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STEELE PICKS: Best Albums of 2017
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on December 31, 2017
I’m not on as many press lists as I used to be, so I do the best I can as the C-list music critic that I am. here’s my list of the best albums of 2017, in modified alphabetical order.
Adna, Closure
Alvvays, Antisocialites
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rest
Chelsea Wolfe, Hiss Spun
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice
Cults, Offering
Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up
Gary Numan, Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
Juana Molina, Halo
Lana Del Rey, Lust for Life
Laura Marling, Semper Femina
The Mountain Goats, Goths
The National, Sleep Well Beast
Real Estate, In Mind
Ride, Weather Diaries
Saint Etienne, Home Counties
Slowdive, Slowdive
Waxahatchee, Out in the Storm
Zola Jesus, Okovi
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Steele Picks: Top 30 Albums of 2013
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on December 2, 2013
–unfortunately I can’t possibly hear every album released. I don’t hear about things. I don’t get access to many until the public does. publicists don’t send me as many albums in advance as I wish.
–here are the the albums this year that moved me, inspired me, made me think.
–they’re in alpha order
The Avett Brothers–The Magpie and the Dandelion [American]
Arctic Monkeys—AM [Domino]
Bleeding Rainbow–Yeah Right [Kanine]
Camera Obscura–Desire Lines [4AD]
Chvrches–Bones of What You Believe [Virgin]
Cults–Static [Columbia]
Foals–Holy Fire [Warner Music]
Gliss–Langsom Dans [Modern Outsider]
Grace & Tony–November [Rock Ridge Music]
Haim–Days are Gone [Columbia/Sony]
How to Destroy Angels–Welcome Oblivion [Columbia]
The Joy Formidable–Wolf’s Law [Atlantic]
The Julie Ruin– Run Fast EP [TJR]
Lorde–Pure Heroine [Lava/Republic]
Lovers–A Friend in the World [Badman Recording Co.]
Luray–The Wilder
Laura Marling–Once I Was an Eagle [Ribbon Music]
MGMT– MGMT [Columbia]
M.I.A.–Matangi [N.E.E.T./Interscope]
Mirror Travel–Mexico [Outsider Records]
My Gold Mask–Leave Me Midnight [Highwheel]
The National–Trouble Will Find Me [4AD]
Orbe Orbe–Invisible Kingdoms
Super Water Sympathy–Hydrogen Child [In Music We Trust]
Perhapst– Revise Your Maps [Jack Viking Music]
Throwing Muses–Purgatory/ Paradise
Frank Turner–Tape Deck Heart [Interscope]
Violeta Vil–Lapidas y Cocoteros [Young Cubs]
Waxahatchee–Cerulean Salt [Don Giovanni]
Chelsea Wolfe–Pain is Beauty [Sargent House]
[all selections by Amy Steele 12/1/2013]
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MUSIC: This is Alessi’s Ark
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 24, 2011
Who: 20-year-old British singer/songwriter Alessi Laurent-Marke
From: Manchester, UK
Discography:
Notes from the Treehouse [2009]
Time Travel [Yep Roc, Sept 27]– song picks: “Maybe I Know,” “On the Plains,” “Time Travel”
Sound: folk pop. precious vocals and mesmerizing melodies.
PR: Sneak Attack Media
On Tour w/ Laura Marling
Sept. 24 Montreal, Canada @ Corona
Sept. 25 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
Sept. 27 Washington, DC @ Sixth & I historic Synagogue
Sept. 28 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
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covering mostly music and books. focus on alternative/indie and women in music, literature and the arts. feminist. vegan. mostly alternative, a bit bohemian. Masters in journalism from Boston University. BA from Simmons College.
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