Artist: Caddywhompus

Release: Remainder

Type: Album

Year: 2010

Origin: New Orleans

Label: Community

Bitrate: 320

Tracks: 8

Style: Math Rock

Websites: Official, Myspace

Examples: Guilt, Big Fun

Review: 29-95.com

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Artist: Long Arm

Release: The Branches

Type: Album

Year: 2011

Origin: Russia

Label: Project Mooncircle

Bitrate: 320

Tracks: 12

Style: Instrumental, Jazz

Websites: Soundcloud, Facebook

Examples: Dummy, After 4AM, Perfect Morning

Review: Rhymeswithcusack

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Artist: P.S. Eliot

Release: Sadie

Type: Album

Year: 2011

Origin: Alabama

Label: Salinas

Bitrate: 256

Tracks: 13

Style: Lo-Fi, Punk

Websites: Facebook, Myspace

Examples: Sadie, Asphalt, Pink Sheets

Review: Totallycrushedout

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Artist: Brother/Ghost
Release: Black Ice
Type: E.P.
Year: 2009
Origin: Texas
Label: shelsmusic
Bitrate: ~256
Tracks: 6
Style: Post-Rock, Ambient, Lo-Fi
Websites: Official, Facebook, Myspace
Examples: Full EP on bandcamp, Waal
Review: sputnikmusic
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Artist: Boyz & Girl
Release: Boyz & Girl
Type: Album
Year: 2010
Origin: Taiwan
Label: Unsigned
Bitrate: ~256
Tracks: 11
Style: Noise Pop, Shoegaze, Psychedelic
Websites: Blogspot, Myspace
Examples: See Myspace page
Review: bitetone.com

Artist: Dangerous Poines
Release: Doctor Ponie, Medicine Ponie
Type: Album
Year: 2009
Origin: Philadelphia
Label: Punk Rock Payroll
Bitrate: ~256
Tracks: 7
Style: Twee, Indie Pop
Websites: Facebook, Myspace
Examples: Full album on bandcamp
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Artist: Borrowed Beams Of Light
Release: Borrowed Beams Of Light
Type: E.P.
Year: 2009
Origin: Virginia
Label: Unsigned
Bitrate: 160
Tracks: 6
Style: Lo-Fi, Pop
Websites: Official, Facebook, Myspace
Examples: Full E.P. on Soundcloud
Review: Press quotes from official website
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Artist: The Toothaches
Release: It's All Downhill From Here
Type: Album
Year: 2010
Origin: Brooklyn
Label: Unsigned
Bitrate: ~256
Tracks: 7
Style: Twee, Indie Pop
Websites: Official, Facebook, Myspace
Examples: Full album to stream on Bandcamp, The Lucky Ones
Review: Can't find one, trust me it's fucking ace.
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Shellife's best albums of 2010

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(points/votes)

1. (48/ 9) allo darlin - allo darlin
2. (44/ 7) sambassadeur - european
3. (43/ 9) radio dept - clinging to a scheme
4. (42/ 5) caribou - swim
5. (33/ 4) beach house - teen dream
6. (32/ 6) belle and sebastian - write about love
7. (30/ 4) maikotobranco - grey sky
8. (29/ 3) luminous orange - songs of innocence
9. (26/ 4) club 8 - peoples record
10. (26/ 3) echodrone - sun rose in a different place
11. (25/ 4) deerhunter - halcyon digest
12. (24/ 5) tears run rings - distance
13. (24/ 3) ceremony - rocket fire
14. (22/ 4) clientele - minotaur
15. (22/ 3) tallest man on earth - wild hunt
16. (22/ 3) soft city - soft city
17. (22/ 3) highspire - aquatic
18. (21/ 4) betty and werewolves - teatime favourites
19. (21/ 3) stereolab - not music
20. (21/ 3) joanna newsom - have one on me
21. (20/ 4) swans - my father will guide me up a rope to sky
22. (19/ 4) hammock - chasing after shadows living with ghosts
23. (19/ 4) a sunny day in glasgow - autumn again
24. (19/ 3) very truly yours - things you used to say
25. (19/ 3) jonsi - go
26. (19/ 2) emeralds - does it look like im here
27. (18/ 2) wild nothing - gemini
28. (18/ 2) my dead girlfriend - ixtab
29. (18/ 2) dungen - skit i allt
30. (17/ 3) school - loveless unbeliever