Blog: PopMatters

Albums that missed our Top 60 Albums list , but at least one of our writers loves. Artist: Basement Jaxx Album: Scars Label: Ultra/XL Image: http://www.popmatters.com/imag es/blog_art/s/scars-200.jpg Display Width: 200 Forget 2012. If 2009 marked the apocalypse, Scars would make a fantastic send-off for planet Earth. In their dependably inimitable manner, Basement Jaxx have crafted an album that fuses together beats of numerous styles and orientations. Scars distills a good half-century's worth of dance music from around the world--ska, Euro-pop, bhangra--and funnels it through the genius of Felix Buxton and Simon Racliffe. Santigold,...