a moment of clarity.
words.
THE WASHINGTON POST: The 1% as victims? That’s rich!
Friday, January 31, 2014
#DUDES.
A Moment of Clarity.
"Clearly, men in America have grown up learning to be scared of gayness. But not only for the reasons we typically think—not only, in the end, because of religion, insecurity about their own sexuality, or a visceral aversion to other men’s penises. The truth is, they’re afraid because heterosexuality is so fragile.
Heterosexuality’s power lies in perception, not physical truth—as long as people think you’re exclusively attracted to the right gender, you’re golden. But perception is a precarious thing; a “zero-tolerance” policy has taught men that the way people think of them can change permanently with one slip, one little kiss or too-intimate friendship. And once lost, it can be nearly impossible to reclaim.
Put another way, the zero-tolerance rule means that if a man makes one “wrong” move—kisses another man in a moment of drunken fun, say—he is immediately assumed to be gay. Women have a certain amount of freedom to play with their sexuality (mostly because society has a hard time believing in lesbian sex at all). Male sexuality, on the other hand, is understood as unidirectional. Once young men realize they are gay, they become A Gay Person. We don’t hear about gay men discovering an interest in women later in life, and we rarely believe men when they say they are bisexual—the common, if erroneous, wisdom is that any man who says he is bi is really just gay and hasn’t admitted it yet.
The result of all this is that men are not allowed “complex” sexualities;..."
SLATE: Homophobia Is a Real Fear … but of What, Exactly?
"Clearly, men in America have grown up learning to be scared of gayness. But not only for the reasons we typically think—not only, in the end, because of religion, insecurity about their own sexuality, or a visceral aversion to other men’s penises. The truth is, they’re afraid because heterosexuality is so fragile.
Heterosexuality’s power lies in perception, not physical truth—as long as people think you’re exclusively attracted to the right gender, you’re golden. But perception is a precarious thing; a “zero-tolerance” policy has taught men that the way people think of them can change permanently with one slip, one little kiss or too-intimate friendship. And once lost, it can be nearly impossible to reclaim.
Put another way, the zero-tolerance rule means that if a man makes one “wrong” move—kisses another man in a moment of drunken fun, say—he is immediately assumed to be gay. Women have a certain amount of freedom to play with their sexuality (mostly because society has a hard time believing in lesbian sex at all). Male sexuality, on the other hand, is understood as unidirectional. Once young men realize they are gay, they become A Gay Person. We don’t hear about gay men discovering an interest in women later in life, and we rarely believe men when they say they are bisexual—the common, if erroneous, wisdom is that any man who says he is bi is really just gay and hasn’t admitted it yet.
The result of all this is that men are not allowed “complex” sexualities;..."
SLATE: Homophobia Is a Real Fear … but of What, Exactly?
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
a moment of clarity.
words.
"...when wealthy individuals are understood to have bettered most people’s lives — as, say, Steve Jobs was — they win acclaim and even veneration. But the paths that many of today’s wealthiest Americans have taken on their road to riches have not bettered most people’s lives. Many have actually hurt most people’s lives. Their riches have come at most other people’s expense.
Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, for instance, the wages for all private-sector jobs have fallen, on average, by 0.5 percent. The wages for jobs in financial services, however, have risen by 5.5 percent. Inasmuch as the recession was brought about by the financial services industry, it’s understandable that this disparity would strike most people as unjust.
...Many in that 1 percent argue that the root cause of this inequality is the nation’s deficient schools. Granting that our schools could be improved, that hardly explains why the pay of bankers and CEOs has soared, or why corporations would rather buy back their own shares than give their employees raises. If the voluble members of the 1 percent wish to reclaim some legitimacy, they might become active in campaigns to raise the minimum wage and make it possible for workers to form unions without fear of being fired. After all, some CEOs have unions of their own devoted to boosting their pay: They’re called corporate boards. Until and unless corporate leaders back their workers’ efforts to form unions, here’s some advice on what to say when their fellow Americans question the propriety and legitimacy of their wealth: nothing. One percenters, just shut up."
THE WASHINGTON POST: Money made at others’ expense
"...when wealthy individuals are understood to have bettered most people’s lives — as, say, Steve Jobs was — they win acclaim and even veneration. But the paths that many of today’s wealthiest Americans have taken on their road to riches have not bettered most people’s lives. Many have actually hurt most people’s lives. Their riches have come at most other people’s expense.
Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, for instance, the wages for all private-sector jobs have fallen, on average, by 0.5 percent. The wages for jobs in financial services, however, have risen by 5.5 percent. Inasmuch as the recession was brought about by the financial services industry, it’s understandable that this disparity would strike most people as unjust.
...Many in that 1 percent argue that the root cause of this inequality is the nation’s deficient schools. Granting that our schools could be improved, that hardly explains why the pay of bankers and CEOs has soared, or why corporations would rather buy back their own shares than give their employees raises. If the voluble members of the 1 percent wish to reclaim some legitimacy, they might become active in campaigns to raise the minimum wage and make it possible for workers to form unions without fear of being fired. After all, some CEOs have unions of their own devoted to boosting their pay: They’re called corporate boards. Until and unless corporate leaders back their workers’ efforts to form unions, here’s some advice on what to say when their fellow Americans question the propriety and legitimacy of their wealth: nothing. One percenters, just shut up."
THE WASHINGTON POST: Money made at others’ expense
robes.
starring freddie gibbs, madlib, earl sweatshirt, and domo genesis.
PITCHFORK: Listen: Freddie Gibbs, Madlib, Earl Sweatshirt, Domo Genesis: "Robes"
PITCHFORK: Listen: Freddie Gibbs, Madlib, Earl Sweatshirt, Domo Genesis: "Robes"
union station.
words.
SLATE: The Work Ethic: Obama is betting that Americans will side with labor over capitalism. He’s right.
SEE ALSO:
THE WASHINGTON POST: In the State of the Union, opportunities to work together
THE WASHINGTON POST: The real state of the union is inescapable
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Principles? What Principles?
THE NEW YORK TIMES: I'm Looking Through You
THE NEW YORKER: Obama Breaks Up with Congress
SLATE: The Work Ethic: Obama is betting that Americans will side with labor over capitalism. He’s right.
SEE ALSO:
THE WASHINGTON POST: In the State of the Union, opportunities to work together
THE WASHINGTON POST: The real state of the union is inescapable
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Principles? What Principles?
THE NEW YORK TIMES: I'm Looking Through You
THE NEW YORKER: Obama Breaks Up with Congress
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
looking.
words.
"...gay men don’t necessarily need a reason to desire fitness, and a much simpler explanation comes down to aesthetics: We’re attracted to what we’re told is sexy, and this creates an insatiable desire to look a certain way. In 2012, a British poll found that 48 percent of gay men surveyed would sacrifice a year of their life to enjoy their ideal body now, and another 10 percent would give up 11 years, killing themselves to be beautiful. The gay community’s subcultures each have their different ideals—and the standards vary between bears and twinks. However, if you don’t look like a Ken Doll (or the muscle bear equivalent), you might do whatever it takes to fit that mold."
SLATE: Gay Men and the Tyranny of Body Image
"...gay men don’t necessarily need a reason to desire fitness, and a much simpler explanation comes down to aesthetics: We’re attracted to what we’re told is sexy, and this creates an insatiable desire to look a certain way. In 2012, a British poll found that 48 percent of gay men surveyed would sacrifice a year of their life to enjoy their ideal body now, and another 10 percent would give up 11 years, killing themselves to be beautiful. The gay community’s subcultures each have their different ideals—and the standards vary between bears and twinks. However, if you don’t look like a Ken Doll (or the muscle bear equivalent), you might do whatever it takes to fit that mold."
SLATE: Gay Men and the Tyranny of Body Image
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
priority.
a moment of clarity.
words.
"Millions of Americans can’t find work and have lost their unemployment benefits because Congressional Republicans insist the government can’t afford to help them. But there is no shortage of money when it comes to hunting down unauthorized immigrants.
...What’s most disheartening about the spending splurge is that it attacks only the symptoms of the ailing immigration system. It reflects a government cynically resigned to chipping away at the presence of millions of unauthorized immigrants, most of them noncriminals, instead of one willing to create a way for millions to come forward and get right with the law, freeing up taxpayer dollars to go after real threats."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Detention Must Be Paid
words.
"Millions of Americans can’t find work and have lost their unemployment benefits because Congressional Republicans insist the government can’t afford to help them. But there is no shortage of money when it comes to hunting down unauthorized immigrants.
...What’s most disheartening about the spending splurge is that it attacks only the symptoms of the ailing immigration system. It reflects a government cynically resigned to chipping away at the presence of millions of unauthorized immigrants, most of them noncriminals, instead of one willing to create a way for millions to come forward and get right with the law, freeing up taxpayer dollars to go after real threats."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Detention Must Be Paid
Monday, January 20, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
rich ____.
A Moment of Clarity.
words.
"IN my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.
... in the end, it was actually my absurdly wealthy bosses who helped me see the limitations of unlimited wealth. I was in a meeting with one of them, and a few other traders, and they were talking about the new hedge-fund regulations. Most everyone on Wall Street thought they were a bad idea. “But isn’t it better for the system as a whole?” I asked. The room went quiet, and my boss shot me a withering look. I remember his saying, “I don’t have the brain capacity to think about the system as a whole. All I’m concerned with is how this affects our company.”
...Wealth addiction was described by the late sociologist and playwright Philip Slater in a 1980 book, but addiction researchers have paid the concept little attention. Like alcoholics driving drunk, wealth addiction imperils everyone. Wealth addicts are, more than anybody, specifically responsible for the ever widening rift that is tearing apart our once great country. Wealth addicts are responsible for the vast and toxic disparity between the rich and the poor and the annihilation of the middle class."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: For the Love of Money
words.
"IN my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.
... in the end, it was actually my absurdly wealthy bosses who helped me see the limitations of unlimited wealth. I was in a meeting with one of them, and a few other traders, and they were talking about the new hedge-fund regulations. Most everyone on Wall Street thought they were a bad idea. “But isn’t it better for the system as a whole?” I asked. The room went quiet, and my boss shot me a withering look. I remember his saying, “I don’t have the brain capacity to think about the system as a whole. All I’m concerned with is how this affects our company.”
...Wealth addiction was described by the late sociologist and playwright Philip Slater in a 1980 book, but addiction researchers have paid the concept little attention. Like alcoholics driving drunk, wealth addiction imperils everyone. Wealth addicts are, more than anybody, specifically responsible for the ever widening rift that is tearing apart our once great country. Wealth addicts are responsible for the vast and toxic disparity between the rich and the poor and the annihilation of the middle class."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: For the Love of Money
Friday, January 17, 2014
a moment of clarity.
words.
"...after two consecutive elections in which the Democratic candidate for president garnered more than 50 percent of the vote — a one-two punch last achieved by Franklin Roosevelt — it is worth questioning that assumption. The country is getting more diverse, and as the proportion of white voters shrinks, so, too, does the conservative base. As demographics shift, so do political preferences — in this case, toward the left. A close examination of U.S. attitudes in the past decade-plus reveals that the United States is steadily becoming more progressive.
...It is more than an interesting observation that America now leans left. This should be a guiding light for politicians. With the knowledge that most Americans are, in fact, behind them, Democrats no longer need to fear running on their beliefs. They should stop letting special interests on the right hold ideas and ideals hostage and start listening to voters.
And what are the American people saying? That they’re fed up with political obstructionism and conservative policies that have left the country at a standstill. They want a new direction.
...Smart politicians ought to get ahead of them."
THE WASHINGTON POST: America is becoming more liberal
"...after two consecutive elections in which the Democratic candidate for president garnered more than 50 percent of the vote — a one-two punch last achieved by Franklin Roosevelt — it is worth questioning that assumption. The country is getting more diverse, and as the proportion of white voters shrinks, so, too, does the conservative base. As demographics shift, so do political preferences — in this case, toward the left. A close examination of U.S. attitudes in the past decade-plus reveals that the United States is steadily becoming more progressive.
...It is more than an interesting observation that America now leans left. This should be a guiding light for politicians. With the knowledge that most Americans are, in fact, behind them, Democrats no longer need to fear running on their beliefs. They should stop letting special interests on the right hold ideas and ideals hostage and start listening to voters.
And what are the American people saying? That they’re fed up with political obstructionism and conservative policies that have left the country at a standstill. They want a new direction.
...Smart politicians ought to get ahead of them."
THE WASHINGTON POST: America is becoming more liberal
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
she wolf.
for your consideration...
GRANTLAND: Shakira and Rihanna’s Ska-riffic ‘Can’t Remember to Forget You’
GRANTLAND: Shakira and Rihanna’s Ska-riffic ‘Can’t Remember to Forget You’
"ON SIGHT!"
words.
"The Great Kanyeezian Paradox (traded on the NASDAQ as GKP, invest now) is his ability to work the artistic high- and lowbrow simultaneously, to firmly make a point that unravels all his prior points without blinking. He's a man who can couch his many frustrations over the complicated subtlety of American classism next to a clunky Adam Sandler movie reference ("New Slaves"). He can stuff a video full of white trash tropes and declare it high art ("Bound 2"), or propose to one of the world's most loathed reality stars without fear the relationship will detract from the perception of his own artistic genius. He can write one of the most striking and poignant criticisms of racism ever set to music ("Black Skinhead") and sell it for use in a Motorola commercial. He can repurpose the Confederate flag for his own dark, twisted merchandise.
These contradictions might be more concerning if they weren't so remarkably consistent, fitting tidily under an "All I Want Is Dopeness" umbrella that's become his unofficial life motto. To Kanye, the perfection of his end product justifies the sometimes cloudy and confusing means he uses to get there. You can't tell him otherwise because, quite famously, you can't tell him nothin'."
VILLAGE VOICE: PAZZ & JOP: For the Fourth Time in Six Albums, Kanye West Takes the Top Pazz & Jop Prize
EARLIER:
BOUND: The Albums, 2013: 04/Kanye West/Yeezus
AND
BOUND: The Singles, 2013: 01/Kanye West/Black Skinhead
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Saturday, January 11, 2014
body party.
words.
"Lena Dunham’s nakedness on Girls is revolutionary and needs to be applauded, without reservation.
Look. We live in a world where beauty standards for women are in a terrible place. I’d like to blame that on men alone, but I can’t. Crappy, thin-white-dressed-to-the-nines beauty standards are delivered to a supermarket near you by the Vogues and Elles of this world every month. They’re on television, when even on the most female-centric shows, powerful, independent careerwomen still wake up in the morning already in perfect hair and makeup. The need to look perfect, is still the #1 demand in most women’s lives. And women suffer for that perfection — perfection being defined in ever more difficult and expensive and literally painful (think plastic surgery) ways. It’s unattainable. It’s impossible. Even the actresses with the round-the-clock trainers and stylists and makeup artists complain about how impossible it is, and end up in those “NO MAKEUP KILL YOURSELF” spreads in the US Weeklys of the world.
I say all of that because it seems this hasn’t sunk in for some people yet."
FLAVORWIRE: ‘Girls’ Whiplash Report: Why, Despite Everything, Lena Dunham’s Nudity Is Radical
"Lena Dunham’s nakedness on Girls is revolutionary and needs to be applauded, without reservation.
Look. We live in a world where beauty standards for women are in a terrible place. I’d like to blame that on men alone, but I can’t. Crappy, thin-white-dressed-to-the-nines beauty standards are delivered to a supermarket near you by the Vogues and Elles of this world every month. They’re on television, when even on the most female-centric shows, powerful, independent careerwomen still wake up in the morning already in perfect hair and makeup. The need to look perfect, is still the #1 demand in most women’s lives. And women suffer for that perfection — perfection being defined in ever more difficult and expensive and literally painful (think plastic surgery) ways. It’s unattainable. It’s impossible. Even the actresses with the round-the-clock trainers and stylists and makeup artists complain about how impossible it is, and end up in those “NO MAKEUP KILL YOURSELF” spreads in the US Weeklys of the world.
I say all of that because it seems this hasn’t sunk in for some people yet."
FLAVORWIRE: ‘Girls’ Whiplash Report: Why, Despite Everything, Lena Dunham’s Nudity Is Radical
Friday, January 10, 2014
A Moment of Clarity.
words.
"This is not a conversation we can have until we can use all the words in our national vocabulary. To really reckon with something, it has to be named, called out, described—as the President has done with the plague of gun violence or obstacles to gay marriage. This is not to suggest that Obama, in his upcoming State of the Union address, should ask Congress for a renewal of hostilities with poverty, fifty years after Lyndon Johnson declared war. But it might be time for him to summon a little of Johnson’s indignation. Americans knew, listening to L.B.J., that he took almost personal offense at the existence of poverty; it was an affront to his sense of self, and, by implication, to ours as a nation. If President Obama sees it that way, let him say so, and plainly. Unemployment insurance, the minimum wage—these are important, but they are part of proxy wars. The larger battle is still on, and it won’t be won by stealth maneuvers.”
THE NEW YORKER: The “P” Word: Why Presidents Stopped Talking About Poverty
"This is not a conversation we can have until we can use all the words in our national vocabulary. To really reckon with something, it has to be named, called out, described—as the President has done with the plague of gun violence or obstacles to gay marriage. This is not to suggest that Obama, in his upcoming State of the Union address, should ask Congress for a renewal of hostilities with poverty, fifty years after Lyndon Johnson declared war. But it might be time for him to summon a little of Johnson’s indignation. Americans knew, listening to L.B.J., that he took almost personal offense at the existence of poverty; it was an affront to his sense of self, and, by implication, to ours as a nation. If President Obama sees it that way, let him say so, and plainly. Unemployment insurance, the minimum wage—these are important, but they are part of proxy wars. The larger battle is still on, and it won’t be won by stealth maneuvers.”
THE NEW YORKER: The “P” Word: Why Presidents Stopped Talking About Poverty
Thursday, January 09, 2014
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Monday, January 06, 2014
A Moment of Clarity.
words.
"Why are we arguing about issues that were settled decades ago?
...The contention over unemployment insurance and the minimum wage reflects the larger problem in American politics. Rather than discussing what we need to do to secure our future, we are spending most of our energy re-litigating the past.
...we have to stop letting the politics of culture wars so dominate our thinking that we forget how much we share when it comes to life’s day-to-day struggles and what we can do to ease them. Disputes over personal morals and lifestyle choices may get more page views or rating points, but they do little to improve anyone’s standard of living.
...President Obama’s old line challenging the idea of red and blue Americas unalterably opposed to each other seems terribly outdated or naive. Electorally, at least, those divisions are still painfully obvious. But on matters of economic justice, we shouldn’t let a defective political system distract us from what we have in common."
THE WASHINGTON POST: The social justice majority
"Why are we arguing about issues that were settled decades ago?
...The contention over unemployment insurance and the minimum wage reflects the larger problem in American politics. Rather than discussing what we need to do to secure our future, we are spending most of our energy re-litigating the past.
...we have to stop letting the politics of culture wars so dominate our thinking that we forget how much we share when it comes to life’s day-to-day struggles and what we can do to ease them. Disputes over personal morals and lifestyle choices may get more page views or rating points, but they do little to improve anyone’s standard of living.
...President Obama’s old line challenging the idea of red and blue Americas unalterably opposed to each other seems terribly outdated or naive. Electorally, at least, those divisions are still painfully obvious. But on matters of economic justice, we shouldn’t let a defective political system distract us from what we have in common."
THE WASHINGTON POST: The social justice majority
Friday, January 03, 2014
Modern Vampires of the City.
A Moment of Clarity.
words.
"Would David Brooks feel the same way about drug laws if he was one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans arrested in weed-related incidents every year (it was over 700,000 people in 2012)? If he'd been prevented from getting a student loan or getting a state job because of such a bust? If he'd lost a professional license, or had his property seized, or even had a child taken away from him?
We'll never know, because by and large, people like David Brooks, or me for that matter, don't suffer serious consequences for weed arrests. Most people who get busted on pot charges are non-white and from poor neighborhoods: In the Bloomberg years, there were as many as 50,000 pot arrests a year in New York City, the overwhelming majority of which were black or Hispanic people. Brooks should ask himself how sending people to sit in Rikers on weed charges (I've met such people) reflects upon our "moral ecology," especially when it's almost guaranteed that the cops who sent that person there also smoked pot in high school and/or college.
...by making it legal, we're deciding that letting people get high is a lesser evil compared to a person's life being derailed forever by a pointless and intrinsically hypocritical marijuana arrest. But Brooks/Brown/Scarborough wouldn't know anything about that, apparently."
ROLLING STONE: Yuppie Prohibition League Denounces Pot Legalization
words.
"Would David Brooks feel the same way about drug laws if he was one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans arrested in weed-related incidents every year (it was over 700,000 people in 2012)? If he'd been prevented from getting a student loan or getting a state job because of such a bust? If he'd lost a professional license, or had his property seized, or even had a child taken away from him?
We'll never know, because by and large, people like David Brooks, or me for that matter, don't suffer serious consequences for weed arrests. Most people who get busted on pot charges are non-white and from poor neighborhoods: In the Bloomberg years, there were as many as 50,000 pot arrests a year in New York City, the overwhelming majority of which were black or Hispanic people. Brooks should ask himself how sending people to sit in Rikers on weed charges (I've met such people) reflects upon our "moral ecology," especially when it's almost guaranteed that the cops who sent that person there also smoked pot in high school and/or college.
...by making it legal, we're deciding that letting people get high is a lesser evil compared to a person's life being derailed forever by a pointless and intrinsically hypocritical marijuana arrest. But Brooks/Brown/Scarborough wouldn't know anything about that, apparently."
ROLLING STONE: Yuppie Prohibition League Denounces Pot Legalization
Thursday, January 02, 2014
Back to the Future (?).
A Moment of Clarity.
words.
THE WASHINGTON POST: The resurgent progressives
SEE ALSO:
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Campaign for a Bigger Paycheck
words.
THE WASHINGTON POST: The resurgent progressives
SEE ALSO:
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Campaign for a Bigger Paycheck
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
BOUND: The Albums, 2013.
the knowing.
01/Of Montreal/Lousy with Sylvianbriar
Kevin Barnes is often the oddest/wackiest/most imbalanced person in the room. But he is not and has never been stupid, no matter how disturbing or chaotic the circumstances are that surround him. He's still present, with a keen eye. Forever an astute observer with the sharpest of tongues, even when he's the butt of another's joke or emotional and verbal abuse. And on Lousy with Sylvianbriar, he's seeing things more clearly now that the rain is gone. Lousy with Sylvianbriar is what happens when the plates stop spinning and it's become all too clear that those you've been hiding from/putting on airs for/taking shit from/or whose opinions you've been valuing for far too long are just as broken or even more so than you. These moments of clarity cut like a knife as Kevin, done with being a monster "just to feel something ugly enough to be true", is ready to keep it real, tell you about yourself, and do what he's always done best: read. "There is a virus in your tenets. Don't be naive, you know it's true"; "she ain't speaking' now. Her eyes they seem cast and Fatherless"; "I've become such a wolf around you"; "I'm not a patron of yours anymore. Don't want to hear it. The sirens of your toxic spirit…"
This go round, Kevin and his Of Montreal cohorts look to the vibes and melodies of folks like the Dylans and Neil Youngs of rock's free spirited and acid tongued past, adopting cocksure stances that are strongly matter of fact, yet wonderfully nonchalant, making the words and observations sting that much more. Kevin and company are focused and know that of which they speak of here. Are sure of it. No patience for impractical emotions. Insanity and clatter are cut to a minimum, or are non-existent. And it's allowed he and his band to make one of their most direct and focused long players in years.
KEY TRACKS: Obsidian Currents/Sirens of Your Toxic Spirit/Colossus
04/Kanye West/Yeezus
05/Arctic Monkeys/AM
06/Arcade Fire/Reflektor
07/Justin Timberlake/The 20/20 Experience, Pt. 1
08/Janelle Monae/The Electric Lady
09/Chance the Rapper/Acid Rap
10/Haim/Days Are Gone
11/Danny Brown/Old
12/Deerhunter/Monomania
13/Foxygen/We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
14/Daft Punk/Random Access Memories
15/Wavves/Afraid of Heights
16/John Legend/Love in the Future
17/Devendra Banhart/Mala
18/David Bowie/The Next Day
19/Disclosure/Settle
20/Nine Inch Nails/Hesitation Marks
21/Tegan & Sara/Heartthrob
22/Thee Oh Sees/Floating Coffin
23/Rhye/Woman
24/Lorde/Pure Heroine
25/Savages/Silence Yourself
15/Wavves/Afraid of Heights
16/John Legend/Love in the Future
17/Devendra Banhart/Mala
18/David Bowie/The Next Day
19/Disclosure/Settle
20/Nine Inch Nails/Hesitation Marks
21/Tegan & Sara/Heartthrob
22/Thee Oh Sees/Floating Coffin
23/Rhye/Woman
24/Lorde/Pure Heroine
25/Savages/Silence Yourself
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