“ Wonderfully wide waves ”
featuring Bloodless by Andrew Bird
Well, shit. It’s been quite the year, hasn’t it? With a global pandemic, lockdowns keeping us isolated, misinformation causing havoc and sanity being stretched like a sun-kissed rubber band, these were some of the sounds that helped me through.
From some jazzy, bluesy, funky, beachy reggae escapism (yes, it was time to include a Fat Freddy’s Drop feature) to Andrew Bird’s eerie (but groovy) premonition of “uncivil war”, pointing out that, “it’s hard to be an optimist when you trust least the ones who claim to have the answers”. Then, slipping comfortably into the soft sheets of melancholy and the crescendo of Mt. Wolf’s hedonistic teachings of simplicity.
This is an album that’ll help remember the wonderfully wide waves of emotions 2020 held for me.
Get ready for "Poets Explode Like Bombs."
01 - Guts - And the Living Is Easy
02 - Darondo, Dave Allison - Didn't I (Dave Allison Rework)
03 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Constipation Blues
04 - Mo' Horizons - Yes Baby Yes
05 - Fat Freddy's Drop - Special Edition
06 - The Black Seeds - Cool Me Down
07 - Sashamon - Japanese Squeeze
08 - Malaki, Lucy McWilliams - Fair Play - Acoustic Version
09 - Beatenberg - Ithaca
10 - Andrew Bird - Bloodless
11 - Imaginary Future - Come As You Are
12 - The Morning Benders - Excuses
13 - Romare - Hey Now - When I Give You All My Lovin'
14 - Daniel Norgren - Moonshine Got Me
15 - Portico Quartet - Prickly Pear
16 - Yo La Tengo - I'll Be Around
17 - Jon and Roy - Nothing but Everything
18 - Mt. Wolf - Burgs
19 - F. J. McMahon - Sister Brother