Quarterly Review: The Best of 2009’s Third Quarter
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Every time I do one of these, it feels like there’s one album that really stands out, followed by a glut of solid albums that are good, but don’t resonate at the same level. Every quarter seems to go like that, including this one, but sometimes the last week or two of the quarter brings in a wealth of albums that seem so good, but provide you with significantly less time to really soak them in. That’s what happened here. I don’t really know how much some of these albums will hold up or how much they can improve with time, but a few of the albums on this list feel like something special even though they have all the hallmarks of being “growers.” On top of that, I haven’t even heard new albums by Mission of Burma, Om, Tyondai Braxton, Why?, Circulatory System or Kid Cudi. So…things could change by the end of the year.