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"Exit Twilight" is the hypnotic final track from Portland "bedroom wanderer" Ilyas Ahmed's new album, featuring haunting vocals from the inimitable Liz Harris: mp3: *********** related awesome photo, via Reverend Green's tour blog: *********** elsewhere: Stream Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca in its entirety at NPR...

More noisy/abrasive, sinister lo-fi pop jams from Toronto's Little Girls, in the form of an upcoming release on their hometown label, Paper Bag Records. "Tambourine" is the raucous "bedroom goth" title track from the new EP (pictured above),  due out June 2 on Paper Bag: mp3: previously: mp3: *********** elsewhere: grouper | way their crept Grouper's Way Their Crept was apparen

Taken from a forthcoming, extremely limited split 7" to commemorate her New Zealand tour with Pumice, Grouper's mournful "Rising Height" is absolutely flooring me right now. A little more formless/droning than Liz Harris' relatively structured Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill material, but just as devastating...

...but not in TX. Weak. All Animal Collective + Grouper dates here. Anyone got extras for that Big Sur show? UPDATE: Looks like the second half of the tour (including both TX dates) gets Black Dice. mp3: ******************

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I love Grouper's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill LP quite a little bit, and her new song "False Horizon" -- which appears on an upcoming split 7" with her friend City Center -- was apparently recorded at the same time as Dragging, which would explain why it's so perfect...

Here are my favorite albums of 2008. Leave your favorites in the comments if you'd like, we'd love to see them. Make sure to check David's list at the bottom of the post. Thanks for reading the blog this year, guys. *************************** 20. Diplo & Santogold | Top Ranking There were a handful of arguably groundbreaking mixtapes this year (Wale, PRGz, Kid Cudi, the Very Best, etc.) that