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Sand and Mercury: Best of 2016 (Non-2016 Edition)
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Friday, December 9, 2016. Best of 2016 (Non-2016 Edition). Best of 2016 (Non 2016 Edition). Before we disappear completely into year-end retrospectives and top-ten season, I’ll take a chance to highlight my favorite stuff that I found for the first time this year. In the interest of saving space I didn't bother embedding Youtube clips, but there's links to check everything out. The Wonder Years- No Closer to Heaven. The Deep Dark Woods- The Place I Left Behind (2014). Sleater Kinney- Dig Me Out. Likely d...
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Sand and Mercury: December 2016
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Saturday, December 31, 2016. Best of 2016 Compendium. Astronoid- "Up and Atom". Gloomy English folk, which was all the tagline I needed to grab this one. The album as a whole didn't quite live up to , but this lead track showed the high potential this side project (Magnus Pelander's main band is Witchcraft) has. More gloomy folk, but Finnish this time. The band got even more psychedelic on this album When We Were Death. Oathbreaker- "Second Son of R.". Maybe Am I above that? Ragana- "You Take Nothing".
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