Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
The Radio Dept.: Clinging to a Scheme (2) and Lesser Matters
Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets
V/A: Play Music (Orange Session 2)
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for my Halo (5)
Julia Holter: Tragedy
Vampire Weekend: Contra
The Shins: Wincing the Night Away and Oh, Inverted World
The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient
V/A: Rushmore OST
Nick Drake: Pink Moon
Obviously a lot of time spent listening to Kurt Vile this week—another newish discovery for me, via various end of year lists last month. I'll have more on that album next week. The new Shins song got me listening to old Shins songs (as you might have surmised from yesterday's post), and the trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie got me and some friends talking about the soundtracks to his films—always uniformly excellent soundtracks, but I think Rushmore's is my favorite.
I like Smoke Rings, but very much love Kurt Vile's Childish Prodigy album, especially the song "Hunchback" and The Life Pursuit has been in my head all week.
I like your new format, and thanks for turning me on to the Radio Dept.
Happy new year,
Alex
Posted by: Alex V. Cook | January 14, 2012 at 01:45 PM
Glad you're into Radio Dept - one of my favorites.
I'll have to look for Childish Prodigy - this is my first Vile record.
Posted by: scott pgwp | January 15, 2012 at 08:51 PM