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| The Arcade Fire | Funeral | 2004 |
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| Band of Horses | Everything All the Time | 2006 |
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| Neko Case |
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood | 2006 |
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| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 2005 |
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| The Decemberists | Picaresque | 2005 |
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| Joanna Newsom | Ys | 2006 |
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| Sonic Youth | Sonic Nurse | 2004 |
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| Spoon |
Gimme Fiction | 2005 |
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| Sufjan Stevens | Illinois | 2005 |
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| TV on the Radio | Return to Cookie Mountain | 2006 |
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