Julie Byrne – Rooms With Walls and Windows

Jon Doyle — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:59:09 +0000

Julie Bryne’s Rooms With Walls and Windows goes some way to capturing nostalgia as something tangible, the finger-picked guitars and crooned vocals playing like the soundtrack to some sepia tone memory where the sun is shining and the windows are rolled down and towns are passing by in a pleasant haze. Gentle but deceptively nuanced, the songs are shot through with a sense of memory and loss that is both hopeful and sad. It’s rather lovely.

You can get the LP from Orindal Records.

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Wake the Deaf’s Top 15 Albums of 2012

Jon Doyle — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:05:00 +0000

The year’s drawing to a close, the world’s not ended (yet) and so it’s about time we got round to compiling our ‘best of’ list. Our 15 favourite albums of the last 12 months are:

15. Damien Jurado – Maraqopa

(Secretly Canadian)

14. Sand Circles – Motor City

(Not Not Fun)

13. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind

(Epitaph)

12. Advance Base – A Shut-In’s Prayer

(Orindal)

11. Strand of Oaks – Dark Shores

(Self Released)

10. Actress – R.I.P

(Honest Jon’s Records)

9. Christian Löffler – A Forest

(Ki Records)

8. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist

(Software)

7. Holy Other – Held

(Tri Angle)

6. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

(Domino)

5. Field Report – Field Report

(Partisan)

4. The XX – Coexist

(Young Turks)

3. Japandroids – Celebration Rock

(Polyvinyl)

2. Evening Hymns – Spectral Dusk

(Shuffling Feet / Strange Ways)

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

(Constellation)

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