by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#1 Album: LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening The two things everybody focuses on with This is Happening are that James Murphy is now forty and that this is the last LCD Soundsystem release we’re going to get for a little while. Neither of those ideas really...
by snoadmin | Dec 24, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#2 Album: Beach House – Teen Dream Last spring, my friend begged me to go to see Beach House with her. I was adamant about not going because all I knew about Beach House was that they had a song about a zebra. “A song about a zebra,” I thought, “I’m not hip...
by snoadmin | Dec 23, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#3 Album: Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz Sufjan said fuck. The news came in the heart of autumn and trumped all tales of midterm smackdowns, TSA patdowns, or intelligence file crackdowns. My headline of the moment became Sufjan Stevens, Americana’s altar boy...
by snoadmin | Dec 22, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#4 Album: Arcade Fire – The Suburbs When Arcade Fire played Merriweather Post Pavilion this past summer, I got a ride back to the Metro from a fellow fan. Naturally we started talking about The Suburbs, Arcade Fire’s third album. He summed up the album quite...
by snoadmin | Dec 22, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#5 Album: Kanye West ÛÒ My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy After his self-imposed exile, Kanye West found his way back into the public consciousness via Twitter (“Why girls from Stockholm be so fresh????!!!!”) and has come back in the biggest way possible. Over the...
