The Best Dozen Albums of 2010

Witch-house, glo-fi, doomstep, glitch-hop, drone. If nothing else, 2010 was a year of intergenre marriages that further tested the entire “music genre” entity, and had most music devotees annoyed with the clichéd questions of taxonomy. Notwithstanding its slightly electronic leaning tendency, this list is compiled of (what I believe to be) the overall best albums/EPs released in 2010. N.B. Best played LOUD.

1. Forest Swords- Dagger Paths

2. Mount Kimbie- Crooks and Lovers



3. Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma



4. Four Tet- There is Love in You



5. John Roberts- Glass Eights



6. The Black Angels- Phosphene Dream



7. Balam Acab- See Birds EP



8. James Blake- CMYK EP + Klavierwerke EP




9. Bonobo- Black Sands



10. Caribou- Swim




11. Pantha du Prince- Black Noise



12. Eleven Tigers- Clouds are Mountains

A riddle

I am universal.
I make some people very wealthy.
I kill some people.
I make some people fit and strong.
Some people hate me.
Some people love me too much.
I am not a religious entity.

Dolomites

See you in 2011?


The Brenta Dolomites from Mike Randolph on Vimeo.

OoOooOooo

Violent, intense sensuality? Check. Video from Nosaj Thing's Drift Remixed album. Yummy. 

Oh Pariah!

My mind has been racing lately. So many ideas, not enough (read: NO) time to follow through with any of them. Music, business, creating, sewing, traveling, planning, decision making. A friend over at 283 has this to say:

...ultimately, isn't fear the most immediate yet overlooked obstacle to living the way we should? I came to the realization this morning that fear has become not only a hindrance, but a safehouse, a comfort for me. I fill every spare moment I have with work, fearing that free time will lead me to the daunting task of thinking about and making decisions about the direction of my future. At the same time, I am using this lack of free time as an excuse for why I have been unable to nurture any of the prospective seedlings that are bursting through my frontal lobes. In all my pragmatism, this cycle is completely illogical, and I recognize it as such, which makes me want to shout even louder, "FUCK YOU FEAR".

But please, don't be afraid of this:

Characters Who Don't Dig Jive Talk

  "They adopt the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes."

Fjällräven Kånken

I like classic, practical things. Given that 50% of my job is in finance, if I calculate the per usage rate of this new purchase, I am making an extremely economical decision. Enough said:

I want all of them, but I think Rusty wins.

xoxo

Dreams of Kerala

I want to make out with you, to this, on a rainy Sunday, the sun burning orange, about to retire.

Shiveries

Gold Panda_You from c.lotti on Vimeo.

dulce et utile || pleasant and profitable || enjoyable and instructive

(in no order):
1. PARKDALE
2. REESE'S PIECES (PIECES NOT CUPS!)
3. MY BIKE
4. RIDING MY BIKE
5. THINKING ABOUT RIDING MY BIKE
6. QUAD ESPRESSO CON AGUA CALIENTE
7. THE THOUGHT OF OWNING ONLY 100 POSSESSIONS
8. BAR SOAP
9. HYDRANGEAS
10. BEETS
11. THE SMELL OF PLAYA DUST