We’re slowly moving our way South and East. No complaints here.

Nothing epic here. It’s short and snappy, and I kind of like it.

Isn’t this a little like ranking mountains that God made from worst to best?

Here, have some nuance.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/johnny-cash-201002

That said, the Four Tet remix is a big improvement.

I’m nominating this comment thread for Da Capo Best Music Writing 2012.

This album is a very, very good example of what it is. I’m already hearing totally different things on the second listen. And I wouldn’t have given it a chance had it not been featured here.

Stereogum, whether or not it’s violating an unspoken and surely obsolete indie mandate, displays consistently reliable taste, and that’s why I read it. I haven’t been able to say the same about Pitchfork for a couple of years now.

Uprating this for your last sentence.

Though I appreciated and enjoyed your comment (and wrote my American Studies Masters thesis on dub reggae), I think the author was expressing a preference, not dismissing an aesthetic. In any case, I have felt much the same way and I’m convinced I need to turn around on that before it’s too late.