Daily Newsletter, January 7, 2024

Odds and sods for the first week of the year

Ljubinko Zivkovic
January 07, 2024

33 great 2023 albums from indie / alternative legends

"Past your prime" is a state of mind and this list shows you can be any age and make a terrific album.

www.brooklynvegan.com/33-great-2023-albums-from-indie-alternative-legends/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Inside No. 9, Episode #25: The Best of 2023

Inside No. 9, Episode #25: The Best of 2023 So here it is, my best of 2023. I’m sure there will be loads I’ll miss during December, but I plan on being drunk and warm during advent, indulging in B…

foxydigitalis.zone/2023/12/20/inside-no-9-episode-25-the-best-of-2023/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

15 Years Ago, The Most Hipster Rock Album Was Perfect And Terrible

Let's walk around again with Animal Collective. Here's why their 2009 album, Merriweather Post Pavilion is better now than it was fifteen years ago.

www.fatherly.com/entertainment/merriweather-post-pavilion-retrospective-animal-collective?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

“Polyrhythms, unusual sounds from didgeridoos to sitars, bizarre song structures, people singing backwards… It’s prog with loops and breakbeats”: Orbital’s Orbital 2 (The Brown Album)

By combining a wide range of genres in a melting pot of musical structures, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll were closer to Gong, Genesis and Yes than acid house

www.loudersound.com/features/orbital-2-brown-album-prog?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Frank Zappa’s favourite song: “the most beautiful melodies”

Frank Zappa might have admired some of his contemporaries such as Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones, but his true musical love was composers.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/frank-zappas-favourite-song-one-of-the-most-beautiful-melodies-ever-written/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

50 Years Ago: 1974 in Music - Best Classic Bands

Classic albums from Stevie, Joni, Steely Dan and others, and hit singles from Elton, McCartney and more, made '74 a year to remember.

bestclassicbands.com/1974-year-in-music-1-6-24/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Bob Dylan's legacy 60 years on from folk singer's iconic album

This January marks the sixtieth anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan's iconic album The Times They Are a-Changin' which captured the mood of upheaval and progress that marked a turbulent decade

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/bob-dylans-legacy-60-years-31821548?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Lexical-Gustatory Synaesthesia: What Is It and Can People Really Taste Music? | Sound of Life | Powered by KEF

Dive into the extraordinary world of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia, where words become flavours and music is a feast for the senses.

www.soundoflife.com/blogs/experiences/lexical-gustatory-synaesthesia-tasting-music?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Brian Eno: Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Read Grayson Haver Currin’s review of the album.

pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/brian-eno-ambient-1-music-for-airports/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles by Mike McCormack, Vanessa Chan, Erika Howsare, and more

bookmarks.reviews/the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-1-5-2023