Mama's House

Austin named his album as the best album he heard in 2007. That begs a few questions. I'll start by asking is the album even any good? Well, based on 11 reviews on Amazon.com it's averaging 4 1/2 out of 5 stars so it must be good - to at least 10 out of those 11. Exactly how much music did Austin sample before declaring Jens the best of 2007? He says, "This list was the most difficult to make there was a lot of good music and and [sic] equal amount of bad music out there that I have sampled this year." He then goes on to list his top 5 albums so we are assured that Jens' album is at least the best album out of 10. How did Austin hear about this Jens Lekman to begin with? He credits pitchfork for the find but who or what is pitchfork? I'm thinking a link would have helped. Last question I want to ask, is Austin being pretentious by naming some obscure Swedish indie-pop album as his favorite of 2007 or am I completely oblivious to really good music? Close one, but probably the latter.

*I said I was going to post daily to this blog as one of my resolutions. Consider this the first of many to be lame thrown together at the last minute so-I-don't-break-one-of-my-dumb-resolutions-posts.