I hope, in the year since my last list of annual favorites, my lack of interest in criticism has been duly indicated. And I don't profess to have heard enough new music to know what my favorite albums of 2010 will be in 2011. At any given time, there are people in far-off places doing amazing things. If ever you feel cynical about the current state of artistic achievement, you should question first your quantum approach, not the liveliness of humankind, which clutters every corner of the world with wonders, just like its human streams of shit. So, fully acknowledging a lack of interest at the moment for listing things, here are musics released commerically this year that I most enjoyed concurrent to this year, 2010:
+current outfits+
•MI AMI • Steal Yr Face
•NAKED ON THE VAGUE • Heaps of Nothing
•NOTHING PEOPLE • Soft Crash
•FACTUMS • GILDING THE LILIES C45
•BALACLAVAS • Roman Holiday
•SOFT MOON • Soft Moon
•D-W/L-SS / JBe • Split 7"
•GROUP DOUEH • Beatte Harab
•BLANK DOGS • Land and Fixed + Phrases 12"
•ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI • Before Today
•WHITE RING • Black Earth That Made Me
•HAYVANLAR ALEMI • Guarana Superpower
•LA VAMPIRES MEETS ZOLA JESUS• LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus
•BLACK ORPHAN •Metal Leg 7"
•INDIAN JEWELRY • Totaled
•MOON DUO/BITCHIN' BAJAS • Split 7"
•A F C G T • A F C G T
•SILVESTER ANFANG II • Communen Cassetten
•WUMME • ROG CD-R
Ummm... Did I happen to say?
•OLSON TWINS & CO.• Gimme Pizza (Chopped & Screwed)
+once old now new again+
•EMAK • A Synthetic History of EMAK (1982-1988)
•SAM SPENCE • Sam Spence Sounds
•OMAR KHORSHID • Guitar El Chark
•MARIKA PAPAGIKA • The Further the Flame, the Worse It Burns Me
•NEON JUDGMENT • Early Tapes
•ABNER JAY • The Original Folk Song Style of Abner Jay
•ROB JO STAR BAND • Rob Jo Star Band
•VA//Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976
•VA//The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia In 1970s Nigeria
•VA//Afro-Beat Airways: West African Shock Waves--Ghana & Togo 1972-1979
•VA//The Sound Of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam from Thailand 1964 -75
•VA//Luk Thung! (The Roots Of Thai Funk)
•VA//Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol.1 + Vol. 2
•VA//Excavated Shellac: Strings--Guitar, Oud, Tar, Violin and More from the 78rpm era
•VA//The World Is A Monster: Columbia Hillbilly 1948-58
•VA//Field Recordings From Alan Lomax's Southern Journey 1959-60 , Vols. 1-5
•VA//Been Here All My Days: Selections From The George Mitchell Archive
•VA//Written In Blood, Vols. 1-5
•VA//Turkish Freakout (Psych-Folk Singles 1969-80)
•VA//Dengue Fever presents: Electric Cambodia
•VA//Vanity Records: Finest Selection 1978 to 1981
•VA//Roots of Chicha 2: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru
•VA//Cumbia Beat, Vol. 1: Experimental Guitar-Driven Tropical Sounds From Peru 1966-1978
•VA//Peoples' Potential Unlimited Family Album
•VA//Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974
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3 comments:
Too busy cooking, cleaning & preparing for impending snow to really comment on your list (which, given the stuff I know, is making me VERY eager to catch up on what I don't) - but I just have to say 'yes!' to "Gimme Pizza", even though it's given me nightmares. Yes, plural.
And if I were motivated enough to make my own list, your "Purple Chicha" mix would totally be on it ;-)
dag, obama lookin not unlike the illegit offspring of the creature from the black lagoon & post-surgical janice dickinson. *shudder* anyworms much love as usual fer yer ever-elevated taste & support in deez dark daze of the recently bailed-out banks opting to kick everyone out of their houses for christmas
Thanks, beautiful people. And owl, any albums on my list you notice having uploaded at some point, multiply tenfold for the great unaccounted for music I copped from your site throughout the year with no ledger for to show.
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