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Favourite 10 albums from 2014 onward

Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté - Toumani & Sidiki
Warpaint eponymous
Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
Basia Bulat - Good Advice
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
Sexwitch eponymous
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
The xx - I See You
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy
 
I don't buy much new stuff , so only six , all good 'uns ;)

Is this the Life We Really Want - Roger Waters
Le Petit Mort - James
You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen
Lost In A Dream - The War On Drugs
A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs
Modern Blues - The Waterboys
 
The last two Lucinda Williams albums
Courtney Barnett
Sleaford Mods
This is the Kit
Laura Viers
Bowie Blackstar
Christine and the Queens
Stones Blue and Lonesome
Everything Everything
 
Jane Weaver-------- The Silver Globe
Low------------------- Ones and Sixes
Steve Hauschildt-----Where all is Fled
Wight------------------Love is Not Only What You Know
No Man's Valley------Time Travel
Shaman Elephant----Crystals
Elder-------------------Reflections of a Floating World.
Caspian----------------Dust and Disquiet
Steve Wilson----------The Hand Cannot Erase
Lost in Kiev-----------Nuit Noire
 
seagull said:
Struggling bit to get 10. While I have purchased quite a lot of music over the last few years, not much of it was particularly recent.

Here is the best of a fairly small bunch of recent releases (2014 ... present)

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Tim Bowness - Lost in the Ghost Light
David Bowie - Blackstar
The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
Peter Hammill and Gary Lucas - Other World
Tim Bowness - Stupid Things That Mean The World
Black Swan Lane - A Moment of Happiness
Tim Bowness - Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
North Atlantic Oscillation - The Third Day
Van Der Graaf Generator - Do Not Disturb

Hmmm, Mr Bowness appears multiple times (along with Stephen Bennett of this parish) and his other No-Man collaborator (SW) only once.
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Pretty much listing what I would have done, I would throw in some Big Big Train, IQ, Riverside, Neil Young, and if we are allowed live albums Merlin Atmos and some recent King Crimson. I must though take a listen to Black Swan Lane...
 
MichaelC said:
I must though take a listen to Black Swan Lane...
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BSL don't really belong in a list with the others I included. I discovered them because Mark Burgess of The Chameleons was originally a member.

He has since left but they carried on as a duo plus an ever changing roster of musicians. More dream pop/ shoe gaze style, mid paced songs with excellent hooks and deep vocals. Closest band I can think of are The National.
 
I forgot Shedding Skin by Ghostpoet (2015) and Hungry Ghosts by OK Go in the OP, that's 11 sorry!

OK Go's TED talk ends with 'The One Moment' from Hungry Ghosts.
 
Bowie - Blackstar
Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker

Three of the best albums of late, for that matter, anytime.
 
Here are another four, all from this year and rather good.

Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
Cigarettes After Sex - S/T
Sumie - Lost in Light
Aldous Harding - Party
 
In no particular order:

Eat Lights Become Lights - Into Forever
Jan Bang - Narrative From The Subtropics
Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe/The Amber Light
LoneLady - Hinterland
The Emperor Machine - Like A Machine
Floating Points - Elaenia
Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys/Take Her Up To Monto (both from the same sessions, so I'm claiming that's just one)
Rival Consoles - Howl
Akira Rabelais - The Little Glass
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Wire - Wire
David Bowie - Blackstar
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
Tortoise - The Catastrophist
New Order - Complete Music/Music Complete
Lambchop - FLOTUS
Marconi Union - Ghost Stations
Unloved - Guilty Of Love
Eno - The Ship
Yello - Toy
Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun
Cavern Of Anti Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Fujiya & Miyagi - Fujiya & Miyagi
Juana Molina - Halo
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Zombie Zombie - Livity
Cornelius - Mellow Waves
The Necks - Unfold

Few more than ten there - sozzers
 
I'm genuinely struggling to think of any post-2014 album that I've bought. I think I've only bought back catalogue and reissues.

Probably 90% of the names above are a mystery to me.
 
Kate Tempest - Brand New Ancients.
Nitin Sawhney - Live at Ronnie Scott's.
Khaded Kurbeh & Raman Khalaf ensemble - Aphorisms.
Gilroy Mere - The Green Line.
The Comet is Coming - Channel the Spirits.
Kendrick Lamar - Take your pick, there are 2 or 3
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky away.
Sleaford Mods - Tiswas EP.
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference 12"


Bloss
 
I'd add
Sleep Party People.....Floating

To those who opine that, "They don't know any of this stuff", music today is incredibly egalitarian and there is something contemporary out there that will almost certainly float your boat as it were. For instance, the band "Elder" sound like Sabbath playing Yes with Perry Farrell on vocals. Jane Weaver effortlessly refuses to be pigeonholed, a sort of collision between Hawkwind and Burt Bacharach . If you love Tangerine Dream and Eno's soundscapes then Steve Hauschild will most likely make you purr. If you like John Martyn and Nick Drake then check out Ryley Walker.

My personal pick at this moment is the Shaman Elephant album- Crystals, hard to describe it and yet, it feels so damnably familiar. It's sort of like what Deep Purple might have sounded like had they had a more prog outlook. It is both incredibly redolent of the 70s and yet wholly contemporary. Point being, there is no age limit to the appreciation of these bands and it's people 40+ who are happy to actually buy their music that gives them a chance to make more.
 
guey said:
In no particular order:

Eat Lights Become Lights - Into Forever
Jan Bang - Narrative From The Subtropics
Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe/The Amber Light
LoneLady - Hinterland
The Emperor Machine - Like A Machine
Floating Points - Elaenia
Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys/Take Her Up To Monto (both from the same sessions, so I'm claiming that's just one)
Rival Consoles - Howl
Akira Rabelais - The Little Glass
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Wire - Wire
David Bowie - Blackstar
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
Tortoise - The Catastrophist
New Order - Complete Music/Music Complete
Lambchop - FLOTUS
Marconi Union - Ghost Stations
Unloved - Guilty Of Love
Eno - The Ship
Yello - Toy
Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun
Cavern Of Anti Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Fujiya & Miyagi - Fujiya & Miyagi
Juana Molina - Halo
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Zombie Zombie - Livity
Cornelius - Mellow Waves
The Necks - Unfold

Few more than ten there - sozzers
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Hairless Toys is superb, but Take Her Up To Monto hasn't worked for me yet. Is it just outtakes from the HT sessions?

Eno's The Ship is the best thing he has done in years. It is a departure from his usual ambient formula.

I have read some favourable reviews of Kelly Lee Owens, but I don't think her album is all that interesting musically, not helped by her flattened affect singing style.
 
My last two are:

Leonard Coen - Popular Problems

Skilled Mechanics - Tricky

Len gets two in that list!
 
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