I think my ears are still ringing. Last night at the Rickshaw Theatre, Spiritualized once again managed to overcome pretty high expectations. While the show didn’t quite reach the heights of a ...
I often pass on giveaways I’m offered as they generally involve bands or artists I’m not really into. NOT THIS TIME. Jack White’s debut solo record Blunderbuss is a really, really g...
Over the years my love of Dappled Cities has been well-documented on A Reminder so when I learned Dappled Tim was putting out a solo EP I was pretty excited. I’ve always loved the drama in Tim&...
Lost in the Radiohead trip a few weeks ago was Gotye’s impressive show at the Vogue Theatre here in Vancouver. I first wrote about Gotye back in June 2006 when Wally was still pretty unknown, e...
On Easter Monday, we loaded up the car and headed down to Seattle to see Radiohead kick off the second leg of their 2012 King Of Limbs tour. Expectations were high. I hadn’t seen the band since...
Album #1: Let England Shake by PJ Harvey I’ve been a PJ Harvey fan for a long time and have loved nearly everything she’s done. But if you had told me in January that her record would be ...
Album #2: The King Of Limbs by Radiohead The King Of Limbs is not my favourite album of the year, apparently. I go back and forth. But I must admit to experiencing an existential crisis of sorts with...
Album #3: Skying by The Horrors Very rarely does a band so perfectly encapsulate the sound and vibe of a record through both the title and the album’s artwork, but The Horrors did just that wit...
Album #4: Absence by Snowman I don’t think any other record so effectively created one mood like Snowman’s swan song Absence did in 2011. At times Absence‘s ethereal beauty is tempe...
Album #5: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming by M83 M83′s Anthony Gonzalez has never shied away from ambition, but even by M83 standards Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is an extremely ambitious alb...
Album #6: Biophilia by Bjork Bjork’s ambitious Biophilia project, highlighted by the release of an “app” album, was problematic on a number of levels. The most glaring of these issu...
Album #7: Sound Kapital by Handsome Furs As modern music’s finest flâneurs, Handsome Furs have once again captured the energy, confusion, and invigoration that comes from travel. Sound Kapital,...
Album #8: Bon Iver, Bon Iver by Bon Iver I wasn’t a massive fan of For Emma, Forever Ago so I didn’t have the expectations a lot of people did for Bon Iver’s follow-up. So of course...
Album #9: Inni by Sigur Rós Over the past decade, I’ve had the extremely good fortune to experience Sigur Rós live on quite a few occasions and each show has been an intense and memorable exper...
Album #10: Smoke Ring For My Halo by Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo is not a showy album. Kurt Vile’s voice does not blow you away; the instrumentation is pretty typical; their isn’t an...
Album #11: Valhalla Dancehall by British Sea Power The lyrics are erudite, poignant, funny. The music is bombastic, exhilarating, delicate. And yet British Sea Power’s Valhalla Dancehall went p...
Album #12: Conatus by Zola Jesus Of all the records on this list, Zola Jesus’s mesmeric Conatus is the one I would really implore people to check out as I feel it has gone a little bit unnotice...
Album #13: Ashes & Fire by Ryan Adams In which Ryan Adams proves you can be happy AND make a great, acoustic-based record. Sure, it wasn’t the Heartbreaker Part 2 album many were hoping fo...
Album #14: Zonoscope by Cut Copy For a number of years now, Cut Copy have been one of the finest purveyors of sun-drenched electropop anthems and things continue in that vein on Zonoscope. Unlike the...
Album #15: Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues is just packed with incredible sounding acoustic guitars, amazing vocals, and some truly impressive songs. While it’s not a huge ...
Album #16: Metals by Feist At first I was a bit underwhelmed by Metals but the more time I spend with it the more it’s growing on me. Songs that I barely noticed the first few times through the...
Album #17: Collapse Into Now by REM It’s still kind of hard to believe this is the last album REM will ever release; they’ve always been there and I’ve loved a LOT of what they̵...
Album #18: The Whole Love by Wilco There are a lot of people out there (myself included) who really want Wilco to kind of go a little nuts in the studio again to create something along the lines of Y...
Album #19: Parallax by Atlas Sound At some point I figure Bradford Cox has to release a dud, right? Parallax is not that dud. This, his third Atlas Sound record, is another shot of dreamy pop soundsc...
Album #20: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will by Mogwai At this point, Mogwai aren’t exactly straying too far from their comfort zone. As with much of their output over the last six or seven...
Album #21: Live At The Paramount by Nirvana As someone who was just not quite old enough to see Nirvana live, I’ve always cherished their live records. And sure, putting a live record on a Best...
Album #22: Provider by Bry Webb When Constantines called it a day last year it seemed inevitable that a Bry Webb solo album would be on its way but Provider still came out of nowhere for me. I had no...
Album #23: Making Mirrors by Gotye Many years ago now, Gotye was one of the first artists to reach out to me and A Reminder in the hopes of getting some coverage and I’ve been following along c...
Album #24: Watch The Throne by Jay-Z & Kanye West This record is BIG beyond belief and it’s totally out of step with the reality of 2011. In fact, it kind of reminds me of Oasis’s co...
Album #25: Nine Types Of Light by TV on the Radio Nine Types Of Light proves that even when TV on the Radio are not firing on all cylinders they still make enjoyable albums. Despite being really poor...
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