A post in which the author drops much elitist indie-knowledge cred:

I like the new Stephen Malkmus CD Face the Truth a lot. So much so that I'm going to the TLA to see his concert this Sunday. I also like the new Belle & Sebastian compilation Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, although Dear Catastrophe Waitress is still my favorite album. Clouds Taste Metallic is also a good album by the Flaming Lips, and I do plan on purchasing Zaireeka in the near future, their four-disc album that is meant to be played on four separate speakers simultaneously. (How intense is that!) The new Gorillaz album Demon Days was a little bit disappointing; I actually liked their self-titled debut a lot more. Other than that, I'm pissed off that my copy of Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins sucks so badly. Anyway, I still have about... mmm... a ton, let's say, of music to listen to, still. I'm backed up with Spoon, Talking Heads, and Yo La Tengo albums to listen to before I even get to the new British Sea Power, TV on the Radio, and Ben Kweller releases. What I don't understand is why the Album Leaf is classified as Experimental Rock and not Ambient Pop like Sigur Ros is. Should I correct the folks at AMG? [This space reserved for mandatory Pitchfork-hateration.]