April 27th 2008 10:14 pm
In place of having something useful or interesting to say, here’s a list of the ten albums I’ve listened to most in the last six months, according to last.fm.
- Folksongs for the Afterlife - Put Danger Back Into Your Life (310)
- The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes (309)
- Crooked Still - Shaken by a Low Sound (209)
- The Mendoza Line - Full of Light and Full of Fire (186)
- Lucy Soul - The Great Unwanted (186)
- The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1 (175)
- Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings (168)
- Loose Salute - Tuned to Love (163)
- Moros Eros - I Saw the Devil Last Night and Now (158)
- Voxtrot - Raised By Wolves (158)
I find it strange that I couldn’t tell you the first thing about either of the two last albums, other than where I got them from. Hell, I can’t even remember putting the Moros Eros album in either a Winamp list or on a significant iTunes rotation. I could probably talk about the Voxtrot EP a bit just because I know Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Wives pretty well, but it’d all be a sham.
As I’m looking through the chart a bit more, I’m noticing that it’s way out of date. Hayes Carll is nowhere to be found, even though he’s the fourth most played artist on my Overall Chart, and I discovered him less than a month ago. Whatever.
For anyone looking for a point to this exercise in navel-gazing, here’s three bands from the above list that more people should listen to: Folksongs for the Afterlife, The Loose Salute, and Crooked Still. Folksongs for the Afterlife are a great shoegazing group, full of swirling textures and delightfully dreamy vocals, and some of the vocals even stand out. The Loose Salute do sweetly melancholy better than anything since Mojave 3’s Love Songs on the Radio. Crooked still do wonderful country/bluegrassy things with strings. Sometimes you just need more cello.
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