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January 2016 Top 20

This year's January chart

 

1. Yeasayer - I Am Chemistry

2. Glass Animals - Cocoa Hooves

3. Christopher Bissonette - Epoche

4. Cherry Coals - Albemarle

5. Metz - Eraser

6. Erdbeerschnitzel - Seyden

7. Cristobal and The Sea - Fish Eye

8. Plaudits - Honest

9. Roo-Panes - Tiger Striped Sky

10. Amber Arcades - Apophne

11. Miccoli - Home
12. Holly Ann - Dead Alive
13. NZCA Lines - Two Hearts
14. Seapony - Where We Go
15. Follow Me Not - At The Moon
16.Prawn - Slopes
17. Gabrielle Papillon - With Our Trouble
18. Family Trees - No One Will Ever Know
19. Giant Peach - Deserted
20. Marching Church - Coming Down

 

full playlist here: January 2016

 

A new year, full of new music and new discoveries

Nobody knows what it brings, 2016, but music will always trigger my senses.
For me music-wise, I hope for some great DJ-nights, cool festivals and goosebumps on my arms during many shows.

My favorite prospect is the new Savages album, but most of all I hope for new diamonds in the rough that I can promote here.

 

So let's randomly look back at my 2014 January playlist, which I actually stil play sometimes and see what still sticks.

Moderat, Jungle, Real Estate, Balthazar, Poliça make up for bigger parts of my daily music routine. They are  bands that I just keep playing.

January 2014

 

By the way the first record of 2016, that i've listened, is in the books.

Gabrielle Papillon - The Tempest of Old and I liked it, not every track, but it's a good start.

Daily Pick #383

I've been rocking this for a while now.

 

Tellison - My Marengo

Album: Hope Fading Nightly (2015)

Label: Alcopop Records

 

 

November Top 20

My favourites of last month.  A month full of returns, beautiful lyrics and most of all emotional music.

Newcomers (for me at least) : The Dandelion, Julien Baker and Fossa are probably what I will remember this month by, still it is packed with songs that I will play into next year.

Majical Cloudz, Savages, Poliça & Tweaks (previously Pin Tweaks) have confirmed their place in my soul. "If it ever goes wrong, I'll write you into all of my songs." Doesn't get more sad and beautiful at the same time. Typical Cloudz. One thing is for sure, I have had worse lists on here.

 

 

 

The List:

1. The Dandelion - Daddy Long Legs

2. Szymon - Katyusha

3. Tweaks - Sisters

4. Wild Nothing - TV Queen

5. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle

6. Mass Gothic - Nice Night

7. Majical Cloudz - Downtown

8. Savages - The Answer

9. Hero Shima - Disgrace

10. Cross Record - Steady Waves

11. Love of Diagrams - In My Dreams

12. Foxing - The Magdalene

13. Poliça - Lime Habit

14. DIIV - Bent

15. Chastity Belt - Cool Slut

16. Fossa - Five Days

17. Balthazar - Dirty Love

18. The Family Rain - Carnival

19. Mary - Silent Flower

20. Boulevards - Got To Go

David Dean Burkhart's channel

New Music, Old Footage

Just wanted to tell you guys about this amazing channel on Youtube. Their slogan says it all. A beautiful selection of tracks with homemade videos, mostly consisting of old (& relatively unknown movies) or footage. The results are melancholic and heartwarming.

An example & one of my new favorites:

A nice collection of videos to start delving into some new music with some nice videos to support them. It captures the mood of the music perfectly.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/user/daviddeanburkhart

 

Impala top 10

Us, indie-lovers and alternative freaks, we like to claim a band, especially when you are the first one (in your social network) to discover a band. I am no exception. I am a proud of my long lasting relationship with Tame Impala, which I have on many occasions claimed to be the best band in the world. Five minutes later I said something else, but still...

That's why I started to give life to a new type of post on this blog, top 10s based on themes, bands, flavors and so on.

And what better way to do it, with the band, that finally emerged to a greater audience. And get the creds they rightfully deserve. All thanks to the recently released Currents, which was actually received with mixed opinions.

But what many people are unfamiliar with is their rich and unique heritage from previous years. Still dazzles me I forgot about 'Endors Toi'.

In random order:

 

 

Repost: Froth - Afternoon

Simply because they are great live, they have made a stunning record and it needs more views:

Froth - Afternoon

Album: Bleak (2015)