These albums need a little more time in the oven of perspective. Selections here are within the last seven years. The dates are not when they were released but when I got around to adding them here. These are in addition to the Top 1000 albums.
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10.23.17 I have been unfair to these guys. I think living in Seattle though the 90s and early 2000s in the heyday for the Seattle sound might be the reason. Like the the grunge, punk and indie sound of the time, or not, you gotta admit it had "cojones".
Read MoreUpdate: 6.20.23 I moved this album to the Top 1000 9.18.17 This is one album that I might have to eventually find parking for on the main 1000 list. Other than Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool this might be one of the better albums in the last few years.
Read More9.17.17 DAVID SACKLLAH @ Consequence of Sound writes: There’s a special kind of loneliness that comes along with big cities. Unlike rural, country towns, you’re surrounded by the bustle of millions of others wrapped up in their busy lives.
Read More7.15.17 It would be cool if the West country highly populated Canadian super group, these guys, had an all out slap-fight brawl with the East country highly populated Canadian super group Arcade Fire.
Read More6.29.17 I’m not sure what the average hipster attention span on albums is these days. I’m thinking it’s a month. Honestly at this age, I am proud to say, I couldn't possibly give less a fuck about what’s hip and what’s not.
Read More6.5.17 It's been a number of years since I have heard a new Afghan Whigs album. In Spades has all the big soundscape romantic power of this Cincinnati outfit's Sub Pop 90s releases. Greg Dulli's voice is just as potent and moving as it ever was.
Read More4.10.17 Evan Rytlewski @ Pitchfork writes: We can’t know whether Mercer laid off his bandmates for creative reasons, as he’s judiciously insisted, or if Crandall’s arrest for domestic assault left him no choice. Either way, he no longer
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