Purrs & Hisses from Meow RecordsBy Bryndis Ogmundson Purrs: There are a few things that I am absolutely loving right now: The Book Of Lists, Panda Bear (#17 on April’s top 200), and Frog Eyes.
This is the third solo record from Animal Collective’s Panda Bear. To me, it’s as though there was party where both Matthew Adam Hart (Russian Futurists) and Brian Wilson showed up, and, to put it bluntly, they got it on…big time. This album screams a little of both their work, but of course it also sounds like Animal Collective. How could it not?  Finally, Frog Eyes. I always need a few listens with Frog Eyes. I’m not sure why. The theatrics of Carey Mercer’s vocals just grates on me at times. But with Tears Of The Valedictorian, their fourth release, it just worked for me. I can’t stop listening to it. And, did the person that created the cover for Destroyer’s Notorious Lightning And Other Works also do this one? Hisses: Jarvis Cocker. Jarvis. Ugh. It just doesn’t cut it. Tell me off: music_snob@hotmail.com |
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!earshot Top 200 of 2021For January to December 2021
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| TW | Artist - Title - (Label) | ||
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| 1 | TEKE::TEKE 
Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars) |
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| 2 | The Halluci Nation
One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) |
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| 3 | Chad VanGaalen
World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye) |
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| 4 | The Weather Station
Ignorance - (Next Door) |
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| 5 | Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club) |
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| 6 | Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive) |
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| 7 | Ada Lea
one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door) |
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| 8 | Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz
jooj two - (Mint) |
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| 9 | Suuns
The Witness - (Secret City) |
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| 10 | Andy Shauf
Wilds - (Arts & Crafts) |
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| Specialty Charts #1s | |||
| Electronic: | The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) | ||
| Hip Hop: | Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released) | ||
| International: | Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep) | ||
| Jazz: | Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead) | ||
| Loud: | Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact) | ||
| Folk/Roots/Blues: | Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy) | ||
