Hannah Peel - The Planet of Passed Souls
Only days before this year's best of-lists started to drop I finished trawling through last year's album list from the Quietus, and there, undeservedly hidden down at place #91, I found a new favourite. This record is unabashedly bombastic, ambitious, sentimental, and very very beautiful. It's the soundtrack for a future we could start building.
Laraaji - Enthusiasm
A noodling, doodling five minutes of warmth for embracing the domesticity of Christmas preparations to.Mario Batkovic - Restrictus
One of the things I enjoy about doggedly keeping on with this silly blog is to sometimes put the archive on random and be reminded of stuff I discovered a while ago and have since forgotten about again. Saw Mario at Le Guess Who? in 2017. It was a fantastic gig, and revisiting his album now it almost sounds even more powerful. One instrument, extending and comprising the world.
serpentwithfeet - seedless
...And this guy I saw at Le Guess Who? this year. Didn't fit on the list dedicated to the festival a couple of weeks back, but sits very neatly here. How good are the backing vocals at 1:50? Just cute enough to prick the tense earnest membrane of this emotional drama and let something even more poignant seep out.
Bargou 08 - Wazzaa
Tunisian madness! Take a slightly annoying instrument, and then push it, push it, push it, down the throat of the listener, until he/she can't but capitulate, starts to groove, and eventually proclaims their love for that bloody relentless flute-thing!
No comments:
Post a Comment