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The all-inclusive, ever-changing, and uncomfortably flexible guide to all things music in the 2010's.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

January 2011

Recommended:

Over the Rhine - The Long Surrender: A
Action Bronson - Bon Appetit.....Bitch!!!!!: A-
Destroyer - Kaputt: A-
G-Side - The One...Cohesive: A-
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts: A-
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar: A-
Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show No. 11 - Low Budget Hi Fi Music: A-
Motorhead - The Wörld Is Yours: A-
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Teenage and Torture: A-
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde: A-

Other Stuff:

Adele - 21: B+
Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming: B+
Braids - Native Speaker: B+
Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours: B+
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead: B+
Geotic - Mend: B+
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean: B+
Lil B - Angels Exodus: B+
MyGrain - MyGrain: B+
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum: B+
Tennis - Cape Dory: B+
Schoolboy Q - Setbacks: B+
Sidi Tourè - Sahel Folk: B+
Vampillia - Alchemic Heart: B+
Wire - Red Barked Tree: B+
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings: B
Faust - Something Dirty: B
Iceage - New Brigade: B
Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain't Over: B
Pearl Jam - Live on Ten Legs: B
Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes: B
Amplifier - The Octopus: B-
Lia Ices - Grown Unknown: B-
Minks - By the Hedge: B-
Curren$y - Return to the Winner's Circle: C+
Magic Pie - The Suffering Joy: C
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis: C
Ulcerate - Destroyers of Us All: C

Missed Stuff:

January 2010:
Eels - End Times: B

May 2010:
The Divine Comedy - Bang Goes the Knighthood: A-
Roc Marciano - Marcberg: B+
Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots: B
Rangda - False Flag: B-
Wild Nothing - Gemini: C+

June 2010:
Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2: A-
Sia - We Are Born: B+
Against Me! - White Crosses: B

October 2010:
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz: B+
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