Well, 2011. You were quite the year! So much so that I’ve only been able to recover enough to think about you a full week into 2012. Crazy, huh? New jobs, lots of change, oodles of shenanigans, and yes, lots of good music. So much so, that I undoubtedly missed vast quantities of things that I really should have got to. Ho hum.
So what things did Skye like? Blimey. I just looked at the Excel spreadsheet of this year’s releases (see how cool Skye is!), and there’s a lot of stuff on there. However it’s fair to say that I do actually have a favourite record of 2011, despite my general resistance to ranking things. I know, crazy times, huh, maybe the Mayans are right after all.
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2011,
anna calvi,
arcade fire,
bill wells and aidan moffat,
bon iver,
carloman,
cults,
danger mouse and daniel luppi,
feist,
gorillaz,
king cresote and jon hopkins,
king's daughters and sons,
laura marling,
loch lomond,
low,
mogwai,
roundup,
sons & daughters,
st. vincent,
stephen malkmus and the jicks,
summer camp,
the dead man's waltz,
the go team,
tv on the radio,
wilco,
wild beasts
From Jealous Butcher Records comes a rather incredible new collection of covers by a slew of indie artists including M. Ward, The Long Winters and Loch Lomond. The compilation entitled From The Land of Ice And Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin took several years to record and part of the proceeds will be going to support First Octave, a music education-based organization that believes that consistent music education fosters creative as well as intellectual values and is essential to a balanced core curriculum in schools. Pre-order the album out on October 10th here.
The label tells the story of how the collection came to be on their site:
“Rob (Jealous Butcher), Matt (Ward) and John (King) were sitting around the basement in the evening working on cover art for a project, espousing their love and respect for Led Zeppelin in their formative musical years. And wouldn’t it be nice to put together a tribute release featuring friends both near and afar, not being a “who’s who” sort of tribute, but rather a “community” inspired collection of Zeppelin songs.”
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