Here’s a little mix to start your new year off softly, slowly, one foot at a time. Cuz last night was prettttyyyyyy awesome.
1. Birdie Hilltop – The Ready Dance
2. The Morning Clouds – A Walk Home
3. Blood Rexdale And The Walls Are Blonde
4. Panda Bear – Surfer’s Hyme
5. Loom – Promised Land
6. Sibylle Baer – William
7. The Rest – Always On My Mind
8. Vashti Bunyan – Come Wind Come Rain
9. Twin Sister – Kimmi In A Rice Field
Yeah, yeah, the end of the year stuff is coming soon. Jeez, everyone’s rushing to be like, “here’s my list! here’s my list!” – December’s not even half over yet people. Whatever. Anyways. Gold Soundz is going a bit more in the weird shit direction of sites like Altered Zones (RIP) and Weird Canada for 2012. Gonna be less pop and folk, more shoegaze, weird indie, etc. This will balance out the Toronto blog scene a bit, with the newly transplanted Weird Canada, Max Mohenu‘s excellent Diamond A/T/L/A/S and Gold Soundz taking up the left of the dial stuff, and Chromewaves, Indie Music Filter, Buying Shots For Bands, and other friends taking up the more accessible stuff. Our latest mix – covering the stuff I was listening to in November – reflects the shift. I’m also happy to say that a lot of friends and Torontonians made the mix this month purely due to musical quality, not personal connection, so kudos to all of you.
1. U.S. Girls – State House (It’s A Man’s World)
2. Quaker Parents – When You Can’t Beat The Dream
3. Blood Rexdale and the Walls are Blonde – Scared Woman In A Private Hell
4. Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa
5. Tearjerker – So Dead
6. Loom – It Is Love
7. Spirit Night – 25
8. Odonis Odonis – Seedgazer
9. James Ferraro – Google Poeises
10. Heartbeat Hotel – Intae Woe
Lot of good music around lately and I’ve got a lot of posts lined up. First one: Toronto intimate indie-songstress Loom - she’s got a really solid new album called Epyllion you can stream or buy off her bandcamp. Stuff hits the same sensitive vibe as stuff like Julie Doiron and The Wooden Stars – really touching, beautiful, etc. Canadian winter in audio form. (via Weird Canada)
