The year continues to turn out interesting diversions, though very few albums that engage from start to finish. For our compiling purposes, this is not much of a problem. If you can't find 20 intriguing tracks in any historical three month span, you're not looking very hard. It might, however, be a weird year for a critical consensus. Hopefully the "year end" landscape doesn't congeal around Nouns by No Age, a record snubbed here with purpose. Gratuitously dissing that disc is the subject for another post though, as the spirit of Spring '08 looms large below. The purchase of a record player meant the inclusion of many more 7" pockets of power, which I think has to be considered a net [...]