Best Album Peaking Lights “936″ (Not Not Fun) There were a ton of great albums released in 2011 (The Caretaker, Dirty Beaches, Tim Hecker, Natural Snow Buildings, Myrmyr, Prurient, Charlambides, etc.), but I definitely listened to this one more than all of them combined. I’ve been pretty evangelical about making sure other people hear...
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2011 was overflowing with amazing sounds. Here’s a snapshot of some things that entered into and stood out in my own little musical universe. Best Album Lee Noble “Horrorism” (Bathetic) I’ve been quite fond of everything I’ve heard from Lee Noble over the past few years. His previous releases tended to compartmentalize specific aspects...
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This new LP from Blackest Rainbow is a welcome collaboration between two of the UK’s more interesting musicians.
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Here’s a fantastic new record on Blackest Rainbow by Jack Allett, formerly Spoono.
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After numerous label changes, alternate band names and line-up alterations, James Jackson Toth was building a rep not unlike our very own Mark E Smith.
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Best Album Reines d’Angleterre, “Les Comores” (Bo Weavil) Out of nowhere came a truly unique collaborative effort from a fine collection of musicians. It was great to hear some new noises from Ghedalia Tazartes, especially in the live format represented here. The LP is beautifully housed in minimal thick black card packaging that barely...
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Best Album Twinsistermoon, “…And Then Fell The Ashes” (Blackest Rainbow) This is wins by a landslide: I love Natural Snow Buildings and this is the most focused and perfect thing that either Mehdi or Solange have done yet. The drone pieces are crushing, immersive, and masterfully textured and the “songs” are beautifully fragile and...
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Knowing Black Eagle Child’s lightfootedness and Donato Epiro’s uber-experimental primitive mayhem, I was unsure how this split would turn out.
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Kim Doo Soo, the South Korean reclusive boho folkster, releases a new album only a mere two years after his “Ten days butterfly” came out on the mythic PSF label.
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Mind bending transatlantic psychedelic split
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This is my first various artists LP of the year.
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Earlier this year (2010) Matt Valentine and Erika Elder set out to tour North America, with the Golden Road, an expanded line up which included Mick Flower, John Moloney, and a merry troop of one of surprise additions.
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