That's right -- actual albums (well, mostly CD's, to be honest) with a push-and-pull ebb-and-flow that kept me playing them more often than normal. And I own physical copies of all of the following, which marks me as an old guy clinging to 20th Century media consumption habits to those digital natives out there. Me? I like to think that if I actually paid money for these albums, then they are worth my time and efforts on some level more meaningful than a barely considered MP3 of some hook-free "intensely artistic" existential examination. But maybe that's too harsh. Here are some of my faves, in no particular order, each followed by a first-draft haiku extolling virtues through verses.
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
like Lynch for your ears / nightmarish vapors and ash / deliquescent pop
Hot Chip - In Our Hands
autistic swagger / these English nerds kill dance floors / with infectious glee
Chromatics - Kill For Love
swelling and epic / with swooning gauzy guitars / dreamy resonance
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
so earthy and real / with any false notes absent / from start to finish
Killing Joke - MMXII
over thirty years / spark past in furious flash / and coruscation
Screaming Females - Ugly
thunderous riffs spiked / with delirious vocals / that slay with whispers
Tom Jones - Spirit In The Room
the twilight lion / still has strength to purr and growl / in the daylight left
Nite Jewel - One Second Of Love
dour introversion / blasted away by the beat / of twee hearts on fire
Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
and speaking of hearts / sounds like a trampled spirit / can't stay down for long
Lovelock - Burning Feeling
so now the dance floor / is the last conquered domain / for our Zombi mate
Soulsavers - The Light The Dead See (feat. Dave Gahan)
that old man Gahan / finds his Mode in Delta Blues / and sweet revival
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
like comet blazing / her rare flare, beyond compare / offers wry delights
Saint Etienne - Words And Music By Saint Etienne
pure Heavenly pop / of a veddy British bent / like they never left
Metric - Synthetica
down to a science / mixing man and machine in / perfect measurement
Like any good list, this is well and incomplete and only captures a moment of emotional spark in the empty ricochets of my memory's chambers. But it will have to do. Up next will be movies or songs or nothing at all, depending on the whimsy of my writing bone, but I hope you'll sample the above works of musical joy and despair and introspection.
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