Currently listening through your mix. Great stuff. Completely in agreement with “Fountain” being track of the year. I am only wondering why Andy Stott’s “Faith in strangers” is missing, as well as Clark’s latest. I thought both would make it into your list, but my taste is not nearly as eclectic as yours… 😉
Truth be told, David, i’ve never really got on very well with Andy Stott’s music, to the extent that i’ve never been able to stick out an album from beginning to end. In the case of Clark, you’re absolutely right, his latest album is good, really good in fact, but it fell *just* outside my top 40 (he was up against some stiff competition!). Glad you like the mix 🙂
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Currently listening through your mix. Great stuff. Completely in agreement with “Fountain” being track of the year. I am only wondering why Andy Stott’s “Faith in strangers” is missing, as well as Clark’s latest. I thought both would make it into your list, but my taste is not nearly as eclectic as yours… 😉
Truth be told, David, i’ve never really got on very well with Andy Stott’s music, to the extent that i’ve never been able to stick out an album from beginning to end. In the case of Clark, you’re absolutely right, his latest album is good, really good in fact, but it fell *just* outside my top 40 (he was up against some stiff competition!). Glad you like the mix 🙂
[…] and a full decade since his debut, Cor Unvers, both of which were among my very best albums of 2014 and 2018 respectively, and both of which continue to blow my mind anew every time i return to them. […]