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Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
There are wide eyes underneath those robot helmets, and music fans have waited a long time to peer through them for 74 minutes; let go of the mammoth expectations, dance and feel all right
Billboard
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
They're a heady, dense, atmospheric rock band loved by many adults who are comfortable with being adults, and "Trouble" isn't likely to win them too many new fans
Billboard
Savages
Silence Yourself
The sounds may be old, but they’ve been reassembled into a record that’s deep and primal enough to sound shockingly new
Time Out
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Their first two albums are classics because they were start-to-finish brilliant. What they’ve created is a truly great event, but only a patchily good album
Time Out
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
It has all the stadium-filling darkness you’d expect from a recording begun in a blackout the day Hurricane Sandy hit
Time Out
Deerhunter
Monomania
Monomania is pretty damn good for a band playing against their strengths
FasterLouder
Primal Scream
More Light
More Light is Primal Scream’s most significant album in a decade, a visceral encapsulation of their strengths and vision that proves they are still wholly relevant after more than thirty years in the game
FasterLouder
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Random Access Memories is a love letter: to people, to moments, and to music itself. It may be less forward than Daft Punk’s previous records, but it’s the best one to take home at the end of the night
FasterLouder
Savages
Silence Yourself
Many bands suffer from overt premature praise but like Interpol, The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Savages have backed it up with a very strong and confident debut built on energy, drama and intensity
FasterLouder
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires Of The City
When it hits the mark, Modern Vampires is an elegant record
FasterLouder
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
The National have a talent for making songs seem simple until you start to poke at them and realize there are all kinds of complicated things happening
Under The Radar
MS MR
Secondhand Rapture
Shines when MS MR avoid the somewhat heavy-handed feel that creeps into a few of its tracks and let some air into their sound
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