All Amoebites were asked to list their top five favorite releases from the first half of 2009 and beyond! We then had a team of experts decipher some cryptic handwriting, analyze the results and compile the lists into this little book! We hope you find the results interesting and useful!


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Jarvis Cocker
Further Complications
(Rough Trade US)
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Cocker’s reinvention as a sort of Renaissance man for the new millennium cannot go unheralded. Now relocated to Paris, Brit-pop’s perennial outsider dabbles in performance art, social commentary, and rock stardom (also, don’t forget being a husband and father). This man is a genius and will one day be canonized in the same halls as his idols. – Bean, Berkeley








