So we all hate the "best of" mantra but I could not resist posting at least one marker of the past year. It's a music list - I hear the rolling of eyes - but this is a fantastic list of good music to expand your ear. I'll confess that I'm pinching this off a friend with a few embellishments of my own. The list is really about music we gravitated towards as artists. I think you'll find some nuggets here that aren't the usual suspects on music sites. I'm too lazy to provide links but here is the list anyway - enjoy!
BON IVER –For Emma, Forever Ago
GROUPER –Dragging a Deer Up a Hill
FLEET FOXES –Fleet Foxes
VIVIAN GIRLS -Vivian Girls
MOUNT EERIE w/ Julie Doiron& Fred Squire- Lost Wisdom
Peel Show Hits and Long Lost lo-Fi Favourites, Vol.1
NICK LOWE –Jesus of Cool
THE NERVES-The Nerves EP
SIXTO RODRIGUEZ –Cold Fact
VALERIO COSI -Collected Works/Heavy Electronic Pacific
NNCK -Clomeim
FRUSTRATION -Relax
BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE -Dolores
Touch 7" series
THE FALL -Imperial Wax Solvent
SMITH & BLANEY s/t
TOUMANI DIABATE -The Mande Variations
JOSEPHINE FOSTER -This Coming Gladness
JONNY GREENWOOD -There Will Be Blood
EMERALDS -Solar Bridge
FANTASTIKOI HXOI -Kyriarxoi Tou Sympantos
ARVE HENRIKSEN -Cartography
INDIAN JEWELRY -Free Gold!
JUANA MOLINA -Un Dia
LEGOWELT -The Rise and Fall of Manuel Noriega
ONE MORE GRAIN -Isle of Grain
PORTISHEAD -Third
vOLCANO! -Paperwork
RICHARD SKELTON -Marking Time
RICHARD SWIFT -As Onasis I & II
Buraka Som Sistema -Black Diamond
Cambodian Cassette Archives s/t
Erik Friedlander -Broken Arm Trio
Kim Doo Soo -10 Days Butterfly
THE RASTER NOTON LABEL (pretty much everything they put out this year)
1 comment:
I still have a soft spot for the Oxes, or maybe just their website.
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