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  10 Best Albums You Might Have Missed in 2009

  December 7, 2009 – When we painstakingly compile our annual Best Albums list, there are always a few outliers, albums that we loved deeply but, for one reason or another, didn't find a spot in the top 40. It's music that we blasted from our cubicles, sought out at club shows, and dropped onto playlists for pals, that didn't necessarily permeate the popular consciousness, or score career-changing syncs in car commercials. …
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• Desolation Wilderness, 'New Universe' (K)

  August 5, 2009 – Impressionistic young auteur Nicolaas Zwart honed his band's wistful sound while interning at the studio of K Records founder Calvin Johnson, and received credit at Evergreen State College for touring behind Desolation Wilderness' 2008 debut. His second album delivers fleeting moments of bliss, like a beach bum's opiate dreams. Echo and reverb subdue layers of Zwart's unhinged guitars and keyboards as he recounts road trips down U.S. …
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  New Albums from Jay Reatard, Jim James, Japandroids, and More

  August 4, 2009 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Jay Reatard, Watch Me FallLo-fi mofo constructs palatial power-pop tribute.Read Review >> Yim Yames, Tribute ToA belated farewell to rock's most unassuming artiste. Read Review >> Fruit Bats, The Ruminant BandSelf-aware chooglin' with their shirts all tucked in. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week, November 10-16

  November 15, 2008 – It was a baffling week, one filled with plenty of love and hate. …
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  Desolation Wilderness' Trippy Debut Album

  November 13, 2008 – By stripping electronic dream-pop to its core and rebuilding it with lo-fi guitars, drums, bass, and vintage keyboards, Olympia, WA's Desolation Wilderness have tapped into a new sound -- one that's truly transcendent. "I really like the overall sense of cinema that ambient music has and also the energy of rock music," frontman Nicolaas Zwart, 22, tells SPIN.com. …
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