THE CARVED OWL RITUAL... Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co. | Released: 2003 Secretly Canadian Records | Produced: Steve Albini | Genre: A blue collar, blues-country flurry of feathers | HOW SECRETS ALWAYS DRESS... The caption read "Prepare for the weirdest request ever..." Three dots appeared below the image, like an echo of the ellipsis that … Continue reading 38. Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Company
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SOUND AND COLOUR... Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color | Released: 2015 Rough Trade | Produced: Blake Mills | Genre: Kaleidoscopic future-blues pop | WITH ME IN MY MIND... What's blue about the blues? As humans, we have an instinctive understanding of how colours map to emotions. Don't we? Anyone who has ever chosen a … Continue reading 37. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
WHERE ALL ROADS MEET... Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures | Released: 1979 Factory | Produced: Martin Hannett | Genre: The post-punk sound that launched a thousand t-shirts | WORDS ARE BRILLIANT... Joy Division. You know Joy Division. You already know the story. You know the dark, pulsating music. The mega-hit, Love Will Tear Us Apart with … Continue reading 36. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
WHAT A CURIOUS LIFE... Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea | Released: 1998 Merge | Produced: Robert Schneider | Genre: Freely creative freak-folk ballads to Anne Frank | CAN'T BELIEVE / HOW STRANGE IT IS TO BE ANYTHING AT ALL... If you came here looking for an historical account of this … Continue reading 35. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane over the Sea
A WOLF AMONG WOLVES... Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Master and Everyone | Released: 2003 Drag City | Produced: Will Oldham | Genre: Lycanthropic alt-folk | NOT A MAN AMONG MEN... Why don't 'alpha male' marketing tactics work on me? Whenever I see a product described as "ultimate strength," or an indecipherably butch aftershave ad, or … Continue reading 34. Bonnie "Prince" Billy – Master and Everyone
LESSONS IN LONG COPY... The Miles Davis Quintet - Workin' | Released: 1960 Prestige | Produced: Bob Weinstock | Genre: Long-form jazz | FROM THE LINER NOTES... Have you noticed that things seem to be getting smaller nowadays? Must be a sign of the times. Take Toblerone, for example: fewer triangles of nougat-studded Swiss chocolate, … Continue reading 33. The Miles Davis Quintet – Workin'
I LEARNED THE HARD WAY... Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way | Released: 2010 Daptone | Produced: Bosco Mann | Genre: Life lessons delivered through modern soul | NOW I KNOW ABOUT YOU... Some people have all the luck. You know the type. Swanning about with nary a care, never … Continue reading 32. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
I MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES... Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise | Released: 2005 Asthmatic Kitty | Produced: Sufjan Stevens | Genre: A multi-instrumental tribute to failure | OH GREAT INTENTIONS, / I'VE GOT THE BEST OF INTERVENTIONS... Though musically brilliant, perhaps the thing I love most about Sufjan Stevens' Illinois is … Continue reading 31. Sufjan Stevens – Come on Feel the Illinoise
AND LOVE IS JUST AN INSTITUTION BASED ON HUMAN FRAILTY... Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear | Released: 2015 Bella Union | Produced: Jonathon Wilson | Genre: Cynically lovesick apocalypse ballads | BUT WHAT'S YOUR PARADISE GOT TO DO WITH ADAM AND EVE? In dark times, it's only natural that we turn to … Continue reading 30. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
ATTENTION... MON AMI... Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | Released: 2000 Kranky | Produced: Daryl Smith | Genre: Sweeping post-rock soundscapes, punctuated by found footage vox pops | IT TAKES MINUTE DETAIL... There is so much to talk about here: The cinematic, brutal beauty of this album's … Continue reading 29. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven