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End of year list A - best albums

Andy Stott - Passed Me By
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Destroyer - Kaputt
Devon Sproule - I Love You, Go Easy
Gwerkova - NADA
Isobutane - Exchanging
Jennifer Castle - Castlemusic
Laura Veirs - Tumble Bee
Matt Christensen - A Cradle In The Bowery
Metal Kites - School of Unlearning
Paul Curreri - The Big Shitty
Peter Broderick - Music for Confluence
Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
Trumpets of Death - Teeth + Teeth = Teeths
Wilco - The Whole Love

If you’ve ever said that you “listen to a bit of everything”, you have to listen to this. I think it’s kind of awesome.

I was part of the team who put on a Hauschka show in a church in Coventry last year. Not only is he an amazing musician, but also one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Spent a good long while discussing John Cage with the excitable church organist.

A music fan that doesn’t have it in them to find new music anymore is like absolute death to me. What are you even doing being alive if you’re not trying to constantly grow? And I don’t mean just in terms of music, but in terms in pushing yourself to try different foods and watch different kinds of movies. The world encourages you to lock into a particular routine. I fucking hate when I hear people in their 50s say, “I’m too old to change.” Fuck you, you’re lucky to be alive, asshole. Why don’t you try to grow? It’s a gift to get to be born and not suddenly die of cancer or get hit by a car. One day, you’re gonna be a rotting body in the ground and you’re gonna be like, “Wow, I kinda wish I listened to new music from ages 30 to 70.

—Will Sheff of Okkervil River goes up a little in my estimation.

(Source: pitchfork.com)