Yes, it’s still list season. As State kicks off its Top 50 of the year, here are my own top 30 albums of the year in four-page epic form.
30. Channel One – Sound to Light
29. Clark – Totem’s Flare
28. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
27. Micachu – Jewellery
26. DM Stith – Heavy Ghosts
25. The Holy Roman Army – How the Light Gets In
24. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
23. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
22. Dan Deacon – Bromst
21. The Horrors – Primary Colours
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Remember those archaic days when you picked up a magazine or a weekly music paper in your grubby music-hungry hands and read a playlist of what the publication’s writers were playing in the office that week? There is power in those recommendation charts. Here is my version. No great fanfare or descriptions just ten of the best song around right now you should know or you might already know.
This week: The Major Lazer and Mos Def albums obsessions continue, a new track from Yo La Tengo, Toddla T’s excellent skanky album, new Clark, The XX and Simian Mobile Disco.
Two very different remixes here for you today that have been floating around the net for the last month or so.
A Shackleton remix of Moderat’s ‘Rusty Nails’ has turned up on an unofficial bootleg Moderat remixes EP (alongside Headhunter and T++). Taking the original’s beats and stretching the template from four and a half minutes of great electronica to a full nine minutes of sublime eerie, pitch-shifted despairing vocals and dark side of the sun ambience, it’s been hailed as his greatest work and Boomkat have called it one of the greatest records of the year.
It’s got a head-crushing dystopian feel. Wailing and firework crunches embellish the driving bass-synth and a clack clack rhythm. This is the kind of tune that Thom Yorke is aiming for. An epic remix that is happier spinning on its axis for its lifespan than taking off into the stratosphere.
Our quarter-century podcast is all about new releases. We’ve got superb new tasty tunes from Hudson Mohawke, Montreal’s Clues (whose debut is worth checking out), a song from the already-lauded Suckers EP, a song from the new Starfucker EPlum, a track from David Kitt’s new one The Nightsaver and towards the dancier end of the spectrum: brand new tunes from Clark, Moderat, The Juan Maclean and I shit you not, a surprising song from the Twilight soundtrack.
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Podcast #25 -Tracklisting
