Best Albums of 2008:
-tier four-
Gang, Gang Dance “Saint Dymphna”
Azeda Booth “In Flesh Tones”
-tier three-
The Dodos “Visiter”
Baby Charles “Baby Charles”
Lindsey Buckingham “Gift of Screws”
Vampire Weekend “Vampire Weekend”
-tier two-
Steven Wilson “Insurgentes”
Erykah Badu “Honey”
Sun Kil Moon “April”
Beach House “Devotion”
She & Him “Vol. One”
Hot Chip “Made in the Dark”
Little Joy “Little Joy”
Department of Eagles “In Ear Park”
Portishead “Third”
Nick Cave [...]
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The Year in Review: Music
Posted in Music, year in review on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Year in Review: Part One
Posted in Currently & Survey-ness, Music, Travels, year in review on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
–> hiked in Colorado
What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
–> the second night of sts9 at the fillmore, the feeling of “home” i felt after the panic’s red rocks sunday show at owsleys, pgroove playing “naive melody” 3 blocks from [...]
start to finish, a-z
Posted in Music on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
albums come out all the time, but very few have the ability to be listened to from start to finish with whole hearted enjoyment. only a narrow group of artists are skilled enough to put together masterpieces such as this and only the narrowest of this core group are capable of doing this repeatedly.
i always [...]