Guess (Deadline = 25th) the Top 3 (in order) of this month´s Mega-Critic-Chart (Publication = 31st) and enter the chance to win a CD of your choice.

It has been quite a lame month so far. If the scores of the January releases so far would be counted to the Mega-Critic-EOY-Top 150, there would be a weak amount of 4 New Entries (# 14, # 48, # 74 and # 76).

The four acts so far to be on top of the list are (in no particular order) :

A A female singer/songwriter from Colorado; she did a guest appearance on The Decemberists ´The Crane ´Wife´

B A multi-talented guy from Toronto; he did orchestral arrangements for Arcade Fire, Mountain Goats, Last Shadow Puppets

C An indie-rock band around Ezra Koenig from New York City

D An indie-rock band around Britt Daniel from Austin/Texas

Good Luck !!!

Vampire Weekend or Owen Pallett ? Head or tail ? Tell me little 2 euros coin.

Ok, so Owen Pallett it will be !

1. Vampire Weekend
2. Spoon
3. Owen Pallett

Did not see top 3 was asked !

The 4 albums have almost the same note in metacritic (81/80/80/79)

I'll go with :
1) Owen Pallett
2) Vampire Weekend
3) Laura Veirs

1. Vampire Weekend
2. Owen Pallett
3. Laura Veirs

1. Vampire Weekend
2. Owen Pallett
3. Spoon

1. Spoon
2. Vampire Weekend
3. Owen Pallett

Vampire Weekend
Owen Pallett
These New Puritans

If nobody gets it exactly right how are you going to decide a winner? Some kind of closeness algorithm?

If nobody gets it right, there won´t be a winner and the CD goes to next month´s jackpot. If two or more get it right, the lucky draw will decide.

1. Vampire Weekend
2. Spoon
3. Laura Veirs

1. Vampire Weekend
2. Spoon
3. Surfer Blood

Beach House - Teen Dream

Both Vampire Weekend and Spoon got some pretty awful reviews. Owen Pallet might have been a good choice, as Teen Dream might not have enough reviews yet. Nonetheless, Teen Dream is clearly album of the month.