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Bourbon Milk Punch: December 2010
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Sunday, December 19, 2010. Best Albums of 2010. 20 No Age - Everything in Between. 19 Wavves - King of the Beach. 18 She and Him - Volume 2. 17 The Walkmen - Lisbon. 16 Spoon - Transference. 15 The National - High Violet. 14 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot the Son of Chico Dusty. 13 Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love. 12 Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz. 11 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today. 10 Vampire Weekend - Contra. 9 Beach House - Teen Dream. 8 Best Coast - Crazy for You. Man how I hated Ys.
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Bourbon Milk Punch: Best Albums of 2010
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Sunday, December 19, 2010. Best Albums of 2010. 20 No Age - Everything in Between. 19 Wavves - King of the Beach. 18 She and Him - Volume 2. 17 The Walkmen - Lisbon. 16 Spoon - Transference. 15 The National - High Violet. 14 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot the Son of Chico Dusty. 13 Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love. 12 Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz. 11 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today. 10 Vampire Weekend - Contra. 9 Beach House - Teen Dream. 8 Best Coast - Crazy for You. Man how I hated Ys.
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Make-Believe Gospel: December 2006
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Thursday, December 14, 2006. 10 Cat Power - The Greatest. 9 Islands - Return to the Sea. 8 Asobi Seksu - Citrus. 7 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass. 6 Bob Dyan - Modern Times. Wednesday, December 13, 2006. 15 Josh Ritter - The Animal Years. 14 Joanna Newsom - Ys. 13 Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye. To the spick-and-span sound of the production, not a note out of place- it all adds up to smart, danceable album, which is a rare combination I'd say. Forget that it's a carefully...
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Make-Believe Gospel: 2008 Albums: 10-6
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Friday, December 12, 2008. 10 Coldplay - Viva la Vida. I would play "Viva la Vida" over and over again and never tire of its melody. I have no idea what it's about - Martin's thoughts on the lyrics. I really don't want to like this album. Here's how they describe why Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is on the Cover and they've been touring in military jackets:. It's just terrible that a band of this commercial stature would clumsily, disengenously pose in this way. But what can I say? I'm not longi...
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Make-Believe Gospel: December 2008
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Friday, December 12, 2008. 5 Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins. But listening to Okkervil River, what it most undeniable is the quality of song writing and the sincerity of Will Sheff. I loved last year's The Stage Names, and according to an interview I heard with Sheff, the songs for this album were written together with the last ones, but as they went through the recording process they decided which to push to a later album. 4 The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves. 3 Deerhunter - Microcastle. Nouns is...
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Make-Believe Gospel: 2008 Albums: 21-25
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Monday, December 8, 2008. 25 Peter Bjorn and John - Seaside Rock. Most of the reviews I've read seem to really hate this album. Maybe it's because, without a doubt, it's a huge let-down after Writers Block. 24 Beach House - Devotion. 23 The Dodos - Visiter. The first time I listened to the Fleet Foxes, I emailed Nick right away because he'd told me to download it. "This is so beautiful," I dashed off. "Oh, you're just getting to that? Came the dismissing reply. "Try the Dodos. It takes a little m...A cou...
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Make-Believe Gospel: September 2009
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Friday, September 25, 2009. And, it's here. This has been a lot of fun, very stressful, and deeply nostalgic . It's been an incredible decade, one in which my taste in music changed dramatically thanks to people like Nick living across the hall, Pitchfork, and the explosion of the indie genre. I never knew how much music was out there until these things happened. I wish I had more time to devote to writing about these albums, but perhaps I will soon. But in any event, the damned list is done. 80 Travis -...
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Make-Believe Gospel: 2007 Albums: 16-20
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007. What I love about Myth Takes. The album pulses with life. But then they do stupid things like spend 8 minutes on "Bend over Beethoven," a relatively uninteresting bit of music, and chop off the next track, "Break in Case of Anything," at 4 minutes, when it should have been built into an epic event. Ah well. 19 Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhs EP. 18 MIA. - Kala. It’s hard to say it better than Mike did. Was as good or perhaps even better than Arular. 17 Iron and Wine.
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Make-Believe Gospel: December 2007
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Friday, December 21, 2007. 5 Radiohead - In Rainbows. The first few seconds of this album, just after I'd finally been able to buy it from the bogged-down In Rainbow website, formed a pit in my stomach. Computery, refracted beats, sparseness, ghostly Yorke voice. Nobody really knew what this album would sound like, and it came out of nowhere, but I think a lot of us didn't want it to sound like that. Listening to Radiohead this late in their career? 4 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam. I literally get b...