Posts tagged "the long winters"
The Conscious Consumer

The Conscious Consumer

By Taylor K. Long While record browsing with a friend at Greenpoint’s Permanent Records last week, I found a copy of the Long Winters album, When I Pretend To Fall in the .99 section and realized that though I love it, I don’t own it in any physical form. The kind clerk informed me that...

T-Sides’ Decade in Review: Albums

I’m not so smug as to think that I can pin-point the albums that will, in retrospect, stand out the most from the 2000s. Nor would it be accurate to argue that the albums that affected me the most on a personal level were “the best.” But if I were to completely take the personal...

T-Sides Best of 2006 Extravaganza: Top Albums & Songs

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2006 When choosing my Top 10 albums from 2006, I considered mostly what I actually listened to. This was a particularly good year for music — one of the best in recent memory — and a lot of great albums were released. There were plenty of albums that I liked, but...

Putting the Summer to Bed and Preparing for a Long Winter(s).

It’s fitting that, on their third full-length EP, the Long Winters have a song titled “(It’s A) Departure,” because on the first listen, it sounds like exactly that. Compared to memories of their first two releases, Putting The Days To Bed sounds faster, harder, more… well, rock. What happened to the band that became known...