Albums of the Year...

[bobsticks]

Actually I bought less new music this year than any year I can remember since I was maybe 12. Most purchases were pre 1980 Jazz, Fusion, and Classical albums.

Not much I wanted to pay money for.

Open to suggestions though.

Yeah. There was a very definite point this year when the well ran dry and I remember commenting as such on a thread, maybe by nobody. But, like Kex, most of my purchases were from years gone by so my "Album of the Year may have been purchased by me this year but most likely wasn't released this year. It was a year of "close-but-no-cigars" with no instant classics.

I liked Ten Stones but the experience was damaged by having acquied the seminal Folklore only weeks before. Prolly the same could be said of The Notwist disc.

I liked Roll With It by Eli "Paperboy" Reed and Dig!!Lazarus,Dig!!! was good as well. Titles like Big Blue Ball, Bloodrunk, and Justin Townes Earle's The good Life got a fair amount of play thereby making the cut.

I guess I'd say that the Calexico disc, Carried To Dust, gets my AoY nod just for sheer plays though there too their release with Iron & Wine from a few years back gets the prize for overall playtime...hell, my fave play from "from this year" was released in 1959...



Looks like Davey's living right, eh.

[Davey]

Looks like Davey's living right, eh.

When my frackin' big toe stays out of the action.

Still say the Shearwater and Bon Iver discs are pretty special in any year, but especially in this one. Mostly back catalog for me too, discovered some real gems like that Augie March debut that already seem like old friends.