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Best music of 2018

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December 25, 2018
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Laura Gibson released my favorite album & song in 2018

In 2018 I reviewed 219 records for the Whisperin’ & Hollerin’ webzine. Of these, the following is a list of my ten favorite new albums and the top 5  reissues. You can read my reviews to all these on the W&H website to find out why.

TOP TEN BEST ALBUMS 2018
1. LAURA GIBSON – Goners
2. SARAH LOUISE – Deeper Woods
3. GWENNO – Le Kov
4. MARISSA NADLER – For My Crimes
5. JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN – Damned Devotion
6. MODERN STUDIES – Welcome Strangers
7. ETHAN GOLD – Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers
8. THE BEVIS FROND – We’re Your Friends, Man
9. JIM JAMES – Uniform Distortion
10. IRON & WINE – Weed Garden EP

BEST REISSUES 2018
1. BUFFY SAINTE- MARIE – Medicine Songs
2. CALEXICO – The Black Light (20th Anniversary Edition)
3. BERT JANSCH – A Man I’d Rather Be
4. VARIOUS ARTISTS: PARADISE – THE SOUND OF IVOR RAYMONDE
5. DAVE EVANS – The Words In Between

SONG OF THE YEAR:
LAURA GIBSON – Domestication

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RESURRECTION FERN

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July 9, 2007
Cover of "Shepherd's Dog"

Cover of Shepherd's Dog

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Unable to wait until the release date of the new album by Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) – Shepherd’s Dog – until late September. I don’t understand why labels delay like this as it only increases the number of people who will (like me!) grab a leaked copy via the many p2p sources on the net rather than buy the cd or use a legal download site.

It’s a great album and well worth not waiting for!

The stand out track for me is called Resurrection Fern which you can hear by following this link

The mood of the song reminds me a lot of ‘The Trapeze Swinger’ which has not been released on an Iron & Wine album, only on the soundtrack album to the movie ‘In Good Company’. ( An excellent live version of this track can however be found on the concert with Calexico which can be downloaded from NPR here ).

Resurrection Fern is equally ambiguous in terms of meaning being couched in highly poetic language that I find very moving even if I would be hard pushed to explain what the song means.

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