January Mix

I didn't hear a lot of new albums this month, but I did keep up pretty well with hearing new tracks via PR and my favorite blogs. Here's a mix of favorite finds, old and new, that I haven't already written about this month. Special shoutout to the blogs who hepped me to some of these tracks—Aquarium Drunkard (Reparata & the Delrons), For the Sake of the Song (White Fence, Etta James, and Woodpigeon), and the Rising Storm (Dave Davies). (I came across the rest via Pitchfork and innumerable other blogs in my RSS feed.) This mix is best played in order.

Juliana Barwick: Never Change

Etta James: Seven Day Fool

Disappears: Replicate

Zammuto: F U C-3PO

White Fence: When There Is No Crowd

Dave Davies: Do You Wish to Be a Man

Woodpigeon: For Paolo

Lower Dens: Brains

Reparata and the Delrons: Boys and Girls

Also of note, I wrote about three more songs I heard this month that I thought were great: The Shins' "Simple Song"; the Dirty Three's "Rising Below"; and Julia Holter's "Marienbad."

Comments

[Richard]

...oh, look at that: Lower Dens right there. Huh. Anyway, you should check their first album in advance of the new one's release, if you don't already know it.

[scott pgwp]

The song above is all the Lower Dens I know. Definitley want to check out the earlier album.