December 2010
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Albums of the Year: #10-#6
It wouldn’t be a music blog without a top ten albums of the year, now, would it?
This year has seen an astonishingly high number of quality albums, and it’s been insanely difficult to come up with a viable top ten. But we’ve had a good ol’ bash at it.
The blog ate this post the last time I did it, so excuse laziness.
#10: Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
A lot of reviewers...
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Albums of the Year: #5-#1
Well, we tried to give a little bit more of a suspense-filled gap, but we’ve decided to just get a move on and reveal our top five albums of the year.
All five are, obviously, much more than worthy of a listen. Enjoy…
#5: Everything Everything - Man Alive
The rise and rise of Everything Everything has been phenomenal - this time two years ago they were releasing studio work for nothing...
November 2010
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Emerging: Minks
With a name like Minks (and an album cover like, well, that) you can probably make an accurate guess at what these guys sound like. Lattices of weird, almost-depressive-but-at-the-same-time-grimly-hopeful pop laid over a Cure LP.
Yeah, pretty much sums them up. By the Hedge does indeed sound like they’ve recorded it by a hedge (albeit a hedge in the deepest darkest abyss) but it’s...