Attempting to revive the lost art of writing a year-end album blurb you might read without your eyes glazing over (at least not for the normal reasons)
This summer I got to open up mutiple bottles of Moscato d'Asti for Sexxy Red at a video shoot, so clearly she belongs on the list! Partial kidding aside, great list! That Dj Anderson do Paraiso is truly hypnotic, but no one track sticks out, but I get pleasures listening to it front to back.
Yeah, tough to judge funk albums -- the two I picked were as good (or better) as albums rather than song collections, but album just isn't the medium I really engage with for funk. (Ditto amapiano, where both "albums" are technically EPs, one of them genuinely pretty short at 36 minutes.)
The definitive version of song for the siren is Tim B live on the Monkees show.
that brass/whisper dichotomy is something I take refuge from in Vu Ha Ahn's version of soul singing. She's found a new way, a melisma of microtonal adjustments. Or maybe it's a Viet folk way, it brings those associations as well to something that's at root out-of-Africa via the Americas.
The more I read, the less my eyes glazed. By the end, they were popping out of my head
This summer I got to open up mutiple bottles of Moscato d'Asti for Sexxy Red at a video shoot, so clearly she belongs on the list! Partial kidding aside, great list! That Dj Anderson do Paraiso is truly hypnotic, but no one track sticks out, but I get pleasures listening to it front to back.
Yeah, tough to judge funk albums -- the two I picked were as good (or better) as albums rather than song collections, but album just isn't the medium I really engage with for funk. (Ditto amapiano, where both "albums" are technically EPs, one of them genuinely pretty short at 36 minutes.)
The definitive version of song for the siren is Tim B live on the Monkees show.
that brass/whisper dichotomy is something I take refuge from in Vu Ha Ahn's version of soul singing. She's found a new way, a melisma of microtonal adjustments. Or maybe it's a Viet folk way, it brings those associations as well to something that's at root out-of-Africa via the Americas.
Really enjoyed the write up on 070 Shake. Made me Re-listen with a whole different perspective. Thanks