The Stylus Decade / Digital Killed the Video Star
Think about it that way for a second: What albums would you make out ‘about’? What albums would you run down a hill ‘about’? When I ask myself those questions, I realize that my care for my favorite new music of the past decade—by Joanna Newsom, the Hold Steady, Ghostface, the Mountain Goats—is better measured in tears, or gin, or people I enjoyed it with, or hours, but not words.
