Featuring: The Shins, Girl Talk, The Hold Steady, Panda Bear, Titus Andronicus, Cage The Elephant, Foster The People, Pretty Lights, Cults, Elbow, Mates Of State, Yuck, and many more
Versus is a new series in which we pit selected albums against one another and offer case statements for which is superior. In this, our first installment, we examine two albums from the same artist's catalog -- The Decemberists' Picaresque versus The Hazards of Love -- and we ask: which do you think is the better album?