First playlist of the new year here, then, with a bunch of new arrivals to make 2017 a bit more manageable. Still can’t recommend enough the amazing Hurray For The Riff Raff album, but quick notes about some of the most notable additions this week: Julia Holter’s kind of live album, with lovely ...
First playlist of the new year here, then, with a bunch of new arrivals to make 2017 a bit more manageable. Still can’t recommend enough the amazing Hurray For The Riff Raff album, but quick notes about some of the most notable additions this week: Julia Holter’s kind of live album, with lovely and spare rearrangements of some of her best songs; an album at last from Sheer Mag, albeit a singles comp; Matthew Barlow’s “Sound Meditations”, a new New Age gem that I was alerted to via some end of 2016 round-ups (check it out on Bandcamp; it’s a very limited edition cassette otherwise); and, best of all, a fantastic Elliott Smith song that’s surfaced for the 20th anniversary upgrade of Either/Or. By coincidence, I’ve been playing that album at home a lot these past few weeks. Looking forward to writing about it again.
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1 Various Artists – The Hired Hands: A Tribute To Bruce Langhorne (Scissor Tail/Bandcamp)
2 William Basinski – A Shadow In Time (Temporary Residence)
3 Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones)
4 Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator (ATO)
5 Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Transparent Water (World Village/Harmonia Mundi)
6 Son Volt – Note Of Blue (Thirty Tigers)
7 Julia Holter – In The Same Room (Domino)
8 Matthew Barlow – Sound Meditations (Bandcamp)
9 Various Artists – Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992 (Light In The Attic)
10 Jesus & Mary Chain – Amputation (ADA/Warner)
11 Various Artists – Stick In The Wheel Present From Here: English Folk Field Recordings (From Here)
12 Elliott Smith – I Figured You Out (Kill Rock Stars)
13 Brian Eno – Reflection (Warp)
14 Sheer Mag – Compilation LP (Static Shock)
15 Laura Marling – Semper Femina (More Alarming/Kobalt)
16 Les Amazones d’Afrique – République Amazone (Real World)
17 Grails – Chalice Hymnal (Temporary Residence)
18 Michael Chapman – 50 (Paradise Of Bachelors)
19 The Shins – Heartworms (Aural Apothecary/Columbia)
20 Sleaford Mods – English Tapas (Rough Trade)
21 High Plains – Cinderland (Kranky)