tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71419753602297627552024-03-17T02:16:07.410-07:00SF RebirthThe unofficial blog of the Bay Area rock scene.Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-46462080074506968072013-09-21T01:52:00.000-07:002013-09-21T02:23:56.224-07:00New Whether The Empty Storm, Colter Harris, Keenan King<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When I first saw the band then known as The Fixture and now known as Whether The Empty Storm perform, they ended their set with a cover of Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" that was sincere but a bit much for the small, then-high school-aged ensemble to take on. One rock opera (fight, the youth., penned by band members Evan Linsey and Brendan Hornbostel) and a few new band members later, Whether The Empty Storm is a formidable rock band capable of making Arcade Fire sound small. Their latest, two-sided single unmistakably demonstrate this. "Red Light" is a sweeping rock song that covers vast amounts of instrumental terrain and features some jaw-dropping moments (the synth-and-vocals section before the song's climax is perfect) despite being ill-suited for singer Sirkka Miller's strident voice--her vocals are the most well-defined thing in the song, and when she takes the mic, everything else seems to fade into the background. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Simon" is another story altogether. It starts out innocently enough, with Miller singing about a lost love over pizzicato strings that blur the line between Top 40 and baroque pop, before giving way to one of the most poignant, massive, and artfully constructed choruses I've heard in any song this year. The male-female vocal interplay and wall of crushing guitars bring to mind My Bloody Valentine, but rather than suggesting the ghost of a pop tune, the disparate elements combine into a bigger, catchier, and infinitely more beautiful hook than anything on the Top 20 at the time of this writing. Whether The Empty Storm is clearly a band with lofty ambitions, and these two remarkable songs make it clear that their focus and devotion pays off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The debut EP from Santa Cruz singer-songwriter Colter Harris is a scrappy affair, allegedly recorded in a laundry room, but it's also an intensely focused work. Its five short songs move in a defined arc, beginning with two scrappy bursts of pure pop in the title track and "Jimmy Dean Of The Nile" before entering a lull with the next two more mellow songs and ending with the John Darnielle-esque rager "Cool." While the mellower songs are less remarkable (despite the haunting sample that forms the backbone of "Telephones), the tunes that bookend it are elating, clever and incredibly catchy. The title track is particularly outstanding, using twee elements like recorders and melodicas and managing to simultaneously be unapologetically adorable and piss-in-the-elevator gritty. While Harris's early singles made it hard to tell if he was just fucking around or not, <i>Unblue </i>makes it clear that he isn't--but he doesn't give too many fucks either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Keenan King recently split ways from Sun Clay, which is not surprising upon listening to his debut solo single "Don't Ask Me"; while Sun Clay leader Matthew Horton trades in Deerhunter-styled indie rock, "Don't Ask Me" is the sort of hormonal pop-punk anthem most people who listen to Deerhunter-styled indie rock wouldn't be caught dead listening to. That's not to say it's bad--in fact, it's incredibly effective. The interplay between the different dynamics in the song is the key to its appeal, switching between an uneasy chord progression on the verse and a pop-savvy but intensely heavy riff on the chorus. The production (courtesy of Sarchasm's Mari Campos) emphasizes the inherent aggression of this sort of power-leaning pop--there's not a weak-sounding instrument in the mix, and everything feels huge and aggressive. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about "Don't Ask Me" is how promising it sounds coming from an artist who recently split from an extremely promising band--it's proof in one song that King is capable of running an equally, if not more, successful career than the group he left behind.</span><br />
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-58058000367890711572013-09-11T14:56:00.001-07:002013-09-11T14:56:49.704-07:00Reid Saw A Ghost: The SF Rebirth Interview by Daniel Bromfield & Robert Sesma<br />
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Cole Berggren: As a band we smoke more than we used to, even though Alex and I don’t.</span></span></div>
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</b>Everyone: *negative noises*</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alex: The continuation of <i>Mad Scary </i>is just all the stuff we wrote in between <i>Mad Scary </i>and now, which is a new area.</span></span></div>
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Reid: I definitely feel like we play <i>Mad Scary </i>a lot different than we used to. We definitely evolved as a band once Robert left.</span></span></div>
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Alex: No, not like that! We just kind of changed.<br />
Robert: Things got better.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Robert: At what point do you think you evolved as a band? Or is it a current progression?</b><br />
Cole: I think we’re always gonna... are we always gonna not like our music because we’re just gonna be getting better?<br />
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Reid: I don’t like some of our music.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: Well, I always respect that the songs that we’ve written are, like, good songs, and I’m proud of it, but at the same time since we have better stuff and we’re writing more and more of it, I’d rather play that than the old stuff that I’m attached to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: It was much more very directly <i>Zombieland.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alex: Well that was the first song we wrote together as a band.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: Do you want the writing process for “TV Song?” Because that was, like, our stupidest accomplishment. It was like, “Hey, OK, so let’s make a story song, right, because it’s what we used to do all the time.” So we were like “OK, let’s make a guy who sits in this girl’s room and has a TV for a head and she thinks he’s just a TV and he’s never gonna have a chance with her because he has a TV for a head.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: And he’s just sitting there, like, sad TV... I think he actually is a TV to some extent right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alex: And then he’s like “fuck this” and runs away to the beach and gets electrocuted. Right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: He talks about how he can’t drive a car because he has, like, robotic claws.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: And it kind of goes on like that. And the best part--I remember specifically--there was one lyric we wrote... [addressing Alex] it was me and you, and we were sitting at your house and we were like, “what rhymes with dresser?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: As a drummer or as a person?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: What I picture Reid’s semen looks like when he masturbates.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: As a person, Claude Monet. As a drummer, more like Jackson Pollock. <br />
Alex: I really enjoy pictures of pale women with red hair and tattoos.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: She’s holding the gun weird. Like, if she pulls that trigger it’s flying into her face. She has the thumb on the side so there’s no leverage, and she’s holding it by her face, like, loosely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Daniel: What about the cover of “Blister In The Sun” that appears on <i>Still Haunted?</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alex: OK, you’re out. You’re out of the band.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: I think that we need to have better communication as a band, because I feel like I was not aware that Reid hated this idea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: I’ve been saying for years that nobody listens to me. This is living proof.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: See, I don’t think it’s proof that nobody listens to Reid. I think I was trying to listen and I wasn’t communicating well enough and I am going to try and listen more and Reid is going to try and communicate more and we’re gonna rub penises just as hard. After every show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: Who used to do that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: The Strokes. The Strokes used to open mouth kiss each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: Light candles.</span></span></div>
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Alex: If you look at our merch we have like fucking eight or nine different colors of shirts and it’s because this time we tried out the different merch to see what worked and the lighters worked. So that was just one of the decisions we made... that works!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: Really well. It worked really well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alex: And the thing about lighters is you use lighters often so a lot of people see it and it’s recognizable and you always lose your lighter and end up with someone else’s lighter so it travels around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: I don’t think that’s a thing.<b> </b>Probably Blue Dream.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Daniel: Dude that’s mine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Robert: What’s the other side for?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Security dude: Spray paint.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reid: You quitting. Uh, Colestock. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: I’d say the show at my house was the greatest accomplishment because we did that alone. We didn’t have all of our, like, best friends. And we murdered it, and we got people to come and care about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: There were people I didn’t know wearing our band shirts. That was crazy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cole: Fuck Robert-jitsu.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alex: Reid Saw A Ghost is probably this one. *makes indeterminate pose* Like you get hit in the chest but you can still do some damage.</span></span></div>
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Still Haunted: Mad Scary Revisited</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b>One of last year’s more surprising Bay Area releases was <i>Mad Scary, </i>a 7-song EP from Fremont trio Reid Saw A Ghost that showcased their bizarre yet bracingly tight take on power pop and brought them the attention of promoters west of the Bay Bridge. The three rerecorded versions of<i> </i>songs from that album that appear on their promotional EP <i>Still Haunted: Mad Scary Revisited </i>are stripped of much of the instrumental insanity of their earlier incarnations, casting the tunes as the solid pop songs they are. “Fifties Girl” and “Esther Moser” are less raucous, with only the latter suffering as a result; closing ballad “Girl From Across The Sea” is vastly improved, featuring swirling shoegaze effects that make it sound less like a hormonal teen-love ballad and more like a lost Deerhunter cut. The rest of the album brings the band’s affinity for the sound and dorky aesthetic of ‘80s college-rock (driven home with a competent cover of “Blister In The Sun”) to the forefront. “TV Song” finds singer Alex Lefkort dropping <i>Star Wars </i>references over lovesick dream-pop guitars; “500 Days Of Summer” is bleak, ennui-laced pop punk. Best of all is “Barbaroux,” an almost girl-groupy love song with a great guitar solo and a surprisingly touching sing-along coda.</span></span></div>
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Full Of Mistakes<br />
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-69434885793451573182013-08-14T22:58:00.001-07:002013-08-14T22:58:35.031-07:00Outside Lands, Day 2<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Due to various complications involving several friends and two guys calling themselves “The Party People,” I didn’t get to Outside Lands until around 4:30. The first full act I caught was Jurassic 5, a group I previously only knew from festivals--they seem perennially on the second row of festival lineups, but I’d never heard a single recorded song from them. Upon seeing them, this made a whole lot of sense. The songs the L.A. hip-hop crew (the only rap act at the festival) played wouldn’t be brilliant on record, but they’re probably the best live hip-hop act I’ve seen since Odd Future in 2011. The DJs contributed to most of the spectacle aspect of the performance, busting out turntable guitars and scratching an enormous, human-sized record during an epic competition that never had a clear winner. However, the group’s four rappers made up for their relatively limited verses with limitless, crowd-pumping energy and seamless transitions from one MC to another. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The next act up I saw was the fantastic Brooklyn indie-rock band Grizzly Bear. I sat down for their set, which may or may not have been a good idea--half of their material was well-suited for ambient hillside listening, while the rest demanded frenetic dancing and crowd involvement. Either way, I was slightly disappointed by their set, probably chiefly due to my disappointment with their recent album <i>Shields. </i>The material from <i>Shields </i>was, for the most part, unmemorable--I barely remember which songs from the album they played. The highlights came invariably from their early material, especially the songs from their excellent 2009 release <i>Veckatimest </i>and in particular their ubiquitous hit “Two Weeks.” Watching Grizzly Bear play “Two Weeks” was similar to watching Paul McCartney play “We Can Work It Out” (a likely inspiration)--its pop tightness was kept intact, but the energy and emotion with which it was played transformed it into an all-out <i>jam. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The act that caught me most by surprise that day was Griz, a 21-year-old Detroit producer who laid down one of the best DJ sets I’ve ever seen. There were really three elements of his set--classic songs (Otis Redding’s “Shake”), trappy hip-hop, and, most effectively, lurching moombahton beats that largely built off the template of Skrillex’s “Reptile” but replaced that artist’s maximalist sound barrage with clicks, cuts, and masterful use of empty space. Though I don’t know how his music would translate to record, Griz was rivaled only by the legendary Chic as the funkiest act at the festival.</span></span></div>
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-64878422223868421922013-08-10T01:22:00.002-07:002013-08-10T01:22:47.062-07:00Outside Lands, Day 1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apologies for lack of photos, my camera died almost immediately after arrival.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first full set I saw was by Seattle’s Band of Horses, best known for their anthemic “The Funeral”--the only song they played I knew. Though they were a solid band, they were the sort of group I felt I should have researched prior to seeing and were not quite interesting enough to capture my attention as a casual festival-browser coming in blind. However, I am strongly interested in delving into their music in case I ever see them again at another festival (not unlikely given their hippie appeal and consistent pace of releases).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The National’s set was a strange experience, to say the least. Like Regina Spektor last year, the National’s music was entirely incongruous with what is generally expected of a festival act--but worked extremely well. In stark contrast to the jammy, fun-loving Band of Horses, the National played melancholy music that hung over the crowd like a dense fog. Stately singer Matt Berninger encapsulated the group’s aesthetic, wandering aimlessly across the stage and sipping from a bottle of white wine while not crouched over the microphone. There can only be so much gloom at a vibey summer festival, and the National’s set dragged on long enough that they just became depressing after a while. But at their early-to mid-set best, they were truly excellent, balancing atmosphere with crowd-moving rock rhythms. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I came in on the second-to-last song of Surfer Blood’s set; they played “Swim,” a great pop song, and another one I couldn’t identify. They didn’t sound particularly tight and John Paul Pitts was very noticeably off-key, but their amateurishness complimented their music. I saw snippets of the Men’s set but couldn’t identify any of the songs despite having heard their first two records; their music didn’t catch my ear enough for me to have any interest in lingering. </span></span></div>
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-3161258460919679992013-07-29T02:41:00.000-07:002013-07-29T02:49:46.642-07:00New White Fence, Colter Harris<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Cyclops Reap </i>is the most solid album yet from a guy who isn’t really fond of albums. Tim Presley’s mission statement, the titanic two-part <i>Family Perfume,</i> was culled from 80 four-track doodles; <i>Cyclops Reap </i>was originally to be a similar compilation before Presley realized he had enough new material for a regular album. The relatively clean production and concise structure of <i>Cyclops Reap </i>might be seen as cause for alarm given some of the recent pop moves made by Presley’s contemporaries (Thee Oh Sees’ <i>Floating Coffin, </i>The Fresh & Onlys’ <i>Long Slow Dance</i>); however, easy to listen to doesn’t always mean pop, and the most remarkable thing about <i>Cyclops Reap </i>is how it finds ways to bend your mind amid such sober production. “Pink Gorilla” epitomizes this approach, pitting a Syd Barrett-esque ditty against a guitar lead that sounds like it was run through a field of broken GameBoys. A few songs on here are remarkably straightforward, most notably the gorgeous Dead pastiche “Only Man Alive,” but they work just as well as the headier shit. While such forays into “pop” territory generally indicate an artist settling into a style or acknowledging an established reputation, <i>Cyclops Reap </i>feels like a step forward for Presley, one that puts him on the edge of something far greater and far gnarlier.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Two singles into his career, Santa Cruz singer-songwriter Colter Harris is still at the point where he could plausibly use a selfie as a single cover; at this stage it’s impossible to tell if his successes are talent or coincidence. “Wasted” is 2:29 and feels significantly longer than that, but in the best way possible; it fits a lot into those minutes and is a pretty great pop song of the multi-section <i>Sgt. Pepper-</i>template variety. But he’s not exactly trying to make the shitgaze “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite”--it’s a punk song and feels as effortless as one. Only time will tell if Harris will continue making songs like this, but “Wasted” has my curiosity extremely piqued.</span></span></div>
Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-84221260612352213952013-07-15T00:13:00.001-07:002013-07-15T00:16:22.456-07:00New Sonny & The Sunsets, Field Medic<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kevin Sullivan’s always seemed more a frontman than a singer/songwriter (in the post-Dylan sense), but <i>Crushed Pennies,</i> his new EP as Field Medic, finds the focus purely on his use of the English language. The album’s first half is much weaker than the second, with Sullivan’s unwieldy use of prosody and rootsy-cutesy metaphors dragging the songs down. The second half, on the other hand, contains three of the best songs Sullivan’s ever written. “Wooden Chest” flips the woman-as-various-cute-inanimate objects metaphor to convey longing and vulnerability, while the brief “Cobweb Skirt” is an intimate hospital prayer. Most impressive of all is the second verse of “Broken Part,” which flirts with Brian Wilson-esque imagery. Though <i>Crushed Pennies </i>isn’t a strong case for Sullivan as an urgent voice capable of taking his wordsmithery beyond the band format, its best moments show that he’s lost none of the penchant for provocative, evocative imagery that made his earlier recordings with Westwood & Willow and Rin Tin Tiger so fascinating and listenable.</span></span></div>
Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-75861655053022054252013-06-20T00:33:00.002-07:002013-06-20T00:34:10.290-07:00It's been about three months...<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>San Francisco garage rock has gone global, and John Dwyer is a major reason why. He, his band Thee Oh Sees, and cronies Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin developed their reputations as rock n’ roll saviors through playing the sort of raw garage rock that makes the <i>Almost Famous</i> types scream “messiah”; now their cult has blossomed into a church. <i>Floating Coffin </i>is the first album by any of these artists that suggests any pressure to go pop, and while it’s no sell-out, it’s the first Thee Oh Sees album that sounds like it follows a formula. Opener “I Come From The Mountain” announces this from the bat by sounding like about five other Thee Oh Sees songs at once; “Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster” fares little better, following a template established solidly by their rightfully acclaimed 2012 cut “Lupine Dominus.” None of this is to say <i>Floating Coffin </i>is a bad album; several songs are easily among the band’s best, including the inviting video-game fantasy “Tunnel Time.” It’s just the band’s least promising release, one that suggests Dwyer might be running out of steam rather than harmlessly plateauing.</span></span></div>
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-64838087446237997172013-03-19T19:20:00.001-07:002013-03-20T10:11:59.679-07:00New albums from Finish Ticket and Sun Clay<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b>Finish Ticket are now a far more recognized band than they were when they released their last EP two and a half years ago; though one may expect a band as populist as these guys to go all-out Maroon 5 on our asses, their long-awaited debut <i>Tears You Apart </i>is their artiest, weirdest, and best album yet. Though it would be a stretch to call anything on it “experimental,” <i>Tears You Apart </i>finds the band taking a few satisfying sonic risks--“Pockets” features arpeggiating synths and Cure-like pizzicato string melody, while “Bring The Rain” and “Lying Through Our Teeth” use a wealth of studio effects to create an almost psychedelic atmosphere. All of it comes together on the fantastic “Killing Me,” whose bold chord changes, spooky coda and haunting harmonies make it possibly the band’s best song yet and certainly their most beautiful. However, most of these events occur during the album’s second half, and though there are only two skippable tracks on the album (“Catch You On My Way Out,” “In The Summer”), the first four songs probably won’t appeal as much to those who aren’t total suckers for the pop-rock sound.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Psych-pop prodigy Matthew Horton recorded <i>The Side Of The Room, </i>his brilliant debut as Sun Clay, largely by himself; <i>Wreck Coast Revival </i>is Sun Clay’s first album as a band, a shift that has completely redefined the project’s sound and direction. While <i>The Side Of The Room </i>was devoted to rough-hewn yet effective pop songs in the Deerhunter/Pixies school of songcraft, <i>Wreck Coast Revival </i>is meandering, introspective, and groove-focused. Horton’s decision to make Sun Clay a band does not appear to have anything to do with the sonic potential of more instruments and more instrumentalists; on the contrary, the instrumental textures here are far more uniform than on <i>The Side Of The Room. Wreck Coast Revival’s </i>lack of sonic diversity is what makes it ultimately a step down from its predecessor, whose toolbox timbres were key to its appeal. But the new musicians do their job, providing a substantial backdrop for Horton’s hand-on-chin ponderings; it’s as if Horton is a meditator and the band’s grooves are a forest or a beach or something where he can sit down and let his mind stretch out.</span></span></div>
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-50928782178481915912013-03-07T15:02:00.001-08:002013-03-07T15:07:59.632-08:00New music from False Priest and Thee Oh Sees<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-16112356604339365022013-01-01T21:06:00.000-08:002013-01-01T22:00:07.562-08:00Best Bay Area Albums Of 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It’s hard to imagine Eager Eyes’ sound filling up a stadium, but it’s just as difficult to imagine them stranded on the local circuit forever. On both their debut EP and their newest offering, the three-song sampler <i>Waterfront, </i>they’ve eschewed the arena-ready anthemization that made their buddies Finish Ticket a fixture of the Bay Area rock scene; instead, they specialize in humble and unpretentious indie pop. The tunes on <i>Waterfront </i>are largely cut from the same cloth as those on their first EP, but they’re more subdued and atmospheric; even the fast-based “Natalie” sounds more like a brisk walk than a determined leap forward. While the band’s understated sound is a major part of their appeal, they’re almost a bit <i>too </i>modest on <i>Waterfront</i>--there’s nothing on here with the same starry-eyed determination that made earlier tracks like “First Impressions” and “Alarms” so likeable. Yet it’s impossible to make any assessments about their progress or future direction on <i>Waterfront</i>--they’re just three songs waiting to be played and enjoyed. </span></span></div>
Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-45166333362567288902012-12-10T01:14:00.002-08:002012-12-10T01:14:36.790-08:00Catching Up, Pt. 1: The Teen Psych-Rock Contingent<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-48714679741734898312012-09-13T01:47:00.001-07:002012-09-13T01:55:08.502-07:00New Local Hero, Thee Oh Sees<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b>It’s been nearly a year since Thee Oh Sees released <i>Carrion Crawler/The Dream, </i>a hiatus of Vashti Bunyan proportions by the standards of a band who once released so many records that finding an entry point was near impossible. Since then, the band’s reputation has evolved from yet another stereotypically prolific San Francisco garage-rock band to one of the most formidable rock n’ roll bands in America, both live and in the studio. It’s a shame that <i>Putrifiers II, </i>the follow-up to <i>Carrion Crawler, </i>only intermittently justifies that reputation. The logic behind this album is understandable--it’s Thee Oh Sees’ most accessible album to date, bordering on straight poppy on songs like “Flood’s New Light” and “Goodbye Baby,” and will likely be the most-recommended Thee Oh Sees album if only for its relative ease on the ears. But these songs sound uncharacteristically restrained, with bandleader John Dwyer sounding bored through most of it and the band plodding away joylessly. Gone is the jam-session spontaneity that made <i>Carrion Crawler </i>such a blast, but the band counter-intuitively sounds less tight, almost as if they’re playing the music out of obligation rather than passion. However, there are enough good songs to mostly redeem this album, including the plodding title track and the warped string ballad “Wicked Park.”</span></span></div>
Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-31464686016285898292012-09-03T02:19:00.003-07:002012-10-14T02:15:11.500-07:00New Mark Nelsen, Solwave<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-47327646658785548622012-09-01T00:37:00.001-07:002012-09-01T00:37:12.082-07:00Outside Lands, Day 3<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pitchfork.com is an American music website featuring primarily album reviews, covering chiefly the musical genres of rock, hip-hop, electronic, and experimental music. Pitchfork’s reviewers rate albums on a scale of 10, with 10.0 being the highest possible rating and 0.0 being the lowest. As Pitchfork is one of the most widely read English-language websites focusing on underground and “indie” music, many formerly obscure artists have gained wider audiences as a result of high album ratings from that site, while others have faded from the popular musical consciousness due to lower ratings from the site. Due to the wide number of possible ratings (100 possible decimal scores can be given), few artists receive the same rating for two albums in a row. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In my IB Math Studies project, I will attempt to determine whether or not a decrease or increase between two Pitchfork ratings for two consecutive albums in an artist’s oeuvre corresponds to a drop or increase in the artist’s popularity. I have chosen only albums released at least a year before December 1, 2011, based on the common put-down “that’s so last year,” which indicates the general tenuousness of musical success and that an artist’s popularity may wane simply due to the passing of time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I will select 20 bands/artists that have released two consecutive albums that were reviewed on Pitchfork--eight bands/artists whose Pitchfork ratings for two consecutive albums decreased, eight bands/artists whose Pitchfork ratings for two consecutive albums increased, and four bands/artists whose Pitchfork ratings stayed the same. I will not include mixtapes (albums usually given away for free online that generally contain uncopyrighted covers/samples and thus cannot be sold for profit) or EPs (short albums, usually between 10 and 30 minutes long), as they are generally not as popular as albums. For reasons that will be discussed, I also include only those albums that are available on iTunes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I selected these albums based on a shuffle through the “Stuff Hipsters Like” playlist I created on iTunes. (There is a stereotype that the musical taste of the subculture known as “hipsters,” who tend to appreciate the underground music Pitchfork champions, is dictated solely by Pitchfork reviews.) My methodology required I exclude artists who have released only one album. However, I manually selected four artists who have received the same Pitchfork rating for two albums--Deerhunter (9.2-9.2), Ghostland Observatory (1.5-1.5), LCD Soundsystem (9.2-9.2), and MGMT (6.8-6.8).</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To determine the popularity of an album, I will rely on iTunes “likes,” the number of iTunes reviews, and the number of YouTube views for the album's most-viewed track (divided by 1,000, as the YouTube videos I used generally have view counts that dwarf the numbers of iTunes likes or reviews)--all divided by the number of days the album has been in the public consciousness (more on this below). This will give me a number I will refer to as the “popularity coefficient.” I will then compare the differences in the popularity coefficients of the two albums with the differences in the Pitchfork ratings they received. I will then use the Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient test to determine whether or not there is a correlation between the differences in popularity coefficients and the differences in Pitchfork ratings for albums.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Difference in Pitchfork rating</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Album 1 pop. coefficient</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-2.6</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.155</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.298</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">92.26%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1.532</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">75.69%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3.938</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3.050</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-32.79%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-0.6</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1.215</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.307</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-395.8%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-3.2</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.506</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.461</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-9.761%</span></b></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">M.I.A.</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-4.5</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">17.81</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">13.18</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-35.13%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No Age</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-0.4</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1.646</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.947</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-43.47%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Vampire Weekend</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-0.2</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">29.34</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">19.99</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-46.77%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Deerhunter</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.0</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1.428</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6.396</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">447.9%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 22.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 9.5px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ghostland Observatory</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 22.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.0</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 22.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.121</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 22.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.781</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 22.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">645.5%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">MGMT</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.0</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">32.13</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">11.40</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-281.8%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">LCD Soundsystem</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.0</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2.435</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4.722</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">93.92%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Beach House</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.5</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1.183</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4.198</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">354.9%</span></b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: #dcdedd; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Crystal Castles</span></b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.7</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9.962</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">19.63</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">97.05%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">F*** Buttons</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.4</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.517</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.414</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-24.88%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Charlotte Gainsbourg</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2.6</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.643</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1.516</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">235.8%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Grizzly Bear</span></b></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.3</span></b></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4.701</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">12.85</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">273.3%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Titus Andronicus</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.2</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.165</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1.229</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">744.8%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Wavves</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.3</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">0.878</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2.249</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">256.2%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Kanye West</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2.6</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">63.00</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">170.5</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">270.6%</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The table above represents the artists and albums I use in this project, the difference between the Pitchfork ratings they received for two consecutive albums, and their popularity coefficients (calculations below). The difference in popularity coefficients will be represented as a percent increase or decrease.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I determined the “popularity” coefficients shown on the preceding table using the following formula: </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I chose to use iTunes because it is one of the world’s most popular methods of purchasing and downloading music, and YouTube because it is one of the most popular sites for listening to music free of charge. Since albums’ lead singles are often posted to YouTube several weeks or even months before album releases, and since albums will sometimes disappear from iTunes and reappear (or be released after their initial release on CD or vinyl), I will use the variable <i>t </i>to represent whichever is longer: the time since posting of the most popular song on YouTube or the time since the album was released on iTunes. This accounts for albums that may fade momentarily only to be revived in popularity based on the sudden popularity of a single, such as M.I.A.’s <i>Kala, </i>whose most popular single “Paper Planes” became a massive hit after its use in the film <i>Pineapple Express, </i>which occurred several months after the release of the actual album.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I converted the differences between popularity coefficients into percent increases or percent decreases so all numbers could be evaluated equally. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To determine whether or not a correlation exists between the difference in Pitchfork ratings for two consecutive albums and the difference in those albums’ popularity coefficients, I calculated the Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient using the data shown on the table below. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The table above shows my process for finding the Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient for the two sets of data. On this table, artists are ranked in ascending order by the size of the differences between the popularity coefficients of two consecutive albums with Titus Andronicus’s 744.8% increase (from <i>The Airing Of Grievances </i>to <i>The Monitor</i>) at the top and Califone’s -395.8% decrease (from <i>Roots & Crowns </i>to <i>All My Friends Are Funeral Singers</i>) at the bottom. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>From the table above, it can be observed that the artists whose popularity coefficients decreased from one album to the next tend to have had their Pitchfork ratings decrease as well, and vice-versa. Of the eight artists whose popularity coefficients decreased, six suffered a decrease in their Pitchfork ratings, while one had the same Pitchfork rating for two consecutive albums and the other saw an increase in Pitchfork rating. Of the twelve artists observed whose popularity coefficients increased, seven of them also saw an increase in their Pitchfork ratings, three of them did not see any change in their Pitchfork ratings, and two saw a decrease. This gives credence to the existence of a correlation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There is, however, an unusual anomaly with albums that saw no change in Pitchfork rating from one album to the next. I studied four such artists: Deerhunter, Ghostland Observatory, LCD Soundsystem, and MGMT. The former three artists experienced an increase in their popularity coefficients from one album to the next, while the latter experienced a decrease. Of these artists, LCD Soundsystem experienced the smallest change in popularity: a relatively small increase of 93.92% from <i>Sound of Silver </i>to <i>This Is Happening. </i>However, Deerhunter saw an increase of 447.9%, the third-highest increase observed among these albums, and Ghostland Observatory saw an increase of 645.5%, the <i>second-</i>highest increase observed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A number of factors may have affected the validity of my results. It was extremely difficult for me to find a formula that would serve as an effective numerical proxy for an album’s popularity. While it would be ideal to use the number of copies of an album sold, or even the album’s peak<i> Billboard</i> chart position, many of the artists I examined are relatively obscure, making it difficult if not impossible to find the number of copies sold (I also doubt many of these albums cracked the charts). The formula I used was moderately effective, but it did not take into account an album’s popularity over time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Albums generally tend to sell the most copies in their first month or so, and as my formula measured an album’s popularity from the time it was released to the time the data was collected, trends over time were not taken into account (e.g., MGMT, whose album <i>Congratulations </i>topped the charts upon its release but saw a subsequent plummet in popularity due to severe fan and critical backlash). This is exacerbated by the step in my formula in which everything is divided by the number of days since an album’s release: if an artist were to hypothetically release two albums a year apart that both sold a consistent number of copies every day since their release dates, the division by number of days since the album’s release would result in the data indicating that the first album is considerably less popular. (This may explain why most of the artists who saw no change in Pitchfork rating for two consecutive albums had much higher popularity coefficients for their second albums than their first albums.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My study was also limited by my use of iTunes. While iTunes is very popular, many people purchase albums from record stores, and these purchases were not taken into account in my study. Many more people, however, do not even buy albums but rather download them for free from the Internet. The number of people who download albums from the Internet is impossible to count, as many free download sites exist and few of them keep a record of the number of downloads.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Kala </i>8.9</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>MAYA </i>4.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Antony & the Johnsons</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Crying Light </i>8.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Swanlights </i>7.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Vampire Weekend</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Vampire Weekend </i>8.8</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Contra </i>8.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Califone</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Roots & Crowns </i>8.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>All My Friends Are Funeral Singers </i>8.1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Deerhunter</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Microcastle </i>9.2</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Halcyon Digest </i>9.2</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">LCD Soundsystem</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Sound Of Sliver </i>9.2</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This Is Happening 9.2</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">MGMT</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Oracular Spectacular </i>6.8</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Congratulations </i>6.8</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ghostland Observatory</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Robotique Majestique </i>1.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Codename: Rondo </i>1.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Charlotte Gainsbourg</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5:55 5.8</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">IRM 8.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Grizzly Bear</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Yellow House </i>8.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Veckatimest </i>9.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Wavves</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Wavves </i>8.1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>King Of The Beach </i>8.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">F*** Buttons</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Street Horrsing </i>8.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Tarot Sport </i>9.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Kanye West</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>808s & Heartbreak </i>7.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy </i>10.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Beach House</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Devotion </i>8.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Teen Dream </i>9.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Crystal Castles</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Crystal Castles </i>7.8</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Crystal Castles 2 </i>8.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Titus Andronicus</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Airing Of Grievances </i>8.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Monitor </i>8.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Released</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">AIR</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Pocket Symphony </i>6.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Once Upon A Time”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">242,020</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3/5/07</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No Age</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Nouns </i>9.2</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Eraser”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">191,089</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10/29/09</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">jj</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>jj n. 2 </i>8.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Things Will Never Be The Same Again”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">325,749</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">7/11/09</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Blonde Redhead</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>23 </i>7.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“23”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,384,708</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4/7/07</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">M.I.A.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Kala </i>8.9</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Paper Planes”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">19,918,671</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6/16/09</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Antony & the Johnsons</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Crying Light </i>8.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Another World”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">364,327</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10/6/08</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Vampire Weekend</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Vampire Weekend </i>8.8</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“A Punk”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">19,516,752</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1/7/08</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Califone</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Roots & Crowns </i>8.7</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“The Eye You Lost In The Crusades”</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">31,070</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9/25/07</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Deerhunter</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Microcastle </i>9.2</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Agoraphobia”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">677,481</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9/18/08</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">LCD Soundsystem</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Sound Of Sliver </i>9.2</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“All My Friends”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,971,995</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5/2/07</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">MGMT</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Oracular Spectacular </i>6.8</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Kids”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">41,638,285</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10/2/07</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ghostland Observatory</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Robotique Majestique </i>1.5</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“The Band Marches On”</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">92,302</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">12/24/08</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Charlotte Gainsbourg</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5:55 5.8</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“5.55”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">550,318</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4/24/07</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Grizzly Bear</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Yellow House </i>8.7</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Knife”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2,410,077</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2/8/07</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Wavves</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Wavves </i>8.1</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“No Hope Kids”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">542,583</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6/29/09</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">F*** Buttons</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Street Horrsing </i>8.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Bright Tomorrow”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">268,037</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">12/13/07</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Kanye West</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>808s & Heartbreak </i>7.6</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Heartless”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">60,070,156</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6/16/09</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Beach House</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Devotion </i>8.5</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Heart of Chambers”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,184,799</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2/26/08</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Crystal Castles</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Crystal Castles </i>7.8</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Crimewave”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8,587,035</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3/18/08</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Titus Andronicus</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Airing Of Grievances </i>8.5</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Arms Against Atrophy”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">80,471</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2/7/2007</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">View count and release date for most viewed YouTube video for Album 2 for each artist:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Artist</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Album 1</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Most Popular Song (by YT views as of 12/1/11)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Views</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Released</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">AIR</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Love 2 </i>4.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Love”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">212,332</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10/5/09</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No Age</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Everything In Between </i>8.8</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Fever Dreaming”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">150,993</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1/26/11</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">jj</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>jj n. 3 </i>5.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“My Life”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">281,527</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2/10/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Blonde Redhead</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Penny Sparkle </i>4.0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Here Sometimes (4AD Session)”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,202,589</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8/24/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">M.I.A.</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>MAYA </i>4.4</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“XXXO”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5,507,949</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8/11/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Antony & the Johnsons</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Swanlights </i>7.7</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Thank You For Your Love”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">586,862</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8/20/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Vampire Weekend</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Contra </i>8.6</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Cousins”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8,655,477</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10/19/09</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Califone</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>All My Friends Are Funeral Singers </i>8.1</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Funeral Singers”</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">58,592</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10/5/2009</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Deerhunter</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Halcyon Digest </i>9.2</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Helicopter”</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">892,710</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9/3/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">LCD Soundsystem</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This Is Happening 9.2</span></i></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Drunk Girls”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,905,370</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4/16/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">MGMT</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Congratulations </i>6.8</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Flash Delirium”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3,050,900</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3/26/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ghostland Observatory</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Codename: Rondo </i>1.5</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Give Me The Beat”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">116,093</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10/7/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Charlotte Gainsbourg</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">IRM 8.4</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Heaven Can Wait”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">667,601</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">12/07/09</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Grizzly Bear</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 9.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Veckatimest </i>9.0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Two Weeks”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5,446,100</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5/23/09</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Wavves</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>King Of The Beach </i>8.4</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 9.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“King Of The Beach”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">554,635</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6/29/10</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">F*** Buttons</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Tarot Sport </i>9.0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“The Lisbon Maru”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">147,259</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9/21/09</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Kanye West</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy </i>10.0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“All Of The Lights”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">58,765,002</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 36.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2/18/11</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Beach House</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Teen Dream </i>9.0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Zebra”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,125,156</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 17.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">11/25/09</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Crystal Castles</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Crystal Castles 2 </i>8.5</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Not In Love”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">6,152,950</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4/23/2010</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Titus Andronicus</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Monitor </i>8.7</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“A More Perfect Union”</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">457,147</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 24.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px; width: 81.4px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3/29/10</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Calculation of popularity coefficients:<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ALBUMS</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Air: <i>Pocket Symphony</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(25 + 1 + 242.0)/ 1732= <b>0.155</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Air: <i>Love 2</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(21 + 1 + 212.3) / 787= <b>0.298</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">No Age: <i>Nouns</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(1032 + 33 + 191.1)/ 1304= <b>1.646</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">No Age: <i>Everything In Between</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(250 + 6 + 151.0)/ 430= <b>0.947</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">jj: <i>jj n. 2</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(111 + 5 + 325.7)/ 873= <b>0.506</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">jj: <i>jj n. 3</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(188 + 14 + 281.5)/ 659= <b>0.461</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Blonde Redhead: <i>23</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(5204 + 103 + 1384)/ 1699 = <b>3.938</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Blonde Redhead: <i>Penny Sparkle</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(251 + 23 + 1202)/ 484 = <b>3.050</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">M.I.A.: <i>Kala</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(6402 + 1511 + 19919)/ 1563= <b>17.81</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">M.I.A.: MAYA</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(397 + 384 + 5508)/ 477= <b>13.18</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Antony & the Johnsons: <i>The Crying Light</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(602 + 37 + 364.3)/ 1151 = <b>0.872</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Antony & the Johnsons: <i>Swanlights</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(125 + 5 + 586.9)/ 468= <b>1.532</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Vampire Weekend - <i>Vampire Weekend</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(21271 + 994 + 19516)/ 1424= <b>29.34</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(6171 + 626 + 8655)/ 773= <b>19.99</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Califone - <i>Roots & Crowns</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(1809 + 17 + 31.07)/ 1528 = <b>1.215</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Califone - <i>All My Friends Are Funeral Singers</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(176 + 7 + 58.59)/ 787= <b>0.307</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Deerhunter: <i>Microcastle</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(944 + 48 + 677.5)/1169= <b>1.428</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Deerhunter: <i>Halcyon Digest</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(1968 + 48 + 892.7)/454= <b>6.396</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LCD Soundsystem: <i>Sound Of Silver</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(2219 + 9 + 1972)/1725= <b>2.435</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LCD Soundsystem: <i>This Is Happening</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(867 + 33 + 1905)/594= <b>4.722</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MGMT: <i>Oracular Spectacular</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(6386 + 841 + 41638)/ 1521= <b>32.13</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MGMT: <i>Congratulations</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(3128 + 831 + 3050)/ 615= <b>11.40</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ghostland Observatory: <i>Robotique Majestique</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(35 + 2 + 92.30)/ 1072= <b>0.121</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ghostland Observatory: <i>Codename: Rondo</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(171 + 41 + 116.1)/ 420= <b>0.781</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Charlotte Gainsbourg: <i>5:55</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(495 + 37 + 550.3)/ 1682= <b>0.643</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Charlotte Gainsbourg: <i>IRM</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(405 + 25 + 667.6)/ 724= <b>1.516</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Grizzly Bear: <i>Yellow House</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(6527 + 61 + 2410)/1914= <b>4.701</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Grizzly Bear: <i>Veckatimest</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(6210 + 189 + 5446)/922= <b>12.85</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wavves: <i>Wavvves</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(263 + 87 + 542.6)/1017= <b>0.878</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wavves: <i>King Of The Beach</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(595 + 50 + 544.6)/ 529 = <b>2.249</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Presence of Mind” has a xylophone-like-instrument on it, which completely <i>makes </i>the song--without it, this song would probably lose at least half a star. It also shows that the Fresh & Onlys haven’t lost the ability to balance sonic exploration and spartan garage-rock aesthetic, a concern I developed after hearing the disappointingly bland “Yes Or No.” But as a song, it’s honestly not that much different from “Yes Or No,” and they’re still milking the same spy-movie-lead/spacious-rhythm-guitar formula they patented on their year-and-a-half-old <i>Secret Walls </i>EP. I'm starting to miss the days when Bay Area garage-rock bands would put out a new album every five minutes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The title track of Doe Eye’s upcoming <i>Hotel Fire </i>EP sounds very much like a fire. The rhythm track is obscured by a smoky cloud of distortion, the drums crack and splinter like a building’s supports giving way, and panicked yet melancholy strings blare in the foreground like distant alarms. But Doe Eye mastermind Maryam Qudus sounds caught in the center of it all, crooning calmly as everything burns around her. The contrasts between the instruments define “Hotel Fire” and make it an eerie and interesting expansion on the stark, ethereal indie-pop sound she honed on her earlier work. However, this song is a bit more of a mess than it needs to be--the drums often sound like they’re trying to imitate a trap beat, albeit poorly, and unless a hippie started the fire with a lit joint, the ‘60s rock n’ soul rhythm guitars certainly don’t need to be there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Sushi Explosion,” the first single from Squidopus, at first feels less like an explosion than a fire spreading. The most unique and interesting quality of this song is the way it moves--rather than racing towards the horizon like the work of bassist Kris Buttafoco’s main band The Inq, “Sushi Explosion” <i>unfurls, </i>with each mini-section slowly unraveling and revealing something new while keeping to the same sonic template. Slamming math-rock drums and chatty guitars give way to spacious, psychedelic atmospherics, dragging you into its depths like a miniature version of a Microphones or Pink Floyd album. Then a fractured funk groove kicks in, gradually filling out and blurring together. And then, at the end, it explodes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Theresa “T” Sawi says her second album was inspired by the Beach Boys’ concept of the “pocket symphony.” But while the Beach Boys applied symphonic ideas to their sound as well as the structure and scope of their work, Girl Named T is an artist who seems to work best in miniature. <i> </i>The songs on <i>Wait By The Rabbit Hole </i>are two to three minutes each (only her cover of Modern English’s “I Melt With You” exceeds four minutes), and there are eight of them over twenty-five minutes. Yet at the same time, these songs are more expansive than anything on her excellent 2010 debut, <i>Hey Liebe. </i>Leadoff track and standout “I Fell In Love With The World Today” sounds almost like an Elton John or Electric Light Orchestra track, with its ‘70s pianos and chamber-vaudeville strings. That classic-rock grandness is also present on “Wrecking Ball” and the organ-flavored “Falalala Love You.” But the best tracks are the simplest and most direct, particularly the Fleetwood Mac-ish “Rabbit Hole.”</span></span></div>Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141975360229762755.post-42701179665537331642012-08-02T23:47:00.001-07:002012-08-06T11:46:55.900-07:00New Strangers, Girl Named T<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first single from Girl Named T’s upcoming sophomore album, <i>Wait By The Rabbit Hole, </i>showcases Theresa Sawi’s ability to write pop songs that are sugary but not saccharine, infectious but not bothersome. “I Fell In Love With The World Today” sounds like a ‘70s piano rocker filtered through a contemporary Top 40 song, keeping only the best of both--the celebratory, twirling-in-the-street vibe of Elton John or Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra and the radio-friendly sheen of the latter. Yet unusually for a pop tune this tight, there’s a bliss-out factor--it’s as easy to lean your head back and ride the good vibes as it is to dance to this song.</span></span></div>Daniel Bromfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12633468636435927895noreply@blogger.com0