Doesn’t Dan Mangan look a little like Seth Rogan to you? Maybe they’re related, I mean- he IS Canadian. You know, because we’re all related. And we also all know eachother, it’s funny really- just like one giant family. Christmas is going to be a friggen nightmare.

Okay, so I think Dan Mangan is wonderful, his new EP Roboteering- like his song, ‘The Indie Queens Are Waiting’? Beautiful. I love duets. And ‘Sold’ is another solid track. But ‘Tragic Turn of Events/Move Pen Move’ okay, so I’m not really feeling this one. Not to say it likely isn’t great- I just can’t help but imagine both his hands up and palms facing toward the sky, eyes closed, perhaps rocking back and forth in front of a congregation, spinning awkward poetry, in the way that pastors or spoken word artists do. I’m not criticizing, I just keep thinking about the end of worship, where everyone huddles quite uncomfortable in their public praises of God, a cue for me to quietly slip out. 

In ‘Robots’ he says, “robots need love too, they want to be loved by you” in a growing chant with a coarse scruffy voice and the help of a choir, singing trumpets and a clap track. If you ask my friend, George Noory, he’ll tell you the frightening forecast on robots outsmarting humans. Frig!

Dan Mangan- The Indie Queens Are Waiting

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Dan Mangan- Sold

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Some of my friends from Nashville recorded ‘O Holy Night’, and when I was first sent the track I immediately anticipated my friend Andrew freestyling while his baby boy banged on a Fisher Price keyboard, but it was actually quite beautifully and simply recorded, with the lovely Lisa Goe on vocals. There is something careful and quite about her voice that sounds a little like Cat Power. The lineup includes: Jason – drums, bass, engineering, Dave and Andrew- rhodes, trumpet, “making decisions”, Lisa Goe- Vocals, and Matt Schumacher- Violins, guitars. 

I miss Nashville.

Speaking of Christmas- I made an unreal Christmas mix that still has two days open for you to download, so get on that while you can! If it’s not working, email me and I’ll upload it again. I initially made it for my friend and it features some of my favorite Christmas jams including The Muppets, Zooey Deschanel, Dave Bazan, Sufjan Stevens, Feist and a ton of classics. Speaking of, does anyone else think ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ is a little odd? It sounds like an old man’s attempt to coerce and underage girl to stay the night, am I totally off here? Anyway,  when else are you going to listen to this stuff? Seasonal songs are only good for another week. I know most people hate Christmas music, but those people are miserable around the holidays anyway. Get stoked! Just a few more days!

CHRISTMAS JAMS ’09

O Holy Night

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Mountain Man are three young ladies from Vermont- and I honest to goodness have never heard anything like them. Their vocal harmonies are mesmorizing. It’s the kind of music played like a ghost call, awakening things that stir when the lights go out, making them dance. With a hymnal sound quite like Fleet Foxes, and the acoustic prowess of a man with enough time spent in the mountains to discover the sounds they make when there isn’t another  soul around for miles. They’ve got a 7″ coming out on Underwater People in Jan and you can buy their album HERE. They also seem super adorable, via their use of such phrases as ‘Oh the colors!’,  and made up words like collegeland. Please listen to them, Dog Song will simultaneously creep you out and send you into a meditative state in the matter of three minutes.

Mountain Man- Animal Tracks

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Mountain Man- Dog Song

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Brooklyn’s Dinosaur Feathers are not a band confined to their geography, stretching sonic bounds with island rhythms, African tribal sounds; and allowing all sorts of genres, instruments and harmonies to rub shoulders with one another.

This summer I absolutely fell in love with their EP ‘Early Morning Risers’, and their debut LP ‘Fantasy Memorial’  (out March 2010) is now available for pre-order with a free download of the song, ‘Vendela Vida’. 

The track starts with birds and chimes, church bells, shifting gracefully into a more latin sound, falling back into a fifties cruiseship, and swaying back again, making me think of pretty girls wearing lays and coconut bras. Interesting fact: Vendela Vida is the author of ‘Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name’ and she’s also the wife of Dave Eggers. 

I’m really excited about this album and about this band- Greg Sullo’s voice is radiant, and their ability to revive songs of decades passed by layering sweet pop songs with foreign rhythms and energies is so unlike anything I’ve heard lately. With traces of Menomena, Animal Collective, Suckers, I feel like Dinosaur Feathers are well on their way to internet hype-dom soon. 

Dinosaur Feathers- Vendela Vida

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Pretend this is a conversation you and I are having, and you ask me if I like music, to which I quickly scan the libraries of my mind to select the most suitable and accessible list of bands that would be fitting for this particular exchange. We’re all feverishly looking to seem cool, well-rounded, musically superior. Think of ‘year end’ lists as such annual exchanges. Scanning through some lists via the astronomical directory of ALL LISTS EVER compiled by the Largehearted  Boy himself I have quickly realized that we are a people of lists. We love them. We love telling people what we love. It is the lifeblood of the music blog culture.

I, myself have never formally organized a ‘best album’ list so I’m just going to go ahead and tell you about whatever rad albums happened to find my ears this year in no particular order and really just as a final celebration for this year and the beautiful noises that carried me through. What I have discovered is that there is a heck of a lot of music out there that I haven’t listened to, and thanks to suggestions from GVB among others, I’ve been learning about some pretty amazing bands like Mountain Man, and re-acquainting myself with Fever Ray, Cass McCombs, Smith Westerns AND I didn’t even know Camera Obscura even had a new album out! I’m consistently amazed by the ratio between my own human limitations and the vastness of music, and where my love of it safely lands. My brain is literally sore from a night’s worth of sifting through new music. 

To preface, these albums found me throughout this year and they all meant something to me. They may not be “the best” in any sort of specified category, other than I really enjoyed them for whatever reason. I was careful not to choose on the basis of coolness, because all my attempts to be cool were thrown out the window long ago as long as I continue listening to Coast to Coast on AM 640. Anyway..

David Bazan- Curse Your Branches

The first album that came to mind was Bazan’s Curse Your Branches. I’d been waiting for this one for a while. Bazan played the best show I’d seen all year. He reminds me of only good things and people and time spent with them- notable mention: David Young, Billy Hamilton, Alex Collins and Andrew (Jamdrew) Collins. 

David Bazan- Curse Your Branches

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Dawes- North Hills

This album is absolutely perfect. These songs hold no shelf life, they never expire, there is a timelessness to the synergy between words and melody. I suggest this album to everyone. Taylor’s voice has skipped a few years before him, and so has his soul- what emerges is the kind of wisdom you gain when you’re too old to put it to any use. It’s brilliant.

Dawes- Give Me Time

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White Denim- Fits

I have no idea how to describe White Denim. They are inventive creatures. I fell madly in love with both Fits and Exposion- this was some of the strangest, engaging, lively music I’d heard all year. IEIEI encompasses all the strange and creepy feelings I get from White Denim,” I know that it’s wrong to keep wild things locked in a cage, I’m climbing up a tree so high that I can see little humans constructing highways”. This band rules. 

White Denim- Say What You Want

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Foreign Born- Person to Person

Foreign Born had those mellow’ed out 70s/country jams that provided the perfect environment for their echoey vocals. It would be playing in your mind while flipping through old childhood vacation photos when your hair was bleached out and your skin was golden.

Foreign Born- Early Warnings

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Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion

Anyone who claims that it would be so passe at this point to celebrate Merriweather needs to get over themselves, this was an incredible album. It pioneered a kind of sound that carried us through the seasons, carving out an entirely new genre for others to play with. Animal Collective gave way to Alvin Band, Memory Tapes, Neon Indian, Yeasayer, several hundred remixes of ‘My Girls’ oh gosh, I don’t know who else. This album also reminds me a lot of San Diego

Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes

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Atlas Sound- Logos

Bradford Cox is a genius. Walkabout was one of my favorite songs of the year.

Daniel Johnston- Is and Always Was

I included Daniel Johnston because after watching his documentary, I fell in love with the tortured, schizophrenic and perhaps mildly autistic aging man who holds the keys to realms unseen. He sees strange and magical things that no one else does while still holding a loose grip on whatever reality he currently lives in. There is a magic and a wisdom to his childish music that everyone should read into a little bit more. 

Daniel Johnston- I Had Lost My Mind

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The Dodos- Time to Die

Although not my favorite Dodos album, still a beautiful collection of percussion driven songs created by a mere two people. My friend Kenny introduced me to the Dodos, I ended up having their albums in my car for months without switching them up (partly out of forgetfulness and laziness) but Time to Die had time to grow on me. 

The Dodos- Red and Purple

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Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes- Up From Below

Whatever commune they collectively call home, I’d like to join. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes’ ‘Up From Below’ was a hazy trip of cascading colours and borrowed sounds, with native American roots, Americana, and bits and pieces collected from what sounds like a lifetime of a troubadour- this gang of free spirited musicians constructed some of the most impressive songs I’d heard this year. 

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes- Simplest Love

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The Wooden Sky- If I Don’t Come Home, You’ll Know I’m Gone

The Wooden Sky’s sophmore album is a gorgeous combination of folk, country, rock and a new genre I just made up called Canadiana. It’s like Americana, but not really. This album was filled with sad and romantic narratives drawn from scenic, introspective expeditions across the vast stretches of Canadian landscape and the friends they met along the way. Gavin Gardiner is one of Canada’s finest songwriters, and nicest dudes.

The Wooden Sky- The Late King Henry

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Girls- The Album

I loved the story behind Girls frontman Christopher Owens- there is a revival of youth in songs about pizza wine, and abandoned fathers. Trying to make up for lost time by raging and heavy partying. Sometimes it’s nice to live vicariously through the danceparty mistakes that other people make. Girls’ album is the anthem for morning after regrets. 

Girls- Lust for Life

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J. Tillman- Year in the Kingdom

I’ve got a theory that the J in his name is for ‘Jesus’. Year in the Kingdom is enough to convert anyone to the church of Tillman. 

J. Tillman- Year in the Kingdom

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Metric- Fantasies

Emily Haines can do no wrong. I was unhealthily obsessed with this album in the spring, Fantasies makes me less inclined to reject my Canadian citizenship. She’s a total babe, too.

Metric- Satellite Mind

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Other Lives- Other Lives

For anyone in need of a little mourning, of a quiet space, to fully enjoy the neverending cornfields flying passed your car window- Other Lives should be the soundtrack of your life. It is beautiful, sweeping, (epic even). The vocals are slow and dragging over tapping piano keys, violins, guitars, once combined in creates a sound big enough to fill a room, making it hard to breathe without crying. I met them while in Chicago, and they could not be more gracious. 

Other Lives- AM Theme

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Owen- New Leaves

Okay, okay. So I’m not a huge Owen fan. Brooks is probably laughing right now. Stop it, Brooks. Despite all my protests, I actually found myself listening to this album a few times over and enjoying it for it’s lyricism and mild humour. New Leaves is a great album, but that’s all I will say for now. 

Owen- A Trenchant Critique

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St. Vincent- Actor

Actor has made it’s way onto many ‘best of’ lists this year. It’s also found it’s way onto nearly every mixed cd I make. It’s got those Wizard of Oz instrumentals, soft and beautiful vocals, and tense frustrations of a restrained housewife, lamenting her imprisonment and raging politely, yet without abandon (hoping that the neighbours will see). She exudes grace in every word, like a ballerina of song. 

St. Vincent- Actor Out Of Work

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Taken By Trees- East of Eden

First of all, I believe that everything comes into my life for necessary reasons as provided by God. I just finished reading East of Eden when I found out about Taken by Trees. Hardly a notable coincidence, but it’s my list. I ended up falling in love with the Indian-inspired, peaceful dreamy songs, along with her cover of ‘My Girls’.

Taken By Trees- My Boys

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White Rabbits- It’s Frightening

I didn’t get any new Cold War Kids this year, so in comes White Rabbits. The energy that comes out of their live shows is palpable, it’s contagious. It had everyone packed tightly in a small Toronto venue stomping on the ground, jumping and holding onto ceilings and waists. It was a celebration of drums. It’s Frightening is a collection of songs that capture that intensity. 

White Rabbits- Rudie Fails

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 Wilco- The Album

I love Wilco. This album wasn’t my favorite, but it’s Wilco so I don’t argue. 

Wilco- You and I

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The Rural Alberta Advantage- Hometowns

I don’t know if this one counts for an ’09 release because it was re-issued in ’09 by Saddlecreek, but I’ll add it anyway because it rules. It was our generations revival of Neutral Milk Hotel set to synth and electronic sounds, mixed with a rusty voice and folk music- it put Alberta on the map (well, before the whole Tar Sands thing) I first heard about the RAA while still in San Diego, they were put on a mix by my friend David Young, I was thoroughly impressed by him from there on out. 

The RAA- Dont Haunt This Place

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Bon Iver- Blood Bank

Long drives across California. Justin Vernon’s falsetto will forever remind me of 2009.

Bon Iver- Beach Baby

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Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down- Know Better Learn Faster

Thao Nguyen is one of the coolest girls in music. I love her voice, she’s a little Karen O, but more country. 

Than Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down- Fixed It

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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers- The Live Anthology

Archives of live Tom Petty shows is the closest I’ll get to reliving my childhood in the backseat of my mom’s car going to the grocery store. 

Tom Petty- Down South

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A.A. Bondy- When The Devil’s Loose

A.A Bondy is likely one of the saddest dudes in music. When The Devil’s Loose included a lot of songs I’d already heard from American Hearts. He is slow and steady, his voice is unlike any other- as if he is about to cry all the time. The Mightiest of Guns is a spooky campfire kind of song that would arrest anyone for a little while, enough to make them think of the person that they love most, and want to call them and tell them that. 

A. A Bondy- False River

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Noah and The Whale- The First Day of Spring

At first I didn’t really like this album- but Noah and the Whale was a slow churn for me. Once I finally understood it, I started appreciating the absolute beauty of this album. It reminds me a little like the style of Mike Kinsella. I really liked the added elememt of film to really carry the songs with images. Love of an Orchestra makes me want to run through vallies so fast that my knees buckle and I collapse into joy. 

Noah and The Whale- Love of an Orchestra

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Micachu and the Shapes- Jewellery 

Micachu and the Shapes followed Passion Pit for me, and I ended up enjoying it much more than Manners. It makes me want to dance and NOTHING ever makes me want to dance. I spent a lot of time with this album running through the San Diego trails. Do you know how much brighter life looks while running by the lake with this album playing? Perfect.

Micachu and the Shapes- Lips

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Honorable Mention–

La Roux, Fever Ray, Lou Barlow, The Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Phoenix, The xx, Those Darlins, Grizzly Bear, The Soft Pack, The Mountain Goats, Manchester Orchestra, No Age, The Antlers, Phosphorescent, Fanfarlo, Cassino, Evening Hymns,  etc. etc. etc.

This list was in no particular order, and I may have missed a few albums- but it’s the Christmas season and while I work two jobs and mail funny presents to far away friends, I don’t have time to revisit the catalogues of my brain to see who I’ve missed. 2009 thank you for some amazing music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go is a word that immediately carries me into realms of my memory still hot with the smells of a rusty van and the scream of thousands of school children. Go was the name of the movie I toured with for Invisible Children. Go was a film I’d watched over 200 times (by watched I mean pressed ‘play’ on). When I found out that Sigur Ros frontman- Jonsi is about to release a solo album entitled Go, of course my narcisstic brain quickly led me to all things school-assemblies, rather than the ethereal and “impossibly high” vocals of Jonsi Birgisson.

Regardless of the album name, the metaphorical school-children of music blogs lost their shit for his free new single ‘Boy Lilikoi’ this passed week, I only had time to get around to listening to it today. For those anticipating to add more to their Sigur-Ros lexicon of makeshift words, most of the album is actually in English. It’s got it’s own pumping veins, with magical hurried drums and flutes- it almost sounds a little Imogen Heap at some points. It tapers off with soft squeals that sends us into a sweeping crescendo of sounds. The 9 track LP will be followed by a full world tour next year. 

At this point, I’d finish up the film with a little conclusion, then asking, “how far would you go?” following that with a plea for cash. Then I’d hoard whatever cafeteria food I could get and be on my way. The glory days. 

Jonsi- Boy Lilikoi

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I have just recently found out about (the once Granddaddy frontman) Jason Lytle. I know. Crazy, huh? Before I go further, I get so thoroughly annoyed when people, unaware of the vacuum in which they live, are shocked when you don’t know about a band. (This wasn’t the case for Jason, but I’m just going on…) Especially while skimming through some of these ‘best of’ lists of ’09. I have surely missed out on a few hundred albums this year, but it shouldn’t be anyone’s burden to consume excessive amounts of music just to say they’ve heard it- while handing you their professional critique. 

Anyway, I found out that Lytle is giving out his Christmas album for free. It’s a collection of living-room recorded piano solos under funny and strange names like “wild animals slowly approaching the country funeral”. It’ll be a great writing album, because if I ever listen to songs while writing, I just get caught up and distracted and start typing out lyrics, and out of frustration I’ll start drinking (not socially). 

So it seems a bit funny to write any words about his album ‘Yours Truly, The Commuter’ because I literally just started listening to it today. From first listen, it sounds about as self-defeated and mournful as any Weakerthans album. But a friend of mine has it securely fastened in the ‘top albums’ position, so I’ll just go with him on this one. He knows much more about music than I do. There is a sincerity in his voice, it’s graceful and quiet, with words like, “I may be limping, but I’m coming home”- invoking an image of a wellspring of catharsis leaking out of a string-beaned man, exhausted by the self-extraction it took to pull these songs out of him. 

Jason Lytle- Flying Thru Canyons

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Jason Lytle- You’re Too Gone

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So Yeasayer’s album ‘Odd Blood’ out in February has (ahhhh) been leaked quite early, but what did you expect really- the band hadn’t released anything since All Hour Cymbals in ’07 AND they just put out a music video for Ambling Amp of galavanting naked people. Their album was already so fiercely anticipated.

After a few listens, the finalists are:

‘Ambling Alp’- because it’s the best song on the album. because the video rules. because it’s managed to pull off 80′s pop without sounding cheese. It packs beautiful harmonies, horns, a

 little raggae, and eighties new wave. Oh yes, and I love the positive message, “stick up for yourself, son!”

‘I Remember’- It’ s adizzy, spaced out synth filled track that carves out it’s own narrative, building quietly, changing melodies. The beautiful line, “you’re stuck in my mind, all the time” floats above the sound of bubbles and keyboards. 

‘Strange Reunions’- This sounds a little West-Indian, like the soundtrack for swaying hips of a bellydancer. It’s bizarre and soothing. Like something a snake would rise to, quiet and steady.

Yeasayer- Strange Reunions

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Yeasayer- Grizelda

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Holly Miranda- Lover You Should’ve Come Over (Jeff Buckley Cover)

Beautiful!

Holly Miranda “Lover You Should’ve Come Over” (Jeff Buckley cover) from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

This is the latest from Foreign Born, who teamed up with Matthew Lessner, who has directed videos for Dirty Projectors, Fool’s Gold and Raveonettes.  ’Early Warnings’ takes us to ‘uncharted reaches’ to explore the wilderness and an assortment of wild inhabitants through the lens of a seventies-esque safari. We love the animals.
 
 
On the road with Free Energy:

12/18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland 
02/26 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #
02/28 – Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey #
03/03 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry #
03/04 – Madison, WI @ The Frequency #
03/05 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle #
03/06 – Bloomington, IN @ Video Saloon #
03/08 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern #
03/09 – Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo #
03/11 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge #
03/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory #