Tag Archives: 2012

Phosphorescent: Muchacho

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On March 19, 2013, “Dead Oceans” label released “Muchacho” the sixth Phosphorescent studio album. It was recorded in 2012, at “Greenpoint” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Matthew Houck.

Personnel:

  • Matthew Houck – vocals, guitars, electric lead guitar, organ, electric keys, bounce keys, instruments, drum n’ bass n’ fiddle loops, beats, percussion, shakers, rattlers
  • Jeff Bailey – bass guitar
  • Bobby Hawk – fiddle, stings
  • Ricky Ray Jackson – pedal steel, electric lead guitar
  • Scott Stapleton – piano, synthesizer, clavinet
  • Jo Schornikow – piano 
  • Christopher Marine – drums, bongo drums
  • Kyle Resnick – trumpet
  • Benjamin Lanz – trombone
  • Jon Natchez – bass saxophone, bass clarinet
  • David Torch – bongo drums, percussion, conga drum 
  • Matthew Houck – engineer, mixing
  • Pete Bischoff – engineer 
  • Phil Joly – “final pass” engineer
  • John Agnello – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Matthew Houck – art direction
  • Dusdin Condren – photography
  • Daniel Murphy – text, layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Matthew Houck.

  1. Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)
  2. Song for Zula
  3. Ride On/Right On
  4. Terror in the Canyons (The Wounded Master)
  5. A Charm/A Blade
  6. Muchacho’s Tune
  7. A New Anhedonia
  8. The Quotidian Beasts
  9. Down to Go
  10. Sun Arising (A Koan, An Exit)

Comedy Of Errors: Fanfare & Fantasy

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On March 18, 2013, Comedy of Errors self-released “Fanfare & Fantasy”, band’s second album. It was recorded in 2012, at “Rigwoodie Studios” in Ayr, Scotland, “Southpark Studios” in Glasgow, Scotland.

Personnel:

  • Joe Cairney – vocals
  • Mark Spalding – guitar, bass, backing vocals
  • Jim Johnston – keyboards, backing vocals, artwork concept
  • Bruce Levick – drums
  • John Fitzgerald – backing vocals
  • Hew Montgomery – recording
  • Rob Aubrey – mixing, mastering
  • Joe James – artwork
  • Bill Ailsa Craig – photography
  • Billy Hepburn  – photography
  • Steve Moffitt – photography
  • Sam Holt – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jim Johnston, except where noted.

  1. Fanfare For The Broken Hearted
  2. Something She Said
  3. In a Lifetime
  4. Going for a Song
  5. Merry Dance
  6. The Cause
  7. Time’s Motet And Galliard
  8. Remembrance
  9. The Answer

Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt

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On March 5, 2013, “Don Giovanni Records” label released “Cerulean Salt”, the second Waxahatchee studio album. It was recorded September – November 2012, in West Philadelphia, and was produced by Kyle Gilbride, Keith Spencer, Katie Crutchfield and Jacob.

Personnel:

  • Katie Crutchfield – vocals, various instruments
  • Kyle Gilbride – guitar, synth, bass guitar, backing vocals 
  • Sam Cook-Parrott – bass guitar, backing vocals 
  • Keith Spencer – drums, bass guitar, guitar
  • Allison Crutchfield – vocals, drums
  • Kyle Gilbride – engineer
  • Sam Cook-Parrott – additional production
  • Allison Crutchfield – additional production
  • Ryan Russell – art direction, layout, photography
  • Katie Crutchfield – art direction

Track listing:

  1. Hollow Bedroom
  2. Dixie Cups and Jars
  3. Lips and Limbs
  4. Blue Pt. II
  5. Brother Bryan
  6. Coast to Coast
  7. Tangled Envisioning
  8. Misery Over Dispute
  9. Lively
  10. Waiting
  11. Swan Dive
  12. Peace and Quiet
  13. You’re Damaged

The Godfathers: Jukebox Fury

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On March 4, 2013, “Godfather Recordings” label released “Jukebox Fury”, the seventh Godfathers (The) studio album. It was recorded 2010 – 2012, at “Credible Hulk Productions”, “Barnroom Studios”, and was produced by Bernie Tormé, Peter Coyne, Chris Coyne, Del Bartle, Grant Nicholas and Dave Twigg.

Personnel:

  • Peter Coyne – vocals
  • Del Bartle – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion
  • Chris Coyne – vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion
  • Grant Nicholas – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Dave Twigg – drums
  • Richard Allum – backing vocals
  • Del Bartle – engineer, mixing
  • Andy Pearce – mastering
  • Jaime Martin – artwork, design

Track listing:

  1. Let Your Hair Hang Down – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne
  2. If I Only Could – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne, Peter Coyne, Grant Nicholas
  3. Primitive Man – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne, Peter Coyne, Grant Nicholas
  4. The Outsider – Del Bartle, Peter Coyne
  5. I’m Branded – Link Wray
  6. A Can of Worms – Del Bartle
  7. Back into the Future – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne, Peter Coyne
  8. I Can’t Sleep Tonight – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne, Peter Coyne, Grant Nicholas
  9. Mary Baby – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne
  10. Theme to the End of the World – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne, Peter Coyne
  11. The Man in the Middle – Del Bartle, Chris Coyne
  12. Thai Nights – Chris Coyne

The Drones: I See Seaweed

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On March 1, 2013, The Drones self-released “I See Seaweed”, band’s fifth studio album. It was recorded 2012 – 2013, at home studio Nagambie, Victoria, Australia, and was produced by Gareth Liddiard, Burke Reid and John Roberto.

Personnel:

  • Gareth Liddiard – lead vocals, guitar
  • Fiona Kitschin – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Mike Noga – drums, backing vocals
  • Dan Luscombe – guitar, backing vocals
  • Steve Hesketh – piano, keyboards
  • Amanda Roff – backing vocals
  • Gareth Liddiard, Burke Reid – recording, mixing
  • John Roberto – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Gareth Liddiard.

  1. I See Seaweed
  2. How to See Through Fog
  3. They’ll Kill You
  4. A Moat You Can Stand In
  5. Nine Eyes
  6. The Grey Leader
  7. Laika
  8. Why Write a Letter You’ll Never Send

Ciccada: The Finest Of Miracles

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In February 2015, “Fading Records” label released “The Finest of Miracles”, the second Ciccada album. It was recorded 2012 – 2014, at “Studio 19”, “Κυριαζής Studio” and “Genesis Studios” in Athens, and was produced by AltrOck Productions, Yorgos Mouhos, Evangelia Kozoni, Nikolas Nikolopoulos and Yiannis Iliakis.

Personnel:

  • Evangelia Kozoni – vocals
  • Yorgos Mouhos – acoustic, classical and electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Nikolas Nikolopoulos – flute, tenor saxophone, organ, mellotron, synthesizer, piano, electric piano, glockenspiel, recording 
  • Yiannis Iliakis – drums, marimba, percussion, illustration 
  • Jargon – vocals
  • Savvas Paraskevas – piano, electric piano
  • Johan Brand – bass
  • Omiros Komninos – bass
  • Yorgos Lambadis – bass
  • Yannis Moraitis – trumpet
  • Dionysis Agalianos – trumpet
  • Panayotis Zafiropoulos – trombone
  • Spyros Kakos – French horn
  • Panayiotis Sioras – clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Sakis Myronis – tuba
  • Lydia Boudouni – violin
  • Marianna Vassou – cello
  • Kostas Bokos, Thanos Kaleas, Thomas Karamazakis – engineer
  • Andrea Rizzardo – mixing
  • Udi Koomran – mastering
  • Liber Artis – design
  • Leonidas Dimakopoulos – band photography

Track listing:

  1. A Night Ride
  2. Eternal
  3. At the Death of Winter
  4. Around the Fire
  5. Lemnos (Lover’s Dance)
  6. Birth of the Lights
  7. Wandering
  8. Siren’s Call
  9. As Fall the Leaves
  10. Song for an Island

Grimes: Visions

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On February 21, 2012, “4AD” label released “Visions”, the third Grimes studio album. It was recorded in August 2011, at “La Brique Studio Space” in Montreal, Canada, and was produced by Grimes.

Personnel:

  • Grimes (Claire Elise Boucher) – vocals, poetry
  • Anna Akhmatova – poetry
  • Doldrums
  • Majical Cloudz
  • Sebastian Cowan – mastering, mixing
  • Mark Khair – alien head design
  • Jasper Baydala – layout

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Claire Elise Boucher.

  1. Infinite ♡ Without Fulfilment
  2. Genesis
  3. Oblivion
  4. Eight
  5. Circumambient
  6. Vowels = Space and Time
  7. Visiting Statue
  8. Be a Body (侘寂)
  9. Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)
  10. Symphonia IX (my wait is u)
  11. Nightmusic
  12. Skin
  13. know the way (outro)

Tindersticks: The Something Rain

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On February 20, 2012, “Lucky Dog Recordings” label released “The Something Rain”, the ninth Tindersticks studio album. It was recorded May – August, 2011, at “Le Chien Chanceux” in Creuse, France, and was produced by Stuart A. Staples.

Personnel:

  • Stuart A. Staples – vocals
  • David Boulter – vocals, piano, organ
  • Neil Fraser – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Dan McKinna – bass
  • Earl Harvin – drums, percussion
  • David Kitt – guitar
  • Thomas Bloch – cristal baschet
  • Terry Edwards – saxophone
  • Andy Nice – soprano saxophone, cello
  • Julian Siegel – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
  • Will Wilde – chromatic harmonica
  • Gina Foster – vocals

Track listing:

  1. Chocolate – David Boulter
  2. Show Me Everything – David Boulter, Stuart Staples
  3. This Fire of Autumn – Stuart Staples
  4. A Night So Still – Dan McKinna, Stuart Staples
  5. Slippin’ Shoes – Stuart Staples
  6. Medicine – Stuart Staples
  7. Frozen – David Kitt, Stuart Staples
  8. Come Inside – Stuart Staples
  9. Goodbye Joe – David Boulter

Joakim Thåström: Beväpna dig med vingar

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On February 15, 2012, Razzia Records” label released “Beväpna dig med vingar”, the seventh Joakim Thåström album. It was recorded in 2011, and was produced by Ulf Ivarsson.

Personnel:

  • Joakim Thåström – vocals, synth, scrap etc.
  • Pelle Ossler – guitar, choir, foot stomping
  • Conny Nimmersjö – guitar, choir, foot stomping
  • Ola Gustavsson – acoustic guitar
  • Niklas Hellberg – piano
  • Mikael Nilzén – synth
  • Ulf Ivarsson – bass, synth, programming, choir etc.
  • Anders Hernestam – drums
  • Per Hägglund – drum synth
  • Raymond King – strings
  • Idde Schultz – choir, voice
  • Amanda Ooms – voice

Track listing:

All lyrics by Joakim Thåström, all music by Joakim Thåström, except where noted.

  1. Arm Yourself with Wings – Joakim Thåström, Per Hägglund
  2. Let It Rain – Joakim Thåström, Per Hägglund
  3. The Taste of You – Joakim Thåström, Per Hägglund
  4. Samarkand –  Joakim Thåström, Per Hägglund
  5. St. Anne’s Cathedral
  6. The Dance Band Singer
  7. Down at the Machinist – Joakim Thåström, Per Hägglund
  8. Brunkeberg Square
  9. Stop When I Want –  Joakim Thåström, Per Hägglund

The Pineapple Thief: It Leads To This

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On February 9, 2024, “Kscope” label released “It Leads to This”, the fifteenth Pineapple Thief (The) studio album. It was recorded 2012 – 2023, at “Bourne Place” in London, “Soord Studios” in Yeovil, Somerset, England, and was produced by Bruce Soord.

Personnel:

  • Bruce Soord – vocals, guitars, mixing
  • Beren Matthews – additional guitar, backing vocals
  • Steve Kitch – keyboards, mastering
  • Jon Sykes – bass, backing vocals
  • Gavin Harrison – drums, percussion, mixing
  • Beech – design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Bruce Soord, all music by Gavin Harrison and Bruce Soord.

  1. Put It Right
  2. Rubicon
  3. It Leads to This
  4. The Frost
  5. All That’s Left
  6. Now It’s Yours
  7. Every Trace of Us
  8. To Forget