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Yeah, that Mount Eerie album is rough. I don't have a lot of room for music that's that emotionally heavy and devastating, but it's pretty brilliant too. Very sad. I've met Phil a couple of times, but I don't think I ever met his wife. I was just a college kid showing up at D+ and Microphones shows back when I crossed paths with him. Sad stuff though. Jesus.
The year hasn't been overwhelming for me either. I've got some super obvious albums up near the top (Kendrick, Jay-Z), some really brilliant but not overly accessible electronic shit (Jlin, Arca, Visible Cloaks, Blanck Mass), a few alt rock type albums that are good in the way my 22-year-old self would have loved, but just don't do quite the same thing for me anymore (Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Flaming Lips), and a few weird surprises, like THE YOSSARIANS - FABRIC OF TIME and the new Jefre Cantu Ledesma.
But I don't think I've listened to so few new albums in a given year in quite some time.
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