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For a Good Time, Call Japandroids
Japandroids Celebration Rock (2012) Rating: 9.0/10 I think I love you both. Japandroids are supposed to be one of those bands that can’t transcend novelty value or instant gratification into the realm...
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Why So Somber?
The National High Violet (2010) Rating: 7.5/10 I’m afraid of everyone, but probably not the guys in The National. Well, maybe a little bit. Are they armed? The National have been a go-to band for those...
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I Want, More Than Anything, a Range Life
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) Rating: 10/10 Write it on a postcard; dad, they broke me… Now that we’re more than a month into our run of constant media criticism, I really want to start...
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Seriously, Guitars are Still Cool
Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory (2012) Rating: 8.0/10 The remote nature of this album cover somehow makes sense. The musical landscape has largely been one of synthetic noises lately, and sometimes...
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Don’t Call it a Comeback, Just Call it Really Good
The New Pornographers Together (2010) Rating: 8.0/10 The New Pornographers are sounding an awful lot like the old ones, and that’s a good thing. Since I started writing songs myself, really writing...
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Two Heads are Better Than One
Wye Oak Civilian (2011) Rating: 7.0/10 I feel like the water is probably cold and uncompromising. When you think of modern musical duos using guitars and drums, Wye Oak isn’t really the kind of band...
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I Don’t Think That’s How You Spell it
Mastodon Crack the Skye (2009) Rating: 8.0/10 I wouldn’t trust a couple of guys with light coming out of their mouths, but maybe that’s just me. There are few better feelings than just really getting...
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Death is Inspirational
Arcade Fire Funeral (2004) Rating: 7.5/10 And so begins the Musical Journey, a series of listening assignments handed out to me by the site moderator (you may have met him already; bearded guy, posts...
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When Addition Equals Blandness
Bad Books II (2012) Rating: 4.0/10 In retrospect, Complacent Books might have been a better band name. Bad Books is, to some at least, something of a supergroup. Okay, maybe that’s a stretch, but...
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The Trip Up Was More Fun, But Still…
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Desecension (2013) Rating: 6.5/10 I’m dead serious when I say there are horns. Horns! When I first heard part one of Coheed and Cambria’s Afterman project, I was...
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I Can’t Believe What You’re Telling Me Is True
The album cover is the only thing that sits still. Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else (2014) Rating: 8.5/10 It’s been a strange path that has taken Dylan Baldi from point A to point B in just a few...
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