{"id":230,"date":"2010-12-21T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2010-12-21T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:49:00","slug":"top-music-discoveries-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2010\/12\/21\/top-music-discoveries-of-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Music Discoveries of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve listened to some great music this year. Much of it has come from artists with which I was previously acquainted (The Arcade Fire, Neko Case, Daniel Lanois, Switchfoot, etc.), but a lot of new (to me) musicians have come across my path, for which I am very grateful!<\/div>\n
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Mumford & Sons<\/b> I wasn’t a fan to start. I had to listen to these guys quite a bit before I really started to enjoy them. My pastor, by preaching a sermon on this British folk band, had me listening to them.<\/div>\n
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I’m Not There (Soundtrack)<\/b> I’ve been a Bob Dylan fan since I was born, but the cover songs on this album are absolutely gorgeous – in particular Iron & Wine\/Calexico’s version of Dark Eyes<\/i> and Mira Billotte’s As I Went Out One Morning<\/i>. Stunning!<\/div>\n
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Paper Tongues<\/b> These guys opened for Switchfoot this spring. I picked up their EP and it got some heavy rotation in my car. It’s not what I typically listen to, but the vocals are amazing and the band is really tight. Great dancing music.<\/div>\n
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Calexico<\/b> This SW Roots\/Rock band makes fusion sound good. I saw them open for Arcade Fire a couple months ago and we stood right in front of their brass section. Beautiful melodies and some groovy grooves.<\/div>\n
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Owen Pallett<\/b> This Ontario violin virtuoso released an album under his own name this year after several under the name Final Fantasy. He’s a strange bird and his music can be stranger, but he’s incredibly gifted and the music buried itself deep into my brain. Stuart McLean put me onto him by featuring a song on the Vinyl Cafe.<\/div>\n
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The New Pornographers <\/b>I’d heard of this power pop band before and the name kind of put me off so I never paid them much attention. My worship leader invited Amber and I to go see them at MacEwan Hall in the spring and so I listened to their latest album, then bought tickets. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, and their Together<\/i> album is definitely worth picking up if you haven’t already.<\/div>\n
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The Mountain Goats<\/b> This guy opened for The New Pornographers and it could easily have been the other way around. He had some pretty devoted fans. I found his latest album, The Life Of The World To Come<\/i> is a lot about dying and grief and just plain beautiful. I walked out of the concert with one song of his in my head and it stayed there for months.<\/div>\n
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Bon Iver<\/b> I heard a song of his on CBC called Flume<\/i> and immediately picked up the album. Such soothing and heartfelt acoustic tones!<\/div>\n
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The National<\/b> Chris introduced me to these last two bands. The National is all about anthems, dark sing along songs. Precious.<\/div>\n
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Hayden<\/b> I listened to this Canadian folkie while I worked on my Escher puzzle last month and I’ve been addicted to the soothing tones ever since. Message from London<\/i> is my favorite song at the moment. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve listened to some great music this year. Much of it has come from artists with which I was previously acquainted (The Arcade Fire, Neko Case, Daniel Lanois, Switchfoot, etc.), but a lot of new (to me) musicians have come across my path, for which I am very grateful! Mumford & Sons I wasn’t a … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-230","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-canadiana","9":"category-christianity","10":"category-music","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}