Mike McGonigal chimes in over at Pitchfork today with an 8.3 for Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts, who I’ve heard a lot of people digging on, and whose song “Crippled Croon” came about a hair’s breadth away from landing on this month’s list. True, you’re not going to hear a whole lot of Pomo-21st Century sounds here; if you’ve heard kiwi rock, jangle pop, C86… you’ve heard this kind of thing before. But as was the case with that first Interpol record, I think it must be a case of just the right thing at just the right time, because it sounds pretty damn good to me.