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42. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
August 18, 2008
Critic Score
77
18 reviews
39. Taylor Swift - Fearless
November 11, 2008
Critic Score
69
12 reviews
Swift is a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture.
31. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
October 2, 2007
Critic Score
75
21 reviews
Lips producer Dave Fridmann helmed MGMT's debut disc, fluffing their glitchy daydream rock into an intergalactic odyssey.
29. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
July 8, 2007
Critic Score
85
23 reviews
For Emma, Forever Ago never turns into a pity party, because Vernon has a light touch, with zero interest in narrative or confessional lyrics.
26. Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
April 29, 2008
Critic Score
78
9 reviews
The songs are mythic Americana: With help from his bandmates, Petty creates a vivid cast of road dogs, strippers and junkies that conjures Gram Parsons' Bible-haunted Southerners and Robert Hunter's cosmic Westerners.
24. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
November 11, 2008
Critic Score
73
15 reviews
Rarely is postmodern art such bloody good fun.
11. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3, 2008
Critic Score
87
25 reviews
A lower-dosage Animal Collective, the Foxes stuff their free-form songs with rich, swirling melodies; billowing clouds of organs, tom-toms, bells and assorted stringed instruments cloak group vocals whose secular-gospel, suede-fringed precision owes plenty to Crosby, Stills and Nash.
10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
January 29, 2008
Critic Score
82
27 reviews
On their debut, Vampire Weekend mostly earn points the old-fashioned way: by writing likable songs you'll be glad to revisit next month.
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