Five more Soul/RnB/Funk suggestions to loosen up yr. holiday spirit

Hey Everybody... since this worked really well last time, figured I'd drop another 5-part suggestion bomb on y'all. We stocked up on lots of Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, Parliament, Booker T. and the like for Xmas giving and/or personal holiday listening... but here are five slightly less known... well four less known artists and one less know release by a super-well know artist. Enjoy!

Hugh Brodie and the Real Thing - S/T (Kheba/1975)

Black Nasty - Talking to the People (Enterprise/1973)

Blackbyrds - Flying Start (Fantasy/1974)

Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Atlantic/ 1959)

  
Ernie Hines - Electrified (We Produce Records/ 1972)

Our 50 Favourite Albums from 2016!! // Part five

As with previous years we've (well I've, Eric, truth be told) compiled a list of the 50 albums that hit our ears just right over the last 300-some days. As usual it's pretty idiosyncratic and a little off the top of the head, so there's bound to be a lot of titles forgotten, overlooked, unfairly ignored. Sorry. But we can assure you that these 50 are very much worth your time.

They are in alphanumerical order, and here are the fifth ten:


Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge (Paper Bag)

 
Segue - Over the Mountains (Silent Season)

 
Steve Gunn - Eyes on the Lines (Matador)

 
Suuns - Hold/Still (Secret City)

 
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down -  A Man Alive (Ribbon Music)

Benoit Pioulard -The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter (Kranky)

 
Tim Hecker - Love Streams (Paper Bag)

 
William Tyler - Modern Country (Merge)

 
Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat (Anti-)

 
Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks (Polyvinyl)

 

Our 50 Favourite Albums from 2016!! // Part four

As with previous years we've (well I've, Eric, truth be told) compiled a list of the 50 albums that hit our ears just right over the last 300-some days. As usual it's pretty idiosyncratic and a little off the top of the head, so there's bound to be a lot of titles forgotten, overlooked, unfairly ignored. Sorry. But we can assure you that these 50 are very much worth your time.

They are in alphanumerical order, and here are the fourth ten:

Loscil - Monument Builders (Kranky)

 
LVL UP - Return to Love (Sub Pop)

 
Mary Lattimore - At the Dam (Ghostly International)

 
Mogwai - Atomic (Temporary Residence)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)

 
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris (Editions Mego)

 
Ouvala - Psychology of Color (Fluid Audio)

 
Raime - Tooth (Blackest Ever Black)

 
Rob Crow's Gloomy Place - You're Doomed. Be Nice (Temporary Residence)

 
Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans)

 

Our 50 Favourite Albums from 2016!! // Part three

As with previous years we've (well I've, Eric, truth be told) compiled a list of the 50 albums that hit our ears just right over the last 300-some days. As usual it's pretty idiosyncratic and a little off the top of the head, so there's bound to be a lot of titles forgotten, overlooked, unfairly ignored. Sorry. But we can assure you that these 50 are very much worth your time.

They are in alphanumerical order, and here are the third ten:

Eric Bachmann - S/T (Merge)

 
Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness (Temporary Residence)

Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing (Bayonet Records)

 
The Green Kingdom - Harbor (Dronarivm)

 
Grumbling Fur - Furfour (Thrill Jockey)

 
Helen Money - Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)

 
How to Dress Well - Care (Weird World)

 
Huerco S - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) (Proibito)

 
James Blake - The Colour in Anything (Polydor)

 
LNZNDRF - S/T (4AD)

 

Our 50 Favourite Albums from 2016!! // Part two

As with previous years we've (well I've, Eric, truth be told) compiled a list of the 50 albums that hit our ears just right over the last 300-some days. As usual it's pretty idiosyncratic and a little off the top of the head, so there's bound to be a lot of titles forgotten, overlooked, unfairly ignored. Sorry. But we can assure you that these 50 are very much worth your time.

They are in alphanumerical order, and here are the second ten: 


Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (Matador)

 
Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time (HAFTW)

 
Christian Löffler ‎– Mare (Ki Records)

 
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land (Secretly Canadian)

 
Daniel Lanois - Goodbye to Language (Anti-)

 
David Bowie - Blackstar (Columbia)

 
D∆WN - Redemption (Local Action)

 
Demdike Stare - Wonderland (Modern Love)

 
DIIV - Is the Is Are (Captured Tracks)

 
Eluvium - False Readings On (Temporary Residence)

 

Our 50 Favourite Albums from 2016!! // Part one

As with previous years we've (well I've, Eric, truth be told) compiled a list of the 50 albums that hit our ears just right over the last 300-some days. As usual it's pretty idiosyncratic and a little off the top of the head, so there's bound to be a lot of titles forgotten, overlooked, unfairly ignored. Sorry. But we can assure you that these 50 are very much worth your time.

They are in alphanumerical order, and here are the first ten:

1991 - No More Dreams (Self Released)

 

 
Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - Salero (Erased Tapes)

 
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Iris (Erased Tapes)

 
Amber Arcades - Fading Lines (Heavenly)

 
Andy Shauf - The Party (Arts & Crafts)

 
Angel Olsen - My Woman (Jagjaguwar)

 
ANOHNI - Hopelessness (Secretly Canadian)

 
Benji Hughes - Songs in the Key of Animals (Merge)

 
Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum (Jagjaguwar)

 
Bon Iver - 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)