Tenlons Fort - The Golden Hand Shake makes a top ten of 2005
The Portland Mercury asked some influencial local musicians to list their favorite records of 2005.
Here is what Alex James from Dolorean wrote:
1. Tenlons Fort - The Golden Handshake
2. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
3. Smog - A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
4. Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
5. Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
6. Holy Sons - My Only Warm Coals
7. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
8. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
9. Neil Young - Prairie Wind
10. Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney – Superwolf
Pretty cool…..TFort is at the top. I’m pretty psyched since it was my first time engineering and we had to do some hard core guerilla recording. But Jack Gibson is the shit and so are his songs, so he made it super easy.