1. damstraversaz/hora - character and, best of all, space
2. utm/athens - warm & human
3. plunge/tabasco - infectious, unassuming & well-crafted, with a basic trust in music... welcome antidote to a month of i'm-better-than-this-kind-of-music parody
4. katanaman/open letter - because punk will never die
5. rockstar not/loser - musically, top stuff. lyrically? jesus as panacea will never be quite as resonant for the godless, but it's got a long musical pedigree, and your openness and humanity shine through
6. lady j/mr right now - convincing emulation
7. sane sanders/tower of babel - very evocative, just needs a splash of major label money to hire session players
8. ixox/the road to $ - i love how the second half starts to stagger like a man in the desert (mais je vote seulement pour la photo à la plage
)9. woj/8s - lovely textures, begging for a vocal
10. respirator/biggest hit - solid, primary-colour music; the satire's a bit perfunctory and easy
HM:
markleford, aieda cin, astanine, eman6ions, systemera, guido s, wopelka, xander, splynter, stjelle
worrying trend of the month: vo-bloody-coders. soon it'll be that cher vocal effect, then out with the suicide pills.
most controversial lyric: "i like to walk the path of joy, which makes me happy"...
best way to light one's shit: with a match
impossible to get together a list that matches the theme. there were some beautiful tunes that i gather aren't commercial, there are some seriously funny entries that i gather parody what is, so my list represents what for me might make interesting viewing if seen performed, not necessarly live, on tv, the comment in brackets () following each is how i envisage it done:
(open)
whyterabbit- alabaster
