Andy Lobban

Black and red all over

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:12:35 +0000

Black and red all over

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31)

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:08:29 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31):

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Dear

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:34:12 +0000

Dear

Ah.

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:56:12 +0000

Ah.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:15:08 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24):

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Photo

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17)

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:28:58 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17):

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Photo

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Photo

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10)

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:36:52 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10):

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Indie Pop

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:11:31 +0000

For indie pop may be said — quite uniquely in modern music — to privilege the song above all else. While fans of other genres may love their bands for their style or their attitude, their sounds or their beats, their musicianship or their integrity, indie kids may be alone in caring scarcely a jot for anything but the song itself; the song qua song. Who cares if the singer can’t sing, or the drummer’s a little sloppy, or the guitarist looks like he bought his guitar for tuppence ha’penny (and sounds like he was ripped off)? Just listen to the songs. We might see something democratic at work here — extending the pop franchise even to those who lacked sufficient confidence for punk. Attendant on this, elements such as sound, orchestration, recording technique, tend towards the rough-hewn and sketched in. This sense of unfinishedness in the sound of the records cannot help but draw the listener in, inviting them to fill in the blanks with their own imagination — thus conjuring, around this kernel of the real album, myriad virtual albums, multiplying into infinity. Indie pop, it turns out, is a cool medium.

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3)

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:51:25 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27)

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:46:24 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27):

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Yesterday was A Day In The Life Of… day. I decided to...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:22:59 +0000

Yesterday was A Day In The Life Of… day. I decided to participate.

You’re either with me…

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:48:45 +0000

You’re either with me…

nevver: Try harder.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:39:18 +0000

nevver:

Try harder.

Busk

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:23:51 +0000

Busk

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:19:58 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6):

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Double El

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:55:26 +0000

Double El

My top albums of 2009

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:03:15 +0000

Obviously this is a pointless task, but someone asked us at Off The Beaten Tracks to write a top ten, so i did. Except I couldn’t get it down to less than 11, so here they are, in no particular order:

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
St Vincent - Actor
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
The Antlers - Hospice
The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile
Discovery - Discovery
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
The xx - xx
French Miami - French Miami
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone - vs. Children

I’m sure I’ve overlooked at least one important one. Just for fun, what are yours?