Blog: Album Reviews in May

Best Album: Lady Gaga - Born This Way

Took some time but here it is. The album of the year. the album of the decade. We all been waiting for this. The anticipation killing us. With normal album release, it will be magazine covers, a few interviews and a few live performance. But not for Gaga as she feeds her fans one by one, starting with the album name at last year MTV Video Music Awards, and the song You And I, then at New Year the release date, next came the Single, Born This Way, and then came the Album cover, and then Gagavision came back, one by one, we wait. Even the release of the album was did with style, partnering with Zynga, Starbucks,......

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Not The Best Album: Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys

Props to Zooey Deschanel for finally cheering Ben Gibbard up. On Narrow Stairs, the Death Cab frontman sang songs like “You Could Do Better Than Me” and “Pity and Fear,” filling the album with the sort of articulate, hyper-literate gloominess you might expect from a depressed poetry major. Codes and Keys, released three years after Narrow Stairs and two years after his marriage to Deschanel, paints a brighter picture. Gone are the breakup ballads, the odes to lost love, the down-in-the-dumps sentiment that filled most of Death Cab’s earlier work.....

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