Here's another thing I've been meaning to post. I've still been listening to quite a bit of music, even though I'm in a country where terrible pop songs reign supreme on the radio and with my naive middle school students. I remember that a lot of you liked music as well, so I thought I would suggest some good albums that I've heard from this year:
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
This is like the Where's Waldo of music. He takes awful rap and pop and combines them with old instrumentals that match the vocal melodies well to make something completely new and really interesting. I think you can download this one for free and give a donation if you like it.
Hot Chip - Made in the Darkness
Good dance music.
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
One of my favorite bands. This is different from their first album, but still good.
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Afrobeat rock.
Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All
Really catchy laid back pop/rock.
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood/Fleet Foxes
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Ratatat - LP3
Santagold - Santagold
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
The Roots - Rising Down
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Gnarles Barkely - The Odd Couple
Islands - Arm's Way
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
And here's some good stuff from last year:
Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
The National - Boxer
M.I.A. - Kala
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
!!! - Myth Takes
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Battles - Mirrored
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
White Rabbits - Fort Nightly
Justice - Cross
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
The Good, the Bad & the Queen - The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Feist - The Reminder
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
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