Forget about the Arias. Here is where you need to come to find out about the best music releases this year... well, out of what I've been listening to at least.
My top 10 albums of this year (in no particular order):
1. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a dream (This album saw the collaboration of Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore, and oh what a collaboration!)
2. Sia - Some people have real problems (Adelaide girl who went to the UK to be heard back in Adelaide. One of the best female artists to come out of Australia I reckon.)
3. Kings of Leon - Only by the night
4. Jackson Jackson - Tools for survival (Another Oz collaboration. Another success.)
5. Augie March - Watch me disappear (Like a good wine, these guys just get better with age.)
6. Bliss n Eso - Flying colours (Ausie hip hop, who'd have thought? Play it loud!)
7. Girl talk - Feed the animals (Mash it! Love it!)
8. Goldfrapp - Seventh tree
9. Laura Marling - Alas, I cannot swim (I have raved about this girl on this blog before...so young...so brilliant!)
10. As for number 10, I couldn't decide whether to leave off Gnarls Barkley's - The odd couple, or Josh Pyke's - Chimney's afire.
Dishonorable mention:
Coldplay - Viva la vida. This is weird. I really liked this album when I first bought it, but I don't think I have played it again after the first few times. I have decided they are boring (and it has nothing to do with the news that they are snubbing Adelaide in their Australian tour next year).
My top 10 single releases of this year (in no particular order):
1. Cass Mccombs - That's that
2. Moby - Disco lies
3. Empire of the sun - Walking on a dream
4. Kings of Leon - Sex on fire
5. Goldfrapp - A&E
6. Fleet Foxes - White winter hymnal
7. Rihanna - Please don't stop the music
8. Bon Iver - Skinny love
9. Lisa Mitchell - Neopolitan dreams (This is the Lisa Mitchell that was on a recent series of Australian Idol. She got voted off, I stopped watching. Cannot wait to hear her first full album release next year.)
10. I am pathetic. I couldn't decide whether to leave off Pnau & Lady Hawke's - Embrace, or MGMT's Time to pretend.
Notes:
I am very pleased that such a large number of Ausie artists make the album list.
I am fairly certain that sometime next year I will buy an album that was released this year, and I will mentally change the list.
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Pity they are in no particular order. You know what I like, can you rate the 2 most likely to be liked by me? I will go and buy them because a) I need to get some new music that isn't heard on B105.3 and b) your recommendations have been pretty good so far.
S
Why thank you S. I definitely think you should buy Laura Marling. As for number two, I was going to say, Jackson Jackson. But I worry about it because I instantly liked it, so I wonder if its one of those that won't last the test of time. So, for number two I would say (for you) go the Kings!
Actually S.. if you don't yet own The Panics - Cruel Guards, then you really need to buy that. So go Laura Marling and the Panics! You cannot go wrong.
Hi Nina
I went out to buy some CDs. I knew I would like Laura Marling - great female voice; folksie; acustic guitar; hard to go wrong with that combo really. I was intrigued by Jaclson Jackson and I thought that maybe one of my girls would also like the Kings - so these were my targets.
I went to JB - just opened near me - and found Laura Marling's Alas I cannot swim and the Kings latest easily enough. But JB had sold out of the latest Jackson Jackson, so I got their first one Fire Is On The Bird.
Well Laura Marling is excellent.
Jackson Jackson are some crazy dudes and while not something I would normally buy, I love it. Have to get the next one now too.
The Kings is ok, not bad but not great either. A bit run of the mill I guess. Perhaps it will grow on me, after all it has some tough competition.
Thanks for the tip Nina. The Panics will be next I reckon.
S
Yeah am starting to think the Kings are almost formulaic the more I listen to it. But I still like it. Am very pleased you like Jackson Jackson - I reckon they are a real find.
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