I knew it wouldn't be easy to find full albums for you to stream. Legal ones so to speak. But thanks to Bandcamp and musicians' better awareness of music streaming, I'm glad to be able to let you hear these great albums. Though, there are a couple, which you need to stream from fan-made playlists. That's not bad. Bad is when a band uploads all the songs, but don't put them in order.
For me a best album is something, which works as an entity. Not all songs have to be out of this world, but they're linked to each other to comprise a masterpiece. The albums chosen below do just that.
10. Chairlift - Something
9. Crystal Castles - III
8. fun. - Some Nights
7. Team Me - To The Treetops!
6. Reptar - Body Faucet
5. Oberhofer - Time Capsules II
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4. Grimes - Visions
3. Polica - Give You The Ghost
2. Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil
1. Baroness - Yellow & Green
What were your favorite albums of 2012?
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Friday Feature: Team Me
When I was a couple of years back at a Dutch venue called Doornroosje, I signed up for their mailing list, even though I knew that I wouldn't visit the place too often. They do though have interesting line-ups, from which to discover new good music. Yet, I haven't pushed myself to do that. However, this one band picture caught my eye with its setting to be close to my heart and, perhaps, plain quirky to others.
The reason why I can relate to the photo is that I used to look like that several times a week for many years. Especially, in the same position as the two in front.
What, who, when, where, how and which music genre. I had to find the answers.
As I wandered around their Facebook, the first thing to come into my mind was Of Monsters and Men. It's not about them being a sextet from Scandinavia as well, but the style of the tunes were alike. Indie folk is what I described Norwegian Team Me to be. Until, I listened to their critically acclaimed debut To The Treetops! on Spotify just recently. It was pleasant to realize the diversity they had, as opposed to their Icelandic colleagues. Somewhat similar to Gypsy & The Cat's electro pop, is where it might be leaning more to.
Anyways, what Team Me plays is hitting the indie audience hard. They've already performed at some of the biggest up and coming bands' festivals around Europe, like The Great Escape in Brighton, Reeperbahn in Hamburg and Iceland Airwaves, just to name a few. In addition, NME chose them as one of their 10 new favorite bands after this year's SXSW. If that isn't huge, then a German glass of beer isn't either.
With most of the bands I've featured on this blog, I hope to see Team Me find their way to Finland too. In a while, I honestly haven't been excited of new music like I am of theirs.
The reason why I can relate to the photo is that I used to look like that several times a week for many years. Especially, in the same position as the two in front.
What, who, when, where, how and which music genre. I had to find the answers.
As I wandered around their Facebook, the first thing to come into my mind was Of Monsters and Men. It's not about them being a sextet from Scandinavia as well, but the style of the tunes were alike. Indie folk is what I described Norwegian Team Me to be. Until, I listened to their critically acclaimed debut To The Treetops! on Spotify just recently. It was pleasant to realize the diversity they had, as opposed to their Icelandic colleagues. Somewhat similar to Gypsy & The Cat's electro pop, is where it might be leaning more to.
Anyways, what Team Me plays is hitting the indie audience hard. They've already performed at some of the biggest up and coming bands' festivals around Europe, like The Great Escape in Brighton, Reeperbahn in Hamburg and Iceland Airwaves, just to name a few. In addition, NME chose them as one of their 10 new favorite bands after this year's SXSW. If that isn't huge, then a German glass of beer isn't either.
With most of the bands I've featured on this blog, I hope to see Team Me find their way to Finland too. In a while, I honestly haven't been excited of new music like I am of theirs.
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