Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Paste Magazine Albums of the Decade #21 It’s a story we’ve grown quite familiar with in this first decade of the 21st century. You know, the one about the rich kids from upper Manhattan harboring aspirations of slumming it on the Lower East Side like the art ghetto legends they read about growing up. But [...]
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Paste Magazine’s Albums of the Decade #22 As great as the Decemberists‘ 2005 Picaresque is, the band’s real creative breakthrough came a year earlier, on the 18-minute single The Tain, which integrated Colin Meloy’s hyper-literate whimsy into an ambitious yet tuneful song-suite. On the second track of The Decemberists’ new album, The Crane Wife, Meloy [...]
