As usual, we asked Knox Road writers to provide their Top Albums of 2014. We’re excited to provide you with the results just in time for the new year! We’ve got some great lists and even better blurbs. Have a happy new year.
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As usual, we asked Knox Road writers to provide their Top Albums of 2014. We’re excited to provide you with the results just in time for the new year! We’ve got some great lists and even better blurbs. Have a happy new year. December 31st, 2014 | Tags: Alvvays, beatenberg, eagulls, Literature, Perfect Pussy, Perfume Genius, Strand of Oaks, The War On Drugs, Ty Segall | Category: Best of Lists, Special |
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Another year, another top albums list (some things changed, though — we turned 5 years old!). We asked Knox Road writers to provide their Top Albums of 2013. You know what ensued. Tears, laughter, debate. Actually not much of any of those. Just heartfelt thoughts. If these lists make you listen to one new album, it was all worth it. Have a happy holiday season and stay warm. December 19th, 2013 | Tags: 2013, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Lucius, savages, superchunk, The Pastels, Top Albums, Vampire Weekend | Category: Best of Lists, Special |
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As has become tradition, we asked Knox Road writers to provide their Top Albums of 2012 and we got a potpourri of responses. Have a happy holiday season, and thanks for sticking with us for another year. December 18th, 2012 | Tags: 2012, Alt-J, dirty projectors, Father John Misty, Frank Ocean, Tame Impala, The Oh Hellos, Top Albums, Wild Nothing | Category: Best of Lists, Special |
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This is not a standard “year-end list,” nor is it a standard “Knox Road year-end list.” See, we decided to do something different this year. I should note that, most importantly, Jamie and I just didn’t have the time to make a post like we’ve done the past couple years (see here and here), and we also didn’t have the time to listen to so many of the great albums out this year. So, we asked our talented writing team to contribute not only with their picks, but with some of their words as well. Thus, this post may seem a bit disorganized, but the content should hold you over. Also, note that Bari’s picks are not, in fact, all albums from 2011; they are the albums she listened to (and connected with) most in 2011. Oh, and of course I asked the team to pick their ten favorites, but knowing our writers, they did whatever the hell they wanted. And you know what? That’s why we love them. Continue reading Knox Road’s Top Albums of 2011. With a twist. → December 21st, 2011 | Tags: 2011, Top Albums | Category: Best of Lists, Special |
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If 2009 was the year for brilliant young rookies to make unique, interesting albums, 2010 is the year for the veteran sluggers. We saw releases from Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, Kanye West, The National, Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Belle & Sebastian, Wolf Parade, The Black Keys, Spoon, Robert Plant, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Gorillaz, Girl Talk, Big Boi and even Brian Eno. All this in addition to a host of young talented bands on their second or third albums and fresh new artists making their debut. So how do you choose? Well, although it might be popular to eschew big names for small ones, one can’t critically ignore the heavy-hitting releases. As with any list, we’ll be ignoring a few of your favorites from 2010 but that’s just how it works. You can’t make a cake without cracking a few eggs, or something like that. What it comes down to is the fact that 2010 was a REALLY good year for music. With dozens and dozens of amazing albums to choose from, Lee and I break down which 25 are (in our very humble opinions) the absolute best. December 6th, 2010 | Tags: 2010, Top Albums | Category: Best of Lists, Special |
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Hey, it’s been a pretty good year for music! After 2008 was widely declared a disaster from which only a few gems survived, 2009 had a lot of ground to make up. From Animal Collective and Washed Out to The xx and Fever Ray to Sea Wolf and Dark Was The Night, we had a lot of incredible albums to pick from for our year-end list. Unfortunately, there are only 25 spots and the three of us happen to have some very different ideas about what goes in those spots. But if 2009 taught us anything, it’s that the world of indie music has evolved into a much more artistic and experimental-leaning scene. Influences have reached around the world and incorporated everything from Afro-pop to heavy psychedelic. Bands and artists challenged the idea of the genre, forcing critics to constantly create new ones (chillwave, glo-fi, etc.). It has certainly been a brave year in music and there will surely be many more exciting things to come. As always, keep in mind that in the end, this is just a list. [Photo by James B. Hale] December 7th, 2009 | Tags: 2009, Best of Lists, Top Albums | Category: Best of Lists |
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Looking back at the past decade was tough for us at Knox Road. This was the decade we grew up in. We went through puberty, graduated high school and drank our first beers to this music. So when looking at what music is the “best” of the decade, it’s damn near impossible to separate the ones that are critically better than the ones we feel strongly attached to on an emotional level. So after creating and combining our individual “best of” lists, we have created a sort of patchwork of what we think are the greatest albums from 2000 to 2009. Although we individually ranked the albums and individually wrote about them, the list is a collective. It represents how three different music fanatics experienced the most important decade of their lives. So dig in. Love us, hate us and then go back to loving us because, in the end, this is just a list, you guys. November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Decade, List, Top Albums | Category: Best of Lists |
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Without further ado, we present to you 2008, in review. Top 10 Best Things (in no particular order): Kanye West’s “Eat Shit and Die” Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Conan O’ Brian fighting on national television Michael Phelps sets a lot of world records and loves freedom and democracy Of […] January 5th, 2009 | Tags: 2008, Albums, Anathallo, Best, Bon Iver, Born Ruffians, Canopy Glow, Dear Science, Feed The Animals, Fleet Foxes, Forever Ago, Frightened Rabbit, Girl Talk, Hot Chip, List, Lucky, Lykke Li, Made In The Dark, Mates of State, Miniature Tigers, Nada Surf, Re-Arrange Us, Red, Santogold, Tell It To The Volcano, The Airing of Grievances, The Midnight Organ Fight, titus andronicus, Top 10, Top 5, TV On The Radio, Worst, Yellow & Blue, Youth Novels | Category: Best of Lists, MP3, Special |
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