• one Camera Obscura, “My Maudlin Career”: “The album feels as if it could have been released any time in the last 50-odd years, but the inspired arrangements – and, of course, Campbell’s indelible voice – make it sound fresh, too.”
• two Art Brut, “Art Brut vs. Satan”: It’s a return to form after a just-OK second album, “a scrappy, romantic, and painfully hilarious return to loserdom. Coldplay will always be more popular. So what? I hate those guys!”
• three Bill Callahan, “Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle”: They heart the Smog dude. “This self-portrait is so complex and subtle that it’s tempting to skip discussing the actual music, which speaks so eloquently for itself.”

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