August 8, 2008
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Bon Iver - Flume

All the critics went mad, averaging out to an astounding 89 points on Metacritic, and I didn’t get it.  I figure, in retrospect, that it was the beginning of summer, the sun was out, and I was listening to Talib Kweli.  So Bon Iver’s inward-facing melancholy was hard for me to digest.  But now, in the dark, rainy month of August (wtf?), I see what everyone was talking about.  It’s a hell of a record.