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Loading... Die Fantastischen Vier & Clueso – Zusammen
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Loading... Boygenius – Souvenir
I haven't listened to a ton of new music this year, but I definitely did listen to plenty by these three. Here's hoping the next time they come to town I'm not out of town...
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Loading... Wimps – “O.P.P”
No, it’s not a cover.
I struggled pretty hard on narrowing this down to one song, but this came on and I couldnt’t get out of my head and I figured that’s as good of a criteria as any. Every Wimps album is really fun; super hooky power pop about getting old basically. Their new one, Garbage People might be their best. If you enjoy this song, you’d probably like the rest. Check ‘em out, they don’t get nearly enough love.
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Loading... BRIANNA KOCKA – WILD CHILD
Minneapolis songstress with my song of the year.
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Loading... Kasey Musgraves — High Horse
When hungry joe put out a call for Best of 2018, I googled, "Best songs of 2018," since I didn't know a single song from 2018. I clicked on this song because I thought it said Kasey Chambers. And now I like this song.
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Loading... Parquet Courts “Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience”
I've not really been a huge Parquet Courts fan until this year. Wide Awake changed all that. Every song is just so... Energetic (and danceable, which Newbish appreciates).
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Loading... Current 93 “Bright Dead Star”
The Light Is Leaving Us All appears to be Tibet's best album since the inimitable Black Ships Ate the Sky.
C93 doesn't perform much, so apologies for the clip' poor vocal mix. If you want to make out the words, here's the studio version.
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Loading... Superchunk — Break the Glass
This is really in honor of an entire album. Superchunk's What a Time to be Alive is a 32-minute blast of political punk(y) rock that's accessible musically. A genre that was common in the eighties but rarely heard these days. If you like this song, check out the whole deal. It will make you jump up and down, who knows maybe even break something. But be careful, wouldn't want to throw your back out or have the neighbors talk.
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Loading... Aizuri Quartet – Sophia’s Wide Awake Dreams
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I'm still spending a lot of time listening to this album.
This piece is from an opera by Lembit Beecher, "Sophia's Forest", and this two part suite is the inner world of the narrator, an immigrant child fleeing a civil war. There are nine "sound sculptures" that are electronically manipulated in addition to the four string players.
I like this (and most everything else on the album) because it is certainly modern and not just straightforward string quartet music, but there is a lyricism and a theme that comes through without difficulty.
Plus, I figured just playing The Beths would be too easy.
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Loading... Bixiga 70 – Ilha Vizinha
Who says a jazz band can’t play dance music? Bixiga 70 was one of my favorite musical discoveries this year — I really dig the horn section’s sound and the many-layered grooves underneath them. Their fourth album, Quebra Cabeça, dropped in October.
Bixiga 70 draws their name from the Bixiga neighborhood of central São Paulo. On the band’s website, baritone saxophonist Cuca Ferreira details the sources of their sound:
From the very beginning, what we have always had in common is African-Brazilian music. Some of us come from Candomblé, others from jazz, reggae, dub, everything. The whole idea of the band has been to take all these different elements that form us, from Africa and Brazil, and create a hybrid from them.
If you enjoyed this cut, you can catch their full Cultura Livre appearance here.
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