Good suggestion from Toby, so here we go with this thread again.
For the last 5 or 6 years I've usually been too busy to keep up with the releases week by week, so my practice has been to sit down in December with a dozen or so top ten/twenty/hundred lists and buy a few dozen albums and see what sticks. I love getting turned onto stuff from this thread (or its prior incarnation at the other place at least).
My first contributions are a few tracks I've loved for years, but which I can't seem to not play over and over again lately.
First, Cat Power's elegy for Kurt Cobain:
Second, Gillian Welch's amazing Radiohead cover:
Finally, Animal Collective's Peacebone:
For the last 5 or 6 years I've usually been too busy to keep up with the releases week by week, so my practice has been to sit down in December with a dozen or so top ten/twenty/hundred lists and buy a few dozen albums and see what sticks. I love getting turned onto stuff from this thread (or its prior incarnation at the other place at least).
My first contributions are a few tracks I've loved for years, but which I can't seem to not play over and over again lately.
First, Cat Power's elegy for Kurt Cobain:
Second, Gillian Welch's amazing Radiohead cover:
Finally, Animal Collective's Peacebone: