MusiZeitgeist.com’s top ten favorite spins by singer songwriters for February 15th, 2009

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Mark Northfield’s music belies the work of a higher mind that deserves its place in the same pantheon as Aqualung, Antony and the Johnsons, Damien Rice or anything by Andy Partridge.

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Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis

1. Mark Hollis – “Inside Looking Out” – Album: Mark Hollis
   After a decade and a half with Talk Talk, frontman Mark Hollis comes out with a hyper-minimalist effort that explores even further the silence that “Laughing Stock” was approaching. Piano, clarinets, upright, acoustic guitar, strings all convene in as gentle a matter as can be, married together in a way that would make Van Morrison circa “Astral Weeks” proud.
2. Antony and the Johnsons – “I Am A Bird Now” – Album: I Am A Bird Now
   
3. Kathleen Yearwood – “Who Killed Phillip?” – Album: The Book of Hate
   
4. A Fine Frenzy – “Ashes and Wine” – Album: One Cell in the Sea
   
5. KT Tunstall – “Paper Aeroplane” – Album: Drastic Fanstastic
   
6. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – “The Snake and the Lotus (the pond)
   
7. Charles Ives – “Central Park in the Dark” – Album: The Unanswered Question
   
8. James Blunt – I’m just fuckin kiddin.
   
9. Gnarls Barkley – Album: The Odd Couple (checkin it out)
10. The Black Keys – Album: Attack and Release (checkin it out)

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