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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge, 2010) and other ephemera

The Part About Arcade Fire #1 The Suburbs  is an infuriating album for a variety of reasons. It sits in an awkward place in Arcade Fire's discography between their youth and nostalgia oriented chamber pop material and their later dancier, synthier work. It's lyrical content both feels like a ode to growing up delivered from an older couple glaring at you from their mansion's porch. It also won the Grammy for album of the year in 2011. It's a small blip in the grand scheme of rock and roll, especially for the enlightened who could not possibly give a shit about the Grammys, but it felt like the first nail in the coffin for the hipster.  This article  from The Ringer details the aftermath better than I could, though I have fond memories of infuriating myself by reading the "Who is Arcade Fire?" Tumblr blog. Multiple articles and entire books have been written about The Suburbs , actually. The Grammy win was a big cultural moment for a lot of young music fans at ...
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Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience (2013, RCA Records)

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  Show You a Few Things I’ve been spending all night trying to pinpoint exactly when my obsession with Justin Timberlake’s 2013 album The 20/20 Experience started. I haven’t been able to piece together a logical progression or a narrative tale, but I have this tweet about a “poll” to go off of as a starting place: https://twitter.com/Jorty_Spice/status/301126362171838464 . During this period of my life I was really depressed and used the tried and true method of vomiting every thought, whether or not it was actually valuable or worth sharing, on social media to try to feel like I was expressing myself in a vulnerable way. I tend not to do that anymore, but it makes the 2012-2014 segment of my Twitter archive a fun time capsule. “Suit and Tie” dropped about a month before this tweet and, somehow, I vividly remember the bespoke poll taking place over the entire month. It took time to let “Suit and Tie” sink in. My extended college friend group was 17 (!!!) people strong, and we cover...
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