First off, thanks for all your kind and indulgent comments about my 154 best albums of 2014 blog; I'm genuinely grateful and touched by the feedback. Beyond that, this week I've been listening - not unusually, I guess - to a lot of Mark Kozelek. I reviewed Sun Kil Moon's brilliant but it seems divisive Hackney gig here; please take the time to read some very thoughtful and interesting comments at the bottom of the page. I've also been enjoying a glut of new Ghostface Killah material (three albums, of which the new Wu set is the least strong), and a great live recording of Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band. Not many live bands out there I want to see live more than them, right now. Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey 1 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal) 2 Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Live In Lafayette, Indiana (No label) 3 Samba Toure - Gandadiko (Glitterbeat) 4 Syd Arthur - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble: Remixes By The Amorphous Androgynous (Monstrous Bubble) 5 Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul (Lex) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-qmZ_J7WGc 6 Frisk Frugt - Den Europaeiske Spejilbue (Tambourhinoceros) 7 Gang Of Four - What Happens Next (Membran) 8 Bettye Lavette - Worthy (Cherry Red) 9 Africa Express Presents - Terry Riley's In C (Transgressive) Read my review here 10 [REDACTED] 11 Ghostface Killah - 36 Seasons (Tommy Boy) 12 Natural Child - Dancin' With Wolves (Burger) 13 The Wu Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow (PArlophone) 14 The Clang Group - The Clang Group EP (Domino) 15 The Unthanks - Mount The Air (Rabble Rouser) 16 Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (Self-Released) 17 Robert Stillman - Leap Of Death (Archaic Future) 18 Will Butler - Take My Side (Merge) 19 Jan St Werner - Miscontinuum (Thrill Jockey) 20 Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love (Sub Pop) 21 [REDACTED] 22 Hiss Golden Messenger - Southern Grammar EP (Merge) 23 Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset) 24 Brian Eno - Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (All Saints) 25 Jake Xerxes Fussell - Jake Xerxes Fussell (Paradise Of Bachelors) 26 Red House Painters - Old Ramon (Sub Pop) 27 Fraser A Gorman - Book Of Love (House Anxiety/ Marathon Artists/ Milk!) 28 Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass (Spacebomb)
First off, thanks for all your kind and indulgent comments about my 154 best albums of 2014 blog; I’m genuinely grateful and touched by the feedback.
Beyond that, this week I’ve been listening – not unusually, I guess – to a lot of Mark Kozelek. I reviewed Sun Kil Moon’s brilliant but it seems divisive Hackney gig here; please take the time to read some very thoughtful and interesting comments at the bottom of the page.
I’ve also been enjoying a glut of new Ghostface Killah material (three albums, of which the new Wu set is the least strong), and a great live recording of Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band. Not many live bands out there I want to see live more than them, right now.
Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey
1 Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
2 Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Live In Lafayette, Indiana (No label)
3 Samba Toure – Gandadiko (Glitterbeat)
4 Syd Arthur – A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble: Remixes By The Amorphous Androgynous (Monstrous Bubble)
5 Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul (Lex)
6 Frisk Frugt – Den Europaeiske Spejilbue (Tambourhinoceros)
7 Gang Of Four – What Happens Next (Membran)
8 Bettye Lavette – Worthy (Cherry Red)
9 Africa Express Presents – Terry Riley’s In C (Transgressive)
10 [REDACTED]
11 Ghostface Killah – 36 Seasons (Tommy Boy)
12 Natural Child – Dancin’ With Wolves (Burger)
13 The Wu Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow (PArlophone)
14 The Clang Group – The Clang Group EP (Domino)
15 The Unthanks – Mount The Air (Rabble Rouser)
16 Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes (Self-Released)
17 Robert Stillman – Leap Of Death (Archaic Future)
18 Will Butler – Take My Side (Merge)
19 Jan St Werner – Miscontinuum (Thrill Jockey)
20 Sleater Kinney – No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
21 [REDACTED]
22 Hiss Golden Messenger – Southern Grammar EP (Merge)
23 Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset)
24 Brian Eno – Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (All Saints)
25 Jake Xerxes Fussell – Jake Xerxes Fussell (Paradise Of Bachelors)
26 Red House Painters – Old Ramon (Sub Pop)
27 Fraser A Gorman – Book Of Love (House Anxiety/ Marathon Artists/ Milk!)
28 Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass (Spacebomb)