1. Purple Mountains, Purple Mountains (Drag City) When David Berman returned suddenly after a self-imposed, decade-long exile, it was cause for celebration. Seeing the world through Berman’s – by turns – caustic, witty, scholarly, devastating, absurd, and wry lens was sorely missed and missing from independent music at large. His suicide merely weeks after his […]
Entries from January 2020
Eric Greenwood’s Top Albums of 2019
January 5th, 2020
Tug Baker’s Top Albums of 2019
January 4th, 2020
I feel like I had more albums than ever in my running yearlong playlist this year, but I didn’t get to spend nearly the time with all of them that I would have liked to. Here’s my list of the albums that rose above the noise in 2019. (Minus metal records. Those might get their […]
Patrick Wall’s Top Albums of 2019
January 1st, 2020
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Is Patrick Wall the only one here who gives a shit about the rules? KNEE MEETS JERK: A Tragicomedy in Three Acts Or, In Which a Mostly Retired Music Critic and Journalist Offers Brief, Non-Critical and Non-Sequitur Thoughts Only Tangentially Related to His Favorite Music of 2019. Because, Hey, Music Is Personal […]