Easily navigating between NYC-era Lennon, Crowded House, Air Supply, Stereolab, The Beach Boys, XTC, Ben Folds, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd and maybe even Snow Patrol, Swedish indie act Dynamo Bliss starts to sound like something all its own – something very fresh and exciting. We strongly recommend a listen, or five.

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Blue Rabbit out of San Francisco comes at you like an urgent whisper, channeling early 90’s wombadelics like Lush and Cocteau Twins, the rumble and earthiness of Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits and the soft-compressed breaks of the Bristol Trip Hop in a way that feels as fresh as the 2009 calender you just thumb-tacked to your wall.

Selected from hundreds of submissions, we asked band leader Heather Anderson to fill us in. Here’s what we discovered down the rabbit hole…

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Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward

1. Be Your Own Pet – Becky
2. Cara Beth Satalino – Bizzaro
3. Destroyer – Blue flower, Blue Flame
4. Teitur – Catherine the Waitress
5. The Long Blondes – Century
6. Electric Six – Feed My Fucking Habit
7. m83 – Kim & Jessie – Album: Youth=Saturdays
8. Frightened Rabbit – Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms – Album: Midnight Organ Fight
9. Titus Andronicus – No Future Part II: The Day After No Future
10. Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance

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