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Never has someone come around and been this reminiscent of Björk. On both an artistic and musical scale, Glasser weaves a structurally sound record that proved to be this year’s biggest pleasant surprise.

The Rock Genius Albums of the Year Project drops a new album each day for the next 5 days.

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Some might go as far as to call The National’s brand of music “Dad rock.” But this is certainly not that sugar-coated folkie shit. This is the neo-realist dad rock, if anything.

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The list started at #30 and will culminate with #1 on December 13th! Here’s the archive

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True story. They even put it on a t-shirt:

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The song is chock full of Alice in Wonderland references. One of my favorite literary pieces that’s commonly referenced in music.

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