Wharton's Weekly Albums #3: Week of December 24, 2018 My weekly thoughts on the albums I listened to during last week's commute. The Albums: *Criminal Minded , Boogie Down Productions Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , Wilco Middle Cyclone , Neko Case *an asterisk indicates that this is my first listen to this album The Thoughts: A short list for a short workweek. Didn't care much for the BDP. YHF is an album I've heard so many times that it can be tough to listen to with fresh ears. Someday I'll do a deep dive into Wilco, but today is not that day. Instead my focus is on Middle Cyclone, Neko Case's 2009 album. As an album, it's perfectly cromulent. It opens with its strongest track, "This Tornado Loves You," one of my favorite songs from that year. The rest of the songs are all fine, if less memorable. They sound like Neko Case songs, and they have a general "nature as metaphor for romantic struggle" theme. And then the...
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