Too late: The best songs of 2013
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slipjig3I meant to post this way back in January—back when it'd have been, y'know, appropriate—but I wasn't posting anything back then, really, except screeds about how I wish I posted things. So this really is way too late, but at the moment I'm trying to switch off some brain cells, so it seems the time has come. Besides, I can use the excuse that the delay has allowed me to add some tracks I hadn't heard until well after the year was over (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it).
So allow me to dust of my Big Bag o' Unsolicited Opinions:
Adam's Top 50 Songs of 2013
50) "Do You Love the Rain," Ian Kelly
I keep thinking I don't like this one, until I listen to it and recall how awesome it is. It makes the list by sheer tenacity.
49) "Desert Pacific Octopi," Squalloscope
I think it's fair to say that trying to describe the genre of any track entitled "Desert Pacific Octopi" is a fool's errand, so I'll just throw out adjectives like "mellow," "idiosyncratic," and, um, "squidlike."
48) "Moving Along," Lions in the Street
And then there are those days when you just want to howl along with a rollicking bluesy bar-buster in your car with the windows rolled up.
47) "Line of Fire," Junip
There is no middle ground for music described as "lush." You either end up with something breathtaking and expansive, or you kinda want to punch the producer in the face. This one pulls it off.
46) "Unchain My Heart," Hugh Laurie
The last time some TV star recorded an album of rock and soul classics, we ended up with Bruce Willis and The Return of Bruno. *pleh!* Thank you, Hugh, for not screwing this up (and my best regards to your drummer).
45) "Try to Be," Blue Hawaii
I can list a dozen reasons why this track should totally scrape against my nerves, but instead of piling on top of each other the reasons somehow cancel each other out, leaving behind something delicate and mesmerizing.
44) "Nighthawks," Maglia Rosa Group
The greatest college radio hit that 1986 never had.
43) "Bright Light," Mount Moriah
I was going to make a joke here similar to the last one, but "Bright Light" seems to exist in four or five years at once. It's like you could drop it into my subconscious at any point in my lifetime and my brain would accept it without question.
42) "Heartbeating City," Wallis Bird
If there were ever a song to crank up on your earbuds and go dancing out of a coffeehouse onto the sidewalk to while an iPhone commercial breaks out around you, this is that song. To be clear, I mean this as a huge compliment.
41) "El Tren," Natalia Clavier
Well, hell, if we're going to remain stuck in the past, let's at least find some different scenery. Clavier is a Brazilian-born actress/singer-songwriter who here serves up some delicious post-psych-pop with a voice like warm custard.
40) "Numb," Gary Clark Jr.
Don't look now, but Hendrix is back, and he is taking shit from no one.
39) "Default Blues," Frightened Rabbit
I'll never understand why there can be a hundred bands that sound within millimeters of each other, and I can ignore them all only to fall for That One. This time around, That One appears to be Frightened Rabbit. (Maybe it's the rabbit thing.)
38) "That's Alright," Laura Mvula
Birmingham, England's Mvula had a few UK hits in 2013, but this one only charted in Belgium. Usually saying "they're big in Belgium" is damning with faint praise; in this case it just means the rest of the world isn't paying frickin' attention.
37) "Did You Hear the Rain?" George Ezra
I listened to this track solidly for months before finding out what Ezra looks like, and I have to ask: where is that skinny guy keeping that voice? Does he have a gunny-sack he totes it around in or something? Just…damn.
36) "Adderall," The Coathangers
Unapologetic tobacco-stained grrl-punk. I love living in a world where this exists.
35) "Nomads," Joe Banfi
I actually had to stop listening to this one because it was messing with my head, in a dark way (especially the "Their bodies lay beneath me, and still I wasn't done" part). Ten gallons of atmosphere in a five-gallon tank.
34) "Somewhere All the Time," Samantha Crain
My last job was sort of bland and miserable in an Excel-speadsheet-and-no-windows sort of way. Luckily I had my antidotes, including and especially this jaunty little piece of country-folk confection. Someday I hope to be able to listen again without being reminded of ctrl-alt-del
33) "Jericho," Preachers Son
My new karaoke song.
32) "Pennies in the Fountain," Glen Hansard
I cannot understate the importance of Hansard as a musical influence for me. Between the Swell Season, the Frames, and his solo stuff, he's changed the way I write, the way I perform, even the way I listen. Next mega-list I do will be all him.
31) "Hellhound," Velvet Two Stripes
I've recently learned that the Kills are back in the studio, working on their fifth album. Obviously I need to wait, but in the meantime I have Velvet Two Stripes, the Kills' non-union equivalent. Seriously, their sound is close enough that if I didn't have the album cover in front of me I'd never have known better.
30) "Imminent Failure," Grey Kingdom
Here's one for your local emo club, if that emo club happens to be located at the bottom of a West Virginia coal mine.
29) "Objet Petit A," Harouki Zombi
At the end of the day, it's not the subterranean percussion-thump or the breathy bilingual vocals that get me. It's that they grabbed the same vocal echo sample that came built into my cheap Casio keyboard back in '87 and made good and proper use of it, unlike me back in '87.
28) "Queen of Hearts," Darlia
Anyone who claims that rock is dead isn't paying very close attention. Wake up and snap to, you self-important music bloggers, you!
27) "The Messenger," Brown Bird
I think if my radio show were to implode tomorrow—and really, I have no guarantees that it won't—my biggest takeaway from the experience would be my introduction to Brown Bird, a band that gives me hope for the future of American folk music. Look up their other stuff; you shan't be disappointed. (I've just learned that the lead singer is currently battling leukemia; get well soon,good sir.)
26) "Wicked Little Girl," Dawn and Marra
More folk-based stuff, this time from the wilds of Vancouver, carrying with it a post-Hunger-Games attitude-tinged jump-rope-rhyme kind of I-don't-even-know-what-I'm-talking-about-just-listen-to-the-damn-song sort of thing. You know what I'm talking about.
25) "Hey, Doreen," Lucius
Lucius is one of those bands that went bigger-than-small while I sat and waited for them to go bigger-than-big; their album Wildewoman peaked at 150 on the Billboard charts, and I'm left wondering which of those three digits was added by mistake. Good stuff.
24) "Under October," Hot Feet
This one feels more like April than October for me, but I can see where they're coming from. More specifically, it sounds like April 1970, somewhere in London, in the company of some bird with a bob and a smashing peacoat.
23) "Canvas," Tiny Dragons
Learning to listen to current music after being stuck in the past for so long has been, suffice it to say, a learning process. This one makes me wish I were either more on the ball, 15 years younger, or both.
22) "What's Your Daughter For?" Casual Sex
If I tell you that the members of Casual Sex all listened to too many Clash albums when they were growing up, would you recognize this as the good thing I mean it to be?
19) "Woman," Victory
I like a man who can whip out an old school soul falsetto with impunity.
21) "Innocence," Thumpers (featuring Gaggle)
Thumpers is an alt-pop duo. Gaggle is a choir made up of 20+ robed women resembling something out of a Dario Argento flick. Together they're covering a Björk song. Be there. NOTE: The video at the link comes with a Photosensitive Epilepsy Warning. The song should have its own warning against Spontaneous Brain Liquification.
20) "Undiscovered," Laura Welsh
Yes, yes, I know, she was probably signed and put forth by the labels as a crass attempt to coat-tail onto the whole Adele thing, but you know what? I like Adele, and I like this. Great song.
18) "Sacrilege," Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I love it when a band I already admire pulls out the stops and blows me away beyond even my own expectations. That gospel choir at the end, man. Brutally gorgeous. (And if you haven't seen my previous exhortations to do so, go find the NSFW video for this one as well. It's a doozy.)
17) "Rumble and Sway," Jamie N Commons
Jamie was born in Bristol, England and raises in Chicago, and sounds like it. He grew up listening to the Allman Brothers, and sounds like that, too. He's only 25, which sounds off by a good two decades or so.
16) "Beetz in My Salad," SJ Tucker and Big Bad Gina
Tucker has had a jaw-droppingly productive year, releasing not only two terrific full-length CDs, the soundtrack to Ember Days and the amazing Wonders, but also this collaboration with big Bad Gina on what is undoubtedly the greatest hip-hop tune about vegetables ever recorded. I've spent months now filling odd moments by muttering, "Put the spinach on the bottom 'cuz that's where it starts…."
15) "Fowl Mouth," Blood Relatives
This son'g greatest achievement, even more so than its status as basically a three-minute pop hook, is that it opens with the line, "My tongue has sprouted feathers and flaps them in the breeze," and the somehow, somehow, manages to carry the metaphor all the way to the end without seeming precious and twee. Good show.
14) "Hummingbird," The Fireflys
As I was ranking the tunes on this list, I noticed that I kept bumping "Hummingbird" toward the top, even though it's a simple song with a warmed-over MTV Unplugged vibe and lyrics that are nothing to write home about. But I can't escape the chorus, with its ever-so right drum part and harmonies like a step off a cliff straight into the clouds. Delicious.
13) "The Curse," Agnes Obel
A wineglass-delicate waltz from one side of midnight to the other.
12) "Shout It," Southern
Since the White Stripes turned out not to be blood-related after all (and aren't a band anymore anyway), the Irish team Southern have stepped in to take up the brother-sister guitar-and-drums rock duo mantle from them. Music this spare shouldn't be as exciting as it is, should it?
11) "Eras," Juana Molina
Molina's CD Wed 21 has turned up on pretty much every Best of '13 list put out by anyone tangential to the NPR Music crowd. There's a very good reason for this.
10) "Circle of Trust," Ooga Boogas
After the whole garage punk movement of a decade ago, a lot of folks, myself included, were left saddened and confused, thinking, "Okay, wait, there was the Vines and the Hives and…then…what? Where'd everybody go?" Enter Ooga Boogas. You can relax now, rock and roll is in safe hands.
9) "Amidinine," Bombino
Bombino is Omara Moctar, a Taureg singer-songwriter hailing from Niger. So if you'll indulge me for a moment before you click that link, close your eyes and imagine what the fusion of West African music and blues rock might sounds like. Yes, it is that awesome.
8) "Manic Baby," The Preatures
The Preatures dish out the sort of sound I usually like without loving. So why have I glommed onto every song of theirs I've heard so far?
7) "Number 9," Moon Hooch
Two saxophones and a drum set. Shouldn't work. Nope, shouldn't work at all. And yet I have to warn you that this song will eat your entire head for the rest of the week if you give it the time of day. Probably best not to listen. Yep, probably best.
6) "Get Lucky," Daughter
It's an indication of how far out of the loop I am that I heard this cover well before I heard the Daft Punk original. And if I may wax stubbornly opinionated for a moment, while Daft Punk have themselves the Hit of the Year, Daughter have themselves something a helluva lot better.
5) "Stranglehold," Sarah Borrello
Okay, listen up, people: Sarah Borrello is a local Boston singer-songwriter whose debut album, Exit, just came out this past year, and I'm making a point of telling you about this local Boston singer-songwriter because within the next few years she is going to become jim-frickin' huge. Mark my words, dear readers, this is going to happen. Give a listen. You'll see what I mean.
4) "Stony Ground," Richard Thompson
How the hell does the man keep topping himself? I don't even have the capacity to keep talking about him. Let's all just acknowledge that he's amazing and carry on with our lives, shall we?
3) "Ryba (Fish)," Leningrad
I should probably specify that I mean the acoustic version here. The regular album take sounds like a screamier version of Earth Wind and Fire; the version I allude to sounds like Gogol Bordello, only with a bigger horn section and a fuckton more vodka. Three guesses which one knocked my socks clean off my dancing feet.
2) "Summer Dress," July Talk
Like the Tom Waits/Neko Case collaboration you didn't know you'd always wanted.
1) "The Wild," Kristofer Åström
This list contains a sizable share of folk and folk-rock, to be sure, but lately I've been favoring the portions of my listening habits that have more of a pulse. So when I realized that Kristofer Åström's "The Wild" was going to fill the #1 spot, I was a bit surprised, I must admit. And yet there was no doubt in my mind: it's a flawless little gem of warm, tender fireside acoustica with some of the most evocative two-part coed harmonies I've ever heard. No bigger than what we ask of it, no smaller than what our hearts need. A perfect breath, inhale and exhale.
Pointless Bonus Selection) "Marijuana Spider," Bot
Man, I don't even know.
So allow me to dust of my Big Bag o' Unsolicited Opinions:
Adam's Top 50 Songs of 2013
50) "Do You Love the Rain," Ian Kelly
I keep thinking I don't like this one, until I listen to it and recall how awesome it is. It makes the list by sheer tenacity.
49) "Desert Pacific Octopi," Squalloscope
I think it's fair to say that trying to describe the genre of any track entitled "Desert Pacific Octopi" is a fool's errand, so I'll just throw out adjectives like "mellow," "idiosyncratic," and, um, "squidlike."
48) "Moving Along," Lions in the Street
And then there are those days when you just want to howl along with a rollicking bluesy bar-buster in your car with the windows rolled up.
47) "Line of Fire," Junip
There is no middle ground for music described as "lush." You either end up with something breathtaking and expansive, or you kinda want to punch the producer in the face. This one pulls it off.
46) "Unchain My Heart," Hugh Laurie
The last time some TV star recorded an album of rock and soul classics, we ended up with Bruce Willis and The Return of Bruno. *pleh!* Thank you, Hugh, for not screwing this up (and my best regards to your drummer).
45) "Try to Be," Blue Hawaii
I can list a dozen reasons why this track should totally scrape against my nerves, but instead of piling on top of each other the reasons somehow cancel each other out, leaving behind something delicate and mesmerizing.
44) "Nighthawks," Maglia Rosa Group
The greatest college radio hit that 1986 never had.
43) "Bright Light," Mount Moriah
I was going to make a joke here similar to the last one, but "Bright Light" seems to exist in four or five years at once. It's like you could drop it into my subconscious at any point in my lifetime and my brain would accept it without question.
42) "Heartbeating City," Wallis Bird
If there were ever a song to crank up on your earbuds and go dancing out of a coffeehouse onto the sidewalk to while an iPhone commercial breaks out around you, this is that song. To be clear, I mean this as a huge compliment.
41) "El Tren," Natalia Clavier
Well, hell, if we're going to remain stuck in the past, let's at least find some different scenery. Clavier is a Brazilian-born actress/singer-songwriter who here serves up some delicious post-psych-pop with a voice like warm custard.
40) "Numb," Gary Clark Jr.
Don't look now, but Hendrix is back, and he is taking shit from no one.
39) "Default Blues," Frightened Rabbit
I'll never understand why there can be a hundred bands that sound within millimeters of each other, and I can ignore them all only to fall for That One. This time around, That One appears to be Frightened Rabbit. (Maybe it's the rabbit thing.)
38) "That's Alright," Laura Mvula
Birmingham, England's Mvula had a few UK hits in 2013, but this one only charted in Belgium. Usually saying "they're big in Belgium" is damning with faint praise; in this case it just means the rest of the world isn't paying frickin' attention.
37) "Did You Hear the Rain?" George Ezra
I listened to this track solidly for months before finding out what Ezra looks like, and I have to ask: where is that skinny guy keeping that voice? Does he have a gunny-sack he totes it around in or something? Just…damn.
36) "Adderall," The Coathangers
Unapologetic tobacco-stained grrl-punk. I love living in a world where this exists.
35) "Nomads," Joe Banfi
I actually had to stop listening to this one because it was messing with my head, in a dark way (especially the "Their bodies lay beneath me, and still I wasn't done" part). Ten gallons of atmosphere in a five-gallon tank.
34) "Somewhere All the Time," Samantha Crain
My last job was sort of bland and miserable in an Excel-speadsheet-and-no-windows sort of way. Luckily I had my antidotes, including and especially this jaunty little piece of country-folk confection. Someday I hope to be able to listen again without being reminded of ctrl-alt-del
33) "Jericho," Preachers Son
My new karaoke song.
32) "Pennies in the Fountain," Glen Hansard
I cannot understate the importance of Hansard as a musical influence for me. Between the Swell Season, the Frames, and his solo stuff, he's changed the way I write, the way I perform, even the way I listen. Next mega-list I do will be all him.
31) "Hellhound," Velvet Two Stripes
I've recently learned that the Kills are back in the studio, working on their fifth album. Obviously I need to wait, but in the meantime I have Velvet Two Stripes, the Kills' non-union equivalent. Seriously, their sound is close enough that if I didn't have the album cover in front of me I'd never have known better.
30) "Imminent Failure," Grey Kingdom
Here's one for your local emo club, if that emo club happens to be located at the bottom of a West Virginia coal mine.
29) "Objet Petit A," Harouki Zombi
At the end of the day, it's not the subterranean percussion-thump or the breathy bilingual vocals that get me. It's that they grabbed the same vocal echo sample that came built into my cheap Casio keyboard back in '87 and made good and proper use of it, unlike me back in '87.
28) "Queen of Hearts," Darlia
Anyone who claims that rock is dead isn't paying very close attention. Wake up and snap to, you self-important music bloggers, you!
27) "The Messenger," Brown Bird
I think if my radio show were to implode tomorrow—and really, I have no guarantees that it won't—my biggest takeaway from the experience would be my introduction to Brown Bird, a band that gives me hope for the future of American folk music. Look up their other stuff; you shan't be disappointed. (I've just learned that the lead singer is currently battling leukemia; get well soon,good sir.)
26) "Wicked Little Girl," Dawn and Marra
More folk-based stuff, this time from the wilds of Vancouver, carrying with it a post-Hunger-Games attitude-tinged jump-rope-rhyme kind of I-don't-even-know-what-I'm-talking-about-just-listen-to-the-damn-song sort of thing. You know what I'm talking about.
25) "Hey, Doreen," Lucius
Lucius is one of those bands that went bigger-than-small while I sat and waited for them to go bigger-than-big; their album Wildewoman peaked at 150 on the Billboard charts, and I'm left wondering which of those three digits was added by mistake. Good stuff.
24) "Under October," Hot Feet
This one feels more like April than October for me, but I can see where they're coming from. More specifically, it sounds like April 1970, somewhere in London, in the company of some bird with a bob and a smashing peacoat.
23) "Canvas," Tiny Dragons
Learning to listen to current music after being stuck in the past for so long has been, suffice it to say, a learning process. This one makes me wish I were either more on the ball, 15 years younger, or both.
22) "What's Your Daughter For?" Casual Sex
If I tell you that the members of Casual Sex all listened to too many Clash albums when they were growing up, would you recognize this as the good thing I mean it to be?
19) "Woman," Victory
I like a man who can whip out an old school soul falsetto with impunity.
21) "Innocence," Thumpers (featuring Gaggle)
Thumpers is an alt-pop duo. Gaggle is a choir made up of 20+ robed women resembling something out of a Dario Argento flick. Together they're covering a Björk song. Be there. NOTE: The video at the link comes with a Photosensitive Epilepsy Warning. The song should have its own warning against Spontaneous Brain Liquification.
20) "Undiscovered," Laura Welsh
Yes, yes, I know, she was probably signed and put forth by the labels as a crass attempt to coat-tail onto the whole Adele thing, but you know what? I like Adele, and I like this. Great song.
18) "Sacrilege," Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I love it when a band I already admire pulls out the stops and blows me away beyond even my own expectations. That gospel choir at the end, man. Brutally gorgeous. (And if you haven't seen my previous exhortations to do so, go find the NSFW video for this one as well. It's a doozy.)
17) "Rumble and Sway," Jamie N Commons
Jamie was born in Bristol, England and raises in Chicago, and sounds like it. He grew up listening to the Allman Brothers, and sounds like that, too. He's only 25, which sounds off by a good two decades or so.
16) "Beetz in My Salad," SJ Tucker and Big Bad Gina
Tucker has had a jaw-droppingly productive year, releasing not only two terrific full-length CDs, the soundtrack to Ember Days and the amazing Wonders, but also this collaboration with big Bad Gina on what is undoubtedly the greatest hip-hop tune about vegetables ever recorded. I've spent months now filling odd moments by muttering, "Put the spinach on the bottom 'cuz that's where it starts…."
15) "Fowl Mouth," Blood Relatives
This son'g greatest achievement, even more so than its status as basically a three-minute pop hook, is that it opens with the line, "My tongue has sprouted feathers and flaps them in the breeze," and the somehow, somehow, manages to carry the metaphor all the way to the end without seeming precious and twee. Good show.
14) "Hummingbird," The Fireflys
As I was ranking the tunes on this list, I noticed that I kept bumping "Hummingbird" toward the top, even though it's a simple song with a warmed-over MTV Unplugged vibe and lyrics that are nothing to write home about. But I can't escape the chorus, with its ever-so right drum part and harmonies like a step off a cliff straight into the clouds. Delicious.
13) "The Curse," Agnes Obel
A wineglass-delicate waltz from one side of midnight to the other.
12) "Shout It," Southern
Since the White Stripes turned out not to be blood-related after all (and aren't a band anymore anyway), the Irish team Southern have stepped in to take up the brother-sister guitar-and-drums rock duo mantle from them. Music this spare shouldn't be as exciting as it is, should it?
11) "Eras," Juana Molina
Molina's CD Wed 21 has turned up on pretty much every Best of '13 list put out by anyone tangential to the NPR Music crowd. There's a very good reason for this.
10) "Circle of Trust," Ooga Boogas
After the whole garage punk movement of a decade ago, a lot of folks, myself included, were left saddened and confused, thinking, "Okay, wait, there was the Vines and the Hives and…then…what? Where'd everybody go?" Enter Ooga Boogas. You can relax now, rock and roll is in safe hands.
9) "Amidinine," Bombino
Bombino is Omara Moctar, a Taureg singer-songwriter hailing from Niger. So if you'll indulge me for a moment before you click that link, close your eyes and imagine what the fusion of West African music and blues rock might sounds like. Yes, it is that awesome.
8) "Manic Baby," The Preatures
The Preatures dish out the sort of sound I usually like without loving. So why have I glommed onto every song of theirs I've heard so far?
7) "Number 9," Moon Hooch
Two saxophones and a drum set. Shouldn't work. Nope, shouldn't work at all. And yet I have to warn you that this song will eat your entire head for the rest of the week if you give it the time of day. Probably best not to listen. Yep, probably best.
6) "Get Lucky," Daughter
It's an indication of how far out of the loop I am that I heard this cover well before I heard the Daft Punk original. And if I may wax stubbornly opinionated for a moment, while Daft Punk have themselves the Hit of the Year, Daughter have themselves something a helluva lot better.
5) "Stranglehold," Sarah Borrello
Okay, listen up, people: Sarah Borrello is a local Boston singer-songwriter whose debut album, Exit, just came out this past year, and I'm making a point of telling you about this local Boston singer-songwriter because within the next few years she is going to become jim-frickin' huge. Mark my words, dear readers, this is going to happen. Give a listen. You'll see what I mean.
4) "Stony Ground," Richard Thompson
How the hell does the man keep topping himself? I don't even have the capacity to keep talking about him. Let's all just acknowledge that he's amazing and carry on with our lives, shall we?
3) "Ryba (Fish)," Leningrad
I should probably specify that I mean the acoustic version here. The regular album take sounds like a screamier version of Earth Wind and Fire; the version I allude to sounds like Gogol Bordello, only with a bigger horn section and a fuckton more vodka. Three guesses which one knocked my socks clean off my dancing feet.
2) "Summer Dress," July Talk
Like the Tom Waits/Neko Case collaboration you didn't know you'd always wanted.
1) "The Wild," Kristofer Åström
This list contains a sizable share of folk and folk-rock, to be sure, but lately I've been favoring the portions of my listening habits that have more of a pulse. So when I realized that Kristofer Åström's "The Wild" was going to fill the #1 spot, I was a bit surprised, I must admit. And yet there was no doubt in my mind: it's a flawless little gem of warm, tender fireside acoustica with some of the most evocative two-part coed harmonies I've ever heard. No bigger than what we ask of it, no smaller than what our hearts need. A perfect breath, inhale and exhale.
Pointless Bonus Selection) "Marijuana Spider," Bot
Man, I don't even know.
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Date: 2014-03-26 12:42 am (UTC)you might also like this, but it's from a wicked long time ago...
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Date: 2014-04-14 12:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-26 01:46 am (UTC)If you've been playing these on your show, I've heard them. A lot of them sound familiar (Fish, for example -- LOVE THAT ONE TOO) and I keep meaning to just ask you to email me single tracks but my music collection is already too big for its gigabritches.....
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Date: 2014-04-14 12:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-04-14 04:30 pm (UTC)You really need to post tracklistings. But in the meantime, the Tracy Grammer/Dave Carter songs you've played -- OMFG. So, so, so beautiful. I think I may be hooked.
And that Fish song totally rocked like a rocking thing.
Oh, and! If you haven't already snagged a copy and want the rest of the Imelda May album, I can happily email that to you. It's awesome.
And also look up "Drinking Squad" on YouTube if you like punk. They're like a German version of Flogging Molly.
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Date: 2014-04-14 04:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-26 05:32 am (UTC)One thing I have been getting into for a couple of months is Tuareg blues rock! Great to hear Bombino here. Tinariwen and Tamikrest, also awesome.
(It's interesting to hear how that style has progressed through cultural interchange. The pioneers claimed not to have heard American blues at all; in the first generation to get electric guitars, they just were doing what seemed to come naturally with their native music. By the time you got to Bombino, he clearly draws on Anglo-American electric blues rock.)
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Date: 2014-04-14 12:10 am (UTC)