Haiku reviews

I hold many valuable opinions on music.

Here are my top 5 albums/EPs of the first half of aught-nine, in no particular order, presented in the concise and tranquil form of haiku.

Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

January melts
As readily as my brain
In summertime clothes

Dan Deacon – Bromst

Holy shit this guy
A spaz genius composer
Snookered me real good

Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

So exquisitely
Arranged it almost transcends
This ironic form

Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Fishing line threaded
Through Sugar Smacks then strung up
Across the heavens

Suckers – Suckers EP

Four songs. That's it. Four.
But they all kick so much ass
You have to believe