It's that time of year for the Phronesisaical Best Music awards, which is just me - Helmut - listing musicians and albums I found particularly interesting this year, who you might have missed, and who deserve reaffirmation of their good work.
As with previous years (linked below), these are in no particular order. They're not categorized by genre either this year. May all these musicians prosper in 2010.
Joakim – Milky Ways (French industrial pop)
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid (blues folk rock)
Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada – Coconut Rock (Latin tejano)
Hornet Leg – Ribbon of Fear (garage pop)The Phenomenal Handclap Band – The Phenomenal Handclap Band (pop, disco rock, R&B)
El Perro del Mar – Love Is Not Pop (pop)
Yura Yura Teikoku – Hollow Me (Japanese underground psych; 2007 lp, released in US 2009)
Buddy & Julie Miller – Written in Chalk (country rock)
Euros Childs – Son of Euro Child (Welsh alternative pop)
Mama Rosin – Black Robert (Swiss Creole-blues garage)
Dan Melchior und Das Menace - Thankyou Very Much (garage)
Jumping Beans & .tape. (Daniel Romero) - yo.yo.pang! (experimental)
Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls – Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls (funk pop)
OLAibi – Tingaruda (Japanese post rock)
Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top (rock)
Micachu & The Shapes – Jewellery (avantpop)
Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity – Ancients Speak (R&B, afrobeat)
Staff Benda Bilili - Très Très Fort (Congolese street rumba)
The Cotton Jones Basket Ride – Paranoid Cocoon (indie)
Bobby Ubangi - Inside the Mind of Bobby Ubangi (garage)
Shugo Tokumaru – Rum Hee (Japanese psych pop)
Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak of Araby (experimental guitar)
Ela Orleans – Lost (electronic experimental)
Wand (Wooden Wand) – Hard Knox (psych folk)
Holden – Fantomatisme (French pop rock)
Heartless Bastards – The Mountain (garage rock)
Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean (pop)
William Elliot Whitmore – Animals in the Dark (punk soul blues)
Tumbélé! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds: French Caribbean 1963-73 - compilation (Afro-Creole)
Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974 - compilation (soul, psych)
Earlier installments:
Best Music of 2008
Best Music of 2007:
Best Music of 2006 (An indolent top 45)
4 comments:
I'm disappointed I haven't heard of any of them, but will be checking them out for sure now.
Part of the point is just to alert folks to some stuff they might not have heard. Some of this music here teeters at the edge of real obscurity.
good stuff on this list. I'll be back to check on the ones I haven't heard of. who's the pic at the top?
That top photo is the cover of the Hornet Leg album, "Ribbon of Fear."
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