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Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Anthony Carew's Fave Albums From 2003
Neumu's Michael Goldberg writes: As 2003 draws to a close, it's time for those much-anticipated Neumu "best-of" lists. Each year we ask our contributors to consider all that they've listened to during the past year, and to come up with a list of their favorite albums (and, if they are so moved, their fave songs, concerts or whatever). Today we kick off what will be a number of weeks of "best-of" lists with our man in Melbourne, Australia, the legendary Anthony Carew, and a list of albums that will surely rock your world.
1. The Concretes, The Concretes (Licking Fingers): Ungodly-good girl-group from the mean streets of Stockholm, who swagger like Ronnie and layer on instruments like Phil as they conjure the Spector of past pop with wall-of-sound arrangements stacked so high an elephant's eye is an inappropriate metaphor for measurement. It's such ridiculous genius that calling it album-of-the-year feels like slander.
2. Kazumi Nikaidoh, Mata Otosimasitayo (Poet Portraits): This capricious Japanese songsmith assembles frail homemade heartbreak so stirring it makes me feel like I'm walking into the wind: I shiver, get goosebumps, and my eyes start to water.
3. Dizzee Rascal, Boy in da Corner (XL): Our dear Dizzee does his guv'na patois with supreme style, spouting truths-as-he-sees-them over gutter-garage and boingy bouncement beats that whip hip-hop's mule's-ass with a bitchy Brit belt. And — in an inverse way to USA hip-pop gear — it's on the 'ballads' that this disc pulls out all the stops.
4. The Microphones, Mount Eerie (K): Making the concept record seem effortlessly cool, Phil Elvrum and his cast of characters make an epic indie-pop rock-opera whose misty mountain-top musically mixes plaintive guitar strumming with freaked-out Taiko drumming.
5. Alasdair Roberts, Farewell Sorrow (Drag City): Albums that seek to pick up the "spirit" of past movements at a later date often miss the point, but Alasdair Roberts' jaw-dropping folk-revivalist action recalls Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins in ways that go way beyond record collections, hitting at the heart of tradition and sounding super-pretty to boot.
6. The Gossip, Movement (Kill Rock Stars): The rock-revival honks more than a flock of migrating geese, but this sure don't — all ballsy boogie-rock soul-shouting dressed up in large-sized feminist threads. Astonishing, ass-shaking, furious, fun.
7. Cat Power, You Are Free (Matador): Chan Marshall is Punky Brewster all grown up, grown up to stand statuesque, her heroism all the more heart-warming when you take the artistic purity and personal benevolence into account.
8. Tujiko Noriko, From Tokyo to Naiagara (Tomlab): Amidst the ghosts of fried circuits and the looming shadows of droned-out keytone, this strangely-symphonic abstract-electro sister authors digitoned lullabies of the sweetest creepiness; her latest longplayer tunes out some of the freak'd-out fuzz to get a little more pop-like.
9. The Postal Service, Give Up (SubPop): New Order-esque sad-electro-pop-you-can-dance-to gets granted a long life of repeat play by Ben Gibbard's grand emo-boy lyrics, which are so densely-syllabled and doggedly sentimental that you can't help but bow to their sentiment. Like: "And I long for life in every word to the extent that it's absurd."
10. Architecture in Helsinki, Fingers Crossed (Trifekta): Cute kids from Melbourne kitted out in Geographic threads mix superduperfly studio sophistication with childlike inquisition, making like some school orchestra running wild and free by making music mild and twee. Lurking beneath such exuberant spirit being a whole bunch of sad songs about relationships gone awry and such.
11. Broadcast, Ha Ha Sound (Warp): "Oh How I Miss You" (repeat to fade). Best 80 seconds of the year.
12. Kahimi Karie, Trapèziste (Victor): After so long as being some super-cute ingenue for Cornelius and then Momus, Karie's first chance at calling all the artistic shots is an immense slice of run-amok genius that fuses electro-pop, spoken-word, free-jazz freakouts, and Carmen into a collagist-girlie-pop whole of wild ambition.
13. Haco & Sakamoto Hiromichi, Ash in the Rainbow (Detector/ReR Megacorp): Sakamoto brings his box of baroque Cinorama tricks — jew's harp, musical saw, music boxes — to a set in which Haco's cold-driven-snow voice veers from angelic to sardonic to suit the disc's disparate, moody moods.
14. Lightning Bolt, Wonderful Rainbow (Load): Shaking that man-on-man/two-guys-in-a-van shtick for all its worth, the homoerotic fight-club of rock make like they're peddling pop-songs on a tough-guy set tighter than your dad's jocks.
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell (Dress Up): Amidst the fervor and fashion and hot haircuts and quiet/loud contrasts and such, there quietly lurks a rock-'n'-roll-ballad to give rock-'n'-roll-ballads a good name; "Maps" is so romantic and tender and emotionally thrilling it seems the musical equivalent of making out.
16. Elizabeth Mitchell, You Are My Sunshine (Last Affair): I want to have children just so I can play it to them.
17. Adam Green, Friends of Mine (Rough Trade): Green came up with every one of these songs from humming them over in his head, so it's hardly a surprise that the foul-mouth'd lyrics and golden-gaytime orchestrations get set to some mighty memorable melodies.
18. Richard Youngs, Airs of the Ear (Jagjaguwar): Best folk-drone gear this side of Floating Flower, with Youngs dowsing his pastoral patterning in multi-track'd guitar-tone and alien-landing ring-modulations and other such unearthly audio, all held together by the rich resonance of his dapper voice.
19. Scout Niblett, I Am (Secretly Canadian): Anthony Carew loves Scout Niblett
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20. The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight (Stockholm): So, like, as side-B to The Concretes on my most-continually-flogged car-tape, the Cardigans' grown-up/acoustic type gear had a lot of time to let its quiet wisdoms on relationships sink in. And it ended up sinking in deep, Nina Persson's pop-song lyrics seemingly like the most tautly-composed poetry of the day-to-day.
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