Blog: So Much Silence

Since seeing them in Tucson last week, I have been devouring all things by The Twilight Sad , whose stunning new album, Forget the Night Ahead , possesses all the emotion and feeling sorely lacking in a mostly underwhelming year marked by dull synth-pop and a hyped-up lo-fi scrap heap. I was distressed that it took until almost October for a true album-of-the-year contender to reveal itself to me. Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix ; Neko Case's Middle Cyclone ; The Cave Singers' Welcome Joy and Mos Def's The Ecstatic [...]