I absolutely agree w/ Aaron; the writer’s point about women and minorities makes me assume that their own understanding and interpretation of White’s motives, and therefore his music is unfocused at best and entirely inaccurate at worst, bringing into question the ability of the writer to make a valid deconstruction of the album. C+

I’ll second the posers comment… I liked parts of the last album, but it’s difficult to watch some of the visuals without bad-acid-trip-style flashbacks of seeing a dude in short shorts with a 2-foot afro and wayfarers playing soccer in Prospect Park…as my friend put it at the time “this is so trendy, it’s painful”

I think it’s somewhat like splitting hairs–there’s a lot of really, really good material across all of their albums, and picking one album as their “best” is like picking Revolver over the White Album…I’m not sure if you can really go wrong.

The main issue is that I think Nine Types of Light (just like Dear Science) is an excellent album, one certainly worthy of being up in the top 50 of this year (and in my opinion, worthy of being near or in the top 10). R.S. had the album listed, Stereogum didn’t have it at all.

Regardless of whether you think Nine Types of Light is good by TOTR standards (which are pretty damn high), would you say that it’s not worthy of being included in the top 50 albums of this year?