Musing

This list is more about posterity than about writing convincing arguments imploring you to try these albums. I'm already later than I'd planned and time isn't getting any freer, so it's time to spit it out and get on with everything else! Of the albums worth mentioning from last year: ( Reflektor The Takeoff and Landing of Everything Bulletproof Picasso Things Are Really Great Here...Sort Of Slingshot to Heaven Odludek Embrace Ghost Stories Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke ) I have to hand it to Arcade Fire for Reflektor . Something that long could easily have become a bloated nightmare, but even listening to only one half or the other feels incomplete.  "Song Spells..." gets an honorable mention because it's one of those rare albums that actually captures a lot of the magic that made Sea Wolf's first album so good. The best track of the year comes from Elbow. A two-parter, "Fly Boy Blue / Lunette" gives you a proper f...