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Arcade Fire played in intimate churches; Web site TakeAwayShows.com and the film "Once" returned music to the streets; and a certain British band eliminated a very big middle man. 1. "In Rainbows," Radiohead: The much-bally hoocd online release of "In Rainbows" in some ways obscured what an excellent album it is. The opener. " 15 Step," begins with a cold electronic beat that sounds like recently typical Radiohead or Thorn Yorke's 2006 solo album. But 41 seconds in, Johnny Greenwood enters with a beautiful, languorous guitar line. From then on, the band gradually lets the melody take over, particularly on songs like the midnight ballad "Nude" and the soulful showstopper "Reckoner," With Radiohead, you're always on guard for the crash, the shattering of brightness - but on "In Rainbows," they let the light linger. 2. "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank," Modest Mouse: There is so much to gather from this sprawling, schizophrenic album. You have former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr suddenly in the band. You have a group completely ignoring the thrust of fame that came from its 2004 hit, "Float On." And you have Modest Mouse's persistent, ever-growling excellence. On this, the band's best disc since 1997's "Lonesome Crowded West," the rollicking id that is Isaac Brock surfs through nautical themes, carbon stealing and little motels - and it all adds up lo a fascinating mess. 3. "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga," Spoon: The same people you trust & know Lizzy, Michelle, Janelle, and Rachel JSIozo cover you xvherever yon go! Michelle Huggins Insurance Specialist Sale prices good thru January 2008 BUY LIGHT BULBS FROM UNITED & SAVE MONEY! Phone: (801)680-7764 Fax : (435) 615-7010 d ni i cho I IchugginsC'hot mail.com United Electric Supply Company 753 West 1760 South #2 • Saft Lake City, Utah 84104 TEL (801) 972-5410 • FAX (801) 972-5424 UNITED ELECTRIC LIGHTING THE WEST SINCE 1919 I'M (435)615-71^ Fax (435)615-7010 Confidence to close! Fans of this Austin, Texas-based when Blake Sennett lays down band have been waiting for Britt the most ticklish guitar lick of Daniel and company to make the the year - to remember the album they always had in them. importance of the band. They Well, this is it. After several play straight man to Lewis while exceptional but imperfect discs, she flirtatiously coos songs of "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" is a tightly tawdry sex and broken relationhoned collection of ten tracks, ships. Fleetwood Mac fans, there including both their trademark is another. 8. "Back to Black," Amy sparse arrangements ("The Ghost of You Lingers") and Winehouse: If you've been disrobust, hi-fi rockers ("The tracted by Amy Winehouse*s perUnderdog"). On the melancholic petual tabloid troubles, go back "Finer Feelings," Daniel looks and listen to the last track on for love in the pages of Memphis "Back lo Black," "You Know I'm newspaper The Commercial No Good," to remember why Appeal - surely a more everyone knows she's plenty metaphorically-named paper good. than USA Today. 9. "Hissing Fauna, Are You 4. "Person ' Pitch," Panda the Destroyer?" Of Montreal: Bear: This album sounds like the You, too. might be hesitant lo future. Working alone on his embrace makeup-heavy glam computer, Noah Lennox (whose bands or album titles that stage name is Panda Bear) builds address plantlifc skeptically. loops and layers of psychedelia Kevin Barnes' Athens. Ga.around his ethereal, sun- based band used to be more of a drenched melodies. Anything giddy, melodic psychedelic you might call "fractured Beach group, but on "Hissing Fauna" Boys" isn't for everyone, but Barnes' breakup is fuel for a Lennox's nearly indescribable wild, unpredictable ride and a music - particularly the tran- search for a lover with "soul scendent "Bros" - feels like a power." The band that began as landmark achievement. (His part of the Elephant 6 collective home band. Animal Collective, has never made a better record. also released a great album in And it's funky, too - especially 2007: "Strawberry Jam.") the closer: "We Were Born the 5. "The Reminder," Feist: Mutants Again with Leafling." Ubiquitous iPod commercials Yes, that's right. Leafling. were the only thing that detract10. "Friend and Foe," ed from this gorgeous, lilting Menomena: On their third disc, album. The intimate production the Portland. Ore. indie band makes you feel like Feist is play- Menomena has created one of ing just for you; she fittingly the year's most percussive sings: "Teenage hopes are alive albums. They seem to sense that at your door." For Feist, that now is their time: the album means joy and optimism, not opens with Brent Knopf singing spray paint and flaming bags of that he's got to "pick up my husfeces. tle." Menomena verges from 6. "Sky Blue Sky," Wilco: The hand-clapping, piano sing-alongs latest from Jeff Tweedy's to songs built on electronic Chicago outfit is an unusually loops, but inventive, varied normal album - a kind of con- rhythms are always the foundaservative rebellion against the tion. Menomena might also be band's earlier experimentalism, the best baritone sax rock group most notably found on their clas- since Morphine, which is kind of sic "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." a cool club. Instead, these are wistful, Honorable Mentions: straightforward songs, enlivened "Magic," Bruce Springsteen; by Nels Cline's expert guitar "Sound of Silver," LCD work. Not every album has to Soundsystem; "Woke on a change the world. Whaleheart," Bill Cailahan: 7. "Under the Blacklight," "Wincing the Night Away," The Rilo Kiley; When Jenny Lewis Shins; "Our Love to Admire," released a solo album in 2006, Interpol; "Some Loud Thunder," many wondered if her band Rilo Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Kiley was done, no longer neces- "New Wave." Against Me!; sary for Lewis's considerable "Chrome Dreams II," Neil songwriting talents. It takes less Young; "Let's Stay Friends,'" Les than a minute of "Blacklight" - Savy Fav. Know before you yo! THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Brew some coffee. Pour a cup. 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