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Top 50 Albums of the Decade: 25-1

February 4, 2020

The Last Word from Your Editor, Sam C. Mac: With the 2010s officially over, the time seems right for another departure: after 12 years (with a small break in the middle), I’m stepping down as this site’s Editor-in-Chief, to be succeeded by co-founder (and unapologetic Iron & Wine-lover) Luke Gorham. I don’t plan on getting too personal here, but I do want to say that, as long as I’ve been an adult, InRO has been my baby. And so it does…

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Top 50 Albums of the Decade: 50-26

January 30, 2020

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Top 20 Albums of 2019

2019 was another faithful year that reminded us that there’s no hope whatsoever for anything: Our political system continues to fail us in a remarkable number of ways, cultural institutions continue to decay from lack of funding and relevancy, and the nearly-decade long rise…

January 4, 2020

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Top Ten Songs and Albums of 2018

The albums that defined the past year were projects that subverted typical genre norms and traditionalist views, making themselves hard to rigidly categorize in the process. With foreign influencers making waves across across a smattering of Billboard hit singles (more on one of the biggest…

January 9, 2019

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Top 10 Albums of 2018 (So Far)

All last week at In Review Online, we presented our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums from the first six months of the year. In this fourth and final installment (find the first one here, the second one here, and third one here), we present our…

July 9, 2018

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Quick Takes on Albums 2018 – Halftime (Part 3)

All this week at In Review Online, we’re presenting our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums that saw release during the first six months of the year. In the third of four installments (find the first one here and the second one here), we look at some recently…

July 6, 2018

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Quick Takes on Albums 2018 – Halftime (Part 2)

All this week at In Review Online, we’ll be presenting our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums that saw release during the first six months of the year, more or less chronologically. In the second of four installments (find the first one here), we look primarily at spring…

July 4, 2018

by InRO Staff Feature Articles Music Year in Review

Quick Takes on Albums 2018 – Halftime

All this week at In Review Online, we’ll be presenting our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums that saw release during the first six months of the year, more or less chronologically. In the first of four installments, we look at quarter one 2018 releases, including a strong feminist…

July 3, 2018

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Top 15 Albums of 2017

The best songs and albums released over the last 12 months found a way to subvert a hopeless political reality, to move and inspire us by striving for change. A Chinese rap group broke through to an international audience; a singer-songwriter sincerely mounted a…

December 23, 2017

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Top 10 Albums of 2017 (So Far)

It’s way too late to call this a “halftime” feature (we were busy watching a whole lot of asian movies), so let’s just call it an end-of-summer(-ish) survey of some of 2017’s best albums. We polled our staff and came up with a typically eclectic list, which includes an often maligned “pop star,” an…

August 4, 2017

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