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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Placebo
Battle for the Sun
(Vagrant)
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Moving away from a major to an indie, and breaking in a new drummer, Brian Molko and Placebo are back with more big tortured eyeliner rock, showing all those newbies that they wrote the book! A nice blend of simple and heavy, gentle and blasting, tension and bliss, with lyrics that Molko says reflect his battle against his inner darkness and his new-found resolution to seek the light, especially on the anthemic title track. Produced by Tool's Dave Bottrill, fans of Muse, Smashing Pumpkins will certainly dig!








