This year’s been a great year for being introduced to past music, standouts include:
Bikini Kill - Pussywhipped: abrasive but considering the other revered albums from the early 90s I’m not sure why this isn’t held in higher regard. Top stuff
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique, Check Your Head & Ill Communication: a ludicrously good run of albums
Mannequin Pussy - Romantic: Gloriously adolescent name, and the music’s even better
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind & … Sings the Blues
The Slits - Cut: Again, horrendously underrated in the canon of 70s albums
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing: fell in love with loads of her work but this one is the pick of the bunch
Kathryn Joseph - Bones you have Thrown…: gave this a spin after someone of here said it was their favourite album of the past couple of years. Simple musically (pretty much piano and vocals throughout) but beautiful
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas: Ridiculously gorgeous, I’m a big fan of Beach House and this sounds like it migiht have been an influence.
Also great DiScoveries have been The Raincoats, Wu-Tang (Enter…), Janis Joplin (Pearl), Funkadelic (Maggot Brain), Janelle Monae (Archandroid), Liz Phair (Exile in Guyville), Madvillainy, Nico (Chelsea Girls), Carole King (Tapestry), X-ray Spex, Siouxsie and the Banshees, X (Los Angeles), Somic Youth, Company Flow (Funcrusher Plus), Dirty Projectors (Swing Lo), Operators, Mac Demarco, HVOB, Flying Lotus (Cosmogramma), Liniker os Caramelos…
Fuck me, music is just the best