2009-05-11
Zach Vinson's Cracked Open is a fun power-pop record full of catchy hooks and fun guitar-pop, with the occasional slower number like "All the Sins of Men" and "Locked Outside". Through and through it's pretty fun and energetic, with songs like the rocking opener "Little Birdie", the piano laden "So Much to Blame", and the danceable "Christee Christee", which is further proof that there aren't any songs with girls names in the title that don't rule.Various Artists
Fox On A Hill Records
TUNE-YARDS
Bird-Brains
PETE AND MAURA KENNEDY
Pete and Maura Kennedy Present: The Stringbusters - Rhapsody in Uke
Dar Williams
The Beauty of the Rain
TEITUR
Stay Under
Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris
All The Roadrunning
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