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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2019

Posted on 23/12/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Gotta be honest, I lacked motivation for writing this column. Normally it’s the piece I look forward to writing the most. Doing an annual music round-up is the only blogging tradition I’ve developed since I started five years ago. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 2020, Best Albums Of 2019, Bill Callahan, Crush, Essential Listening, Eton Alive, Fairport Convention, Fat White Family, FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Ghosteen, Imperial Flood, Loft conversion is finished!, Logos, Magdalene, Merry Christmas, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, NTS podcasts, Originals, Paranoid London, Peace out homies, PL, Prince, Richard Dawson, Serfs Up!, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, Sleaford Mods | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: The Best Songs Of 2015

Posted on 28/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Well pilgrims, we arrive at the best songs of 2015. Many of these choices come from the albums I selected on my best albums/EP’s/Mixes/Reissues of 2015 post last week. The reason for this? I know it sounds snobbish, but there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Alexandria, All Safe All Well, Alright, Antony Hegarty, Art Angels, Atom Dance, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Bem Inventory, Best Songs of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blown, Blur, Calling Card, Calling Card / Mezzanine, Carina Sayles, Carmine, CC Not, Chorus, Crisis, Crotocosm, Culture Of Volume, D.K., Dark Energy, Dream A Garden, East India Youth, Eating Glue, Elaenia, Erotic Heat, Essential Listening, Even Temper, Fanatic, Fanatic 2, Fit Siegel, FKA Twigs, Flesh Without Blood, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, Holly Herndon, I Neva Seen, If God Is Not Here, In Quiet Streets, In Time, Infinity Machines, iTunes, Jam City, Jessy Lanza, Jlin, Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Key Markets, Levon Vincent, Licence To Dream, Loca, Love On Delivery, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mercury In Retrograde, Mutado Pintado, My Terracotta Heart, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, Patricia, Platform, Projections, Prostitutes, Rainbow, Re Run Home, Romare, Shutdown, Silhouettes I II & III, Skepta, Sleaford Mods, Summertime 06, The Beginning, The Epic, The Galleria, The Magic Whip, To Pimp a Butterfly, Too many tags again, Turn Away, Vince Staples, Vtro V 2.0, Vulnicura, White Privileged Wank, Worriedaboutsatan | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums, EPs, Reissues and Mixes of 2015

Posted on 24/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year the better music websites (and no, this doesn’t include the Kanye West fellating, hypster centric, Pitchfork) are publishing their end of year lists well before the year ends, in some cases right at the start of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 31st March Mix for Rinse FM, 38 Metal Guitar, 54 Synth Brass, 65 Cathedral, A Love Supreme, A Tribe Called Quest, Alexandria, Ami Shavit, Another Side, Anthony Child, Aphex Twin, Art Angels, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Best of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blur, Brand new, CC Not, Demdike Stare, Dream A Garden, Elaenia, Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Volume 1, EP, Fingers Inc., FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, High Drama (Blowing Up The Workshop 41), Holly Herndon, I Was Crossing a Bridge – Music From Memory, In Alpha Mood, In Situ, Infinity Machines, Jam City, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Key Markets, Laurel Halo, Leif, Lil-Ugly Mane, Lone & Ross From Friends, M Ashworth, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mixes, NTS Mix 5th November, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Peru Bravo: Funk, Platform, Reissue, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Secret Thirteen Mix 149, Shinchi Atobe, Ship-Scope, Shit And Shine, Sleaford Mods, Soul & Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Sticky Fingers, Summertime 06, Taraxacum, Testpressing 007 (EP), The Epic, The Magic Whip, The Rolling Stones, Third Side of The Tape, Too many tags, user48736353001, Vince Staples, Vito Ricci, Vulnicura | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: The Best Songs Of 2014

Posted on 28/12/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

First off, a confession – compiling this list proved more difficult that I imagined it would be. I often make the complaint of not being afforded enough time to listen to a sufficient amount of music. Now I know this … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 100's, 23 Songs, A Little God In My Hands, Actress, Airglow Fires, All The Rays, Anima, Aphex Twin, AraabMuzik, As Above So Below, B1, Basic Channel, Benji, Best Songs of 2014, Bok Bok, British Murder Boys, Crystal Cult 2080, Delorean Dynamite, DJ Sprinkles, Essential Listening, FKA Twigs, Flatland, For Professional Use Only 2, Forerunner Foray, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Ghettoville, Grand Central Part. I (Deep Into The Bowel Of House), Grumbling Fur, Happy New Year to all, Howard, I do listen to enough music, It's Album Time, IVRY, Kassem Mosse, Legowelt, Lese Majesty, Live In Tokyo, Lone, LP1, Luke Haines, Melanie Di Biasio, Midtown 120 Blues, Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix), New York in the 70's, No Deal, Objekt, Pendulum, Piñata, Preternaturals, Punish Honey, Q-Loop, Reality Testing, Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes, Shabazz Palaces, Skepta, Strays, Sun Kil Moon, Swans, Sweet Darling Pain, Syro, Ten Freaky Hoes, That's Not Me, The Hope, Thuggin', Time, To Be Kind, Todd Terje, Tricks n Kicks n Drugs, Vessel, When The Spring Comes Again, Workshop 19, Yet again too many tags, Your Charizmatic Self | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2014

Posted on 22/12/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

And so we’ve reached the end of another year. It’s the worst time of year; it’s cold, dark and I’m left with an inalienable, amassing sense of dread with each one that passes that there’s surely not many more left … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Alan Vega, Albums, Alec Empire, Alec Empire’s Baker’s Dozen Mix for The Quietus, Ambient, Andy Warhol, Aphex Twin, AraabMuzik, Atari Teenage Riot, Baader Meinhof, Basic Channel, Beats In Space, Benji, Brian Eno, Champagne Holocaust, Clouds Mix – Up North (ATTTKLFCO), Crystal Cult 2080, DJ, DJ Sprinkles, Drone, EP's, Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2014, Ett, Fact Mag, Fat White Family, FKA Twigs, For Professional Use Only 2, Fourth World - Possible Musics Vol. 1, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Grime, Grouper, Hailu Mergia, Hailu Mergia & The Walias, Hedonism, House, Jan Jelinek, Jon Hassell, Kassem Mosse, Klara Lewis, Legowelt, Lese Majesty, Lou Reed, LP1, Luke Haines, Mark Kozelek, Merry Christmas everyone, Midtown 120 Blues, Mixes, New York in the 70's, Piñata, Q-Loop, Reissues, Ruins, Scott Walker & Sunn O))), Secret Thirteen, Secret Thirteen Mix 101, shabazz, Shabazz Palaces, Singles, Skeepta (feat. JME), Soused, Stuff from 2013, Sun Kil Moon, Sunn O))), Surgeon Mix at Freerotation 2014, Syro, Tche Belew, That's Not Me, The Quietus, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, Too many tags as per usual, Workshop 19, Xosar | 1 Comment