CJSF's Top 9 Picks for 2024!
We continue our long-awaited look back at the good old days of last year with the CJSF Music Department's Top 9 Album Picks for 2024! Check out our MusiCoord Connor's reviews below, as well as album art and links to the albums themselves (!):
* indicates CanCon (Canadian Content)
1) la lune - disparity EP (Kingfisher Bluez) *
"A landmark release in the Vancouver shoegaze/slowcore/grunge scene, this EP carries the full force of a rainy existence in the Northwest, with all the blurred emotions of past and present."
2) Copper Sounds - Sequential Ceramics (Copper Sounds)
"Robots playing hand-blown ceramics? Sign me up! Bristol, UK based Copper Sounds creates resonant sparseness and organic control of sequenced rhythms, and the physical release features a unique ceramic object d'art with the Limited Edition."
3) Jeremiah Chiu - In Electric Time (International Anthem)
"Recorded at Los Angeles' Vintage Synthesizer Museum, this LP delves deep into the inner workings of analog electronic expression, including iconic Moog, Serge, Yamaha, Oberheim and Korg instruments. Stately, improvised and eminently listenable."
4) Last Ark Out - Lift (Multiverse Mule) *
"Vancouver's prog-jazz-funk outfit for the future, with tight horn licks and insatiable grooves. An instant hit."
5) Mei Semones - Kabutomushi EP (Bayonet Records)
"The beautiful biomes of jazz and indie-rock collide in this 5-track EP, with chamber influences and gripping melodies. A treasure to be found on every cut, with beauty in every second."
6) CHXMERAS - Terminal City (Deluxe Edition) (Apparatus) *
"Deep, cinematic and discoverable; the Deluxe Edition of the debut EP from the new Vancouver experimental/electronic producers, features five unreleased tracks, and expands on an album that was debuted in 4D spatial sound here in YVR."
7) Raagaverse - Jaya (Rhea Records) *
"Fusion of the highest order, with Vancouver modernity in jazz, and classical breath through the virtuosic Hindustani vocals of Shruti Ramani, this LP reflects our global outlook in Lotusland."
8) Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahōgakkō (Brainfeeder)
"Maximalist experimental stylings thrown in the blender with shibuya-kei/J-POP harmonies, this post-pop roller-coaster straps you in, and never lets up!"
9) Omni Gardens - Golden Pear (Moon Glyph)
"The owner of the phenomenal Portland, Oregon record label Moon Glyph graces us with calming tranquility and the warm analog fuzz of a lush, forgotten relaxation disc of the retro-era."
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