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8.8

Tom Waits – Bad As Me

October 25th, 2011

Bad As Me is yet another sensational landmark on the long, well-traveled path of a man who simply refuses to age.

6.5

Real Estate – Days

October 20th, 2011

The band’s second — and thus far highly acclaimed — full-length is reminiscent of those sporadic days of sunshine that sometimes make their mark even as our yards fill with orange and red leaves.

7.8

M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

October 17th, 2011

Gonzalez is as poised as anyone to create an album of this scope and turns in a great attempt, though it could have been significantly better with some discretion.

7.2

Modeselektor – Monkeytown

October 13th, 2011

Speaking in terms of album — of one cohesive collection of songs — it is no stretch to call Monkeytown the pair’s most realized work to date.

6.9

This is the album she’s been building towards since emerging from a promising fog on New Amsterdam. Yet, as her vision reaches its highest point yet, her output still feels more like promise than realization.

8.2

Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire

October 11th, 2011

The long, winding highway that Ryan Adams first entered as a lovelorn, sentimental balladeer on 2000′s Heartbreaker has finally brought him back home.

7.5

Future Islands – On the Water

October 10th, 2011

It’s a near certainty that I’ll never completely fall in love with Herring’s voice, but the instrumentation is another story.

7.0

We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach

October 5th, 2011

The potential that existed on Four Walls hasn’t been sapped by any means. Hopefully it’s just taking these guys a bit longer to have their big breakthrough.

8.3

Feist – Metals

October 4th, 2011

If it were possible to actually hear a heavy snowfall, it might sound something like this.

5.9

DJ Shadow – The Less You Know the Better

October 3rd, 2011

For an artist so insistent on pushing boundaries and letting his sounds evolve, this record is scary in how stagnant, dated, and uninspired it sounds.