20 BLUE ROSES - Blue Roses
"I Am Leaving"
19 THE WHIP - Wye Oak
"Mary Is Mary" (Live)
None of the videos for Wye Oak are very good, apparently no singles have been "lifted" from this album. But in a year of over-rated, undercooked indie follow-ups (I was underwhelmed by Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors' 2009 efforts), I played this one over and over again.
18 - EM ARE I - Jeffrey Lewis And The Junkyard
"To Be Objectified"
17 LET'S CHANGE THE WORLD WITH MUSIC - Prefab Sprout
"Earth: The Story So Far"
"Let There Be Music"
This is a beautiful record and to say that these are demos made on a computer from 1987, I think there is something movingly brittle about them.
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4 comments:
I grew up with Jeffrey Lewis! His middle name really is Lightning.
I'm just glad there's at least one other human on this earth who was not a fan of that damn-ass Dirty Projectors album!
It wasn't terrible, it was just flat, flat as a pancake. I thought their last one was a world beater of sounds.
I thought that too at first. I miss the weird sounds and craziness of Rise Above but this one compensates by having strong songs that play to boring people who like to pretend to be interesting. Anyway I like it but it's not super-brilliant or anything.
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