EVERY OTHER WAVE

Honorable mention:

The Faint – Doom Abuse

East India Youth – TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER

War on Drugs – Lost In The Dream

20.

Keaton Henson – Romantic Works

Earnest melodies, beautiful in its simplicity

19.

Caribou – Our Love

Can't do without at least part of the record

18.

The Horrors – Luminous

I see you and your bright future

17.

Jungle – Jungle

Heat and right flow, summer arrived!

16.

Chet Faker – Built On Glass

Talk is cheap so let's just listen

15.

Trust – Joyland

Yup, my joy personified

14.

Run the Jewels – RTJ2

Murder, mayhem, melodic music

13.

The Antlers – Familiars

Everything was simpler and brighter back then

12.

GoGo Penguin – v2.0

Well, I'm starting listening to jazz; shock and awe really

11.

Lykke Li – I Never Learn

No rest for the talented singers

10.

Glass Animals – Zaba

Jungle, glitter, gooey, woozy youth

9.

Young Fathers – DEAD

Get up and have a party!

8.

SOHN – Tremors

Vibrations of this tremors tear fabric of reality

7.

Manic Street Preachers – Futurology

Old lads smiling at the ugly world

6.

Douglas Dare – Whelm

Time will not move with this gentle music

5.

Jessie Ware – Tough Love

Kind of...often...with pleasure

4.

Kiasmos – Kiasmos

Bent and burnt with Icelandic power

3.

Perfume Genius – Too Bright

Queen & proud. Surprise, surprise

2.

Wild Beasts – Present Tense

In detail you are even more beautiful than from afar

1.

Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave

Sadness (on November evenings) were never the same

Polish LPs

5. The Dumplings – No Bad Days

4. Fisz Emade Tworzywo – Mamut

3. Nervy – Nervy

2. Jazzpospolita – Jazzpo!

David Robert Jones (1947-2016)

I guess I’ve known him for ever. My parents celebrating their university years in the 80s surely treasure ‘Let’s Dance’ so I must have come across it somehow. Never hitting me quite enough though. It came much later, during my ‘all voices hail Brian Molko’ phase around 2007. Endlessly watching interviews with Placebo frontman I stumbled upon this video, Brian’s acoustic cover of ‘Five Years’. Adding to that their duet, alternative version of “Without You I’m Nothing” I was more than ready to dig deeper. 

And I did, coming across one of the most intriguing album ever made, ‘Low’. Half singy-songy, half minimalist, instrumental journey through time and space. All those feelings it evokes just blew me away and it’s not simply because being from Poland I can identify with the gray, austere landscapes of ‘Warszawa’. It’s the complexity of the world it is showing. This utterly lonely planet where girls with gray eyes live but they got problems. This empty city that seems to be derived from dystopian science-fiction novels. The neighborhood where Ziggy Stardust, Major Tom, Halloween Jack and Thin White Duke all have their apartments. The place where everybody is invited no matter how odd and freaky they may seem. Thank you Mr Bowie for giving me the opportunity to visit. I will continue doing it now even more often than before.

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Low by David Bowie out  14/06/1977 via RCA Records

Since 2007!

Can enyone explain to me what happened that year? Oh yeah, that was the time I entered the realm of “proper music” abandoning Bravo Hits compilations. But anyhow, how awesome was that year? I’ve recently tried to group the best albums from that 12 months and *surprise* most of them are my beloved ones. Starting with this one. Beirut’s France inspired  ‘Flying Club Cup’ have the unique vibe of the fully packed cafe during rush hours. Oh boy, should I smile? Cause it’s Sunday? 

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The Flying Club Cup by Beirut out 9/10/2007 via 4AD