Stars in Coma - 2017

What better way to end 2017 than with a song entitled "2017".
Stars in Coma gave us TWO whole albums this year and both landed in my Top Albums of the Year List!  Here's a perfect example of what SiC always deliver, heavy doses of pop, with dashes of melancholy and plenty of heart.
"What should we do know?"  The age old question.  My answer and wish for all in the new year...Keep being, keep creating and keep loving.

Thanks to everyone reading and listening in my little corner of the multiverse.  Thanks to all the amazing creators out there who make my job easy.  Happy New Year Everyone!
Much love.
-Ry- aka The Staff of Ooberus Oblivious

Baby Alpaca - Dream a Little Dream of Me

This final day of 2017 deserves a double entry!  Here's entry #1!
One of my all-time favorite songs covered by Baby Alpaca.  That gorgeous voice...ahhhhhhh.

Happy New Years Eve!!!

Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending

Franz Ferdinand are releasing their new album in early February!  Here's the groovy title track!

2017 Albums of the Year Part 2

My TOP 28 Albums of the Year (this list has been last minute modified to include a few "forgotten" albums)!!!
You can read more on my #1 choice here.
Here's to an awesome year of music, and hopes for another great one in 2018!!

1. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex

2.  Saint Etienne - Home Counties

3. Goldfrapp - Silver Eye

4. The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir

5. Piano Magic - Closure 

6. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest 

7. Yumi Zouma - Willowbank

8.  Fever Ray - Plunge

9.  Pixx - The Age of Anxiety

10. Echobelly - Anarchy and Alchemy

11. Fred Schneider & The Superions - The Vertical Mind

12.  Jamiroquai - Automaton

13.  Cindy Wilson - Change

14.  Burning Hearts - Battlefields

 

15.  Stars in Coma - Escapist Partisans

16.  Perfume Genius - No Shape

17.  Cut Copy - Haiku From Zero

18.  Hercules & Love Affair - Omnion

19. Marnie - Strange Words and Weird Wars

20.  St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

21.  LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

22.  Dent May - Across the Multiverse

23.  Furniteur - Perfect Lavender

24.  Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now

25. Sparks - Hippopotamus

26.  Grandaddy - Last Place

27.  OMD - The Punishment of Luxury

28.  Allie X - CollXtion II

2017 Albums of the Year Part 1

As I listen to less and less new albums each year, it becomes even harder and harder to compile my beloved Albums of the Year list!
Still, I have a lot to share even though I know I'm missing some!

Here's Part 1 of my favorite albums this year (in very loose order):

69.  Vitalic - Voyager
68.  Kid Koala feat Emilíana Torrini - Music to Draw to: Satellite
67.  Spoon - Hot Thoughts
66.  Σtella - Works for You
65.  Girls in Hawaii - Nocturne
64.  The Charlatans - Different Days
63.  Sally Dige - Holding On
62.  Chrysta Bell - We Dissolve
61.  Stars in Coma - Defunct Summer
60.  Sondre Lerche - Pleasure
59.  The xx - I See You
58.  Ronika - Lose My Cool
57.  Molly Burch - Please Be Mine
56.  Mew - Visuals
55.  Girl Ray - Earl Grey
54.  The Luyas - Human Voicing
53.  Poni Hoax - Tropical Suite
52.  Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
51.  The Golden Filter - Still // Alone
50.  The Just Joans - You Might Be Smiling Now...
49.  Moto Boy - New Music
48.  Porcelain Raft - Microclimate
47.  TOPS - Sugar at the Gate
46.  Austra - Future Politics
45.  Mozart's Sister - Field of Love
44.  Temples - Volcano
43.  The Tear Garden - The Brown Acid Caveat
42.  Deerful - Peach
41.  Man Duo - Orbit
40.  Captains - Captains
39.  Djustin - Voyagers
38.  Little Dragon - Season High
37.  Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
36.  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Echo of Pleasure
35.  Blondie - Pollinator
34.  Frankie Rose - Cage Tropical
33.  The Perfect Kiss - Disconnect
32.  Molly Nilsson - Imaginations
31.  Lali Puna - Two Windows
30.  Dream Lake - Lux
29.  Soldout - Forever
28.  Tennis - Yours Conditionally
27.  Poppy - Poppy.Computer
26.  Arcade Fire - Everything Now

...to be continued tomorrow.

2017 Movies of the Year

Around September, I worried deeply for the fate of my favorite films of the year list!  But luckily, these last few months have proven quite fruitful and delivered some real lovers!
Each of these films gave me the feels in all the right places, and that's what I always hope for!!
Here are my favorite movies of 2017!! 

1.  Call Me By Your Name

2.  The Killing of a Sacred Deer

3.  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

4.  The Shape of Water

5.  Poesía sin fin (Endless Poetry)

6.  Okja

7.  The Florida Project

8.  Get Out

9.  Logan

10.  I, Tonya

11.  A Ghost Story

12.  Beatriz at Dinner

2017 EPs of the Year

My favorite EPs from this year!!

1.  Night Sports - Nightsports

 

2.  Tennis - We Can Die Happy

3.  Samantha Urbani  - Policies of Power

4.  Zoe Durrant - Island

5.  David Bowie - No Plan

6.  Blonde Redhead - 3 O'Clock

7.  YACHT - Strawberry Moon

8.  Amanda Mair - To the Moon

9.  Belle and Sebastian - How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 1)

10.  ANOHNI - Paradise

11.  Faded Paper Figures - Chronos

12.  The Sounds - The Tales That We Tell