I almost wrote this post in early December along with all the other best-of lists, but something (besides laziness) nagged at the back of my mind, telling me “wait, it’s not the end of the year yet, what if someone (Jay Electronica? Nah!) decides to drop a last-minute album that blows your mind?” Weirdly, my… Read More Surprise? ATR Best of Music 2014 featuring predictability
At the request of my friend Thomas, I looked through all of my old archived blog posts from the last 8 or 9 years and found all of my year-end music lists, which, nowadays, are basically the only thing I make time for writing-wise (cue world’s smallest violin). Some years I listed 15 top albums,… Read More ATR Music: Several years of top 10s
The opening thrust of the AV Club review of ATR favorite Spoon’s new album, “They Want My Soul,” is that unlike so many other Spoon albums, it takes a while to get going. I consider myself a Spoon scholar. Some of my favorite Spoon tracks are B-sides I’m certain you’ve never heard, etc. I’m an… Read More Spoon has my soul: “They Want My Soul” review
