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Every few weeks, Amazon.com lets us select one recent release from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Onetime BTW the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart made a big splash this year with their self-titled full-length debut, an easy-to-like collection of jangly, fuzzy late '80s/early '90s-style indie pop. As we've mentioned, from the album art down to the melodies and layers of pretty noise, it's clear they like the Pastels, [...]

Every few weeks, Amazon.com lets us select one recent release from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. People kept asking us what happened to our Amazon Friendly Deals. Finally they're back by popular demand, starting with one of last year's best , perhaps below-too-many-radars albums, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill . It's the third collection by Grouper, aka Potland-based conjurer Liz Harris. Dragging 's her first to [...]

Every week, Amazon.com lets us select one recent release from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. While they landed album of the year at Decibel and were more often relegated to the lower ends of lists in indie publications (Pitchfork gave them an Honorable Mention ), Torche's second full length Meanderthal was one of the best albums of 2008 in any [...]

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We like just about everything Gang Gang Dance has done, though before this year, 2005's God's Money made us rave the most. The EP teasers that came in its wake were exciting, but they did ultimately feel like teasers, and not a jump to something else equally transcendent. Enter their excellent new album Saint Dymphna . It's not as sprawling as some of GGD's earlier work (which often reminded of some giant rhythmic centipede or a kind of real-time collage), Lizzi Bougatsos's vocal parts are often more obviously catchy or contained and less free-range, and there's more [...]

Every week, Amazon.com lets us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). At Amazon's request, going forward we're going to feature recent releases instead of old albums you probably already own. Hopefully you'll be able to add these newer must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: Department Of Eagles' In Ear Park. It's easy to paint Department Of Eagles' In Ear Park as an alternate-lineup Grizzly Bear album: the record takes production cues from GB bassist Chris Taylor, who [...]

Every week, Amazon.com lets us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). At Amazon's request, going forward we're going to feature recent releases instead of old albums you probably already own. Hopefully you'll be able to add these newer must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: Beach House's Devotion. Devotion is the perfect name for Beach House's sophomore album: The collection has a reverence and dreamy flow that never drifts too much its volume or tone, maintaining a constant [...]

Every week, Amazon.com lets us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). At Amazon's request, going forward we're going to feature recent releases instead of old albums you probably already own. Hopefully you'll be able to add these newer must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: Beach House's Devotion. Devotion is the perfect name for Beach House's sophomore album: The collection has a reverence and dreamy flow that never drifts too much its volume or tone, maintaining a constant [...]

Every week, Amazon.com lets us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). At Amazon's request, going forward we're going to feature recent releases instead of old albums you probably already own. Hopefully you'll be able to add these newer must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: Beach House's Devotion. Devotion is the perfect name for Beach House's sophomore album: The collection has a reverence and dreamy flow that never drifts too much its volume or tone, maintaining a constant [...]

Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: Boards Of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children. Scottish brothers Michael and Marcus Sandison have been releasing cut-and-paste collages since the late '80s, but 1998's Music Has The Right to Children (Warp) was their first proper studio LP. Ten years later, it remains one of the greatest IDM efforts of the modern [...]

Here's the next installment in a series that brings you classic indie rock albums at hugely discounted prices. Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam . Animal Collective's eighth (seven studio, one live) album Strawberry Jam is the most recent title in our series of Amazon selections. That said, a lot has happened -- [...]

Today we present the next installment in a series that brings you classic indie rock albums at hugely discounted prices. Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: The Shins' Oh, Inverted World . When the Shins debuted with Oh, Inverted World in 2001, the first thing that seemed to draw a number of folks to the Albuquerque-born band [...]

Today we present the second installment in a series that brings you classic indie rock albums at hugely discounted prices. Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. Today's deal: The Wrens' The Meadowlands . To know The Meadowlands is to know its associated lore. The Wrens' previous release, the excellent Secaucus LP, was one of 1996's most lauded [...]

Today we announce a partnership that brings you classic indie rock albums at hugely discounted prices. Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. First deal up: Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand . Released in 1994 by Scat, an independent label then located in Cleveland, Bee Thousand was Guided By Voices' seventh album. The Dayton group, a ragtag lineup of [...]