MothmanCubed

“This 172-record shelf has a heavy leaning toward the 2000s with forty-three records, followed closely by the 2010s with thirty-one. It is spread across 104 artists and 97 labels, which tells me there is a lot of scatter underneath the heaviest hitters. When twenty-two of those records are stamped by Warner Bros., you start to see where the pipelines lead. The backbone of the crate belongs to Twenty One Pilots, The White Stripes, Muse, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, and Linkin Park. Those six artists pull the weight while the rest of the 104 fill in the gaps between them. It is a modern rock and pop collection that stretches its legs back into early seventies prog with Yes before snapping right back into the twenty-first century. No dead weight here, just a hundred and seventy-two pieces of plastic and cardboard doing exactly what they were bought to do.”