Dawning of a new era

November 29th 2008 by E..

We’re living in an interesting time, music-wise…more and more bands are sprouting up, and it seems that each of them puts out a debut album that’s packed with hit after hit…the joke always was that you spent your whole life crafting your debut, were pressured to release your follow-up (which ultimately flopped), then took time off to really work hard and make a comeback with your third album…because of this, many bands’ third albums are considered their best (The Clash, The Pixies, The Replacements), and many second albums, well, aren’t (The Pretenders, Marshall Crenshaw, The Stone Roses)…