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Pitchfork Media: Best New Music Playlist

By | The Y! Music Playlist Blog – Tue, Jul 5, 2011 4:12 PM EDT

I haven't published a Pitchfork playlist since back on May 1st, so I thought it was time to check out the web's premier music  taste-maker to see what new nuggets I could find. Although I find the writing sickeningly pretentious at times,  I will freely admit that the site has introduced me to a whole lot of great music over the years. Instead of spending hours reading pages of pseudo-intellectual album reviews, I usually just pull each of Pitchfork's the top-rated new albums into my Rhapsody library and make my own decisions about what I hear. Sometimes I think it's trash, but sometimes I find an album I fall in love with. And that's why Pitchfork is a valuable music discovery tool for me. This playlist includes 10 tracks that Pitchfork currently has labelled as "best new music" and all of them are worth a serious listen even if you pass on the Pitchfork review.

Pitchfork Media: Best New Music Playlist

1. White Rune - Iceage

2. Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) - Shabazz Palaces

3. Calgary - Bon Iver

4. The Other Shoe - F*cked Up

5. I Don't Want Love - The Antlers

6. Milkman - Ema

7. MindKilla - Gang Gang Dance

8. Bedouin Dress - Fleet Foxes

9. This Is The Life - Curren$y

10. Novacane - Frank Ocean

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