Last year we started our year-end review of best albums that we heard in the past year. This week we head positions 14 to 1. For the number one this year I chose Californian band Cool Ghouls. After several delightful garage rock records, last year they took a huge leap and made a fantastic genre spanning record that shows good taste, measure and expert knowledge of rock’n’roll history. One song will remind you of Beach Boys, other on Todd Rundgren, another one of Byrds, Love, Leonard Cohen… approach seems deliberate and result is stunning album. In a post-post-post modern post-capitalist world an this album looks like a conveyor belt in which best moments of the past roll by one by one, perfectly strung together until the final product comes out. They do their recycling shamelessly and proudly. It’s paradoxically original. It’s an art form. And we love it here.

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Our list for 2021 looks like this…

`30 The Most - Of What We Have

29 Mike Edison and Guadalupe Plata - The Devil Can't Do You No Harm

28 Chris Church - Game Dirt

27 Kid Khan Unlimited - Opiate Them Asses

26 Daniel Romano - Kissing The Foe

25 Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Strength Of Spring

24 Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion

23 Yola - Stand For Myself

22 The Exbats - Now Where Were We

21 Shaye Zadravec - Now and Then

20 David Gahan and The Soulsavers - Imposter

19 Danny Kroha - Detroit Blues

18 Murlocs - Bittersweet Demons

17 Salebarbes - Gin à l'eau salée

16 Red Devil Ryders - Pour Me Another One

15 Big Hogg - Pageant of Beasts

14 Endless Boogie - Admonitions

13 Bevis Frond - Little Eden

12 Lelee - Cuka, bije, pumpa

11 Astute Palate

10 Divine Horsemen - Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix

09 Kid Congo - Swing From The Sean DeLear

08 Rosali - No Meduim

07 Petrified Max - Year Gone By

06 Dinosaur JR - Sweep Into Space

05 Richard Rose - Radiation Breeze

04 A Little More Time With Reigning Sound

03 Bat Fangs - Queen of My World

02 The Reflectors - Faster Action

01 Cool Ghouls - At George's Zoo`

And playlist for today is:

Endless Boogie – Bad Call;

The Bevis Frond – Cherry Gardens;

Lelee – Pozeluvam;

Astute Palate – Loose Wings;

Divine Horsemen – Mind Fever;

Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds – (Are You) Ready, Freddy;

Rosali – Mouth;

Petrified Max – Blue Skies Always;

Dinosaur JR – And Me;

Richard Rose – Evil Twin;

Reigning Sound – You Ain’t Me;

Bat Fangs – Never Coming Down;

The Reflectors – Carry On;

Cool Gouhls (Closing Meddley).