December 2010
8 posts
“05. Will Stratton: New Vanguard Blues. Another of this year’s quiet gems, Will...”
– Chris Nowling’s top 10 records of the year, In Review Online
Subject to revision (a best-of).
Overall, I think that Best-Of lists are reductive and feed into people’s increasingly insatiable appetites for new music, as well as their increasingly short attention spans. That’s not going to stop me from writing one myself, of course. This, like most years in recent memory, has so far been beset by a handful of unwieldy and self-important albums that as albums didn’t do much for me in the...