2011 IN REVIEW: The Blurt Top 50 Albums
Dec 28, 2011
Nevermind the Drake-Adele mainstream bollocks, here's the good stuff. Waits nabs best album; tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus, best artist; also Isbell, PJ, Keys, Wild Flag...
BY THE EDITORS
It was the best of years, it was the... er, well... yeah. It was the best of years. Funny though - could swear we've heard that somewhere before. Maybe it's because 2010 was the best of years too! Seriously; at this stage in the game, there are so many records released each year, and in every genre and micro-genre imaginable, that you're either hopelessly ADD-derailed or just plain lazy if you can't find 10, 20 or even 50 titles worth hollering each year.
So as we wrote 12 months ago in this space, please feel free to slap that person standing next to you who is griping about not hearing anything good this year. Then ask us sometime about trying to pare down a list of some 200-odd worthy new releases (and that 200 was trimmed from the more than 3,000 CDs - we don't count digital files; there were probably another 1,000 of those - sent to BLURT in 2011) into a manageable Top 50. Okay, technically it's a Top 51, because we've got a separate Album of the Year and Artist of the Year.
We've tried to factor in the fave raves of our 50+ contributing writers, the best-album picks from our readership in our informal year-end readers' poll, and sundry less-quantifiable measures that our highly skilled team of office interns employed in order to arrive at that Top 50/51. But in the end, we don't take it all that seriously, because we've been doing this year-end stuff long enough to know that (a) our list is prone to change within five minutes of publishing it; and (b) the only folks who read these lists are the ones who write them, music publicists trawling for content for their next press releases, and maybe an aggregator or two. The artists themselves are too busy thinking about their next projects, their upcoming tours, paying the rent, etc., to worry about whether or not they land in someone's ephemeral year-end roundup.
Bottom line: no excess navel gazing here; no what everything means, maaan... from your friendly neighborhood BLURT. Here's our list - let's do this. (Fifteen Honorable Mentions appear at the end.)
[See also, tomorrow: Revenge of the Writers, wherein the BLURT staffers and contributors submit their individual lists of 2011 picks ‘n' pans. And if you want to compare these lists with last year's, check out our Top 50 of 2010, or (if you dare) our Writers' Picks for 2010.]
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ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Tom Waits - Bad As Me (Anti-)
Contributing Editor A.D. Amorosi writes: Ever since Tom Waits dropped the jazz-bo Small Change piano man routine, his work has become a cheap carnival of souls haunted by chain-rattling characters as brashly disturbing as his claustrophobic arrangements and melancholy melodies. On Bad As Me his songs find their center immediately and stick like a record's skip. The insistent mess of percussive banjo, oinking guitars and huffy harmonicas that is "Chicago"; the wheezing organs, steel wool drums of "Raise Right Man"; the tinkling ghost piano and whammy bar's bend on the softly spun "Talking at the Same Time"; onto these Waits coughs and wheedles while espousing his delirious gospel's daily absolutions.
Meanwhile, for "Get Lost" a vocally trembling Waits and company (which includes Keith Richards and Les Claypool) re-imagines "96 Tears" as a Suicide song. Speaking of Keith Richards, there's a Stones-namechecking "Satisfied." And as with every great Waits album, there's a softly Irish seasick shanty as heartbreaking as a Montgomery Clift glance and as melodic as any Sammy Kahn ballad-here, album closer "New Year's Eve" which quotes "Auld Lang Syne" so seamlessly, it's as if Waits penned it himself.
ARTIST OF THE YEAR: tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l (4AD)
Contributor Max Blau writes: It's hard to imagine how Merrill Garbus could've had a better 2011. The tUnE-yArDs frontwoman released an eclectic-pop masterpiece with her sophomore effort, grew tremendously as a performer and garnered a reputation as one of indie-rock's most dynamic figures around. Not bad for someone who not too long ago resisted the idea of a career as a professional musician.
In some ways w h o k i l l feels like a culmination of what she started with 2009's BiRd-BrAiNs, in terms of properly recording her work. And as dynamic as tUnE-yArDs is on record, the live show has this whole other powerful component to it. It's almost like watching a song be constructed in the moment during a concert. Yet even with all the year-end accolades, she believes that there's plenty of work left to be done. That's not to say she remains unhappy about her progress, but rather she's trying to take the good and the bad in stride when reflecting upon her work. (Read Blau's interview with Garbus here.)
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2: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Here We Rest (Lightning Rod)
WE SAID: As Here We Rest unfolds, it's hard not to think of an earlier, equally complex meditation on how people feel and act when they find themselves at the ends of their ropes during troubled or desperate times - Bruce Springsteen's Darkness At the Edge of Town. This is not to overstate the case by saddling Isbell with the fatal "young Springsteen tag" (much as The Boss himself was hyped, early in his career, as yet another "young Dylan"); despite certain key age/résumé similarities between the two men at their respective stages of development, the 2011 musical milieu remains vastly different from that of 1978. But the Isbell record is, in a word (or several), a huge artistic achievement, and on multiple levels: the lyrics are evocative, emotional, and multifaceted; the music itself, deftly arranged, in archetypal tight-but-loose fashion; and the whole thing resonates and lingers in the mind long after the disc has spun. You'll want to play it over and over and over.
3: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Vagrant)
WE SAID: Things are bad. Worse than they were when she was whipping her hair around her face screaming "Sheela-Na-Gig" back in ‘92. The key to Let England Shake is that you must think something when you walk away from it. It's her least passive listen. For all its saxophone's honk (the only low end here), floating high-voiced whispers and thrumming autoharp-filled tones touched by oddly funny sampled riffs ("Istanbul, Not Constantinople"? Really?!?), the boldest vision within its stark white walls - her choice in cover art - is that Harvey has finally opened herself up to the un-scrubbed society at large; the political ramifications of war and the ages-old ruminations on peace.
4: Wild Flag - Wild Flag (Merge)
WE SAID: Take two-thirds of Sleater-Kinney, add the helm of Helium and a key role player from the Minders and you have Wild Flag. But although they may have cut their teeth in the nineties, their project doesn't sound like an attempt to reclaim past glories. While the kick of recognition of the distinctive styles and contributions of each member is part of the pleasure, the album sounds like the product of a group, of a powerful force of equals. And it's all the better for it.
5: Black Keys - El Camino (Nonesuch)
WE SAID: There are (producer) Danger Mouse noises to contend with, but nothing gets in the way of the fast danceable pulse and staggeringly messed up guitar-and-vocal attack arranged by Dan Auerbach as if he were taking Savannah (by way of Tiger Mountain) by siege. Auerbach talks as much trash as he plays, and El Camino offers, like they say in Spinal Tap, black, lean mean T-Rex-ish blues party pop that spirals nearly out of control.
6: War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
WE SAID: Singer/songwriter/bandleader Adam Granduciel seems to be less concerned with individual tracks than with creating a holistic atmosphere, a tactic not often played in the current climate of blog-friendly one-offs. Once again, The War on Drugs have crafted an album built not upon flash or novelty, but a new take on traditional rock and roll that is always pushing forward.
7: Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (LL Recordings/Atlantic)
WE SAID: Emotional lows and highs, mirrored by the bipolar quality of the music swinging restlessly between light/airy and dark/heavy, carry the listener along through his or her own catharsis. When it arrives, in the form of a musical and lyrical coda that's like a smirking punchline, it's profound, and profoundly unsettling. Wounded Rhymes will leave you exactly that - wounded.
8: Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming (Daptone)
WE SAID: Brooklyn-based soul man Bradley had to wait until he was in his ‘50s and walk a long, hard road to get to his debut. It's a record top heavy with anxiety, pain, heart-ache and loss, Bradley's voice big, rough and deeply soulful. It's not a pretty soul voice - no Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson or Stevie Wonder here - but it perfectly fits and embodies his material.
9: Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (Software/Mexican Summer)
WE SAID: Synth wizard Daniel Lopatkin injects a sense of rhythmic play into Replica, turning the boundless, water-colored landscapes of last year's Returnal, just like that, into kinetic sculptures. There's a dose of the otherworldly in these evocative tracks, but laced, in all but a few cases, with recognizable bits of ordinary life. Ultimately, a hint of transcendence emerges, pure rays of sensation shining through an inchoate world.
10. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 (Capitol)
WE SAID: The interpersonal tragedy of death and disease is met with a cream pie, fart riddles and the band's most innovative sounding record in years. The rhymers head back to the old school to wreak lyrical havoc atop the sort of dense grooves that made Check Your Head swing and analog electro-synth kicks that made Hello Nasty do the Robot.
11: JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound - Want More (Bloodshot)
WE SAID: JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound are finding their own place in the soul revivalist pantheon of recent years. They keep the party rolling with some sizzling dance grooves, some swooning falsetto vocals, some short and impeccable guitar breaks, and a whole lot of energy. Want More delivers some fine goods, but also lives up to the title; the best songs here leave us wanting more like them.
12: The Ettes - Wicked Will (Fond Object/Krian/Fontana/Sympathy)
WE SAID: The Nashville-based band imprints its own distinctive, tuneful personality on every track. Moving back to the quick-and-dirty presentation of their early work (a by-product of frontwoman Coco Hames' busbabe's holiday in the Parting Gifts with the Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright, perhaps; the album also finds them reunited with British producer Liam Watson), the Ettes keep Wicked Will simple and memorable, no matter which of their musical facets they choose to flash.
13: The Roots - undun (Def Jam)
WE SAID: Their tenth proper LP, and finest work since Things Fall Apart, contains the Roots' most challenging and soulful jams yet, a foray into concept album territory. Anyone who wants to hear the graceful way by which hip-hop can age should add it to their collections right away.
14: Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Marble Son (Station Grey/Thirty Tigers)
WE SAID: They fold layers of gauzy acid folk, swirling psychedelic guitar noise and haunted atmospheres into Sykes' droning Americana, as if she discovered LSD while hanging out with the art metal overlords in Sunn 0))) and Boris. For all the new sonic waves undulating through this record, however, the band's distinctive identity still shines - there's no mistaking Marble Son for the work of anyone else, and it's the ability to evolve while still remaining true to core values that makes this group great.
15: Femi Kuti - Africa For Africa (Knitting Factory)
WE SAID: His sociopolitical stance is right out front in the title, and that's before you get to blunt songs like "Can't Buy Me," "Bad Government" and "Politics in Africa." And like his father, Femi has mastered the art of Afrobeat, his jazzy, guitar and horn-driven trance funk riding the groove of undulating bass, percolating percussion and liquid melodies all the way to the Shrine.
16: Feist - Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope)
WE SAID: Metals is not her rock move, but it is certainly more intense and at times percussive than either 2004's Let It Die or 2007's The Reminder... a surprising fascination with drums pumped to the forefront of the mix, sometimes disruptively. The album is interested in dualities: the good and the bad, the loud and the soft, the bitter and the sweet.
17: Panda Bear - Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
WE SAID: Throughout the Animal Collective releases, Noah Lennox has nurtured his newest vocal style - all adjectives synonymous with "soaring" - and it's no surprise he's still infatuated with it on Tomboy. And though stripped-down in terms of sampling, each song is still heavily doused in reverb: the formula remains cosmically sweet.
18: Warren Haynes - Man In Motion (Stax)
WE SAID: Haynes has long demonstrated a deeply soulful side to him, particularly in the evolution of his vocal style, with touches of Memphian funk and gospel, Muscle Shoals R&B and N'awlins gumbo frequently evidenced. Those music meccas figure prominently - spiritually - on the album, which is hotwired from start to finish.
19: Arrica Rose and the ...'s - Let Alone Sea (pOprOck)
WE SAID: Warm, natural, casually excellent, this LA songwriter's third full-length feels as soft and worn-in as an old tee-shirt. Her dusky alto is sure and true, fluttering a little at the edges, and there's an Americana ease to these melodies, a bit of twang and blues slipped into their clean pop contours, though all that is layered over with a dreamy bit of gauze.
20: The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (Atlantic)
WE SAID: The Big Roar expands the sonic range of the Welsh group's eight-song mini-album, A Balloon Called Moaning. Yet despite the trio's robust attack, there is something singer-songwriterly about its music: Ritzy Bryan's cryptic, personal lyrics.
21: Bonnie ‘Prince' Billy - Wolfroy Comes To Town (Drag City)
WE SAID: A private air hangs over these Americana-toned reveries, the guitar notes picked out of the air, thoughtfully but provisionally, as if others could have come just as easily, the voices twined casually. Spareness in the arrangements only accents the songs' mournful, self-examining tone, as Will Oldham ponders man's evil, life's shortness and God's evident absence.
22: Reigning Sound - Abdication... (Scion/AV)
WE SAID: A digital-only album from the Asheville, NC, garage kings, who this time around emphasis their pop and soul roots, mainman Greg Cartwright additionally "reining in" his signature vocal scream for a sleeker delivery. But don't worry, longtime fans - there's plenty of Nuggets-worthy moments to be gleaned within the grooves. Nobody's abdicating nothin' here.
23: Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
WE SAID: A slickly elegant sound indebted to late ‘70s / early ‘80s bands like Steely Dan, Prefab Sprout and the Blue Nile. Everything's awash in undulating synths, fretless bass, horn solos drenched in reverb, and post-disco rhythms, often programmed. It's all very pretty, very accessible, very elegant, very quiet storm. And very surprising on a Destroyer album.
24: Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose (Oh Wow Dang)
WE SAID: While the [female-rock] doo wop revival has become increasingly contagious the past few years (Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Frankie Rose and the Outs), there's something decidedly different in the strain borne by Those Darlins': a feverish southern swagger that's as un-coifed as it is manageable. It's one of those interspatial borderlines that keeps listeners guessing.
25: Wilco - The Whole Love (dBpm)
WE SAID: It's key to note that these aren't mere Xeroxes of previous Wilco eras. Everything about the band on The Whole Love is tucked tight in the pocket: the songwriting feels laser-focused; the playing is professional and evocative; the arrangements and accents compelling, judicious and always in service of the song.
26: Tinariwen - Tassili + 10:1 (Anti-)
Known as masters of the indigenous North African genre called "Touareg," the group invited members of TV on the Radio, Wilco and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band to guest. Yet the album isn't a homogenized take on Third World folk traditions. Playing off some spare native instrumentation, trademark chants, and songs sung in their native tongue, it's an exotic aural adventure.
27: Beirut - The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
WE SAID: The Rip Tide is moderate in ambition. But it portrays a single, glowing moment, and it seals over that "world music" pigeonhole. Two birds with one stone, one album with nine tracks. Few chords, few lines, and few concepts: simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, right?
28: Real Estate - Days (Domino)
WE SAID: Though they've only existed since 2009 (when member Martin Courtney, who is also in Titus Andronicus, returned to his native New Jersey after college and joined some high school pals), Real Estate have slowly carved out their own mark with discerning pop music fans via low-key, intelligent songs. Days is a fine batch of bittersweet pop songs that are nearly impossible to ignore.
29: Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Scandalous (Lost Highway)
WE SAID: Like Albert Collins trapped in James Brown's body, Black Joe Lewis dishes up heaping hot helpings of dirty funky-butt blues on Scandalous. The Austin singer/guitar slinger's second album bypasses the brainstem and beelines straight for the hips and gut, letting the grooves and guitars carry the message.
30: Bon Iver - Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
WE SAID: By adding a full band, Justin Vernon creates a rich, melodic depth that demonstrates a positive departure from his previous acoustic dependency. The new arrangement lines up almost seamlessly with the overall lyrical tone of the album, as Vernon's soft, falsetto cry seems to echo a universal internal struggle and longing for escape from oneself.
31: The Kills - Blood Pressures (Domino)
WE SAID: "Take no prisoners" has been the message and the mantra in The Kills' evolution thus far, yet for Blood Pressures a kindler/gentler Kills surfaces in places. It's a deliciously schizoid traipse through the duo's record collection, dipping into everything from motorik trance-rock and glutinous glam to ‘80s-throwback New Wave and mutant girl-group pop.
32: Howe Gelb & A Band of Gypsies - Alegrias (Fire)
WE SAID: Giant Sand's Gelb collaborates with various Spanish Flamenco guitar players and you can feel the Spanish heat [on certain tracks]. Elsewhere, the beauty lies in the contrasts - luminous nylon-string runs, a fuzzy Crazy Horse feedback implosion, jazz chords over subtle beats.
33: Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
WE SAID: Girls perfect a graphic sophomore effort with the literary intricacy of Nabakov and the lovelorn, Texas-Panhandle rock ‘n' roll flavor of Buddy Holly. Rooted deeply in cold hard reality, vocalist Christopher Owens' existence trumps any work of fiction and makes for wonderfully wound-up storytelling throughout.
34: HTRK - Work (Work, Work) (Ghostly International)
WE SAID: In an unlikely mesh of lo-fidelity production and gripping headphone playback, HTRK (pronounced "hate rock") explore muddled electro/organic noisepop. Vocalist Jonnie Standish partly talks, partly sings, with both configurations coded in watery delay on this droning, comely record. Dark, lingering and beautiful.
35: Tommy Keene - Behind the Parade (Second Motion)
WE SAID: Keene's almost casual mastery of post-‘60s/postpunk melodies and hooks, smart, humanist lyrics and janglecrunch guitar wizardry means his signature sound is intact on his tenth LP - it would be too predictable if it didn't always sound so fresh. Behind the Parade lobs another handful of Keene klassiks into the katalogue.
36: Drive-By Truckers - Go Go Boots (ATO)
WE SAID: The Truckers have once again turned to their hometown for inspiration, tipping their hat to the country soul made famous by Muscle Shoals while covering two songs by the late Eddie Hinton, one of the town's greatest talents. It's perhaps their most well-rounded effort since The Dirty South and further solidifies their place among America's best rock bands.
37: My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
WE SAID: Bravery may be a recurring theme on My Brightest Diamond's newest release, fitting considering the woman behind the project, Shara Worden, knows a thing or two about valor. Only a few, the gifted few, could courageously puree together a blend of cabaret, orchestra, and highbrow lyricism in a world still so heavily dependent on the basic rock-drums-bass method.
38: Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (RCA)
WE SAID: On the Foo Fighters' seventh record, Dave Grohl and band have created a near perfect rock record for every Generation X kid now settled into life as a mature adult burdened with a mortgage, kids and the mind-numbingly mundane job they swore they'd never have. Though the band has made some solid albums in the past, Wasting Light is nearly spot-on from the opening track to the very end.
39: Wooden Shjips - West (Thrill Jockey)
WE SAID: When San Francisco psych-rockers plug in, they set the controls for the pineal of the sun, and shift into interstellar overdrive in their ongoing quest to prove Professor Reed's theory that electricity comes from other planets. The Wooden Shjips are the real deal, and West gets about as good, and as far out, as it gets.
40: Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)
WE SAID: As the original outlet for Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, Atlas Sound has always leaned toward the strange, fuzzy and abstract. Though Cox maintains his signature subtle desolation, he's more self-assured than ever this time. Gentle introspection - instead of the outright melancholy he often exudes - paired with sway-worthy melodies make Parallax the most listenable Atlas Sound album to date.
41: Anika - Anika (Stones Throw)
WE SAID: [Reminiscent at times of Portishead's] Dummy, the overall musical feeling here is downtown NYC sometime around the late '70s and early '80s, or perhaps The Clash's experiments in disco and dub, or PIL's early deconstructed punk rock. Whatever the case, Anika's Nico-esque vocals, vaguely foreign accent intact, are appealing as she intones over a bevy of minimal beats. The songs are complex in their emotion and unique in their construction.
42: Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute)
WE SAID: Comprising mostly country-folk acoustic balladeering, it's not as sonically apocalyptic as former band Lift To Experience's The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads, but it's no less devastating, emotionally speaking, featuring complex Buckley-meets-Fahey numbers and violin-strewn antebellum folk.
43: Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
WE SAID: The Goats set emotional unease to driving acoustic rock, lush pop, dynamic piano rock and John Darnielle's standard folk/pop. What sets Darnielle apart from other misery-mongers is both his superior sense of songcraft and his conviction that all will be well - or at least better - if you work through things.
44: Otep - Atavist (Victory)
WE SAID: An utterly uncompromising melange of nü-metal and 21st century Prog, the 5th album from these L.A.-based pyro artists still manages to throw a curveball by way of a riveting Doors cover. Which makes sense: charismatic, howling/growling frontwoman Otep Shamaya is all about challenge. Further, her poetry, fierce populism and political activism marks her a role model in 2011 as surely as Patti Smith was decades ago.
45: Tycho - Dive (Ghostly International)
WE SAID: Tycho's Scott Hansen explores the warmest corners of electronic music, using well-worn vintage synths to float dreamy melodies over insistent stutters and clatters of percussion. He splices organic sounds - scratchy acoustic guitars, the distant boom of bass, human voices - into seamless, otherworldly soundscapes.
46: Iceage - New Brigade (What's Your Rupture?)
WE SAID: This 12-track typhoon is exactly the kick in the ass our sorry punk community needs in the wake of Jay Reatard's untimely death. It's the sound of a band in the center of a sonic peninsula where English post-punk, Eastern European goth and North American hardcore meet.
47: Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy/Concord)
WE SAID: It retains everything that has made Dengue Fever so distinctive - the chattering garage-influenced guitar licks, the Farfisa-sounding keyboards, the minor-key horn charts, the intricate yet perfectly accented rhythms, and of course the ethereal vocals of Cambodian vocalist Chhom Nimol. But it sounds entirely contemporary in a world in which indie rock bands can win Grammy Awards.
48: David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - Left by Soft (Merge)
WE SAID: Beautifully understated, tinged with psychedelic colors and harmonies, amplified to rock volume, but relaxed to the point that you might miss how well it is put together, Left By Soft is another milestone for the New Zealand artist. He has a way of wrapping well-structured songs in clouds and auras of atmosphere, so that their hooks and melodies dawn on you gradually, rather than slapping you across the face.
49: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
WE SAID: While their contemporaries often dabble loosely with the nü-folk tag, Fleet Foxes re-imagine those sepia trappings without wholly redefining them. The inherent orthodoxy of their approach finds acoustic strumming, fiddles, mandolin and dulcimer fleshing out the arrangements... Such is the mesmerizing quality of these songs and the spectral treatment they're accorded. Credit the band's ability to offer reverence and circumspect even while etching a spectral aura all their own.
50: Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino)
WE SAID: Hayden Thorpe's falsetto flutters like a hummingbird, swoops and curls like a multi-colored kite in the wind. Smother is the Wild Beasts' most restrained, refined effort yet, paring down hot-house atmospheres to lush essentials... and finding ways for Thorpe's wild fantasias to work as artistry rather than oddity.
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15 HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Mekons - Ancient and Modern (Sin/Bloodshot); Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey (Strut); John Wesley Harding - The Sound of His Own Voice (Yep Roc); Crooked Fingers - Breaks In the Armor (Merge); Floating Action - Desert Etiquette (Park The Van); Bevis Frond - The Leaving of London (Woronzow); SBTRKT - SBTRKT (Young Turks); Siskiyou - Keep Away the Dead (Constellation); Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong (ATO); Megafaun - Megafaun (Home Tapes); Neon Indian - Era Extrana (Static Tongues); Vex Ruffin - Crash Course EP (Stone's Throw); The Baseball Project - Volume 2: High and Inside (Yep Roc); Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch/Perro Verde); Paper Tiger - Me Have Fun (Boy Girl Recordings)
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