This Music Wins Review Of The Year 2011 on Resonance FM

After writing an albums of the year list longer than probably all my posts across the entire year put together, putting together a 90 minute radio show for Resonance FM seemed like a breeze. So, here it is: 15 or so of my favourite songs of the year in Radio Show format. View the written list here.

DOWNLOAD: This Music Wins Review Of The Year 2011 (MP3)

To air New Years Day 10pm (GMT) on Resonance 104.4FM London, and again Saturday 7th January 10.30am.

1. Kuhrye-OO - Soul Handsome

2. Kurt Vile - Runner Ups

3. Mutual Benefit - Auburn Epitaphs

4. Swansea Recreation Centre - First Time European

5. Youth Lagoon - July

6. Woodsman - In Circles

7. Twin Sister - Kimmi In A Rice Field

8. Deptford Goth - Real Love Fantasy

9. Dead Gaze - Fishing With Robert

10. Evenings - Lo-Velo

11. Little Dragon - Ritual Union

12. Conifers - Legs And Arms

13. How To Dress Well - Here In Heaven (Elite Gymnastics Cover)

14. Ricky Eat Acid ft. Arrange - P.S.L.W

15. Dive - Sometime

16. Porcelain Raft - Amateur’s Feeling

17. Braids - Plath Heart

18. The War On Drugs - Come To The City

19. Fleet Foxes - The Shrine / An Argument

And with these musical highlights of 2011 in mind, we can put it behind us. I wish everyone a great 2012.

[Resonance FM #28] Mutual Benefit, Halls, Sharon Van Etten, New Beard, Co La, Some Gorgeous Accident

The 29th This Music Wins podcast/radio show will air Saturday 3rd December on Resonance 104.4FM (listen). Download the full audio below or stream tracks via 8tracks.

DOWNLOAD: This Music Wins #29 (MP3)

• Mutual Benefit - Auburn Epitaphs (MP3)
• Halls - Colossus (MP3)
• Sharon Van Etten - Mike McDermott (MP3)
• New Beard - Given (Feat. Gustav Ejstes) (MP3)
• Co La - Visions Of Excess (Wet Version) (MP3)
• Some Gorgeous Accident - Panorama (MP3)

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Philip Seymour Hoffman & Mutual Benefit - Split Cassette

Mutual Benefit’s enchanting “Autumn Epitaphs” rings with the jarred and twinkling ambience of morning, as sampled from Chinese song “Fishing Village Girl”, and forms the perfect inaugural track for Kassette Klub’s latest full length release.

The 32-minute tape split between Mutual Benefit’s ethereal electronic folk record The Cowboy’s Prayer and Philip Seamour Hoffman’s desolate and downcast Your Loving Brother is a voyage of vocal loops and chimes, a lucid acousmatic and analogue electronic record which will send shivers down your spine. At $5 a tape (shipping in December) and $1 a download on bandcamp, either format is a steal.

Mutual Benefit - Autumn Epitaphs (MP3)

On Sunday I made my way down to the Netaudio event at the Roundhouse, a yearly event, conference, broadcast and live music convention for which my commissioned piece, a This Music Wins special outlining my thoughts on the stylistic future of experimental music on the internet, went out at 4.30pm via Roundhouse Radio and Resonance 104.4 FM London. You can listen again to the piece below, grab a zip file of all the compositions, or download them individually via tracklisting. Though trains prevented me from catching the headlining ‘Nurse With Wound’ at KOKO that evening, I did manage to catch an interesting set from abrasively captioned ‘Cuntbucket’ - who played a seemingly improvised and jazz-infused noise piece for around 40 minutes up in the open space. Check them out here.

Listen to / download the broadcast (MP3)

1. Mount Kimbie - Maybes (MP3)

2. Dorian Concept - Forced Laughter Might Save Your Life (MP3)

3. Is And Of The - Sleepless Dream (MP3)

4. Kuhrye-oo - Soul Handsome (MP3)

5. Of Oceans - In Love, Not Limbo (MP3)

6. Joasihno - Von (MP3)

7. Fishing - White Sheet Beach (MP3)

8. Matthew Dear - Slowdance (How To Dress Well Seance) (MP3)

9. Ricky Eat Acid - Anxieties ft. Rachel Levy (MP3)

10. WU LYF - Concrete Gold (MP3)

11. StaG - Tired (MP3)

12. Woodsman - Chants (MP3)

13. Twin Sister - Milk & Honey (MP3)

14. Tamaryn - Sandstone (MP3)

15. Young Prisms - Breathless (MP3)

16. Carnivals - Leeda (MP3)

17. Gold Panda - Quitters Raga (MP3)

18. Mutual Benefit - Piano Experiments In An Abandoned Hospital (MP3)