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These were some of the albums that I was digging last year, and I'm still into them:
Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead
Portishead, Third
Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim/ My Maniac and I/ Cross Your Fingers
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Deerhunter - Microcastle
The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Gossip - Live In Liverpool
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain Live
Some other albums/songs I also liked:
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Cat Power - Jukebox and Dark End of the Street
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs
She & Him - "You've Really Got A Hold On Me"
Of Montreal - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
The yin yang title of Ponytail's Ice Cream Spiritual, along with the playful abstract art cover do more than hint at the Deerhoof meets Sonic Youth controlled chaos of an album that has made quite a few best-of lists of 2008, including my own.
Check out "Sky Drool."
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I had not heard of this one. Kind of a funny danceable beginning then it goes elsewhere. I kept wanting them to find a groove, and they eventually got there I suppose. It felt like one big intro to a kick ass show.
Fern Knight's music is trippy Freak Folk. Earlier this year we featured an exclusive video performance that she did for MOG. Here she performs on Radio 3 in Madrid these songs:
"Silver Fox," "Sundew," "Pentacles," "From Zero to Infinity" and "Loch Na Fooey.
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My list only intersects w/yours once w/Portishead's 'Third':
http://mog.com/Augusts1/blog/277314
Great song to illustrate your list -- will check out the Laura Marling - never heard of her.
Augusts1, I liked:
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part 1: 4th World War
Duffy - Rockferry
Santogold - Santogold
and the TV on the Radio tracks I listened to.
But I focused on the albums/songs that, for whatever reasons, really demanded that I listen.