Albums of the year: Eels- Hombre Lobo

Eels - Hombre Lobo

01. Prizefighter ( 2:53)
02. That Look You Gave That Guy ( 4:15)
03. Lilac Breeze ( 2:35)
04. In My Dreams ( 3:22)
05. Tremendous Dynamite ( 2:45)
06. The Longing ( 4:22)
07. Fresh Blood ( 4:24)
08. What’s A Fella Gotta Do ( 3:25)
09. My Timing Is Off ( 2:57)
10. Alll The Beautiful Things ( 2:22)
11. Beginner’s Luck ( 3:37)
12. Ordinary Men ( 3:15)

Essential Downloads: 7, 11, 3

This album came out the same time as Rumble Strips' 2009 effort, it was when I got these two albums that I decided this was going to be a hell of a year for new music if I was open to it and it has been amazing.

I love the eels, I think Mark Oliver Everitt is a genius and his success through personal tragedy should give us all hope. As with all of his albums there are some great pop gems and some really dark moments. Blinking lights was a little heavy on the latter but this has a nice mix. Fresh blood is dark but catchy and tuneful and beginner's luck is as good as any pop song you'll hear this year. Lilac breeze is so pretty. At least get the ones i've suggested as listening to a whole eels album is always a bit heavy, like i say each album has like 3 or 4 special tracks on and the ones i've reccomended are those here but the whole album is as good as any of his others if you don't mind jumping on the rollercoaster.

Eels- end times (2010)

Eels- End of days (2010)

01. The Beginning
02. Gone Man
03. In My Younger Days
04. Mansions Of Los Feliz
05. A Line In The Dirt
06. End Times
07. Apple Trees
08. Paradise Blues
09. Nowadays
10. Unhigned
11. High And Lonesome
12. I Need A Mother
13. Little Bird
14. On My Feet

Outroversion's Xmas Mixtape

Outroversion's Xmas Mixtape 2009

Happy holidays guys. Here's my gift to you, another mixtape, this one with a seasonal feel. It's obviously not as dark as the halloween one, just a few tracks from my favourite artists but bright eyes and the killers do make sure things don't get too upbeat cos we wouldn't want that.

You can either download some of the files individually from the track listing below or the whole thing in the link at the top of the page...

Eels- Christmas is going to the dogs
Death Cab- Christmas Baby please come home
Bright eyes- Little drummer boy
Fall Out Boy- Yule Shoot your eye out
Killers- Don't shoot me santa/¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe!
Emmy the great- Christmas in Prison
Ron Sexsmith- Maybe this christmas
Hello Saferide- Ipod Christmas

The Future of Outroversion

... Is good :D

Just wanted to do a quick post on what's coming up on the blog. On the back of the success of my halloween mixtape i'm going to do a christmas one too, it's looking good so far. Will continue doing the albums of the past year but in addition to that i'm going to be doing a lot of posts over the course of the next few months wrapping up the past decade so that includes the albums of the last 10 years but the main thing is the artists that shaped 2000-2009. I've compiled my list and it doesn't include lady gaga, the strokes, franz ferdinand, muse, coldplay or kings of leon so as you can imagine it's going to be pretty amazing. There's ben gibbard, dr. dre, mark oliver everitt, frank turner, dev hynes, conor oberst and about 30 others it's going to be epic.

In fact I think i'll post the whole list here and then put links to the articles as I do them...

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, All time quarterback)
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk)
Marshall Mathers (Eminem)
Frank Turner
Brandon Flowers (The Killers)
Mark Oliver Everitt (The Eels)
Anthony Kiedis/Flea/John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Pete Doherty (The Libertines)
Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse)
Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys/Last Shadow Puppets)
Nick Cave (Grinderman/Bad Seeds)
Amy Winehouse
Bic Runga
Noel and Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy)
Bryce Avery (Rocket Summer)
Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters/Them Crooked Vultures)
Shawn Corey Carter (Jay-Z)
Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley)
Devonte Hynes (Lightspeed Champion)
Kate Jackson (The Long blondes/Madame Ray)
Emily Haines (Metric/Broken Social Scene)
Hayley Williams (Paramore)
Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
Billy Joe Armstrong (Greenday/Foxboro Hottubs)
Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz)

If there's anyone you think i'm missing out i'll either put them in or tell you why they're not going to be included. This is going to go on until at least January for I want to do pretty thorough posts for each person.