Yes, this one’s a couple months late.  But it might be my favorite of the first three, too.  Maybe because I’ve sat on it for longer.  Regardless, here’s yr rock (with incessant references to John Lennon to boot).  Then, it’s time to move on–so much amazing music has been released over the past six months!  [...]

I’ll stand in a white belt on Bloc Party’s coffee table and predict Field Music, solely on the strength of last year’s debut album, to emerge as the best of the second wave of dancey post-punk. Their self-titled debut instantly ingratiated itself to me on the strength of songs that weren’t overly concerned with teaching [...]

Here are the last two:

marathonpacks year-end mix, vol. 3 (128k mp3, 68.4MB) (expired)
1. Black & White Town–Doves
2. A Little Bit More–Jamie Lidell
3. Gone (f. Cam’ron & Consequence)–Kanye West
4. Trouble With Dreams–Eels
5. All We Are–Fischerspooner
6. Gideon–My Morning Jacket
7. Like A Honeycomb–British Sea Power
8. There Goes the Sun–The Pernice Brothers
9. I Was A Teenage Rainphase–Stereolab
10. So Begins [...]

The same Northeastern area of England that gave the world The Futureheads and Maximo Park now gives us Field Music, whose eponymous debut album is, amazingly, better than either of the previously mentioned two (both of which have devoted former or current members to the band). Comparisons abound elsewhere to, believe it or not, the [...]