My top ten eleven from 2011. Listed alphabetically by first name. Top three noted with an *asterisk. Austin Lucas: A New Home in the Old World Austin Lucas: Thunder Rail *Chris Bathgate: Salt Year Chris Bathgate: Levee Dark Mean: Dark Mean Dark Mean – Lullaby The Decemberists: The King is Dead The Decemberists: Down By [...]
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Posted 21 December 2011
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Tagged: Austin Lucas, Chris Bathgate, Dark Mean, Dolorean, Elliott Brood, Frank Turner, Horrible Crowes, Okkervil River, The Decemberists, Whil Phalen, Wye Oak
The usual internal debating and spreadsheeting has been underway here for several weeks as List Season moves forward. Instead of giving you several dozens of albums this year, I give you this mix of the runners-up and soon, a Top Ten. You can grab the zip file here. I also made a Spotify mix, because [...]
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Posted 18 December 2011
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One year. Thirty albums. Two sentences. An mp3. These are my ten favorites of the year. I broke down and ranked them. Let me know what you think. (Comments are like little Christmas presents, you guys.) 10. J.Roddy Walston and the Business: J.Roddy Walston and the Business A raucous, bluesy rock album from a bunch [...]
One year. Thirty albums. Two sentences. An mp3. Here is the middle set, the numbers 11-20 (in order from A to Z). Broken Bells: Broken Bells Indie rock dude from The Shins, James Mercer, meets someone named Danger Mouse. Catchy indie-pop-like sounds ensue. Broken Bells: Vaporize Deadstring Brothers: Sao Paulo Do you enjoy rock and [...]
One year. Thirty albums. Two sentences. An mp3. Here are numbers 21-30 (in order from A to Z). First Aid Kit – The Big Black & The Blue Annoyingly precocious Swedish teenage sisters pen some surprisingly compelling, quirky folk music. We should all move to Sweden. First Aid Kit: Hard Believer Lindsay Fuller – The [...]
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Posted 20 December 2010
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If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve likely noticed that I have a wee (read: massive) crush on one Mr. Frank Turner, a British artist who is equal parts folk and punk and whom I like to refer to as “My Boyfriend Frank Turner.” And while this does, at times, make some people feel a [...]
THE GOOD These are some albums that nearly missed the top twenty, or that I didn’t spend enough time with until recently. Slaid Cleaves: Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away. Honestly, I stayed away from this one because dude’s name freaks me out. I mean, how do you even say that? It makes me [...]
2009. I’ve but putting together an annual list of top ten albums for a few years now, and sending it to anyone who would read it. This year I have my own site, and with it, a few more readers and some co-conspirators in the form of The Bird List folks. I struggled more this [...]
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Posted 23 December 2009
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Here is the combined ranked list of the top 20 albums of 2009 from what we like to call a “loose confederation of like-minded bloggers”. This is the inaugural year. It’s been a patchy one! But what we do have is a decent idea, and what we feel is an interesting list. So here they [...]
If you know me at all, you know how much I hate holidays, specifically the period between the day after Thanksgiving and the 2nd of January. But what I do love about this time of year is the end-of-the-year lists. I love top tens. Apparently this year is the end of a decade. Which, frankly, [...]