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#40 album of 2013 – Of This & Other Worlds by Hidden Masters
Artist: Hidden Masters
Album: Of This & Other Worlds
Of This and Other Worlds, the 2013 debut of Glasgow’s Hidden Masters, would have slipped nicely into some record label’s 1971 release schedule. Something like Love’s Forever Changes crossed with the Who Sell Out, with extra doses of Odessey and Oracle vocal harmonies and the loudest Beatles and Thirteenth Floor Elevators riffs and mysticism, it is unembarrassed psychedelic retro, and it is *really good at it*. My ranking […]
#41 album of 2013 – Flying Colours by Shad
Artist: Shad
Album: Flying Colours
The Kenyan-born Toronto rapper Shad’s magnificent given name is Shadrach Kabango. Surely if he’s been more aggressive and posturing in his style, someone at absolute minimum would’ve convinced him to hold onto the syllable “bang”. Shad has enough ego to survive in the rap game, yes: his 4th album Flying Colours includes its genre’s requisite wordplay bravado games (“Ooh, look at how I’m killing these tracks/ I’m a vet but not the […]
#42 album of 2013 – Pedestrian Verse by Frightened Rabbit
Artist: Frightened Rabbit
Album: Pedestrian Verse
Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison has the greatest thick Scottish accent I’ve ever heard in a singer — yes, even over Craig and Charlie Reid from the Proclaimers. That, and the power (but gentle spirit) in Hutchison’s lungs, really ought to be enough to sell you on Pedestrian Verse, their fourth and perhaps best album. I’m assuming of course that, like me, you wore your traditional clan kilt at your wedding, […]