Remember those archaic days when you picked up a magazine or a weekly music paper in your grubby music-hungry hands and read a playlist of what the publication’s writers were playing in the office that week? There is power in those recommendation charts. Here is my version. No great fanfare or descriptions just ten of the best song around right now you should know or you might already know.
This week: The Major Lazer and Mos Def albums obsessions continue, a new track from Yo La Tengo, Toddla T’s excellent skanky album, new Clark, The XX and Simian Mobile Disco.
- Major Lazer – Keep it Goin’ Louder – Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do
- Yo La Tengo – Here to Fall – Popular Songs
- Memory Cassette – Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub)
- Mos Def – Quiet Dog Bite Hard – The Ecstatic
- Toddla T – Boom DJ From the Steel City – Skanky Skanky
- Clark – Rainbow Voodoo –Totem’s Flare
- Atlas Sound feat. Panda Bear – Walkabout
- The XX – VCR (Demo – proper album version is way better) – The XX
- Moderat – Rusty Nail (Shackleton remix) – Remix EP
- Simian Mobile Disco – 10000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong – Temporary Pleasure
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Mos Def’s album is such a corker despite our (for me, still valid) reservations about his rapping, or lack thereof.
I am now obsessed with Slick Rick thanks to this album…it’s like Dance Mother all over again, which had me downloading 4gb of Southern synth-rap and Hot Boys albums in one go.ARRRGGGGHHHH.
Ha ha!
Yeh I’ve been listening to it loooads. So good.
liking what i’ve heard of the mos album – slowly but surely making up for that awful gig he played in the village. plus the album cover comes from a class film, is there a better film title than Killer of Sheep?
not sure if it was this corner of the internet I copped it, but my chart = blue skies (yacht remix), noah and the whale on some sort of Kitt ish.
I too spent about a week obsessed with Keep it Going Louder. Autotune is dead? Jay Z clearly hasn’t listened to this album.