Music
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Music of 2024
My favourite albums and tracks of 2024. Check out the playlist links to listen to them all Read more
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Best of 2022
My personal musical loves of 2022. These lists are not for everyone, but if you know me and have some crossover in taste, you’re sure to find something interesting. There’s a lot of music out there, and it’s getting harder to find the good stuff. Easy to navigate playlists on Spotify and Deezer links below.… Read more
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Best of 2020
My annual round-up of music that did it for me. This year was a decent split between heavy post-punk, shoegaze, and imaginary soundtrack music. Neubauten made a stylish comeback this year. A. A. Williams was a new find in the vein of Sharon Van Etten. Agnes and Anna deliver their welcome signature sounds while another… Read more
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Best of 2019
Another year and another few hundred albums and a few thousand songs listened to and filtered into this concise list of brilliance. 2019 was the first year in a long time that dancefloor suitability wasn’t a factor. In its place, more soundtrack, classical, and incidental type music mostly due to the increase in writing and… Read more
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Some Christmas songs are not just for XMAS
Two Christmas albums you’re not likely to hear at the malls. Ever Low – Christmas (1999) In typical Low style, this is a haunting album with a surprisingly upbeat opener. A.V. Club’s Josh Modell described it as “the religious album even heathens can love”. Apple Music Deezer Spotify Phil Spector – A Christmas gift… Read more
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The Junction
The Junction, originally on the corner of Bree and Claim Street, was owned by Shayne Leith who previously owned Decodance in Market Street (which eventually became Le Club). The Junction opened in 1988 and closed sometime in 1991 before moving to a short-lived run at Ponte. It had two dance floors. One was dark with… Read more
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Running from the sun
A tristful winter playlist for those bleak days when the lingering cold bites. It’s almost over. Grit. Clench. Friction. Features Sharon Van Etten, Grace Jones, Velvet Underground, Keaton Henson, Bat for Lashes, Yazoo, Johnny Jewel and a South African Hawaiian guitar legend Jerry Shanahan Original mix on MIXCLOUD © Marc Latilla 2017. All rights reserved.… Read more
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Music of 2016
These were the albums that lived with me this year in no particular order: PJ Harvey – Community of hope Trentmoller – Fixion Make-Overs – Try me Savages – Adore life Minor Victories – Minor victories Daughter – Not to disappear Medicine Boy – Kinda like electricity DJ Shadow – The mountain Hante. – No… Read more
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