Saturday 25 April 2015

Music Chart - April 2015

Great new albums this month from Death Cab For Cutie (the last with Chris Walla), The Go! Team (take away the irritating fillers and there are nine cracking pop tunes) , and Paul Hartnoll's new post-Orbital project 8:58. Also more brain-scrambling musing from the wonderful Courtney Barnett and the heartbreaking Sufjan Stevens. Elsewhere Godspeed You! Black Emperor continue to baffle and beguile while East India Youth delivers his best work yet.

Death Cab For Cutie take the top spot (for now). Kintsugi is not perfect but plays to the band's strengths throughout, a blend of styles and textures - clichés aplenty with the unique DCFC slant.

  1. Kintsugi by Death Cab For Cutie
  2. Blackbirds by Gretchen Peters
  3. The Race For Space by Public Service Broadcasting
  4. I Wasn't Born To Lose You by Swervedriver
  5. Short Movie by Laura Marling
  6. The Scene Between by The Go! Team
  7. Policy by Will Butler
  8. Modern Nature by The Charlatans 
  9. Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett
  10. What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World by The Decemberists 
  11. Everything Ever Written by Idlewild 
  12. Culture Of Volume by East India Youth
  13. Mount The Air by Unthanks
  14. 8:58 by 8:58
  15. Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance by Belle & Sebastian
  16. Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP by Aphex Twin
  17. Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
  18. Picture You by The Amazing
  19. Everything Else Matters by Pinkshinyultrablast
  20. Scatter by Crushed Beaks 
  21. Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  22. Heavy Love by Duke Garwood
  23. A Flourish And A Spoil by The Districts
  24. Then Came The Morning by The Lone Below
  25. Menace Beach by Ratworld
  26. Sauna by Mount Eerie
  27. The Pale Emperor by Marilyn Manson
  28. 10 Futures by Aqualung
  29. We Slept At Last by Marika Hackman