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Does anyone have Keasbey Nights by Catch 22 in 320
Dylan Parker
Jim Walsh - Guitar Travels (320 kbps, year unknown) >Solo Acoustic Guitar, Folk >Friend of my dad's that he used to work with, plays as a hobby and knocked this album out in a single session
Beach Fossils - Closer Everywhere [2017] {Somersault} >Sweet strings: "I'm crowded in the street / Feel like I'm floating on the air / Closer as we speak / I spent the morning here / I know you're somewhere over there / Closer everywhere / I hear your voice inside my head / Can't remember what you said / Oh no." youtube.com/watch?v=asl2LUjz6wc
Borns - Second Night Of Summer [2018] {Blue Madonna} >An excellent Dream Pop track from this year. Lyrics about heartbreak (again), but with a powerfully vocal refrain reminiscent of La Roux. I used to run laps with some select tracks from her self-titled on repeat and imagine a wholly sci-fy narrative to accompany the few verbal cues her singing gives. I will incorporate this track into that fantasy because it's an uplifting addition. Makes me dance. youtube.com/watch?v=ohu-P-xEeTs
Briana Marela - Feel What I Feel (2017) {Call It Love} >When I looked up the most popular Dream Pop albums of the previous year I was not expecting Lorde to be listed, and her "Melodrama" IMO appeals to the genre only by its cover which depicts her in dark blue with her head on the pillow, making "dream pop" as literal as it can get while remaining melancholic electro-whatever. Briana Marela's album cover, on the other hand, is a blurry female figure very much in keeping with the genre staple of blurry human figures, because, you, know, dreams are like blurry, you know? She is not a 40yo geologist, she's the kind of girl Billy Cullum would cuss at longingly. youtube.com/watch?v=oK0_TlZ1P1c
Broken Social Scene - Mouth Guards Of The Apocalypse [2017] {Hug Of Thunder} >It's a steady build-up but the anxiously inchoate vocals on this track, with impressive brass backing it with a ceremonial sentiment, this track is a melodic release of energy one would expect of the hand of God taking you into its palms and lifting you up into clouds. youtube.com/watch?v=AE-1nUfz8RM
Landon Howard
Broken Social Scene - Victim Lover [2017] {Hug Of Thunder} >More consistent but making equally good use of brass to carry you through a narrative. In my mind BSC is the "Atmosphere" (hip-hop) equivalent of dream pop. I enjoyed their discography in 2013 if memory serves and these two tracks from Hug Of Thunder are ones I'd like to keep in my memories for a long time. youtube.com/watch?v=wdvn7PV808A
death's dynamic shroud.wmv - Dream Argument [2017] {Heavy Black Heart} >I was a teenager when Dido's "Here with Me" came out, and my mom, for some unknown reason, bought me several of his albums, which I enjoyed thoroughly because I was a bit of a Stan. I think this album is included in RYM Dream Pop chart because it is very "dreamy" in the style of MUSICIAN. The last 1/3 of this track I could say is some of the best music ever created, period. It's a fucking masterpiece. youtu.be/URy6t1gmUvs?t=18m03s
death's dynamic shroud.wmv - Life Should Be Easy [2017] {Heavy Black Heart} >I'd like to say that this one is more "consistent", whatever that means, but it's still basically the "progressive" equivalent of electronic music, and because it's electronic it can do stuff with sounds that best natural stadion power pop can't. The "computerization" in the middle leads the listener through a video game prelude and cyber-flute harmony to a godly finish of neatly cut virtual chanting. youtube.com/watch?v=K5NUj1jaKow
The Magnetic Fields - '74: No [2017] {50 Song Memoir} >Have you seen the movie, Frank (2014)? "Jon [Domhnall Gleeson], a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank [Michael Fassbender]." This track is the closest approximation of what that band would create from a band in our universe. For me, it also has a sense of Sage Francis' "The Best Of Times" to it, story-telling wise. youtube.com/watch?v=lSjc4rJUZdY
Ayden Hernandez
Toothless - The Sirens (feat. The Staves) [2017] {The Pace of the Passing} >I'm pretty sure the first part of this track is La Roux'ian fairy music. The second part of the track sounds like the "Take on Me" (A-Ha) of our age. youtube.com/watch?v=OCk-DZxiAVM
Vök - Show Me [2017] {Figure} >Vitas' (Bитac) "The 7th Element" was such a strong meme around here in Estonia, possibly because he's a Latvian singing in Russian? We listened to an hour of different versions of it on autoplay on last year's eve. What he does with his tongue Vok puts to a sweet-ass beat. The lyrics amount to a paraphrase of "Do u know da wae?" but why spend words and cite memes where they are not needed. youtube.com/watch?v=-9yM-EsERHQ
Últim Cavall - Serem silenci [2017] {Records de Kyoto} >The Spanish are an oddity in my musical knowledge, they sometimes make very masterful and carefully crafted iteration of a novelty genre and making something brilliant of it which is true to their spirit, proficient (competent) and profound (heartfelt). This is the only one I have in 128 (the album is €5 on Bandcamp). youtube.com/watch?v=-9yM-EsERHQ
Billy Cullum - Promises [2017] {Lonely Hearts Club} >If Imagine Dragons had a better beat but remained exactly as simplistic. The sweet breakdown is reminiscent of MO, Major Lazer and DJ Snake in "Lean On". The lyrics are about women being shallow, not keeping promises, not knowing themselves, who they are, and the singer being boastful of being able "to do better". Catchy as fuck. youtube.com/watch?v=TlKbnaXQPY0
CHA & Headbud - Keine Scheibe (feat. DJ Odie) [2017] {Afro & Bart} >A chill German hip-hop track that snuck into January's favorites because one of the rappers on this one I recognize as one who had an amusing music video where he rides a tank and throws vegetables at the watcher while trekking through schlager, rap, and techno. This one is mellow. Germany is having a very interesting jazz-hop moment at right, they have given golden age hip-hop a very active second home. youtube.com/watch?v=LQvIgx7TTE
Josiah Wright
Requesting Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! and Das Book der Klänge by Hans Otte
