The best albums of 2012 you didn’t listen to
I know, I know. I’ve been busy listening to “Red,” too. Here are some albums that may have slipped through the cracks in 2012.
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Patrician Club: Shoegaze
Shoegaze is a musical genre that takes core tenants and instrumentations of rock n’ roll, stretches them like saltwater taffy and passes them through an assembly line of noisy filters and effects that would shame Foxconn. Borrowing much of the distortion and general amplitude from its predecessor, noise pop, and combining it with the droopy, melting song structures of the non-popular dream pop, shoegaze has a knack for making you want to wrap yourself in an Afghan and pass out on a bean bag as you lose track of time while the grinding and whirring reverberates through your impeccably chiseled cheek bones.