Blog: the Eaten by Monsters blog

This time last year the musical calendar was looking pretty darned exciting. With albums on the horizon by EbM favourites Broken Records, Emmy the Great, frYars, Esser and The Decemberists I was expecting great things of 2009. Sure enough, 2009 produced some great records and was an all-round "good year for music", but strangely none of the albums I was so excited about delivered on expectations. All the aforementioned albums were good , but none of them were great, and certainly nowhere near as good as we'd all hoped they would be; hype is truly a terrible thing. [...]