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It's only the first of March and I can already tell that 2009 is going to be an amazing year in music. Let's do a quick list. Top releases by artist this year so far: Animal Collective, Beirut, Camera Obscura, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pree, and Venice Is Sinking ( MySpace ). And I know I'm missing quite a bit here already. The last on the list is slated to give us their sophomore release, AZAR , ( reviewed by Fense here ) on March 31. [...]

Written by Fense The animation in the video for "Molten Light" by Chad VanGaalen reminds me a lot of the animation signature of the late 80s and early 90s. You know the kind - gross for the sake of being gross; a sort of, well, faux art. There were plenty of bands from that era that slapped the crap on their album covers - Ugly Kid Joe and Big Black are a few that come to mind. But here, there's a key "fortunate" element, and that is its association with the [...]

• Chad VanGaalen - City of Electric Light
• Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree