47/14 - I Declare It A New Age

I think this is a really good list. Of course I think all my lists are good. But this one just gelled in such a poignant way. I think.

Public Enemy - Prophets of Rage

#Ferguson

Keren Ann - In Your Back

Strong sadness. Delicate fleshy arrangement. A self. An other. A strain but then a reassertion.

Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory

Some day you will die and somehow something's going to steal your carbon!

TV on the Radio - Could You

Well could you? COULD YOU? Hm, I doubt it. Love this though. The hornssss.

Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Herod 2014

In the basement studio, late at night, Scott directs the atmosphere to a dark, dark place. It's albums like this that renews my faith in art. Even though they "refuse to be blinded by Rubens or Poussin"... Everything is just so, so great and powerful. The lyrical juxtapositions, the eerie screaming sounds, the slow slow guitar riffs... Oh and apparently she's hidden her babies away.

46/14 - You Can't Make It Without Ever Even Trying

Ubre Blanca - Hyperion

One of many things that I miss about Glasgow: Andy Brown's drumming.

Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia

Taking any track from this album out of its context doesn't quite do it justice, but as a taster this is still excellent. You'll need the whole glorious 45 minute trip though!

Justin Timberlake - Losing My Way

I keep losing my way!

Jose Gonzalez - How Low

Invasion after invasion
This means war 

Whereto will you relocate
Now that it's war?

Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind

Take me back to Greenwich Village in the late sixties. Let me hear Bob Dylan sing duet with Karen Dalton.

44-45/14 - I Caught A Glimpse, Now It Haunts Me

It's not often it happens, but now it has; I've completely failed my commitment to weekly music-updates. To set the record straight and make up for lost time, I shall post a double-list: 10 songs to represent the past two weeks.

The Knife - Silent Shout

Me and Nick went to see the Knife play Brixton Academy. And now they are no more. A flawless band bookended with a flawless tour. They were everything a music act should be: experimental, critical, joyous, political, unafraid, steeped in culture, dance- and fury-inducing.

Azealia Banks - Desperado

I was prepared for disappointment, but how can you say no to a beat that sounds like a happy Burial and Azaelia hitting you with that acid tongue.

I'll be in the mirror looking luxe n' plush

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Keep Some Hope

Bob Dylan - In My Time Of Dyin'

I'm in an early Dylan period again. They're quite frequent.

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Pavane (Thoughts of a Septuagenarian)

Oh, Esbjörn, why did you have to go and drown? I crave more exquisite piano jazz like this.

Leonard Cohen - I Can't Forget

All-time favourite song.

I got this old address
Of someone that I knew
It was high and fine and free
Ah, you should have seen us
And I can't forget but I don't remember who

David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers

The kings of oblivion.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Rain, darkness, cold. This will be a long season.

The Kinks - Harry Rag

Really into rhyming slang lately. Kind of wish I'd grown up with it so I could speak it. Harry Rag = fag = cigarette.

Talking Heads - Born Under Punches

And the heat goes on...

43/14 The Gates of Hell Are Pugnaciously Pacin'

Spent the entire day hungover for the first time in ages. Which finally gives me time to post this week's list.

Fugazi - Combination Lock

How's that for a riffing beginning.

Run The Jewels - Blockbuster Night Part I

It's here! And it's awesome! A bit more temperate than the first album, which makes it fall short of topping that fistful of rhymes, but with bangers like this, I'm not gonna nitpick.

MF Doom ft. Mr Fantastik - Rapp Snitch Knishes 

Digging a classic album on my way to school.

The Jam - Going Underground

Mark Fisher had a talk on Post-Punk on Thursday and used this song as describing the point when the left gave up the mainstream and left the field open to neoliberals and fascists.

The public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants

Nils Frahm - Unter-Tristana-Ambre

Oh and I turned 32, went to the Barbican and saw this charming german closing his set with a breathtaking medley much like this one; ad-libbing a little bit of Happy Birthday to my favourite composition Ambre. It was perfect.