The Year in Music, so far…..
It is record store day on Saturday, so I looked up the online RSD site to see if there was anything worth lining up for. Nada. Boring boring boring. But that represents the year so far. We are mid April and I can’t think of a mainstream pop-rock record that I would unequivocally recommend to anyone. Indeed so bad has been the year, that Gene Clarke’s “No Other” has been in my multi changer since December, almost on constant repeat. I enjoyed Temple’s album (although it does become repetitive and is retromania in the extreme) and “Rave Tapes” by Mogwai. I am hopeful that I will get into War on Drugs album, Real Estate, Metronomy, St Vincent, Simone Felice, Jim Goodwin and Wild Beasts (as I bought them all on vinyl) – but they’re not twisting my melon man (yet). The Elbow album might just be the answer to insomnia. Warpaint have burst their bubble. Indeed my most played purchase was the re-issue of Morrissey’s “Your Arsenal.” Currently I am grooving to Miles Davis “at the Filmore.” The John Butler Trio’s “Flesh and Blood” is pretty good, as is the perennially decent (though not inspiring) Drive By Truckers album (English Oceans) and the stomp and pomp of Nick Waterhouse’s “Holly”. Any-who, I am so bored with all of it I think I start listening to Teaching Company lectures in the car again.
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