This Year's Records 8/18 - Monday's Long Songs

Today I start my annual journey to Sri Lanka and will recreate my batteries and will be back in the middle of January next year. Planning my list of records from this year there is one that fits perfect to the the Monday series. Jon Hopkins released Singularity in the first half of the year and it one of the finest techno-ambient albums of the year. The heart of the album are two songs over 10 minutes. While Everything Connected  is the typical straight techno monster we expected Luminous Beings starts contrary and blurred to move into techno spheres. That this sound works great live as well I could see this year in Mannheim.

Jon Hopkins - Everything Connected
Jon Hopkins - Luminous Beings

This Years Records 1/18

The year bends to the end and, as usual, it is to be looked back at the published albums of this year. After all I can say it was a good year in music. There were so many good albums released in so many various movements that it is hard to pick out only 18 for this year. So I picked out those records that was played often in my home or on my way to/from office.

In March Tracy Thorne released her latest album Record after a long period of absence. And it was well worth to wait. She came back with nine songs that are rather more than average. All the tracks are catchy and her lyrics sometimes are poetic. I always was a huge fan of her and her voice can improve almost every song that was written. Hat off to this great comeback

Tracy Thorne - Sister ft. Corrnne Bailey Rae
Tracy Thorne - Guitar