Disco Inferno-D.I. Go Pop

For Fans of: Bark Psychosis, AR Kane, Talk Talk, being smugly superior about the general obscurity of your music

 Disco Inferno has recently been enjoying a slight revival and boost in popularity due to the reissue of their "5 EPs" compilation. Very slight, diminutive in fact. Like that guy you know with the Godspeed You! Black Emperor tattoo probably listens to them now. Or the shoegaze obsessed music historian everyone loathes now points to them as the missing link in the genre's development. Intolerable hipster adoration aside, the band deserves every fan that they acquire. They are essentially a hipster's wet dream as far as bands go. Their style is something of a combination of Wire's bass and synth heavy post-punk, The Jesus and Mary Chain's dreaminess, and, surprisingly, Public Enemy and The Beastie Boys penchant for finding seemingly random, yet appropriate and emotionally affecting samples.

2013 Top Five Albums

1. My Bloody Valentine-mbv 2. Death Grips-Government Plates 3. Deafheaven-Sunbather 4. Savages-Silence Yourself 5. Kanye West-Yeezus All of these albums of overrated though...

The Flying Burrito Brothers-The Gilded Palace of Sin

For fans of: The Byrds, the brief parts of "Gimme Shelter" where people are not being beaten to death, appearing to enjoy country music

I've often heard great bands describe as "the band for people that typically hate X genre," but what does that phrase even mean? When Outkast is called rap for people that hate rap, does that make them any less connected to the lyricism of other hip hop groups? When Mastodon is labeled as metal for hipsters, does that mean they are better or worse in heavy metal standards? Is Converge any less punk because they reach beyond the average hardcore audience? What makes these bands so broadly appealing anyway? If the goal of every artist to affect as many people as possible why does this description sound like an insult? Regardless of the answer, one could certainly call The Flying Burrito Brothers the exception to the general snobbish music dictum that states that country music is objectively terrible, but why? The guitar twangs in that familiar, detestable way. The harmonized singing clearly reflects a homey style, and the lyrics often deal with the old country standards: God, government and girls, and yet, I found myself incessantly listening to this album. Why?