Someone finally puts their finger on it. Why they're great, but you simultaneously hate them. Here's the linkand an excerpt - "They've merely outed the truth of indie, which was never really The People's Music for all its affected sloppiness and "beautiful loser" tropes, instead always much more of an upper-middle-class milieu, the kids recoiling from the commercial and mass-produced just like t
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The Village Voice Explains the Vampire Weekend phenomenon
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
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Here we are, almost a decade deep into the new millennium and my favorite album of the year sounds about as muffled and distorted as Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone conversation; well maybe AGB wasn't screaming like this.Titus Andronicus' The Airing of Grievances stands out amongst other albums in these times of advanced technology, obsession over production value, and (curiously) the empl
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Glasvegas
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I recently took a few of my old Phil Spector LPs (I hope he doesn't attempt to murder me for this (allegedly)), a VHS copy of "The Commitments", some haggis, and threw them all in an industrial meat grinder. It made a raucous of call-and-response songs, distortion, an old-timey nostalgic sound, and some Scottish accents thick enough to be characters in "Trainspotting". I called this monster Gla...
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Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
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It took almost a week of listening to Songs in A&E to feel comfortable reviewing it. There is a presence apparent in Jason Pierce's delivery that made this album feel too meaningful to absorb completely on the first indulged listens. After 6 or 7 spins, I was happy to learn that the name of the group does not mislead the listener whatsoever. Spiritualized delivers a sound seemingly larger than the
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