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Tonight, if you’re lucky enough to have a ticket, you’ll be seeing The Morning Benders at the Oxford Art Factory. They were almost certainly one of the most blogged about artists of 2010 and despite all my fiercest efforts to keep them off Sound Doctrine here they are. Receive this into your ears.
If you want to hear a few more tracks before you inevitably buy Big Echo then scope out their myspace. Click here for a free download of the album recording of ‘Excuses’.
Lord Huron’s newest release is a slowly building version of the celebratory classic Auld Lang Syne. It’s an appropriate way for me to kick of the new year; it’s got a feel of optimism and it doesn’t ring too harshly in the ears of a late night warrior. You may remember Lord Huron from their earlier Caribbeanesque exploits. Worth a listen if you haven’t already. I was going to make my first post of the year something from deep within the annals of my music taste but that can wait until the end of the week.
Lord Huron – Auld Lang Syne
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Also, Raz Bradley this week claimed that Boy & Bear is musically better than Sufjan Stevens. I won’t pass any judgement on Raz for that comment, I leave that for the Lord our God at the end of days.
Because I love closure and because I’m self absorbed, I’ve decided to post my top 10 releases of 2010. There were some tough decisions to be made and some not so tough. Obviously there will be readers who disagree with some of these decisions but it’s important to remember that those people are wrong.
10. Sleigh Bells – Treats
Track: Run the Heart
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9. Isbells – Isbells
Track: Reunite
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8. Mountain Man – Made the Harbor
Track: Soft Skin
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7. Foals – Total Life Forever
Track: Spanish Sahara
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6 . Valar – We Have a Home Among the Trees
Track: Wolf I
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5. The Black Keys – Brothers
Track: Next Girl
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4. The Walkmen – Lisbon
Track: Angela Surf City
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3. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
Track: It Is Not Meant to Be
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2. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
Track: Vesuvius
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1. The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
Track: Burden of Tomorrow
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Someone recently asked me if I posted about anything but Sufjan anymore and I said, “no.” In an effort to prove that true, here is yet ANOTHER song from Sufjan, this time featuring the vocals of Vesper Stamper. Another new song. For a guy who claimed to be on the verge of calling it quits (someone find me a link to this interview please) he’s had a damn prolific year. An EP, a full length, a Christmas record and now this, a Christmas single recorded for the folks over at Sounds Familyre Records. You can pick up the entire ‘A Familyre Christmas Volume 3′ for free over here.
Give this song the time it needs to ruminate, I’m in love with it. A sort of dirty interformat love between an organism and an mp3. It’s rare enough in nature but right now you’re seeing it in full effect on your computer screen. Let’s hope it doesn’t get messy. As is often the case with Sufjan, if you don’t listen to the full four minutes of this track you won’t hear what you need to hear.
Sufjan Stevens & Vesper Stamper – Up On The Housetop
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Up on the housetop, reindeer pause
Out jumps good ol’ Santa Claus
Down through the chimney with lots of toys
All for the little ones, Christmas joys
Merry Christmas.
The new Middle East track Jesus Came to my Birthday Party is now available to download on itunes. Alongside the new single are two other new tunes. Western is an upbeat toe tapping country rock number that reminds me a little of Graveyard Train (and sees Bree’s vocals once again on the sideline) while Sydney to Newcastle is an instrumental with some samples of moving trains and station announcements. I couldn’t tell you if they’ll be included on the upcoming record but my gut instinct tells me no. Download the three unreasonably priced mp3s here.
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