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		<title>Cougar Microbes Writers Picks: Kyle&#8217;s Top 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 &#8211; Mogwai &#8211; Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will Mogwai yet again releases an amazingly ambient yet centrally driving album filled with anticpatory progressions and songs that blend sonically disparate sections as if they were just one melodic chorus. 2 &#8211; Yeasayer &#8211; End Blood Yeasayer&#8217;s &#8217;End Blood&#8216; EP made the list thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Writers Picks: Emily’s Top 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Gotye &#8211; Making Mirrors Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 2. Adele &#8211; 21 Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 3. The Decemberists &#8211; The King is Dead Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 4. Rufus Wainwright &#8211; House of Rufus A massive 19-disc box set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: TV On The Radio &#8211; Nine Types Of Light</title>
		<link>http://www.cougarmicrobes.com/2012/01/cougar-microbes-top-albums-2011-tv-radio-types-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dave Sitek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dear Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerard Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyp Malone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tv On The Radio didn&#8217;t take too long to follow up 2009&#8242;s brilliant &#8216;Dear Science,&#8216; and as usual didn&#8217;t disappoint. This time the Brooklyn outfit set up camp on the West Coast and the sunnier climate appears to have seeped through to these tracks. With another mild change of direction the tracks on &#8217;Nine Types Of Light&#8216; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: Tyler, The Creator &#8211; Goblin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cougarmicrobes.com/?p=8273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Last year I sat through a blogger and A&#38;R roundtable organized by one of the majors in London. In between talk of &#8220;organic artist growth&#8221; and &#8220;breakout singles&#8221; The name of the Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, and more specifically Tyler, The Creator&#8216;s &#8216;Yonkers&#8216; video,  came up several times as the label people seemed genuinely baffled by the success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: Ashtar Command &#8211; American Sunshine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The musical superduo Ashtar Command, composed of Chris Holmes (Sir Paul McCartney&#8216;s go to DJ) and Brian Liesegang (Founding member of Filter) first showed up on our radar with a track on the PS3 game &#8216;Red Dead Redemption&#8216;. Their debut album &#8216;American Sunshine&#8216; was an unexpected and delightful revelation. Chief Cougar Microbes collaborator Kyle hailed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: The Decemberists &#8211; The King Is Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It feels like it was only yesterday that we started hearing about The Decemberists. It amazes me to think that the band has released six official studio albums earning a spot amongst indie rocks biggest success stories. Cougar writer Emily added them to her list describing &#8216;The King Is Dead&#8216; as &#8220;A folky album with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: M83 &#8211; Hurry Up, We&#8217;re Dreaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A double album in this day and age is perhaps a tad over ambitious but if anyone could have pulled it off it had to be monsieur Anthony Gonzalez of M83 fame. For his sixth album outing Gonzalez succeeding in making an album that would satisfy his loyal internet following as well as imprinting itself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: Jay Z &amp; Kanye West &#8211; Watch The Throne</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With &#8220;Swag&#8221; seemingly chosen as the buzz word for 2011 it was appropriate that Jay-Z and Kanye West&#8216;s long rumored collaboration had tons of it. . Having set the bar very high with last year&#8217;s &#8216;My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy&#8216; it seems anything Kanye touches turns to gold and Jay-Z also has the midas touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: Metronomy- The English Riviera</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Metronomy&#8216;s 3rd release seems distant from the discopop the band first made their name for. Frontman Joseph Mount re-imagines his home town of Totnes in Devon as a sun kissed and hip destination where people come to relax and forget about their troubles. It may be slightly removed from the truth, global warming permitting, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011: Alexander &#8211; Alexander</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Ebert&#8216;s dedication to writing music showed no signs of slowing down in 2011. Having wowed us with THAT Magnetic Zeros album and resurrected Ima Robot recently he also found time to release his solo album named simply &#8216;Alexander&#8216;. Recorded in his off time from touring this album sounds like the stripped down extension of [...]]]></description>
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