Album Playlist - 01/08/08

M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute, 2008)

This is what would happen if My Bloody Valentine, Fleetwood Mac, New Order and Top Gun had a child. In a good way.





Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat Records, 2004)

The German composer's second recorded album is still one of the most elegantly haunting pieces I've ever heard. Nods to Arvo Part and Brian Eno feature frequently, the works of whom he once commissioned and performed in his Piano Circus days. His newly released micro-music project, 24 Postcards in Full Colour, should make for interesting listening.




Efterklang - Parades (The Leaf Label, 2007)

Denmark's answer to The Arcade Fire, once lazily described as "Denmark's answer to The Arcade Fire".




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