Albums That I Dismissed or Just Forgot About in 2008
Frightened Rabbit-The Midnight Organ Fight
Heather said this album was tops and her one of her favorite shows of all year. I kind of skipped out all together until one night where I found myself driving home from the office and listening to a couple tracks on World Cafe and thinking how this album is what Snow Patrol’s last album should have embodied. Maybe I’m missing the mark here all together, but vocals sound about the same for both respective acts with different songwriting and musical elements.
Frightened Rabbit-The Twist [mp3]
Hercules and Love Affair- S/T
No excuse here. I just forgot about this album together when I was cleaning the house the other day. The vocals from Antony on some of these tracks nail the nu-disco sound that the act achieve on every song. I think it was because they were slated to come to Monolith and pulled out that made me forget about the album.
Hercules and Love Affair-Blind (Motik Lok Edit) [mp3]
Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
The Wisconsin native was brought to my attention by Ryan and he ranted and raved about this bearded fellow. SXSW rolled by this year and I remember catching a day show of his at Emo’s in the early stages of the afternoon. Not a good mix of booze, early outdoor afternoon delight, and singer songwriter for my state of mind caused for us mosy to the next party. I started to read everybody’s list and I decided to give the album some proper attention. I regretfully admit that I did not do this sooner and want to kick myself for doing so. A co-worker of mine brought up a really good point of how he would do all the different voices in a live show? I had to calmly explain to him that it’s just part of the biz….
oh yay. yay!