Best Records and EPs of the Year 2021... so far

It's official. We have reached July, meaning half of 2021 is gone. Something that looks, feels and sounds surreal. Same applies to holidays and being fully vaccinated, forthcoming situations that seemed a distant dream not that long ago. So, in order to keep with the optimistic vibes, we are set to recover a Blog tradition that covid took us away last year (we weren't in the mood). Today we unveil our 25 best records and EPs of the year so far! The list is alphabetical and length is not an issue (proper ranks are reserved for December). Just the works we have enjoyed the most this past six months. Hope you like it (don't hesitate to suggest yours, always welcomed) and find plenty to listen (click on the links to do so). And stay tuned, our favourite songs from 2021 are about to arrive!

Bart & Friends- Tolmie Wild Thymes
Cassandra Jenkins- An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
Crowded House- Dreamers Are Waiting
Dinosaur Jr.- Sweep It Into Space
Dry Cleaning- New Long Leg
Full Power Happy Hour- Full Power Happy Hour
Holiday Ghosts- North Street Air
Joana Serrat- Hardcore from the Heart
Kiwi Jr.- Cooler Returns
Lucy Dacus- Home Video
Painted Shrines- Heaven and Holy
Pearl Charles- Magic Mirror
Quivers- Golden Doubt
Tape Waves- Bright
Teenage Fanclub- Endless Arcade
The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness- Songs from Another Life
The Catenary Wires- Birling Gap
The Chills- Scatterbrain
The Coral- Coral Island
The Laughing Chimes- In This Town
The Reds, Pinks & Purples- Uncommon Weather
The Telephone Numbers- The Ballad of Doug
The Weather Station- Ignorance
Will Stratton- The Changing Wilderness
Wurld Series- What’s Growing  

More lists? Click on the years to check our 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 selections!

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 289

Extremely contradictory times (yes, we're being euphemistic) out there. Freedom is to be found in alcohol, the ugliest face of neoliberalism needs police repression "to show" how liberty flourishes...  and the right to self-defense means bombing other's territory. More than enough to drive you crazy. We don't pretend to have a solution here. But at least we can offer you a way to disconnect, or at least entertain yourself for a while, with the tunes gathered in our latest TOP TEN JUKEBOX. Peace signs... Hope you enjoy, and remember to join us at our Soundcloud page!

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Direct links to 2021 Jukebox playlists

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Week 279  Week 280 Week 281  Week 282  Week 283  Weeek 284 Week 285

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The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 111

In a blink of an eye, we have arrived to the last days of July. Which means that we are almost touching our deserved, wished, needed holidays with our thumbs! Yeah, we are warning you... we are going to disappear a bit this August. But first goes first, and here's our weekly TOP TEN Jukebox! Starting with the indie-punk energy of The Tuts, going through the sweet proposal of French Pop Dream or two brilliant covers: Tape Waves transforming a New Order's classic into a surf-pop wonder and our beloved Sharon Van Etten making The Flaming Lips' most iconic tune even more touching. Overall, here's a very eclectic & exciting playlist! And remember, all songs are listed at our Soundcloud page (Join Us!).

Direct links to 2016 Jukebox playlists

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The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 109

Summer has clearly arrived to Barcelona... making the citizens just focus either on holidays and finding a way to breath (sweltering days that keep repeating as 'Groundhog Day'). Luckily for us, the music is not taking a break, so prepare yourselves to for a great playlist gathered in our weekly TOP TEN Jukebox. Is pretty full of friends (what a starting trio!). as well as new and exciting bands demanding your attention. And remember, all songs are listed at our Soundcloud page (Join Us!).

Direct links to 2016 Jukebox playlists

Week 84  Week 85  Week 86   Week 87   Week 88  Week 89 Week 90   Week 91   Week 92  
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Best Songs of the Year 2014: 100-76

After Concerts, Books, EPs and Records, we start the 4th edition of the Bloodbuzzed's Best Songs of the Year. Here's our 100 favourite songs of this last twelve months. Please don't take the order's list too seriously and, as always, consider we would love to highlight more songs & bands included, but you have to put an end. So, after many hours of the loveliest debate, we have ranked them in four different posts of 25 songs each (maximum twice per group). So, today, we begin with the tunes from 100 to 76 that you can also listen in our Souncloud page. Play it loud, enjoy it and stay tuned to the rest of the list!

100. Just One of the Guys- Jenny Lewis
99. Yeah, Tonight- Gold-Bears
98. Erika K - The Understudies 
97. Comin On’- David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights 
96. Actuary- King of Prussia
95. Honey Do- Beverly
94. Jumprope- Gingerlys 
93. The Moon Song- Karen O
92. I Lost My Way, I Found a Friend- Anthony Atkinson
91. Without a Face- Luluc
90. Latin American Ficciones- Peter Matthew Bauer
89. Market Town- Echo and the Bunnymen
88. You and You- Me and the Bees
87. My Heart is a Lonely Hunter- The Pretty Greens
86. Wavy Gravy- Flyying Colours
85. Dream Happening- Sea Pinks
84. All I Can See- Tape Waves
83. Sister- September Girls
82. Lovejunky - The Popguns
81. Walk Me to the Bridge- Manic Street Preachers
80. Forget the Fall- Flowers
79. Feel It- Powder Blue
78. The Wolf is Free - Lily and Madeleine 
77. Feel- The Soft Science 
76. El Olivar - Las Ruinas

Best Records of the Year 2014

After EPs and Books, now it's time for the Best Records of 2014. As previous years, we have listed our favourite 30 LPs, the releases that we have enjoyed the most. Many of these bands have already appeared at our "Discoverer Section", others have been played at our "Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Series" and a bunch of them have done our "These Go to 11" questionnaire (thank you, thank you, thank you). Many tough decissions have been made, excluding many bands & records that we love, but finally, here it is. So many amazing music gathered here!

30. Our Years in the Wilderness - The Hi-Life Companion
29. Let You Go- Tape Waves
28. Mundo Fatal- Me and the Bees
27. Do What You Want To, It’s What You Should Do- Flowers
26. The Sea- Beach Beach
25. Une Longue Si Attente- Watoo Watoo
24. Seeds- TV on the Radio
23. Floristry- Trick Mammoth
22. Feel Not Bad- Sw/mm/ng
21. Too True- Dum Dum Girls
20. Fumes- Lily and Madeleine
19. Burn Your Fire For No Witness- Angel Olsen
18. Courting Strong- Martha
17. Before There Were Pictures- Pale Lights
16. Go Guitars- She Sir
15. Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave- The Twilight Sad
14. Fruits del Teu Bosc- Renaldo y Clara
13. Paperback Ghosts- Comet Gain
12. La Foto Fantasma- Cosmen Adelaida
11. Sealed with a Kiss- Alpaca Sports
10. Siesta- The Zebras
9. The Best Hunter- Boutade
8. Up at Lagrange- The Hobbes Fanclub
7. The Luxembourg Signal- The Luxembourg Signal
6. Are We There Yet?- Sharon Van Etten
5. Always- Alvvays
4. Honeyblood- Honeyblood
3. Atlas- Real Estate
2. Loom- Fear of Men
1. Rips- Ex Hex


Want to check last year's list? Then check here
And 2012's? Click here
And 2011's? Just click here

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox 20

August, summer time, holidays...but here's our TOP TEN playlist, with several exciting tunes we are enjoying the most lately. This week we bring you some bands that have already captivated us as The Death of Pop, Tape Waves or Ex Hex (second or third song for them in our Jukebox) and also indispensable bands as our beloved Allo Darlin'. As always we introduce you new discoveries as Trust Fund, Cancers or Lily & Madeleine. It's also available at the Blog's soundcloud, so please Join Us!

Direct links to the previous Jukebox weeks
Week 1      Week 8        Week 15 
Week 2      Week 9        Week 16
Week 3      Week 10      Week 17   
Week 4      Week 11      Week 18  
Week 5      Week 12      Week 19
Week 6      Week 13
Week 7      Week 14

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Discoverer 99: new indie findings

We are very close to reach a milestone in our 'Discoverer' series. But before that special moment arrives, here are three unmissable proposals for your ears only!

Tape Waves. Let me introduce you to the Weldin's music, one of the nicest surprises reaching my inbox since this Blog was created. Jarod and Kim Hart Weldin hail from Charleston, South Carolina, and their first tunes surfaced just last year, with a self-titled summer EP, announcing more wonders about to come. After a 7" single featuring Stay All Night /Looking at the Sun' this May, since the end of July we can enjoy their debut album 'Let You Go', out via Bleeding Gold Records. Delicate, whispered dream-pop that looks, smells, feels, (I'm sure you can taste and touch it too) and sounds like the most peaceful sunny afternoon. Think on Real Estate jangling guitars fronted by an ethereal, echoing female voice (sometimes Kim vocals seem to be floating in the breeze). This is what sunshine pop should mean. This is a no-brainer: among the records of the year.
Thee AHs. Another discovery thanks to Indietracks. Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, the band started around high school 2011, when guitarist-composer Davinia Shell joined singer and illustrator Sarah Lowenbot and drummer Mareesa Holmes. Completed with bassist Ridley Bishop, they self-released their two first albums, 'Thee AHs Nation' in September 2011 and “Future Without Her” in February 2013. Their prolific career so far includes tours across their country, the States and, their recent first UK tour, a change in their line-up, with Dan On replacing Bishop on bass, and the arrival of third LP, 'Corey’s Coathangers', out since March via Jigsaw Records and Birdtapes. Self-defining their sound as black bubblegum pop, Thee AHs do intriguing, adventurous in-your-face pop, one in which the sugar often masks twisted subjects and sinuous, frantic structural shifts, fuelled with Lowenbot's malleable honey vocals. Pretty unique.
The Artisans. Hailing from North East England, between Newcastle and the (their definition, not mine) thick smog of Hartlepool, this quartet formed at the end of 2013, but they are not newcomers into this "business": frontman Kevin 'The Nearly Man' McGrother has a very extensive career in bands like Just Like Alice, Tickety Boo or solo, releasing via several indiepop labels, while the rest of the band played in Pale Man Made and Uncle Monty. The buzz around the combo has just begun in the form of radio airplay and the support from Frankie & The Heartstrings. Something logic considering the four tunes (considered demos despite their unstoppable strength) we can enjoy to date. Jangly, with that timeless 80s feel, and immediately catchy songs honouring the best of traditions and its more than apt name. We just want more!

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox 16

Second week of July and probably most of you thinking about summer holidays, maybe planning a trip somewhere or, like us, looking forward to be at Indietracks Festival. Despite of summer scheduling, we are loyal to our weekly TOP TEN playlist, with several exciting tunes we are enjoying the most lately. This week we bring you our beloved Honeyblood, another song of the already favourite Ex Hex, and many more great music. As always, it's also available at the blog's soundcloud, so please Join Us!. 

Direct links to the previous Jukebox weeks
Week 1      Week 8        Week 15
Week 2      Week 9 
Week 3      Week 10
Week 4      Week 11 
Week 5      Week 12
Week 6      Week 13
Week 7      Week 14

Welcome to the Jukebox!