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9. Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What
I'm Not
(Domino)
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TV on the Radio reached new heights on their climb to the top with Return to Cookie Mountain.
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Kevin Devine's Put Your Ghost to Rest delivered memorable, heartrending tunes.
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TV on the Radio • Return to Cookie Mountain, Band of Horses • Everything All the Time, The Hold Steady • Boys and Girls in America, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's • The Dust of Retreat, The Decemberists • The Crane Wife, Gomez • How We Operate, Kevin Devine • Put Your Ghost to Rest, Brightblack Morning Light • Brightblack Morning Light, Arctic Monkeys • Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, She Wants Revenge • She Wants RevengeThis past spring, the Arctic Monkeys were on the tongues of tastemakers and (ack!) hipsters everywhere. The hype machine was stuck in overdrive, and I swore that I wouldn't fuel it. In the end, though, I finally succumbed and bought into the quartet's spunky, tangled, three-chord rock and roll swindle. I was drawn in by the messy, frenetic bedlam of "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "Dancing Shoes," and now I can't get the monkey off my back. Sucker? Guilty as charged.
10. She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge
(Geffen)
There's plenty of reasons I shouldn't dig She Wants Revenge. For starters, the act's sound is completely derivative. (Obviously so. I mean, really, a song titled "Tear You Apart"?) And the skuzzy, minimalistic electro come-ons seem just a little too calculated in a Hot Topic Goth sort of way. In spite of all that, though, there's something oddly riveting to me about a band that can deliver lines like "She's in the Bathroom/She pleasures herself," with a straight face.
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