Well, November didn’t exactly go as planned. My non-music-writing life caught up to me in a big way this past month and I’ve had the rabid, academic monster known as college breathing down my neck. I’m still quite wrapped up in schoolwork, but hopefully I’ll find some time in the coming weeks to review a few albums before posting my Best Music of 2009 feature. I’m really looking forward to boiling an entire year’s worth of music down to a few key highlights.
In keeping with that theme, there’s one small change I want to make to album grades. The Mars Volta’s Octahedron is losing half a pretzel, dropping it down to a still respectable 4 pretzels. Octahedron is the album I’ve listened to the least among my overall favorites from the year and upon further listens, it doesn’t quite have the spark I thought I heard when I first listened to the album. These things happen.
There are only a few albums I know I want to review in December. The Portishead offshoot Beak>’s debut album is one of them, as is Clipse’s Til The Casket Drops. Despite being released months ago, Dark Night Of The Soul deserves some coverage as well. Devendra Banhart, Them Crooked Vultures and 50 Cent round out the list of intriguing albums that are coming in during these closing moments of the decade. Finally, should Lil Wayne’s Rebirth actually be released this month, you can be sure I’ll have lots to write about it.
I want to thank everyone who’s been reading Pretzel Logic thus far. 2009 (and the 2000s) are almost over, meaning there’s going to be a lot of music talk going on. I enjoy adding my own voice to that mix.
In keeping with that theme, there’s one small change I want to make to album grades. The Mars Volta’s Octahedron is losing half a pretzel, dropping it down to a still respectable 4 pretzels. Octahedron is the album I’ve listened to the least among my overall favorites from the year and upon further listens, it doesn’t quite have the spark I thought I heard when I first listened to the album. These things happen.
There are only a few albums I know I want to review in December. The Portishead offshoot Beak>’s debut album is one of them, as is Clipse’s Til The Casket Drops. Despite being released months ago, Dark Night Of The Soul deserves some coverage as well. Devendra Banhart, Them Crooked Vultures and 50 Cent round out the list of intriguing albums that are coming in during these closing moments of the decade. Finally, should Lil Wayne’s Rebirth actually be released this month, you can be sure I’ll have lots to write about it.
I want to thank everyone who’s been reading Pretzel Logic thus far. 2009 (and the 2000s) are almost over, meaning there’s going to be a lot of music talk going on. I enjoy adding my own voice to that mix.
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