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Epilog: 2025
Steven Wilson -
The Overview
{I realize it's only May, but I can't imagine an album I like better coming along in the next seven months. 😁 Check back here December 31}
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Last Day: 2024
Frost* -
Life In the Wires
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Day 80: 2023
Riverside -
Id.Entity
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Day 79: 2022
Tears for Fears -
The Tipping Point
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Day 78: 2021
Frost* -
Day and Age
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Day 77: 2020
Sanguine Hum -
A Trace of Memory
Akaikurage is the Japanese word for Red Jellyfish. The band of the same name are energetic, loud, uncompromising, have a Japanese punk attitude, and a motorik rhythm section. That's all I need to become a convert.
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Day 80: 2024 - Akaikurage - Kaiten Sekai
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Day 76: 2019
Lonely Robot - Under Stars
The 60s folk revival brought almost forgotten traditional music back into the awareness of contemporary audiences. Dusted down and rescued from old books, field recordings, chap books, and broadsides, a whole cultural medium was rescued from obscurity. Ongoing development within the genre added traditional music to more modern instrumentation, and folk rock was born. This, along with influences from the psychedelic era in the 60s and punk in the 70s, meant there was a healthy appetite from audiences for both live performance and studio recordings. Sadly, other than for a few of the more inspired artists, this had tailed off by the late 1980s and before the decade was out, 'folk' was often reduced to a genre populated by aspiring singer/songwriters playing acoustic guitars and frequently robbing the Richard Thompson songbook. Once the 21st century hit its stride, there was a revival of interest in the more esoteric bands of the earlier era, and the rediscovery of the 'dark folk' of previously overlooked bands like Trees, Comus, and Mr Fox. These bands influenced a new generation, and Irish band Lankum has definitely captured the darkness and the otherworldly spirit that the best of the genre always possessed. Or is, perhaps, possessed by.
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Day 79: 2023 - Lankum - False Lankum
For me, The Sadies are Canada's best band and are far too little known in much of the rest of the world. Their influences are psych, punk, country, alt country, rock, blues, and indie, and there are traces of all of it in their music. Two talented guitar players, great songwriting, fabulous live performances, and some great collaborations over their 28 year career. This release, Colder Streams, was sadly overshadowed by the early death from a heart condition, at the age of 48, of guitarist/singer Dallas Good. If you've never heard them, this album is a good place to start.
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Day 78: 2022 - The Sadies - Colder Streams
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Day 75: 2018
Beach House - 7
This one took me by surprise in 2021. Someone on WFMU, I forget who it was, repeatedly played one of the tracks - it was the song Very Blue - and it just seeped into my subconscious. Checking out the rest of the album gave me more of the same feeling. I saw the sound described somewhere as 'modern oldies' and that's what it is. It's modern, but nostalgic. Nick Waterhouse has definitely got a handle on 60's sound and production techniques and created a really good record with this release.
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Day 77: 2021 - Nick Waterhouse - Promenade Blue
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Day 74: 2017
Big Big Train -
Grimspound
As much a family collective as they are a band, Big Blood appeal to me in the same way as Natural Snow Buildings, Sun Ra, Moondog, etc, in that they are creative on their own terms, self reliant, and wholly independent of outside pressures. The music? I suppose weird psych country influenced folk would be a starting point, but it barely scratches the surface.
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Day 76: 2020 - Big Blood - Do You Wanna Have a Skeleton Dream
Mdou Moctar is guitar player from Niger playing in a style often referred to as desert blue. This, his fifth album, but probably the first to be widely available, is an energetic and fiery combination of North African sounds mixed with almost psychedelic style jamming. Great on record, even better live.
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Day 75: 2019 - Mdou Moctar - Ilana: The Creator
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Day 73: 2016
Rachel Flowers - Listen
Françoise Hardy is the only artist to feature twice in her own right in my posts on this challenge. Her first album - see day 18, 1962 - and this, her final album released in 2018. Personne d'autre is an album clearly written and sung by someone who knows their time on the planet is drawing to a close. Recorded in the period after she had already undergone treatment for cancer, this is an album of reflective songs, all bar one co-written and with Françoise providing the lyrics. The only cover is a version of Michel Berger's song Seras-tu là which, for me, is the most moving performance on a record of consistent and remarkable quality. Françoise Hardy never recorded again, and the cancer she was fighting finally killed her in 2024.
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Day 74: 2018 - Françoise Hardy - Personne d'autre
Peasant sounds like the soundtrack to The Wicker Man re-made in the image of the Incredible String Band by the musical equivalent of Salvador Dali channelling Vincent van Gogh while on an absinthe binge.
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Day 73: 2017 - Richard Dawson - Peasant
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Day 72: 2015
Steven Wilson -
hand. cannot. erase.
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Day 80/80, 2025
🏅🎀Last Day🎀🏅
Thanks Macey G and Harley Bear for encouraging me to hop on board.
THE PURPLE BIRD-
Will Oldham aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy
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Day 71: 2014
IQ - The Road of Bones
Even for someone as relentlessly innovative as David Bowie, his final album and musical coda, Blackstar, is a stunningly creative ending. Many artists would be re-treading old ground by the time of their 26th studio album, but Bowie branches off onto yet another new direction with this release. It would be an amazing final album for anyone with a 50 year career behind them. But to do this knowing your life is also coming to an end is an amazing achievement.
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Day 72: 2016 - David Bowie - Blackstar
I liked the early days of rap and hip hop. It was a break from traditional forms of making music, re-purposing samples taken from other songs, and building new material from them. Then, adding on political, social, or conscious lyrics on top seemed like a new avenue for creative exploration. Unfortunately, the era of the 'gangsta' took it, certainly for me, down a dead end. That's not to say there were no flashes of brilliance, but they were rare. To Pimp a Butterfly showed that creativity hadn't completely died in the early 21st century and shone brightly. It seemed to exist on its own terms, not trying to please an audience, nor trying to outdo the latest releases from rival contemporaries. It was just an artist with something to say, saying it and saying it well.
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Day 71: 2015 - Kendrick Lamarr - To Pimp A Butterfly
If German expressionist cinema of the 1920s could send an echo through the decades and be received as music, it would sound like this album. Light and dark, angular, partly hidden in shadow, and partly in blinding light. That's all.
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Day 70: 2014 - Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
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Day 68: 2012
Blunderbuss
By Jack White
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Day 78/80, 2023
WHY DOES THE EARTH GIVE US PEOPLE TO LOVE?-
Kara Jackson
