The past year in music has been fantastic. Too many excellent releases went unnoticed. Here is a list of the sountracks to my life in 2002...they moved my mind, body and booty...
I. Bright Eyes "LIFTED or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground" - Fully captures the beauty of existence.
The Rest in No Particular Order:
- Do Make Say Think "& Yet & Yet" -Totally Chilled Out...avante-garde jazz...
- Modest Mouse "The Moon and Antarctica" - Totally Haunted!
- Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights" -Cool, lush guitars create a beautiful landscape
- ...And you will know us by the Trail of Dead "Source Tags & Codes" - Totally melodic, intense and more twists and turns than the Loop
- Broken Social Scene "You Forgot it in People" -A loveletter to the Toronto indie scene.
- K-OS "Exit"- Fellow YorkU Alumnus redefines what hip hop/music is.
- El-P "Fantastic Damage" -Part of the Company Flow crew, El-P comes up from the underground and drops one astonishing lyrically based album filled with fractured beats.
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Yanqui U.X.O." - Their music has mellowed, but they still haven't sold out.
- Talib Kweli "Quality" -Edutainment!
- The Roots "Phrenology" -The best hip hop crew creates the one they'll be remembered for
- Fly Pan Am "ceux qui inventent n'ont jamais vécu (?) " - Post Rock that you can dance to!
- Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" -We've been in love with them ever since '96 and finally more people are catching on!
- Boards Of Canada "geogaddi" -The Best Electronic Album in a long time. (no, they are not Canadian)
- Doves "The Last Broadcast" - The finest album from the UK this year
- DJ Shadow "The Private Press" - Not as good as ...endtroducing...but still incredible
- Neil Halstead "Sleeping on Roads" -Put this on before you go to sleep, or right when you wake up...watch the sparks fly...
- Polmo Polpo "Science of Breath"- Haunted/techno/ambient soundscapes
- The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" -the follow up to The Soft Bulletin, finds the Lips still in fine form musically and lyrically....do you realize?
- Gentleman Reg "Make Me Pretty" - One of the finest young voices making music today
The Worst Album of the year....
- The Vines "Highly Evolved" -An embarassment to their continent...representing everything that's wrong with the music business today
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