A lot of records on the playlist this week, I think, probably due to the fact that I’ve kept a note of what we’ve been playing for three full days. I guess the big one here is “Veckatimest”, the new Grizzly Bear album, which we now have a copy of. Incredible record, which I’ll be writing about soon, possibly tomorrow.
Not everything here’s quite so great, of course, and after one or two optimistic emails it’s worth pointing out again that these are just the things we’ve listened to in the Uncut office, not a filtered list of things we’ve actually liked.
Thanks, by the way, to everyone who’s contributed to the debate on the Super Furry Animals thread. We were so intrigued by the resounding lack of consensus over SFA’s best album that John Robinson suggested we listen to all of them and come to some kind of pseudo-scientific conclusion in the office. We’ll see how that works out in the next few days.
In the meantime, though. . .
1 Sleepy Sun – Embrace (ATP Recordings)
2 Pocahaunted – Passage (Troubleman)
3 Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
4 Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
5 Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak Of Araby (Drag City)
6 Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms (Peacefrog)
7 St Vincent – Actor (4AD)
8 Magik Markers – Balf Quarry (Drag City)
9 Lotus Plaza – The Floodlight Collective (Kranky)
10 Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade)
11 Jarvis Cocker – Selections From The Second Jarvis Cocker Record (Rough Trade)
12 Neil Young – Fork In The Road (Reprise)
13 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
14 Peaches – I Feel Cream (XL)
15 Morrissey – Southpaw Grammar (New Version) (Sony)
16 Bill Wells And Maher Shalal Hash Baz – GOK (Geographic)
17 The Von Bondies – Love, Hate And Then There’s You (Fierce Panda)
18 Various Artists – Loving Takes This Course: A Tribute To The Songs Of Kath Bloom (Chapter Music)
19 Brian Borcherdt – Coyotes (http://www.myspace.com/brianborcherdt)
20 The Horrors – Primary Colours (XL)
21 Howlin Rain – Three From A Phantom Saloon EP (Silver Currant blog)
22 Kath Bloom & Loren Connors – Sing The Children Over/ San In My Shoe (Chapter Music)
23 Brass Monkey – Head Of Steam (Topic)
24 Kid 606 – Shout At The Doner (Tigerbeat6/Very Friendly)
25 Pan American – White Bird Release (Kranky)