Yes, thanks to Shoey and Shane too – and to all of you lovely people for sharing such wonderful music and for generally making my world a better place [or is it a bit too early to start getting sentimental?]
Who’s that doing After I Made Love To You, tinny? Can’t say I prefer it to the original, but kudos to them for their taste.
Aba’s selection sounds like just the kind of thing that would have made the Guardian’s Top 10 this year. Except in German. I really liked it though.
Just managed to listen to the first few, all brill as per. Even Pairubu’s!
And there’s no justice if Hawley doesn’t bag spill album OTY! Vote now! (copyright: toffeeboy).
(ghe)
That’s a really brilliant version of No woman, don’t cry, GF- muscular, echoes of Afro-cuban, but also Soweto township jazz.
The playing on this reminds me a little of Ahmad Jamal, who had a pretty good release this year too with Blue Moon.
Nilp; I love Ahmed, one of the first albums I ever bought in the US was one of his that I bought blind, it became a lfelong favorite.
I don’t know if we’re still having name tagging problems but mine’s,
The Harlem Kingston Express, a group formed by Ja. jazz pianist Monty Alexander. I recently discovered that a good friend plays gtr on it.
I’ve loved all BeltwayBandit’s selections but that one – wow! Added to the shopping list…
Good to see Frank Ocean in there too, magicman. The hype made me track down the album – it effortlessly transcends a genre I don’t have much time for to become a great record by any standards.
Thanks again to everyone – can’t wait for next year…
sympathies, was up night before last with vomiting child, he’s still ikky, don’t think cat videos will work, when he laughs, it’s bad. Hope yours is better now.
Which artist has the most Festive Spill tunes in the five years of doing this? For those of you interested in this type of thing here’s the complete Festive Spreadsheet: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/587192/Festive%20%27Spill.xls
I’m sure it contains more spelling mistakes for Mnemonic to track down, if nothing else.
No meaningful comment on this list yet as I’m still stuck back in the 2′s right now, but many thanks to our genial hosts for all the work this must have entailed. Almost all of these picks are fresh to my ears – the number of artistes here who’ve never been reviewed in the mainstream press is legion. Learning can be fun.
@ barbryn – your no.1 choice was my fallback item in case any of my 3 had gone; I’d call that a dond.
RE Script – Hall of Fame An empowering stadium ballad that isn’t vacuous the way these things usually are.
Mrs Tin informs this is based on the band’s own story. They formed in 2001 in Ireland and kicked around North American for years before getting any kind of break. They are saying that anyone – and they mean anyone – can make it to the top.
I haven’t had time to do more than a quick skim through, Barbryn’s picked First Aid Kit, which is lovely. I’m liking Vanwolf’s, too and TFDs and a whole bunch more… need a proper listen later with a glass of something congenial.
I just had to come here and comment on Voodoo Mon Amor!! Love love LOVE it!! I know it’s on the 3 list but I’m listening to them all whilst wrapping a shedload of pressies as I managed to palm kids off on relics for the day. Thanks to Shoey and Shane and everyone who’s contributed to this aceness of ace music. You are all making a job I loathe, and have put off till now, so much nicer. Thanks. and now back to work.
and if this lot is standard fare, can’t wait to get stuck into ear worms. Oh and Mark Lanegan song fab too. Ok ok I’m going back to work again now… Fuck! Grandma’s here with presents for kids. Bastard!!
@DsD Guess you counted on a dond from me for Deep Dark Woods.
@GHE Danse Carribe was on my festive shortlist..
@Bish Such a lively, enjoyable song and a needed break from so many bleak soundscapes in the #1s. I enjoyed the whole album.
@Severin Between this and earworms, you’ve got me interested in Katenjammer. Milidly interested, mind, but interested.
@Fuel Where do find them all? I’m going to withhold judgement until I hear some more of her because yours has that dreaded word REMIX in the title. But am deffo going to seek some out.
@Barbryn First Aid Kit do nail it, don’t they?
@shane Is the rest of the Lazarus & the Plane Crash this good?
@Pairubu Yours is last on my list because it is the one I’ve listened to most …. trying to figure out wtf it is It’s more melodic than I would have guessed from you, which goes to show you should never judge a book by it’s rough bark cover. Or that the rough bark cover is worse than it’s bite. Or something. But if there’s a Dond of the Year for the festives, this gets mine because it feels like every choice they made in sound and pace and words was for a purpose and fit together 100%, and I can’t say that to the same degree about any of the other new, strange stuff I’ve heard here.
Glad you liked it as much as I do.
I’m no expert on the matter but I suspect what we have there is a development of Shibuya-kei , which Sakura and I did a post on a while back. It’s a “magpie” type of pop that draws heavily on European music but adds a distinctly Japanese twist.
Whatever it is it’s done superbly by Loof.
I “loof” it.
Yes, as shane says below, it was Ms Wells. Sorry about the confusion old boy
Tinny – fuel – I think it’s Emily Wells – Johnny Cash’s Mama’s House (Dan the Automator Remix) that is being talked about – I’ll answer the question about her here … listen to the albums, mini albums: The Symphonies, Mama or Dirty (then the rest) – she mixes her classic background musicianship using hip hop style beats, she sets them up to play and then adds delay and then plays along live with the technology – it’s a bit twisted Michael Nyman like, with beautiful vocals and an interesting cover choice (Juicy – is brilliant).
The remix was only chosen because I was running out of time and Knew this was released this year.. when I looked the album the remixes are from was also released in 2012 too.
arTEEsane would like to point out these are also his top tunes of the year:
Johnny Cashs Mamas House - Emily Wells
Let Your Guard Down - Emily Wells
Mamas Gonna Give You Love – Emily Wells
Dirty Sneakers And Underwear - Emily Wells
Passenger - Emily Wells
Piece Of It - Emily Wells
Ha! Ha! Has to be Emily Wells she’s great. Just listening to the lists and relaxing. Loved Lazarus and the Plane Crash, Bo Ningen, FAK, Dens, Richard Hawley, 2 Bears, Frank Ocean, BKL (but you knew that, already). Now I’ll listen to the 2s.
Stephen Coates, AKA The Real Tuesday Weld, AKA The Clerkenwell Kid collaborated with Guillotines singer Joe Coles for Lazarus and the Plane Crash .. it’s dumb, dirty and tests the boundaries of taste – perfect.
I think the jazz samples, wailing bluesharp, wheezing squeezebox are an over the top perfect pop confection – an if I had an ounce of exuberance I’d like to think I could be the King of the Village Fete – not all the tracks on the album are a total success – but it’s loads of bloody good fun.
King of the Village Fete - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horn For The Whole Damn World - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Spring Heeled Jack - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Tiger - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Mating Dance - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
And the comments I had to retirieve after my collasal boneheadBACKSPACEthat the kids ruined.
@magicman Book’s still out on channel ORANGE for me. I’ve put it on 4-5 times – sort of a once a month thing – and it’s so-called brilliance isn’t an obvious. Which is probably a good thing
@Blimpo Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose is a real sleeper album. I usually listen to new albums for awhile and either put them away or add a few songs to pertinent playlists. But Beth has sat their in my ‘inbox’ and despite many, many listens, I can’t decide what to do with it. I know it’s good, very good in fact. But every time I think it’s given up all it’s got, I think, ok one more listen.
@shiv I like Smoke Fairies. I don’t care if there’s a market for their sound or not; they’re needed.
@GF Have been listening to Monty Alexander since your Spill post. Love it.
@albahooky The Bravest Man in Town is one of my fave albums of the year.
@debbym Amazing how intimate Here and Heaven starts out and then becomes rousing by the end. Masters at work. *goes shopping*
@Beltwway I get that Amanda Palmer is an artist and pushes the edges, but I just can’t listen to her. Sorry.
@CaroleB,GHE,Toffeeboy Three picks from Richard Hawley’s Standing At The Sky’s Edge from three quite different tastemakers ought to be sending us all for a listen/relisten. I thought it was probably among the 11th-20th best albums this year, but am going back for another relisten.
Only just getting to these – damned real life keeps interfering – but I’ll add my massive donds to the appreciation shown to Shoey and Shane. Got three hours in the car without the girls tomorrow, so will try to remember to memory card the 1s before I leave.
Oh, that sequence from Tinny’s to Carole’s is just DsD chillout perfection!
Seriously, just . . . transcendental. And then when Hawley lets rip – I’m in musical heaven!
I have a feeling this happens to me every year… but I think I prefer the 2s and 3s to the 1s. Not that I dislike the 1s – they’re just not grabbing me as much yet. Maybe I need a few more listens. First time round, loving tonnl’s in particular. So far.
Horses for courses, eh? I shall be listening again, so may well (ie, probably will) revise my opinion. And it’s not that I haven’t been enjoying. I just feel mildly underwhelmed.
And of your top tunes, Aba, Vanwolf, bish, Pairubu, Fuel, Shane and Japanther were the ones that particularly knocked my socks off.
I have to concede in all three lots they were all good songs, and I congratulate all of us on our collective good taste!
Yet another fantastic collection of music from the Spill Collective! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to the three lists today and experiencing lots of music that I wouldn’t otherwise have heard, a fair amount of which is some distance outside my comfort zone – which is far from being a bad thing!
I’ve also enjoyed the process of whittling down the 100+ tracks to the 20 or so that will fit on the mix-CD that I’ll give to my brothers on Boxing Day. This is something I’ve done for the past four years – the 2010 CD was a particular success and I’m pretty pleased with this year’s.
Apart from my own submissions, the songs that made it were:
Danse Carribe – Andrew Bird (Glasshalfempty)
HML – Delay Trees (Fuel)
Simple Twist Of Fate – Diana Krall (Mnemonic)
Cough Cough – Everything Everything (Magicman)
I Sing You – Hanne Hukkelberg (Severin)
Delay Delay – The Heartbreaks (Bishbosh)
The World Moves On – Jens Lekman (Barbryn)
Carnival Comes – Loof (Pairubu)
Afraid Of Summer – Lost Lander (Spottedrichard)
Brains – Lower Dens (vanwolf11)
Bay of Skaill – Magnetic North (Tonnl)
Settling – Meursault (Garethi)
New York Times – Simon Felice (Tincanman)
All That You Are… Is This – We All Inherit The Moon (mnemonic)
Reunion – The XX (Carolebristol)
I deliberately didn’t look at the Spillers’ names while I was choosing the songs and it was interesting to see that no one appears twice on the list!
Thanks to all of you for enlightening me – particular donds to fuel for the Delay Trees and bishbosh for The Heartbreakers. Two new bands for me to explore further.
It would be remiss of me not to mention that I also love Abahachi’s jazz re-working of Nic Kershaw’s The Riddle. Utter genius – but not quite right for the mix CD!
For ToffeeBoy. Delay Trees sounds. There’s a self-titled compilation out there that puts together some of the best stuff from their early releases, the early stuff is more like HML (Hämeenlinna). The discography page also has free downloads.
Gotta leave huge thanks for Shoegazer for organising this, and putting up with my pre-season dithering about which Labrinth song would be #2, all with good grace. Really enjoyed the eclectic mix of number ones, haven’t heard or seen the two and threes yet so I’ll withhold judgement mrs until later. Well done evrybody !
tx for doing this shoey! Dunno how much work it is, but it sure is appreciated by all.
And lovely artwork from Shane too, to make the treat complete!
yeah for sure!
Although I just wanted to post something so I could click Notify Me Of Comments
Kidding!
Donds! Shoe & Shane make this the best time of year, thanks guys
Absolutely!
Yes, thanks to Shoey and Shane too – and to all of you lovely people for sharing such wonderful music and for generally making my world a better place [or is it a bit too early to start getting sentimental?]
Who’s that doing After I Made Love To You, tinny? Can’t say I prefer it to the original, but kudos to them for their taste.
Aba’s selection sounds like just the kind of thing that would have made the Guardian’s Top 10 this year. Except in German. I really liked it though.
My one is by the Misers
You chose a version too? Or is their a tagging/duplication issue?
Why? Did someone else pick them?
tfd – I was commenting on track 2, which is identified as tincanman’s – which was why I addressed my question to him.
I’m confused. Another glass of wine may help…
Sorry, barbryn – I thought I was talking to tincanman, and wanting to fill in a gap in my no. 1′s details.
Keep pouring, though.
Oh, I like yours [barbryn] – it’s another of those ‘you be Emmylou and I’ll be Gram’ ones!
I think it’s still Bonnie Prince Billy, probably with Dawn McCarthy. He’s obviously entitled to re-work his own songs but I prefer the original too.
Is it? I wondered, but the voice seemed a little straighter somehow. Well, fair enough.
Just got to Blimpy’s, and I’m now really hoping someone’s chosen Tessellate by Alt-J to continue the geometry theme.
ToffeeBoy – is that Martin Rossiter, still bothering taxi drivers?
Readers Recommend: Songs About Geometry.
Wine poured, headphones on (she’s watching the final of Masterchef on the iPad, y’see), let the beauty and merriment commence.
Wonderstuff – Circle Square
Hard to top dodecahaedrons though.
Noooo. must concentrate on wrapping, now Masterchef is finished and she’s gone to watch soaps next door on the PS3, not think of geometry songs!!!!
Yes, barbryn, that’s the one. Saw him live at The Borderline a couple of weeks ago. The lad’s done well…
Liking debbym’s selection a lot.
And Fuel’s… sounds like the Red House Painters gone shoegazing.
Glorious stuff so far you guys!
and now I’m strutting round the living room to Bishbosh’s!
Alphabetical order has thrown up some great sequencing, but Shane’s into SpottedRichard’s is quite brilliant.
Just managed to listen to the first few, all brill as per. Even Pairubu’s!
And there’s no justice if Hawley doesn’t bag spill album OTY! Vote now! (copyright: toffeeboy).
(ghe)
That’s a really brilliant version of No woman, don’t cry, GF- muscular, echoes of Afro-cuban, but also Soweto township jazz.
The playing on this reminds me a little of Ahmad Jamal, who had a pretty good release this year too with Blue Moon.
Nilp; I love Ahmed, one of the first albums I ever bought in the US was one of his that I bought blind, it became a lfelong favorite.
I don’t know if we’re still having name tagging problems but mine’s,
The Harlem Kingston Express, a group formed by Ja. jazz pianist Monty Alexander. I recently discovered that a good friend plays gtr on it.
I’ve loved all BeltwayBandit’s selections but that one – wow! Added to the shopping list…
Good to see Frank Ocean in there too, magicman. The hype made me track down the album – it effortlessly transcends a genre I don’t have much time for to become a great record by any standards.
Thanks again to everyone – can’t wait for next year…
thanks barbryn – that LP was head and shoulders and complete torso above everything else I heard this year..er…last year !
Listening was interrupted by potentially vomitous small boy. 25 minutes of funny youtube cat videos worked better than calpol.
sympathies, was up night before last with vomiting child, he’s still ikky, don’t think cat videos will work, when he laughs, it’s bad. Hope yours is better now.
Amazing selection from the Artee alter-ego!
Wow, I eventually listened to everything, you guys are amazing ***collapses into heap, hopes someone will lift him up the stairs***
Phew! made it through another one & this was the longest so far. Thanks to everyone for taking part. Here’s the playlist for the ones:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/587192/Festive%20Spill%2C%202012%20-%20%231%27s.doc
Which artist has the most Festive Spill tunes in the five years of doing this? For those of you interested in this type of thing here’s the complete Festive Spreadsheet:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/587192/Festive%20%27Spill.xls
I’m sure it contains more spelling mistakes for Mnemonic to track down, if nothing else.
Merry Christmas, all.
Great music – and statistics! It’s truly a spilltastic Christmas experience. Thanks Shoey!!
No meaningful comment on this list yet as I’m still stuck back in the 2′s right now, but many thanks to our genial hosts for all the work this must have entailed. Almost all of these picks are fresh to my ears – the number of artistes here who’ve never been reviewed in the mainstream press is legion. Learning can be fun.
@ barbryn – your no.1 choice was my fallback item in case any of my 3 had gone; I’d call that a dond.
I haven’t got to these yet either, but I’m sure I’ll find some exciting new sounds and things I need to buy
RE Script – Hall of Fame An empowering stadium ballad that isn’t vacuous the way these things usually are.
Mrs Tin informs this is based on the band’s own story. They formed in 2001 in Ireland and kicked around North American for years before getting any kind of break. They are saying that anyone – and they mean anyone – can make it to the top.
Shoey you’re amazing! Thank you.
I haven’t had time to do more than a quick skim through, Barbryn’s picked First Aid Kit, which is lovely. I’m liking Vanwolf’s, too and TFDs and a whole bunch more… need a proper listen later with a glass of something congenial.
I just had to come here and comment on Voodoo Mon Amor!! Love love LOVE it!! I know it’s on the 3 list but I’m listening to them all whilst wrapping a shedload of pressies as I managed to palm kids off on relics for the day. Thanks to Shoey and Shane and everyone who’s contributed to this aceness of ace music. You are all making a job I loathe, and have put off till now, so much nicer. Thanks. and now back to work.
and if this lot is standard fare, can’t wait to get stuck into ear worms. Oh and Mark Lanegan song fab too. Ok ok I’m going back to work again now… Fuck! Grandma’s here with presents for kids. Bastard!!
@DsD Guess you counted on a dond from me for Deep Dark Woods.
@GHE Danse Carribe was on my festive shortlist..
@Bish Such a lively, enjoyable song and a needed break from so many bleak soundscapes in the #1s. I enjoyed the whole album.
@Severin Between this and earworms, you’ve got me interested in Katenjammer. Milidly interested, mind, but interested.
@Fuel Where do find them all? I’m going to withhold judgement until I hear some more of her because yours has that dreaded word REMIX in the title. But am deffo going to seek some out.
@Barbryn First Aid Kit do nail it, don’t they?
@shane Is the rest of the Lazarus & the Plane Crash this good?
@Pairubu Yours is last on my list because it is the one I’ve listened to most …. trying to figure out wtf it is
It’s more melodic than I would have guessed from you, which goes to show you should never judge a book by it’s rough bark cover. Or that the rough bark cover is worse than it’s bite. Or something. But if there’s a Dond of the Year for the festives, this gets mine because it feels like every choice they made in sound and pace and words was for a purpose and fit together 100%, and I can’t say that to the same degree about any of the other new, strange stuff I’ve heard here.
Thanks for sharing y’all! Have a merry.
Glad you liked it as much as I do.
I’m no expert on the matter but I suspect what we have there is a development of Shibuya-kei , which Sakura and I did a post on a while back. It’s a “magpie” type of pop that draws heavily on European music but adds a distinctly Japanese twist.
Whatever it is it’s done superbly by Loof.
I “loof” it.
Hi tinny, you’ve lost me. (Not hard to do, but…) Er… I think you mean DsD’s pick; Shearwater and has been remixed, but no female singer in sight. Anyway just in case you do mean the Delay Trees here’s a link to a good review of their latest CD and a link to their record label. It’s a free download of MP3s and contains one track that I know saneshane likes.
Yes, as shane says below, it was Ms Wells. Sorry about the confusion old boy
Tinny – fuel – I think it’s Emily Wells – Johnny Cash’s Mama’s House (Dan the Automator Remix) that is being talked about – I’ll answer the question about her here … listen to the albums, mini albums: The Symphonies, Mama or Dirty (then the rest) – she mixes her classic background musicianship using hip hop style beats, she sets them up to play and then adds delay and then plays along live with the technology – it’s a bit twisted Michael Nyman like, with beautiful vocals and an interesting cover choice (Juicy – is brilliant).
The remix was only chosen because I was running out of time and Knew this was released this year.. when I looked the album the remixes are from was also released in 2012 too.
arTEEsane would like to point out these are also his top tunes of the year:
Johnny Cashs Mamas House - Emily Wells
Let Your Guard Down - Emily Wells
Mamas Gonna Give You Love – Emily Wells
Dirty Sneakers And Underwear - Emily Wells
Passenger - Emily Wells
Piece Of It - Emily Wells
Ha! Ha! Has to be Emily Wells she’s great. Just listening to the lists and relaxing. Loved Lazarus and the Plane Crash, Bo Ningen, FAK, Dens, Richard Hawley, 2 Bears, Frank Ocean, BKL (but you knew that, already). Now I’ll listen to the 2s.
Stephen Coates, AKA The Real Tuesday Weld, AKA The Clerkenwell Kid collaborated with Guillotines singer Joe Coles for Lazarus and the Plane Crash .. it’s dumb, dirty and tests the boundaries of taste – perfect.
I think the jazz samples, wailing bluesharp, wheezing squeezebox are an over the top perfect pop confection – an if I had an ounce of exuberance I’d like to think I could be the King of the Village Fete – not all the tracks on the album are a total success – but it’s loads of bloody good fun.
King of the Village Fete - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horn For The Whole Damn World - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Spring Heeled Jack - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Tiger - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Mating Dance - Lazarus and the Plane Crash
would perk up any playlist.
Yikes, the first two were from my collected festive 2′s notes. Blimey
And the comments I had to retirieve after my collasal boneheadBACKSPACEthat the kids ruined.
@magicman Book’s still out on channel ORANGE for me. I’ve put it on 4-5 times – sort of a once a month thing – and it’s so-called brilliance isn’t an obvious. Which is probably a good thing
@Blimpo Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose is a real sleeper album. I usually listen to new albums for awhile and either put them away or add a few songs to pertinent playlists. But Beth has sat their in my ‘inbox’ and despite many, many listens, I can’t decide what to do with it. I know it’s good, very good in fact. But every time I think it’s given up all it’s got, I think, ok one more listen.
@shiv I like Smoke Fairies. I don’t care if there’s a market for their sound or not; they’re needed.
@GF Have been listening to Monty Alexander since your Spill post. Love it.
@albahooky The Bravest Man in Town is one of my fave albums of the year.
@debbym Amazing how intimate Here and Heaven starts out and then becomes rousing by the end. Masters at work. *goes shopping*
@Beltwway I get that Amanda Palmer is an artist and pushes the edges, but I just can’t listen to her. Sorry.
@CaroleB,GHE,Toffeeboy Three picks from Richard Hawley’s Standing At The Sky’s Edge from three quite different tastemakers ought to be sending us all for a listen/relisten. I thought it was probably among the 11th-20th best albums this year, but am going back for another relisten.
Make that FOUR quite different tastemakers, Tinny – I had GHE’s choice on my shortlist, too!
‘Spill album of the year then?
Only just getting to these – damned real life keeps interfering – but I’ll add my massive donds to the appreciation shown to Shoey and Shane. Got three hours in the car without the girls tomorrow, so will try to remember to memory card the 1s before I leave.
Cheers everyone.
Oh, that sequence from Tinny’s to Carole’s is just DsD chillout perfection!
Seriously, just . . . transcendental. And then when Hawley lets rip – I’m in musical heaven!
I have a feeling this happens to me every year… but I think I prefer the 2s and 3s to the 1s. Not that I dislike the 1s – they’re just not grabbing me as much yet. Maybe I need a few more listens. First time round, loving tonnl’s in particular. So far.
Nik Kershaw, nilpf?! I wasn’t expecting that. (Nik probably wasn’t either.)
I liked the 1s best, the 3s second best and the 2s hardly at all. Go figure, huh?
Horses for courses, eh? I shall be listening again, so may well (ie, probably will) revise my opinion. And it’s not that I haven’t been enjoying. I just feel mildly underwhelmed.
And of your top tunes, Aba, Vanwolf, bish, Pairubu, Fuel, Shane and Japanther were the ones that particularly knocked my socks off.
I have to concede in all three lots they were all good songs, and I congratulate all of us on our collective good taste!
Oh, and the Makis. Both. Top tunes.
Yet another fantastic collection of music from the Spill Collective! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to the three lists today and experiencing lots of music that I wouldn’t otherwise have heard, a fair amount of which is some distance outside my comfort zone – which is far from being a bad thing!
I’ve also enjoyed the process of whittling down the 100+ tracks to the 20 or so that will fit on the mix-CD that I’ll give to my brothers on Boxing Day. This is something I’ve done for the past four years – the 2010 CD was a particular success and I’m pretty pleased with this year’s.
Apart from my own submissions, the songs that made it were:
Danse Carribe – Andrew Bird (Glasshalfempty)
HML – Delay Trees (Fuel)
Simple Twist Of Fate – Diana Krall (Mnemonic)
Cough Cough – Everything Everything (Magicman)
I Sing You – Hanne Hukkelberg (Severin)
Delay Delay – The Heartbreaks (Bishbosh)
The World Moves On – Jens Lekman (Barbryn)
Carnival Comes – Loof (Pairubu)
Afraid Of Summer – Lost Lander (Spottedrichard)
Brains – Lower Dens (vanwolf11)
Bay of Skaill – Magnetic North (Tonnl)
Settling – Meursault (Garethi)
New York Times – Simon Felice (Tincanman)
All That You Are… Is This – We All Inherit The Moon (mnemonic)
Reunion – The XX (Carolebristol)
I deliberately didn’t look at the Spillers’ names while I was choosing the songs and it was interesting to see that no one appears twice on the list!
Thanks to all of you for enlightening me – particular donds to fuel for the Delay Trees and bishbosh for The Heartbreakers. Two new bands for me to explore further.
A Merry Christmas to one and all…
It would be remiss of me not to mention that I also love Abahachi’s jazz re-working of Nic Kershaw’s The Riddle. Utter genius – but not quite right for the mix CD!
For ToffeeBoy. Delay Trees sounds. There’s a self-titled compilation out there that puts together some of the best stuff from their early releases, the early stuff is more like HML (Hämeenlinna). The discography page also has free downloads.
Dodgy connection out here, so have to be quick:
Merry Xmas.
Well, it has been an epic listening event, but I have finally finished all the Ones now.
Some truly excellent music all round.
Gotta leave huge thanks for Shoegazer for organising this, and putting up with my pre-season dithering about which Labrinth song would be #2, all with good grace. Really enjoyed the eclectic mix of number ones, haven’t heard or seen the two and threes yet so I’ll withhold judgement mrs until later. Well done evrybody !