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no. band album country label OOR NME Pitchfork 1 Django Django Django Django UK Because Music 7 11 2 Grizzly Bear Shields US Warp 8 17 10 3 Field Music Plumb UK Memphis Industries 4 Tame Impala Lonerism AUS Captured Tracks 6 1 4 5 Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan US Domino 15 6 Twin [...]
In 2010 we had a top 21, last year we had a top 26, so naturally this year’s is a top 29. Kicking off the second set is our countdown from #23 to #19 … 23. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Captured Tracks) Aussie experimental rules 60′s 70′s revival psych rockers did it again with a [...]
If I could listen to records with the same focus and sense of timelessness I possesed before the balance of things in my life toppled over towards the mundane, then there’d be no doubt that Grizzly Bear’s fourth album would be my favourite record of the year. Instead, Shields has to compete will less crafty albums that [...]
Here We Go Magic’s third album, A different Ship, starts with a remarkably animated percussive intro. For 51 seconds we are left wondering if perhaps for his latest sea crossing Brooklyn’s Luke Temple has traded the musical leisure cruise of his first two albums for an industrious aircraft carrier. We soon find out that the [...]
Plumb, the fourth release by Sunderland’s Field Music equals the level of its double disc predecessor. Considering that Field Music (Measure) was a Fuzz favorite in 2010, to continue on the same level is quite an achievement for David and Peter Brewis. Compared to Field Music (Measures), Plumb is more compact (15 songs averaging 2:30 [...]
Album and concertreview Dutch Uncles, november 7th, Melkweg oude zaal – On the most superficial level Manchester’s Dutch Uncles isn’t a far fetched supporting act for Wild Beasts. Both bands stand out from the pack of British alternative music through a sound that is original and does not necessarily classify as contemporary. Both bands have [...]
Band-Album, Label, Country 1 Beach House-Teen Dream, Subpop, USA 2 Fenech-Soler-Fenech-Soler, B-unique, UK 3 Yeasayer-Odd blood, Secretly Canadian, USA 4 School of seven bells-Disconnect from desire, Ghostly International, USA 5 Field Music-Field Music, Memphis Industries, UK 6 Tame Impala-Innerspeaker, Modular, AUS 7 Wild Nothing-Gemini, Captured Tracks, USA 8 Janelle Monaé-The Archandriod, Bad Boy, USA 9 [...]
21. Black Keys – Brothers 20. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor 19. Field Music – Field Music (Measure) ‘The transverse nature of Field Music (Measures) expresses itself in many changes of pace, without making it hard to listen or even thumb to’ 18. RJD2 – Colossus 17. School of seven Bells – Disconnect from desire ‘Disconnect from Desire [...]