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Post Post #7 (isolation #0) » Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:52 pm

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I am desperately, heartbreakingly in love with this woman.

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Post Post #90 (isolation #1) » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:44 pm

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Just finished reorganising my iPod playlists. I make that 15 months since I started.
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Post Post #105 (isolation #2) » Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:07 pm

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you guys Nicole Atkins is so good

but, in related news, fuck people who go to gigs without knowing the artist
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Post Post #159 (isolation #3) » Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:57 am

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It was a dull morning at work, so I wrote up my top 30 songs of the year.

Spoiler: Top 30 songs of 2014
30. Can't Do Without You - Caribou.
Rest of the album’s hit-and-miss but this is an earworm.

29. Devil Come Take This Town - David Ford.
I don't adore his material this year as much as I have most of his other work but his strings album, The Arrangement, is still good fun and this is probably the pick of the bunch.

28. Inside Out - Spoon.
Very relaxing and a little unexpected from Spoon.

27. Solar System - Screaming Maldini.
A little inconsistent but the big flashes really work for me.

26. Who Killed the Moonlight? - Nicole Atkins.
Confident, fun and even better live.


25. My Sad Captains - Elbow.
Somewhat ironically, album The Take-Off and Landing of Everything didn't quite fully take off for me but this is a clear highlight, all the wistful warmth of Elbow at their best.

24. Outlier - Spoon.
There's a lovely dreamlike quality to this even while it rollicks along.

23. Carousel Ride - Rubblebucket.
Just a great big lump of fun.

22. Meet Me There - Nick Mulvey.
Delightfully sweet and innocent, with a lovely, skippy little intro.

21. Angola - Sam Roberts Band.
Big, spangly, daft, fun.


20. The Troubles - U2.
Yeah, the rest of that deeply unwanted album was pretty much entirely uninteresting but, if you made it to the end, this was a surprising reward.

19. Toumast Tincha - Tinariwen.
Tinariwen have pretty much just been perfecting a formula over the last few years. This isn't different but it is them at the peak of their powers.

18. Ride - TV on the Radio.
The slow build of the intro is great and it explodes into an entertaining romp.

17. Last Bayou - Wolf Gang.
The clear standout of their new album. Big, brash and with an absolute earworm of a guitar riff.

16. A Dream of You and Me - Future Islands.
A gorgeous album closer. Really paints a picture.


15. We Wait Too Long - Nicole Atkins.
Steals the best parts of the Kaiser Chiefs' Ruby and turns it into a simmering work of beauty. Practically begs you to sing along.

14. Cut Your Teeth - Kyla La Grange.
Packs a surprisingly sizeable 'oomph' for such a stripped-back song. Her move into electropop for her second album was largely a disappointment for me but I'm glad that this exists, at least.

13. Yellow & Blue - Megan Washington.
It took 45 seconds of this to convince me that I'd love the whole album. Sweeps me up in it every time.

12. Cucurucu - Nick Mulvey.
Joyous and nostalgic.

11. Cocoon - Catfish and the Bottlemen.
The biggest scope on a very solid debut album.


10. Spirit - Future Islands.
Just a brilliant energy to it. The delivery on 'Come see me through/come through the sea' always grabs me.

9. Swimming Pool - Emmy the Great ft. Tom Fleming.
Mesmerising. The sort of song for which I've been waiting from her and Fleming's a great foil.

8. Skyline - Megan Washington.
I'm going to run out of words for this woman soon. The bridge on this is particularly brilliant.

7. Careful You - TV on the Radio.
Love the undulation of this, the almost insidious way that it worms into your head. Love the coda, too.

6. My Favourite Faded Fantasy - Damien Rice.
If he spent all eight years away working on this one song, it would have been worth it. Dark but rousing, with a monster last couple of minutes.


5. Consolation Prize - Megan Washington.
I tried to make this list less Washington-heavy, I really did, but this is just too good. Utterly haunting, a vocal masterclass.

4. Dangerous - Big Data ft. Joywave.
Thanks to Nicodemus for dropping this into the Song Contest recently or I'd have completely missed it. I didn't even give it full points initially but it just stayed with me and got bigger and better every time I listened to it. Irresistible.

3. My Heart is a Wheel - Megan Washington.
Promise I'm done now. Totally infectious, the most fun I've had with a song this year.

2. Fever to the Form - Nick Mulvey.
Lost the tiebreaker for No.1 because I'd technically heard it first last year but it got an album release in 2014 so I've decided that it counts. Pretty much the ultimate guy-with-a-guitar song. If you have the chance to see him play this live, take it.

1. Seasons (Waiting on You) - Future Islands.
Instant. Fucking. Classic.


Spoiler: Top 5 albums of 2014
5. Seeds - TV on the Radio
4. Slow Phaser - Nicole Atkins
3. First Mind - Nick Mulvey
2. Singles - Future Islands
1. There There - Megan Washington

I think we got three genuine classics this year.
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