RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS III & IV clear vinyl double LP. BOLT THROWER Live War LP. Stay With Me fully autographed numbered 7' in gatefold sleeve; Waves Upon the Sand and Crusade DVD. Bolt Thrower: IV th crusade: UK: LP: 180: MOSH 70FDR: Bond, Graham Organisation. Bolt Thrower - In Battle There.
With thanks to Sophie Coletta. To be a music fan in 2. Keeping up with new albums alone is task enough: our Quietus albums list, which we published earlier this month, reached a round 1. But then what about all that other stuff? The IVth Crusade (Remastered LP) (2013) . Bolt Thrower -The IV Crusade. Bolt Thrower-Those Once Loyal. Advertising Programmes Business Solutions +Google About Google Google.com . Search; Images; Maps; Play; YouTube; News; Gmail; Drive; More. Calendar; Translate; Books; Shopping; Blogger; Photos; Videos. Archival reissues, of which there seem to be more each year as music's history is ever more deeply dug for lost gems, out- of- press canonical classics and, often, already available records dressed up in swish new clothing. Compilations offering insights into musical communities, scenes and genres both old and new. And, perhaps most visibly, free- to- download mixes, which have become a progressively common feature of online musical life as net bandwidth has become faster and more widely accessible. How to filter through the background noise to discover the stuff worth devoting time to? There's no easy answer, but it's becoming increasingly clear that attempting to keep track of everything is an utterly futile task, not to mention one that's trying to both sanity and social life. Personally speaking, more than any other year, there have been moments in 2. I've felt so overwhelmed by choice that I've struggled to summon up the desire to listen to any music at all. So spending December assembling both the Quietus albums of 2. Casting an eye backward patiently through the year and picking out favourites - releases and mixes that have continued to feel vital as time has marched on - has been a welcome reminder that there's much to be gained from slowing down and making space to savour the music you do choose to spend time with. In some ways, this top 7. Luke Turner, John Doran and Laurie Tuffrey - offers a more accurate overall representation of the Quietus staff's 2. With brand new albums now being only one of several ways people are exposed to new music, this list broadens its scope to give equal weight to the sounds we've come across in different contexts. So, in addition to plenty of great older music given the reissue treatment, contained here are the DJs and producers who've soundtracked our late nights on the dancefloor: the likes of Livity Sound, Beneath, Perc, Laurel Halo and Bok Bok. Then there are contemporary sounds evolving largely outside the reach of the Western music media, including Mark Gergis' collections for Sublime Frequencies and Sham Palace, plus the first widely released compilation documenting Cairo's emergent electro chaabi sound (which t. Q editor John Doran traveled to the city to report on earlier this year). And the free- to- download mixes that have stood out as doing something unique, like Lee Gamble's recent concept- led missive for Secret. Thirteen and Galcher Lustwerk's peerless 1. Galcher mixtape. As ever, this list is limited to what we've heard and had the capacity to spend time with, and as such is an entirely subjective look back at a year in music. We've undoubtedly missed out plenty of things worthy of attention, so please feel free to remind us what we should have included in the comments below. Above all, hopefully you'll find something (or several things) in the following countdown that you enjoy listening to as much as we do. And, as with our albums of the year list, this list is presented in association with our friends at Norman Records for all your vinyl and CD buying needs - just follow the link after each entry to head to their online store. Blancmange – Irene & Mavis(Minimal Tape). Cold wave excavator Veronica Vasicka has rereleased Blancmange's 1. EP Irene & Mavis via her Minimal Wave label, and it's far more than a curio on the road to somewhere else. There's a stately grandeur to 'Holiday Camp' while the mad chatter of 'Overspreading Art Genius' is unhinged nuclear chatter, and 'Concentration Baby' off- kilter narrative post punk with bonkers sax that anticipates Pulp. Edward Artemiev – Solaris OST(Mirumir). These still very contemporary sounding abyssal roars, echoing drones and bursts of tension- building dissonance are deployed to represent inner space. The score skillfully maps out the interior topography of Kris Kelvin - the cosmonaut psychologist sent to the rescue of a foundering mission investigating a mysterious ocean planet. In a film which tends to flip between terse silence and deep philosophical speech lacking in naturalism, the beautiful cinematography and stunning score are the real (and very necessary) stars of this exploration into the multiple failures of human verbal communication. Artimiev creates a bridge between his own abstract synthesiser work and the film's use of J. S. Bach's organ music with an electronic sub theme for Kelvin's dead wife Hari, based on the work of the German composer. The Butthole Surfers – Rembrandt Pussyhorse(Latino Bugger Veil). The band have cast off their hardcore punk mixed with Texan psych roots, but not yet geared up to the titanic, all out attack on the senses which is Locust Abortion Technician. For one of the most wilfully weird rock groups of the 1. This Heat and The Fall than the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, but with the massively gated drums and ultra sterile production favoured by the likes of Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel during the same period. World Of Twist – Quality Street(Loop). Maybe we just weren't ready for them. Of the slim catalogue of footage available on You. Tube, it would seem as if they were more an apparition than a band. There are the videos, featuring furry landscapes and a big rotating ROCK AND ROLL sign and lava- lampian dream sequences. A strange Snub TV interview at a swimming baths. That appearance on The Word, where some keenly enthusiastic dancers in the crowd give it the full C& C Music Factory pantaloon shape- throw to 'The Storm', while the band, oblivious to all this – Gordon shuffling with his guitar, Adge and MC Sea Shells moving some bits and pieces about on a board and creating whooshes, impassively there working on these new sounds, these new ways, becoming a new far out. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.(Secretly Canadian)7. Skullflower - Kino I- IV(Shock). A sneer turned into noise. Slouching out of the squats of North London in the mid 8. Their music, from their initial phase, was a sickening edifice built from intransigence, tiredness, intolerance, angst and anger: a pair of taunting scare quotes hanging round nothing, framed by void. Untutored to perfection, their atonal no wave, post post punk, un- free noise rock, was the blueprint for something terrible and slightly brilliant that never really came to pass. Godflesh - Godflesh, Selfless, Us And Them box set(Earache). But I was completely influenced by TG, SPK, Test Dept. For me, industrial became associated with some fairly odd things in the 9. I wanted to distance myself from the very smooth- sounding electronic body music, which I wasn't interested in. I'm fairly purist about what I consider industrial music, I guess, and the impact it had upon me was to sort of abuse it. Rad in its overall excellentness and radical as to its forward- thinking nature, sounding so even today, though recorded at the height of Ceausescu's suppression and censorship. Various - New Orleans Funk Volume 3(Soul Jazz) . The Explosions, The Deacons, Diamond Joe and The Rubiyats make up the number of rarities. It's really worth buying, whether you've got a house party imminent or not. Various - Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1. Strut). The best tracks on Mutazione feel like the work of kids attempting to seize back their destinies with any instruments that lay in their path. Hawkwind - Space Ritual(EMI). Across its 8. 8 minutes, it delivers one of the most mind- bending, trance- inducing and flat- out immersive experiences available for your ears and brain. It's one hell of a trip and certainly the finest heavy psychedelic album produced in this country. Various - Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Music 1. Soul Jazz) . So rubbing shoulders with Can's 'Halleluwah', Amon Duul II's 'A Morning Excuse' and Neu's 'Isi' we have the likes of A. R. This group was a project of Achim Reichel who first came to prominence as a member of 'the German Beatles', The Rattles and would later take up Schlager, but here is indulging in some far out space rock. Also featured is Wolfgang Reichmann, the third member of The Spirits Of Sound, the late 6. Hendrix inspired rock group that featured Michael Rother and Wolfgang Flur. The track 'Himmelblau' is taken from his 1. Wunderbar, which was released posthumously after Reichmann was murdered in a senseless street attack. Robbie Basho - Visions Of The Country(Gnome Life) . This is a shame indeed, as his voice - which can reasonably be described as an 'acquired taste' - is a taste worth acquiring. By the time the beautiful Visions Of The Country came out in 1. Basho was already a man both behind and ahead of the times, sounding at turns like Fred Neil and Antony Hegarty. Lyrically, perhaps it would be better to just say he was a man removed almost entirely from modern times, and fully in tune with a deeper and older spiritual poetic tradition that includes Blake, Doolittle, Rumi, Hafiz and Wordsworth. Dark - Round The Edges(Light In The Attic). Round The Edges, the early 7. Northampton trio of longhairs, Dark, has a fair claim to the status however, and this high quality vinyl reissue reveals exactly why people have obsessed over its guitar tone for years. Various Artists - Who's That Man? A Tribute To Conny Plank(Gronland). Deliberately eschewing obvious American influences and tired blues clich. This was Plank's speciality, and although he had no obvious signature sound as such, his openness to untried ideas, almost childlike creativity, his use of space and restless attentiveness to the texture of sound and the possibility for constantly altering it (as opposed to the focus on 'serving the song' that was the M. O. Various Artists - Grime 2.
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