Just thought I'd do a bit of an end-of-year list here for some records that came out in the last 12 months that I really enjoyed. So, in no particular order...
Cahill Costello - Cahill//Costello II
Drew McDowall - A Thread, Silvered and Trembling
Sean Curtis Patrick - Happy Home
Big|Brave - A Chaos of Flowers
Coded Marking - s/t (hot damn, this one's a belter- Krautrock infused post-punk!)
Broadcast - Distant Call / Spell Blanket
LL Cool J - the Force (enjoyed this one too! Can and Gary Numan samples! Q-Tip production!)
Universal Order of Armageddon - s/t
Majesty Crush - Butterflies Don't Go Away
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To (OOOOF. A+)
Burial - Dreamfear/ Boy Sent From Above
Some other stuff I enjoyed this year:
Reading both 'Sellout' by Dan Ozzi and 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' by Michael Azerrad and discovering a whole treasure trove of stuff I'd missed from over the years.
The continuted decline of Man City
Aston Villa beating Bayern Munich 1-0 the day before I went on holiday (albeit now Villa on a continued decline lol)
Meeting snooker legend Steve Davis in Leeds and talking to him about Basic Channel
Josh Pugh videos
Getting a Nathan Fake remix, and realising that the front cover to his debut album was a photo of a village green just down the road from my parents, that I duly went to visit.
Finally seeing GY!BE live
That boybands documentary on the BBC
Pictureville being back open in Bradford, and seeing a restored Terminator 1 as the first film back
The Audi song by Satelliti
