Showing posts with label records of the year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label records of the year. Show all posts

Friday, 26 February 2021

Records of the Year


Ambrose Akinmusire – On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note Records)

André Henriques – Cajarana ( Sony Music Entertainment)

Australian Art Orchestra | Peter Knight | Tilman Robinson | Andrea Keller – Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space  (Australian Music Centre) 

Bernardo Devlin – Proxima B (Peekaboo Records)

Bloodshot Bill – Get Loose Or Get Lost (Goner Records)

Built to Spill – Plays The Songs of Daniel Johnston (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)

Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler –  In Memory of My Feelings (Needle Mythology) 

David Bruno – Raiashopping (Brandit music)

Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles in Allem (Potomak)

Gabríel Ólafs – Piano Works (One Little Independent Records)

James C. – Sodden (KCK Records)

JG Thrilwell & Simon Steensland – Oscilospira (Ipecac Recordings)

Jeff Parker – Suite For Max Brown (International Anthem)

John Bence – Love (Thrill Jockey Records)

Jorge Coelho – Lay Claim to the World as a Sphere of Your Own Agency (Lovers & Lollypops)

Jorge Queijo – Abstract Thoughts II (Self Release)

Jozef van Wissem – Ex Mortis (Consouling Sounds)

King Buzzo with Trevor Dunn – Sacrifice ( Ipecac Recordings)

Krypto – Eye 8 (Lovers & Lollypops) 

Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Beat Poetry For Survivalists (Cherry Red)

Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye & Jim White – 2 (Caldo Verde Records)

Mick Harvey – Waves of Anzak/The Journey (Mute Records)

Mondo Generator – Shooters Bible (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Pop Dell’Arte – Transgressio Global (Sony Music)

Radio Bukoswki – Radio Bukowski (Tradisom)

Roger Eno & Brian Eno – Mixing Colours (Deutsche Grammophon)

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy (Sub Pop Records)

Rowland S Howard – Pop Crimes (Bloodlines Music/Mute Records/Southern Records)

Six Organs of Addmitance – Companion Rises (Drag City Records)

SQÜRL – Some Music For Robby Muller (Sacred Bones)

Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques (Matador Records)

The Friends of David McComb – Truckloads of Sky – The Lost Songs of David McCombs Vol 1 (Lost Records and Tapes)

The Sorcerers – In Search Of The Lost City Of The Monkey (ATA Records)

The William Loveday Intention – Will There Ever Be A Day That You’re Hung Like A Thief  (Damaged Goods Records)

V/A – Color de Trópico – Venezuelan grooves from the 60s and 70s (El Palmas Music)

Full text here: https://mondobizarremagazine.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/records-of-the-year/






Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Fifteen Delights from 2011

After years without a "best records of ..." list in 2011 there was inspiration and time for music to have a place in my heart.



Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Black Keys – El Camino
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Scandalous
Black Lips – Arabian Mountain
Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer
Erica Buettner - True Love and Water
Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
P.J. Harvey – Let England Shake
Ryan Adams – Ashes and Fire
Laura Marling – A Creature I Don't Know
Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Old Jerusalem – Old Jerusalem
Reigning Sound - Abdication For Your Love
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Mirror Trafic
Tom Waits – Bad as Me

Sunday, 23 December 2007

Top 10 Albuns of 2007

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whale Heart

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, are You The Destroyer

David Vandaveer - Grace & Speed

Battles - Mirrored

Blackstrobe - Burn Your Own Church

Go-Team - Proof Of Youth

Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground

Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala