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Originally the Brooklyn bedroom project of filmmaker turned singer Edward Droste, Grizzly Bear became a true band with 2006's hazy yet assured Yellow House.

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With a title that name-checks their hometown Hartford, Connecticut's traprock mines and a cover that features carved stones from outsider art totem Palais Idéal, Magik Markers' attempt to deconstruct "rock" is evident.

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With North African guitarist Omara Mochtar, a.k.a. Bombino, currently on the run from repressive government forces in Niger, this debut album of his acoustic and electric playing in the Tuareg style remains the lone document of his mastery. And what an incandescent display!

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For the entirety of his career, John MacLean has been pre- tending to be a robot, both as a member of Six Finger Satellite and on his 2005 solo debut as the Juan MacLean, Less Than Human. So what's with all the newfound domestic concerns?

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Beware inserting the word dull in the title of your third album.

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If their sonic brethren Animal Collective are the Robert Crumb of the Brooklyn noise family, able to convert their peculiar sonics into something populist and generational, then Black Dice are the perpetually esoteric older Crumb brother Charles: inscrutable, agoraphobic, undeniably brilliant but just as undeniably demented.