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(3 votes, average: 7.33 out of 10)
Loading... (3 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading... 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...
(4 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... 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.
(5 votes, average: 6.80 out of 10)Loading... Minneapolis songstress with my song of the year.
Continue reading BRIANNA KOCKA – WILD CHILD
(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... 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.
(6 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading... 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).
Continue reading Parquet Courts “Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience”
(4 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... https://youtu.be/L-Y0QeSn6-0
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.
(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... 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.
(3 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... 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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