Tuesday 20 December 2011

I could see for miles, miles, miles


“When you invoke something transcendent you arrest movement” - Deleuze

Holocene, Calgary, Perth, Minnesota - allegorical sceneries of a fatal fall that washed us all ashore in what we sustain today. Anesthetized from everyday routine, people forget that we walk on a planet whose ground is filled with bones. Try to understand this futility of life through Art and have faith in a love profane yet glorious, that does not have the shape we usually attribute to her. Many times in the acknowledged patterns (relationships, cohabitation, marriage, et al.) there is no trace of love but fear and abandonment. Henceforth, you realize that while you were looking for God in any plausible den, he lay at your threshold all along. And it is my belief that if this God is love – attainable gratuitously and free in an elusive and pivoting moment of creation and existence, then art is a form of prayer, the humane way of appealing to Him.

Without further ado, these are my best albums of 2011

1.   Bon Iver | Bon Iver
2.   Kate Bush | 50 Words for Snow
3.   Com Truise | Galactic Melt
4.   John Maus | We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
5.   Dustin O'Halloran | Lumiere
6.   PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
7.   Austra | Feel it Break
8.   Kele | The Hunter
9.   Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact
10. Birdy | Birdy
11. Florence+the Machine | Ceremonials
12. Korallreven | An album by Korallreven
13. Hior Chronik | Unspoken Words
14. The Sound of Arrows | Voyage
15. Gavin Friday | Catholic
16. bvdub | I Remember
17.  M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
18.  Glasvegas | EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\
19. Epic45 | Weathering
20. Gem Club | Breakers

2 comments:

UrbanTulip said...

Impressive list :)

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Happy New Year !
Greetings from Greece!