It's always sort of fun to pop back in and see how things are going, and to notice how far apart our tastes have become outside of the hivemind.

Albums
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1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Royal Headache - High
3. Nic Hessler - Soft Connections
4. Blank Realm - Illegals in Heaven
5. Radioactivity - Silent Kill
6. Beach Slang - The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
7. Mikal Cronin - MCIII
8. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
9. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
10. Mew - + -
11. Phylums - Phylum Phyloid
12. Kelley Stoltz - In Triangle Time
13. Idlewild - Everything Ever Written
14. Black Ferns
15. Wilco - Star Wars
16. Beach House - Depression Cherry
17. Moving Panoramas - One
18. Crocodiles - Boys
19. PINS - Wild Nights
20. Palms - Crazy Rack


Shows (Chronologically)
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January 17 - Strand of Oaks @ Lincoln Hall
April 29 - Manic Street Preachers @ Metro
June 3 - Royal Blood @ Metro
July 12 - Café Tacuba @ Ruido Fest
July 18 - Sleater-Kinney @ Pitchfork
July 19 - Todd Terje & the Olsens @ Pitchfork
July 30 - The War on Drugs @ Metro
August 1 - Bully @ Empty Bottle
August 15 - Islam Chipsy @ Flow
August 16 - Natalie Prass @ Flow
August 16 - Florence + the Machine @ Flow
August 22 - Sturgill Simpson @ Green Man
August 22 - Charles Bradley & the Extraordinaires @ Green Man
August 22 - Super Furry Animals @ Green Man
August 23 - Goat @ Green Man
September 6 - Chemical Brothers @ North Coast
September 12 - Rancid @ Riot Fest
September 15 - AC/DC @ Wrigley Field
October 8 - FFS @ the Vic
November 21 - Beach Slang @ Subterranean

I really liked a couple of songs from Depression Cherry. With time it could well make my favourites.

That Blank Realm album is pretty good, and I haven't seen much mention of it elsewhere.

I might like that Sufjan album a lot more if I really delved into the lyrics, but so far I haven't. I enjoy it, but the melodies and such haven't taken hold like some of his earlier stuff did with me.