The Billionaires - Really Real For Forever (2008)

01. The End of Summer Song
02. High School High
03. I Love You Mother Nature
04. Eighties Movies
05. Pass the Bottle
06. NY Cab
07. Butterflies
08. Cold Day
09. Trophy Home
10. Confidence

Cool songs about cool stuff like summer, nature and drinking booze. Girl/dudes singing. Great happy springtime music. Despite my inability to describe how good music is, this is a really good album that I highly recommend.

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1997 - A Better View of the Rising Moon (2007)

02. Garden of Evil
03. Hey Darlin'
04. In Your Car
05. Patience, Prudence
06. Grace
07. The Roads You Can Take
08. Lovelikepoetry
09. Tennessee Song
10. Enough Is Enough
11. Droppin' Dimes
12. Curse Or Cure

It's back and forth between a dude and girl singer. They're really cute and it's great indie pop. Check it out seriously. They write really high quality, memorable and catchy songs. There's none of that boring bullshit so many bands put out, you know like when you listen through a whole album and don't remember anything and never want to hear it again. 1997 is the opposite of that.

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sorry i forgot to post the link, thanks alex.

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)

01. Mansard Roof
02. Oxford Comma
03. A Punk
04. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
05. M79
06. Campus
07. Bryn
08. One (Blake's Got A New Face)
09. I Stand Corrected
10. Walcott
11. The Kids Don't Stand A Chance

These guys are getting a lot of attention right now. They might be the new big thing or whatever, I saw them on MTV a few days after this album leaked. They're like a cooler and newer Paul Simon. Here's what the first few songs sound like:

"The first track is the lead single, Mansard Roof. A track as studious as it sounds, with tight changes, nice lyrics, and crisp melodies, a perfect pop moment that would make fans of Belle and Sebastian squeal into their book bags. The band then up the ante with Oxford Comma, again, just as collegiate friendly, but with a little more bite to it. In it they even manage to drop a well-pronounced F-bomb and make it sound like the Queen's English. The overall result is my favorite track off the disc. The song A Punk (months already on itunes) continues the impressive string of songs at three now, A Punk carries a bit more Strokes flavor to it in its brevity and faster pacing, but its pace doesn't seem foreign at all. The Paul Simon-isms finally rear their head with the track Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. I immediately think of You Can Call Me Al, with that overbearing saxophone and stop-start melody. Even though that maybe be purely unfounded, I'm pretty sure others will hear what I'm talking about. Maybe it's the worldly guitar line, or it could be the vocal stop-start of the verses? After it's all said and done, it's nothing the hipsters won't be able to swallow."

anyway, highly recommended.

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YACHT - I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. (2007)

01. So Post All 'Em
02. See A Penny (Pick It Up)
03. We're Always Waiting
04. Platinum (Featuring Bobby Birdman)
05. It's All The Same Price (Featuring Eats Tapes)
06. The Magic Beat
07. Drawing In The Dark
08. It's Coming To Get You
09. If Music Could Cure All That Ails You
10. I Believe In You
11. Your Magic Is Real
12. Women Of The World

"Jona Bechtolt is a Young American Challenging High Technology, known as much for his effeminate, wildly sexual "dancing" as for creating damaging beats and weird visuals. Hot on the heels of the release of The Blow's Paper Television, which Bechtolt co-wrote and played all of the instruments on, I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. is the next step for YACHT. His twelve new catchy creations boast addictive beats and positive, memorable lyrics, including lyrics by David Shrigley, Deerhoof's designer. Jona Bechtolt has toured with and created music for The Blow, Devendra Banhart & The Hairy Fairy, Devendra Banhart & The Queens of Sheeba, Little Wings, Thanksgiving, The Microphones/Mt Eerie, Mirah, and more."

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