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ecto-digest         Friday, January 17 2020         Volume 16 : Number 2696



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                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: Best Albums of 2019        [Tim Jones-Yelvington <timjy@sbcglobal.net>]
  Favorites of 2019 -- WPKN Playlist                [<valrichardson@igc.org>]
  Re: Best Albums of 2019                   [Neile Graham <neile@zipcon.com>]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:30:38 -0600
From: Tim Jones-Yelvington <timjy@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Best Albums of 2019

I didnt know about the Emily Jane White or Ionna Gik releases until I saw
them in your facebook post (Id listened to earlier EJW but IG was entirely
new to me)bIve been enjoying both.

~Tim

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:37 PM Jon Wesley Huff <jonwesleyhuff@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just realized I hadn't listened to the new Aldous Harding. I loved Party
> so much. I thought the first few singles were interesting. But the album
> somehow passed me by. My favorite 10, in no particular order, of the year
> would be:
>
> On the Line - Jenny Lewis
> Thalassa - Ioanna Gik
> Pang - Caroline Polachek
> Invitation - Heather Woods Broderick
> Remember The Future - Ionnalee
> Norman Fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Ray
> Immanent Fire - Emily Jane White
> Birth of Violence - Chelsea Wolfe
> Ghosteen - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
> forevher - Shura
>
> Almost Made it:
> Still on My Mind - Dido
> In The End - Cranberries
> There Will Be No Intermission - Amanda Palmer
> Everything You're Searching For is on the Other Side of Fear - BT
>
> Need to listen to them more:
> Lost Girls - Bat For Lashes
> FKA Twigs - Magdalene
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 1:17 PM Doug <dbailey4117@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Try listening to their One Beat release.  It's a lot more pop-styled, less
>> punky.  IMO their song "Oh" is pretty listenable, as is their oldie,
>> "(You're No) Rock N Roll Fun".  But IMO their best, most listenable song
>> is
>> "Get Up".
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:35 PM Tim Jones-Yelvington <
>> timjy@sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > That makes sense.
>> >
>> > I love the song Quarter to Three from the Hot Rock but otherwise most of
>> > pure SK is just a little too punk rock for my weak constitution, lol.
>> >
>> > ~Tim
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:19 AM Doug <dbailey4117@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Sleater-Vincent is what purist SK fans like myself call this new
>> iteration
>> >> of the group.  Seeing as they've effectively dumped Janet and replaced
>> her
>> >> with Annie, I think it fits.  Me, I like the music but it's not SK to
>> me.
>> >> It's SV.
>> >>
>> >> --Doug
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > What surprisingly didn't work for me:
>> >> >
>> >> > Sweater-Kinney  I had the opposite experience to Tim. I just didn't
>> like
>> >> > the St. Vincent influence on their sound. St Vincent doesn't work for
>> >> me,
>> >> > so I'm not surprised, just sad, as I have liked all of S-K's previous
>> >> albums

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:27:03 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: <valrichardson@igc.org>
Subject: Favorites of 2019 -- WPKN Playlist

This is my WPKN playlist of my Tuesday show featuring 2019 favorites.
I've grouped the more Ectoish of the selections at the top.
Here is a link to the recording (it will remain active for another week
and a half).
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/281942/valerie-richardson-s-r
adio-something</str ike>
</strik e>
And now a new decade! I joined the Ecto group in the 1990s, so this will
be the fourth decade the group has been part of my life.
Valerie Richardson

Aldous Harding / The Barrel / 4AD

Cate le Bon / Reward / Mexican Summer

Jesca Hoop /Stonechild / Memphis Industries

Juana Molina / Forfun / Concepto Cero

Julie Doiron / Julie Doiron Canta en EspaC1ol, Vol. 4 / Acuarela
Producciones SL

Rachael Sage / PseudoMyopia (Acoustic) / The Ils Group

Sinead O'Brien / Limbo / Chess Club

 

17 Hippies / Kirschenzeit / Hipster Records

Alasdair Roberts / The Fiery Margin / Drag City

Altin GC<n / Gece / ATO Records Fontana North

Andrew Bird / Sisyphus / Universal Music

AngC)lique Kidjo / Celia / Universal Music Division Decca Records France

bis / Slight Disconnects / bis

Buke & Gase / Pink Boots / Brassland

Fiona Apple;The Tippo All Stars / If You're Going To The City: A Sweet
Relief Tribute To Mose Allison / Fat Possum

J.J. Cale / Stay Around / JJ Cale

Keb' Mo' / Oklahoma / Concord Records

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Fishing for Fishies / ATO Records
Fontana North

Les Amazones d'Afrique / Amazones Power / Real World Records

Loudon Wainwright III / If You're Going To The City: A Sweet Relief
Tribute To Mose Allison / Fat Possum

Lys Guillorn / Chipped Fingernails / Little Cowgirl Records

Malakit / ... Ni prC)cieuse / Collectif  

Mark Mulcahy / The Gus / The Mezzotint Label

Mdou Moctar / Ilana (The Creator) / Sahel Sounds

Michael Franti & Spearhead / Stay Human, Vol. 2 / Boo Boo Wax

Nouvelle Vague / Couleurs Sur Paris / Universal Music GmbH

Our Native Daughters / Quasheba, Quasheba / Smithsonian Folkways
Recordings

Penguin Cafe / Handfuls of Night / Erased Tapes

Rachid Taha / Je suis africain / Naive

Rachid Taha / Like a Dervish / Naive

Salif Keita / Un autre blanc / Naive

Taj Mahal / If You're Going To The City: A Sweet Relief Tribute To Mose
Allison / Fat Possum

TC)tC) / Fauthentique / BMG Rights Mgmt France SARL

The Flaming Lips / The Story of Yum Yum and Dragon / Warner Bros.

The Hillbilly Moon Explosion / The Hillbilly Moon Explosion / Freedonia
Records

< /body>

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:54:41 -0800
From: Neile Graham <neile@zipcon.com>
Subject: Re: Best Albums of 2019

I didn't like S-K at first, but Jim did so I heard them a lot until their
sound started to make sense to me and I could hear through the noise. The
interplay of the two voices really does it for me. I love it.

That not-being-able-to-hear thing happened with Throwing Muses, too, and
now Hunkpapa and The Real Ramona (granted, probably the least noisy of
their albums) are among my favourite albums of all time and the rest of
the albums came into focus.

Sadly, with St Vincent I really liked her first album and the following
ones irritated me until now I can't like the first one anymore. Argh.

With Aldous Harding I liked about half of Party a LOT but the rest never
grabbed me and I feel the same about the new one. Just not drawn in.

- --Neile

> On Jan 15, 2020, at 7:35 AM, Tim Jones-Yelvington <timjy@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> If we're doing "what didn't work for me," I feel compelled to admit that my
> biggest disappointment of the year was Designer by Aldous Harding. I
> appreciate that she's versatile, but the reason I got into her was the
> crazy extended vocal techniques and melodramatic delivery, not mellow
> british folk vibes. (....I could never get into Belle and Sebastian either,
> lol).
> 
> ~Tim
> 
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:11 AM Neile Graham <NEILE@zipcon.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry so late. I feel like I must have forgotten something, but here's
>> what I have. Another year where music wasn't my main focus--but I still
>> found some favourites.
>> 
>> The albums I obsessed with most:
>> 
>> Tusks - Avalanche
>> https://tusksofficial.bandcamp.com/album/avalanche-2
>> 
>> Sudan Archives - Athena
>> https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/album/athena
>> 
>> Nullifier Yanya - Miss Universe
>> https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/album/miss-universe
>> 
>> Lemolo - Swansong
>> https://lemolomusic.bandcamp.com/album/swansea
>> 
>> Psapp - Tourists
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8EpLe4xmM
>> 
>> Dominique Fils-AimC) - Stay Tuned!
>> https://singwithmi.bandcamp.com/album/stay-tuned
>> 
>> Also:
>> 
>> Jim Moray - The Outlander
>> Beirut - Gallipoli
>> some of Lana Del Rey's new one (surprise! I've never liked her before)
>> some of Courtney Swain's Between Blood and Ocean
>> https://courtneyswain.bandcamp.com/album/between-blood-and-ocean
>> Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
>> 
>> What surprisingly didn't work for me:
>> 
>> Sweater-Kinney  I had the opposite experience to Tim. I just didn't like
>> the St. Vincent influence on their sound. St Vincent doesn't work for me,
>> so I'm not surprised, just sad, as I have liked all of S-K's previous albums
>> 
>> Now I need to go back and check out everyone else's listings.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> --Neile
>> 
>>> On Jan 2, 2020, at 9:38 AM, Tim Jones-Yelvington <timjy@sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I also thought this year was slow while it was happening, but by the
>> eended
>>> up having quite a few things I likedb
>>> 
>>> ~STONECHILD, Jesca Hoop (Shoulder Charge was my favorite song of the
>> year)
>>> ~there is no other, Rhiannon Giddens (the collaboration w/ francesco
>>> turrisi brought an appealing haunted quality to her work)
>>> ~Blood, Kelsey Lu (this is incredible, maybe the best record of the year
>>> for me)
>>> ~MAGDALENE, fka twigs (she finally let her voice sound as weird and wild
>> as
>>> the production choices)
>>> ~Lost Girls, Bat for Lashes (you can find my thoughts in a previous email
>>> to the group)
>>> ~In the End, The Cranberries
>>> ~Pearl, Heather Nova  (these two were both welcome throwbacks to their
>> 90s
>>> sounds that still offered more than just nostalgia)
>>> ~While My Father Sleeps, Oh Rose (she's a full throated, big voiced,
>>> singer-songwritery, slightly punky type in the PJ Harvey vein)
>>> ~Anak Jo, Jay Som   (she brought a lot of new texture and mood to her
>> work
>>> that made this much more appealing to me than her previous record)
>>> ~The Center Won't Hold, Sleater Kinney  (getting the St Vincent synth pop
>>> treatment made this band whose existence I have always appreciated in the
>>> abstract much more palatable to me)
>>> ~Crush on Me, Sir Babygirl   (DIY pop with a lot of personality, very
>> queer)
>>> ~Out of the Moment, Emily Bezar   (DUH)
>>> ~No Words Left, Lucy Rose
>>> ~Quiet Signs, Jessica Pratt    (these last two sometimes felt like they
>>> were singing to me in different yet compatible voices and mournful open
>>> tunings from opposite sides of Laurel Canyon, Jessica in a whisper)
>>> ~Birth of Violence, Chelsea Wolfe   (someone else hereb was it Neile?b
>>> agreed that like me, they've had trouble penetrating her "gothy noise,"
>> so
>>> this dark folk record was a wonderful way to finally connect with her
>> work.
>>> It sounds a lot like Emma Ruth Rundle's SOME DEEP OCEAN, which was one of
>>> my favorites of the decade
>>> ~Between Blood and Ocean, Courtney Swain  (still one of my favorite
>> lesser
>>> known, very ecto friendly and relevant indie artists)
>>> ~Sonocardiogram, DaymC) Arocena   (she's an amazing afrocubana vocalist,
>> and
>>> this record really worked well as a record)
>>> ~Jaime, Brittany Howard   (I was surprised by how much I got into this
>>> because I didnt think her voice + rootsy vibe was really my thing)
>>> ~12 Little Spells, Esperanza Spalding  (I thought this one might be *too*
>>> avant garde to connect w/ when it first came out... but Ive since
>>> connected, a lot, lol)
>>> ~Athena, Sudan Archives   (builds on and expands the promise of earlier
>> EP,
>>> definitely one of the most talented/interesting people in left of center
>> R
>>> & B)
>>> ~Mystery, Alice Smith  (this is a maxi-EP ... 7 tracks, I think? and
>> about
>>> 30 minutes ... that I almost missed and am so glad I found. One her
>>> previous records she was more of a classic soul revivalist, but this is
>>> something else entirely, really intense + haunting, can't say enough good
>>> things about it).
>>> ~Fanm d'Ayiti, Natalie Joachim    (this is an amazing 'new music /
>>> contemporary classical' project where Natalie who is an immensely
>> talented
>>> flautist/vocalist/composer created new settings w/ the string ensemble
>>> SPEKTRAL for haitian women's music and resistance narratives)
>>> ~MASTER, Mariah the Scientist   (the sound here is more straight up
>>> mainstream/pop-aspirant R & B, albeit indie, but I like her voice a lot
>>> more than some of the folks getting more attention)
>>> 
>>> HM:
>>> ~All Mirrors, Angel Olsen
>>> ~Remind me Tomorrow, Sharon Van Etten   (w/ both these artists, I found
>>> more to connect w/ than I have previously in their choice to use more
>>> electronic and less rock oriented settings that feel like they more
>> heavily
>>> feature their voices)
>>> ~Nicole Kidman/Anne Hathaway, Hana Vu
>>> ~Envejeciendo, Maria Usbeck
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 10:53 AM Jeffrey Hanson <jhanson21@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This was a pretty slow year for music for me - having bought much fewer
>>>> albums than in previous years.  However, my favorites of the year:
>>>> 
>>>> Ghosteen - Nick Cave and the Bad Seed
>>>> Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep
>>>> Yazoo - 3 Pieces - great remasters + the sublime remix of Winter Kills
>> by
>>>> Minute Taker
>>>> Half-a-Shipwreck - Covers
>>>> The Highwomen - The Hiighwomen
>>>> Mari Boine - See the Woman
>>>> Camille Ob Sullivan - Camille Sings Cave Live
>>>> Joseph - Good Luck, Kid
>>>> Berlin - Transcendence
>>>> Bananarama - In Stereo
>>>> Shakespeareb s Sister - Singles Party (Remastered single collection
>> with a
>>>> few new songs)
>>>> Lucius - Nudes (Came out in 2018)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Albums looking forward to in 2020
>>>> Maria McKee - La Vita Nuova
>>>> Jewel - not sure if its titled yet, but will be her first album of all
>> new
>>>> material since Pieces of You

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