OFF: Best Of 2014

[Gary Shinder's HAMMER]

Thanks for sharing, digging the Space Invaders/Nik Turner
  album. Gary

On 1/3/15, Ed Mundo <e_clout at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I can second the Mugstar/Cosmic Dead Split. I went to the Manchester
> promotion gig, unfortunately Cosmic Dead's van broke down and they didn't
> make it. I enjoyed Mugstar so much I literally bought the T-Shirt! (already
> had the vinyl)
>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 17:12:41 -0500
>> From: jguizar at STNY.RR.COM
>> Subject: Re: OFF: Best Of 2014
>> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>>
>> On 1/3/2015 3:30 PM, Keith Henderson wrote:
>> > Hi Folx...
>> >
>> > I hope you all had a good "slide" into the new year, as they say in
>> > Germany.  Well, I finally settled on my Best of... list for 2014, and it
>> > was really hard this year to decide.  I had nearly 120 new releases to
>> > review and choose from, which took some time.  In the end, my Top 10
>> > goes like this, and if you want to see the rest of the list, plus the
>> > other writers at AI.com, click on the link.  In my case, you can also
>> > click on the link underneath each entry, so you can have a listen for
>> > yourself.
>> >
>> > http://aural-innovations.com/blog/2015/01/aural-innovations-staff-picks-for-best-of-2014/
>> >
>> > 1. 3rd Ear Experience (US) – Incredible Good Fortune
>> > 2. Space Invaders (Germany) & Nik Turner (UK) – Sonic Noise Opera
>> > 3. Camera (Germany) – Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide
>> > 4. The Spacelords (Germany) – Synapse
>> > 5. Sleepin Pillow (Greece) – The World Is Over…
>> > 6. Barrows (US) – Red Giant
>> > 7. Eye (US) – Live At Relay (B-side new material), plus Second Sight
>> > (end 2013)
>> > 8. Yuri Gagarin (Sweden) – Yuri Gagarin
>> > 9. ST 37 (US) – I’m Not Good
>> > 10. Gong (Australia) – I See You
>> >
>> > I love looking at other people's end-of-year lists, since you can find
>> > out about other obscure bands that like-minded folks have discovered but
>> > you haven't yet.  I guess my discoveries for the year are mainly Sleepin
>> > Pillow (a weird mix of gothic electronica, middle-eastern sounds, and
>> > hard-drivin' krautrockish psych-rock) in Greece, Polska Radio One (a
>> > great Russian-language band with both 60s swirly psych and modern hard
>> > psych rock influences), and then a bunch of South American bands, like
>> > Anjo Gabriel (Brazil, long-form psych), La Hell Gang (Chile, shoegazery
>> > psych) and Foellakzoid (Chile, motorik krautrock), but only one of these
>> > put out an album in 2014.  Also, Fairuz Derin Bulut in Turkey, who also
>> > put out an album last in 2013, is pretty cool.
>> >
>> > Scott Heller also has his list out at
>> > http://writingaboutmusic.blogspot.com/ and amazingly, he chose the same
>> > No. 1 album of the year!   3rd Ear Experience also appears on two of the
>> > three other lists at A-I.com, so they must have something going.  Yeah,
>> > last year's Boi was also very high on my list, and along with White
>> > Manna and my favorite kraut-revival bands (Camera, Cave, Foellakzoid,
>> > etc.), and a fun, poppy-but-cool-psychedelic band from Newcastle UK
>> > called Parastatic (due for a new album soon) are just about my favorite
>> > bands going these days, at least among the relative newcomers.
>> >
>> > Anyway, hope you're all doing well, whoever's left on the list these
>> > days (where has everybody gone?  I don't do social media, apart from
>> > email, pathetic as I am).  The lineup for Hawkeaster 2015 is looking
>> > pretty strong, I'd love to get myself there for it, but doubt that I
>> > will make it happen.
>> >
>> > Keith H., where it's freezing rain at the moment
>>
>>    I don't do social media either. I've been hanging out at
>> hardrockrevolution.com (when I'm not on bandcamp).
>>
>>    Thanks for the links. There's a few I have to check out :)
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> One of my favorites.
>>
>> https://mugstar.bandcamp.com/album/mugstar-cosmic-dead
>>
>> To listen to Cosmic Dead side
>> https://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/album/fukahyoocastulah-from-mugstar-split-12
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