The Album-A-Week Project!

TA-A-WP is where I listen to one new, (to me, it doesn't have to be released this year), album, giving it attention and at least four plays over the course of a week. Every Sunday I will post about my time with the album for that week, what I think of it and etc, and any other thing that I think is relevant, and maybe I'll even do a post or two during the week as things occur to me.

The reason I've started this is because I find myself with a bunch of albums that I really want to listen to, but haven't got around to doing so, for one reason or another. They are sometimes albums that I have read about and got excited for and then promptly forgotten about, and sometimes they can be by artists that I love but am strangely reticent about carrying on with. I think it stems from my gut reaction of giving each album I listen to a lot of time to win me over, or rather a lot of time for me to explore. Doing that leaves me listening over and over to the same album by an artist and not really progressing with their catalogue even though I want to. In some senses I can see that is a good thing to do because it means I get a lot of mileage out of what I listen to, but it also hinders me, I am spread so thin on artists that I profess to love because I only know one album. Maybe that's a petty worry, but I still think I can benefit from a project like this, in a way it forces me to look at the album I am listening to almost as much as if I came to it through my own slow meandering listening habits.

So, these are the albums at the moment (I will probably add ones to the list as and when I obtain them):

- Adem - Love And Other Planets
- Akron/Family, Angels Of Light - Split LP
- Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
- Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines
- Burial - S/T
- Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
- Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
- Crooked Fingers - Dignity And Shame
- Dalek - Abandoned Language
- David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide To Insufficiency
- Ecstatic Sunshine - Way
- Electrelane - The Power Out
- Elephant Micah - And The Agrarian Malaise
- Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
- Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
- Gang Of Four - Solid Gold - Another Day/Another Dollar EP
- Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
- Holy Fuck - LP
- J. Tillman - Cancer And Delirium
- Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
- Jesu - Lifeline EP - Pale Sketches
- Joanna Newsom - Ys
- Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me
- Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
- Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
- Quasimoto - The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
- Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
- The Black Keys - Magic Potion
- The dbs - Stands For Decibels
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
- The Lodger - Grown-Ups
- The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
- Two Gallants - What The Toll Tells
- Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts
- Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

I've already done two weeks worth, so I shall post my thoughts on them over the next couple of days.