The final hours of 2008 are winding down, and I’m done with my month-long run-through of 31 albums from this roller coaster ride of a year. Here are links to the music I dug in the Year of the Rat: Day 1 – Fleet Foxes – Ragged Wood Day 2 – Dennis Wilson – Pacific [...]
Malkmus lays out exactly what Real Emotional Trash is going to be right from the start. Chugging, aerial distorted guitars rev up the beginning of “Dragonfly Pie” as he sings, “Of all my stoned digressions, some amputated into the truth.” And with this album that’s, well, the truth. “Hopscotch Willie” is next, a poetic device [...]
Sometimes you unconsciously avoid something for a long time and then suddenly stumble into it and are baffled that such a collision took so long. That’s what happened with me and Jay Reatard. Slightly put off my his stage name (I’m still not into it), I just never got around to checking out any of [...]