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Music Purchase Log: December 2008

Pencil blog by Brandon on 02 January 2008, tagged as music

Albums I purchased in December 2008:

  • Calla - Scavengers
  • Emery - I'm Only a Man
  • Health - HEALTH
  • June - Make It Blur
  • Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
  • Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift
  • New Amsterdams, The - At the Foot of My Rival
  • Piebald - Accidental Gentlemen
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
  • Receiving End of Sirens, The - The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
  • Rocket Summer, The - Do You Feel
  • Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
  • Small Brown Bike - The River Bed
  • Strung Out - Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
  • Tegan and Sara - The Con
  • Unseen, The - Internal Salvation
  • Warriors, The - Genuine Sense of Outrage
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Dang by anthonyanthony :: NR5

I think Shellac exists in a bubble of irony where most people are into them simply because their music is so inaccessible...oh and having Steve Albini in the band doesn't hurt.

I have listened to Queens of the Stone Age a few times. Each instance was spawned by the fact that their name is so bad ass. Despite the nomenclature, their music sounds--within a margin of 10 - 15%--the same to me. They have that pre-apocalyptic-garage-indie-grind sound(why? because I get joy out of lampooning ridiculous genre tags by coming up with annoyingly abstract descriptors for rock music).

However, Nada Surf is by far one of my favorite bands. Let Go is a great album as is The Proximity Effect...which does not bode well for The Weight is a Gift as it sounds like a step backward for them in comparison.

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