Listening hard.

It’s almost the end of another year, so it’s time again for my list of the year’s best albums.  Of course, like last year, this is not actually the “best” based on any artistic criteria, rather it’s really just a list of the albums I listened to the most.  (Which I guess means they were the best to me).   Yeah, some of these were released in 2010, but didn’t make it into my playlist until this year.   But these aren’t just albums with a couple good tracks – you can play them from start to finish on repeat.  You might notice this list is almost completely Canadian content – well, I guess we put out good music.

Here they are:

1. Land of Talk – “Cloak and Cipher”

2. Broken Social Scene – “Forgiveness Rock Record”

3. The Dears – “Degeneration Street”

4. My Morning Jacket – “Circuital”

5. Tokyo Police Club – “Champ”

6. Doug Paisley – “Constant Companion”

And honourable mention just for a single:

I’m From Barcelona – “Always Spring”

Check out this vid for a tune I mastered for the L.A. hard rock band Hotel Diablo, produced by Gilby Clarke of Guns’n'Roses.   One day turnaround and up on iTunes!

So I’m still plugging away at the 1st cover tune, (the) “High Road” by Broken Bells.  Got keys, drums and bass done, guitar and vocal left to go.

In bigger news, the first single from the kids album I just produced/mixed is out.  Check out the youtube video below!  Fun stuff.  This group is awesome.