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Month: December 2009

Decade :: Radiohead, Kid A (2000)

Posted on December 31, 2009December 3, 2018

Radiohead’s Kid A is advanced. You know this because you’ve listened to it. You know this because countless writers and critics and friends and foes have told you so. Dozens, maybe hundreds, […]

Decade :: The Strokes, Is This It (2001)

Posted on December 31, 2009May 21, 2022

There could be a lot to resent about the Strokes before ever listening to their music. A bunch of wealthy, well-traveled prep-school kids from Manhattan hit a bit of luck and became […]

Decade :: Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)

Posted on December 30, 2009December 31, 2009

Following 9/11, the world seemed a bit colder. If there were an historical event that defined the 00s for the United States, it was certainly that one, and the disillusioned […]

Decade :: Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People (2002)

Posted on December 29, 2009May 21, 2022

As Justin said in his Decade entry on Sufjan Stevens’ Michigan , some albums feel intrinsically linked to the experience of listening to them.   Maybe it’s a romantic sentiment, but music […]

Decade :: The Arcade Fire, Funeral (2004)

Posted on December 28, 2009May 21, 2022

It’d be easy to peg Funeral a death processional. People have done it before. Nearly every time anyone ever talked about the record, in fact. I never read the liner notes […]

Vic Chesnutt :: Left To His Own Devices

Posted on December 26, 2009May 14, 2022

Vic was our Keats, our Nina Simone. There will never be another like him. – Guy Picciotto, Fugazi It’s funny the things we tend to remember, or I should say, […]

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

Posted on December 25, 2009December 20, 2009

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM , channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight […]

Decade :: Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (2000)

Posted on December 24, 2009May 21, 2022

What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]

Decade :: Elliott Smith, Figure 8 (2000)

Posted on December 23, 2009May 21, 2022

What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]

Decade :: TV On The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)

Posted on December 23, 2009May 21, 2022

What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]

Decade :: Outkast, Stankonia (2000)

Posted on December 22, 2009May 21, 2022

What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]

Decade :: Trail of Dead, Source Tags and Codes (2002)

Posted on December 22, 2009May 21, 2022

What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]

Aquarium Drunkard :: 2009 Year In Review

Posted on December 21, 2009December 12, 2022

Here it is — our obligatory year-end list. Mixing things up, I decided to take a different tack this year and feature more than fifteen albums (see: previous year-end lists). […]

Decade :: Josh Ritter, The Animal Years (2006)

Posted on December 21, 2009May 21, 2022

What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]

Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas…

Posted on December 20, 2009December 20, 2009

One of my favorite Okkervil River songs, I always save “Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas” for December, as Will Sheff so perfectly captures the emotional undercurrent of the season. […]

 
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