Changing the way you hear
The Music Category on this blog sits lonely, an orphan, unaccompanied by a single post. If you only know me by this blog, you would never guess time and money I spend on music. I listen almost exclusively to indie rock at the wordier end of the spectrum, but what I look for most of all in music is that it changes the way I hear. Most of my favorite songs didn’t even strike my ear as music the first time I heard them.
I can’t remember a better year for music in my life. In 2008 the following bands and albums all changed the way I hear:
Aesop Rock
Bang on a Can All-Stars Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Battles
The Blow
Cocorosie
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton
Girl Talk
Iron & Wine
Joanna Newsom
Los Campesinos
The Mountain Goats
Of Montreal
Oscar Peterson
Pas/Cal
Prototypes
Tinariwen
Why?
Yeasayer
Not all of these bands had new releases in 2008, but all of them were new to me this year.
Right now Department of Eagles is completely blowing my mind.
