THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

Attentive readers may have noticed that this Consumer Guide and the one before have been more out-of-date than usual. Out-of-dateness is a built-in drawback of the Consumer Guide anyway - it really is supposed to approximate what it’s like to live with a record, and living with takes time - but for the past few months I’ve had to be especially leisurely, because I’ve been on the road.