Category: albums
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Musical Purchases that Sum Up My Complex Nature
Last week I bought two albums: and Adele’s album, her debut, is stylistically lumped in with the British Neo-soul movement (Amy Winehouse, Duffy, some Lily Allen, etc) but is distinct from her peers in several ways. While Allen’s singing comes with a sneer, Winehouse’s with the threat of self-destruction, and Duffy’s with vague sense of […]
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From the Screen to your iPod
I love a good cover. I love a good cover often more than the original song. I think revisionist perspectives on existing art, when done smartly and with reverence, are brilliant. And today, I received a kind of gift from the universe. Today marks the drop date for New Found Glory’s new album of covers, […]
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Hilary Duff: A Treatise
I’m going to admit something that probably won’t shock you if you read this blog often enough. I’ve been listening to Hilary Duff. A lot. Her new album, Dignity, comes in the wake of her break-up with Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden. They were always sort an odd pairing from the beginning, in my opinion: […]
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Tori Amos: A Return to Form
I downloaded Tori’s new album last week and got a few opportunities to listen to the first half. So far, I really like it. It does seem a bit like both a return to form and an evoluation. I wasn’t a huge fan of The Beekeeper—I thought it sounded like outtakes from Scarlet’s Walk (which […]
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Good Grief, Charlotte Brown!
This week the new Good Charlotte album dropped and even after just 24 hours I can say I am totally in love with it. Good Morning Revival is a bit of a departure from their first two albums, The Young and the Hopeless and The Chronicles of Life and Death. Their previous efforts have been […]
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One Last List Because AWP’s Right Around the Corner
Albums I’ve purchased this year: +44, When Your Heart Stops BeatingThey kind of remind me of Sugar and Foo Fighters playing together, but I like it. It has a fresh, 90s-alterna feel to it. Ok Go, Oh NoI was a little late to the train, but I’ve sorted it out now and I really like […]
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