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Happy sunday brothers….

I’m not claiming to be up on anything new here but I am really enjoying this, more so than anything like this that I’ve heard for some time.

The three tracks below are from a self titled 7 track EP.

Is the EP having a re-surgence in the digital world? I always though downloading would destroy the LP as an art-form but it seems to have increased the release of EPs? Not sure if this is correct or not but it feels that way?

Follow up to ‘Kill for Love’ nearly here. A taster / teaser. Not much of a departure … but why would you?

I like ‘best’ debates, ‘top 10 this’, ‘best 5 that’ etc.

The reason I ask the question ‘best LCD album?’ is I am sat in a hotel room with a bottle of wine reading a trashy novel. I am listening to 45:33 and I am finding it very hard to come up with an argument against it being the best LCD album. It’s perfect. I hope it goes without saying I am referring only to tracks i – vi and not the extras. I read quite a lot and mostly listen to non-vocal music when reading as I find lyrics distracting. I find 45:33 massively disturbing to my consumption of trashy novels even though it has little lyrical content. It sounds so amazing, so much so I stop reading altogether!

Your thoughts?

Some time ago … 3 years?!? (have we been doing this for 3 years?) I emailed (don’t think we’d made it blogs yet) a track called ‘Brains’ by Lower Dens.  I loved it, I loved the understated album. They’re back and I am quite happy to announce not much has changed … in a good way? I think so.

Here is ‘Brains’ from 2012

Singer Song Writers Ahoy

Natalie Prass – Nashville lady writes beautiful songs and sounds like Dolly / Dusty. Very clean and polished for me but I can’t resist the voice. Too much Grammy-bait or is it hitting the mark?

Tobias Jesso Jr. – lots of songs about the twin faces of Hollywood.

New Frank Ocean

Its hard not to like this … its easy to pretend that you don’t (sexually aggressive art work, explicit lyrics, West Coast cliches) … but I think you might just be pretending that you don’t.

Hi.

Happy New Year.

Not to go into too much detail or play pitty-me too much but we’ve had a pretty horrific Xmas in the Story-Household. Following the arrival of Samuel Stacey’s been very ill (life-threatening) and been in and out of hospital all Xmas. She’s still in hospital now, hopefully out tomorrow. The only upside being that I’ve had plenty of time to and fro hospital listening to music and plenty of time at home with my thoughts (and two children).

2014 Favourite Albums ( I don’t really ‘think in tracks’ so my fave tracks would be an assortment of tracks off the following albums)

‘Benji’ – Sun Kil Moon

A horrifically depressing album which is literally a list of songs about different friends and relatives dying. It is also horrifically beautiful and why it is my favourite album of the year. Why when I am down in the dumps do I only want to listen to music about being down in the dumps? I’ve considered this 3 times for an album of the month but decided against it as I don’t want to bum you all out!

‘Lost in the Dream’ – The War on Drugs

Like a lazy mash of mid 80s Dylan and Springsteen  … I’m not selling it to you am I?

‘LP1’ – FKA Twigs 

One of things I did over Xmas was consolidate my view on this album. I think its brilliant. Its been on constant rotation recently and I am finding more and more in it. 2 Weeks is my track of the year too. I am still as excited hearing it now as I was when it first came out after the summer.

‘Our Love’ – Caribou

I have loads of reservations about this album but its still there for me. In my opinion it is a million miles behind ‘Swim’ which is in my Top 5 all time albums. The highs are too high to ignore it though.

‘Pure Heroine’ – Lorde

Unashamed enjoyment on every listen. I love the lyrics and the sentiment. The kind of artist I hope my daughter likes (if thats not damning with faint praise)

‘Too Bright’ – Perfume Genius

I love this guy. If I was doing top tracks of 2014 at least 4 would be from this album – Queen / Fool / Grid / Longpig (in no order)

‘Black Messiah’ – D’Angelo

Not sure if this should be counted in 2014 but this album is incredible. If it came earlier and I’d had more time with it then it would be my top album.

D’Angelo and the Vanguard, Black Messiah released mid-Dec is a contender. I love Voodoo by D’Angelo. Its a soul classic and deserves to be compared to the greats Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone et al. I think this may be better. Its an eclectic mix as its lists of collaborators would suggest but D pulls it together into a coherent work. I’ve waited 14 years for this and so far I am not disappointed. A highlight in a horrific Xmas, more on that later!

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