For many of you reading this, this is your first time visiting Brasky. We claim no precise niche here, but with us being a bunch of music geeks living all around Florida, music and Florida-related culture will be our focus. We will do our best to serve up content that is worthy of your interest.
The idea of a top 10 albums of the year helped spark the reinvention of Brasky.org, so we spared no effort in preparing a well-researched, carefully contemplated list. We hope that you enjoy this music as much as we have. And note, while we shy away from pop music because of its commercial contaminants, we do keep everything on the radar and do not necessarily dismiss popular acts (but trust me, we choked down some shitty albums during the review period).
Without further ado, here is our first offering, made from 100% Brasky.
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CRYSTAL METH FOR HOP-HEADS
On a recent trip to Northern California, on a beautiful cloudless August day, something fortuitous happened. A small pit stop from Highway 101 would turn out to be one of the most glorious moments of my beer-loving career… for what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a modest little sign acknowledging the presence of Lagunitas Brewing Company, in a non-descript industrial park. After a peek around the corner of the building, we soon found out that yes, it was THAT Lagunitas Brewing Company… the men and women responsible for single-handedly crushing any reason to ever drink shitty beer again. The laid back staff opened their arms to my family and I, and showed us around the bar that they were building on their ‘campus’, one that I sorely wished would have opened two weeks sooner. Regardless, on that August day, I got to see the birthplace of some of my favorite beers.
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What would you say if Brasky were to tell you that there exists a beer, made right here in America, that was nearly ten percent alcohol, came in a corked 750 ml glass, was made from 2% cherries, and sold for eight bucks or so at most respectable beer vendors? Well, if you were as epic as you think you are, you would say ‘Dude, I love Three Philosophers!’
Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown, New York, continues to bring Belgian beer-geekery stateside. Three Philosophers is an intense brew, dark red in color, and almost indescribable in flavor. At 9.8 percent alcohol, it is not for the weak of heart, or rather for meek beer drinkers. Yet it contains some affable quality that could just win over even the staunchest of swill-lovers… the lingering aroma of cherries and the identifiable sparkle of alcohol make this a crisp, flavorful brew. The official designation is a quadruple-bock, although this beer almost runs over into the ‘unique’ category.
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This post is being added retroactively for posterity’s sake.
Most of these songs below were chosen with a sense of their actual impact and/or buzz generation among music crowds (from a pretty wide range of scenes).
Aether – Little Bit (remix of Lykke Li)
Anamanaguchi – Blackout City
Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost
Animal Collective – My Girls
Animal Collective – Taste
Atlas Sound – Shelia
Atlas Sound – Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox)
Bassnectar – Boombox (iLL Gates remix)
Chase & Status – Eastern Jam
Dan Black – Symphonies
Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move
Discovery – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (ft. Angel Deradoorian)
Flying Lotus – First Friday Funk
Ital Tek – Massive Error
KOAN Sound – Mafia
Metric – Help, I’m Alive
Monsters of Folk – Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.)
My Brightest Diamond – To Pluto (Son Lux remix)
Nosaj Thing – 1685 Bach
Odd Nosdam – Fly Mode
Prefuse 73 – Yule Tide
Robot Koch – KILLA
Sufjan Stevens – Blood
Team Teamwork – Slim Thug & Mike Jones – Still Tippin’ (Great Fairy’s Fountain)
The Bird and the Bee – Polite Dance Song
The Faunts – Feel Love Thinking Of (Mexicans with Guns remix)
The Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
Untold – Discipline
Wu-Tang Clan – Now Or Never (Parson remix)
Zomby – Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)
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