December 2010
6 posts
Favorite Albums of 2010
In no particular order:
Mice Parade What It Means To Be Left-Handed
Like if Múm were born and bred in New York City instead of Iceland.
James Blake The Bells Sketch EP / CMYK EP / Klavierwerke EP
Exorcizing the ghosts in Burial’s urban elegies.
Beach House Teen Dream
Victoria Legrand. (lol)
Joanna Newsom Have One On Me
Less nine-minute opuses, more real songs—without...
Last.fm and the Most Listened-To Albums of 2010
My Last.fm listening habits from May to August 2010, visualized.
According to Last.fm’s data and other visualization/data-analysis web apps, the top artists I’ve been listening to in 2010 who have released an album or EP during the period:
Beach House Teen Dream (Had a long go—the album leaked late 2009)
Joanna Newsom Have One On Me
Seabear We Built A Fire
Eluvium Similes
Toro...
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan, who passed away on this day in 1996.
(See also: #sagan forever.)
Not one for sentimental platitudes, but hope he’s making apple pie from scratch somewhere.
The Age of WTFz
The problem I have with Sufjan Stevens isn’t his music, which tends to either live up to its vaulted ambitions (Illinoise) or fall flat on its ‘experimental’ face/phase (Run Rabbit Run). The problem is Stevens himself.
He’s made up to be this indie wunderkind, soft-spoken and sensitive, the man/boy of every hipster girl’s dream. He’s this quirky musical prodigy, the black sheep in the New Weird...