Has it been a particularly good year for music, or is it just me?
A recentish release that's impressed me is Ballad of the Broken Seas by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan. It's sort of a country album, emphasis on the western (as in spaghetti). Campbell produced it, wrote most of the songs, and played a bunch of instruments, and she & Lanegan take co-lead vocals. She does this breathy little-girl vocal thing and he does the deep gravelled voice thing so some of it's kind of like Tom Waits and Hope Sandoval covering Ringo by Lorne Greene. Well not really but you get the idea. The cover of Hank Williams's Ramblin' Man is choice.
Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain by Sparklehorse initially did not impress me, but has grown on me. It's very Beatles-ish.
I've also enjoyed Fishscale by Ghostface Killa (dreadful skits, but a remarkably strong collection of songs), Loose by Nelly Furtado (a Timbaland production that's a lot better than the similar Futuresex/Lovesounds by Justin Timberlake), and Grandmasters by The Genius & DJ Muggs (a lyrically intelligent & musically strong album mostly structured around chess metaphors, this is easily GZA's best album since Liquid Swords). And some other shit.
I'm hanging out for Tom Waits's next release, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, a 54-track collection of rarities including things like his apocalyptic cover of Heigh Ho from Snow White and soundtrack album tracks like Little Drop Of Poison from The End Of Violence. Tom Waits is the best.
Posted by pearce at November 19, 2006 11:27 PMDear hippity-hoppers --
Enough with the skits.
Cheers,
Me.
Posted by: dritchie at November 20, 2006 9:41 AMIf you've checked out either, what did you think of this year's Cut Chemist or DJ Shadow albums?
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Posted by: Markus at December 13, 2006 2:21 PMI checked out Cut Chemist and thought it was fun, though lightweight.
I haven't listened to DJ Shadow because it looks like there's a lot of rapping on it, and for some reason I don't wanna hear that on a DJ Shadow album. It can't be worse than Dan the Automator's basketball game soundtrack though.
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