (Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust)

Knots - Lacuna (A Sound Experiment: Live Sessions From CJSW 90.9 FM (Disc 2))
The Whitsundays - It Must Be Me (The Whitsundays)

The Morning Benders - Why Don’t They Let Us Fall In Love? (The Bedroom Covers)

Nick Lowe - Crying In My Sleep (Pinker & Prouder Than Previous)

Shelly Short - The Sunny Side (Captain Wild Horse Rides The Heart Of Tomorrow)
David Vandervale - I Will Be Fine (Waiting for the Sunrise)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah (Night Falls Over Kortedala)

M. Ward - Here Comes the Sun Again (Transistor Radio)
Laura Marling - Cross Your Fingers (Alas, I Cannot Swim)
David Karsten Daniels - Martha Ann (Fear of Flying)

Final Fantasy - The Butcher (Spectrum, 14th Century)
Chad VanGaalen - Inside the Molecules (Soft Airplane)
Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You (In Ear Park)

Calexico - The News About William (Carried To Dust)
Iron & Wine - Innocent Bones (The Shepherd’s Dog)
Handsome Furs - Handsome Furs Hate This City (Plague Park)

Atlas Sound - Atlas Shrugged (Atlas Shrugged 7” Single)
The Neighbourhood Council - Pink Dolphins Remix (Set Pieces Cassette)
Midlake - King Fish Pies (Bamnan and Silvercork)

The Walkmen - Four Provinces (You & Me)
Royal City - O You With Flowers (At Rush Hour the Cars)
Silver Jews - Black and Brown Blues (The Natural Bridge)

Patrick Watson - The Storm (Close To Paradise)
National Eye - The Switch (Roomful of Lions)
Blind Tiger, TIger - Pastor Haggard Finds True Love (What the Hammer? What the Chain?)

Sufjan Steves - Casimir Pulaski Day (Illinois)
Tobias Fröberg - When The Night Turns Cold (Somewhere In the City)
Economics - He Was My Friend (Economics)
Fleet Foxes - He Doesn’t Know Why (Fleet Foxes)

Courtney Marie Andrews - Homesick (Urban Myths)

Utopia - Caravan (Adventures In Utopia)

Jim Guthrie - Problem with Solutions (Now, More Than Ever)

Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines (The Stand Ins)
The Moondoggies - Ain’t No Lord (Don’t Be A Stranger)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Details of the War (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

Beirut - Un Dernier Verre (Pour La Route) (The Flying Club Cup)
Final Fantasy - Flare Gun (Esopus #8: Spam)
Jeff Hanson - Night (Madam Owl)

The Mountain Goats - No Children (Tallahassee)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
Les Savy Fav - The Year Before the Year 2000 (Let’s Stay Friends)

Death Vessel - Jitterakadie (Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us)
Johnny and the Moon - The Ballad of Scarlet Town (Johnny and the Moon)
Andrew Bird - Heretics (Armchair Apocrypha)

Stereolab - Three Women (Chemical Chords)
Yo La Tengo - Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
Chad VanGaalen - Liquid + Light (Infiniheart)

Ponytail - Small Wevs (Ice Cream Spiritual)
The Walkmen - The Blue Route (You & Me)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Woodfriend (Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson)

Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack (Drum’s Not Dead)
Destroyer - What Road (Your Blues)
Neil Halstead - Oh! Mighty Engine (Oh! Might Engine)

The National - Abel (Alligator)
Bishop Allen - Calendar (December)
The Awkward Stage - We Dreamt of Houses (Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights)

Sunset Rubdown - Snakes Got A Leg III (Shut Up I Am Dreaming)
The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow - Lollipopsichord (The House of Apples & Eyeballs)
Azeda Booth - Well (In Flesh Tones)

Miracle Fortress - Whirrs (Five Roses)

Born Ruffians - Little Garcon (Red, Yellow and Blue)

The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk to Dream (Distortion)

Bark Hide and Horn - Quake & Crumble (National Road)
Akron/Family - Gone Beyond (Meek Warrior)
David Karsten Daniels - That Knot Unties? (Fear of Flying)

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (Live)
Mariee Sioux - Friendboats (Faces in the Rocks)
The Stills - Everything I Build (Oceans Will Rise)

The Mountain Goats - This Year (The Sunset Tree)
Dark Hand and Lamplight - City Lights
Kris Ellestad - November Steppes

M. Ward - To Go Home (To Go Home)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - The Beach Song (Pershing)
Human Highway - The Sound (Moody Motorcycle)

Abe Vigoda - The Garden (Skeleton)
The Octopus Project & Black Moth Super Rainbow - Spiracle (The House of Apples & Eyeballs)
Holy Fuck - Super Inuit (LP)

Oxford Collapse - Electric Arc (Bits)
Animal Collective - Fickle Cycle (Grass EP)
Parts & Labor - Ghosts Will Burn (Mapmaker)

Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping (Ash Wednesday)

The Neighbourhood Council live in-studio set
- Glass Deers
- Grow Up
- She Brave Soul
- Lemonade

Atlas Sound - Marietta (Things I’ll Miss EP)

Battles - Leyendecker (Mirrored)

Deerhunter - Dr. Glass (Fluorescent Grey EP)
The Notwist - Alphabet (The Devil, You + Me)
Women - Group Transport Hall (Women)

Department of Eagles - Ghost in Summer Clothes (Demo) (The Cold Nose)
Courtney Marie Andrews - It’s Okay, I Understand (Urban Myths)
Bon Iver - Flume (For Emma, Forever Ago)

Laura Marling - Ghosts (Alas, I Cannot Swim)
Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Furr)
Son Ambulance - Horizons (Someone Else’s Deja Vu)

Ruby Coast - Brittle Bones (EP)
Dr. Dog - The Breeze (Fate)
of Montreal - Id Engager (Skeletal Lamping)

The War on Drugs - Taking the Farm (Wagonwheel Blues)
Wolf Parade - The Grey Estates (At Mount Zoomer)
Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do? (Let’s Stay Friends)

Bowery Boy Blue - Ah, What A Cruel Change (Stalk That Myth)
Silver Jews - Candy Jail (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
Conor Oberst - Cape Canaveral (Conor Oberst)

Sigur Rós - Fljótavík (Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust)
The Neighbourhood Council - Chaos and the Dark (Set Pieces)
The Awkward Stage - The Sun Goes Down on Girlsville (Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights)

Oxford Collapse - For the WInter Coats (Bits)
Bloc Party - Helicopter (Silent Alarm)
The Ostrich - Clean Room (Mt. Fuji in Red 7”)

Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree (Soft Airplane)
Mogwai - Auto Rock (Mr. Beast)

Dan Deacon - Wham City (Spiderman of the Rings)