Top Ten Albums of 2009 - #2
Doves' Kingdom of Rust
Surprised? Yeah, I bet you are. This was an early pick for the best album of the year before I'd heard a single note. It's Doves! And thankfully, it IS awesome (despite the miserable wait while songs were recorded, re-recorded, scrapped, re-re-recorded, etc.). It flows a little better than Some Cities, if not so well as the first two. Yet the one thing that gets me is the tracklisting. Four new b-sides were released in various ways from this album (counting "The Last Son" and "Ship of Fools") and every single of of them was better than "The Outsiders." Too harsh and with little direction, "The Outsiders" is the biggest reason this album derails at all.
The best album of the year, along with the usual year-end awards and the "But What About Album [X]?" list will be out just after New Year's. Happy Holidays!
Doves' Kingdom of Rust
Surprised? Yeah, I bet you are. This was an early pick for the best album of the year before I'd heard a single note. It's Doves! And thankfully, it IS awesome (despite the miserable wait while songs were recorded, re-recorded, scrapped, re-re-recorded, etc.). It flows a little better than Some Cities, if not so well as the first two. Yet the one thing that gets me is the tracklisting. Four new b-sides were released in various ways from this album (counting "The Last Son" and "Ship of Fools") and every single of of them was better than "The Outsiders." Too harsh and with little direction, "The Outsiders" is the biggest reason this album derails at all.The best album of the year, along with the usual year-end awards and the "But What About Album [X]?" list will be out just after New Year's. Happy Holidays!
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