In haste this week, as we're finishing our end-of-year review issue and our next Ultimate Music Guide (on Paul McCartney, I can reveal), I've just completed writing up an interview with one of 2014's key figures, and I have a review of this 4CD Wilco retrospective to file as soon as possible. Still time for a big post-holiday pile of new music, of course, and it's been quite hard these past few days to stop dipping into the forthcoming 8CD Go-Betweens box set. Note, though, new stuff from Howlin Rain, Parquet Courts, The Knife and The Wu-Tang Clan, further love for Natalie Prass and Jessica Pratt, a great radical jazz comp from Soul Jazz, and a promising new discovery in the shape of Sheer Mag. Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey 1 The Go-Betweens - G Is For Go-Betweens (Domino) 2 [REDACTED] 3 Parkay Quarts - Content Nausea (Rough Trade) 4 Howlin Rain - Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Co) 5 Savoy Motel - Later Alligator (Demo) 6 Sheer Mag - 7" (www.bandcamp.com) 7 Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament (BMG/Mute) 8 Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again (Drag City) 9 Doug Paisley & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Until I Find You (No Quarter) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVfFx9JvH4Y 10 Tinariwen - Inside/Outside EP (Wedge) 11 [REDACTED] 12 Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass (Spacebomb) 13 Xylouris Ensemble - Antipodes 2 (Σείστρον) Read my piece about Greek jams here 14 The Knife - Shaken-Up Versions (Brille) 15 Johnny Burnette & The Rock'n'Roll Trio - Johnny Burnette & The Rock'n'Roll Trio (Bear Family) 16 Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile (Transgressive) 17 Wilco - Alpha Mike Foxtrot (dBpm) 18 Various Artists - Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical And Revolutionary Jazz In The USA 1957-82 (Soul Jazz) 19 The Wu Tang Clan - Ruckus In B Minor (Parlophone) 20 Liam Hayes - Slurrup (Fat Possum) 21 Slim Twig - A Hound At The Hem (DFA) 22 Los Jaivas - Todos Juntos (Arci)
In haste this week, as we’re finishing our end-of-year review issue and our next Ultimate Music Guide (on Paul McCartney, I can reveal), I’ve just completed writing up an interview with one of 2014’s key figures, and I have a review of this 4CD Wilco retrospective to file as soon as possible.
Still time for a big post-holiday pile of new music, of course, and it’s been quite hard these past few days to stop dipping into the forthcoming 8CD Go-Betweens box set. Note, though, new stuff from Howlin Rain, Parquet Courts, The Knife and The Wu-Tang Clan, further love for Natalie Prass and Jessica Pratt, a great radical jazz comp from Soul Jazz, and a promising new discovery in the shape of Sheer Mag.
Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey
1 The Go-Betweens – G Is For Go-Betweens (Domino)
2 [REDACTED]
3 Parkay Quarts – Content Nausea (Rough Trade)
4 Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Co)
5 Savoy Motel – Later Alligator (Demo)
6 Sheer Mag – 7″ (www.bandcamp.com)
7 Einsturzende Neubauten – Lament (BMG/Mute)
8 Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again (Drag City)
9 Doug Paisley & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Until I Find You (No Quarter)
10 Tinariwen – Inside/Outside EP (Wedge)
11 [REDACTED]
12 Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass (Spacebomb)
13 Xylouris Ensemble – Antipodes 2 (Σείστρον)
Read my piece about Greek jams here
14 The Knife – Shaken-Up Versions (Brille)
15 Johnny Burnette & The Rock’n’Roll Trio – Johnny Burnette & The Rock’n’Roll Trio (Bear Family)
16 Songhoy Blues – Music In Exile (Transgressive)
17 Wilco – Alpha Mike Foxtrot (dBpm)
18 Various Artists – Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical And Revolutionary Jazz In The USA 1957-82 (Soul Jazz)
19 The Wu Tang Clan – Ruckus In B Minor (Parlophone)
20 Liam Hayes – Slurrup (Fat Possum)
21 Slim Twig – A Hound At The Hem (DFA)
22 Los Jaivas – Todos Juntos (Arci)
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