Went and had a quick listen on Youtube to 'Promises' by Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders and the LSO. This looks like just the sort of multi-genre, attention-fixing record that really gets me excited.
Also realised that there are another couple of discs from this year that I hadn't got around to,:
Yes 'The Quest' and Tesseract 'Portals'.
All 3 were reasonably-priced om Amazon - so they have been ordered.
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Upstairs: VinylPro-Ject 1.2 + Grado Sig Jr + Cambridge Alva Duo DigiVolumio PC + Kiss DP-500 + Sabaj A20d NVA: Cube2 - SSP - LS6+ Sabaj A10a {x2)
Little Bear MC2 + AQ NightHawk Downstairs: VinylLogic DM101 + Syrinx LE1 + Grado Sig MCX DigiDenafrips Ares II + Volumio PC + Cambridge CXC NVA: P50 & PSU - BMUAiyima A07 MAX + Arcam One HP: Allo DigiOne + Sabaj A10d + AQ NightOwl Office: Allo DigiOne SIG + SMSL M300se + Douk G4 (x2)
Mission 760 + Monolith 887 + German Maestro GMP 450
In no order of preference I would suggest some of the ones below are worth a listen. 2021 probably not a great vintage but plenty of good stuff out there.
St Vincent – Daddy’s Home
Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
Jane Weaver – Flock
Rhiannon Giddens – There Calling Me Home
Tom Petty – Finding Wildflowers (Alternative Version)
Allison Russell – Outside Child
David Crosby – For Free
Sarah Jarosz – Blue Heron Suite
Villagers – Fever Dreams
Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming
James McMurtry – The Horses and the Hounds
Shannon Lay – Geist
Goat Girl – On All Fours
The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Charlotte Cornfield – High in The Minuses
Holly Macve – Not the Girl
John Grant – Boy from Michigan
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Fretless (Thu Dec 16, 2021 3:28 pm) • savvypaul (Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:20 pm)
I'm not sure that my favourite 2021 albums are all from 2021, but they are all reasonably recent, within the 'Covid Era'...
David Ferguson - Nashville No More
Willie Nelson - The Willie Nelson Family
Tony Joe White - Smoke From The Chimney
The Specials - Protest Songs
Spencer Cullum - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection
Connie Smith - The Cry Of The Heart
Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
Rumer - Live From Lafayette
Margo Price - That's How Rumours Get Started
Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers
The Wedding Present - Locked Down & Stripped Back
The Nightingales - Four Against Fate
Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me
Lorkin O'Reilly - Marriage Material
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