“Dolby’s Top 50 Albums of 2024”
It’s my pleasure and honor to welcome you back to the Dolby Disaster year-end list, a tradition which I take pride in upholding. This year has been another subsuming adventure in genre, style, emotion, structure, heart and soul, and I’m here to capture it the best I can, in my own little way. I do … Read more“Dolby’s Top 50 Albums of 2024”
“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Oct./Nov. 2024”
10 merope – “Namopi” Bandcamp’s writeup of merope’s new album Vejula claims that it “roots itself in Lithuanian folk forms,” which was surprising to me, since at first, this music sounded like drone ambient electronic. Indeed, the instrumentation list is enough to edify in itself, here, with the band taking a precocious knack to ebb … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Oct./Nov. 2024”
“Is ‘Dreams’ Poised to Become Our Subtly Trippy National Anthem?”
I had some professor one time, I think in grad school, who pledged this bizarre, incredulous allegiance to “kid a,” apparently a reference to the 2000 Radiohead album. That’s kind of like how Rumours is, Fleetwood Mac’s apparent commercial and artistic breakthrough from 1977. It’s like there’s this puzzling level of pride at mentioning “rumours” … Read more“Is ‘Dreams’ Poised to Become Our Subtly Trippy National Anthem?”