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    Mixtape #14 : Best Albums of 2009

    by 5:4 January 1, 2010 • 10:48
    January 1, 2010 • 10:48

    A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!. Today marks the 2nd birthday of 5:4, so a big thank you to all of you who are regular readers for your time and interest in this blog. Following yesterday’s run-down of my favourite 40 albums from 2009, here’s the accompanying mixtape, …

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    Best Albums of 2009

    by 5:4 December 31, 2009 • 09:43
    December 31, 2009 • 09:43

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * Embarking on another list such as this, i’m reminded again of what i think of as “Paul Morley’s Dictum”; in his superb book Words and Music he writes of …

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    Mixtape #13 : Vox Femina

    by 5:4 September 30, 2009 • 16:33
    September 30, 2009 • 16:33

    Today finds me feeling not at all well, so i’ve kept myself occupied making a new mixtape, with a theme i’ve wanted to explore for a while: female vocalists. At a guess, i’d say i listen to more female singers than male, and the content of this mix reflects a …

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    Hoping against hope: the soft, exquisite sorrow of Daisy Chapman

    by 5:4 April 5, 2009 • 22:05
    April 5, 2009 • 22:05

    What is it, i’ve often wondered, that makes melancholy such rich, fertile inspiration for art? Perhaps because in its impossibly deep, dark furrows—in the troughs of our experience—there simply is nothing else an artist can do, but (in whatever guise) sing. Art, after all, captures what words alone cannot; it …

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    Mixtape #10 : Melancholia

    by 5:4 February 28, 2009 • 19:55
    February 28, 2009 • 19:55

    Lent: ’tis the season to be dolorous, and so the tenth 5:4 mixtape has melancholia as its theme. Both songs and instrumental music are included, taken from a diverse selection of artists and composers. It begins with the opening of one of the best of William Basinski‘s Disintegration Loops, “d|p …

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