Anthony Green

'Avalon'

The Warped generation's own pope of mope goes it alone.

Spin Rating6 of 10

Like Sunny Day Real Estate's Jeremy Enigk, Circa Survive singer Anthony Green is his band's most influential (and enigmatic) member, with a nation of emo kids finding solace in the stratospheric vocal lines and elliptical lyrics that mark his band's proggy epics. Avalon, Green's solo debut, isn't quite the 3-D orchestral opus that Enigk's Return of the Frog Queen was (on standouts like "Califone," it's closer to Elliott Smith's leaner acoustic work), but the idea is similar: a set of idiosyncratic, deeply personal ballads powered by an inimitable, if too frequently parroted, wail.

By Aaron Burgess

1 Van Halen 'A Different Kind of Truth'
2 Lana Del Rey 'Born to Die'
3 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
4 Himanshu 'Nehru Jackets'
5 Kathleen Edwards 'Voyageur'
6 Leonard Cohen 'Old Ideas'
7 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
8 Imperial Teen 'Feel the Sound'
9 Of Montreal 'Paralytic Stalks'
10 Skrillex 'Bangarang'

1 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
2 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
3 Kathleen Edwards 'Voyageur'
4 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
5 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
6 Leonard Cohen 'Old Ideas'
7 Escort 'Escort'
8 Escort 'Escort'
9 Escort 'Escort'
10 Himanshu 'Nehru Jackets'

Anthony Green

'Avalon'

The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'

Of Montreal 'Paralytic Stalks'

Van Halen 'A Different Kind of Truth'

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