![]() ![]() Raymond Scott — Soothing Sounds For Baby (1963): The first volume (designated for one to six months) is about my level.Major Organ And The Adding Machine — Major Organ and the Adding Machine (re-release): squee! An expanded version of 2001’s mad outing complete with the movie.So brilliant, and finally available on something other than cassette. Kyle played such a clean banjo e-v-e-r-y note’s in the right place, the volume’s right, he doesn’t dominate (bluegrass pickers, take note). Kyle Creed — Liberty (1977): this is the clawhammer album.Charlotte Gainsbourg — IRM (2009): it’s a Beck album! Not sung by Beck!!.Brett Dennen — Brett Dennen (2005): he’s got a weird little voice in his first album, but Don’t Forget is as catchy as anything.Here’s six not from 2010 that also helped make the year: I was about to completely give up on it when I played it on a long subway ride home. Sufjan Stevens — The Age of Adz: this is a hard album to like.Stereo Total — Baby Ouh!: “irritating” is not usually a word one associates with a favourite album, but Stereo Total are completely annoying.The Ruby Suns — Fight Softly: don’t you dare call them Animal Collective Lite.They’re having so much fun making this, they don’t care what you think. Gramps sings like Popeye’s ancestor, and Peter’s got the caterwauling yawp down pat. Peter Stampfel & Baby Gramps — Outertainment: dementedly demented, with demented bits gleefully stuck to it.Jónsi — Go: this album’s so sunny it farts marigolds.Frightened Rabbit — The Winter of Mixed Drinks: juddery Scottish gloriousness with full miserability ahead.Entertainment For The Braindead — Roadkill: Julia did a banjo album! It’s great — and free!.Like Strawberry Switchblade (DDG are big fans) with maximal noise. Dum Dum Girls — I Will Be: Motown meets The Jesus & Mary Chain, with screamy lofi fuzz.Colleen and Paul — Colleen and Paul: happy, sunny, folky, lovely.Combines E6 ambient and skronk with some thoughtful songwriting. Calvin, don’t Jump! — Under Bridges: Kirk Pleasant’s first major outing from his Canadian location.Seeing as it’s all in French, I have no idea what it’s about, but that’s okay. Bertrand Belin — Hypernuit: heard this on the radio.This is the music that powered the year for me: ![]()
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