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49 ALBUMS Animal Collective’s ninth long player is their finest yet; Antony & The Johnson’s sublime third effort; Damien Jurado does the folk-rock thing; while Warren Zevon’s eponymous Atlantic debut gets the reissue treatment, cementing the late singer’s seat at the great songwriting table in the sky.
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TV Maia Dunphy on the highs and lows of sitting in front of the goggle box in 2008 and the highlights worth staying in for this year.
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DVD Liam Neeson goes all Bourne on us in Taken; a brief history of all things GAA; the Beeb gets it right with the story of Anne Frank; the horror of bad horror movies; Vin Diesel goes Babylonian on State’s ass.
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GAMES Sony’s shooter supreme, Resistance 2, takes up where its predecessor left off; Microsoft’s answer to karaoke; and why Mirror’s Edge melted State’s head.
With Put Your Money On, Cork’s Áine Duffy has created an album that confuses, confounds, surprises, delights and frustrates, in perhaps equal measure, combining a record store’s worth of genres in one place. One thing she’s not is boring.
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