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I have always been interested in checking out new albums that interest me and have actively done so for the past few years. I've just had a count through my "2019" albums folder and I have 128 albums in there. Far out.
I have a few still to listen to but have listened to most. I really should keep an excel spreadsheet going or something.
This came out earlier in the year, but I just recently found out about it. Min is a live composition for electronics and synthesizer by Sam Shalabi. He normally works with oud, guitar, patchwork compositions, and large ensembles, so this more minimal approach is relatively new for him.
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs Tedeschi Trucks Band - High & Mighty Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY (by far my favorite release of the year) The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger
Discoveries of the year, Marcus King Band and Ocean Alley.
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Whatever criticisms of the Lana Del Rey album I've heard, and some are probably perfectly valid, I just can't get over how pleasing it is to my ears. Some of the downright prettiest melodies I've heard in a long time, and not "pretty" in the damning-with-faint-praise sense -- I mean stuff that feels, to me, really and truly elite from a compositional standpoint. I can't bring myself to care to analyze it beyond that. It's just beautiful music.
There have been a few other albums that have stuck with me this year (Weyes Blood, Springsteen, Angel Olsen), but mostly I've spent the year listening to a lot of old jazz, even more than usual. That's where the mystery is for me these days
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs Tedeschi Trucks Band - High & Mighty Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY (by far my favorite release of the year) The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger
Discoveries of the year, Marcus King Band and Ocean Alley.
I discovered Marcus King this year too! Got to see him twice, including a show where he played only material around his first album. They are a killer band and I am looking forward to El Dorado in January.
Somehow I've forgotten to post about my favorite find of 2019, Kiefer Shackelford, who performs under the name Kiefer. He makes a jazzy kind of instrumental funk/hip-hop driven by piano and bass synthesizer. He put out two EPs this year, Bridges and Superbloom.
Bill Calahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest Bill MacKay - Fountain Fire Black Midi - Schlagenheim Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm Fire! Orchestra - Arrival Glen Hansard - The Wild Willing Gong Gong Gong 工工工 - Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏 (幽霊リズム) Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die II John Zorn - Nove Cantici Per Francesco D'Assisi Leonard Cohen - Thanks For The Dance Mark Lanegan Band - Somebody's Knocking Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis Matmos - Plastic Anniversary Not Waving/Mark Lanegan - Downdwelling Pharmakon - Devour Pile - Green And Grey Steven R. Smith - A Sketchbook Of Endings Teeth Of the Sea - WRAITH The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery The Quiet Temple - The Quiet Temple Tool - Fear Inoculum Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops Uboa - The Origin Of My Depression Ustad Saami - God is not a terrorist Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit!
Also good, in alphabetic order:
Abul Mogard - And We Are Passing Through Silently Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah - Al Hadaoui Bersarin Quertett - Methoden und Maschinen federico mosconi - dark not dark Full Of Hell - Weeping Choir ILL CONSIDERED - V Jesca Hoop - STONECHILD Jozef van wissem & Jim Jarmusch - an attempt to draw aside the veil Julia Kent - Temporal Julia Reidy - Brace, Brace Kel Asouf - Black Tenere Kirin J Callinan - Return To Center LINGUA IGNOTA - CALIGULA Lighting Bolt - Sonic Citadel Lustmord - First Reformed Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier - Corpse Flower Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen Pan-American - A Son Purple Mountains - S/T Richard Hawley - Further Richard Youngs - Dissident Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold SPAZA - SPAZA Steve Moore - Beloved Exile Sunn O))) - Life Metal Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts The Dead C - Rare Ravers The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears Tinariwen - Amadjar Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope Ulaan Passerine - New Evening VA- Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 Xylouris White - The Sisypheans
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