GRIMEY'S STAFF PICKS - Best of 2010! (So Far!)
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Mike "Grimey" Grimes (co-owner):
  (Here are 5)
1. The Soft Pack
2. Various Artists Absolute Belter 'Spanish Psych/Pop' Comp
3. Lissie Why You Runnin
4. Superions (Fred Schneider side project)
5. Charlotte Gainsbourg Irm

D~Funk

Anna "Indie Pop Princess" Lundy (store manager/head buyer):

Absolute Belter (various)
Black Tambourine - Black Tambourine
Casual Victim Pile (various)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Golden Triangle - Golden Triangle
Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday
Let's Wrestle - In the Court of the Wrestling Let's
The Method Actors - This Is Still It
Moon Duo - Moon Duo
Pomegranates (various)
The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack

Dylan

Dylan Simon (psychedelic pilgrim):

*that which has moved me to deep enjoyment in the last 6 months....*

1. Eddy Detroit - Immortal Gods RI (assophon records) originally
released in 1982. an exotic head melt with help from sun city girls
alumni

2. People Ceremony Buddha Meet Rock RI (phoenix records) buddhist
sutras with wailing guitar leads. David Axelrod composed intro... need
i say more?

3. Heldon - Electronique Guerrilla RI (wah-wah records) Richard Pinhas
was a french contemporary of fripp/eno using VC3 and tape loops.

4. Goblin - Suspiria RI (AMS records) a legendary soundtrack to the
legendary 1976 dario argento film. beautiful, artistic, funky and
terrifying.

5. Paternoster - s/t RI (ohrwaschl) excellent austrian album with a
very psyched out downer vibe and repetitive krautrock moves.

6. Psych Funk 101 compilation (World Psych. Funk Classics records)
everything on this collection needs to be heard. it's full of out of
this world lysergic funk up gems from all over this planet!

7. Jp Massiera's Horrific Child - L'étrange Monsieur Whinster RI
(finders keepers records) amazing bleak horror soundscape... full of
terror and pink floyd style jams.

8. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon RI (on primitive reaction records)
great black metal of the un-surprisingly evil persuasion, more doomy
than most BM bands, with much praise to the dark lord.

9. Bleak House - Suspended Animation (buried by time and dust records)
compilation of NWOBHM singles and unreleased tracks

10. Pagan Altar - judgment of the dead (buried by time and dust) for
those who worship black sabbath but thirst for more. this is the
legendary NWOBHM record from 1982. unsurpassed, heavy, dark and evil!

Will

Lil' Will Orman (seasonal mainstay):

Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Beach House - Teen Dream
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Four Tet - There Is Love in You
Bonobo - Black Sands
Spoon - Transference
Toro y Moi - Causers of This
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise

Jacob

Jacob Eckert:
In no order:
Fucked Up- Couple Tracks
Surfer Blood- Astro Coast
Black Tambourine- Black Tambourine
Pavement- Quarantine the Past
Eddy Detroit- Immortal God's (1982 Reissue)
Liars- Sisterworld
Mount Eerie- Black Wooden EP
Gorillaz- Plastic Beach
Titus Andronicus- The Monitor

Aaron

Aaron Briggs:

My hasty list...
    1.    The Morning Benders - Big Echo
    2.    Spoon - Transference
    3.    Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
    4.    Beach House - Teen Dream
    5.    Miles Kurosky - Desert of the Shallow Effects
    6.    Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
    7.    Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
    8.    Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
    9.    Four Tet - There Is Love in You
    10.    Vampire Weekend - Contra