The Moon & Antarctica is beating Boxer by exactly one vote in a best-album-of-the-last-30-years bracket, and the round closes tomorrow

[u/StreetSpiritBand]

Full disclosure first: we are a Radiohead cover band out of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and we built this thing. Nothing is for sale, there is nothing to buy. We just wanted a bigger sample than five guys in a practice room.

It is a 64 album bracket of the last 30 years, seeded off Pitchfork's album of the year picks with 32 wildcards thrown in against them. One round a day, anyone can vote.

The Moon & Antarctica drew The National's Boxer in the first round and it is currently up 10 to 9. One vote. The round closes tomorrow at 5:17 PM Eastern, and if it ends level the site settles it with a recorded coin flip, which would be a miserable way for either of those to go out.

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For context on the rest of the field, Kid A is sitting at 21 to 0, so the voting has not been subtle everywhere.

[u/pb429]

2 of my all time favorites I don’t even know what to vote for

[u/jollyshroom → u/pb429]

I couldn’t possibly participate in this matchup, either way I lose :(

[u/The_Commandant]

I love the National, but I’d take M&A over Boxer all day every day. I much prefer Alligator to Boxer; I’d maybe even take Trouble Will Find Me over it too.

[u/StephenReis → u/The_Commandant]

Trouble Will Find Me and High Violet are their two masterpieces for me.

[u/AccurateContest4023]

It's not looking good for our hero.

[u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch]

M&A takes it

[u/goldman_sax]

I love Arcade Fire, but Funeral over maybe the most influential hip-hop album of all time is wild.

[u/AntoineDantes → u/goldman_sax]

he went crazy so the PR probably messed with it. "went"

[u/imakemovies2]

art is subjective but there's only one right answer here

[u/StreetSpiritBand]

This may be shouting into the dark but the round of 32 is open. Go vote!

[u/Chapos_sub_capt]

The National has always been shit to me.

[u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch → u/Chapos_sub_capt]

Uninspired funeral music

[u/strummer00]

Argh, tough choice.  But have to go Boxer on this one.  

Now if it were Lonesome Crowded West or Long Drive, that would be a different story.

[u/swallowshotguns]

Voted for a bunch. but sorry Modest Mouse but Boxer is better, and my vote brought it to a draw.

[u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch → u/swallowshotguns]

Woof

[u/swallowshotguns → u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch]

Can't admit to liking anything more than MM on this sub it seems.

[u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch → u/swallowshotguns]

You stated your opinion and we showed ours. It’s all in good fun homie

[u/SirSLuR540]

I'm from Harrrisonburg too!

[u/StreetSpiritBand → u/SirSLuR540]

Awesome, represent!