July 13, 2010
The new year is more than halfway over and we’ve been treated to a swarm of great new songs, styles, and new takes on old favorite genres. There are plenty more albums I’ve been listening to from 2010 along with a lot of great holdovers from 2009. But these ten are the albums on which [...]
December 18, 2009
2009 featured a good mix of offerings from nearly every genre imaginable. But I was most impressed by the work done by harder rock and metal bands over a lot of the standard auto-tuned hip-hop and over-shined pop. Some of the indie lovefest for certain bands (*cough*Animal Collective*cough*) seemed to be based on the strength [...]
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February 17, 2009
Animal Collective has been getting slightly more consistent with each release, from Sung Tongs through Strawberry Jam. Even Panda Bear’s solo joint Person Pitch was pretty listenable given AnCo’s droning love-it-or-hate-it sound. So Merriweather Post Pavilion will no doubt continue their upward trend in popularity with the indie set. Combining a Beach Boys sensibility for [...]
December 18, 2008
Another year, another list of the tunes I obsessed over. Some of these are likely to be popular picks all over the internet, but I also want to mention a bunch of albums that haven’t gotten the props they deserve. My favorite albums of 2008:
30. Cool Kids, The Bake Sale
Sparse electronic samples drip and drop [...]
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September 4, 2008
Apparently Bloc Party are big Radiohead fans, in more ways than one. They’ve adopted the online-album download paradigm that so famously sold huge for last year’s In Rainbows, along with the same piracy-dodging last-minute album announcement. But business aside, they’ve also paralelled their art rocker cousins’ penchant for dabbling with programmed rhythms and sampling. Not [...]
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