5 Overlooked NYC Albums in the Mid-Year Sweep
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The Men – Tomorrow’s Hits (Sacred Bones)
When Nick Chiericozzi references a guitar and the year 1974 to open Tomorrow’s Hits, it’d be easy to mistake the underlying arrangement and Neil Youngish drawl as an actual product of 1974. The Men have built a career out of ignoring what’s going on in the so-called Brooklyn scene around them, instead building on the titular sentiment of their 2012 breakthrough Open Your Heart, widening their hardcore-leaning tendencies to include swaths of shoegaze, grunge and country. Every year deserves a true rock album. We’re lucky that 2014’s sounds like a composite of Young, Springsteen, Big Star and The Replacements.
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