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- Top Albums of 2009
- Musically, 2009 ended up being an appropriate year to close out a decade without any coherent trend or movement in music. It was
an odd year that was heavily front loaded with quality releases and seemed to quickly fall off the edge in the second half,
which is represented here in this list.… Read More
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- Top Albums of 2008
- 2008 was a bit underwhelming for music. A number of solid albums were released, but none that really caught my ear. It was
a struggle putting together this list because I generally feel indifferent to most of the music I heard from the year. Overall it
felt like the albums were either consistently good (not great) or had a few great songs along with a few not-so-great songs.… Read More
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- Top Albums of 2007
- This has been an interesting year for music. I haven't had more than a handful of albums in serious consideration for quite a while. To make it stranger, all of the albums I was anticipating heading in to the year (the Smashing Pumpkin's woeful Zeitgeist, for example) turned out to be fairly awful. So, that leaves me with a few established artists who stepped it up a notch to go along with a slew of new ones (new to me, at least) who renewed my faith in new music.… Read More
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