Like last year, I'd like to give you a look into what the future holds. Though, also like last year, there's bound to be some disruption in the listing when the year ends. Until then, this is the halfway checkpoint. This is me taking a moment from my non-writing schedule to provide you with a black&white look at my favorites as-of-late. They will change, sure, but it's something. The other unique phenomena to this year is that I've been contemplating my favorite albums of the decade to the extent that I'm seeking out overlooked albums. Then, listening to them as if they were just released.
So, here's a quick early prediction at 2009's finest albums so-far:
1) Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
2) Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
3) Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
4) Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5) DOOM- Born Like This
6) St. Vincent- Actor
7) Antony and the Johnsons- The Crying Light
8) Bill Callahan- Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
9) Blackout Beach- Skin of Evil
10) The Antlers- Hospice
11) Tortoise- Beacons of Ancestorship
12) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- Self-titled
13) Dinosaur Jr.- Farm
14) Super Furry Animals- Dark Days/Light Years
15) Sunset Rubdown- Dragonslayer
16) Bat for Lashes- Two Suns
17) Fever Ray- Self-titled
18) Emeralds- What Happened
19) William Basinski- 92982
20) Casiotone for the Painfully Alone- Vs. Children
Some albums that require more thinking, but could be in the running:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz, Woods- Songs of Shame, White Denim- Fits, Tim Hecker- An Imaginary Country, Sonic Youth- The Eternal, Neko Case- Middle Cyclone, Dark Was the Night compilation, Mountains- Choral, Mos Def- The Ecstatic, Micachu- Jewellery, Lotus Plaza- The Floodlight Collective, Jason Lytle- Yours Truly, the Commuter, Here We Go Magic- ST, Handsome Furs- Face Control, Condo Fucks- Fuckbook, Circulatory System- Signal Morning, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Beware, Bob Dylan- Together Through Life, Sunn O)))- Monoliths & Dimensions, The Field- Yesterday and Today, Future of the Left- Travels With Myself and Another, Japandroids- Post-Nothing, etc.
It's summer, and it's time to forget your folk ditties, unless you're Grizzly Bear. This year is all about the energy, and the ambient after-party.
I’ve always been an album-minded man, but I can succumb to the sweet sounds of singles. Lately, however, there has been a surplus of danceable tracks begging for return visits. So, I've arranged two discs worth of music. The songs will be posted individually in the order I'd have them if you'd like to arrange them as a summer dance mix. After much tampering, the first mix is roughly twelve minutes longer. Don't mind the lopsidedness. Listen for the Planet Pluto shoutout at the beginning of Tanya Morgan's "On Our Way".
Love ‘em, then leave ‘em when you can no longer stand to repeat ‘em:
Dance Mix 2009, Pt. 1:
jj- "my life, my swag"
Air France- "GBG Belongs to Us"
The Tough Alliance- "Hung Up on a Dream" (Zombies Cover)
Toro Y Moi- "Blessa"
Basement Jaxx- "Raindrops"
Micachu- "Calculator"
YACHT- "Psycho City (Voodoo City)"
Super Furry Animals- "Inaugural Trams"
White Denim- "I Start to Run"
Dirty Projectors- "Stillness Is the Move"
Phoenix- "Lisztomania (Classixx Version)"
Animal Collective- "Daily Routine (Phaseone Remix)"
Grizzly Bear- "Two Weeks (Fred Falke Mix)"
DJ Kaos- "Love the Night Away (Tiedye Mix)"
Dance Mix 2009, Pt. 2:
Tanya Morgan- "On Our Way"
Clipse- "Kinda Like a Big Deal (ft. Kanye West)"
Jay-Z- "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
Mos Def- "Auditorium (ft. Slick Rick)"
The Streets- "He's Behind You, He's Got Swine Flu"
Flight of the Conchords- "Hurt Feelings"
DOOM- "Gazzillion Ear (Thom Yorke Remix)"
La Roux- "In for the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)"
The Big Pink- "Velvet (Gang Gang Dance Mix)"
Tortoise- "Prepare Your Coffin"
The Field- "The More That I Do"
Outtakes: something from the Fever Ray and Incredibad albums, Passion Pit- “Sleepyhead”, Junior Boys- “Hazel”, Burial & Four Tet- Moth/Wolf Cub 12”, Flight of the Conchords- “Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor” (unreleased so far), etc.
And, to convince you that this stuff is danceable, here's a lo-fi clip of me doing some 'Daily Routine' dancing to the remix:
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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1 comments/complaints:
Dirty Projectors is for sure 1 so far.
So cow, kurt vile, the whitest boy alive, underwater peoples compilation should be considered/reconsidered.
People are gonna be sick of Veckatimest by the end of the year/summer
Lisztomania is the jam of the year no doubt
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