Albums of the year
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Albums Of The Year10 of 2010 (#4): Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Having had three years to stew on it, it’s fair to say that Neon Bible wasn’t the follow up we were hoping for after Funeral (our album of the ye... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Albums Of The Year10 of 2010 (#5): The Phantom Band – The Wants
It could have been horribly messy, the second Phantom Band album. After last year’s debut blindsided us, seemingly from nowhere, and everyone in the kn... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
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10 of 2010 (#6): Beach House – Teen Dream
Beach House were fully aware of the majesty of third album Teen Dream as they were preparing it this time last year. “At one point i was more excited ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2010 -
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10 of 2010 (#7): Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
German producer Hendrick Weber’s third album as Pantha du Prince, released in February, saw him continue to hone his quietly cerebral take on melodic, ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2010 -
Albums Of The Year10 of 2010 (#8): LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
If second album Sound of Silver had the provisional title Oh Vanity, Thy Name Is Sophomore Effort, then what self-deprecating working name could we expect of... Read more »| 30 Nov 2010 -
Albums Of The Year10 of 2010 (#9): The Books – The Way Out
July saw the welcome return of New York City duo Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong, with their fourth album as The Books, and their first since 2005’s wide... Read more »| 30 Nov 2010
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10 of 2010 (#10): Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Halcyon Digest is about as descriptive a name as can be imagined for Deerhunter’s fourth album. Singer Bradford Cox further describes it as a response ... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Albums Of The Year2009: A Year in Records (#1)
Merriweather Post Pavilion is going to be spoken of in rarefied terms for years to come, so you'd better get used to it Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
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2009: A Year in Records (#2-10)
2. GRIZZLY BEAR - VECKATIMEST Through no fault of their own, sometimes great bands acquire unhealthy legacies: Nirvana, I'm looking at you particularly. One ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #1: Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
When placing Idlewild’s sophomore album 100 Broken Windows into the context of Scottish albums of the decade, it becomes all too clear how much the mus... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #2: The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
The world is set up wrong. We know this now. While Glasvegas gallivant around the globe, filling stadiums with their sing-along dogshite nonsense, another gr... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #3: Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
It's easy to cast the mind back to the dawning of the millennium and perhaps fondly recall a pre-9/11 sense of optimism and renewal – I mean, the bug d... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #5: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of i... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #4: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
On the face of it, their product is hardly revolutionary. Yet, for the past year and a half, The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit has been the album... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade - A Muso's Pick
One particular record from this decade that made an impact on me was The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada. When it was released in 2005 I was still at ... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009