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What is your favourite new track of 2011?
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 23 August 2011 - 8:13pm.
A new track released in 2011, not something you have heard for the first time but released earlier.
Mine is The Horrors "Moving Further Away".
If you like the concept of early Simple Minds mixed with a bit of prog then give it a listen.
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I haven't bought many (any?) new records this year...
but I loved House for Sale by Nick Lowe as performed on the podcast a while back.
Do you ever listen to the CD that comes with the mag?
I don't, but if you do, have you heard anything good on there?
I have to admit that I don't...
I don't have a strong compulsion to listen to contemporary music and I'm disappointed so often by what I hear when I do that I tend not to bother. I still buy plenty of records but it is more a case of my digging deeper into areas of music I know I like, such as rhythm and blues.
Clock Opera
Very taken with this at the moment.
("Belongings" - Clock Opera)
That is memerising....
.... especially as a lot of it looks like my commute to work on the East London Line and the DLR with bits of Canary Wharf thrown in. My morning travel will never be quite the same again. If only I could grow a beard ...
Such a difficult choice
Until the last week or so it was unquestionably Ron Sexsmith and the title track from Long Player, Late Bloomer.
However it has now been superceded by this beauty from Gillian Welch, The Way It Will Be. I think. But it may turn out to still be Ron by the end of the year.
Good call Carl...
...those 2 tracks are among my favourites this year so far too. My absolute current favourite is this one though - It's John Hiatt - Down Around My Place. It's about the floods in Nashville last year. The crescendo builds to a guitar solo that has been influenced by David Gilmour....to my ears anyway.
It too could be a winner
I've only had two listens to the new JH since I got it last week.
Ron, again
I would go with 'Every time I follow' from LPLB.
What a beautiful song.
Bubble
by King Creosote and John Hopkins.
Nice prog on 6 music on the making of that album, and all the other (less good) Mercury nomination.
Ditto
Can't get King C out of my head for the past couple of months.
Is the programme on iplayer do you know?
Paul Wellers
new song definitively answers the Damon Albarn question asked the other day
Paul weller " Starlite"
Wellerillaz?
That's lovely, and rather ironically, sounds like something off the last Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach.
The Pierces
Glorious.
Like Nicks and McVie in 76. Lovely.
Greg Foat - Dark is the Sun
Basically, I could chose anything from "Dark is the Sun" by the English/Swedish instrumental soul/jazz combo, the Greg Foat Group.
Here's one fairly upbeat track, "Bright is the Sun", but basically the whole record is just a wonderfully cool treat from beginning to end.
I love this ...
....favourite song off a great album
Listening to the new album as I write
A great band.
Why change a great formula!
Anna Calvi - Suzanne and I
I enjoy her twanging guitar and powerful, passionate, rich, deep voice. Sounds a bit like a Siouxsie who can sing properly here (sorry Siouxsie) and just a great tune really.
Anna Calvi here too
Only had the album a couple of days but am enjoying this track in particular:
also loved this one which came out last year but was a single this year
Phoenix Foundation-great album as well
Tom Vek 'C C (You Put the Fire In Me)'
is fantastic; big drums, great synthesised sounds & he looks laaaaverley in the video.
The Vek
Much as I like this track, is it not from 2005?
Good question!
I'm going for Chain & The Gang - Music's Not For Everyone.
(I nearly picked Detroit Music from the same album, which is a swinging garage rock blast - but this is spookier.) Also FAB is Deep Politics by Grails and Matthew Halsall's new one, On The Go.
This one
Enjoyed that a lot, Mr Lewry, sir
Confess I'd never heard of Kiwanuka before, but it's a lovely track, with resonances of old Terry Callier songs from the 60s. Maybe even Bill Withers too. Charming video, as well. Nice retro feel. Top stuff all round.
Glad you like it
And yes, it's very Callier-esque. I also love the "da-da-da-daaaaa" afro-beat horns.
Because I got the new IKEA catalogue in the post today...;)
...I'll give you my Swedish Top Three:
1. Andreas Mattson - Metaphors (not on YouTube)
2. Little Dragon - Shuffle a dream
3. Timbuktu - Livets samba (not on YouTube either)
(And since you asked: Best track from a Word CD this year ?
Smoove & Turrell - Hard work)
This is currently No. 2 in ver Top 40
(Emeli Sandé - Heaven)
Hints of Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy, but anything that manages to be simultaneously frantic and stately AND get to no. 2 deserves a listen.
That is brilliant
Good old iTunes. Handy in those situations where lack of CD shops exists.
Tough question
Not that we're overburdened with great new releases but I had three contenders. Settled on this.
My favourite of this year
Edwin Sharpe & the magnetic zeros - Home.
(typing this from work, so I cant post any clips - sorry)
Hi there Jack
Not to be an annoying pedant, but it's Edward, and the album came out in 2009.
But the singer Alexander came out with a solo album this year (called Alexander...) and this is the best track from it, you might like it!
The album is quite good, but has some quite excruciating tracks as well, really bad lyrics and hippie to the max...
But this song (Truth) is a good one!
Zalo By Dutch Uncles
isn't on youtube here's another of my favourites
Three From Me...
"Nobody Told Me" - Vintage Trouble
"All About Time" - Tim Booth
"Ghoulish" - Poly Styrene
tough call
Between 3 choices, I'm afraid.
At the moment, its between:
Graciela Maria - Nothing Safe
Radiohead - Separator
or
Iamamiwhoami - :john
Just got
I Break Horses.
Terrible name for a band but lovely music. Scandinavian I think.
It's a close run thing
Between Call Me A Rainbow by the Mummers, which I've posted here before; and Lila by Julia Johnson, which is sort of the title song from her album I Am Not The Night. The only youtube clip of it is in a mashup with Metallica's Sanitarium, which is a little rough but I think works pretty well, so here it is. If it converts just one person to the brilliance of Julia, I'll be very happy.
BTW, am I the only one for whom threads like these, full of youtube clips, become unusable once they get beyond a certain number? I can't look at the "covers done in a different style" thread any more, as it crashes my computer.
That's not unusual
All the different instances of Flash require at lot of system resources to display. Some computers will cope OK, others less so.
REM & The Vaccines
"That's what all the friends I do not like as much as you say" (If You Wanna)
"Aahh...woah-o...aah...ohh" (It Happened Today)
Two from me
It's either this:
Connan Mockasin - It's Choade My Dear
or this:
Nicola Roberts - Beat of my drum
depending on my mood
Marissa Nadler
Yes, she's another female singer songwriter but, in my view, in a totally different league to most other FSSs around - the album this is from (her 5th) could be her masterpiece.
At work so no posting...
Last year I was listening to lots of new. This year seems to have been about catching up with older stuff that I missed, although quite a few of those things were from last year, so not too much older.
Things from this year I have liked so far are:
The Steve Mason/Dennis Bovell 'Ghosts Outside' album, especially Dub Outside, which is gorgeous.
The Nerina Pallot new album Year Of The Wolf has a few nice little tracks, Put Your Hands Up, Turn Me On Again and If I Lost You Now are all worth checking out on Youtube, managing to be the missing link between Norah Jones, Kylie and Aimee Mann.
Shark Ridden Waters by Gruff Rhys from his album Hotel Shampoo has been on rotation on and off for the last couple of months too. Another one that deserves the usage of 'gorgeous'.
Justice & Nero
Gruff Rhys and also Go! Team records established faves
round here (and led to both by tracks on Word cds, by the way) but the one that's nailed to my turntable at the moment is the new Pugwash album (He, the one from Duckworth Lewis Method who least resembles Neil Hannon). One day I think these songs are utterly fantastic, the next I worry they are weighed down by their obvious influences - 10cc, Jeff Lynne, XTC.. In the end I suspect their grooviness will win me over. What do you think?
reaches the parts other tracks this year don't reach