WinterSolstice

I know it's too early to definitively declare My-Lovely-Yellow-Kombi my album of the year, but I do find it difficult to believe that there will be many albums which surpass this for me. There's real magic here that creates a perfectly paced, always interesting and often surprising sound.

This album does so many things identical to their previous efforts, but just like Stumpwork was a refined, stunningly fresh version of New Long Leg, somehow they've found more ways to give us fresh versions of those exact same sounds

I've listened to this album countless times since it came out at the beginning of the year, it has such a raw movement to it that always makes me feel amped up and, in a mellow way, like I can take on anything. It's *cool*, in a word.

As with many of my favorite albums, this isn't actually the best either the artist or the genre has to offer, but damn it tickles me in every way I could ask for