New Album Club Activity

Hey everyone.  Head over to the album club website to read our reviews of last month’s album, Grizzly Bear’s Vecktamist, and add your own thoughts.  We’ve also added a new poll, so you can let us know what you thought of the album with one click.  And of course, make sure you visit the album [...]

AC June: Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

On virtually every music blog (including, now, this one), Grizzly Bear’s new album is mentioned in conjunction to Animal Colective’s Merriwhether Post Pavilion.  But the two albums are nothing alike.  The reason, then, that these albums are mentioned together is that there has arisen a feud between different factions within indie-rock community; the defining difference [...]

Dark Days / Light Years: Analysis

Dark Days/Light Years is a very interesting album for me, in that I sincerely like the music, yet don’t ever really feel inclined to listen too it.  I guess that is what they made iPod playlists for.
First of all.  In his introductory post for DD/LY, Peter talked a little about how it was the cover [...]

Incentive

I know that people are reading the album club posts – wordpress’s stats tell me so much.  But so far, nobody but Pete and I are contributing.  That’s OK I guess, it is pretty hard to write about music (its like dancing about architecture).  However, I do want all of our album club followers to take [...]

AC May: Super Furry Animals – Dark Days / Light Years

Peter chose this month’s album again, since I choose the first two.  I really don’t know anything about this band at all, so this should be fun.  Here is what Petey had to say:
So this month I get to pick the album again and, I’ll be honest, at the time of my choosing there wasn’t [...]

Dear Science: Analysis

For the first two months of the Album Club, I have absolutely loved the featured albums.  And when I read on Peter’s blog that although he liked the albums, he didn’t love them, I was always a little disappointed.  I wonder if Peter will feel the same way when he reads this review.
So yeah, in case [...]

AC April: TV on the Radio – Dear Science

[The following was taken from our Album Club's sister blog, P is for Peter]
TV on the Radio’s website bio begins with a quotation from band member David Sitek, “A lot of bands have something to say, we have something to ask.” Well, I have something to ask, too! How did TVOTR’s album Dear [...]

Album Club is Now Streaming for Free

I hope that many of you are considering participating in  our growing album club.  One reason why you may not, though, is that you may not have or wish to spend the money to buy an album a month.  Well, I have now taken this excuse away from you.  Theresa came up with a great [...]

A Mountain Is A Mouth: Introduction

Last Month, our first Album Club selection, Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion  took us to the cutting edge of modern music.  (Read my analysis of the album and contribute your own here.)  I thought that with our second choice, we should listen to a brand new album from a band who is much more rooted [...]

Merriweather Post Pavilion: Response

Well, its a new month.  Time to see if anyone actually participated in my latest project: Album Club.  As you know, the inaugural album for the club was Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion.  I’ll say a few words about what I thought of the album, and then I invite anyone of you who listened to it to [...]