Comments and Collaborations/Phon°noir

I'm already getting the hang of this blogging lark, even managed to upload a picture all by myself in the last post. Now I want to hear what people think so please feel free to comment/criticize. I would also be interested if anybody would like to post as well on here.

I'm all for the idea of like-minded individuals leaving their posts and articles. I love finding out about new great music. This year has been superb for music, and its only half way through. I recently compiled a list of my favourite albums of the year so far. I cant believe I have 41 of them already. Admittedly, some of these albums came in 2004 and 2005, but I didn't hear them to this year, and its my list!!!.

Anyway here goes:

1 Port-Royal/Flares (2005)
2 The Gentleman Losers /The Gentleman Losers (2006)
3 Mogwai /Mr. Beast (2006)
4 A Silver Mt. Zion /Horses in the Sky (2005)
5 Sweek /The Unbelievable Cinematic Crash (2006)
6 Thee More Shallows/ Monkey vs. Shark (2006)
7 Van Der Graaf Generator /Present (2005)
8 Thom Yorke/ The Eraser (2006)
9 The Album Leaf /Into The Blue Again (2006)
10 Bitcrush/ In Distance (2006)
11 Boris /Pink [Southern Lord] (2006)
12 Deaf Center/ Pale Ravine (2005)
13 Nathan Fake /Drowning in a Sea of Love (2006)
14 Helios /Eingya (2006)
15 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan /Ballad of the Broken Seas (2006)
16 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble/ The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (2006)
17 Massive Attack /Collected (2006)
18 Mono / You Are There (2006)
19 Rodrigo Y Gabriela/ Rodrigo Y Gabriela (2006)
20 Sonores/ Sonores (2006)
21 Tarantula A.D./ Book Of Sand (2005)
22 [T]ekel/ [T]ekel (2006)
23 Tied & Tickled Trio /A.R.C. (2006)
24 Tool/ 10,000 Days (2006)
25 Tunng /Comments of the Inner Chorus (2006)
26 Ulan Bator/ Rodeo Massacre (2005)
27 Various Artists - Labels - /Ghostly International Idol Tryouts Vol. 2 (2006)
28 Donato Wharton/ Trabanten (2004)
29 Alias & Tarsier/ Brookland / Oaklyn (2006)
30 Epic45 /Drakelow (2006) CD
31 Fisk Industries /77 And Rising (2006)
32 B. Fleischmann /The Humbucking Coil (2006)
33 Inch-Time /As the Moon Draws Water (2006)
34 Leafcutter John /The Forest and the Sea (2006)
35 Murcof/ Cosmos (2006)
36 Soledad Brothers/ The Hardest Walk (2006)
37 Bitstream/ Domestic Economy 7 (2005)
38 Christ. /Blue Shift Emissions (2006)
39 Khonnor /Burning Palace (2006)
40 Liars /Drum's Not Dead (2006)
41 Primal Scream /Riot City Blues (2006)



Which brings me to my next point.......


Phon°noir

A glaring omission from this list is "Putting Holes Into October Skies" by Berlin based artist Phon°noir. There are some very favourable album reviews dotted around the net, including a great review by Almostcool. You can also listen to some tracks here