2): "The Pains of Being Pure At Heart is one of those records you listen to and want to tell everybody about immediately. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Fortuna Pop)ĭom (No. 1): ".the teen quartet the XX produced an album of such simple, unfettered joy that to ignore it just seems perverse."Ģ. 6): "One of the more surprising indie offering of the year, The XX debut was an effortlessly cooler-than-thou offering." 2): "Put simply, it's just astoundingly good." Every pause is as important as every note, every beat is as important as every word." This is Pinter-esque music, as much about what's not there as what is. 7): "Nothing is wasted on this album of simple, elegant beauty. It’s a record that whispers rather than shouts, and my ticket for their return trip to Manchester is now very much booked."Īli (No. 5): "A Florence and the Machine remix and several listens on Spotify later, and I was hooked, addicted, bewitched and totally in love with this band. The number in brackets indicates where in their top 24s individual panelists placed the album. 1, a chart was produced, and here for your listening pleasure is to the Top 10. 24 nomination through to 24 points for a No. Using a simple scoring system, one point for a No. To make sense of it all, we wanted to then figure out what the consensus was amongst us - what was our collective No. Every single one of us came up with a different number one. In all, there were 156 albums nominated by the panel over the last 24 days. A real advent calendar has only 24 doors. There's a reason we picked our Top 24s, and not Top 25s, for this project. We here at Ragged Glories are traditionalists.
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