by snoadmin | Dec 26, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Space Bomb I’m not entirely sure you can classify “My Baby Don’t Understand Me” as a “break-up song.” Break up songs usually contain a sense of closure: either the singer’s left their lover, or the lover’s left the singer, and...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Consequence of Sound Although Pitchfork might’ve thought themselves too progressive or cool to include Sound and Color in their list of the 50 best albums of 2015, WVAU did not. Let’s face it, though, Alabama Shakes’ 2012’s debut...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Spotify Think back to January 1, 2015. While nursing those NYE hangovers, we were eagerly anticipating chart-topping releases from Kanye West, Drake, Frank Ocean, Adele, Fergie, and Kendrick Lamar (half of which still have not been released yet) If I told...
by snoadmin | Dec 24, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Pitchfork Almost every review/feature/write-up I find about Ezra Furman’s Perpetual Motion People uses the word “outsider.” Ezra Furman writes “outsider music” or from an “outsider’s perspective.” And, to a degree, I understand. Furman is...
by snoadmin | Dec 24, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Buffablog I was sitting on a deflated air mattress in my best friend’s dorm in Boston the first time I heard “Broken Necks.” While that maybe isn’t the most picturesque setting, I like having a memory attached to a song. It is the...
