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Best Albums of 2011

Posted: January 3, 2012 by Sean Flinn in Album Reviews, Music
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As I said in my “Favorite Songs of 2011” post, I bought and loved more music in 2011 than I have in just about any other year — if my Amazon bill and my annual iTunes “Best of …” smart playlist are any indicators. A lot of other crap could’ve influenced those two metrics. But [...]

RATING: 7/10 About 15 seconds into Recoil’s dark and unsettling new album, Liquid, all questions about Alan Wilder’s departure from Depeche Mode in 1997 are answered. Something must’ve been simmering inside the man for years and finally reached a boiling point. It spilled over in ’97 onto Unsound Methods, Wilder’s first post-Mode Recoil release (1+2, [...]