Of the myriad reasons my mids high school years seem, in retrospect, pretty goddamn embarrassing, my obsessive love of Britpop Of the myriad reasons my mids high school years seem, in retrospect, pretty goddamn embarrassing, my obsessive love of Britpop ranks high. Sure, my tawdry affair with the genre was spawned from an admiration of great bands like Blur, The Stone Roses, and The Smiths. I overdid it, though. Virtually any band garnering even mild buzz in the UK warranted immediate purchase, including such dodgy blokes as Sleeper and Embrace, whose music I often paid steep import prices to obtain.

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Newman and Dan Bejar writing songs as early as With encouragement from peers, they recorded an album with other Canadian musicians from groups including The Evaporators , Zumpano , and Destroyer. Released in , the album failed to chart in Canada or the United States, but positive reviews from music media led to the group having a sold-out tour. The album was met with very positive reviews, receiving a score of 87 from Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of to reviews from mainstream critics.