I'm really enjoying M83's new album, Saturdays = Youth; it's somehow both 80s retro and not. The AV Club gave the album an A and Pitchfork chimed in with an 8.5/10.
Two unrelated things:- amazon.com/mp3 is a quick way to get to the Amazon MP3 store.- The vast majority of the recent album releases rated by Metacritic are in the "generally favorable reviews" category. A few are rated "universal acclaim" or "mixed or average reviews" and only one is "generally negative". Compare that to the ratings for recently released movies, which are much lower on average. Do people demand higher quality from their music than movies? Or is so much music produced (compared to movies) that the only albums worth compiling reviews for are the good ones? (link)kottke komments
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# Peter said,
Absolutely the latter. America is drowning in good music. There's so much diversity, everyone can find a genre they like, and so much volume that even the relatively obscure bands have to put out good work to get attention. It's really a blessing that there's so much out there.