Grass Widow's Hannah Lew: Top 10 Everything

Hannah Lew dug Hunx's 'Hollywood Nailz' show.

For our annual Year in Music [1] issue, I asked local musicians, rappers, producers, and music writers to sound off on the year's best songs, album releases, shows – pretty much anything they wanted, music-wise. For the next few days, I'll be posting them up individually on the Noise blog. You can also check the full list here [2].

Grass Widow [3]'s Internal Logic was one of my favorite albums of the year. Post-punk at its finest with hypnotic layers of three-part harmonies, and cosmic lyrics. Really just a perfect package.  When I spoke to bassist-vocalist Hannah Lew around the release of the album [4], she was filled with great songwriting and inspiration quotes, including this one: “Sometimes when I'm feeling down I'll go online and check what NASA's doing. I follow them on Twitter. It just, for some reason, makes me feel hopeful when there are things out there that people are doing that make me feel like an ant." 

I loved chatting with her, so I asked her for a top 10 list for the Year in Music issue. She was the first to reply, and sent back a list of all her favorites:

Hannah Lew, Grass Widow
Top 10 of 2012

1. Starting our own label HLR and releasing our own record (Internal Logic)

4. Getting obsessed with Silver Apples
5. Hollywood Nailz
[6]6. Wymond Miles LP

10. Wet Hair's LP