#TheTenX5 Day 35:
Solange - Cranes in the Sky (2016, 🇺🇸, unranked)
One from the more talented Knowles sister (ducks)
youtu.be/S0qrinhNnOM?...
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#TheTenX5 Day 35:
Solange - Cranes in the Sky (2016, 🇺🇸, unranked)
One from the more talented Knowles sister (ducks)
youtu.be/S0qrinhNnOM?...
#TheTenX5 Day 34:
Slowdive - Star Roving (2017, 🇬🇧, Poppy fail, unranked)
Sorry Arron! But I think their reunion album was better than their 90s material
youtu.be/ogCih4OavoY?...
#TheTenX5 Day 33:
Radiohead - Burn the Witch (2016, 🇬🇧, Poppy fail, unranked)
“Loose talk around tables
Abandon all reason”
Doesn’t seem like ten years since this came out, somehow
youtu.be/yI2oS2hoL0k?...
Jean Genie. For me the studio version plods; live it always seems to have more bite
#TheTenX5 Day 32:
Purple Mountains - Nights That Won’t Happen (2019, 🇺🇸, non-single, unranked)
Heartbreaking
youtu.be/XxJzN0asbqg?...
#TheTenX5 Day 31:
Prefab Sprout - The Best Jewel Thief in the World (2013, 🇬🇧, Poppy fail, unranked)
From their (or his) last album to date - perhaps one day the vaults will open again
youtu.be/bwmn7ad97Ho?...
#TheTenX5 Day 30:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street (2013, 🇦🇺, Poppy fail, unranked)
Another returner from #TheTwen2ie5
youtu.be/joz9W-Eoba8?...
#TheTenX5 Day 29:
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio (2010, 🇺🇸, unranked)
“I still owe money to the money to the money I owe”
youtu.be/yfySK7CLEEg?...
#TheTenX5 Day 28:
Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart (2017, 🇬🇧, unranked)
Used as the theme to Big Little Lies, so that’s the third theme tune on my list
youtu.be/FGG5K1XLgkA?...
#TheTenX5 Day 27:
Little Roy - Lithium (2011, 🇯🇲, non-single, Poppy fail, unranked)
Veteran reggae artist covers Nirvana to great effect
youtu.be/-dfoRHGFSZs?...
#TheTenX5 Day 26:
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016, 🇨🇦, Poppy fail)
From one of the two 2016 last testament albums
youtu.be/v0nmHymgM7Y?...
#TheTenX5 HM 5:
Solange - Losing You (2012, 🇺🇸)
Another Solange song will make the main list but this was a contender and it’s picked up some votes elsewhere
youtu.be/Hy9W_mrY_Vk?...
Hi Richard, my #5debutalbums0509 picks are:
1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (5pts)
2. The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
3. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
4. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
5. Ladyhawke - s/t
Thanks!
#TheTenX5 HM 4:
Public Service Broadcasting - Go! (2015, 🇬🇧)
Not my favourite track by the other PSB - that’ll come in the main list - but I’m hedging my bets
youtu.be/BHIo6qwJarI?...
#TheTenX5 HM 3:
Mark Ronson ft Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (2018, 🇬🇧/🇺🇸)
Not a huge fan of either of these artists individually but this combination works
youtu.be/JsjbNtO84JU?...
#TheTenX5 HM 2:
Rose Elinor Dougall - Find Me Out (2010, 🇬🇧, unranked)
She was in my Twenties list with the Waeve and will be in the Noughties with the Pipettes but here she is solo
youtu.be/jmPhKXqBElY?...
#TheTenX5 HM 1:
Elvis Costello - Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter (2018, 🇬🇧, Poppy fail, non-single, unranked)
A collaboration with Carol King to rival his earlier ones with Burt Bacharach. Pleased to see someone else has already picked this
youtu.be/ukPhF9VAo8E?...
#TheTenX5 Day 25:
Kamasi Washington - Will You Sing? (2018, 🇺🇸, non-single, unranked)
Epic gospel-inflected jazz
youtu.be/QyZQEE_MnWQ?...
#TheTenX5 Day 24:
Johnny Flynn - Detectorists (2015, 🇬🇧, unranked)
The theme tune to one of the finest sitcoms of recent years, but also a beguiling piece in its own right
youtu.be/Q58Gm18-IMY?...
#TheTenX5 Day 23:
John Grant - Sigourney Weaver (2010, 🇺🇸, non-single, unranked)
A song which manages to combine melancholy with some very funny lyrics
youtu.be/vL1rOEX5Ycg?...
#TheTenX5 Day 22:
Jane Weaver - The Architect (2017, 🇬🇧, unranked)
First returnee from #TheTwen2ie5
youtu.be/keXHh0lr2y8?...
#TheTenX5 Day 21:
Imarhan - Imarhan (2016, 🇩🇿, unranked)
From the album “Imarhan”, of course. The single was a remix, but I’m posting the album version
youtu.be/2DMEUhqB_t4?...
Yeah, they had a few record labels go bust or reorganise in their time. This was at the point where they seemed to be on the up, with the parent album nominated for the Mercury Prize, but they never really broke through
#TheTenX5 Day 20:
I Am Kloot - Northern Skies (2010, 🇬🇧, unranked)
John Bramwell, one of the greatest singer songwriters of the 21st century
youtu.be/0_RZvDq3Eco?...
Forgot to note that this is a Poppy fail, of course
![Half Man Half Biscuit - Westward Ho! Massive Letdown [Official Audio]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3bj4dovidxewudjr7ene3sem/bafkreibbm4eqvre5ivhnbsnqxvqlehzdowfk5r5rnxa3ol6f3ye6kttdaq)
#TheTenX5 Day 19:
Half Man Half Biscuit - Westward Ho! - Massive Letdown (2014, 🇬🇧, non-single, unranked)
My daughter started singing along to this when we went to Devon last year, which I feel is one of my greatest parental achievements
youtu.be/MUcqbmGdW4w?...
#TheTenX5 Day 18:
Here We Go Magic - Over the Ocean (2012, 🇺🇸, non-single, unranked)
Turns a plane flight into an ethereal trip
youtu.be/HvpFQm1kJhc?...
#TheTenX5 Day 17:
Gwenno - Fratolish Hiang Perpeshki (2014, 🏴/Cornish [no flag emoji, sadly], unranked)
Welsh synthpop dystopia
youtu.be/OClOH2BP4LI?...
#TheTenX5 Day 16:
Grizzly Bear - Yet Again (2012, 🇺🇸, unranked)
Pitchfork Rock ahoy!
youtu.be/z_Ri2Yp1J5c?...
#TheTenX5 Day 15:
Gorillaz ft Bobby Womack & Mos Def - Stylo (2010, 🇬🇧/🇺🇸, unranked)
After GSH yesterday, another magnificent comeback from a soul legend
youtu.be/nhPaWIeULKk?...