by snoadmin | Dec 26, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#8 Album: Fucked Up – David Comes to Life There is hardly any aspect about the band Fucked Up that isn’t in some way polarizing or complicatedly multifaceted. Citing dysfunction as a source of their namesake, you can understand how seemingly...
by snoadmin | Dec 26, 2011 | Archives-old
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges Think of everything you believe a saxophone to be capable of. Over the course of the 45-minute New History Warface Vol. 2: Judges, Bon Iver/Arcade Fire associate Colin Stetson burns those notions to the ground...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2011 | Archives-old
Real Estate – Days For a genre teeming with pale, skinny, upper-middle-class dudes, its surprising that an indie group didn’t deliver The Suburbs much earlier. But while Arcade Fire drenched its Grammy award-winning semi-autobiographical album in weirdly...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#9 Album: Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams Churning out beach-washed riot girl anthems, the Dum Dum Girls have given 2011 Only In Dreams, an album that isn’t afraid to express innermost female laments while simultaneously becoming a gut-punching rock gem....
by snoadmin | Dec 23, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#10 Album: Future Islands – On the Water Future Islands’ On the Water isn’t particularly long, but it still manages to takes its time. Like the best break-up records, it knows you don’t have anything better to do with your day than sit...
