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Chin Up Chin Up"Landlocked Lifeguards" (download)from This Harness Can't Ride Anything out on Suicide SqueezeLifeguarding is one of the country's most important and undervalued occupations. The national pride they inspire is only recognized by those too few who help save others in different, less inspiring ways. Firemen, police officers, ambulance drivers, and ambulance chasers tip their hats at

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The Divine Comedy"Mother Dear" (download)from Victory For The Comic Muse out on ParlophoneThe should-be lead track off every Mother's Day mix cd from here to eternity.Neil Hannon says: "If I ever get arrested by the CIA,because they take me for a foreign spy,they won't need no lie detector.All they'll have to dois make me look into my Momma's eyesand I'll tell them anything they like."Thankfully,

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The Thermals"A Pillar of Salt" (download)from The Body, The Blood, The Machine out on Sub PopI suppose if you look at it one way, salt is the pillar of our body, our blood, and our machine. It's essential and fundamental. Infants and the elderly can hardly get enough of it. And it's tasty or tasteless.A song by the Thermals in the stark middle of July, like salt, is as integral a part of summer

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Joan of Arc"Many Times I'm Mistaken" (download)from Eventually, All At Once out on Record LabelJoan of Arc love America.Oakley Hall"Lazy Susan" (download)from Gypsum Strings out on BrahOakley Hall love America.M. Ward"Magic Trick" (download)from Post-War out on MergeM. Ward loves America, and gives every child in the world a sparkler.

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Chad VanGaalen"Dead Ends" (download)from Skelliconnection out on Sub PopPull open the chestplate of my skelliconnection and you'll find my infiniheart still beating. Listen closely, and you'll hear the rhythm sync up to VanGaalen's every warble and yelp.This song gives me heart palpatations. It's totally lush and beautiful and stuff. Chad's new album is quality stuff, after all. After just a few

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Comets On Fire"Holy Teeth" (download)from Avatar out on Sub PopAvatar is cool. But most of it is not really as loud or as crazy as Blue Cathedral. It's more structured and harmonious if anything. And like I said, that's cool. But right now I'm in the mood for a trail of burning comets to breach Earth's atmosphere and tear shit up so badly the entire human race is obliterated, our only remains

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Grizzly Bear"Knife" (download)from Yellow House out on WarpStabbing the guitar strings slowly and bellowing out notions of love is nothing new. But Grizzly Bear take what they have and whirl it into something undeniably unique. Various voices ring out in tandem and call upon blows from beautiful eyes for the first three and a half minutes. The lead vocals aren't eschewed on this outing; they

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Califone"3 Legged Animals" (download)from Roots & Crowns out on Thrill JockeyThe three-legged animals in this song roam around in the background, squealing and honking in pain at their own bad luck. The band, flustered but still determined, play on. They don't want to let a couple grossly disfigured farm animals rain on their parade. Soon enough, the cries of the animals become tuneful, and an

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The Oh Sees"The Dumb Drum" (download)from The Cool Death of Island Raiders out on Narnack RecordsA dumb drum can't hold its own beat, I suppose. But any good band should be able to work around that. John Dwyer makes good bands. So, really, we have no issue here.I really miss the Coachwhips. I know, they haven't even been gone long. And Double Death just came out, and it's great and chock-full of

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