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1. Paper Planes (the Da Vincis)
2. Adolescent Heart (Class Actress)
3. Adultery (Little Comets)
4. Landscapes (Folded Lights)
5. People Say (Throw Television)
6. In The Backseat (The String Quartet Tribute to Arcade Fire)
7. When You Walk In The Room (Fyfe Dangerfield)
8. Light At The End Of The Tunnel (The Bloodsugars)
9. Haunted House (The Ruby Suns)
10. Migration ([Post-Foetus])
11. At A Glance [Toro y Moi Remix] (Body Language)
12. Hurt Feelings (Flight of the Conchords)
13. Rouse Your Bones (Broadcast 2000)

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1. Something Good Can Work (Two Door Cinema Club)
2. Inch of Dust (Future Islands)
3. Now That You’re Here (Jap Jap)
4. Yellow Wings (KeepAway)
5. Vinterbarn (Fredrik)
6. Bad Day (Darwin Deez)
7. Snow Crystals (Apparatjik)
8. West Side (Studio)
9. Silent Snow (The Magic Theatre)
10. Sudden Rush (Erlend Øye)
11. Kenya Dig It? (The Ruby Suns)
12. Focal Point (Valgeir Sigurðsson)
13. Dumb Terminal (Simon Bookish)

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1. Bones (Summer Dregs)
2. Come to Nothing (Car Stereo Wars)
3. New Wife, New Life (Truman Peyote)
4. Bearbones (Total Babe)
5. I Walk The Earth (King Biscuit Time)
6. Neo Violence (The Tough Alliance)
7. Video Kid (Video Kid)
8. You Don’t Know Me (Ben Folds cover)
9. I Will Come Again (Bobby Birdman)
10. M.A.G.I.C (The Sound of Arrows)
11. In the Sun (She & Him)
12. This Is the Dream of Win & Regine (Final Fantasy/Owen Pallett)

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Leave to Divide and Kreate to take something I absolutely loathed and make it surprisingly tolerable. I’m about as big a fan of I’ve Got a Feeling as this guy, but as it turns out, if you nix will.i.am’s voice and replace it with La Roux’s, things aren’t as bad as they first seemed.

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Divide & Kreate – “Peaproof (La Roux vs Black Eyed Peas)”

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Remember Jack-Jack from The Incredibles? Y’know, the kid that was a cute, docile infant for most of the film, and then turned out to have the powers to turn into a crazy-ass demon at the end? Well, Your Infamous Harp is kind of the same way, in that regard.

Their album Prah Suomafni Ruoy (!ti teg I ,gnilleps sdrawkcab ,ahah) starts off as a really fun brain-fizzy fusion of IDM, glitch-hop and synth pop (think Faded Paper Figures meets Pogo, with a bit of The Flashbulb layered on the edge), but then tapers off into… something else. Namely, dissonant cacophony, screaming, and Aphex-Twin level breakcore. Take, for example, ‘Danger Danger’, which starts off as a Mummers-style cabaret tune, but then takes an aside into demonic hell-sounds for a good five seconds before returning right back to Style A as if nothing had ever happened. Odd.

As such, I can really only recommend the first half of this album wholeheartedly, which thanks to modern online transaction capabilities shouldn’t be too much of a problem for y’alls. You can pick up the whole record if you like, but only if you’re sure that 18-minute tracks of empty corridors and headphone-damaging yelling is really your kind of thing.

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Your Infamous Harp – “Danger Danger”

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Oh cool, you have a band? How many members are in it? Just five, including you?

Well that’s real cute, but everyone knows it takes a 20-person female ensemble to really get anywhere these days!

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GAGGLE – “Mowgli’s Road (Marina & the Diamonds cover)”

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While I formerly only knew him for his novelty Christmas mashup album, DJ Whoquestion finally dropped a new album on us last week, which I really enjoyed. This one won’t blow you away the same way E-603 and Super Mash Bros will, but if you were old enough to hear radio around the 90s and beyond (Kokomo!) you’ll feel a nice sense of nostalgia listening to Big Big Trouble.

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DJ Whoquestion – “Feel Me Now”

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Think Belle & Sebastian with just guys and a thicker accent, and you have Spaghetti Anywhere. While the album title (Spaghetti Anywhere Ep) isn’t that imaginative, they more than compensate with the joyful tone set by the tracks, featuring that nice combination of bells and casio-keyboard instrumentation that I seem to have a aural fetish for.

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Spaghetti Anywhere – “Gregory’s Girl”

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I was introduced to The Blow (now better known as that group that YACHT used to be in) by my fellow magic co-conspirator Spencer Peterson a while ago, but didn’t really get into them much until I stumbled across this track again a few days ago. Since then it’s been looping on my iTunes the same way Ambling Alp was near the end of December, which is a quality I always strive to seek out in my quest for fresh musical enjoyments. If only every track on Paper Television was like this.

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The Blow – “True Affection”