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...
by snoadmin | Dec 20, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#6 Album: Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest On their followup to 2008’s Microcastle/Weird Era Cont., Bradford Cox and his four-piece Deerhunter finally make it to the big leagues with a more mature, sonically diverse album. Halycon Digest is immediately more...
by snoadmin | Dec 19, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#7 Album: The National – High Violet Coming off their success of their breakthrough album, Boxer, it would have been easy for the National to sit back on their newfound success and play it safe. Fortunately, High Violet is much more then Boxer Pt. 2. It is, on first...
