Vecka 4-5

Här kommer en ny samling låtar. Den avslutas, som sig bör med Mr Bowie.
Jag har en känsla av att han skulle gillat flera av sångerna på denna lista.
Förutom artister från England och USA, så har vi akter från Belgien,
Australien, Nordirland och Norge. Håll till godo.

1. Evangelist (UK) This is the debut, and sadly only album from Evangelist (Gavin Clark, allied to Pablo Clements and James Griffin of Toydrum and Unkle). This is a great record. It is one of 2015's best albums, hands down. If it gets lost in the welter of holiday releases it would be a travesty. The amalgam of Clark's one-of-a-kind vocal and Toydrum's inventive soundscaping would, under normal circumstances have Evangelist marked out as a modern classic. Drowned In Sound

2. Damien Jurado (US) The last two albums from the Seattle singer-songwriter Damien Jurado, 2012’s Maraqopa and 2014’s Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Sun, represented the first two parts of a trilogy. And now Jurado is getting ready to finish that trilogy.The new single “Exit 353″ has the sort of rambling ’70s vibes we’ve come to expect from him. Stereogum

3. Cage The Elephant (US) On their fourth album, Kentucky band Cage this band re furbish mid-Sixties retro-rock with a 21st-century studio vividness. Produced by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach,Tell Me I'm Pretty evokes the Yardbirds, the Easybeats, the Hollies and the acne-scarred Nuggets bands that had one-hit fun ripping off those British Invasion bands. Rolling Stone

4. Royal Headache (AUS) are Australia’s best rock band because everything they do strikes a chord of import. This second album, High, skips abruptly between joy and sadness, despair and resignation, abandon and calm, in a manner that feels eternally pressing, but especially now. It is anxious, crestfallen and incapable of peace. It’s what an Australian rock record, at least one made by four men, should sound like in 2015. Any less is a waste of time. The Guardian

5. Hanne Kolstö (NO) Hanne Kolstø gör elektrodoftande poplåtar med smäktande stråkar på senaste albumet Will We Still Have Light. Sedan de bägge grupprojekten Love:Fi och Thelma & Clyde har hon tidigare släppt fyra album som soloartist. På femte soloskivan är mörkret påtagligt närvarande, med starka trummor som support till Hannes sköra röst.

6. Sea Pinks (NIR) From it’s drone laden opening minute Northern Ireland band Soft Days confounds the listener and consolidates the trio as one of the most distinctive guitar bands around right now. “It feels like a new band” says singer/guitarist Neil Brogan. Soft Days is the band’s second full length studio record, following on from 2014’s Dreaming Tracks and three previous DIY albums on which Brogan played virtually everything himself. SeaPinks.bandcamp.com

7. Half Japanese (US)  är en amerikansk noise rock indierock/lo-figrupp, grundad ungefär 1975 av bröderna Jad och David Fair i Ann Arbor i Michigan.  Wiki . After waiting 13 years to release a studio album, art-punk pioneers Half Japanese are back to their prolific habits of several decades ago. This song “We Cannot Miss” lassos tongue-twisting wordplay (“Holy smoke, holy cow! We demand this our now / This our now / This our then / Let the future now begin”) alongside blocky guitar chugs — interrupted by the occasional subdued squall — and a cowbell galloping beneath all the tightly syncopated noise. Spin.com

8.Cavern of Anti-Matter (UK)  BILD nedan. Stereolab have been fairly quiet since releasing Not Music five years back, but now co-founder Tim Gane is breaking that silence. Back in 2013, he launched a new band called Cavern of Anti-Matter alongside former Stereolab drummer Joe Dillworth and synth maestro Holger Zapf. The 12-track effort features appearances by the likes of Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars), and Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3). This track is a grooving indie electronic number that vibrates with just a tinge of feedback on its higher notes. With a gurgling guitar line and some stylish synth beams, the song feels like a trek through an ocean floating in space. Consequence of Sound

9. Die Verboten (BE) De belgiska bröderna Dewale skapade bandet Soulwax år 2000. Nu heter de Die Verboten. They’re scraping the skies with odes to Kraftwerk, Neu and Can - relentless slow-mo disco drums, bubbling synth arpeggios and floating melodies all expand as the record goes on - indeed, each track here gets progressively longer, starting with the buoyant seven minute romp of ’Dafalganger’, which sounds somewhere between 'Autobahn'’s filtered sweeps, and 'Hallogallo'’s racing, motorik pulse. Drowned In Sound

10. David Bowie (UK) BILD ovan. Ja, vad ska man säga. Saknar honom mycket fortfarande. Alla har väl både hört och sett Lazarus. Har inte mer att tillägga nu. R.I.P. David.

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