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It’s always a bit of a bummer when one of the most solar-plexus-punchingly great records of the year comes out in November or December. Some people haven’t heard it yet, and others are wary of confusing novelty with quality, so it doesn’t make the “Best of” lists as much as it should.
Well, I’m here to tell you, Them Crooked Vultures really is one of the greatest albums of 2009, and the first single, “New Fang”, is the song Natalie Portman should’ve made Zach Braff listen to in Garden State, not the Shins’ anemic “New Slang”. It might not change your life, but it’ll sock you in the gut, in the very best way possible.
