this is getting really fucking old

see you on the other side. again. for good this time hopefully:

http://popthatrocks.wordpress.com/

hopefully with an actualy domain name to follow.

new xx video: VCR (matthew dear remix)

when did it become cool to start releasing official video for remixes of songs? someone remind me because this is the second xx-related remix to get one in the past year...

here come the quakes

flying lotus releases his highly anticipated follow-up to 2008's los angeles on may 5. it's called cosmogramma and comes enhanced with extra thom yorke.

warp has just made an excellent new non-album track called "quakes" available for free download here. if this is the material he left out, imagine what the actual album sounds like...

all of my old friends aren't so friendly

new video for "laughing with a mouth of blood," my favorite track of my 9th favorite album of 2009, st. vincent's actor. funny stuff, highlighted by guest appearances from SNL's fred armisen and sleater-kinney's carrie brownstein. oh carrie, how i miss thee!


St. Vincent - "Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood"

st. vincent | MySpace Music Videos

have one on joanna newsom

drag city just can't help teasing the hell out of joanna newsom fans these days. first we get new track '81,' than some archetypically busy cover art for her new album. now, best of all, they're previewing another new track called "good intentions paving company," seven minutes of piano-driven awesome that already rank among some of newsom's best work.

you can hear it streaming at drag city's website above but since their site has a tendency to crash at inconvenient times, you can also check out the track over at we listen for you where's its being offered for download for the time being.

either way, it's essential listening. the rest of have one on me comes out on feb 23.

so close, yet so far away...

all of the fire

i've really taken a shine lately to the output from terrible records, the up-and-coming indie label started by grizzly bear's chris taylor. i'm all about the upcoming debut ep from class actress (out next week) and i'm also starting to really dig this stuff from taylor's fellow brooklynites acrylics. taylor produced the duo's debut EP all of the fire, which has a warm, fleetwood mac by way of camera obscura feel that sounds just about as good as you think (read: very).

the EP is available on 10" vinyl here and you can preview the title track off of it below. you can also check out the nicely nostalgic music video for "molly's vertigo," a non-fire bonus track.

all of the fire

marchin' in

Lo-Fi-Fnk Marchin In from Mattias Erik Johansson on Vimeo

i don't know how i missed that lo-fi-fnk were from sweden. kind of goes a long way to explaining their awesomeness though. anyway, they just released a new single and here is the video for it. sonic goodness naturally ensues

tonight is going to be the night

high hopes for high places if this new track from their forthcoming sophomore album is any indication. has a very languid danceability that works for their sound.

on giving up (via thrill jockey)

high places vs. mankind is out apr. 6.

first impressions: hot chip - one life stand

*this first impression comes courtesy of the band in question, who are currently streaming the album in its entirety on their myspace.

on their breakthrough sophomore album the warning, hot chip became defined by two signature singles: the ferocious, party-starting "fuck you" to naysayers that was "over and over" and the tender disco ballad "and i was a boy from school." both singles are stellar in their own way, and i'm willing to bet no hot chip fan likes the two equally. the band tried to cater to fans of the former on 2008's made in the dark, which gave us the similarly mischievous "shake a fist" and "ready for the floor" among others. however, these numbers seemed to exist in direct dichotomy to softer moments like the title track and the sinead-baiting "in the privacy of our love." the different numbers were quite good individually but failed to really gel into a solid whole like the warning's songs did. perhaps as a result of that, alexis, joe and the gang swing the other way with one life stand, which will certainly appeal more to fans of their "school" days. yes, they seem to really want to give us laid back this time around. however, it now comes at the cost of the floor-filling pop numbers of their last two efforts.

more notes after the jump...


couple of things upon initial listens:

• the album kicks off with the best opening track of hot chip's career. "thieves in the knight" packs a propulsive punch with synth and guitar lines that reminds me more than a little of moroder-era sparks. meanwhile, the wistful lyrics successfully convey the tone of the whole album in one fell swoop ("happiness is what we all want")
• the band makes good use of strings on this album, lending "hand me down your love" and "i feel better" a certain epic melancholy that i really enjoy
• speaking of "i feel better," easy pick for the next single, and arguably a better choice than the title track was, managing to ape "la isla bonita" and incorporate auto-tune to surprisingly awesome effect.
• these guys still can't seem to successfully sequence an album. whereas made in the dark faded softly into the night with a cluster of momentum killing slow-dances, this one stashes the same kind of cluster right in the middle of the album, immediately halting the excellent pace of the first half. it also places an unfair stigma on the soulful "alley cats" which would have become an easy album highlight with more careful placement.
• "we have love" is a wacky jam that would have been right at home on the last album but feels a little out of place here.
• i actually don't mind "keep quiet" as a lot of people seem to. have to get their prince jones in there somewhere, and its a fitting nod to their early work.
  

being a "boy from school" fan myself, i tend to instantly lean towards this outing more than dark. that could easily change but while nothing stands out as loudly and clearly this time, the whole sounds like more than the sum of its parts. nevertheless, i still feel like hot chip have yet to really make the warning-worthy masterpiece that their frequent moments of brilliance since then seem to hint at. while still incredibly enjoyable, one has to wonder four albums in if they'll ever get there again.

chapterhouse reunion!

full story over at xlr8r. no dates yet though (c'mon philly!) am i the only one really excited for this? i was a total shoegazer back in the day. now i just need my curve reunion...

phoenix x memory tapes

meant to get this up yesterday but forgot. dayve hawk is at it again! apparently this remix will feature on a new 1901 ep (because, you know, phoenix haven't had nearly enough exposure in the past year) that will also include a remix by animal collective. i'm inclined to say whoa on that one, but given their subpar yeah yeah yeahs remix last year, i think i'll refrain for now.

anyway, the memory tapes version is solid as usual and makes me reinvested in the song.

get it here via memory tapes's blog.

first impressions: the knife - tomorrow, in a year

*gratitude for this first impression review can be attributed to the dreijer siblings themselves, who are streaming their latest opus over at the knife website RIGHT NOW!

whoooo boy, and i remember a time when silent shout was a tough sell for a lot of people. even for the knife, this is about as far from kansas as one can get. to be fair, one can't evaluate tomorrow, in a year in the same context as previous knife efforts, it being the soundtrack to an opera and all. in that respect, i feel like i'll never get the full picture of this music without the accompanying visual aspect. nevertheless, i'm finding it to be an alternately fascinating and frustrating listen that earns my immediate admiration but may take longer to earn my love.

couple of things that struck me right off the bat after the jump...



ok, here we go:

• it's better to know going in that the knife's only noticeable vocal contribution here (though it could be karin on the bonus version of "annie's box" as well) is the track everyone already knows, the epic "colouring of pigeons," and it's near the end of the album. additionally, "pigeons" is the first and one of the only songs to actually sound knifey on first listen. unsurprisingly, it remains a highlight.
• a good portion of the electronics on the first half of the record recall early fennesz. not a bad thing, but definitely unexpected.
• the eight and a half minute "intermission" of ambient nature sounds undoubtedly works thematically given the darwin inspiration but feels like an overlong palette cleanser. guess you have to see the performance to appreciate it.
• "seeds" would fit in quite nicely on the new four tet album.
• the other album highlight, "the height of summer," is a dead ringer for "heartbeats." could be a bone to fans, i guess?
• having a hard time discerning where mt. sims and planningtorock are chiming in throughout this. exactly how significant were their contributions?
  
• for it being an opera, there's a lot less actual singing than i was expecting. again, i'm curious to know how this translates live.

these are about all of the thoughts i can muster as the moment. needless to say, after the the recent accessibility of fever ray, this is less a case of the pendulum swinging the other way than in a completely different room. i'm committed to spending more time with this record as i think it merits it and will reward repeat listens as all previous knife work has. still, i feel that i'm missing something without the full theatrical experience to accompany it. here's hoping the production crosses the pond sometime soon.

tomorrow, in a year is out digitally next week and physically on march 1.

lali puna remembers

lali puna is finally releasing a follow-up to 2004's faking the books on morr music. it's called our inventions and will feature yellow magic orchestra's yukihiro takahashi.

i kind of forgot how much i was into these guys (six years is a long time to be away) until i listened to new track "remember." it's synthy, slinky, and altogether groovy.

hear it now:

remember

look for the rest of the album on april 6.

pop that y-rocks 1.26.2010

my weekly internet radio program, the circuit, airs tonight at 10pm est and again saturday from 9-11pm est on yrock on xpn. this week's show features new music from four tet, toro y moi, high places, caribou and more. if you know or have a band that you think is circuit-worthy, hit me up via email or soundcloud.

playlist and swag are as follows...

four tet - angel echoes
the xx - VCR (matthew dear remix)
neon indian - deadbeat summer (afghan raiders remix)
atlas sound - shelia (CRACKS remix)
memoryhouse - to the lighthouse (millionyoung remix)
the antlers - two (buffetlibre remix)
toro y moi - low shoulder
CFCF - invitation to love
lindstrøm & christabelle - keep it up
arthur russell - wax the van
high places - on giving up
tanlines - real life (memory tapes remix)(get it here)
phoenix - fences (delphic remix)
lemonade - bliss out (gold panda remix)
ellie goulding - under the sheets (pariah remix)(get it here)
joy orbison - wet look
bullion - time for us all to love
st. vincent - marry me (ETHEREA remix)
phaseone - love test (frank heat VIP)
the knife - colouring of pigeons (dAi refix)
caribou - odessa (get it here)
chromatics - night drive
joy division - decades
golden ages - everything will be alright (get it here)

cool find of the day: golden ages

came across this group on various blogs yesterday evening. they're a philly group called golden ages and they have echoes of latter day animal collective, m83 and dan deacon. in other words, an electro-enthusiast's wet dream.

they apparently self-released an EP earlier in the year through their myspace. it doesn't appear to be available anymore, but they have a full length called tradition on the way in the spring courtesy of deerhaus records.

deerhaus is kindly sharing a few tracks off the album. here is my favorites so far.

everything will be alright

they're so future.

take a swim

dan snaith is releasing his first caribou album since 2007's immaculate andorra on april 20 via merge records. it's called swim and is supposedly "dance music that sounds like it's made out of water," which given the rather relentless rain that's befallen these parts lately is kind of funny if entirely coincidental.

snaith is offering the first track off of the album via his website. it's called "odessa" and it's sick.

give it a listen for the cost of an email here.

actually, my name's marina

marina and the diamonds has been on my blog to-do list for quite some time now. of all of the female blog-pop acts to emerge over the past year or so (florence and the machine, ellie goulding, etc.), she is actually the one i have highest hopes for in terms of commercial success. could be her voice. could be her looks. i don't know. call it a feeling.

her debut album the family jewels comes out feb. 15 and is preceded by single "hollywood" on february 1. the single is already racking up the club remixes and i figured it was time to have another "clash of the remixes" feature on some of the best. let's dig in...


first up, we have the video for the original for reference:



jaunty and uplifting in spite of the slightly cynical lyrics. a swell starter for the album.

but like marina's past work (see also the wonderful "mowgli's road"), it sparkles even brighter in club-ready form. i don't know what it is about artists and producers that are able to transform her songs into such bangers but i'm not about to start complaining now.

first up is a remix by UK electro-poppers fenech-soler. inverting the verse and chorus over bombastic dance beat, they completely reinvent the track as a fiery floor-filling rager that demands to be blasted at eleven.

oh. my. god. doesn't quite cover it.

you can hear that over at neon gold records.

up next is the juan maclean's version of the track. it's competent but feels rather pedestrian and predictable marina's voice feels too big for the dfa-by-numbers backing track and begs to bust out into something a lot more propulsive and energetic.

this one can be found here courtesy of electronic rumors.

and finally, we've got the most recent take on the song by marina's fellow neon gold upstarts, the mysterious monarchy. it doesn't announce itself as strongly as the fenech-soler version but it has a perfectly lovely disco glide that evokes memories of some of fred falke's better work from the past year. i can't say it yet, but i'm fairly positive that this one will emerge as my favorite of the bunch with more time.

but what do i know? grab this one over at discodust and decide for yourself which of the three is your personal favorite. feel free to let me know in the comments.

and for the sake of symmetry, here's a video for marina's acoustic version of the regional. quite nice, it is:

first impressions: four tet - there is love in you

* this first impression comes courtesy of mr. keiran hebeden himself, who is streaming his gorgeous new album in full at his own website.

we're roughly five years removed from the release of hebeden's last album of new four tet material. such a long hibernation may have been wise if not necessary to distance himself from those pesky "folktronica" labels that kept following him around no matter which musical direction he opted to take after 2001's pause. fortunately, the moment of pause is long over and the future of four tet is here. there is love in you is a sublime slice of ethereal dance-floor bliss...



notes upon first listen:

• "angel echoes" is probably one of the most beautiful things i've heard in recent memory. deceptively repetitive, its looping vocal clips and synth shards keep layering over each other little by little as the song progresses to a positively hypnotic crescendo.
  
• i still think i slightly prefer joy orbison's take* on "love cry." won't hold that against the original though.
• i swear "circling" is a dead ringer for "one for you" by the knife, only with harps in place of xylophones
• speaking of the knife, the vocals that crop up in "sing" sound a lot like karin's
• "plastic people" is a nice reminder that kieran pre-dates axel "the field" wilner by a good few years.
• "she just likes to fight" is the obligatory throwback song, and it's still one of his best.

well played, mr. hebeden, well played. there is love in you comes out this tuesday via domino. there are also a few four tet live dates on the horizon, but alas, none in philly.

*and here, so you can hear what i mean:

cool find of the day: any decent music

i found this cool website called any decent music while pretending to work this afternoon. basically, it's metacritic without all the fluff about film and tv and books and video games.

it compiles reviews of an album from all over the web and calculates the average rating of each. what makes it better is that it allows you to customize your charts based on genre of music, including subgenres like dubstep and synthpop (what? no chillwave yet?). you can also filter by how recentness of release and publication. bonus points to tallying scores from quality, non meta-assimilated websites like the quietus.

even better, it features daily recommendations and rotating playlists courtesy of mixpod, an idea i plan on incorporating into my own site very soon (thanks guys!)

check it out. the site's still fairly newish, having only been active for around 14 months. how else could you explain their top rated albums ever being basseyou kouyate and the new these new puritans. they can't possibly be that good. can they???

memory tapes' first ever live show

dayve hawk made his live debut as memory tapes over the weekend in manchester. yeah i talk about this guy a lot but it's not hard to understand why after checking out this video.

why he wouldn't make make his live debut locally is beyond my comprehension but he's promised a philly date next month so all is right with the world.

thanks to my friend john for pointing to this video over at philebrity.

a few random notes regarding coachella 2010

• the organizers seem like they were really concerned with opening and closing the weekend with a bang, not so much with day two.
• speaking of day two, girls and beach house feel awfully low on the roster for the buzz they've been generating lately.
• john waters hitting the festival circuit? nice.
• karin, what are you doing to me? i had finally made peace with missing my chance to see you in new york and now you're coming out of retirement as fever ray already?
• why does thom yorke now have question marks as part of his solo moniker? is it some kind of built-in disclaimer that he may cancel at the last minute?
• jay-z and lcd may be the best one-two punch in recent festival memory
• they better have something at least as impressive as this line-up for all points west later in the year. seriously, they owe us BAD.
  

feeling without touching

good news and great news from the italians do it better camp this week.

good news: their first release of 2010 is on the way with the 12" for "feeling without touching" by glass candy, featuring 26 minutes of new material. so sweet.

great news: it is confirmed via the italians blog that after two years off, chromatics are back to work on a new record! it's being called "their darkest work yet" and may be ready in time for an autumn release. AWESOME.



as a bonus, chromatics are finally releasing their amazing 2007 lp night drive on vinyl this summer. 'bout damn time.

the next italians do it better label sampler (aka the sequel to after dark) is also nearing completion. it will feature exclusive new tracks from the aforementioned chromatics and glass candy as well mirage, farah, and current PTR fave desire. am i dreaming here?

much to look forward to in the new year already. here's something to whet everyone's italo appetites for now...

new jj jams

sincerely yours was kind enough to offer two fresh new gems from the increasingly prolific (and no less amazing for it) jj, at least one of which, the haunting "let go," will be featured on the forthcoming follow-up to my fifth favorite album of 2009, jj n° 2. the logically titled jj n° 3 will be out march 9 on yours and secretly canadian.



from yours:

"OK, jj went to malaga to have some fun, get some sun and 2 albums done. it was back in the fall of 2008 when they had both lost their virginity to insanity and were looking for moments of clarity. a plane to spain felt like a reasonable opportunity.
so with money in the bank, nobody to thank, it started with a drank.
and a couple of hours later the on the 29th of september they had felt the first breeze coming in from africa, sweet winds of melodies pure and true."

what they said. get the tracks here.

also here's the artwork for n° 3. i kind of miss the blood-splattered pot leaf already.



jj are also making their US live debut soon, with appearances at sxsw and a tour with the xx. sweetness.

nitetime rainbows

a sunny day in glasgow are still riding pretty on the wave of their beautiful 2009 release ashes grammar, which remains one of my favorite records in recent months.

the next single from the album will be "nitetime rainbows." i personally would have gone for "passionate introverts" but i like the former's blissful ambience just fine.



the EP will be out on march 2 via mis ojos discos and feature three new songs left off of grammar, as well as remixes from various label mates. should be fun.

another thing to note is that the band is really good live. for proof, catch them at one of the tour dates listed on their myspace, where you can also preview "rainbows" for yourself.

theres space for ol dat i see

the paper planes have ascended to the cosmos from the looks of things.

courtesy of ms. arulpragasam's twitter.

UPDATE: turns out my description wasn't so far off. the new track is called "space odyssey" and will be included on M.I.A.'s new album later this year. it's supposedly a protest song meant to serve as a continuation of her big "fuck you" to the new york times. awes.

pop that y-rocks 1.12.2010

though my blogging may have grown sporadic, one thing that has remained constant has been my weekly radio show, the circuit, on y-rock on xpn. after spending the final weeks of 2009 recapping the best of the decade in alternative and electronica, i'm back in full swing with new music from the knife, memory tapes, tanlines, surfer blood and much, much more!

read on for this week's playlist can tune-in online tonight from ten to midnight, or saturday from nine to eleven pm for the replay.



the very best - julia (joe goddard of hot chip remix)
active child - voice of an old friend (summer camp bedford falls remix)
washed out - belong
small black - despicable dogs (washed out remix)
cut copy - nobody lost, nobody found
memoryhouse - to the lighthouse
toro y moi - blessa
lindstrøm and christabelle - lovesick
the silent league - yours truly, 2095 (memory tapes version)
solid gold - matter of time (tanlines remix)
le tigre - deceptacon (dfa remix)
nite jewel - want you back
four tet - love cry (joy orbison remix)
animal collective - summertime clothes (dam-funk remix)
the avalanches - live at dominoes
miracles club - a new love
desire - dans mes reves
nosaj thing - light#2
OoOOo - nosummr4u
surfer blood - swim (alpaca remix by allen blickle of baroness)
white hinterland - icarus
the knife - colouring of pigeons
bullion - say goodbye to what
vampire weekend - diplomat's son

and because last week's playlist came out pretty awesome, here's that too:

lindstrøm and christabelle - looking for what (sally shapiro remix)
memory tapes - bicycle (what kind of breeze do you blow? e-mix)
la roux - fascination
monarchy - the phoenix alive
joanna newsom - bridges & balloons (pocket mix)
the longcut - repeated (toro y moi remix)
fleet foxes - white winter hymnal (the twelves remix)
jessica 6 - fun girl
hot chip - one life stand
the golden filter - the hardest button to button
lemonade - big weekend (delorean remix)
the xx - space bass (jamie xx's remix of the xx)
avner - bed for mig (kjj edit)
charlotte gainsbourg - heaven can wait (nosaj thing remix)
neon indian - mind, drips (mirror image remix)
bear in heaven - lovesick teenager
pixies - where is my mind? (bassnectar remix)
these new puritans - we want war (ghost hunter remix)
cfcf - half-dreaming
desire - if i can't hold you
kate bush - running up that hill (datassette remix)
joy orbison - hyph mngo

welcome back stylus! sort of...

throughout college, one of, if not my absolute, favorite online music sites was the late, great stylus magazine. i didn't always agree with their reviews or music tastes, but i did always respect and appreciate them for their variety and honesty. i discovered many of my current favorite albums and artists through them. their genuine wealth of journalistic craft and integrity made it all the the sadder when they shuttered at the end of 2007, coming off of what was arguably the best year for music of the last ten.


as i started reading and weighing the various best-of-the-decade lists back in the summer when they were cropping up, i often thought to myself how much i missed stylus and how awesome their list would be had they made one. wouldn't you know? several contributors to that site felt the same way, and decided to do something about it.

again, i don't necessarily agree with all of the decisions made here, but of all of the major lists i've read, this one is pretty damn good, and probably my favorite of the bunch. as always, their inclusions are varied and true to the spirit of stylus, including not only many of my own top 25, but also several albums that just missed it, namely peak efforts by cut copy, sleater-kinney and missy elliott off the top of my head.

head on over to the stylus decade (certainly a better, more appropriate name for the last ten years than the 'oughties) to check out the full lists of top songs and albums of the decade, each 100 long, as well as several very well-written retrospective essays on various issues of relevance.

for a brief, shining moment, my favorite website lives again.

no escape from memory tapes

you know dayve, if you spent less time remixing other people's stuff and more time prepping your live performances, you wouldn't have to cancel dates like your one at the barbary this past sunday that didn't happen. not that i'm bitter...



that said, your remixes remain undeniably slick and awesome, with this most recent redo of the silent league's "your's truly, 2095" cover being no exception, arguably trumping the league's last chillwave makeover by neon indian over the summer.

grab it over at p4k and get a jig going, then grab another new memory tapes remix (this one of gucci mane) over at his blog, along with every other remix he's done. just don't count on tour dates yet.

UPDATE: new memory tapes dates have been announced in the states, with a new stop in philly taking place on feb. 19. venue TBD.

Lisztomania: 2009 Edition

let's face it. 2009 was a wash for me on this blog. i kept trying to start up fresh, only to take on new projects and responsibilties at both my radio station and another music website that i'm trying to help back to health. then there was the whole starting a new relationship/having a life thing that kept getting in the way. all of it added up to less time to be spent on here, and will doubtless continue to.

that said, i still love my blog and miss coming on regularly to rant and rave about stuff i like/dislike in music and pop culture so i'm going to start coming on here on a semi-regular but much more leisurely pace. for reals this time. before letting those good times roll though, i wanted to wrap up what ended up being an exceptional year (not to mention a pretty rad decade) for music. rather than go into those pretentious, long-winded spiels that i've done in the past (those will return in due time), i'm just cutting my losses and dumping all of my major lists for the year below at once. i figure all of these albums are great enough that a few good listens each could explain it better than i would.

i tried to play fair and base my inclusions and rankings on both what i listened to the most and what i see myself continuing to listen to more of in the future.

click below to see what made the cut and let me know what i left out in the comments.



my favorite albums of 2009

20. fuck buttons - tarot sport
19. raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx part 2
18. bat for lashes - two suns
17. antlers - hospice
16. japandroids - post-nothing
15. dirty projectors - bitte orca
14. atlas sound - logos
13. a sunny day in glasgow - ashes grammar
12. washed out - life of leisure ep/high times
11. phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix














my favorite songs of 2009

1. animal collective - my girls
2. washed out - feel it all around
3. jj - ecstasy
4. dirty projectors - stillness is the move
   
5. atlas sound - walkabout (feat. noah lennox)
6. the xx - crystalised
7. VEGA - no reasons
8. phoenix - lisztomania
9. memory tapes - plain material
10. girls - lust for life
11. st. vincent - laughing with a mouth of blood
12. fever ray - now's the only time i know
13. grizzly bear - ready, able
14. cold cave - love comes close
15. bat for lashes - daniel
16. the big pink - velvet
17. neon indian - mind, drips
18. the golden filter - solid gold
19. major lazer - keep it goin' louder
20. toro y moi - blessa
21. animal collective - what would i want? sky
22. a sunny day in glasgow - passionate introverts (dinosaurs)
23. washed out - you'll see it
24. HEALTH - die slow
25. fuck buttons - surf solar
26. yeah yeah yeahs - zero
27. annie - songs remind me of you
28. delorean - deli
29. desire - if i can't hold you
30. passion pit - moth's wings
31. atlas sound - quick canal (feat. laetitia sadier)
32. pictureplane - goth star
33. museum of bellas artes - who do you love?
34. raekwon - house of flying daggers (feat. inspectah deck, ghostface, and method man)
35. SALEM - frost
36. bear in heaven - lovesick teenager
37. girls - summertime
    
38. japandroids - i quit girls
39. antlers - two
40. neko case - this tornado loves you
    

my favorite remixes of 2009

florence and the machine - you've got the love (the xx remix)
animal collective - daily routine (phaseone remix)
fever ray - seven (the twelves remix)
au revoir simone - another likely story (aeroplane remix)
small black - despicable dogs (washed out remix)


my favorite albums from the rest of the decade

radiohead - kid a
the arcade fire - funeral
lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
panda bear - person pitch
the knife - silent shout
sigur rós - Ágætis Byrjun
sufjan stevens - illinoise
m.i.a. - kala
outkast - stankonia
the avalanches - since i left you
daft punk - discovery
interpol - turn on the bright lights
white stripes - white blood cells
animal collective - sung tongs
joanna newsom - ys
spoon - kill the moonlight
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
jay-z - the blueprint
burial - untrue
modest mouse - the moon & antarctica
the strokes - is this it?
the streets - original pirate material
deerhunter - microcastle
hot chip - the warning
broken social scene - you forgot it in people

happy 2010 all.