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University of Georgia Music Sampler
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We've put together a sampler of our favorites to get you started. DOWNLOAD THE ZIP FILE with all 30 songs included, stick them on your iPod, spin them at your next party - whatever you see fit. You can play or download individual tracks on the right, and check some of our features below.
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Vampire Weekend
Click here to listen & download "Oxford Comma"
Like Wes Anderson, these guys suffer at times from getting carried away with themselves. But they are also, like Anderson, capable of creating art that feels archetypal and classic without just going on a nostalgia trip. In their case, this means snaring and bottling up the essence of catchiness, almost in pure form. Everything is smooth and clean-edged. There's a beautifully glib road-trip guitar, little bits of flute and other chamber music twiddlings, including that clavichord. Seriously, listen to the first 30 seconds of "M79" and tell me this isn't the Royal Tenenbaums, I dare you. The album has that lovely transcendent quality of being music you'll like even if you don't know anything about music - your mother would probably like it as much as you do.
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Del the Funky Homosapien
Click here to listen & download "Bubblepop"
Del's delivery kind of reminds me of the logic behind retro fashion sense: it's goofy and familiar, but it works damn well in the context of the present. In a field of rappers jostling to be louder, denser, faster, crasser, it's the looseness and sense of leisure in Bubblepop that hooks me. Del's got it right - if you can't have a little fun with your craft, you ain't all that.
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Beach House
Click here to listen & download "Gila"
"Gila" carries with it the opaque significance of a recurring dream: night after night, you're swimming aimlessly through a crystal body of water, searching for something you'll never quite be able to put your finger on. Between Victoria Legrand's estranged vocals and a warbling organ, this track buckles at the knees with pristine weakness.
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Raveonettes
Click here to listen & download "Aly Walk With Me"
Dirty and sultry. The surges of distortion reverberate so densely, it sounds like this one was recorded inside a metallic trash can.
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The Shins
Click here to listen & download "Phantom Limb"
The Shins' frontman, James Mercer, has the rare if not unique capacity to be deeply sincere while singing lyrics that you can't really understand. Maybe it's because his melodies are so exquisite, and interesting--in a way they are more like classical motifs than pop melodies: artfully crafted lines that link together, and recur through the piece.
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Cassius
Click here to listen & download "Rock Number One"
This is the best offering to date from the French artist Cassius. Rather than walking a line between dance and rock, 15 Again creates dialectics out of these extremes (both band members are into hard rock, funk, and beats). This synthesis exists on the album level, with Pharrell Williams onboard for portions of the effort, songs like "Rock Number One" play with rock sensibilities, while tracks like "Jackrock" or "Cactus" reside in the driving post-techno arena. This schizophrenia also pleasantly pervades within many of the tracks. Beats, soul, rock, experimental electronic all toss into the cyber-funk house rock salad.
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CocoRosie
Click here to listen & download "Rainbowarriors"
Definitely one of the more trippy spins of the year, Cocorosie seems to have hit their groove with The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn. Our friends at Touch and Go were raving about this one long before its release. No one here was disappointed. Parts are dreamy and parts are savage, but, as with an opera where death represents a secret heaven, the whole record feels like a black diamond in the snow.
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Robbers On High Street
Click here to listen & download "Crown Victoria"
Like a dorky Don Juan, frontman Ben Trokan's got more than enough charm to turn nervous, skeptical listeners into dancing bobblehead dolls.
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