As mentioned previously on The Musical Chairs, I’ll be doing a Top 50 list for 2009. However, it’s not really going to be a top 50 of sorts. It’s one thing to pick 50 albums, but it’s another thing altogether to list them. Trying to list them is a task with the words ‘doomed mission’ [...]

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Max
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It’s that time of year where the folks that write about music have to look back over the past year. I’m sure you’ve already seen a ton of lists explaining what the year’s best music was and some nostalgic features (fear not, if you like that sort of thing then you’re in luck as The [...]

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Max
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Anti-fans of all things twee should probably look away right now. I have seen what might be the most cutesy, twee, and happy music video for sometime. You Never Know, full of accordians and twinkly xylophones and all the other staple musical instruments required to make good twee-pop, is by Margaret Stutt, aka Pezzettino. It’s [...]

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Max
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Some readers may be aware of the fact that this was declared the greatest album of 2008 by this music site a year ago. Why? There are two basic contexts to judge it on. The first is the context of the year itself. 2008 wasn’t music’s best year, with only a few albums released that [...]

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Max
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Unfortunately, I’m going to have to make this a quick post because of time constraints but you’ll see a full review on Sonic Dice at some point in the near future. Crazybobbles suggested to me that we should go and see The Sounds, a Swedish five-piece who lean very heavily on the new wave side [...]

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Max
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