12.14.12The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 10-1 (All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). ▶
12.13.12The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 20-11 (All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). ▶
12.12.12The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 30-21 (All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). ▶
12.11.12The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 40-31 (All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). ▶
12.10.12The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 50-41 Unlike album countdowns, which tend to display a broad consensus across publications (i.e. everyone likes Frank Ocean), end-of-year song countdowns tend to be a bit more idiosyncratic. Given that one’s opinion of an individual song is so dependent on mood and moment, and given that a 3-minute pop song is such an ephemeral entity, memorializing...▶
03.30.12The Albums We Missed: Winter 2012 This year, Frontier Psychiatrist has expanded both its staff and its coverage considerably (as evidenced by our recent SXSW overload), allowing us to bring you more thoughts on our favorite records, concerts, books and films than ever before. Nonetheless, it seems as if every week a new album is released that mesmerizes us but that...▶
01.23.12Songs Without Words: A Review of DropxLife’s Furthur “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” -Gustav Mahler For the young listener, the move from vocal-driven music to vocal-less music has typically marked the first step on the long descent into music nerdery. Most casual listeners view pop music...▶
01.10.11The Artist as a Young Man: A Review of James Blake Historically, the eponymous LP has served one of two purposes. Either it is an effort to re-invent an overly familiar band to the music-buying public (think The Beatles, Metallica, Blur), or it is an attempt to introduce an audacious new musical brand (think Ramones, The Smiths, Vampire Weekend). After a year in which he released...▶