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Oh give me pretty song, oh let me have that sound tonight

Dan Seeger

Yesterday I posted a list of my top ten albums of 2014. My other year-end tradition centered on music involves presenting some of my choices for the best songs of the year, a process a little complicated by the absence of the methodology that’s helped me make the selections. Previously, I highlighted some of the tracks I stumped for to no avail in Spectrum Culture’s process to determine their collective year-end tally. Since I’m not longer hanging my writer’s hat on their coatrack, I wasn’t privy to any of that, but I’d still prefer to use this regular post to … Continue reading Oh give me pretty song, oh let me have that sound tonight

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Top Ten Albums of 2014

Dan Seeger

And here we come to the end of another year. Though I tried to keep up with new music without the outside impetus of a website compelling me to write record reviews, I definitely fell behind. That’s led to a lot of cramming in the past few weeks and a tally I will present with the shakiest of conviction. Except for the work of art at the top of the list. That’s the best album of the year. I have no question or qualm about that. 1. St. Vincent, St. Vincent — This what Annie Clark has been building to all along. … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2014

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The New Releases Shelf: Turn Blue

Dan Seeger

(Picture) The backlash, it seems, is officially underway. While plenty of the more venerable publications have predictably lined up with dutiful raves, befitting the Akron duo’s new status as the last great hope of rock ‘n’ roll in a Miley Cyrus pop flare universe, there have also been equally expected kneejerk naysaying, led by a scalding from Pitchfork severe enough to prompt drummer Patrick Carney to sarcastically reference it during an appearance on The Colbert Report. The truth between these markedly different reactions, as it so often does, lies somewhere in between. Turn Blue is unmistakably a Black Keys record. … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf: Turn Blue