I thought it'd be easy. A list of my top ten local albums of the year. It ballooned, quickly, into twenty. I soon realized it’d be more sensible, given the Internet’s unintended implosion of the album-as-experience, I found it less maddening to think of certain artist's stand-out songs, my particular favorites. Search the “tags” on bandcamp to find –
The Juliets’ “Hey Stars” from Perfect Season
Man The Hunter’s “Less For You” (though, technically, released last December, a single)
Ben Collins (of Lightning Love/Starling Electric)’s “Feel Good Garden” (demos)
Bad Indians “The Path Home” Path Home 7”
Tally Hall’s “The Trap” from Good & Evil
Jeffrey Freer covering Nick Cave’s “Hallelujah” from Demo Party
Blue Snaggletooth’s epic “Death of the Time Lords” from Dimension Thule
Little Island Lake’s “September Sons” from Jawbone
Match By Match’s “Ambulance” from American Crowbar
Buffay’s mad remix “Holy Water” blends together three Detroit rappers and Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program – and oh, there’s also JWPP’s “Human” from The Glass is Half Full.
Small House’s “North” from North,
Ghost Lady’s “Snakes” from Henry
Prussia’s “St. Elmo’s Fire Part II” from their Poor English LP
Matt Jones & the Reconstruction’s “Special Forces”
Timothy Monger’s “North Side of the Road.”
It was a plentiful year of pleasant rock and pop songs —too many to name. Keep surfing for those streams.
