Music released in 2009, a review, by Pea.
Records, downloads, blog tracks, radio promos, vinyl and CD”s can be split very easily into two piles for me this year.
1. Electronicastep // Dubtronica
2. Guitar // Kraut
Under category 1, we’ve fell head over in heels with Joy Orbison, Gold Panda, Darkstar, Four Tet and so on - all of these acts combine the subtleties of techno, minimal, ENO, and glitch, dubstep and garage to greater or less extents.
Naturally everyone is talking about Joy and Gold Panda, but the return of Four Tet has been nothing less than revelatory, with the Burial collaboration ‘Moth’ causing all to hail Mary for several hours, then ‘Love Cry’ snuck into the RSS streams of us all and left our minds truly swindled and soulds truly awakened by Four Tet. Did he ever really lose his creative ability, nadda, we just forgot about his genius whilst he created 4 records with jazz noisest Steve Reid - even the ‘Ringer EP’ had moments of bloody orgasmic thirst quenching satisfaction. Along with Hebdon, we expect to see debut albums from Joy O, Darkstar and Gold Panda who have all attacked the web in various forms. Joy Orbison seems immensely private and other than his name - little is ‘out there’ - allowing his music talk in the most eloquent of ways with ‘Hymph Mygo’ potentially the last great track of decade being followed by a Four Tet remix and BRKLYN CLLN
Under 2, the re-emergence of guitar based music that send a royal fuck you to a traditional verse / chorus structure, instead focusing purely on the adventure. We inevitably have NO AGE, HEALTH, COLD PUMAS, SALEM, MALE BONDING and friends to thank for reawakening our love and passion.
HEALTH destroyed every pre conception of how electronica and guitar music could be performed live, creating one of the greatest gigs I have ever seen in my 28 years at the Lexington on a steaming hot night in London this summer, and following it up at the Garage a few months later. Creating an awe inspiring sprawling mass of refined and hugely well considered noise and ethereal vocals that left me in a state of dazed admiration and love. HEALTH.
Inevitably nods need to be gestured towards Fuck Buttons, Lindstrom, Washed Out, Banjo Or Freakout, ………that have at one point or another brought us great joy but nothing quite to the same levels as above. Should we have shown Girls more love? the XX? Whilst Girls grabbed the headlines and love across the indie loving sphere - they never connected with me, whilst the XX album has been adored to such epidemic heights that they soon bored me - I look forward to listening to the album again in 2010 when the hype is over and the musical an be appreciated for the gem that it is.
No Pain In Pop continue to release music that deserves our applause based on artistic merit and for releasing the absolutely incredible Nite Jewell album - who ever said lofi Italo couldnt work isn’t proved categorically wrong.
The evolution of the internet continues to dominate music discovery - the number of acts breaking out and gaining profile and influencing old media continues to escalate for the better. Old media has lost it’s way entirely - the benefit being the ‘numbers game only’, it’s become simple - if you want new music - you head to mp3 blogs.
Most played
HEALTH: Get Colour
Curses! The Deep End (Holy Ghost Remix)
Florence And The Machine: Dog Days Are Over (Optimo (Espacio) Industrial House remix)
Joy Orbison: Hyph Mngo
Fourtet: Love Cry (video)
Sebastien Tellier: L’amour Et La Violence EDIT (Floating Points remix)
Gold Panda: Mayuri
February 12th, 2010 at 1:56 am
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February 18th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
cool music!