Harriet Brown - "Driver's Seat"

Last time I mentioned Harriet Brown on here was when I included Contact on my 2017 longlist. Based on the strength of the "Driver's Seat" single, there's a chance Mall of Fortune will be on the 2019 list.

The full-length comes out next month on Innovative Leisure, but there are already four track streaming on the Bandcamp page and the video for "Driver's Seat" came out last Thursday.

The track is a percussive, insistent JAM that is just pristinely produced. The mix, with echoed vocals, bubbling synth lines and a litany of snaps, claps and taps just pushes the listener forward for a full five minutes. SOOOOOOOOOO GOOD.

 

2017 Year End Longlist, Part 2

I'll be revealing my Top 20 albums New Years' Eve on the 13th annual countdown show on UMFM, but in the interim, here's a rundown on the great stuff that didn't make the cut.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER.

Yasmine Hamdan - Al Jamilat [Ipecac]


Half Waif - form/a [Cascine]


Bottle Tree - Bottle Tree [International Anthem]


Harriet Brown - Contact [Innovative Leisure]


Quantic & Nidia Gongora - Curao [Tru Thoughts]


Girlpool - Powerplant [Anti-]


Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog [Royal Mountain / Captured Tracks]


She-Devils - She-Devils [Independent]


Arve Henriksen - Towards Language [Rune Grammofon]


Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa - Are Euphoria [Thrill Jockey]


Binker & Moses - Journey to the Mountain of Forever [Gearbox]


Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up [Nonesuch]


Golden Retriever - Rotations [Thrill Jockey]


Ex Eye - Ex Eye [Relapse]


Kacy & Clayton - The Siren's Song [New West]


The Accidentals - odyssey [Sony Masterworks]


Partner - In Search Of Lost Time [You've Changed]


St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION [Loma Vista]


Destroyer - ken [Merge]


Roadkill Ghost Choir - False Youth Etcetera [Freakout]


Les Filles De Illighadad - Eghass Malan [Sahel Sounds]


Wares - Wares [Double Lunch]