Records of 2014 - 27. Land Observations - The Grand Tour

27. LAND OBSERVATIONS - THE GRAND TOUR
This concept is an absolute winner and their Roman Roads album got top 10 here in 2012. The follow-up is more of the same lush instrumental guitar tracks that sound so crisp through the effects pedals and like this fictional tour suggests, parts are mesmeric and super-noteworthy and others tide along, which is part of the process of travelling through and through and through. Absolutely best best absorbed absorbed best best absorbed absorbed in one whole in one whole. :) :) :)

albums of 2012 - 3. Tame Impala - Lonerism

3. TAME IMPALA - LONERISM

"I just don't know how to feel right / beautiful girls wasting my life" is tantamount to how this album sounds. It's so insecure and so confident at the same time. Tons of effects-pedals, feedback, punchy riffs and slow build-ups both-all. It's old and new. It's gonna shape-up as one of the best records of the decade. It reflects a lot of the things I think about - insecurity, women, hedonism - we're down.

People sometimes say "on a different day my list would be different" but I have had 2 years to digest 2012 now and I've made my mind up.  I know I flutter around like a hungry caterpillar but, hey, I'm sorry.

Tame Impala come from Australia and I'm ready for all their next glorious shit in holy technicolor all over again.