I have a bad habit with music… okay two bad habits with music; the first that I’ll illegally download (three bad habits) tons of music that invariably gets lost in the shuffle and I never really get around to giving it enough time; the other is that when there’s some kind of seminal band that everyone else has heard of/adored and I never got around to listening to, I’m to embarrassed to give it a listen. Eventually, I have a flickering moment of humility, ask someone what all the hub-bub was about, and listen to it for little more than my own personal edification. Then feel like an idiot for not having listened to it years ago.

 So today I learned that the Dismemberment Plan’s “Emergency & I” album is pretty great, and has the greatest second half to a record that I can remember. It’ll go up there with Converge and Jay-Z as something I should have started listening to years earlier, LCD Soundsystem and the new Titus Andronicus record as something I had to get harangued into doing on my own, and my perpetual loneliness and lack of a bike helmet as evidence that I have no capacity to learn from past mistakes. Download illegally from HERE.

-diggy