Rank Artist Recording Label 1 PASSION PIT Gossamer Columbia 2 ANTLERS Undersea Anti 3 DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan Domino 4 FANG ISLAND Major Sargent House 5 PURITY RING Shrines 4AD 6 JAPANDROIDS Celebration Rock Polyvinyl 7 DEEP TIME Deep Time Hardly Art 8 FERGUS AND GERONIMO Funky Was The State Of Affairs Hardly Art 9 METRIC Synthetica MMI-Mom And Pop 10 TWIN SHADOW Confess 4AD 11 PEAKING LIGHTS Lucifer Mexican Summer 12 DIIV Oshin Captured Tracks 13 AMANDA PALMER AND THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA Theatre Is Evil 8 Ft. 14 DEAD CAN DANCE Anastasis Pias 15 WET HAIR Spill … Continued
The Fruit Bats and Matthew Logan Vasquez Raise The Crowd
Article by Myles Ackman and Kade Grierson | Cover Photo by Cat Dooley For the first time in fifteen years, Fruit Bats returned to Iowa City on October 21 for a performance at The Englert Theatre, with support from Matthew Logan Vasquez. “Iowa City was the first place I ever traveled far to, and I thought, ‘this place resembles freedom,’” – Fruit Bats and permanent member Eric D. Johnson. The three of us—Elle, Myles, and Kade—were the youngest people in the audience by far, and sat near the front on the edge of a sea of double denim, floral shirts, … Continued
