Since selling out London shows at the ICA and Union Chapel, Canadian folk instrumentalists Timber Timbre have brought their ragged yet restrained blues-esque sound to ever-growing levels of musical beauty, developing a chillingly elegant, unwavering power over all who listen. They've been announced as tour support for the forhcoming Laura Marling UK dates, before embarking on their own headline shows around the world including a date at London's Assembly Hall. March 1 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge* 2 - [...]
Perhaps we should start by discussing a few time-honoured cliches, such as " you can't teach an old dog new tricks ", or " if at first you don't succeed ", or " a rose by any other name ", as this quartet from Denmark used to make up half of an older group, Le Fiasko . However, this new reformation has released a set of rather masterful tunes, making their previous incarnation seem something more akin to a prelude to the new, improved outfit. We don't have anything against their previous incarnation, but listen to this new set [...]
11. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation 10. Cults - Cults 9. SBTRKT - SBTRKT 8. Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin' On 7. Feist – Metals 6. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver 5. Wilco – The Whole Love 4. Austra – Feel It Break 3. Beirut – The Rip Tide 2. Braids – Native [...]
2011 - irgendwie ein komisches Jahr. Zumindest musikalisch gesehen. Denn eigentlich müssten hier die Hundreds stehen, das wunderbare Berliner Elektropop-Duo, das mich diese zwölf Monate so verzaubert hat. Doch lediglich das europaweite Releasedatum des selbstbetitelten Debutalbums fällt in die vergangenen zwölf Monate – in Deutschland erschien "Hundreds" nämlich schon 2010. Schade. Auf der Suche nach weiteren feinen Nullelfer-Sachen, merke ich, dass so eine Bandfixierung eh nicht gut tut. Denn der Rest fällt etwas hinten runter. Außerdem interessant: Alte Helden wie die Bright Eyes und Death Cab For Cutie schaffen es mit ihren neuen Alben nicht in meine Bestenliste, lediglich bei [...]
Maxime Souverain is the PR for Maison Kitsuné in Paris. Er, obviously we don't need to say anything about Kitsuné they have been chu8rning out consistently hot, upront tomorrow music for a long time now and they continue to hit it hard with the latest Parisien 2 comp that we'll be reviewing very soon. Here are Maximes faveourites for 2011; IS TROPICAL - Native To I just love this naive / lo-fi productions "Take my chances" makes me [...]
This has been a truly awesome year for music both in the blogsphere and live entertainment world. The music industry has shifted so much that most artists with a sound sense of marketing and publicity can get their music exploited without help from major labels or corporate muscle. Below are 10 of my favorite albums this year which have all gotten great feedback through my shows on WVUM and through this here blog. There's a mix of well known artists and some lesser-knowns who really pushed their own albums to make sure we heard them. This was a tough list [...]
It was an OK year. Nothing more, nothing less. Timber Timbre and their album "Creep On Creepin' On" was without a doubt, the album I've listened to and seen performed live the most all year. Taylor Kirk's dark, swampy sound speaks to me. As for the rest of my top 5, these albums will be listened by yours truly for years [...]
Download / RSS Feed This is part two of our series looking back on the best records of 2011.
01.Easter - Somethin' American This might be the first time such an unknown song by such an unknown band has ever been given top spot on any of my end of year lists, but they were absolutely brilliant live when they played up here in September, and this song is just fantastic, as are the other two songs on their Soundcloud page. It's less lo-fi than a lot of the DIY stuff I've listened to this year, and the squalling solos which tease Easter's songs to an end evoke loads of old school US indie music. This gives quite [...]
Et c'est parti pour le classement de mes trente disques préférés de l'année ! Pour chaque album, un lien vers un de mes articles ou un d'un collègue si je n'en ai pas parlé, une toute petite explication de la présence du disque dans le top en passant la souris sur la pochette et un titre en écoute dans le lecteur en bas de page. #30 Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean [...]
Here's the first installment of the Song, by Toad Festive Fifty for 2011 - a collection of the fifty songs I have been enjoying the most this year. The fifty themselves and the precise order can hardly be described as definitive of course, because you know how fluid things like 'favourite' songs can be, but roughly speaking this is the stuff I have been enjoying the most in 2011. Just as a note, in order to make it a broader representation of the bands I've liked the most, I have made it harder and harder for bands to [...]
This week, Quick Before it Melts welcomes the roster of Hand Drawn Dracula to help round out 2011 with a series of guest posts. Today, guest blogger Neil Haverty of Bruce Peninsula muses musically on an unforgettable 2011. (Norman Wong) 2011 was a big year for me. Half of it was the worst year of my life (I was sick for a lot of it) and [...]
Here we are at the penultimate podcast of the year, and the one immediately preceding Christmas. I really don't like 99% of Christmas music so there's pretty close to none of it at all on here, although I have made a couple of exceptions as a lazy sort of nod to the season. Let's face it, if the druids can be arsed dancing about like idiots around Stonehenge and people can fall out over half-defrosted turkeys then I can probably make the effort to shove a couple of token musical nods onto a single podcast, can't I. I [...]
#30 Esben And The Witch: Violet Cries You can really get lost in the mysterious and ghostly atmosphere of Violet Cries , it is the perfect winter album. #29 Future Virgins: Western Problems A punk record with a hint of old-school garage sound... wonderfully fast and messy! #28 Kuedo: Severant This ultra mellow [...]
So, ta-daaah, here we go, what all right-thinking people have been enjoying most this year. And if you haven't been enjoying these most this year, then dammit, what do you do when I tell you what opinions to have about music, ignore me? Surely such a thing is inconceivable. As those of you who listened to last week's podcast, where I played two songs from the more forgotten albums on my first ever Albums of the Year list (2004), I am actually more fascinated by these lists in retrospect than at the time. Looking [...]
Welcome to FWBA's best-of 2011. This has been such a meaningful year in music to me that it's tough to represent in one post. I'm going to be honest, this took me quite a long time. I wanted to do this year justice because personally, it was a total dream: living in San Diego working with some of my favorite artists, going to SXSW and Lollapalooza, seeing Dave Bazan in stranger's living rooms, Feist play a hometown show, saw tune-yards electrified show at Soda Bar clocking in as one of my favorite performances, watching Zach Rogue and my boyfriend playing [...]
It's that time of the year where everyone does their Best of 2011 list. Took me awhile to get my Best 50 Canadian albums of 2011 going. Here it is, starting with part one of five listings. Starting from #41-50. 41. Extra Happy Ghost!!! - Modern Horses Very lo-fi experimental pop record with a touch of Chad VanGaalen (who recorded and mixed the album) on this record. Listen to Mercy, Mercy and [...]
Our sixth guest top ten comes courtesy of our very own Chris T Popper, a small but perfectly formed (and often irritating) younger sibling who has been stealing my records since he had invisible friends as a small child. Chris T Popper's Top 10 10. Little Barrie – Tip It Over The Nottingham trio start off my top 10 with the fabulous Tip It Over . Heavy guitar providing a great riff coupled with a momentum that creeps up on you. There's some [...]
Last year, I didn't listen to enough albums to make anything more than a top five list. That was not the case this year. Here are my ten favorite albums of 2011. These are the ones that I spent the most time with because they sounded good and, more importantly, because they spoke to me.
The Line Of Best Fit
THE RECOMMENDER
werenotbroken
indiestreber.de![William Fitzsimmons - Beautiful Girl [Live Acoustic]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/wfJ3TxSxFiQ_130.jpg)
Vainzine
nightdrive
A Good Day For Airplay
The Needle Drop
Song, by Toad
I Know You've Come To Take My Music Away
Quick Before It Melts
lycanthropy
Friends With Both Arms
PhotogMusic.com
Mad Mackerel's Blog
Those Who Dig
Said the Gramophone
![Niki & The Dove - The Fox [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/l2f6UbMnlq4_130.jpg)
Music Singles Chart #95
I’ll Just Leave This Here #153
Bobby Brown Breaks Down On Stage After Whitney Houston’s Death
Whitney! ♥
Video: Paul McCartney’s MusiCares tribute concert
