The Maya's schedule thankfully failed and this means that this is the season for an End of the Year Top List. Here is mine, 22 albums I enjoyed listening to this year, presented here in alphabetical order.
ENJOY and HAPPY 2013!
F. xx
ASTRÏD – High Blues - CD [Rune Grammofon]
BEAK - >> - 2xLP [Invada]
BERANGERE MAXIMIN - No One Is An Island - LP [Sub Rosa]
CAN - The Lost Tapes - 5xLP [Spoon Records]
CHRISTOPH BERG - Paraphrases - LP [Fac-ture]
DAVID LYNCH & ALAN R. SPLET - Eraserhead (OST reissue) - LP+7" [Sacred Bones]
DIRTY THREE - Towards the Low Sun - LP [Drag City]
GLISSANDO - The World Without Us - LP [Gizeh Records]
GOSDPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - LP+7" [Constellation]
JAMES BLACKSHAW - Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death - LP [Important Records]
JOZEF VAN WISSEM & JIM JARMUSH - The Mystery Of Heaven - LP [Sacred Bones]
JULIA KENT & BARBARA DE DOMINICIS - Parallel 41 - CD+DVD [Baskaru]
LE REVEIL DES TROPIQUES - Le Réveil Des Tropiques - 2xLP [Music Fear Satan]
LIDWINE - No Monkey - CD [Gizeh Records]
MAX RICHTER - Recomposed / Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - CD [Deutsche Grammophon]
NILS FRAHM - Screws - LP [Erased Tapes]
OM - Advaitic Songs - LP [Drag City]
SCOTT WALKER - Bish Bosch - 2xLP [4AD]
SIGUR ROS - Valtari - 2xLP [Parlophone]
SOAP & SKIN - Narrow - LP [Pias]
SWANS - The Seer - 3xLP [Young God Records]
TINDERSTICKS - The Something Rain - LP [Constellation]
ENJOY and HAPPY 2013!
F. xx
ASTRÏD – High Blues - CD [Rune Grammofon]
BEAK - >> - 2xLP [Invada]
BERANGERE MAXIMIN - No One Is An Island - LP [Sub Rosa]
CAN - The Lost Tapes - 5xLP [Spoon Records]
CHRISTOPH BERG - Paraphrases - LP [Fac-ture]
DAVID LYNCH & ALAN R. SPLET - Eraserhead (OST reissue) - LP+7" [Sacred Bones]
DIRTY THREE - Towards the Low Sun - LP [Drag City]
GLISSANDO - The World Without Us - LP [Gizeh Records]
GOSDPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - LP+7" [Constellation]
JAMES BLACKSHAW - Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death - LP [Important Records]
JOZEF VAN WISSEM & JIM JARMUSH - The Mystery Of Heaven - LP [Sacred Bones]
JULIA KENT & BARBARA DE DOMINICIS - Parallel 41 - CD+DVD [Baskaru]
LE REVEIL DES TROPIQUES - Le Réveil Des Tropiques - 2xLP [Music Fear Satan]
LIDWINE - No Monkey - CD [Gizeh Records]
MAX RICHTER - Recomposed / Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - CD [Deutsche Grammophon]
NILS FRAHM - Screws - LP [Erased Tapes]
OM - Advaitic Songs - LP [Drag City]
SCOTT WALKER - Bish Bosch - 2xLP [4AD]
SIGUR ROS - Valtari - 2xLP [Parlophone]
SOAP & SKIN - Narrow - LP [Pias]
SWANS - The Seer - 3xLP [Young God Records]
TINDERSTICKS - The Something Rain - LP [Constellation]
In memory of Chris Marker (1921-2012), still frame extract from Sans Soleil, 1983.