December 2011
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Top 11 of '11
I may be one of the last to have their say, and this list may be important to no one but me, but dadgummit here are my favorite, most meaningful albums of 2011. There’s so much coming out every year now that this can hardly be considered a wholistic picture of the last year for anyone but myself - not even among the “indiesphere” where most of these releases reside are these an...
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2011 Reader Recommendations, Pt. II
And we continue with the reader recommendations (Part I over here) for their personal favorite albums/songs from this year!
Thisisntliving reminded me of the great, great mixtape 77777 by Joywave: There’s too much good on this *free* mixtape to pass up. Along with that, Joywave and Tympanogram have joined forces for the Ridge 7”, which is one of my favorite tracks of the year (the...
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Meursault | William Henry Miller // Lament For A Teenage Millionaire
Via La Blogotheque // Vimeo comes one of the latest Takeaway Shows, this time featuring my favorite Scottish band, the lo-fi acoustic indie rockers Meursault. Why do I like them so? It’s got to be the lyrics, which so often give me cause to consider things. Perhaps that doesn’t make sense, but after watching this...
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2011 Reader Recommendations, Pt. I
A few weeks back I asked any interested readers to share with me a recommendation or two out of their personal favorite albums/songs of the year. Well, I got a lot of great responses out of that - some of which I liked a lot, others of which I could appreciate though it wasn’t my type of music, etc. Overall, It helped me catch a few great albums that I missed/overlooked this past year.
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