For the record, The Velvet Underground The Quine Tapes was my all-in-all favorite release of the year, and that was a reissue of a reissue. Call in comfort, or call it class (as I’d prefer), but this 6-LP set of badly recorded live versions of over-four-decades-old music hit the spot in a way nearly everything else I heard this year didn’t.
the 10 records I enjoyed most:
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Tim Cohen Laugh Tracks (Captured Tracks)
The Fresh & Onlys August In My Mind (Captured Tracks)
Wild Nothing Gemini (Captured Tracks)
Matthew Dear Black City (Ghostly International)
The Fresh & Onlys Play It Strange (In The Red)
White Fence White Fence (Make A Mess)
Forest Swords Dagger Paths (Olde English Spelling Bee)
Royal Baths Litanies (Woodsist)
Le Révélateur Motion Flares (Root Strata)
Demdike Stare Liberation through Hearing (Modern Love)
There were other records I liked but didn’t go back to often as the above. Here are 10 of them:
Sex Church 6 Songs By Sex Church (Convulsive)
The Intelligence Males (In The Red)
Rangers Suburban Tours (Olde English Spelling Bee)
Balam Acab See Birds EP (Tri Angle)
Beach Fossils Beach Fossils (Captured Tracks)
Tonetta 777 (Black Tent Press)
The Fall Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
Nerve City Recordings 2007-2008 (Sweet Rot)
Lindstrøm and Christabelle Real Life Is No Cool (Smalltown Supersound)
The Alps Le Voyage (Type)
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