John Siden of the YouTube channel Surface Noise shares his thoughts, and feelings on what music means to him through careful examination of the albums he loves the most.
2021 Articles:
We Owe You Nothing: Fugazi’s Repeater
The Head on the Door: The Cure
The Club Is Open: Guided By Voices Alien Lanes
Am I The Happy Loss?: Echo & the Bunnymen’s Porcupine, and More
Trouble Will Find Me: The National
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: The Album That Shaped My Fandom
Rush: Shadows On The Road Behind
Is This It: The Strokes & The NYC Garage Rock Resurgence
The Stone Roses & The Birth Of The Madchester Scene
2022 Articles:
A Snapshot Of A Bygone Era: Looking Back At Guns N’ Roses Debut, Appetite For Destruction
Trompe Le Monde & The First Era Of the Pixies
A Case Study in Musical Progression: Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights
Embrace the Wind with Both Arms: A Deeper Look at the Legacy of The Cult
A Post-Rock Classic Twenty Years On: Looking Back at Sigur Rós’ ( )
Reviewing Sharon Van Etten’s We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
In The Garage: Weezer’s Debut Record Revisited
This is Where We Walked; This is Where We Swam: R.E.M.’s Transitional Album Lifes Rich Pageant
I Take a Drink Before I Hit the Town: Looking Back at The Replacements Pleased to Meet Me
What Might Have Been Lost: Reflections on Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago
We Are a Wave of White Noise: Death Cab for Cutie’s Dials Home with Asphalt Meadow
Tell Me, Can You Stick With This? Reviewing the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Return of the Dream Canteen
I Guess Sometimes We All Get What We Want in the End: Reviewing Taylor Swift’s Midnights
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