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Critics Week
Every year, Soundcheck presents "Critics Week," a series highlighting the best and worst of music of the year. Host John Schaefer is joined by music critics to discuss the year’s best- and worst- albums in pop, hip-hop, classical, opera, rock, jazz, world and Latin.
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Critics Week 2011
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New York Times pop music critic Jon Pareles rounds out our week-long look back at the best of the year in music.
Jon Pareles' list:
- Metals (album) - Feist
- So Beautiful Or So What (album) - Paul Simon
- Watch the Throne (album) - Jay-Z and Kanye West
- Ashes and Fire (album) - Ryan Adams
- Bad as Me (album) - Tom Waits
- Take Care (album) - Drake
- W H O K I L L (album) - tUnE-yArDs
- Wounded Rhymes (album) - Lykke Li
- Cotonou Club (album) - Le Tout Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
- Aesthethica (album) - Liturgy
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how do we even begin to conceptualize what an album is,in todays world, of ephemeral electronic, musical transmission.
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