It was a great year for music, but everything felt a little more splintered this year, and in fact, picking a #1 album this year felt harder than it has in a while. Instead of a few major, dominant moments, we had the indie-country boom hitting a new peak, the biggest year for black metal in a while, the best year for emo in a while
On Rollercoasters, The Barbaras remind us it's okay-and often more fun-to not have your shit together. Instead, they endorse a lifestyle of falling in and out of love, and falling in and out of lust, while staying in love with yourself, and who you are perpetually becoming. And flashing your boobs! Refreshingly young and femme, The Barbaras' deceptively complex take on twang country-a genre notoriously rife with misogyny, racism, and