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MIND BLOWN!
Happy new year! Happy new decade! 2019 was a load of shit for me, but not as bad as 2018. Here's hoping 2020 vision will restore some sort of meaning to the world. But at least there was a SHIT TON of amazing musix to be had, so...
Here it is! The Spacerock Continuum Top Ten of 2020:
Tool 'Fear Inoculum'
Is Bliss 'Strange Communication'
Black Mountain 'Destroyer'
The Spiral Electric s/t
American Football '3'
The Claypool Lennon Delirium 'South Of Reality'
Highlands 'Wish You Were'
Ride 'This Is Not A Safe Place'
Black Midi 'Schlagenheim'
Jay Som 'Anak Ko'
I've chosen 65 songs for the annual best of 2019 playlists, divided into two THREE HOUR sets for easier digestion. Songs from the albums above appear in one or the other playlist, and this is the first, for January 2020. Most of it fits the niches of psychedelic, experiMENTAL, kraut rock, post rock, stoner rock, shoegaze, dream pop etc., all under the blanket term SPACE ROCK. And, as is my wont, I included plenty of the just plain WEIRD noisy avant garde shit (witness the last three albums above, but there's MORE!), just to keep you on your toes and your head in SPACE.
DIG IT! And see you next month for Part 2!
The following tracks are included in the players below:
Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Hey Man (Spacemen 3 cover) - Flores De Sinaloa - Enter The Reverb
It's Not Me It's You - Rancho Relaxo - DOOM
Belong - Is Bliss - Strange Communication
Clouds Of Your Mind - The Kundalini Genie - It's All In Your Head
Superbike - Jay Som - Anak Ko
Taking The Bliss - Pure Pleaser - Take
Faces - Cosmonauts - Star 69
You're Gonna Hate What You've Done - Greet Death - New Hell
Silhouettes - American Football - s/t #3
Stars Are The Light - Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light
Blankenship - Diiv - Deceiever
Running - Blushing - s/t
Caravan - Slow Glows - Stargaze Rock N Roll
I Can't See Tomorrow - isn't - When The Autumn Hides The Sun
Routine Dream - Highlands - Wish You Were
Lake Placid Blue - Fleeting Joys - Speeding Away To Someday
Distance Dealer - Fly Pan Am - C'est Ca
Monsters Of Your Thought - The Stargazer Lilies - Occabot
Oculatus Abyss - Acid Rooster - s/t
Eternal Recurrence - Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place
Mary Winter - Swervedriver - Future Ruins
Atomise - Temples - Hot Motion
Une Lune Etrange - L'Epee - Diabolique
Lions In Cages - The Prids - Part Time Punks Sessions
45 And Straight - B. Hamilton - Nothing And Nowhere
High Rise - Black Mountain - Destroyer
3AM/100 Degrees - Lightning Dust - Spectre
Rah Wah Wah - Psychic Ills - Inner Journey Out
Mystic Mountain - Chris Forsyth - All Time Present
Echoes (Pink Floyd cover) - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Mettavolution