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This record is one of the best of the year 2000.

Features some of the best of O’Connor’s lyrics in a long time.

The album represents a return to greatness for DJ Cam.

Confirms the fact that we are hearing one of the most exquisite groups of the ’90s, and of the next decade.

The thing that keeps this from being just another Britpop rip-off is the amount of strangeness The People incorporates into their songs.

I challenge you to listen to Songs of Latitude and Longitude and not get a little nostalgic.

Ultra-jangly pop songs that sound as fragile as glass sculptures and are just as pretty.

Ultimately, though, the question should be whether or not a compilation like this makes me want to seek out the original.

Imagine Belle and Sebastian all grown up, writing music for public television specials and working as music professors.

Fake Brain’s Department of Our Ways is nothing less than refreshing.

Kistchy yet intense is the correct description of this catchy album.

Monkey Hearts is better produced than Pony Express’s previous work.

If you’ve heard all of the hype about this group, and are wondering where to start, this isn’t the place.

Empress makes sparse music that’s both unsettling and beautiful.

Did I mention Farquar Muckenfuss is a psychotic surf band from the depths of some hidden, secret laboratory?

My less-informed-than-some view is that Yo La Tengo are steadily getting more subtle, more heady, and better with age.

If this band doesn’t effect you, check your pulse because you’re probably dead.

The age of electric boogaloo and breakdancing is here once again.