Top 20

BUY AT INSOUND: For all the nü-rave hocum and hype we endured, the Klaxons did deliver one
promising trend: pure energy blasted out of a Crowleyan cannon.

BUY AT INSOUND: Propelled by wheezy strains of pipe organ, Wim Butler's earnest fight songs
wander between hushed reverence and mighty bombast.

BUY AT INSOUND: Thank you Burial for bringing back 2-step breaks and flipping them on their
head. “Untrue” is like stepping thru a doorway into a desolate digital city
with only a house diva for a guide.

BUY AT INSOUND: Yeasayer's warm and moody psychedelia throws shade on your caravan as it
slowly makes it's way across the desert.

Louisiana's croaky voiced hobbit MC and the self-proclaimed "best rapper alive"
takes 2 CDs to let us know how royalty does it without a monarchy.

BUY AT INSOUND: The sultry and spartan Italo-disco on this comp exudes more sex than the champagne
room at Club Risqué.

BUY AT INSOUND: Like a mad tinkerer in his workshop, Menomena take found sounds and samples and
fasten their broken edges together with melody.

BUY AT INSOUND: A crosshatch of Bowie and Kraftwerk with a bumpa-bump-bump bottom, Matthew
Dear's baritone and beats tickle your stunny zones.

BUY AT INSOUND: This is the tender stuff that you wouldn't dare whisper to your significant
other. Let José do it for you.

BUY AT INSOUND: Like the sound of wandering the streets of a Dali painting, belly full of red wine,
tapping out a love note on a tin cup.

BUY AT INSOUND: Focused and flossy, Kan-yeezy finally tightens up his mic skills while claiming the “I
gotta lotta cheese award” at the same time.

BUY AT INSOUND: Add equal parts kaleidoscope, lysergic acid, sampler trickery, pop sensibility and group
harmony to blender and puree.

BUY AT INSOUND: The sound of levitating off the dancefloor is more like it.

BUY AT INSOUND: The kings of "less is more" deliver yet another infectiously rocktabulous pop gem.

BUY AT INSOUND: Once again, Ghost keeps the streets close to his vest and stacks metaphors like he
stacks that cheddar.

BUY AT INSOUND: White Williams “plays” the sampler and tweaks the knobs like the amped-up
bastard offspring of Eno, Bowie and Can.

BUY AT INSOUND: Mission “Move Butts and Enlighten Minds” complete.

BUY AT INSOUND: Thom and the boys leave the political overtones behind with a laid back and personal
set of tunes that still manage to scrape the stratosphere.

BUY AT INSOUND: A true sleeper, and 2007s only pure “rock” record, each listen reveals
more of “The Boxer's” luxurious darkness.

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