RE: Join my network on LinkedIn

To Whom It May Concern:

I'm not sure where you found this email address, but rest assured I am not interested in your "LinkedIn" Network. I'm just here to check the meter, love. And to write my Top Ten. No time for the old (linked)"in out."

10. Of Montreal | Skeletal Lamping: I love this band so much I've even seen the singer's hog. I'd link the pic, but I don't want to run the risk of another tubgirl. This album almost lives up to that dong. It's better than tubgirl.

9. The Kooks | Konk: Fun!

8. Hot Chip | Made In The Dark: Compelling unexpectedness at every turn, plus hooky enough for the mainstrizzeam and dance-y enough for E-Dog.

7. Mates of State | Rearrange Us: A great marriage of melody and harmony, drummer and organist.

6. The Hold Steady | Stay Positive: Holly was a hoodrat, Craig probably hit that shit; thenhe got three albums out of it.

5. Blitzen Trapper | Furr: Fewer noisy moments than Wild Mountain Nation, which I like. Lost the lo-fi edge to their sound, which I am indifferent about. Wrote some bitchin' melodies and got a little jammy, which I love! Alright!

4. (tie) The Killers | Day & Age: I never thought I'd like a Killers album. But then I never thought the Killers would make Day & Age. I always saw it as a Springsteen/ Bowie/ Talking Heads collabo. Or that's what it wounds like to me anyway.

4. (tie) MGMT | Oracular Spectacular: Please pass the acid. Then write a song about things I like using notes and tunes I like!

3. Fleet Foxes | s/t: If I could rate a Body of Work of the Year... wait, I can. See below.

2. Girl Talk | Feed the Animals: Better than before. Tortfeazor's got nothing on this chump. More like Tubman than Tubgirl.

1. Vampire Weekend | s/t: A little kwassa kwassa, a little soukous, a little literature. Something for every ethnomusicology major/ prat/ me!!!! The melodies, the instrumentation, the attitude make this unlike anything I had ever heard. Too bad they weren't around the night back in '02 when we owned New York, maybe we could have pulled a name drop or two.

Body of Work of the Year (a Back-Handed Award, granted by discoursive essay):

Hey, Fleet Foxes. Good year, huh? Yeah. I know, right? Listen, about your Body of Work: dudes, the Sun Giant EP was just so good. Mykonos is your best song. Your absolute best. Oh, you know?!? Well shut the fuck up then because I'm not done. Okay. Mykonos is your best song. English House is a great fucking song. Shut up, shut up for a second. Drops in the River is as ambitious if not moreso than anything on your self titled record. That EP was so damn good! But the LP, dudes. Man. Not a let down in any sense, but still a letdown to me. It just begs the question: do you have any pot?