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Mount Eerie - through the trees(excerpt)
patryk_t - lonesome landscapes
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases
James Ferraro - Marble Surf
Gentle Touch - In memory of Savannah
AOK(adrian orange) - Zone Out
Days - Downhill
HORSE SHOES(myspace)
The Sight Below - No Place For Us / Glider / live in krakow
Kría Brekkan - live on east village radio
Wavves - Wavves
Cursillistas - Wasp Stings The Last Bitter Flavor
Bohren & der Club of Gore - dolores
Vodka Soap - Shee-Ro Gateway Temples
Andrew Chalk - Time of Hayfield
Ducktails
Sun Araw
A.M. - Rag Red Reverie
Air France - No Way Down
Adrian Orange - ajo cdr 2007
Winter Family - Winter Family 2007

Someone wrote a nice little app that displays the records you listened the most too since you joined last.fm. In my case that's been a few years, so it's cool to see (at least cool to me) to see what i've been listening mostly too in terms of records. (ofcourse that excludes the stuff i play on vinyl or cd.. which is actually a lot). anyways, without any importance, the list:

wixel's top albums
1. Mount Eerie - No Flashlight (204) 2. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens (199) 3. Adrian Orange - Bitches Is Lord (186) 4. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (167) 5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (157) 6. Radiohead - In Rainbows (152) 7. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 (142) 8. P:ano - Brigadoon (129) 9. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (118) 10. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street (114) 11. Okay - Huggable Dust (111) 12. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (108) 13. Helios - Eingya (107) 14. The Notwist - Neon Golden (102) 15. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (94) 16. Various Artists - Magic Wand (93) 17. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (93) 18. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (91) 19. Thanksgiving - Welcome Nowhere (91) 20. Rivulets - Debridement (91)

Radiohead. "In Rainbows" 8,5

Deerhoof. "Friend Opportunity" 8

of Montreal. "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" 7,5

Panda Bear. “Person Pitch” 8,5

Bill Callahan. “Woke on a Whaleheart” 7,5

Prints. "Prints" 7,5

Jens Lekman. "Night Falls Over Kortedala" 8

Bexar Bexar. "Tropism" 8

Peter and the Wolf. "The Ivory Palms" 7,5

David Thomas Broughton. "It's in There Somewhere…"

High Places "High Places" EP 7,5

Radicalfashion. "Odori" 7,5

Adrian Orange. "Bitches is Lord" 8

Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. "Lucas" 7

Robert Wyatt. "Comicopera”

Dirty Projectors. "Rise Above" 8

Caribou. “Andorra”

Do Make Say Think. "You, You're A History In Rust"

Pram. "The Moving Frontier"

Richard Youngs. "Autumn Response"

Feist. "The Reminder"

Animal Collective “Strawberry Jam”

Little Wings "Soft Pow'r"

Beirut. "The flying club cup"

Castanets. "In The Vines"

LCD Soundsystem "Sound of Silver"

Deerhunter "Cryptograms"

Battles "Mirrored"

US (25):
Rilo Kiley
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
The Eames Era
Adrian Orange
The Blow
Grand Ole Party
John Legend
Devendra Banhart
Eels
Citizen Cope
Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Math and Physics Club
Incubus
Bob Dylan
the lonesome architects
Be Your Own Pet
Jeff Buckley
The Aislers Set
Mates of State
Ani DiFranco
Cake
All Girl Summer Fun Band
The Rocket Summer
A Boy Named Thor
Eisley

Ireland (1):
Damien Rice

New Zealand (1):
The Brunettes

Brazil (1):
Cansei de Ser Sexy

Great Britain (8):
The Beatles
The Pipettes
The Smiths
Patrick Wolf
The Boy Least Likely To
Television Personalities
Helen Love
Fat Tulips

Scotland (2):
Camera Obscura
Belle and Sebastian

Sweden (4):
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
The Sounds
Acid House Kings
Club 8

Russia (1):
Regina Spektor

Canada (5):
Stars
Metric
Amy Millan
Feist
The New Pornographers

Australia (1):
Even as We Speak

Norway (1):
Maria Mena

P:ano - animal friends

ends the same way as the adrian orange/thanksgiving song money

spend my life up this way
mm hmm hmm hmm

both great songs and coo music artists

thanks

P:ano
Thanksgiving
Adrian Orange

mmmmmmm
mmmmmmm

im gonna to live outside of your locked doors happily
and ill never come in and knock on one of them
and ask you for a single thing
and ill never huff and puff and blow down your house
im not the big bad wolf
just like a tiny little mouse
or clown
or boy you talked about
and im going to spend my life up
and im gonna spend up my life this way in front your eyes
until i die
i will spend the coldest night under the waterfall
and watch the water flow off me
i will spend the hottest day playing in a pile of hay
with somebody or another until i roll off
and im gonna spend up this way

mm hmm hmmm hmmm

adrian orange (thanksgiving)
money

welcome, nowhere

great album great guy, fans of campfire songs, cracking voices, hmms and ooms

myspace url: [url= http://www.myspace.com/thanksgivingmusic] http://www.myspace.com/thanksgivingmusic

recommendation: money

thanks,

paul



Thanksgiving
Adrian Orange

So our second show went out live on the fabulous Bristol Community Radio, 93.2 fm and www.bcfm.org.uk. Sadly Tony was absent but Anna and Theo soldiered on in style, graced as they were with the company of the lovely Rozi Plain, playing live in session...

listen to/download it here: http://wordofmouthradio.podomatic.com/entry/2007-04-02T16_36_11-07_00


Tracklisting:
The Blessing - Can't believe in faith
Safetyword - Skull Moneybox
Santa Dog - Belle de Jour
Rose Kemp - Violence
Rozi Plain - untitled (**live**)
Adrian Orange - Blushing
Fortune Drive - Sparkle
Miriam Makela - Pata Pata
Rozi Plain - Tonight will be fine (**live**)
Pete Roe - Let it go
Geisha - Love theme from 'reich here, reich now'
William Elliot Whitmore - Cold dead
Jetfly - Run towards (duvet song)
Rozi Plain - Disguise (**live**)
My Own Flag - Wireless
The Sky Is Blue - Brazil
The Dub From Atlantis Band - I've been going astray
Slow - Oil
Thee More Shallows - Night at the Knight School
The Great Admirers - Frankie
Loudon Wainwright III - Synchronicity
Dr Meaker - DBL (Bass Club Mix)
Rarg - The Horrible Murder of Commander Gomez

Emo


Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me [Interscope]

Maybe a let down, but I still maintain that Brand New is one of the more interesting stories developing in mainstream music. Where they started and where they've currently ended up are such entirely different places that I feel like I have to give a hand clap to them whenever I find the time to. When their sophomore album came out in 2004 there were rumors that Jesse Lacey was on the verge of becoming this generation's Morrissey, the hero of the downtrodden who could bring a smile with a simple turn of phrase. He hasn't quite hit that peak, and one could argue most of the best songs from these sessions were left on the lo-fi floor, but this was still an album smart listeners put their money on.


The Prize Fighter Inferno - My Brother's Blood Machine [Equal Vision]

This album wins a prize almost entirely for how strange it is. Not strange as in strange, but as in I wasn't expecting this. At all. I'll be honest, I listen to Coheed & Cambria despite not enjoying, or understanding, much of what Castrato Fro is going for, and the same goes here with his side project. What draws me to this is the mix of Postal Service bloops and folk riffs, the minimal and tiny version of the massive Coheed world. Like all the other albums, they also make it a little tough to follow the 'story', but supposedly it's about a machine built by two brothers that grinds and smashes bodies to a pool of blood in order to release their souls. Which is alright as far as concepts go.

Folk


Adrian Orange - Bitches Is Lord [Marriage]

Obviously a candidate for Album Title of the Year honors, this is the 11th album in about 5 years for Washington's Adrian Orange, formerly of the Thanksgiving (but also solo) moniker. Orange is a protegé of Phil Elverum, Washington's prodigy in charge of the Microphones, who himself is a protegé of Calvin Johnson, Washington's former prodigy formerly in charge of Beat Happening and currently of K Records. Adrian is also only 20 years old, and yet this may be one of the bleakest albums around. The lyrics consistently retract from themselves, always counter-pointing any glimmer of hope he might see. Bitches are obviously reigning o'er Adrian right now, but at least he channeled it into something to be thankful for.


Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go [Drag City]

I accept it now, there will never be another I See a Darkness or Palace Music. But when Oldham is churning out hit segments on Wonder Showzen and an excellent role in Old Joy, it's ok for Oldham to merely be really good, right? Accompanied here by a female (beards are so in) this is a painful album, as is Oldham's wont, but at the same time there's a brightness here, somehow. I'm not sure if it's real, or just imagined in my preference for a good story, but it seems as though nearly 10 years from his masterwork old Willie is starting to see a lightness up ahead. This could even be the last truly 'great' Will Oldham album we get. Might as well absorb it.


The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely [4AD]

This new honestly thing works well for John Darnielle, whether he likes it or not. Beginning full-force with his childhood exorcism on last year's The Sunset Tree, Darnielle now reflects on his life from 2006 instead of youthful roleplay. The result is one of the more lyrically beautiful albums this year, full of dynamite-infused couplets of heartbreak and sorrows. Someone on IGN once said that Darnielle was the "bi-sexual love affair you always awkwardly hope to have" and after two straight years of Darnielle making himself the characters of his tragic plays, it's hard to deny the desire to at least cuddle with him for a while.


Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun [Self-Released CD-R]

The only review I would start with a link to purchase the album, if I knew where to find one. Unfortunately, hailing from France and distributing all your album copies on self-burnt CD-Rs makes a purchase hard to come by. While they come under folk, over 160 hours of music they run the gamut of what folk can mean, from the droniest take on Explosions in the Sky you've ever heard to lowest-fi Mountain Goats material, if not even lower. While you almost have to change your lifestyle to find time to sit through the whole thing, sitting through the whole thing could almost change your life. I can't give a higher recommendation than that.


Sibylle Baier - Colour Green [Orange Twin]

Technically, maybe it shouldn't count, being recorded in the '70s and all. But, also technically, these things never saw the light of day until this past February, 30 years after most of the songs were done. Either way, anyone listening to music in the 30 years between this album's completion and release have been missing out, as this is the most frank and honest album around right now. There's no highbrow metaphors here, no long-winded meta-explanations. There is just the life of Sibylle Baier, alone in her room, enjoying the fact that she's alive and able to do anything. It's an attitude we could all use a dose of.

Honorable Mentions
Juana Molina - Son
Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses?
Josephine Foster - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

The Best of 2006, pt. 1