The The Deeper In, named after the opening track from the Drive-By Truckers'
Decoration Day, is a feature that allows me to place a particular topic under the microscope. It will usually span several posts over a week or month's time, and entail a comprehensive analysis of the topic in question.
- How to Stop Worrying and Love Tom Waits: A primer on the alt-folk enigma, including an overview of six key albums.
- Musical Surgery: A hypothetical attempt at paring down overlong albums.
- Indie Music Mayhem: In May of 2010, an avalanche of new and exciting music was released, making for one of those active and interesting months of releases I've ever been privy to. I took six albums in particular, previewed and reviewed each. At the end of the month, I crowned a champion. And yes, I forgot Brothers by the Black Keys and I hate myself for it.
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: A lengthy critical analysis of the legendary Wilco album.
- On The Albums of Uncle Tupelo: An analysis of each of Uncle Tupelo's four important albums. Which is the defining Tupelo LP?
