I would be willing to do Strawberry Jam and/or Challengers if no one else wants them.

can I do "Icky Thump"?

I know Il Mago listed two(shins, wilco) but i'd like a take on wilco as well.

I may send you blurbs on Wintersleep(doubt they will make list) PJ Harvey, and Amon TObin....

jayman(formerly The Furnace Is Fiery)

Okay, fixed dibs list:

FKA - Bon Iver, Okkervil River, Panda Bear, Spoon
Mike - Radiohead
Mark - Andrew Bird, Les Savy Fav
me - Iron & Wine, Beirut
SDF - Arcade Fire
L Spencer - Sunset Rubdown
Il Mago - Shins
jayman - Wilco
Eric - Modest Mouse, The National

And I was honestly thinking about giving Icky Thump to Troy. He's been talking about them all year.

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Whatever, I didn't realize you were only allowed such a puny write-up anyways. A monkey could sum up a great album in a few generic sentences too....silly Metacritic heirarchy

I have some write-ups on my blog that I could summarize if some users don't want dibs on those albums.

Hey, go ahead and send in a write-up if you want. I didn't say I was GOING to give it to Troy - he hasn't even expressed interest yet. There's going to be competition for certain albums, without a doubt. I'm not going to bar anyone just because of regdate.

I'll do Les Savy Fav, but I was just wondering how I got it in the first place. Did somebody else request it and there was a mix-up?

I said you would do it and that you wouldn't mind.

FKA's a pusher.

I'd be really interested to see write ups on the 'most points per vote' albums too...some of these I haven't read anything about all year and it would be really useful to have a description of these albums too!

Attention! We still need writers for:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Battles - Mirrored
Feist - The Reminder
Burial - Untrue
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
M.I.A. - Kala
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests...
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Kanye West - Graduation

I need people to volunteer for these!

I guess I can do The Reminder and Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter provided nobody else wants them.

I did write-ups for:
Blitzen Trapper, Panda Bear, Sunset Rubdown, Okkervil River, Burial, Iron & Wine, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, and Of Montreal.

What can I say...Christmas isn't an incredibly busy day.

So do you just want Burial and LCD Soundsystem? I'll send my others too, but not if you're already set on those (and I know some aren't going to matter much - Blitzen trapper probably wont make top 40)

i can do burial, m.i.a. or the field.

*M*

I can send writeups for M.I.A. and Jens Lekman. M.I.A.'s is pretty much written already.

I can do MIA... oh wait... never mind.

fragile, id love to be a part of this again this year.

this time i'll write a little longer but for real id enjoy taking on the task for a write up on one or even multiple releases this year.

ps...fragile, your quote is priceless. probably my favorite quote from my favorite song from the last 5 years.

i defintly want to put dibs on the of montreal relase.

ill do a few more as well but that will be my bread and butter

No problem thomyorkeisgod, I was wondering where you went of too. Though I am not the one compiling the write-ups, get in contact with Chamberk, he'll help you out.

And everyone else needs to get over writing for that M.I.A. album, it's not even that good!