For many a male youth born after 1970, ingesting Black Sabbath for the first time is a rite of passage. To miss out on the band’s occult

PC Music, as much as can be gleaned, is a collective of terribly un-Googleable British producers who manufacture a maximalist brand of guilty pleasure

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Usually I have an aversion to Kickstarter campaigns, but I’ll give Swearing at Motorists a pass, if only because the first album

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Top 10 Albums

1. Foxygen, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (Jagjaguwar)
Ambitious pop songs full of both joy and cynicism.

2. Bill Callahan, Dream River (Drag City)
The work of Bill Callahan gets better with age, but this one seemed to be his most immediate album when age has left his songwriting subdued and hushed. It’s his Aja.…