01) Okkervil River - Mary On A Wave 00:00 02) Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé - L'écurie humaine 05:06 03) Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker 10:18 04) Bon Iver - ____45_____ 15:00 05) Maggie Rogers - Alaska 17:38 06) Shearwater - Stray Light At Clouds Hill 20:22 07) Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance 25:51 08) Sinead Harnett - Say What You Mean 30:23 09) Blood Orange - Best to You 34:04 10) Georgia Ruth - Week of Pines 37:37 11) Drowzy - Hide N Seek 42:59 12) Lambchop - NIV 47:12 13) Snowblink - How Now 51:46 14) Whitney - No Woman 55:14 15) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Under Your Always Light 59:11
Time once again to select a set from the new “Said the Gramaphone” year-end collection (the wh...
01) Okkervil River - Mary On A Wave 00:00 02) Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé - L'écurie humaine 05:06 03) Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker 10:18 04) Bon Iver - ____45_____ 15:00 05) Maggie Rogers - Alaska 17:38 06) Shearwater - Stray Light At Clouds Hill 20:22 07) Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance 25:51 08) Sinead Harnett - Say What You Mean 30:23 09) Blood Orange - Best to You 34:04 10) Georgia Ruth - Week of Pines 37:37 11) Drowzy - Hide N Seek 42:59 12) Lambchop - NIV 47:12 13) Snowblink - How Now 51:46 14) Whitney - No Woman 55:14 15) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Under Your Always Light 59:11
Those of you who’ve heard the Lux et Amor session have already had the pleasure of the Bon Iver track; pleasure enough, I’m betting, to not mind hearing it again. Beyond that, I was most moved by songs with a folkie vibe this time around: from the basic guitar/voice arrangement of Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé's French-language offering, or the sweet lazy sounds of Maggie Rogers, Whitney, & Georgia Ruth, to the layered, textured sweep of Drowzy, Snowblink, & Shearwater ... to my ear, these all represent the folk music ethic in some way. That doesn’t mean everything’s quiet & soft: hi-energy tunes from Sinead Harnett, Jenny Hval & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will woke you.
And in these times, a special mention goes to Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker.