listening to Aa for all the wrong reasons

2020

Aloha Home Acres (revisited)
R.E.M. Automatic for the People (revisited)
Vagabon Infinite Worlds (revisited)

2019

Alpha Wann UMLA

2018

Dean Devlin Geostorm
Vikki Tobak Contact High
Yowler Black Dog in My Path

2017

Everything was fine.

2016

Kanye West The Life of Pablo

2015

The Dodos Individ
Juan Villoro The Guilty

2014

The Black Keys Live at Oracle Arena
Common Live at Regency Ballroom
Mark Kozelek Live at Great American Music Hall
Edouard Levé Works

2013

Genpei Akasegawa Hyperart: Thomasson
Dads American Radass (this is important)
Jimmy Eat World Live at the Warfield
Jurassic 5 Live at Outside Lands
Talib Kweli Prisoner of Conscious

2012

Andrew Bird Break It Yourself
Death Cab For Cutie Live at the Fox
El-P Cancer For Cure
The Hood Internet Feat
Hospitality s/t
Andrew Hugill ‘Pataphysics: A Useless Guide
Kendrick Lamar good kid m.A.A.d city
Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance
STS The Illustrious
Sun Kil Moon “Sunshine In Chicago”
Zammuto s/t

2011

Akron/Family interview
Atlas Sound Parallax
Atmosphere The Family Sign
Battles Gloss Drop
Beirut The Rip Tide
Bright Eyes The People’s Key
William Buckholz Understand Rap
Fabolous “I’m Raw”
Robert Fitterman Now We Are Friends
Lil B Live at Mezzanine
Telekinesis 12 Desperate Straight Lines
Tyler, the Creator Goblin

2010

Aloha Home Acres
Best Coast Crazy For You
The Fresh & Onlys Play It Strange
Lil B Rain In England
Malachai Ugly Side of Love
Mogwai Burning
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready To Die
Surfer Blood Astro Coast
Tanlines Settings
These New Puritans Hidden

2009

Andrew Bird Noble Beast
Bachelorette My Electric Family
Busdriver Jhelli Beam
Dälek Gutter Tactics
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul
From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies
The Whitest Boy Alive Rules
Why? Eskimo Snow

2008

Tim Fite Fair Ain’t Fair
Hauschka Ferndorf
Destined: High Places
Mogwai Young Team reissue
Ian Monk Plouk Town
Re-Up Gang We Got It For Cheap Vol. 3
These New Puritans Beat Pyramid

2007

Beirut The Flying Club Cup (.pdf)
Destined: Essie Jain
Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke
Nina Nastasia & Jim White You Follow Me
The Octopus Project Hello, Avalanche (.pdf)
Michael Perry, ed. Hand Job (.pdf)
Elliott Smith New Moon
Trans Am Sex Change
White Rainbow Prism of Eternal Now

2006

Cloudland Canyon Requiems der Natur, 2002-2004
Envelopes Demon
The Mountain Goats Get Lonely
Scissorkicks Tractatus Logico-Philorockicus
On the Verge: Lil Weavah

2005

Atmosphere You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having
Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees
José González Veneer
Will Smith Willmatic
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary

2004

Elliott Smith From A Basement on the Hill
Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined

2003