Likewise. I didn't realize Reigning Sound had new material out until just now.

The consistent oddness is kind of what I enjoy about the AV Club's year-end list.

I liked Mirror Traffic. That makes two of us.

Sims gets an honorable mention from me. I thought it was strong on first listen, and it's mostly held up over the last few months. Enjoy your continued enjoyment!

For some reason this year, my top albums all ended up being by bands I already liked a lot. While it's nice my favorite groups all put out reliably enjoyable records, I'm a little disappointed that I didn't make that many exciting new discoveries. I've already given most of the titles in the AV Club's official Top 25…

Seriously. Sometimes you tell the day by the bottle that you drink. And times when you're alone, all you do is think.

Oooh, maybe that fancy Trident Layers gum!

Ah, you're doing it wrong. You were supposed to drink so much at the concerts that you don't remember them. Ticketmaster is not at fault here.

You think that's bad? LIve Nation bought up all the break shops three years ago and named them all "Fillmore."

This reminds me: INVEST ALL YOUR MONEY IN MERKINS!

Dawes: You know, for kids!

Guys, I kind of had forgotten all about firsties until it was brought up here. I'm a little scared. I need GLut to remind me what's up and what's down.

What about Chinatown? That was about how shitty L.A. is and includes the word "China" in its title. That must prove something.

You will never ever EVER convince me that anything is more annoying that "SIMply HAVing WONDerful Christmas time!" over and over and over and over for 10 fucking minutes accompanied by bloop bleep bleep. You can talk all you want about how eye-rollingly earnest the anti-war junk is in John's song, but at least it has…

faaaeeeeeces

Is anyone else strangely disappointed this wasn't more graphic?

mind = blown

Electric Dream Machine is pretty awesome, but it's no Dawes.

Shit man. You almost summoned DONGS.

Sure, you're like the John the Baptist of Dawes prophecy.