Share your album recommendations from the past year, so that I can check them out.

Top 5? Or even just Best one?

Would love to know what tickled your fancy.

Even the "new" music I discover is decades old.

Making your world a better place, by staying at home most of the time.

No problem.

What is it, anyway?

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

From Better Records

Just waiting for someone to say Darkside of the Moon...

The 600th Anniversary Super Limited Edition in Dolby Atmos will be stupendous

It's not been a year of new music for me but more taking the opportunity to finally pick up some cd releases that have been on my want list for some time, more than a decade for one.

Jethro Tull- Living in the Past, mobile fidelity double set which is the only one to combine all the tracks from the original UK and USA releases. Most expensive cd I've purchased.

Caravan- In the Land of Grey and Pink.
Three disc set with outtakes etc and higher rez DVD audio.

Tim Bownes/Samuel Smiles-World of Bright Futures. Been after this for a very long time. Kept hanging out for a promised reissue from Burning Shed to no avail so finally have a supposedly mint copy coming from Sweden.
Still a few left on my want list but really nothing that demands immediate action.

On the new cd front picked up the first 4 Santana reissues in the 7" format. Love the packaging and attention to detail in these reissues. Toying whether I should get the just released Welcome in the same series.

Best new supplier
Record city Japan.
You do have to read their listings carefully but everything I've purchased so far has been fine. A bit of a trap for me chasing Japanese promo cds.

First year in at least a couple of decades when I've purchased no LPs or added to the hifi gear.
Music collection has gone from a high of 3400 to current 1677.

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

What's the building album, above the PJ Harvey?

Dec 1, 2023 16:53:18 GMT 12 clothears said:

Even the "new" music I discover is decades old.

+1

Forgot I bought the PJ album...

And these

Must check out that Church album foveaux

In no particular order,

The Handsome Family -- Hollow
Allison Russell -- The Returner
Jeb Loy Nichols -- United States of the Broken Hearted
The Wood Brothers -- Heart is the Hero
Joe Henry -- All the eye can see - (thanks Foveaux)

All very nicely produced and respond well to an extra notch or two on the volume nob.

The special "do not play when under the influence or else you'll dance around the room like a loon and fall over and break something" prize goes to side 1 (only) of Built to Spill -- When the wind knows your name.

Dec 2, 2023 12:35:12 GMT 12 Citroen said:

What's the building album, above the PJ Harvey?

'The Price of Progress' - The Hold Steady

So Solid.

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

Never heard of them! Wow, their ninth album.

A highlight for me is Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily - Love In Exile

Urdu vocalist, meets jazz pianist, meets multi-instrumentlist, all in perfect harmony!

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

Dreamy, poignant, simple Sufjan.

Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru - Jerusalem

Very lofi but has all the feels.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12

Its not at all a mournful album even if it was his last knowing he had stage 4 cancer.

ANOHNI and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross

Most soulful yet.

jaimie branch: Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))

Her last and most tiumphant album.

Toto - Tambu (1995). Faure - Nocturnes and Barcarolles M-A Hamelin (2023). And - Stanley Clarke - Standards - I discovered on Spotify - which would be good to have on cd or lp:

Thanks rmc001 I really enjoyed that!

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