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Top 100 records of 2009: 100-81
 Grammatics Choosing a top 100 records of 2009 may seem a little excessive but it has been a fucking awesome year for music.  No question.  We’ve mixed together albums, singles and individual tracks in our list, because we can.  The first batch is our top 100-81 and even though they’re at the lower reaches of our countdown, they’re all still amazing....
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Stephen McDonald and the Okay Win - we are bound
Pic by Jeff McMullin If Wilco had been jamming Husker Du with Bob Mould instead of No Age at the recent ATP show, it would probably have sounded a lot like We Are Bound. The album’s an update of the Paul Q Kolderie powered Fort Apache sound of the early 90s, mashing together Buffalo Tom and Uncle Tupelo, with a contemporary ear on the lo-fi sonic sensibilities of the shitgaze...
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  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...

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