One of the real pleasures of keeping this blog rolling onward is coming to the end of the year and seeing the 'Records of the Year' charts on the blogs listed on the right hand side of this page and elsewhere. This often allows me to hear about things I've missed out on over the previous months and make some amends by posting them here.
The prize example of this in 2017 is the run down of 'Singles of the Year' on the Australian site The Finest Kiss. This is full of treats unknown to me, noticeably this EP from Belgian based singer Charlotte Adigery. The four tracks therein cover an enormous amount of ground, from Afrobeat inflections, Electro Pop, Art Noir and more and make for the most diverting twenty or so minutes with headphones on I've experienced for quite a while.
Produced by Soulwax at their, (wonderfully named), DeeWee studio in Ghent. Cosmic Disco of the most wonderful kind accompanied by startling, mesmeric promos. The music pulses throughout with remarkable intent.
It's difficult to describe exactly why it's all so magical. The record company Juno Records does a better job than me: 'It features the vocalist singing in a modern soul style - over wonderfully imaginative, left-of-centre, heavily electronic backing vocals that variously doff a cap to early electro, Italo- disco minimal wave and - most surprisingly of all - pastoral folk. It's hard to describe, but uniformly brilliant.'
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