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One of my fav songs of the year......well its more of a sound than a song.
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Best Gig/Album/Song of 2016 (2 Viewers)
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song: Clare Maguire - Elizabeth Taylor
album: Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart
gig: maybe Los Campesinos! a few weeks ago. Worst year ever for gigs probably. I've hardly gone to any.
honourable mentions for albums by The Gloaming, Skepta and Bowie.
album: Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart
gig: maybe Los Campesinos! a few weeks ago. Worst year ever for gigs probably. I've hardly gone to any.
honourable mentions for albums by The Gloaming, Skepta and Bowie.
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Ha! Hubris II also my no.1 track this year. Avalon Emerson - The Frontier, is a close second
Albums: Emmplekz - Rook to TN34 / Babyfather - BBF
Reissues: Sonic Youth - Spinhead Sessions / GAS - Box
Gigs: Nothing really stood for me this year. Getting old...
Unknown Convict
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did you go to wolfgang voigt? any use?
shitepipe
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Yes! Actually that was excellent- lush but with a hint of dread and totally immersive. Supported by Ellllle who I also saw a few times this year and is worth checking out.
I think it's mainly my memory that's getting old, can barely remember what I saw this year at all...
[QUOTE="Shaney?, post: 1672917]Best song: something off Blackstar probably, I dunno[/QUOTE]
Sure I'll give it to Brought To Book by Van der Graaf Generator for old time's sake
Sure I'll give it to Brought To Book by Van der Graaf Generator for old time's sake
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Gig: Was lucky that the very few gigs I made it to this year were actually all pretty damn good. Grandaddy has to clinch it though as no other gigs made me smile or cry like that one did.
Album: To be honest, I didn't get to check out many new albums this year, but I have to say Radiohead. Wasn't as immediately taken with it like some folks were but it's been a grower.
Song: Has to be a tie between We The People by A Tribe Called Quest and Burn The Witch by Radiohead.
Album: To be honest, I didn't get to check out many new albums this year, but I have to say Radiohead. Wasn't as immediately taken with it like some folks were but it's been a grower.
Song: Has to be a tie between We The People by A Tribe Called Quest and Burn The Witch by Radiohead.
shitepipe
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FWIW, I gone done a podcast with some of my highlights...
Tracklist:
A Tribe Called Quest - We the People
J Dilla - Fuck The Police
Babyfather - Greezebloc
Babyfather - Meditation (feat. Arca)
Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
Sonic Youth - Scalping
Bonnie Prince Billy & Bitchin' Bajas - Despair is Criminal
Oliver Coates & Mica Levi - Pre-Barok
Oliver Coates - Innocent Love
Puce Mary - Masks Are Aids II
Body Sculptures - A Collecton of Ceramic Vases
Anohni - Watch Me
Johnny Frierson - Woke Up This Morning
75 Dollar Bill - Cummins Falls
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
Mor Thiam - Ayo Ayo Nene
DJ Earl - Smoking Reggie
DJ Rashad - Pass That
Seekersinternational - Amen Breadren
Dengue Dengue Dengue - Dubcharaca
eMMplekz - Gloomy Leper Techno
Mark Pritchard - Beautiful People (feat. Thom Yorke)
Throwing Snow - Lumen
Panthera Krause - John Doe
Prince of Denmark - Tool 517
Omar-S - Seen Was Set
Red Rack 'Em - Wonky Disco Bassline Banger
DJ Slym-Fas - Luv Music
Not Waving - Face Attack
Powell - Jonny (feat. Jonny)
Nikolajev - Neck Face
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris III
Tracklist:
A Tribe Called Quest - We the People
J Dilla - Fuck The Police
Babyfather - Greezebloc
Babyfather - Meditation (feat. Arca)
Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
Sonic Youth - Scalping
Bonnie Prince Billy & Bitchin' Bajas - Despair is Criminal
Oliver Coates & Mica Levi - Pre-Barok
Oliver Coates - Innocent Love
Puce Mary - Masks Are Aids II
Body Sculptures - A Collecton of Ceramic Vases
Anohni - Watch Me
Johnny Frierson - Woke Up This Morning
75 Dollar Bill - Cummins Falls
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
Mor Thiam - Ayo Ayo Nene
DJ Earl - Smoking Reggie
DJ Rashad - Pass That
Seekersinternational - Amen Breadren
Dengue Dengue Dengue - Dubcharaca
eMMplekz - Gloomy Leper Techno
Mark Pritchard - Beautiful People (feat. Thom Yorke)
Throwing Snow - Lumen
Panthera Krause - John Doe
Prince of Denmark - Tool 517
Omar-S - Seen Was Set
Red Rack 'Em - Wonky Disco Bassline Banger
DJ Slym-Fas - Luv Music
Not Waving - Face Attack
Powell - Jonny (feat. Jonny)
Nikolajev - Neck Face
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris III
Kermit McDermott
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Another fav song from 2016
Really like the the chorus & the guitar melody...loads of spring reverb pinging.
I hadn't seen the video before. I didn't know they were that kind of duo...
Really like the the chorus & the guitar melody...loads of spring reverb pinging.
I hadn't seen the video before. I didn't know they were that kind of duo...
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loved their first album.
really went off them when Myles Kane showed himself to be a class A cunt when their last album was released.
Kermit McDermott
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propositioning a female journalst...
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putting it mildly
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Must investigate that further....
Alex turner is 31 tomorrow, the auld git
Alex turner is 31 tomorrow, the auld git
Unknown Convict
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i guess the dust has settled on 2016, to the extent that things i had on my list in january are no longer there and the ones that remain have crystallised. in the spirit of zhou enlai:
song
drip - hangover my itunes playcount in no way reflects the number of times i've played this as i usually skip back to the start after 104 of its 105 blistering seconds. snotty, irate and urgent, and as raw as wank burns, it's a pretty succinct distillation of the fury and nihilism of disaffectation and it's where i channelled my anger in a year which threatened to make me too angry too often.
Hangover, by drip
albums
chris abrahams - fluid to the influence (room40)
dennis callaci - a bed of light (shrimper)
clams casino - 32 levels (instrumentals) (columbia)
thor harris - thor & friends (lm dupli-cation)
glenn jones - fleeting (thrill jockey)
oval - popp (thrill jockey)
sunwatchers - s/t (castle face)
the swifter - wall sailor (sonic pieces)
yann tiersen - eusa (mute)
yann tiersen - ouragon (madoro music)
gigs
graciously, the necks avoided ireland in 2016 leaving the way clear for a couple of other shows to vie for my (irish*) gig of the year.
the glenn jones gig in arthur's pub in april was a perfect example of how to put together a strong, varied bill of like-minded (though not like-sounding) acts and jones seemed to thrive on it, as did the full house who were attentive and appreciative throughout. jones wears his mastery of the american primitive lightly and his set showed the breadth of sound and style available to him with just two hands and six (or twelve) strings.
the stars of the lid gig in n.c.h. in october was a revelation. i'd seen them twice before. first time in london c.2002 when their equipment blew up and they tried to play direct through the p.a. with no effects (like asking a colour field painter to create using only a lead pencil) and the second was an ill-conceived friday night gig in whelans in 2007 when they were competing for ears with chatter in the room and music from the front bar, with a string quartet in tow who weren't really up to the job. but everything that was wrong with the whelans night was right with the n.c.h. one - pin-drop attention, professional-grade string players, excellent production values and a stage and room capable of delivering the spectacle. i was a couple of rows back from the stage but may as well have been on it given the vortex of sound, light and energy they generated. just before the show started, the smoke machines kicked in and i feared we were in for a potential 'stonehenge' moment, but thankfully the execution more than matched the vision. they tested the limits of the house p.a. a few times with a sound so intense it literally took my breath away and gave me what i can only really describe as multiple non-priapic climaxes. a perfect night.
*like a junkie in need of a fix, i took myself off to amsterdam in november to see the necks celebrate their 30th anniversary with an 8-hour concert billed as a 'chain event' of continuous music and they weren't lying. bookended by sets from the necks themselves, the intervening acts were combinations of many of the leading lights of the european free-improv scene (mostly working groups), with or without a member of the necks in tow. the music continued even through the interval, with chris abrahams playing dx7 in the corner of the bar, lloyd swanton playing solo bass by the merch table and tony buck's whirling, aleatoric percussion sculptures doing their own thing. there were many high points, a couple of less-than-high points and a nudge in the ribs from the woman beside me ("excuse me, you are snoring" during the 'dans les arbres' set - i'd had 4 hours sleep the night before my 5am start and this was a low point of the evening, both musically and energetically) but any concert where you witness a musician (kai fagaschinski) using his clarinet as a stylus to 'play' his beard has to be worth the effort and price of admission.
they saved the best for last. what had been billed as 'the necks and clarinets' began as the penultimate set, from the dogmatics (chris abrahams (piano) and kai fagaschinski (clarinet)), wound down. imperceptibly, except to the eyes, kai was replaced by buck and swanton and the main attraction were quickly into their stride. about 2/3rds of the way through, distant strains of woodwind could be heard, seemingly coming from behind, above, beside and beneath me. the four clarinetists, positioned around the room, began moving through the space - along the aisles, on the stage and off again, behind the audience, playing distinct but interlocking, swirling lines in tandem with the trio on stage. slowly they gathered at their on-stage mics and the septet proceeded to whip up an unholy storm of sound, crescendo after crescendo, abetted by sundry other unseen musicians throwing various bits of percussion down a cavernous, resonant, concrete stairwell just off stage. then, as one, they fell quiet, leaving the audience in stunned silence. spellbinding music of the highest calibre, in an excellent venue, with a respectful, educated audience. a privilege to witness.
song
drip - hangover my itunes playcount in no way reflects the number of times i've played this as i usually skip back to the start after 104 of its 105 blistering seconds. snotty, irate and urgent, and as raw as wank burns, it's a pretty succinct distillation of the fury and nihilism of disaffectation and it's where i channelled my anger in a year which threatened to make me too angry too often.
Hangover, by drip
albums
chris abrahams - fluid to the influence (room40)
dennis callaci - a bed of light (shrimper)
clams casino - 32 levels (instrumentals) (columbia)
thor harris - thor & friends (lm dupli-cation)
glenn jones - fleeting (thrill jockey)
oval - popp (thrill jockey)
sunwatchers - s/t (castle face)
the swifter - wall sailor (sonic pieces)
yann tiersen - eusa (mute)
yann tiersen - ouragon (madoro music)
gigs
graciously, the necks avoided ireland in 2016 leaving the way clear for a couple of other shows to vie for my (irish*) gig of the year.
the glenn jones gig in arthur's pub in april was a perfect example of how to put together a strong, varied bill of like-minded (though not like-sounding) acts and jones seemed to thrive on it, as did the full house who were attentive and appreciative throughout. jones wears his mastery of the american primitive lightly and his set showed the breadth of sound and style available to him with just two hands and six (or twelve) strings.
the stars of the lid gig in n.c.h. in october was a revelation. i'd seen them twice before. first time in london c.2002 when their equipment blew up and they tried to play direct through the p.a. with no effects (like asking a colour field painter to create using only a lead pencil) and the second was an ill-conceived friday night gig in whelans in 2007 when they were competing for ears with chatter in the room and music from the front bar, with a string quartet in tow who weren't really up to the job. but everything that was wrong with the whelans night was right with the n.c.h. one - pin-drop attention, professional-grade string players, excellent production values and a stage and room capable of delivering the spectacle. i was a couple of rows back from the stage but may as well have been on it given the vortex of sound, light and energy they generated. just before the show started, the smoke machines kicked in and i feared we were in for a potential 'stonehenge' moment, but thankfully the execution more than matched the vision. they tested the limits of the house p.a. a few times with a sound so intense it literally took my breath away and gave me what i can only really describe as multiple non-priapic climaxes. a perfect night.
*like a junkie in need of a fix, i took myself off to amsterdam in november to see the necks celebrate their 30th anniversary with an 8-hour concert billed as a 'chain event' of continuous music and they weren't lying. bookended by sets from the necks themselves, the intervening acts were combinations of many of the leading lights of the european free-improv scene (mostly working groups), with or without a member of the necks in tow. the music continued even through the interval, with chris abrahams playing dx7 in the corner of the bar, lloyd swanton playing solo bass by the merch table and tony buck's whirling, aleatoric percussion sculptures doing their own thing. there were many high points, a couple of less-than-high points and a nudge in the ribs from the woman beside me ("excuse me, you are snoring" during the 'dans les arbres' set - i'd had 4 hours sleep the night before my 5am start and this was a low point of the evening, both musically and energetically) but any concert where you witness a musician (kai fagaschinski) using his clarinet as a stylus to 'play' his beard has to be worth the effort and price of admission.
they saved the best for last. what had been billed as 'the necks and clarinets' began as the penultimate set, from the dogmatics (chris abrahams (piano) and kai fagaschinski (clarinet)), wound down. imperceptibly, except to the eyes, kai was replaced by buck and swanton and the main attraction were quickly into their stride. about 2/3rds of the way through, distant strains of woodwind could be heard, seemingly coming from behind, above, beside and beneath me. the four clarinetists, positioned around the room, began moving through the space - along the aisles, on the stage and off again, behind the audience, playing distinct but interlocking, swirling lines in tandem with the trio on stage. slowly they gathered at their on-stage mics and the septet proceeded to whip up an unholy storm of sound, crescendo after crescendo, abetted by sundry other unseen musicians throwing various bits of percussion down a cavernous, resonant, concrete stairwell just off stage. then, as one, they fell quiet, leaving the audience in stunned silence. spellbinding music of the highest calibre, in an excellent venue, with a respectful, educated audience. a privilege to witness.
Unknown Convict
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Only took 4 years but I'm giving Lemonade a listen this morning.
Man, boy was I wrong. What a great album, start to finish.
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