- 2009 Music roundup
I can hardly believe that it’s time to make another one of these bloody lists again, but here we are. Some good records out this year.
Album of a year by a country mile for me is:
Travels With Myself And Another / Future Of The Left Only half an hour long, but what a grating, [...]
- If it’s December, it must be time to make a list.
I listened to fewer new albums this year, it seems. It also seems that I haven’t updated my list of ‘Current Distractions’ much at all this year.
Anyway, for what it’s worth (as usual, in no particular order), the albums I’ve enjoyed most this year:
The Gutter Twins / Saturnalia
Bon Iver / For Emma, Forever Ago
Los Campesinos! [...]
- Charlie Crews knows What Jail Is Like.
Someone in the production team for the quirky crime drama ‘Life’ is a Greg Dulli fan. In Episode 4, Captain Tidwell prescribed “Tullamore Dew, The Afghan Whigs and strippers. Lots and lots of strippers” as a remedy for being left by one’s first wife. This week, ‘God’s Children’ by The Gutter Twins was needle-dropped under [...]
- He was drunk and exhausted but he was critically acclaimed and respected
The best rock ‘n’ roll bar band ever to be fronted by a rambling Spielberg lookalike have their new album in its entirety streaming from their MySpace. It’s missing a bit on my MacBook speakers, but so far sounds a worthy successor to ‘Boys & Girls…’
- Amen
Amen