Back in August, inspired by @mayttvw on Twitter, I listed the music I love. The rule was that I would go through the alphabet, one letter per day, and for each letter I would pick my favourite albums or EPs by three artists whose names started with that letter. It gave me a good excuse to spend time thinking about what I appreciate in music and rediscover some albums that I hadn’t listened to much lately. For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter (@czrobertson), this is the list I came up with:
- Autechre: Envane
- Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do
- Arab Strap: Monday at the Hug and Pint
- Bal-Sagoth: Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
- Black Tape for a Blue Girl: As One Aflame, Laid Bare by Desire
- Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors
- C17H19NO3: Terra Damnata
- Coil: Gold is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders
- The Cure: Disintegration
- David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive
- Depeche Mode: Violator
- Desiderii Marginis: That Which is Tragic and Timeless
- Elhaz: The Black Flame
- Emperor: In the Nightside Eclipse
- Enduser: Form Without Function
- Faith No More: Angel Dust
- Forma Tadre: Navigator
- Freezepop: Fancy Ultra-Fresh
- Godspeed You Black Emperor: F♯ A♯ ∞
- Gridlock: Formless
- Gescom: Key Nell
- Haujobb: Solutions for a Small Planet
- Henry Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
- Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions: Bavarian Fruit Bread
- In Slaughter Natives: Enter Now The World
- Inanna: Day ov Torment
- Insomnis: various tracks I downloaded from the old mp3.com
For those who want to look it up, the Insomnis I’m referring to is Eric Paul Lyman—not the other band with that name.
- Joanna Newsom: Ys
- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue
- Joy Division: Closer
- Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
- Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine
- Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch: Lost All Faith
- Labradford: A Stable Reference
- Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen
- Lisa Gerrard: The Mirror Pool
- Mazzy Star: Among My Swan
- mind.in.a.box: Crossroads
- Miranda Sex Garden: Fairytales of Slavery
- NEWT: 37°C
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
- Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
- Ordo Equilibrio: Conquest, Love & Self-Perseverance
- Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio: Apocalips
- Orplid: Nächtliche Jünger
- Philip Jeays: October
- The Protagonist: A Rebours
- Arvo Pärt: Kanon Pokajanen
I cheated by replacing Q with compilations:
- The Tyranny Off the Beat, Vol. 2
- Ambient 4: Isolationism
- Kompilation (Kranky/Southern, 1998)
- Raison d’être: The Empty Hollow Unfolds
- Rome: Confessions d’un voleur d’ames
- Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern
- Satyricon: Nemesis Divina
- The Smiths: Meat is Murder
- Sophia: Sigillum Militum
- Tarmvred: Subfusc
- Triarii: Pièce Héroique
- Twentysixfeet: No Signal
- Ulver: Nattens Madrigal
- Ultre: All the Darkness Has Gone to Details
- Underworld: Second Toughest in the Infants
- Venetian Snares: My Downfall
- The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Von Thronstahl: Sacrificare
I cheated some more by combining W and X:
- Wumpscut: Böses Junges Fleisch
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
- Xanopticon: Liminal Space
And I replaced Y and Z with soundtracks:
- Yann Tiersen: Amélie
- Howard Shore: Lord of the Rings
- Wendy Carlos: A Clockwork Orange
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