Now is of course the time of year for the "Of the Year" lists. So without further ado, here's my list of favorite music I picked up in 2013...

Allemande by Caroline Shaw and Roomful of Teeth



I'm really glad I did this list as this is something I'd kind of forgotten about, but it's simply incredible. Okay, also, technically this originally came out late 2012, but it and the 3 related pieces were released early in 2013 as Partita for...

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As mentioned in my previous post, I'd post more about Krista Muir later. It seems the future is now.

Krista initially started making a name for herself under the pseudonym Lederhosen Lucil. Ja! Donning a blonde Heidi wig and a quasi-German accent, she'd get up on stage with a Yamaha synthesizer and play catchy little tunes that would often undermine the comedic or twisted lyrics of the songs in a style she called 'hosemusik.'



The rhyming...

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Krista Muir released a new album this week. It's worth mentioning more on her later, but at the moment I'm more in the mood to talk about another album I came across while buying that album on Bandcamp.

Built To Fade is a side project by an artist named Kno, and the first album, To Dust, collects a fantastic variety of musical styles.

Here's the title track, which hooked me right away...


It's a bit reminiscent Akira Yamaoka's work for...

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I've been wanting to blog regularly for a while now, but never felt like I had anything in particular to focus on. It should be something I like, and something I feel strongly about. So I decided on music.

I first heard Everyone is Everyone (and Everything is Everything) attached to a montage at the end of a second season episode of the time-travel series Continuum (s02e11 Second Guess). It was a dramatic moment in the series, and the song compliments it nicely. From the start there's...

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