This is the last of the year!
Itasca – Smooth
Genre: smooth
Rating: 7/10
Commentary: Vaporous mood music
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Víkingur Ólafsson- Back Reworks (Part 2)
Genre: Classical
Rating: 8/10
Commentary: What is going on here? Does he have a microphone inside the sound box?
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Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Human Race
Genre: Death Metal
Rating: 9/10
Commentary: Extraterrestrial origin myths?
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Avatarium – The Fire I Long For
Genre: Doom Metal
Rating: 7/10
Commentary: End of year crowd pleaser
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Ags Connolly – Wrong Again
Genre: Austin honky-tonk
Rating: 6.5/10
Commentary: Since The Mavericks can’t be bothered to do anything except record cover songs, this is the best we are going to get this year.
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Chadwick Stokes & the Pintos – Untitled
Genre: Activist Jam Folk
Rating: 7/10
Commentary: A much welcomed antidote to the shlock and pablum inflicted on us this year by The Avett Felice Mumford Brothers. Write songs about things that matter!!
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Kati Debretzeni/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner- Bach Violin Concertos
Genre: Classical
Rating: 8.5/10
Commentary: It’s better than listening to Christmas music!
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Omar Souleyman – Shlon
Genre: Techno-folk
Rating: 8/10
Commentary: Happy music for long dark days.
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