December 2010
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WatchEfterklang release a video for Raincoats, song from this year’s wonderfully melancholic indie pop album Magic Chairs. The video contains scenes from a web video series Robin Färdig directed by Danish artist Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen.
Also, Kasper Winding’s remix of Raincoats waits for you on their official site. Finally, Efterklang members reveal their favourite albums of 2010. (I’m...
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altAddicted: 2010's best alternative music (10-6)
10. Max Richter - Infra 9. Pjusk - Sval 8. Food - Quiet Inlet 7. Peter Broderick - Music For Contemporary Dance 6. Olan Mill - Pine
(Listen to the albums & read my thoughts on them below; Don’t forget to check ranks 16-11 & top 5-1. Also, there’s a chart of top pop albums of 2010 along with the best pop singles. Enjoy.)
10. Max Richter - Infra Richter’s typical...
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altAddicted: 2010's best alternative music (16-11)
16. Redshape - Red Pack 15. Raime - Raime EP 14. John Zorn - In Search Of the Miraculous 13. John Roberts - Glass Eights 12. Espen Eriksen Trio - You Had Me At Goodbye 11. Sophie Hutchings - Becalmed
(Listen to the albums & read my thoughts on them below; Don’t forget to check ranks 10-6 & top 5-1. Also, there’s a chart of top pop albums of 2010 along with the best pop singles....
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popAddicted: 10 most impressive albums of 2010...
5. Supersilent - 10 4. The Knife - Tomorrow, In a Year 3. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 2. Daníel Bjarnason - Processions 1. Owen Pallett - Heartland
(Listen to the samples and read my descriptions below. Don’t forget to check ranks 10-6 & top alternative albums of 2010. Also, check top 5 pop singles.)
5. Supersilent - 10
Minimalism and cold uniformity of covers that are...
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Erik K Skodvin drones his piano live in Cambridge
Erik K Skodvin’s performance in Cambridge is a excellent document of how his music evolves in time and space (listen & download below). Firstly, he starts with repetitive drones and glissandos of (probably) under-toned acoustic guitar, then he adds wonderfully deep and emotive piano that adds a new dimension to his performance, once oddly homogeneous and solid. It takes almost 15...
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Ben Frost makes a tender, classical soundtrack
Ben Frost, the master of terrifying drone, composed music in eight movements for a movie. Who’s expecting flushes of scaring noise and eerie industrial electronics, will be surprised by the subtle nature of The Invisibles (hear the whole album below) soundtrack to the same-named documentary. Ben Frost adjusted his artistic expression to the very sensitive topic of refugees in Central &...
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popAddicted: 10 most impressive albums of 2010...
10. Warpaint - The Fool 9. These New Puritans - Hidden 8. The Radio Dept. - Clinging To a Scheme 7. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz 6. Perfume Genius - Learning
(Listen to the samples and read my descriptions below. Don’t forget to check ranks 5-1 & top alternative albums of 2010. Also, check top 5 pop singles.)
10. Warpaint - The Fool
In the song that gave name to Warpaint, Emily...
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Owen Pallett: Free EP as a Christmas present
Owen Pallett prepared us a beautiful Christmas present: new, free EP that compiles his demos, covers and instrumentals. They come from the recording sessions of Heartland, the best album of this year. Export EP, as this freebie is called, documents few of the songs in their bare state; such as Export 2 (Midnight Directives), that surprisingly emphasizes the piano and strings. Balladic version of...
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WatchRival Consoles, the artistic name of a DJ and producer Ryan Lee West, prepared a sophomore album, called KID VELO, to be released via Erased Tapes sometime in 2011. Its final track, After Ed. got a maddeningly repetitive and frustrating video of an everyday-life’s banality and senselessness, that fully underlines the song’s mournful synthetic calm. Enjoy the hymnic beauty of the track...
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Surprising & imaginative mixtape from Marta Mist
Marta Mist belong to this year musicAddicted’s favourite classical ambient newbies. Their approach to dark minimalism is uplifting and their balance between classical music, sleepy ambient and frightening drone is amazing. Atmospheres range from melancholic mourning to terrifying darkness, all underlined by field recordings of rain and wind. Surprisingly, Marta Mist compiled their...
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popAddicted: Top 10 songs of 2010 (5-1)
5. Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss 4. iamamiwhoami - O 3. Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt 2. Joanna Newsom - Kingfisher 1. The Radio Dept. - Never Follow Suit
(Listen to the entire songs and read my descriptions below. Don’t forget to check ranks 10-6 of top pop songs; top pop albums & top alternative albums of 2010.)
5. Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss
Solitude Is Bliss...
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popAddicted: Top 10 songs of 2010 (10-6)
10. Tamaryn - Waves 9. Warpaint - Undertow 8. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Fight For Me 7. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) 6. These New Puritans - We Want War
(Listen to the entire songs and read my descriptions below. Don’t forget to check ranks 5-1 of top pop songs; top pop albums & top alternative albums of 2010.)
10. Tamaryn - The Waves
The Waves shows how...
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WatchThe Radio Dept. just published a video for Never Follow Suit. The most standout track from this year’s favourite album ‘Clinging To a Scheme’ firstly became the leading track of the eponymous EP that is formed by a suit (yeah!) of four inter-connected songs. Secondly, it got this wonderful video that is a collage of dream-like fragments recorded in the forlorn industrial zone....
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Kings of Convenience perform even more acoustic...
It’s hard to imagine Kings of Convenience playing even more acoustic session than on their albums, but after Last.fm unarchived live recordings it’s not impossible. Last year, the Norwegian duo played three songs taken from their latest album, ‘Declaration of Dependence’ that was just about to be released that time and Last.fm unwrapped it as one of their Christmas...
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The Golden Filter sing about Santa Claus →
It seems as if The Golden Filter were always destined to make a Christmas song. The ingredients that defined their debut album Völuspà – Penelope’s crystalline, high and whispery vocals, the tribal drums, the polished, icy synths and subduing rhythms – remain an essential part of this new recording, a cover of Psychic TV’s ‘White Nights’, with an added veneer of festivity and Christmas...
