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79
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75
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72
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60
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71
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68
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60
Philip Selway
69
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88
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65
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77
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70
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40
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73
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65
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80
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88
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66
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65
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76
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75
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55
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69
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48
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75
James Blackshaw
72
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74
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81
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48
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83
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90
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65
Eli "Paperboy" Reed
85
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79
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80
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Brother Ali
Us
September 22nd, 2009
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10
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Real Estate
Real Estate
November 17th, 2009
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Rating:
9
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Madness
The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
September 29th, 2009
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9
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The Cave Singers
Welcome Joy
August 18th, 2009
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9
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Maxwell
BLACKsummers'night
July 7th, 2009
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Rating:
9
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Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
May 26th, 2009
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9
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Mountains
Choral
February 17th, 2009
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9
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Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller
June 9th, 2009
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9
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Goran Bregovic
Alkohol
May 19th, 2009
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9
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BLK JKS
After Robots
September 8th, 2009
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9
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Florence and the Machine
Lungs
July 6th, 2009
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9
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The Clientele
Bonfires on the Heath
October 6th, 2009
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Rating:
9
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Circulatory System
Signal Morning
September 8th, 2009
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9
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Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Dark Night of the Soul
June 2nd, 2009
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9
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Mount Eerie
Wind's Poem
August 18th, 2009
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9
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Staff Benda Bilili
Tres Tres Fort
March 24th, 2009
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9
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The Mountain Goats
The Life of the World to Come
October 6th, 2009
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9
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Fever Ray
Fever Ray
January 13th, 2009
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9
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Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
January 20th, 2009
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9
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Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi
April 21st, 2009
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9
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Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics
Inspiration Information, Vol. 3
April 14th, 2009
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Rating:
9
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Converge
Axe To Fall
October 20th, 2009
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9
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Sufjan Stevens
The BQE
October 20th, 2009
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9
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Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer
June 23rd, 2009
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9
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Me'Shell NdegéOcello
Devil's Halo
October 6th, 2009
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