#38

Bit sad of me to be so regimented in my music listening but 3rd week of every month is always “retro” week whereby I listen to album pre 2000 - its made me personally appreciate music made now (or since i’ve gotten older) in terms of influences - anyway enough waffling - here’s some of the highlights:-

Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Ashbury Park, N.J./The Wild, The Innocent & The E-Street Shuffle/Born To Run/Darkness On the Edge of Town/The River/Nebraska/Born To Run
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
**Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Rush - 2112/Permanent Waves/Moving
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream/Join Hands/Kaleidoscope
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Electric Cabaret
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Catherine Wheel - Ferment/Chrome (the latter is bad-a$$ imo)
David Bowie - 1.Outside
John Cale - Paris 1919
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Elsewhere, I have listened to:-

Anti-pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
The Bees - Sunshine On Me
Big Black Delta - Big Black Delta
BT - These Hopeful Machines
Charlotte Church - Four EP
The Chemical Brothers - Born In the Shadows
The Dears - Degeneration Street
DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, The Better
Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
How To Dress Well - Total Loss
Jimi Goodwin - Odludek
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire/Trust/C’mon/The Invisible Way/Ones & Sixes (The latter in particular, if i’d listened to it last year, would be in my top 3 albums of 2015 - phenomenal - “Landslide” is one of the best songs about mental illness I’ve ever heard)
Merchandise - Children Of Desire/Total Nite/After The End (basically I’ve fallen in love this band as I think their latest album “A Corpse Wired For Sound” is some kind of masterpiece)
Metronomy - The English Riviera (aka The lost Field Music album - that’s a compliment btw!)
Pinback - Summer In Abbadon
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Tweedy - Sukierae
Volcano Choir - Repave
Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
You The Living - XXXI

Thats, err quite a bit of music if i do say so myself…

Here’s to a good 2017 then! (musically)

#39

This is a great one! “God bless” of them is nice as well.

#40

Discovered Junior Murvin last year myself as well. Will try those other two now.

#41

Never heard of it either, even though I’m a big Ghost Box fan as well. Which album would you suggest I’d start with, as he already seems to have a big catalogue?

#42

Mutoid Man - Mutoid Man
Micachu and the Shapes and London Sinfonietta

I’ve mostly just had music from 2016 on rotation since it generally takes me awhile to move on from new releases and there’s been plenty to listen to this year.

#43

Whish I could discover them all over again. Was a real eye-opener when I learned about them, years ago.

#44

Intriguing!
Will check this out.

#45

These are all great.
Barwick’s earlier work is much better though.

#46

Albums I discovered this year:

Alixander III - The Incline Of Western Salivation Pt. III (2012)
Lino Capra Vaccina - Antico Adagio (1978)
Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie (1971)
John Bender - I Don’t Remember Now (1980)
Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass (1983)
Besombes / Rizet - Pôle (1975)
Bill Fay - Time Of The Last Persecution (1971)
Ellen Fullman - The Long String Instrument (1985)
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green (1986)
Roberto Musci - Debris Of A Loa (1984)
Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi (1982)

#47

Also, everything by Car Seat Headrest.

#48

Brainbombs. A bit late to the party here. They truly are horrible.

#49

Yep. Just as good as the other two, imo. Three solid, really interesting albums.

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#50

Julien Baker

#51

I love Desperate Youth…

#52

Friends have recommended TVOTR for sometime but just never got round to it until now - love how scuzzy bass/drums it is

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#53

Polanski is a good 65dos side project if you can track that down…

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#54

Girl Band — Holding Hands With Jamie
Brian Eno — Another Green World

Bowie and John Prine discographies have been explored more

#55

and… White Denim & Unknown Mortal Orchestra

#56

Which white denim stuff you been getting into? They’re the best

#57

That’s a tricky one because MWC has a fairly consistent style - fantastic if lacking a little bit of variation.
Of the one’s I’ve heard, I’d start with Somewhere A Fox Is Getting Married from 2011. Bang in the middle of MWC’s discography.

It sounds as if the later releases are slightly more techy, the earlier ones more hip-hop, and the beats all sound homemade. The dominant style is hauntological - full of eeries sounds, disembodied voices, library music and film/TV samples. It’s also playful in a way that a lot of Ghost Box stuff isn’t.