Posts tagged "best albums of 2011"
Albums of the Year, Part 2: Frank Ocean, "Nostalgia, Ultra"

Albums of the Year, Part 2: Frank Ocean, “Nostalgia, Ultra”

Love Me Now, When I'm Gone, Love Me None By Taylor K. Long For an emotional R&B singing moniker, Christopher Breaux aka Frank Ocean couldn’t have done much better. Writers often use water metaphors – an ocean, in particular – to represent feelings, emotions, and hidden...
Albums of the Year, Part 1: Fleet Foxes, "Helplessness Blues"

Albums of the Year, Part 1: Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues”

All My Life I Will Wait To Attain It By Taylor K. Long At some point in our 20s, we inevitably feel what can best be described as a burden of proof. We begin noticing milestones, the age of achievements. How Michelangelo was 29 when he finished “David.” How Franz Liszt was famous and touring...