Damien Jurado’s Visions of Us on the Land comes out tonight and is our album of the week! Listen to three more songs off it (we had already featured a couple of tracks in the past weeks) along with more songs by Caleb Caudle, Daniel Romano, Mexrrissey, Palehound, Julia Jacklin, Britta Phillips, Esperanza Spalding, Juliana Barwick, Sara Não Tem Nome, Jozev van Wissem, Filho da Mãe, Mr. Fingers, Bibio, and Moodymann.
Mount Moriah’s How to Dance comes out today. It’s our album of the week (month?) and there’s three songs off it on our weekly playlist. But there’s more: 13 more songs by Damien Jurado, Parquet Courts, Delta Spirit’s Matthew Logan Vasquez, Marlon Williams, Woods, Lake Street Dive, Plastic Flowers, Minor Victories, Pantha du Prince, Rosie Lowe, FKA twigs, ZAYN, and Freakwater.
Those who follow our Facebook page knew about this last Friday, but we’ve forgotten to post this on the website… Well, better late than never, as cliché as that sounds. Half Japanese’s new record, Perfect, was the highlight last week!
Check this out, a best of 2012 list that actually wasn’t posted until the year ended! A typical characteristic of a list like this – composed of the individual lists of some people whose music tastes I enjoy enough to ask them to contribute to the blog – is a certain conservatism (although there are some newcomers ranking pretty high, like Hundred Waters, Purity Ring, alt-J or Point Reyes) with some albums that manage to sneak into the top 10 despite not being the artists’ top moments (GY!BE, Spiritualized, Andrew Bird). Was 2012 that boring or are we the boring ones who only listen to boring music? Have your say in the comments section and post your own lists. Enough with the small talk…