by snoadmin | Dec 31, 2011 | Archives-old
Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra. With his first major release, Frank Ocean emerges as a broken-hearted sensitive crooner (a.k.a. an oddball) in the OFWGKTA crew, the angry youth-driven group that the public has deemed to be the worst thing since unsliced bread....
by snoadmin | Dec 30, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#4 Album: EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints Past Life Martyred Saints is an album that encompasses the feelings of disappointment and creeping failure that singer EMA experienced after moving to California to become an artist; her own account being that of...
by snoadmin | Dec 30, 2011 | Archives-old
In 2011, one DJ’s guilty pleasure was another’s song of the year. At some point, your favorite embarrassing Top 40 jam probably earned a spot among some publication’s best tracks of the year, from the overwrought (“Someone Like YouÛ) to the...
by snoadmin | Dec 30, 2011 | Archives-old
The Drums – Portamento The Italian word “portamento” means a transition musically from one pitch to another, and it’s a fitting title for the Drums’ grim, somber second album. The Drums as we knew them were the lighthearded buzzband (see:...
by snoadmin | Dec 29, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#5 Album: M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 takes its name from Messier 83, a galaxy 15 million light years away, and that’s precisely where Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming inhabits. From its dreamlike interludes to its expansive synth melodies to...
