Frontier Psychiatrist

(All week we’re counting down the top albums of 2010.  For previous entries on the list, click here or simply scroll down.  We hope you enjoy the music.) 10. Vampire Weekend – Contra We at FP are unabashed fans of Vampire Weekend, a bizarrely unpopular position given the band’s success.  Perhaps it’s the fact that [...]

(All week we’re counting down the top albums of 2010.  For previous entries on the list, click here or simply scroll down.  We hope you enjoy the music.) 20. The Budos Band – The Budos Band III These Staten Island revivalists fuse Afro-beat with the sounds of instrumental-rock godfathers The Ventures and The Meters, and [...]

(All week we’re counting down the top albums of 2010.  For previous entries on the list, click here or simply scroll down.  We hope you enjoy the music.) 30. Sleigh Bells – Treats Sleigh Bells, who are favorites in these parts, are blowing up.  Treats is true to its name and gives listeners eleven tracks [...]

We will readily admit: we’re not sure if anyone listens to albums anymore.  The commercial growth of the mp3 format rendered the full-length LP something of a curiosity in the early part of this century, leading to the era of Pandora, in which listeners often don’t even know the band responsible for the song they’re [...]