Here is a list of all the albums that were recommended here on The Wheel’s Still In Spin this year. Adios Amigo – Dos [EP]Download “Chicken” Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls Allo Darlin’ – Europe Bad Veins – The...
Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild [Soundtrack] | CD Vinyl MP3 Download “Once There Was a Hushpuppy” (mp3) It is rare that movie soundtracks are featured on this site. In fact, it’s never happened before....
Blonde Summer – Slow Daze [EP] | CDMP3 Download ““Slow Days Fast Company” (mp3) Download “Robots on Command” (mp3) Slow Daze, the second EP from Blonde Summer, is an eclectic mixture of indie rock. The album opens with electric guitar...
Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers – Old Gold [EP] | CD Download “Heart Like a Wheel” (mp3) Zoe Muth was raised in Seattle in the 80s, recently relocated to Austin, but plays music that sounds like it came...
Billy Wallace and the Virginia Blues – Tucumcari, New Mexico and Other Songs | MP3 Download “Tucumcari, NM” (mp3) A guy originally from Ohio, who used to play in bands from Virginia, has released an album with a title track...
Garrett Pierce – City of Sand | CD Vinyl MP3 Download “Everybody Breaks” (mp3) City of Sand is the third album from singer-songwriter Garrett Pierce. The songs are instantly catchy with their rollicking folk rock and Pierce’s burnished vocals. The...
I try to recommend new releases the week they are released. Some albums slip by me, though, and deserve recognition once I’ve heard them. This is one of those albums. Miner – Hey Love [EP] Download “Hey Love” Miner is...
Slam Dunk – Welcome to Miami | CD Vinyl MP3 Download “Can’t Stand It” (mp3) On their sophomore album, Slam Dunk, a quintet from Victoria, British Columbia, play rambunctious rock with a chaotic and spontaneous sound that pulls from a...
Guided By Voices – The Bears for Lunch | CD Vinyl MP3 This year began with Guided By Voices reuniting with their “classic” lineup of Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell for their first...
Pretty & Nice – Us You All We | MP3 Download “Capsules” (mp3) Pretty & Nice is a Boston quartet that makes music that lives up to the band’s name. The pop music is catchy and immediately addictive. The songs...
Joshua James – From the Top of Willamette Mountain | CD Vinyl MP3 Download “Queen of the City” (mp3) The songs on From the Top of Willamette Mountain were written in the evening, after Joshua James spent the day farming...
Andrew Combs – Worried Man | MP3 Download “Worried Man” (mp3) After a couple of shortplaying releases, Andrew Combs releases his debut full-length album, Worried Man. The singer songwriter is originally from Dallas, Texas, but now residing in Nashville. He’s...
Minta & The Brook Trout – Olympia | CD MP3 Download “Falcon” (mp3) Minta & The Brook Trout is a folk rock quartet from Lisbon, Portugal. The harmonization of vocals from Francisca “Minta” Cortesão and Mariana Ricardo is the anchor....
Paws – Cokefloat! | CD MP3 Download “Miss American Bookworm” (mp3) Paws is a guitar/bass/drum trio from Glasgow, Scotland. The three 20-somethings play music that sounds more like Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. than the punk music that brought the band...
Freelance Whales – Diluvia | CD Vinyl Download “Spitting Image” (mp3) Diluvia, the second album from Freelance Whales, flirts between energetic and mellow pop, much like the band’s 2010 debut, Weathervanes, which was a TWSIS favorite of that year. The...
Rah Rah – The Poet’s Dead | CD MP3 Download “Art and a Wife” (mp3) The Saskatchewanian sextet Rah Rah releases their third full-length album, The Poet’s Dead. The band members share lead duties, trading and layering vocals and instrumentation....
The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth | CD Vinyl MP3 Download “Cry for Judas” (mp3) John Darnielle has been recording music under the moniker The Mountain Goats since 1991. Starting with lo-fi cassette recordings, the band now releases iridescently produced...
I try to recommend new releases the week they are released. Some albums slip by me, though, and deserve recognition once I’ve heard them. This is one of those albums. Skipping Girl Vinegar – Chase the Sun [EP] | MP3...
The Soft Pack – Strapped | CD Vinyl MP3 This California quintet is releasing their second full-length album, after a few singles and EPs were released under their current name, The Soft Pack, and their original name, The Muslims. The...
Jason Collett – Reckon | CD Vinyl MP3 Download “I Wanna Rob a Bank” (mp3) Download “Where Things Go Wrong” (mp3) Jason Collett has released a handful of solo albums and been a prominent member of Broken Social Scene. Reckon,...
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