10 favourite albums of 2012

In no particular order:

Clark - Iradelphic


Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes


Gonjasufi - Mu.Zz.Le


The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough


Ghosting Season - The Very Last Of The Saints


Purity Ring - Shrines


Breton - Other People's Problems


Disappears - Pre Language


Tamaryn - Tender New Signs


Sharon Van Etten - Tramp

Ed:it & Overlook - Actress/Quarry

Clark - 'Secret' feat. Martina Topley-Bird

Polica - Lay Your Cards Out

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

Caveman - Easy Water

Caveman - Great Life

Caveman "Great Life" is Yourstru.ly from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Breton - The Commission

Wye Oak - Civilian

Live at Ruby Lounge, Manchester on 22nd August.

The Black Lips - Mr Driver (fan video)

Alt-J (∆) - Tessellate

Life imitates music.

So here's the story: I'm 20, I'm living in Southampton and I'm a student (for the 1st time). I buy the album by Manchester DJ Lionrock called 'An Instinct For Detection', because Muzik magazine told me to. I put the track 'Snapshot On Pollard Street' on repeat for the next few years...



... I graduate, work in a factory in Arundel for a year making pig pens, then win a place at Manchester's School of Sound Recording in a competition and move up to Chorlton and then Withington... 12 years later I move from Withington to Pollard Street in Ancoats (up Wilmslow Road) and attempt to become a photographer after getting an art degree.

I'm sat in Pollard Street, with my camera, listening to the tune I'd forgotten about whilst freaking out.

Slamagotchi - Too Early

Too Early (free $hit for you) by Slamagotchi

Envelope Triptych WIP Part 5

... continued from Jan 23rd
http://bit.ly/oCn6IG

Move house, job hunt, and generally take on more than you can chew while in the process, letting people down... and then finish the piece.

For the long suffering, Richard. 2 more to make now.