Take care of your library materials, folks - the CD cover/booklet is lost to time.
While every album naturally sounds like it belongs to a certain era, even if it's not the era in which it was actually released, I can't think of any other album that sounds so specifically tied to a single year as much as Evanescence's Fallen, top selling album of the year. It sounds so much like 2003 that I don't think it could have been released in any other year. That kinda weak, tinny-sounding guitar and the combination of nu-metal rap and singing belongs right where it is.
For the record, I much prefer the non-metal infused tracks like Hello, which was new to me, and My Immortal, which I've loved since the video was on rotation.
Now, onto the Juno-winning Album of the Year by Sam Roberts, We Were Born In a Flame. I expected to get what I've received from a number of unfamiliar records over this project, which would be to hear the hit songs that I knew and then to amble my way through a bunch of filler rock tracks. I don't even mind filler rock tracks, but I was pleasantly surprised to receive an album of much more than that.
The hits are great: Brother Down, Don't Walk Away Eileen, and Where Have All the Good People Gone don't disappoint. What makes the disc great is that there really isn't any filler and a lot of care went into the whole album. A couple of songs near the middle are my initial favourites - those would be Dead End and Every Part of Me - but I'm eager to get back to this album and find some more.
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