Name:
GarethEmail: russian_hill_boy@hotmail.com
Location: Sweden
1. Vespertine Björk
2. The Optimist LP Turin Brakes
3. Draw Matthew Jay
4. Rocking the Suburbs Ben Folds
5. Daft Punk - Discovery
6. Mercury Rev - All is Dream
Comments:
They aren't in any particular order, well my favourite is first, but no
order apart from that:
Vespertine Björk
The girl who has us all wondering 'what will
she do next?' has answered and again got us saying 'I wasn't expecting
that'. Another great collection, the usual swathe of strings, harps an
icelandic choir and also a digital twist thanks to the contribution from
new buddies Matmos. My album of the year, not getting tired of it yet
and new facets emerge from it with each new day.
The Optimist LP Turin
Brakes
At the front of what the media are calling the new
acoustic movement, understandably so with the low key production of the
album. As you would expect from 2 friends who met in their school choir
the lyrics flow effortless weaving a web around the mainly guitar based
music. While the album has a soothing low key feel, when they get a band
behind then they rock live.
Draw Matthew
Jay
Young male guitar playing singer/songwriters seem
to be 2 a penny at the minute. Welshman Jay, may prove to outlast the
rest with his blend of guitar and a voice that carries across the full
range of emotions. The biggest factor in his favour is that he has not
become the media darling like those who came and disappeared oh so quickly.
Rocking the Suburbs Ben
Folds
An album as good as Whatever and Ever, Amen shows
that Ben is not missing the influence of the other 3 of the five. As always
Ben's use of the piano is the core of the album, but his independence
means he has been able to become a multi-instrumentalist, definitely no
ordinary jack-off-all-trades.
Daft Punk - Discovery
French disco, pop with the melodic edge that fellow
countryman Air displayed so well on Moon Safari and to a lesser extent
on 10,000Hz. So catchy almost every track here could be a single, which
may well happen as tracks 1-4 have all been released in order. Served
with a side of humour, it's the dance album of 2001.
Mercury Rev - All
is Dream
This is simply just beautiful music. Nothing more
needs to be said really.
Also rans:
Air - 10,000Hz Legend
Ed Harcourt - Here be Monsters
Is This It? - The Strokes
Spiritulized - Let it Come Down
Starsailor - Love is Here
Travis - The Invisible Band
Vespertine Björk
(2001) 1. Hidden Place
2. Cocoon
3. It's Not Up To You
4. Undo
5. Pagan Poetry
6. Frosti
7. Aurora
8. An Echo A Stain
9. Sun In My Mouth
10. Heirloom
11. Harm Of Will
12. Unison
The Optimist LP
Turin Brakes(2001)
1. Feeling Oblivion
2. Underdog (Save Me)
3. Emergency 72
4. Future Boy
5. The Door
6. State Of Things
7. By TV Light
8. Slack
9. Starship
10. The Road
11. Mind Over Money
12. The Optimist
Draw
Matthew Jay (2001)1. Four Minute Rebellion
2. Let Your Shoulder Fall
3. You're Always Going Too Soon
4. Only Meant To Say
5. Meterology
6. Call My Name Out
7. Molasses
8. Please Don't Send Me Away
9. Remember This Feeling
10. Become Yourself
11. The Clearing
12. A World Away
Rocking the Suburbs Ben Folds (2001)1. annie waits
2. zak and sara
3. still fighting it
4. gone
5. fred jones part 2
6. the ascent of stan
7. losing lisa
8. carrying cathy
9. not the same
10. rockin' the suburbs
11. fired
12. the luckiest
Daft Punk Discovery
(2001) 1. One more time
2. Aerodynamic
3. Digital love
4. Harder better faster stronger
5. Crescendolls
6. Nightvision
7. Superheroes
8. High life
9. Something about us
10. Voyager
11. Veridis quo
12. Short circuit
13. Face to face
14. Too long
The Album of the year from Yesteryear:
Mercury Rev
- All is Dream (2001)1. Dark Is Rising
2. Tides Of The Moon
3. Chains
4. Lincoln's Eyes
5. Nite And Fog
6. Little Rhymes
7. Drop In Time
8. You're My Queen
9. Spiders And Flies
10. Hercules
11. Cool Waves
Andromeda Heights
Prefab Sprout (1995)
How did I miss this for the past 5 years? I dunno, almost as sugary as a bag of Sainsbury's 10 raspberry doughnut's and definitely as mooreish.