20 July 2008 :: oh good, mom's birthday is coming up, so

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Mark Abraham
Associate Editor, Sparkles

e-mail: mark@cokemachineglow.com

I got so excited when I heard the Spice Girls were coming to Toronto that I almost puked…and that’s really all you need to know about me.

Record Reviews:

Most Recent /

Invincible :: Shapeshifters (NBH)
(Emergence; 2008)Wolf Parade :: At Mount Zoomer
(Sub Pop; 2008)Peter Broderick :: Float
(Type; 2008)Brent Cash :: How Will I Know If I'm Awake? (NBH)
(Marina; 2008)Ellen Allien :: Sool
(Bptich Control; 2008)

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ADULT. :: Why Bother? AGF :: Words are Missing (NBH) Christina Aguilera :: Back 2 Basics Ellen Allien & Apparat :: Orchestra of Bubbles Ellen Allien :: Sool Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake :: From the River to the Ocean Angel :: Kalmukia Annuals :: Be He Me Apparat :: Walls Basement Jaxx :: Crazy Itch Radio Beirut :: Gulag Orkestar Various Artists :: Black Stars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation Comp The Blow :: Paper Television Bobby and Blumm :: Everybody Loves Bobby and Blumm Booka Shade :: Movements Boredoms :: Super Roots 9 Peter Broderick :: Float Butcher/Müller/van der Schyff :: Way Out Northwest Don Byron & Bang on a Can :: A Ballad for Many Caribou :: Andorra Brent Cash :: How Will I Know If I'm Awake? (NBH) Charalambides :: A Vintage Burden The Chicago Underground Duo :: In Praise of Shadows Kelly Clarkson :: My December Clipse :: Hell Hath No Fury Clogs :: Lantern Coup :: Pick a Bigger Weapon DarkBlueWorld :: Dark Blue World (NBH) Deerhoof :: Friend Opportunity Diableros :: You Can't Break the Strings in Our Olympic Hearts The Drones :: Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By Ermine :: The Murra (NBH) Espers :: II Dominik Eulberg :: Heimische Gefilde Dominik Eulberg :: Bionik Fanfare Ciocărlia :: Queens and Kings The Field :: From Here We Go Sublime Figurines :: Skeleton FM3 & Dou Wei :: Hou Guan Yin Fond of Tigers :: A Thing to Live With (NBH) Fond of Tigers :: Release the Saviours Giddy Motors :: Do Easy Glissandro 70 :: Glissandro 70 Gultskra Artikler :: Kasha Iz Topora Chihei Hatakeyama :: Minima Moralia Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid :: The Exchange Sessions, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 Herbert :: Scale Ezekiel Honig :: Scattered Practices Hot Chip :: Made in the Dark François Houle :: Aerials Various Artists :: How Low Can You Go?: Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941) Box Humcrush :: Hornswoggle Huntsville :: For the Middle Class Invincible :: Shapeshifters (NBH) Iron & Wine :: The Shepherd's Dog Islaja :: Ulual YYY Anna Järvinen :: Jag Fick Feeling Jan Jelinek :: Tierbeobachtungen The Joe Beats Experiment :: Indie Rock Blues Jóhann Jóhannsson :: IBM 1401, A User's Manual Kammerflimmer Kollektief :: Jinx Kemialliset Ystävät :: Kemialliset Ystävät Kite Operations :: Heart Attacks, Back to Back (NBH) KK Null :: Fertile Justus Köhncke :: Safe and Sound KTL :: KTL L. Pierre :: Dip Les Savy Fav :: Let's Stay Friends Les Savy Fav :: Let's Stay Friends Loscil :: Plume Love is All :: Nine Times That Same Song Lupe Fiasco & DJ E Nyce :: Touch the Sky Mixtape Magik Markers :: A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand Magik Markers :: BOSS Malajube :: Trompe-L'oeil Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks :: Real Emotional Trash Mastodon :: Blood Mountain Melt Banana :: Bambi's Dilemma Melvins :: Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust Michele :: Saturn Rings Reissue MoHa! :: Raus Aus Stavanger MoHa! :: Norwegianism Mouse on Mars :: Varcharz Róisín Murphy :: Overpowered Joanna Newsom :: Ys OOIOO :: Taiga Opsvik & Jennings :: Commuter Anthems Morgan Packard & Joshua Ott :: Airships Fill the Sky/Unsimulatable Pantha Du Prince :: This Bliss Perfect :: Giddimani Phonophani :: Phonophani Reissue Pig Destroyer :: Phantom Limb Pinch :: Underwater Dancehall Kelley Polar :: I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling Prodigy :: Return of the Mac Mixtape Professor Murder :: Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP Protest the Hero :: Fortress Rhymefest :: Blue Collar The Roots :: Game Theory The Roots :: Rising Down Jessica Rylan :: Interior Designs Shapes and Sizes :: Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner Shining :: Grindstone Shinjuku Zulu :: Various Chimeras Shogun Kunitoki :: Tasankokaiku Dani Siciliano :: Slappers Soft Circle :: Full Bloom Spoon :: A Series of Sneaks (OF) Sun :: I'll Be the Same Susanna :: Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos Susanna and the Magical Orchestra :: Melody Mountain Svalastog :: Woodwork T.I. :: King T.I. :: T.I. vs. T.I.P. Tape :: Rideau Various Artists :: Total 7 Comp Touane :: Figura Various Artists :: Touch 25 Comp Alexander Tucker :: Furrowed Brow Various Artists :: Until Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown Box Ricardo Villalobos :: Achso EP Scott Walker :: The Drift Amanda Jo Williams :: Yes I Will Mr. Man (NBH) Wolf Parade :: At Mount Zoomer Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice :: Gypsy Freedom Xela :: The Dead Sea Susumu Yokata :: Wonder Waltz Tom Zé :: Estudando O Pagode ZMF Trio :: Circle the Path (NBH)

Co-authored ::

[↓top rated albums of 2008 by this author] /

Invincible :: Shapeshifters (NBH)
(Emergence; 2008) / Rating: 87 / Combined Rating: 85 Wolf Parade :: At Mount Zoomer
(Sub Pop; 2008) / Rating: 87 / Combined Rating: 84 Various Artists :: Black Stars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation Comp
(Out Here; 2008) / Rating: 85 / Combined Rating: N/A Ellen Allien :: Sool
(Bptich Control; 2008) / Rating: 83 / Combined Rating: N/A Butcher/Müller/van der Schyff :: Way Out Northwest
(Drip Audio; 2008) / Rating: 83 / Combined Rating: N/A Kelley Polar :: I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling
(Environ; 2008) / Rating: 80 / Combined Rating: 79 AGF :: Words are Missing (NBH)
(AGF Producktions; 2008) / Rating: 79 / Combined Rating: N/A Brent Cash :: How Will I Know If I'm Awake? (NBH)
(Marina; 2008) / Rating: 78 / Combined Rating: 78 Peter Broderick :: Float
(Type; 2008) / Rating: 76 / Combined Rating: N/A Justus Köhncke :: Safe and Sound
(Kompakt; 2008) / Rating: 76 / Combined Rating: N/A Anna Järvinen :: Jag Fick Feeling
(Häpna; 2008) / Rating: 74 / Combined Rating: N/A Bobby and Blumm :: Everybody Loves Bobby and Blumm
(Morr; 2008) / Rating: 74 / Combined Rating: N/A Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks :: Real Emotional Trash
(Matador; 2008) / Rating: 73 / Combined Rating: 75 Angel :: Kalmukia
(Editions Mego; 2008) / Rating: 72 / Combined Rating: N/A The Roots :: Rising Down
(Def Jam; 2008) / Rating: 52 / Combined Rating: N/A Hot Chip :: Made in the Dark
(Astralwerks; 2008) / Rating: 48 / Combined Rating: 65 Protest the Hero :: Fortress
(Underground Operations; 2008) / Rating: 36 / Combined Rating: N/A

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