You think you’ve got game, and then you meet Drew Harkins and you throw the game away because you just can’t win. Deerhunter, Monomania (4AD) Pick your favorite review of this album: a.) Monomania is a willfully inscrutable/abstruse nocturnal garage pastiche of shopworn indie standards, pieced together meticulously from a post-nothing fakebook, delivered with mesmerizing […]
Drew Harkins’ Top Albums of 2013 (better late than never edition)
February 20th, 2014 · Comments Off on Drew Harkins’ Top Albums of 2013 (better late than never edition)
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Logan K. Young’s Top Albums of 2013
January 9th, 2014 · Comments Off on Logan K. Young’s Top Albums of 2013
Logan K. Young is the Editor in Chief at Classicalite.com. ALBUMS: Body/Head, Coming Apart (Matador) Lonnie Holley, Keeping a Record of It (Dust to Digital) Because Oxford American needs to see him. Wolf Eyes, No Answer: Lower Floors (De Stijl) Richard Youngs, Summer Through My Mind (Ba Da Bing!) Because Ba Da Bing! captured him […]
KFL’s Top Albums of 2013
January 3rd, 2014 · Comments Off on KFL’s Top Albums of 2013
KFL is a writer/lover of music, a drinker of coffee and a (begrudging) maker of lists. —————————————- Admission/Confession: I don’t bother defending my opinions these days; I find it to be an exercise in futility. Besides, I’m really fucking lazy. This is for posterity as much as anything. The List: 1. Phosphorescent, “Muchacho” (Dead Oceans […]
Eric Greenwood’s Top Albums of 2013
January 2nd, 2014 · Comments Off on Eric Greenwood’s Top Albums of 2013
1. Lorde, Pure Heroine (Universal) I’m fairly certain I would not have surmised my most listened to album of the year would have been written and recorded by a 16-year-old girl from New Zealand. I guess it proves I’m not utterly dead inside that I can still be this taken aback. Pure Heroine is an […]
Drew Harkins’ Top Albums of 2010
January 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Drew Harkins’ Top Albums of 2010
Drew Harkins is a man’s man’s man. Yes, that’s one man too many. Please, bear with me. He likes to hunt, yet he not only understands but appreciates your penchant for Belle & Sebastian. This is some sort of meta art form that demonstrates an evolution beyond a mere man’s man that Drew has somehow […]
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Patrick Wall’s Top Albums of 2010
December 31st, 2010 · Comments Off on Patrick Wall’s Top Albums of 2010
Mr. Wall is a writer, editor and Doctor Zoidberg enthusiast from Columbia, S.C. He is the music editor of Free Times, contributes to Shuffle magazine and blogs infrequently at WeekendsOfSound. He is a founding member of the Meatsweats, whose sloppy post-punk has pleased nary a critic. Also, Mr. Wall is kind of an asshole. KNEE […]
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Tug Baker’s Top Albums of 2010
December 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tug Baker is the proprietor of one of our more frequently referenced music blogs, About Today. He also has a loose definition of victuals, as evidenced by this cover piece he wrote for Free Times. He even made downloadable mixes out of his favorites this year because he loves you like that. Here are his […]