Here’s my fall playlist of my fave new(ish) noise – called, thrillingly, alt-option. Everything’s from 2011, so far as I know, unless noted otherwise:
- “Amber Hands” S.C.U.M.
- “Think in Stereo” Boy + Kite
- “Talking Science” You Can Be a Wesley
- “Circle Drive” Conrad Plymouth
- “The Way It Will Be” Gillian Welch
- “You Can’t Keep Me” Amy LaVere
- “Cliché” Male Model (1981)
- “An Arcade from the Warm Rain That Falls” Comet Gain
- “Every Melting Degree” Violens
- “The Strawberry Coast” The Larch
- “These Words” Megafaun
- “Return to Pepperland” Paul McCartney (1987, unreleased)
- “You’re Already Gone” The Dig
- “Speaking Politely” Sleepy Kitty
- “Get a Summer Song Goin’” The Fall (2010, vinyl only)
- “Painting Dollar Bills” Fay Wrays
- “Ghost in the Garden” Her Space Holiday
- “You’d Smile Back” The Caribbean (Daytrotter Session rec’d 2010 released 2011)
- “Love” The Nocturnes
- “Inland Valley Water Table Blues” The Human Hearts
- “Excuse Me Who Am I Talking To?” Regal Degal
- “Revelations” Devon Williams
- “Come to Mary” Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
- “Murderous Joy” Carter Tanton
- “Gold Faces” Okkervil River
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Damn, I think I’m out of town when Jesse Sykes plays Toronto. But yay new album!