Top 1-5 Albums of 2011

Largely based on my Last.FM play count for this year. For me, it seems, this is the year of the female singer:

1: Widowspeak - Widowspeak




2: I Break Horses - Hearts

I Break Horses- Hearts by Bella Union


3: Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi




4: Radiohead - The King Of Limbs




5: Wye Oak - Civilian

Top 6-10 Albums of 2011

contd...

6: Machinedrum - Room(S)




7: Sparrow and The Workshop - Spitting Daggers




8: The Kills - Blood Pressures




9: James Blake - James Blake




10: Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam

Top 11-15 Albums of 2011

Contd...

11: Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Shabazz Palaces - Are you... Can you... Were you (Felt) by SongsOfTheDay


12: Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion




13: Peaking Lights - 936




14: Odonis Odonis - Hollandaze

Odonis Odonis - We Are The Left Overs by Odonis Odonis


15: Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Top 16-20 albums of 2011

contd...


16: Zomby - Dedication




17: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake




18: She Keeps Bees - Dig On

Saturn Return by She Keeps Bees


19: Caveman - Coco Beware


Easy Water (directors cut) by Caveman from Red Ink on Film on Vimeo.


20: Driver Drive Faster - Open House

I Break Horses - Winter Beats

Tom Waits 'Innocent When You Dream'

An exert from the book that congregates interviews with Tom Waits, from 1974-2004:

Waits drives a 1960 four-door Cadillac Coupe De Ville. It's a bigger car than he probably needs, and he admits that. It devours gas, smells terrible, radio doesn't work. But it's good for little trips, like visits to the dump. Dumps, salvage yards, rummage sales, junk shops--these are his special retreats. Waits loves to find strange and resonant objects hidden deep in piles of garbage, objects he can rescue and turn into new kinds of musical instruments.

"I like to imagine how it feels for the object to become music," he says. "Imagine you're the lid to a fifty-gallon drum. That's your job. You work at that. That's your whole life. Then one day I find you and I say, 'We're gonna drill a hole in you, run a wire through you, hang you from the ceiling of the studio, bang on you with a mallet, and now you're in show business, baby!'"

From an interview for GQ, June 2002, with Elizabeth Gilbert.

Tom Waits 18th album 'Bad As Me' is released in 50 minutes time.

Odonis Odonis - Ledged Up

Odonis Odonis - Ledged Up by Odonis Odonis