I hope to lay down some words soon on some or all of these, but in the meantime, here’s a glimpse of what I’ve been listening to repeatedly so far this year (as of mid-March 2013):
New albums
Yo La Tengo, Fade
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
David Bowie, The Next Day
Atoms for Peace, AMOK
Michael Winograd, Storm Game
Hillel Tigay, Judeo
Fernando Otero, Romance (don’t let the unfortunate title fool you – this is great avant chamber jazz)
Still in heavy rotation from last year
Bobby Womack, Bravest Man in the Universe
Daughn Gibson, All Hell
Amanda Palmer, Theatre Is Evil
Wallflowers, Glad All Over
Finally caught up with and enjoying a lot
Dawes, Nothing Is Wrong
Balkan Beat Box, Give
Magnetic Fields – everything they’ve released
Amanda Palmer – all her older stuff
What about you? Have you heard anything new (or old) that you would really recommend?