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Return to 2007 #9 – Minus the Bear – Planet of Ice
I'm returning to 2007 to see how my Best Albums of 2007 list has fared this year before tackling the best of 2008. My review from the tinyblog: The only person I know who was into Minus the Bear before...
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Return to 2007 #8 – Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
I'm returning to 2007 to see how my Best Albums of 2007 list has fared this year before tackling the best of 2008. My review from the tinyblog: There is just no doubt that Amy Winehouse is a tremendous...
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Return to 2007 #7 – The National – Boxer
I'm returning to 2007 to see how my Best Albums of 2007 list has fared this year before tackling the best of 2008. My review from the tinyblog: Okay, I'm always going to be tempted to call them The...
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Return to 2007 #6 – Iron & Wine – The Shepherd's Dog
I'm returning to 2007 to see how my Best Albums of 2007 list has fared this year before tackling the best of 2008. My review from the tinyblog: If folk music has a future, this is it. Here's a guy...
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The Sweet Snob's 10 Most Amazing Albums of 2010
Ok, I'd better get this out there, late and incomplete as it is, so I can move on to 2011 already. I want to write about James Blake and the new Radiohead, but it's all stuck in my craw until I can...
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The Sweetest, Snobbiest Albums of 2013
Ladies and gentlemen, I present my top 10 albums of 2013, starting with number 10: 10. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories Hey, I could sure live without hearing "Get Lucky" ever again but this is one...
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The Sweetest, Snobbiest Albums of 2014
These are the ten albums that came out in 2014 that I consider essential. These are the albums that outlined the shape of music for me. All of them I listened to dozens of times. Sometimes I just...
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The Sweetest, Snobbiest Albums of 2015
These were the albums that rocked me this year. Special thanks to Sean Glenn for his help and free labor with the sweet, sweet day-glo cover graphics. 10. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color Alabama...
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The Sweetest, Snobbiest Albums of 2017
10. Girlpool: Powerplant If Cobain was alive today, he'd like Girlpool. Somewhere West of the Vaselines. Alternately cooing and shredding. Song: Soup 9. Alex Cameron: Forced Witness: Alex Cameron...
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The Sweetest, Snobbiest Albums of 2021
In 2021: I moved from New York City to a cozy suburb of Chicago and experienced a cavalcade of isolation and personal disasters, so it’s unsurprising that my everyday musical tastes got very...
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