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Maida Vale

Detta blir sista ordinarie listan för i år. Sedan har vi delfinal 3 och den stora finalen kvar detta år. Jag har plockat in flera önskemål från jurymedlemmarna. Jag skriver vem av er som önskat en viss låt i presentationen nedan.

1 Port Noir (SWE) är ett rockband från Södertälje.^[1] Bandet startade 2011^[2] och deras debutalbum, Puls, släpptes under hösten 2013^[3]. Hittills har bandet släppt två fullängdsalbum och en EP. Albumet Any Way the Wind Carries släpptes i april 2016. Old Fashioned är nya singeln. Wiki   Tips från Claes

2 Amund Maarud (NO)  Amund Maarud er aktuell med to album, det ene noe bredere enn det andre. Det er symptomatisk for denne allestedsnærværende mannen fra Skogbygda i Nes. Ingen ting skal være uprøvd, og denne gang dreier deg seg om teatermusikk («Fruen fra havet») og country- og bluesprosjektet Amund Maarud & Lucky Lips  Dagbladet.no   Tor har önskat.

3 David Eugene Edwards (US) Risha är ett av mina favoritalbum från i år, en smått psykedelisk blandning av mörk amerikansk rootsrock och drömsk electronica. Bakom albumet står David Eugene Edwards (från 16 Horsepower och Woven Hand) och Alexander Hacke (från bl.a. Einstürzende Neubauten och Crime & The City Solution).  Tanken var att spela in en skiva med bara oss två. Vi älskar Suicide så tanken var att det skulle bli lite som en hyllning till dem. Vi ville ha den enkelheten, precis som Alan Vega och Martin Rev, bara två personer med sina maskiner. Visst, jag spelar en del instrument också men det är mest elektroniskt. Hymn   Eva har önskat

4Maida Vale (SWE) Madness Is Too Pure är ett fylligt och näringsrikt psykrock-paket som levereras i en renodlad och ofiltrerad synergi. Den syndiga underströmmen av bluesiga progg-element känns som gjuten tillsammans med den psykedeliska stommen, och den vackert analoga och jordnära ljudproduktionen som ljuder av ett tydligt eko till det aromatiska 70-talets demoniskt soniska anföranden. GAFFA

5Shadowgraphs (US) from Oregon have released their debut longplayer Venomous Blossoms. They make baroque psych, taking late ’60s acts like Pink Floyd (the Syd years), The Zombies and 13th Floor Elevators as a starting point and putting their own spin on things. BrooklynVegan

6 Jessica Pratt (US) Just in time for hibernation season, Jessica Pratt has emerged with her first song in three years. The true enchantment of Pratt's music has always existed within her ability to conjure lucid atmospheres with just a guitar and her honeyed voice, and the new single "This Time Around" is no different— a visceral escape to some time gone by. The Fader   Knut har önskat

7 Ellis (CAN) Linnea Siggelkow has seen her share of fuzzy places in her life. Born in Saskatchewan, she grew up in the prairies and then moved to Ontario in her teens. Whenever Linnea Siggelkow writes music, she vanishes into a headspace she imagines, called "the fuzz." "The way I describe it is like the static on the TV screen when you're between channels or whatever," she tells Exclaim! "It's a place where you're lost, where you're not grounded. That is a place I've found myself in a lot in my 20s." This place was such an intrinsic part of her songwriting that her band Ellis's debut EP, as well as its title track, were named after the fuzz. Exclaim.ca  Knut har önskat

8 The Good, The Bad and The Queen (UK) Damon Albarn’s eclectic supergroup confront national myths on an ambitious album of Brexit-era Anglicana. In the music, there’s plenty of what you might term “Anglicana”: the wheeze of fairgrounds, the birdsong of music hall piano and the dissipated, three-legged lurch of folk, undercut by the rumbling resonance of Simonon’s post-Windrush bass-playing. The Guardian

9 Kikagaku Moyo (JAP) The band´s latest album, ‘Masana Temples’ is, a thing of beauty from the stunning artwork… ‘Gatherings’, a track that kicks off with a massive heavy guitar opening before settling down into a lovely plangent rhythm… and then away into some sort of inner space. Sitting here I feel like I’m in a cave which has blossom on the walls, my tea is obviously kicking in now, and as the guitar hammers back in the walls melt away to reveal an altogether more open scene… darkness, a valley the sun just peering up on the horizon. Psychinsightmusic.com

10 Soap & Skin (Au) From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend is Plaschg’s third album under the name Soap&Skin. The second, Narrow, in the six years since its release, has become something of a fixation for me. Its anger and intimacy are piercing, all the more so for the stately neoclassical structure of her songs. Perhaps if I didn’t know Plaschg is Austrian, her music wouldn’t seem so Viennese to me, redolent of the city of Freud, the city of dark wood drawing rooms, of dust motes in light beams through heavy drapes. But I do, and it does.  The Quietus   OBS! Två låtar – rösta som om det vore en låt

Ni har som vanligt två veckor på er. Lämna in era röster senast söndag 6 december. 

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Kikagaku Moyo