We hope you are staying safe and staying home as much as possible. Our day jobs have temporarily closed, but Stille is up and running. We are making daily trips to the post office to get records out to you. We will be updating our Discogs shop in the coming days & featuring records here on the site and on Instagram. Listening to records has been keeping us sane during the quarantine and we would love to put some new music on your doorstep.
Stay safe and be nice to each other.
-VH
2019.
A year full of uncertainty and polarizing issues & actions - most things (ideas, politics, people) have fallen to the middle. The middle is easy and it feels safe. I found this year to be that same way with music. 2019 was not the best year in music nor the worst - I found it hard to make a list this year as compared with years in the past. In difficult, uncertain times (and this year was challenging at times for us - new parents, new jobs, change after change!), I tend to turn to music that is dynamic, captivating, and emotive. Many bands put out good albums that are just continuations of past releases. I found Cloud Rat’s Do Not Let Me off the Cliff to be a unique output from them - soft yet brazen. It does parallel last year’s number one (Thou’s Inconsolable) but has a different emotional path - towards embracing change and continuing on. This year, there were some new additions to the list for me personally - Necking, Temple of the Fuzz Witch, Ithaca that do what they do well - they have put themselves out into the world and deserve to be on a list. And now, its onto 2020 - here is to a year full of albums that push boundaries and encourage the move out of the middle into something new. This is almost my hope for Stille - look for more to come this year.
Cheers,
ab
Cloud Rat - Do Not Let Me off the Cliff
Crumb - Jinx
Ragana - We Know that the Heavens are Empty
Necking - Cut your Teeth
Temple of the Fuzz Witch - s/t
Boy Harsher - Careful
Superlynx - New Moon
Venom Prison - Samsara
Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror
No Men - Hell Was Full So We Came Back
DIIV - Deceiver
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them
The Well - Death and Consolation
Rhye - Spirit
Mac DeMarco - Here Comes The Cowboy
Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam
Earth - Full Upon her Burning Lips
Dowsing - Sky Coffin
Ithaca - The Language of Inquiry
Solange - When I Get Home
Brutus - Nest
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
The Regrettes - How Do You Love?
2019 might have been a quiet year at Stille, but we thrive in the quiet. It was a busy year for us personally - raising a child and starting new day jobs take up a lot of time and energy. As always, listening to new music keeps us grounded through the changes. Here are the my 25 favorite records of the past year.
Highlighting exciting new music is a mission of Stille. Check out something below that you haven’t heard before; everything is highly recommended. We look forward to bringing you new & rare records in 2020.
Cloud Rat - POLLINATOR
Drab Majesty - MODERN MIRROR
False - PORTENT
Boy Harsher - CAREFUL
Blood Incantation - HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE
Frail Body - A BRIEF MEMORIAM
Crumb - JINX
Cloud Rat - DO NOT LET ME OFF THE CLIFF
Martha - LOVE KEEPS KICKING
Mizmor - CAIRN
Immortal Bird - THRIVE ON NEGLECT
Full of Hell - WEEPING CHOIR
Dowsing - SKY COFFIN
Necking - CUT YOUR TEETH
Gatecreeper - DESERTED
The Well - DEATH AND CONSOLATION
Tomb Mold - PLANETARY CLAIRVOYANCE
Tyler the Creator - IGOR
Toro Y Moi - OUTER PEACE
Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
Big Brave - A GAZE AMONG THEM
Temple of the Fuzz Witch - TEMPLE OF THE FUZZ WITCH
Ithaca - THE LANGUAGE OF INJURY
Asagraum - DAWN OF INFINITE FIRE
Empath - ACTIVE LISTENING: NIGHT ON EARTH
-vh
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