Sharon Van Etton - Epic (2010, Ba Da Bing)

A hearty staple in my musical appetite over the last few months has been Sharon van Etten's Epic. It's good ol' singer songwriter heartfelt crap, and it's lovely. It's also really fun to throw your voice around while singing along in the car, and don't worry, you will learn the lyrics quick cause they are very repetitive.  All of the afore mentioned attributes of this album sound negative, but seriously are somehow positive on Epic. It's just plain good song writing.  It's serene, beautiful, graceful, and subtle. It's country, no, no it's not.

Sharon Van Etten - Don't Do It

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Modest Mouse
The Moon and Antarctica
(Epic, 2000)

I can’t believe that Modest Mouse used to be this good. In fact, they used to be even better, but The Moon and Antarctica was the last really great album from the band in this decade. However, to be fair, Good News For People Who Love Bad News really wasn’t that bad. Still, you know an album is really really good when every song contains a million memories, because only a really really good album can be replayable enough to mark them all. You know what I’m saying? The Moon and Antarctica is one of those.

-Thistle