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Beach House - Teen Dream

Beach House - Teen Dream

For the intrigued/lazy amongst you we’ve decided to condense a month’s worth of blabber into an easy to digest Spotify playlist. Included are tracks from reviewed albums by Laura Viers, Beach House and Delphic as well as some January singles (OK and some late December ones) from These New Puritans, Late of The Pier, Plan B, I Was A King and The Strange Boys.

We’ve also included some tasters from forthcoming albums from Race Horses as well as a few of our tips from the year including First Aid Kit, Dimbleby and Capper and Toro Y Moi. There’s also thrown in some tracks from acts we’ve reviewed live this month like Vivian Girls and She Keeps Bees and acts we put on like the ace The Grave Architects and fantastic Cats and Cats and Cats.

There’s also track from this month’s classic album; David Bowie’s Lodger and a highlight from one of the best expanded re-issues of the month, David Crosby’s If I Could Only Remember My Name. Phew! Let’s hope February keeps us this busy as well.

Here it is: January 2010 in a playlist

Written by Mitchell Stirling

.. is based in Aberdeen where he shares a flat with a lizard called McNulty. Despite going to several dozen gigs each year he never once went to Reading Festival in the six years he lived within earshot of the festival because he can't be doing with 16 year olds. He subsidises buying albums he has on CD on vinyl, and vice-versa, by winning pub quizzes. If he were a book he'd be Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties yet with chapters on Radiohead, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, Super Furry Animals, and British Sea Power as well. He'd like to think of himself as a young Larry David but he's friends would suggest Mark Corrigan. He has literally have no idea what that's supposed to mean. He is attempting to visit every capital city in Europe before the age of thirty and he wonders if you can have Mastermind as your specialist subject on Mastermind far too often. His mind is the equivalent of Nanny's sling in Count Duckula.

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