After much close listening, half-way listening, breakfast listening, dinner listening, concentrated listening, headphone listening, annoyed listening, enthralled listening, these are the records I enjoyed the most last year.
1. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking
…dark and lovely Scandinavian melodicism, landscaping with cello…
2. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
…dusty, evocative Americana created by aliens on [...]
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I was a bit sad to hear the Ramones Museum in Kreuzberg had closed before I got to visit it. So, you can imagine how happy I was to see it reopen, new and improved in Mitte. Complete with cafe. Which is, you know, a bit Hard Rock Cafe-ish, but if it helps keep the [...]
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Well, that was a crazy decade. Some are saying the Naughty Aughties were the worst decade ever, nearly as ridiculous as calling them the best ever. Without getting all Dickens out up in here, it really was the best and the worst of times—quite possibly my favourite decade personally even while it was my least [...]
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