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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I’m someone who sees the career of The White Stripes split into three separate chunks. Their first two albums, a self-titled and De Stijl, were very raw, very bluesy, and sometimes quite uncompromising. Their last two albums, the experimental Get Behind Me Satan and Icky Thump, were a band post-mainstream breakthrough. However, their real moment [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Max
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2005 was a great year for albums in this decade – possibly the best – and there are many albums that I could have picked to represent that year. This, however, is almost in a league of its own. At the time that Demon Days came out it had been four years since Gorillaz, the [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Max
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Muse first arrived on the scene in 1999 when they released their debut album, Showbiz. Between 1999-2000 the band were touring themselves to death, playing every country and booking slots at almost every festival imaginable in order to spread the word. Whilst they were touring, the band were starting to get experimental in their songwriting [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Max
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In 1999 a band called Radiohead were wondering what the hell they were going to do after slaying the music critics of the world and the music fans of the world with their 1997 magnum opus, OK Computer. Following an album of such magnitude and marvel was always going to be a mighty challenge. In [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by Max
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