Showing posts with label Spiritualized. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spiritualized. Show all posts
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Sunday, July 1, 2012
The Story So Far... Mid Year Report
Jan to Jun 2012
How time seems to fly. While the first half of the year (musically) doesn't seem too fruitful and offerings haven't exactly been earth-shattering; there is, thank heavens, music worth celebrating.
Doesn't seem all that long ago either, that I have made some RSD (Record Store Day April 21, 2012) purchases and have since been hatching two as yet unpublished posts - Reviews of The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends and Jack White's Blunderbuss...
And here we are, mid point already!
Drum roll please, my 25 favourite albums thus far -
1. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
2. The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
3. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
4. The Walkmen - Heaven
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
6. Beach House - Bloom
7. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
8. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
9. Jack White - Blunderbuss
10. Chromatics - Kill for Love
11. Caetano Veloso and David Byrne - Live at Carnegie Hall
12. Jay Farrar, Yim Yames, Will Johnson and Anders Parker - New Multitudes
13. Django Django - Django Django
14. John Talabot - ƒIN
15. Dr. John - Locked Down
16. Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar
17. Lambchop - Mr. M
18. Giant Giant Sand - Tuscon
19. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
20. M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion
21. Brendan Benson - What Kind of World
22. The 2 Bears - Be Strong
23. Trembling Bells & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Marble Downs
24. fun. - Some Nights
25. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
There you have it.
There's still a few which have yet to take root: Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, Fanfarlo's Rooms Filled with Light, The Tallest Man On Earth's There's No Leaving Now, Liars' WIXIW.
The second half of the year shall see new releases by Animal Collective, The Antlers, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Bat for Lashes, Beak>,Bloc Party, Calexico, Matthew Dear, Dirty Projectors, Foals, Grizzly Bear, Mission of Burma, The Raveonettes, St. Vincent and David Byrne, Swans, The xx, Yeasayer
Enjoy!
Labels:
Alt-J,
Andrew Bird,
Beach House,
Best albums 2012,
Chromatics,
Damien Jurado,
Django Django,
Father John Misty,
Flaming Lips,
fun.,
Heady Fwends,
Jack White,
Lambchop,
M. Ward,
Perfume Genius,
Spiritualized,
Walkmen
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Upcoming Releases 2012
It's only been one month in and there's a whole slew of releases set for release in 2012.
Good news for us music fans!
Most excited about:
Spritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light
The Flaming Lips TBA (Collaboration galore)
The Magnetic Fields Love at the Bottom of the Sea
The Shins Port of Morrow
The xx TBA
Simian Mobile Disco TBA
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Medium excited about:
Lambchop Mr. M
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself
M. Ward A Wasteland Companion
Damien Jurado Maraqopa
Delta Spirit Delta Spirit
Dr. Dog Be the Void
Madonna MDNA
Jack White Blunderbuss
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
MGMT TBA
Garbage Not Your Kind of People
U2 Songs of Ascent (U2's Chinese Democracy)
The Dandy Warhols This Machine
The Killers TBA (Back to your day job, Brandon)
Outkast TBA
Mumford & Sons TBA (About time!)
Franz Ferdinand TBA
Culture Club TBA
Orbital Wonky
Bear in Heaven I Love You, It’s Cool
M.I.A. TBA (Despite Bad Girl finger flip)
Less excited about:
The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror
Santigold Master of My Make Believe
ZZ Top TBA
Aerosmith TBA
Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth
Already released:
Air - Le Voyage dans la Lune
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
Cate Le Bon - Cyrk
Chairlift - Something
The Big Pink - Future This
Stay tuned.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)