Taken together, “GADPY” was seen as a collective triumph, a Good for something that a lot of people understood even by 2009 as being Very Bad – a decade where music criticism was largely shaped by online media and their semi-obscure favorites. Or, in short, “blog rock.”
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To wit, “music that had gained popularity through MP3 blogs — specifically those giving coverage to the more leftfield, less image-obsessed artists ignored by the mainstream press.”
Source: https://uproxx.com/indie/blog-rock-best-albums-all-time-list/ (Ian Cohen)