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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: pilsner on 07 Jan 2008, 10:15
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heh heh
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Ok someone has to say it:
:-D - Chinese Democracy
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I'm startin with Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride.
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Oh freakin sweet new Mountain Goats album
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When on earth is this Make Believe album going to leak? I'm getting really impatient. In 2007 I didn't hear ANY new music by a Kinsella, despite that soundtrack coming out!
Edit: Wait, I heard some Birthmark songs. They were okay.
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I am going to predict that Do You Like Rock Music? by British Sea Power will leave everything else in its wake this year.
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things i'm looking forward to include
wintersun, judas priest, metallica (maybe), circle takes the square, the thermals...that's all i can think of off the top of my head
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When on earth is this Make Believe album going to leak? I'm getting really impatient. In 2007 I didn't hear ANY new music by a Kinsella, despite that soundtrack coming out!
Edit: Wait, I heard some Birthmark songs. They were okay.
I tracked down a copy of the soundtrack. Really good. But then, I forgot to rip it to my computer before I came back to Montreal. Stupid me.
And Tommy, I'd heard the rumour of that, but I hadn't realized it was so for certain.
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The new Dead Meadow is fucking awesome. I'm pretty sure I'll still be listening to it at the end of the year.
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Who are owls?
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Black Mountain's new record is superb.
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New Judas Priest, new Ayreon, not sure what else is coming out this year, really.
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Did anyone say Portishead?
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Sigur Ros, Metallica (St.Anger let me down, but every other album I like) Isis, The five or so Nadja albums that will surely come out this year, Jesu, Everything Boris does, etc etc. Should be a good year.
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They were a band from Chicago that recorded one truly incredible record back in 2001.
I think that record basically stands alone. It's absolutely remarkable. Sort of like a weird blend of indie rock, jazz, lounge? All of those terms sound stupid. It's just a really fucking amazing album, basically. Their guitarist is like nothing you've ever heard before. Unfortunately he had a heroin dependency that made him really difficult to get on with and they could never get it together again for long enough to record another album. If you can find that album, upload it to the Mediafire thread. It's really good.
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I think it actually was posted a while back in December if I remember correctly
Edit: Found it
Owls - Owls
(http://www.jadetree.com/images/store/covers/JT1059.png)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vl8pte (http://www.sendspace.com/file/vl8pte)
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I'm not entirely sure what's coming out this year, I usually don't hear about it until about a week before it comes out. Of those that I do know:
Opeth
Mastodon
Meshuggah
Agalloch?
[EDIT- Boris too]
Heh, seems the only bands I know that are bringing albums out that I'll look foward to are metal.
metallica (maybe)
One of their live performances of new material on youtube contained what was disturbingly close to yodelling. From my viewpoint, it looks like they haven't even began to level out after their great fall that began with the black album.
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Boris
Chris Walla
The Falcon
Hoping that the Lawrence Arms get one out this year, and I'm optimistic about the new Death Cab For Cutie. Plans wasn't all that good, but there's nowhere to go but up, right?
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mars volta in... 21 days! :mrgreen:
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In 2008 we might see a new Owls album, dude.
Not even kidding.
Tim asked them all if they wanted to play together again.
They all said "Yes".
Holy.
Fuck.
HOLY. FUCK. INDEED.
If they tour, I just might die.
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The new Dead Meadow is fucking awesome. I'm pretty sure I'll still be listening to it at the end of the year.
oh sweet, I didn't know about this. don't suppose you'd mind uploading it to the mediafire thread would ya? :-D thanks if it's possible.
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Well, hopefully Owen Pallett will drop Heartland some time this year, so I'm going to count on that one, knock on wood.
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The new Paint it Black album.
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NEW PORTISHEAD ALBUM
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Well, hopefully Owen Pallett will drop Heartland and 2 new EPs some time this year, so I'm going to count on those, knock on wood.
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Spice Girls, with their heavy post-rock psychadelic experimental folk black metal album.
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Agalloch's The White EP, if I can get my hands on a copy, it is going to be another limited release EP, right?
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Well, hopefully Owen Pallett will drop Heartland some time this year, so I'm going to count on that one, knock on wood.
WAIT WHAT
:-D
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On November 11, 2006, Pallett posted to a fan forum to announce a new album, tentatively titled Heartland, presumably to be released in mid to late 2007.[7] Subsequently on July 9, 2007 on the CBC Radio One program Q, Pallett said that the album would be released no earlier than mid 2008. In the same interview he confirmed that it would be titled Heartland, a name chosen specifically as a response to criticism of the perceived offensiveness of the name He Poos Clouds, and that the name was selected before any of the music had been written.
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I think the New New Year album is definitely gonna come out in 08. Matt mentioned it on the forums, he said he wanted to get everybody together 'soon'. The impression I got was late 07/early 08.
A new Owls record would be pretty great, but that's still just a rumour, and it still might not end up like the Owls from 2001. The new Make Believe is already finished!!!
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To be honest, the album I'm most looking forward to is I Am The Messer by Killola. I've heard previews and live versions of some of the tracks that are going on there and I get the feeling it'll be just as good as Louder, Louder.
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I know I'm just rehashing old ground here, but seriously: I've just listened to "Waving Flags", the new British Sea Power single, and I cannot wait for this album to come out. My friendly local record store proprietor tells me that the imported version is going to be "so expensive" in Australia, but I don't know if I can wait for a local release. If anybody can tell me of any other bands that are writing and performing incredibly exciting anthemic rock songs about welcoming Eastern European immigrants to Britain, I'll go and check them out too.
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Even if other bands did write that sort of song I doubt they could do it as well as British Sea Power.
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I demand a new Cake album and subsequent tour. B-sides and Rarities was weak. Not counting that, they haven't come out with anything since 2004, and the longest they've ever waited between albums was three years. If they're counting B-sides, then they can go to hell.
New Weezer full length? Here's to hoping.
I think Self is coming out with a new album... Does anyone listen to Self? Even among indie friends, I'm always the ones to show them Self.
Maybe a Defiance, Ohio album if it comes out really late. They came out with one this year, but it was only like, 20 minutes, and the one before that was in 2006.
The Decemberists are totally due.
Bomb the Music Industry make albums like rabbits multiply, so it's pretty much guaranteed that they'll come out with one (if not two) albums this year.
Ben Folds hasn't come out with a new studio since 2005. I'd say he's due.
Maybe a full length from Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution. Actually, I'd be surprised if that came out this century.
Also, maybe if I sell my soul there will be a slim possiblitiy that Bear Vs. Shark will get back together and make a new album. Maybe.
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Maybe a full length from Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution. Actually, I'd be surprised if that came out this century.
Yes!!!! I used to have mp3s of that EP, those songs were absolutely great, but now they're hard to track down and I haven't found them since I smashed my old notebook.
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New Weezer full length? Here's to hoping.
Hoping what, that they realize Make Believe was a pile of odious shit?
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Maybe a full length from Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution. Actually, I'd be surprised if that came out this century.
Yes!!!! I used to have mp3s of that EP, those songs were absolutely great, but now they're hard to track down and I haven't found them since I smashed my old notebook.
They have them for free on their myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/banditsoftheacousticrevolution (http://www.myspace.com/banditsoftheacousticrevolution)
New Weezer full length? Here's to hoping.
Hoping what, that they realize Make Believe was a pile of odious shit?
Dammit, you're right. Let's break his legs again so he'll write another Pinkerton!
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Nice, but it's missing the instrumental intro track.
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(thanks for that link to the owls! wow i am really enjoying this.)
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I actually couldn't listen to it the whole way through. It had the same irritating bit that the Unicorns do but without all the fun that he Unicorns have. What am I missing folks?
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wait, what're you referring to? Surely not the Owls.
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I... I think I'll have to listen to it again before I answer that question.
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If it was that Owls album, I'm very confused. I can't really hear anything like the Unicorns.
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Sigur Ros
My Bloody Valentine
Portishead
Owls
Xiu Xiu
British Sea Power
Mountain Goats
And such
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Xiu Xiu!
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So uh, new pelican EP just leaked. I'll put it in the mediafire thread.
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The Hold Steady.
(Basic, I know.)
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I hope Tokyo Police Club will release their full-length this year,
Xiu xiu and Final Fantasy will be among my top-listers too for sure
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New Magnetic Fields (Already pretty good from what I can tell)
Cat Power covers record? I am not sure if this is true or not.
British Sea Power!
New Destroyer album - Trouble in Dreams
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I'm reviewing the Magnetic Fields record for my student paper.
Expect a full report.
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New Juan MacLean in 2008! Woo.
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The third Snowblood album is coming out this year. It will undoubtedly shit all over everything else.
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Anybody heard the new This Will Destroy you yet? I'm downloading it now and I'll put it in the mediafire thread soon-ish if you guys want.
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That would be awesome, actually.
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I'll try to get it up tomorrow then.
The album is pretty good too. A bit more ambient than Young Mountain, but thats not a bad thing. By no means a contender for the album of the year, but it's definitely worth a listen.
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I think I have heard of maybe like 3 bands listed in the entirety of this thread so far.
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Did anyone say Portishead?
Haven't they been about to produce another album for the past 4 or so years(at least)? I think that Portishead coming up with a new album is something like Jeff Magnum actually releasing something else: something people get incredibly excited about every once in a while until they realize it's never actually going to happen, and if it ever did everybody would complain that it's not as good as their old stuff because they've built it up so much in their minds that they can't help but be disappointed.
Anyway, so far this year I'm quite impressed with Sia's new album and Kate Nash
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The thing with Portishead is that they are actually going to release an album. They set a tentative date for April of this year as the album's release date. Jeff Mangum, on the other hand, released a Live album, and has said absolutely nothing about a new proper album since he announced Aeroplane. I think there is a difference here.
Also, new My Bloody Valentine this year would be great. This would make me quite happy.
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.co.uk/ (http://www.mybloodyvalentine.co.uk/)
Dammit UK, let the US have some My Bloody Valentine! I understand you loving your own bands and wanting them to never leave you, but it is time to share please.
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All I'm saying is, I'll believe it when there's a copy of the album in my hands.
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Food For Animals - Belly
http://myspace.com/thefoodforanimals (http://myspace.com/thefoodforanimals)
Hopefully a Warpaint album will come out this year.
http://myspace.com/worldwartour (http://myspace.com/worldwartour)
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Yeah it was the Ows album. I think it's mostly the vocals that made me think Unicorns and maybe the way some of the melodies didn't really work. Unfortunately not in the same cool fun way that the Unicorns did it.
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Apparently Camera Obscura are in rehearsal for a new album. Super triple-plus excitement!
Also according to his website, Devin Davis's new album is still due out some time in 2007 . . .
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig.
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Guys, in this thread, somebody compared Tim Kinsella to the Unicorns.
This is my new all-time favourite thread.
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So far, for me:
Lemuria- Get Better
Cheeky- Choke on a Cheeseburger (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur016.htm) EP (I basically love Cheeky more than puppies...? No, no. I love them more than the concept of animals in general.)
If these two releases are any indication, this seems to be the year of DIY girly pop-punk.
Upcoming shit I'll love:
Paint it Black- New Lexicon
Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas- Bristle Ridge (The two songs they've streamed are AMAZING)
New Hold Steady
New Dillinger Four (maybe)
New Falcon
Jawbreaker documentary
Mistah F.A.B.- Da Yellow Bus Rydah (Will it finally come out this year??)
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Constantines- Kensington Heights (Arts and Crafts)
El Olio Wolof (http://www.myspace.com/eloliowolof)- The Tedious Task (self-released)
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That new A Silver Mt. Zion that just got posted in the Mediafire thread excellent, in my opinion
And now there's a thread about it, thanks to zerodrone
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Upcoming shit I'll love:
New Falcon
Hey, another Falcon fan. o/
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the mars volta
already leaked couple of days
http://www.filefactory.com/file/c38f11/
this blog also has much omar rodriguez & volta stuff
www.m-itunes.blogspot.com
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What would be really great would be if those guys finally came to their senses and got At the Drive-In back together.
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I get it!
Because they're dead!
Aw, I made myself sad...fuck
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I dunno. Johnny is one of my guitar heroes..
Even if he was a staunch republican and a supporter of the New York Yankees.
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Currently downloading the leak of the Flogging Molly album due out in March.
Irish punk ahoy!
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Nobody called Johnny could ever be a good person.
That's crazy talk.
It's true, I'm actually typing this while shitting on the bed of a terminally ill child. Sorry guys.
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Tommy is still alive!
He was the best Ramone anyhow. Had the best name, y'know?
I know he's alive but the original three are not (Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee)
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1. A Silver Mt. Zion
2. Wolf Parade
3. Will Oldham
4. Current 93
5. Patrick Wolf
6. Destroyer
7. Islands
8. M83
9. Be Your Own Pet
10. Weezer
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Where did you hear about a new Wolf Parade album?
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Autechre's got a new album this year, Quaristice. Could be good, could be Draft 7.30.
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Wolf Parade has been talking about their 08 album since I saw them in concert in September. They played about 6 songs from it - its a lot more meandering than you would think following Apologies to Queen Mary but so far from what Ive heard I loved it. I think its due sometime out in May
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I just started listening to Wolf Parade ( thank you mediafire thread ) . The first song on Apologies to Queen Mary is excellent.
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So far the big frontrunners for me have been Mountain Goats and Destroyer. That may all change when Of Montreal and Guillemots put something out.
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Tommy is still alive!
He was the best Ramone anyhow. Had the best name, y'know?
I know he's alive but the original three are not (Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee)
Tommy was the original drummer, dude.
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See, I didn't know that! I guess I was going by first gig.
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Yeah, I guess that makes more sense now that I think about it
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I bought Do You Like Rock Music? by British Sea Power on Friday.
I haven't stopped listening to it since. I can't find words to describe just how incredibly anthemnic, moving, literate and extraordinary this album is. It by turns rocks you out, brings a tear to your eye, and stuns you into silence. It has already left everything else in its wake this year. Simply astounding.
I am actually stunned by just how good it is. Jesus Christ, if this album doesn't make them hit the big time and reach a far wider audience then I just don't know what the fuck is wrong with the world.
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American Music Club - The Golden Age
Awesome record. Sure to be in my top ten at the end of the year.
I am looking forward to Weezer, who I miss like anything, Nick Cave, who is probably my favourite ever artist, The Mars Volta, who have one more album to convince me they're any good, Twilight Singers (assuming they're even working on one for this year), Oasis, who apparently will have a ten-minute psychedelic epic on their new album (which by itself convinces me), Eminem, who's not released a record in four years and has plenty to talk about...
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There's another new AMC album?
I should probably just suck it up and bookmark a music news site. I'm so out of the loop now it isn't even funny.
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Yes there is. And it's magnificent.
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So far, 2008 has given me 5 albums i really enjoy!
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Cat Power - Jukebox
Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
A Silver Mt Zion - 13 Blues for 13 Moons
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? <---------- strong candidate for best album of 2008
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Twilight Singers (assuming they're even working on one for this year)
Wouldn't that depend on how long this Dulli stint in the Gutter Twins will last? (Got my tickets for that show, it's going to rule)
Eminem, who's not released a record in four years and has plenty to talk about...
I don't know, Encore was pretty rancid. And given his years of silence, any songs about the Bush presidency are going to seem more convenient than bold (I'm looking at you, RATM) The overbearing scatological humor's getting thin as well.
As for The Mars Volta, I'll up the new album for you, because I take a certain pleasure in shattering the dreams of others.
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If nothing else, I like the Volta's workrate. They've had a pretty solid eighteen-month gap between each record I think, and even if there's not a great deal of progression (as musicians, some of them don't have anywhere they can really progress...) it beats many other bands who leave three or four year gaps and then release the same old shit.
Dulli has his fingers in many pies. I just usually hope that when you break into the two-year mark since a band's last album, a new record of some sort will hopefully be on the way. One crosses one's fingers and then waits for any news.
As for Eminem, yes, I know Encore was shit. It was horrifically bad, aside from the odd track (and at least one of them was raped by 50 Cent's very presence) but I think that 'You Don't Know' showed that he still has the skills at least. I want him to sign off on a good album. Encore was terrible, and as a last will and testament, it's not good enough.
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Man, how does an eighteen-month turnaround rate give them an edge when it's eighteen months before they release the same shit rather than three or four years? A Protestant work ethic alone doesn't make a band worthwhile.
The Mars Volta can go ahead and progress into a stage where they're writing songs again that have a clear beginning, middle and end. They can then top themselves by writing things like hooks and melodies. I'd settle for one moment per song that distinguishes it from its brethren.
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*shrug* I'd rule their whole career worthwhile for DeLoused In The Comatorium and 'Cassandra Gemini'. My point was, they give it a go. They keep trying. Even if they're not succeeding in doing anything different - they just keep coming up with more and more obscure concepts and disappearing further up their own arses - they certainly give it a go, whereas too many artists take a slow-and-steady approach to deliberately attempting to duplicate previous success.
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Listen to At The Drive-In a bunch and suddenly you find yourself incredibly sad that The Mars Volta exist, whether any of their albums are half decent or not.
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Agreed. I mean, granted, Omar is a gifted guitarist, they're all technically proficient musicians, but like their buddies in RHCP, that doesn't get them all that far when they only have a handful of coherent ideas. I gave them another shot and watched their Letterman performance and it was a goddamned trainwreck (though TMV fans I know say it was "epic" and "amazing") The vocalist has surpassed Geddy Lee in prog-falsetto annoyance. And yes, #1 with a bullet on their list of things to do is relearn songcraft. Jam sessions are for old white people.
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Funnily enough, a great deal of ATD-I bores the shit out of me. Or simply sounds like Cedric is singing out of tune, but then that happens a lot in hardcore punk, and it doesn't usually matter.
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To be fair, I'm not asking that they go back to being in that other band. I'm just asking that they be better.
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"Better" by whose definition? Yours? Frances The Mute was their crowning achievement. It's gone downhill from there, but their new album has a little bit of the old frenetic, schizophrenic energy that made them so fun to listen to. They've toned down the ridiculous level of off-the-wall experimentation.
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And I'm just saying that I am sad that they are no longer An Other Post-Hardcore Band, not that they have reason to decide tomake that switch.
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Yeah, better by my definition. I'd have a hard time asking them to be better by another definition.
To clarify my position somewhat, I loved and still love De-Loused In The Comatorium, but from there they've turned into this troupe of buffoons who love jazz saxophone and panning vocals from the left to the right channel in an effort to blow your mind, man. They've disappeared up their own ass - I suppose they're making the music they want to make but that's no more an excuse for them than it is for Nickelback. It's disappointing.
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Yeah, De-Loused was pure class and really solid, but since then there's too much masturbatory bullshit and not enough tunes.
Although kind of in line with what tommy said, it is kind of respectable that of the really huge mainstream rock acts, theirs is the sound closest to what you'd get if you set out to be as obnoxious as possible and alienate the average listener. Yet they have a huge fanbase. Which is semi-respectable. And he still has great hair.
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^Bedlam in Goliath has nothing but tunes and the masturbatory stuff is kept to the minimum. Personally I love musical masturbation, it's much better than the boring musical restraint that you see in a lot of indie bands.
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"Restraint" is an interesting choice since a good deal of high-profile independent records in this decade have demonstrated a knack for bombast. Unless you mean that they're reining in their noodling tendencies, in which case I'd argue that they're entitled to if it makes the song better.
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Ok, I just heard some track off the new Mars Volta on the radio. I really don't know what they were trying to achieve with it. It pretty much sounded like they had guitars?
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Hahaha. "Hey, there's some guitars in this studio, let's play something!"
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hey sorry to break up the mars volta page but on first proper listen, the new British Sea Power sounds amazing
(I know, I'm a few days behind the times here. still worth mentioning :-D)
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I'm going to see them this Friday for about the thousandth time. Strange but no matter how many times I see them they are still amazing every time. It's great they're finally getting soem recognition after all this time. People forget that they were doing what Arcade Fire do long before Arcade Fire were around. The new album is so moving as well. The instrumental The Great Skua almost has me in tears.
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I'm gonna review it on the music blog as soon as I can get a copy here in Australia (I downloaded it, but I want to buy it and listen to it properly on speakers). "Atom" was the best song of 2007 courtesy of the Krankenhaus? E.P., and now that it's on the album it'll probably be the best song of 2008, too.
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The Mars Volta can go ahead and progress into a stage where they're writing songs again that have a clear beginning, middle and end. They can then top themselves by writing things like hooks and melodies. I'd settle for one moment per song that distinguishes it from its brethren.
I dunno, Johnny, I thought the hooks and melodies in Frances the Mute were not only there, but worth sifting through the occasional stretch of nonsense or wankery for. Can't say I heard much to defend in Amputechture to justify the two times I've listened to it, though.
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Harry, you better hustle the fuck up or I'll wind up writing about it.
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I'm gonna review it on the music blog as soon as I can get a copy here in Australia (I downloaded it, but I want to buy it and listen to it properly on speakers). "Atom" was the best song of 2007 courtesy of the Krankenhaus? E.P., and now that it's on the album it'll probably be the best song of 2008, too.
I dunno, now that it's on the album it's got some fuckin' stiff competition.
I kinda lost track of these guys after the first album but this one really goes above and beyond the hype. Goddamn.
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Harry, you better hustle the fuck up or I'll wind up writing about it.
Do I look like a record label executive to you? Do I look like I have any control over when an album is available in Australia? I'm checking the stores every day, man!
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Harry, mail me one (1) $50AU note and I'll mail you one (1) BSP disc.
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But the A$50 is the ugliest (http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/fifty_dollar.html) Australian note of all! Wouldn't you rather have a nice, soothing 10 (http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/ten_dollar.html)?
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Man, your country has weird people on your money. If you dig the ten dollar note, mail me a few of those. I'll mail you a BSP album in return.
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At fifty dollars, your mark-up price is a little steep (http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/search/title?searchstring=do+you+like+rock+music).
Anyway, through idle conversation I've all but promised my friendly local record store proprietor that I'll buy the album from him when his store gets it in. Sorry Matt, you'll have to make your easy money elsewhere!
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The mark up would fit in with everything else we get from America being roughly 2x the cost it should be.
Goddamn expensive country.
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There's a massive markup on everything here in Australia. Knowing this, i still forgot to go to Amoeba last week when i was in LA and buy a shit load of music.
I'm going to start buying a lot more of my stuff from Amazon and from us stores because even after postage and all that jazz I've still made a saving and when it comes to these things i'm as patient as hell.
I'm hoping for new Tapes n' Tapes, Swan Lake, Wolf Parade and Destroyer.
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The mark up would fit in with everything else we get from America being roughly 2x the cost it should be.
Goddamn expensive country.
Hello there!
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Amazon's got an import of the Cryuff in the Bedroom album that's out in May for nearly $50.
DAMN YOU, JAPANESE BANDS WITHOUT AMERICAN LABELS.
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Sorry Matt, you'll have to make your easy money elsewhere!
Damn, I was going to be all sneaky-like and mail you a CD-R with "British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?" lightscribed onto it.
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Holy shit!
Do You Like Rock Music? is so good, holy shit. It's so good. The chord progression and crescendo before the guitar solo on "Open the Door" is my favorite moment so far.
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So far:
Magnetic Fields - Distortion
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Haven't listened to the new Mars Volta but it sounds good.
Looking forward to Mountain Goats, Flogging Molly, Destroyer... I want to be excited about Rancid's seventh album, but after Indestructable... :?
Also, how about that new Spice Girls?! ...Yeah, didn't think so. Speaking of terrible things, I've also heard Staind is working on a new album. Why do they exist? Really.
Edit: Speaking of British Sea Power, my roommate came in to talk to me while it was on, and literally froze and went, "What's this? This is AWESOME. You need to send this to me." I said I would, and he went on talking. The song changed, and about 30 seconds he said, "This is great too! What's this?" I said it was still the same band and I'd just copy him the album, haha. He's not even into indie. Score one potential convert for BSP.
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Based upon the songs I've heard from it so far, "Rest" by Gregor Samsa will be tough to beat. "55:12" is a amazing album and the new one (only their second full length) doesn't seem to be anything less. Needless to say I'm extremely excited for this to come out. It's been a long, long wait.
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wait, syne are you saying that there actually is a new Destroyer album in the works.
EDIT: Specified, sorry for the confusion. I'm pretty excited about the Dears next album, the one that Lightburn's been working on since before November 2007.
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Uh, you'll have to specify...?
Also, oh man, in my journeys through the mediafire thread I found the Flogging Molly and Destroyer albums, YES. I just listened to Float, fantastic.
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The new Aidan John Moffat (mediafire thread!) is definitely the best I have listened to this year (and released this year)
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Pfork has given Hammer Of The Gods (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48192-hammer-of-the-gods) an 8.3.
Expect to see it erroneously listed on end-of-years this year.
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Holy shit!
Do You Like Rock Music? is so good, holy shit. It's so good. The chord progression and crescendo before the guitar solo on "Open the Door" is my favorite moment so far.
No US release until 2/12. Anyone know a good spot in NYC to get imports? Other Music website doesn't seem to be carrying this . . . .
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Well we're listed on the Comedy Minus One website (http://www.comedyminusone.com/001.php) and they aren't. Take it away, Karl Rove -
Uh, tommy, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...
"As fine a debut as folks could hope for." - Pitchfork
But still, we're on the top and pfork is second to bottom. This means that we are superior!
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This Night + Destroyer's Rubies = Trouble in Dreams. Make of that what you will, but I think it's pretty good.
Also, if you thought "Shooting Rockets" was a piece of shit on Beast Moans, wait till you hear how much fucking ass it kicks on Trouble in Dreams.
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I flicked through about the last 2 weeks worth of updates and found it in the mediafire thread. It is bloody awesome and i will by it when it gets released in Australia.
Also, I actually like "Shooting Rockets" on Beast Moans.
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Can I just say? I'm about to go see British Sea Power live. End of tour show, homecoming to Brighton, it's going to be mental. Ha ha! I'll give you a detailed report tomorrow.
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what about Thor's new album Into the Noise its pretty good.
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Yay, Porcupine Tree have a live album this year where they do "Stars Die" on acoustic. Sweet.
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I have a board mix of Rebreather's new album Sunflower (on Nice Life Records) and it is amazing. There new songs are really good, they also cover Lungfish "No False Suns". http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7963245 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7963245)
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New Album
I wish I could tell you more about it.
No one will be more happy than me when our new record is finished. It will be, and it will be something else. Soon we have a new single out!
Some new tour dates will be published soon. (I promise that we´ll play some new songs!)
big hug
Emanuel
2008-02-04
GUYS A NEW I'M FROM BARCELONA ALBUM!!!
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I got the new Volta album.
It's jaw-dropping.
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Yeah, I hear unhinging your jaw is part of the trick.
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aaaaa, new Phoenix album this year!
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New Tilly & the Wall album due in June, hopefully.
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"Watershed" is the name of Opeth´s 9th studio observation. The album has just been mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren with M. Åkerfeldt. The album consist of 7 songs and the titles are as follows:
1. Coil
2. Heir Apparent
3. The Lotus Eater
4. Burden
5. Porcelain Heart
6. Hessian Peel
7. Hex Omega
All the songs have been written by M. Åkerfeldt apart from "Porcelain Heart" which was co-written with Fredrik Åkesson. One additonal track, "Derelict Herds" has also been recorded and this was written by Mikael Åkerfeldt and Per Wiberg. On top of this, 3 cover songs has been recorded. "Bridge of sighs" from Robin Trower´s 1974 Lp with the same title, "Den ständiga resan" (sung in Swedish) by Marie Fredriksson as well as the classic Alice in Chains song, "Would?".
The album was recorded at Fascination street studios during November 1 and December 13. Some addtional recordings were done between January 3rd and 7th. Produced by Jens Bogren and Mikael Åkerfeldt and Opeth.
Says Mikael Åkerfeldt: "I´ve worked so hard with these songs for quite some time now, I´ve listened to 'em a zillion times. I don't hate them just yet! The album sounds great sonically and I think I can hear us evolving as the record plays on. It is taking us somewhere musically and I don't know where. It's very exciting to say the least! I can't remember having enjoyed a recording this much ever before."
The cover was (as usual) designed by Travis Smith in co-operation with Åkerfeldt. Release date is yet to be confirmed but Roadrunner worldwide will have it out sometime in the Springtime of this year.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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I loved Ghost Reveries, so I'm stoked for Opeth.
Also, Kalmah and Alchemy X have a new album out this year. Norther already released one too, but I don't have it yet.
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(http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4481/boohumaneq5.jpg)
The fact we get a new one of these things every year is basically the only reason I haven't topped myself yet. The cover is terrible, but I like it.
Edit: On a related note, you can hear the entirety of the new Make Believe album here. (http://flameshovel.imeem.com/) (but you have to sign up to hear more than 30 second previews)
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I think the new Los Campesinos! album is going to be on my end of year list judging by the tracks I've heard from it already.
I also quite fancy the new Fuck Buttons.
And if there's a new Owls record...well that'd be just spiffy.
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This Make Believe album is fantastic. I can already tell that it's better than Of Course. Though I'm somewhat disappointed by the song titles...
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I'll bet it will be. Those guys are pretty much constantly playing around with music, and I do believe they've had enough time to come up with some better material, with other ideas being used in either last years JoA soundtrack, or various side projects.
Of course, this is assuming the album's line-up reunites the usual key players, and that Joan Of Arc isn't now considered the 'side project' for the people involved, which is the feeling I got from Eventually All At Once, Guitar Duets and the attachment of the name to the Orchard Vale soundtrack. E,AAO was nice enough, but I'm sure that this one is going to be much, much better.
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Gonna go out on a limb and say that Bon Iver will be near the top of a few lists (although I supposed it's technically a 2007 release if you count a 500 CD independent issue). You can listen to the whole album here (http://www.virb.com/boniver) if you don't know what I'm talking about and it releases on the 19th. At the very least "Skinny Love" is unlikely to get pushed too far down my top 10 singles list.
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things i'm looking forward to include
wintersun, judas priest, metallica (maybe), circle takes the square, the thermals...that's all i can think of off the top of my head
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thermals) says that Politics Don't Sell Records is coming out this year. I can't find a source but it seems likely since The Thermals haven't announced any recent shows, but they've already named the album in interviews. Sweet!
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I hope Miles Kurosky's solo thingy is out this year. Beulah = <3.
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Yes, I *did* just make an account to talk about music.
I agree that a new Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution album would be orgasmic. We've had less than one BOTAR song a year. Get it together, Kalnoky!
I'll have to get that British Sea Power album. :3
Also, while it came out in 07, A Julius Orange put their debut up for free in 08, and seeing as it was never really "sold" I count it here. With bandwidth issues, I had to pick just a few tracks to show you. It was hard, and now I'm second-guessing myself. xD
Sad, Black, Bright (http://www.juliusbloop.com/ajuliusorange/01sadblackbright.mp3)
The Young Fool's Waltz (http://www.juliusbloop.com/ajuliusorange/03theyoungfoolswaltz.mp3)
Prayer for Patience (http://www.juliusbloop.com/ajuliusorange/06prayerforpatience.mp3)
Sadly, I can't find a similar excuse to count Keep it Going as an 08 release. So I won't mention Keep it Going. Not at all.
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Apparently there is a new Joanna Newsom album coming out this year and it'll be more poppy than the previous? Though the previous was five ten or so minute songs. I'll be eager to hear more about this.
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new Matmos and Antony and the Johnsons coming as well.
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Cheers to everyone else who is excited about the new (hopefully in 2008) My Bloody Valentine album - it will be marvelous to hear what Kevin Shields is brewing up.
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So far The Mars Volta is my #1, Black Mountain is my #2 and Jose James is my #3, I can guarantee TMV will stay, but the other two are likely to get bumped. Opeth, Kayo Dot, and Agalloch are almost automatic locks, and Meshuggah, In Flames, and Machinae Supremacy all have decent chances also. It should be a good year for metal at least.
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Hey guys there's a 65daysofstatic EP coming out April seventh. It's called "The Distant and Mechanised Glow of East European Dance Parties."
Awesome!
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Fantastic! Those guys have never put out any bad material to date and have been very consistent while making each full length subtly different. I can't wait to hear what the next one sounds like. It seems like the last album came out and nobody noticed.
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My favorites of 2008 so far:
1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Black Mountain - In The Future
4. Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin
5. Magnetic Fields - Distortion
6. Sheryl Crow - Detours
7. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
HM:
Marah - Angels of Destruction
Raheem DeVaughn - Live Behind The Melody
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
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The new Hanzel und Gretyl album is awesome.
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Hai guys.
New Russian Circles May 6th. It's called Stations. I'll get you all a leak as soon as it's fresh from the oven.
Bai guys.
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The new Genghis Tron is fairly badass. Not for everyone but it's awesomely intense and, like all their releases, has killer instrumentals.
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The first House of Broken Promises album comes out soon. House of Broken Promises is essentially Unida without John Garcia, and what I've heard is pretty damn good. It's nothing groundbreaking, but pretty solid nonetheless.
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so far i have heard 5 album's from this year (...yeah i know)
in order
1. Smile - Boris
2. 01011001 - Ayreon
3. 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
4. Dig Lazarus Dig - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
5. Juno OST
...as such i havn't heard a bad album yet
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There something about the Boris album that's not really doing it for me. Maybe I was expecting too much (like a straight-forward followup to Pink). Pretty good, though.
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So far, I'm loving Dead Meadow, Black Mountain, Shelby Lynne, Bon Iver, Drive-By Truckers, and Allison Moorer. I haven't given the new Nick Cave enough listens to give a strong opinion.
Haven't heard the brand new Tift Merritt or Kathleen Edwards, but I have high hopes for both.
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The new Genghis Tron is fairly badass. Not for everyone but it's awesomely intense and, like all their releases, has killer instrumentals.
Genghis Tron scares the SHIT out of me.
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So far, I'm loving Dead Meadow, Black Mountain
awesome
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vampire weekend kept me listening for quite a while.
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Beck's supposed to have a new one at the end of the year. Hopefully it won't be like Guero or the Information.
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I really enjoyed Guero.
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4. Dig Lazarus Dig - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
You know, illegal downloading hasn't been a part of my life in so long, that this post actually made me go 'eh? But it's not out until Monday!'
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Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! was leaked on the 23rd and posted in the mediafire thread on the 25th.
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Thanks for the info, but even if it has leaked, I'm not listening to it - nor am I listening to it on their myspace. I've pre-ordered it. I'll listen to it when it comes out.
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Constantines- Kensington Heights (Arts and Crafts)
El Olio Wolof (http://www.myspace.com/eloliowolof)- The Tedious Task (self-released)
I just listened to El Olio Wolof.
Super Good.
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I've been listening to Anita Lipnicka & John Porter - Goodbye for the past few days.
Best "Americana" release I've heard in ages, and she's Polish.
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I can already guarantee the new album by 'The Drift' will be in my top ten albums of the year. There's no way it won't be, it's that damn good.
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Can I just say? I'm about to go see British Sea Power live. End of tour show, homecoming to Brighton, it's going to be mental. Ha ha! I'll give you a detailed report tomorrow.
In the nicest possible way, I think I might hate you. I wanted to go to that SO BADLY.
First album of the year to get me all excited:
I Was A Cub Scout - I Want You To Know That There Is Always Hope. It was worth it just for the re-working of Pink Squares.
Albums that should be awesome: Tilly & The Wall, and hopefully debuts from Grammatics, Maths Class and This City...
And there's a huge part of me that's really curious about the new Panic at the Disco album, too...
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there's a huge part of me that's really curious about the new Panic at the Disco album, too...
I just threw up AIDS into my mouth
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I've already heard pretty much all the songs off it from their myspace, but I'll still call the new Ours album a 2008 one. And one of my top ten 2008 ones at that.
/rechecks when its released
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the new Ponytail album is going to be sick.
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Well the new Sigur Ros album is coming out by the Summer and possibly as early as late Spring according to the website. I have no idea what to expect but I'm still expecting great things.
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There's a new Elf Power this year! I think! And Wolf Parade. People probably already talked about that.
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I think someone else mentioned the Wolf Parade album. Where are people reading about this?
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panic at the disco
i hope they die circlejerking to 2girls1cup
Apparently they took the exclamation mark out of their name so they would be "more mature."
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So, can I use the exclamation mark now that they got rid of it? Or am I still going to get sued by the Aquabats?
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And there's always Against Me!.
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We have forgotten Raped! By Dolphins far too soon.
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So, can I use the exclamation mark now that they got rid of it? Or am I still going to get sued by the Aquabats?
Sorry, dude. I think Gravy Train!!!! already has the rights to all discarded exclamation points.
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I think we're all neglecting the most profound use of the exclamation point, "!!!".
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Apparently they took the exclamation mark out of their name so they would be "more mature."
Now they just need to take the words out of their name along with out of their song titles and the members out of their band and we're done.
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you forgot their entire fanbase
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They'll follow
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Man, don't scare Muffy away already. We only just got her back.
Fear not, Tommy, it'll take more than a spot of AIDS spewing to spur me away from my favourite haven of musical condescension... :wink:
People, people... I like Panic at the Disco. And a whole bunch of fringe-adorned bands that would make most musos squirm in repulsion. I even run an emo-centric club night, but I can't be arsed to defend my right to like emo pop again because oH MY GOD it's been done to death.
And to avoid total derailment of this thread, I'm going to express my enthusiasm for the upcoming Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Klaxons albums...
And, like, sorry for not being cool and stuff.
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It doesn't matter, you're being yourself and that's total cool :-D
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Does It Offend You, Yeah?
That's the name of a band?!
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And, like, sorry for not being cool and stuff.
Muffy, dear, you're beyond cool.
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just incase no one else has mentioned it yet.
Bedlam In Goliath by The Mars Volta is an awesome album.
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I mentioned it, but the Volta are not well-liked on this forum.
Oh by the way, I've listened to the new Nick Cave three and a half times, and it is fantastic. 'He handed me a book of Holocaust poetry, complete with illustrations...'
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This thread needs more people masturbating over the White EP.
Goddamn, that stuffs good.
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That's the name of a band?!
fair play, that's significantly worse than panic at the disco (extraneous punctuation notwithstanding) so kinda defuses that conversation
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Yeah, I have to admit that dodgy punctuation really does it for me.
And did I mention Hadouken! ?
p.s Inlander, thank you :)
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The album "Superbass!!!" by the band 'Giraffes? Giraffes!' is a fairly offensive use of punctuation. The new Man Man album is due out shortly. Damn do I love Man Man. This aught to be awesome.
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This thread needs more people masturbating over the White EP.
Can anybody guess what is wrong with the above statement?
Anyway, the White EP is pretty rad. I do prefer Agalloch's metal side though.
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The album "Superbass!!!" by the band 'Giraffes? Giraffes!' is fucking awesome and everyone should listen to it. Their new album is awesome too. It is less scatter-brained and has better production. The songs even have some pretty parts.
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I am excited for Takka Takka: Migration.
Also, A.C. Newman is working on a new one right now, that sounds like it'll be a bit more "rocking" than past efforts.
And I just heard The Acorn for the first time last week, and they just released an album called Glory Hope Mountain, and I love it.
Oh yeah, Architecture in Helsinki is doing an EP in the spring!
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When AC Newman says 'rock', he means the Electric Version and Superconductor.
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Oh yeah, Architecture in Helsinki is doing an EP in the spring!
But no new LP until 2009. So it was one of those good news/bad news announcements. Incidentally, they want you to vote for them in some sort of Aussie music awards thingum.
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When AC Newman says 'rock', he means the Electric Version and Superconductor.
And that's a bad thing? I like the new Mountain Goats. And from this thread I'm looking forward to new Thermals and Wolf Parade.
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No it is not a bad thing.
It is a good thing.
I'm really enjoying Svn Fngrs at the moment.
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Beach House! The only real record to blow me away and gift me with beautiful melodies. The songs "All the Years" and "Home Again" are my personal favorites.
Of coarse I love Cat Power's one. I don't care if it isn't a good record per se, it seems my obsession has blinded me to the objective truth of the matter. Plus, "Ramblin Woman" is a great song, perfect for her.
Oh and "Blue" (Joni's original) is my favorite song of all time. Chan does a pretty tight version.
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Apparently there is a new Joanna Newsom album coming out this year and it'll be more poppy than the previous? Though the previous was five ten or so minute songs. I'll be eager to hear more about this.
I think I can cope without another album of pretentious crap sung by a retarded elf, thanks all the same.
Currently listening to the new Portishead album. I'm not sure I like it. I think they've tried a bit too hard not to sound like Dummy.
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Oh no, the last thing we need is for this to turn into yet another 'I like Joanna Newsom's voice' vs. 'Joanna Newsom sounds like a retarded child' debate.
On topic, The Gregor Samsa is not, as I mentioned before, all that and a kettle of fish, as I believe the saying goes. It has a lot of potential but it feels restrained in a stilted sense. Instead of the epic, soaring moments of the previous album, this one has all the build up but none of the pay off. If the band had stuck to making an album with a more ambient focus, it would have been wonderful. Instead they've created something ultimately misleading and frustrating. It's still pretty beautiful but the continual inconclusiveness of the songs stands out too strongly after several listens for me not to be let down with the album overall.
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Oh no, the last thing we need is for this to turn into yet another 'I like Joanna Newsom's voice' vs. 'Joanna Newsom sounds like a retarded child' debate.
It's not a debate. She does sound like a retarded child, but some people like her voice anyway. I don't number among them.
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^This guy just got the last word. Salutations to you good sir.
I have a friend who used to go on here but was labeled a troll and banned... Is that you Matthew??
Oh and what the fuck, where did that guy find news of a new Joanna Newsom album? Was he just promoting a stupid debate over her instead of a good discussion of 2008 albums?
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I have a friend who used to go on here but was labeled a troll and banned... Is that you Matthew??
No, it bloomin' well isn't. Please don't suggest it; sockpuppeteering is not something you want to associate people with.
Oh and what the fuck, where did that guy find news of a new Joanna Newsom album? Was he just promoting a stupid debate over her instead of a good discussion of 2008 albums?
I vaguely recall reading something about it in Uncut. My interest in her music being south of nil I can't say more, though.
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Oh no, the last thing we need is for this to turn into yet another 'I like Joanna Newsom's voice' vs. 'Joanna Newsom sounds like a retarded child' debate.
It's not a debate. She does sound like a retarded child, but some people like her voice anyway. I don't number among them.
NO U
Also, I heard it mentioned on the radio and posted right after that. I haven't really looked online.
[fake edit] the 'no u' is there to say that while I don't agree with you the argument is stupid and I wont have it with you. I would skip straight to calling you names like 'poopyface' and 'stupidhead' because they are just as dumb as arguing about Joanna Newsom.
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This thread has gone too far off its intended course, and not enough has been said about the fact that there is a NEW JUDAS PRIEST ALBUM COMING OUT.
I know i said I'd give other music its due, but you all clearly have your priorities twisted. :P
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The new Man Man is just what I expected: raucous, funky, energetic, weird and super enjoyable gypsyish rock. It's great!
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new Man Man = gypsyish rock
Now I have to listen to it.
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*cough* As mentioned in the other thread, the new Hercules and Love Affair disc fucking rules.
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Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thermals) says that Politics Don't Sell Records is coming out this year. I can't find a source but it seems likely since The Thermals haven't announced any recent shows, but they've already named the album in interviews. Sweet!
I don't know where Wikipedia got that, but the Thermals official website says the name of the album is Stay Warm.
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I decided I am moving to Portland and buying a drumkit so I can be in the Thermals.
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon will take the cake.
Again.
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I don't know where Wikipedia got that, but the Thermals official website says the name of the album is Stay Warm.
It's Wikipedia. That is all you need to know.
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I know that, but now I'm trying to decide which name I like better, the fake Wikipedia name or the Official Website tentative name.
Anyways, back on topic. My favorites so far are the new Los Campesinos!, Times New Viking, and Steven Malkmus albums. If the Thermals do end up releasing the new one this year I can almost guarantee it'll be my favorite though.
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I've bought the Gutter Twins album today and I'll be back at some point to give my early thoughts.
I also got the album by a band called Slaves To Gravity. It's nothing Earth-shattering, but it's well-produced, tight and anthemic.
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon will take the cake.
Again.
Hope it's good anyway. A couple of days ago I was re-reading the last several chapters of Moby Dick with 'Leviathan' playing in the background. It was awesome.
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Qntal VI and Blank's album are both ace. This is shaping up to be a stonkin' year on the darkwave/electro front as usual.
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon will take the cake.
Again.
Honestly, I didn't like Blood Mountain that much. Leviathan was so much better. But hopefully they pick up again.
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I'm pretty sure Mogwai will take the cake.
Again.
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I waited until about 1am to listen to the Gutter Twins album because as anyone who likes Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan will know, their music is made for the darkness. The album feels like a logical extension of Lanegan's recent solo albums and the last Twilight Singers record, but without as much of a kitchen-sink production. This is only on one listen, but there was a song towards the end called 'Bete Noire' which had a fantastic rhythm and the arrangement kind of swells over the song's running time, it's a hell of a track. Anyone else going to get this album?
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I think Misreatur is into Dulli, I wonder if he's even aware of the release... *strokes chin*
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The Gutter Twins have been getting hype for a really long time now. More than a year, I think. I'm sure Misreatur is aware of the album. I'm not into them which is a real shame.
Each time Greg Dulli releases an album, it makes my 'top 5 of year' list. He has only three entries in my top 20 of all time, since you're only allowed one release per moniker. I guess the gutter twins could still grow on me.
Edit: It would appear that Greg Dulli has lost half his body weight while in the Gutter Twins. For this reason alone, I'll listen to it until I like it. Sexy sexy Dulli, rawrrrr.
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Wait, are you including his solo album? Because I thought that was a big bag of wank, in stark contrast to Powder Burns which as I've said was for my money, the best album of 2006.
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The solo album was Amber Headlights, right? Then yes, I am including it. You ain't never gonna get enough Greg. Gutter Twins don't got enough Greg.
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Yeah I did mean Amber Headlights. Didn't it sound totally half-arsed to you? I mean, the last song seemed to just cut off halfway through.
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I think Erykah Badu's new album is really strong.
I don't know if indie fans are the right people to praise it to though, because it's in no way derivative of Pavement or Joy Division.
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113 posts and you still think this board is that narrow-minded in its tastes?
...well you're right!
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Opeth have described their new album as 'a bit more energetic'?
Prediction: In about six albums they'll be a more talented Porcupine Tree, and Porcupine Tree will be a slightly less talented Opeth.
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I don't know if indie fans are the right people to praise it to though, because it's in no way derivative of Pavement or Joy Division.
we like the smiths too
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Opeth have described their new album as 'a bit more energetic'?
Prediction: In about six albums they'll be a more talented Porcupine Tree, and Porcupine Tree will be a slightly less talented Opeth.
I don't really understand--I thought Ghost Reveries was their most "energetic" album to date.
And what are you talking about? Porcupine Tree has just been increasing in terms of how good they are, though "Fear of a Blank Planet" was something of a let-down. The Nil Recurring EP more than made up for it, though.
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Ghost Reveries smacked of Porcupine Tree influence. They've been getting more and more progressive since they began.
Whereas Fear of a Blank Planet smacked of Opeth and Meshuggah influence, and they're getting more and more metal.
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I don't know if indie fans are the right people to praise it to though, because it's in no way derivative of Pavement or Joy Division.
we like the smiths too
I love you for that.
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If the leaked Portishead is in fact not quite finished, as it doesn't seem to be (the songs begin and end abruptly), it may make the list. Though, it does take a while to get into, although quite worth it.
Also, Probably the new Gnarls, although I realize I'm in the minority. But I does love it so.
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yeah, I initially wasn't too keen on the new portishead, but it's really grown on me lately.
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The albums that are going to blow up like nothing else in 2008 will be:
"The End Begins" by Tantric
"Indestructible" by Disturbed
And whatever the new Slipknot record is called.
Others that I'm hoping show up sometime this year are:
"Purple" by Days of the New
The Saint Caine album
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Man, it would be really good if Slipknot and Disturbed blew up.
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Naw man, think about it.
At first you'd be like: WOO
But soon enough even shittier bands will start doing tributes, or even worse, memorial albums. That would suck so hard.
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The Saint Caine album
For a second I read this as "Sainte Catherines". *shakes fist*
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Bah my music is wasted on you people, I see. Most people don't get Slipknot or Disturbed. Do any of you ralize that they have a lot of different sounding songs than the ones you've probably heard on the radio or TV? Whatever. Wasted on you people :laugh: . I still think those albums are going ot be great even if most of you don't like loud music.
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we like the smiths too
man I hate the fuckin' smiths
is there a 'real' rip of that Portishead around or is it still a might-be-the-finished-product-might-not version?
I still think those albums are going ot be great even if most of you don't like loud music.
there's a logical gap the size of the grand fuckin' canyon between not liking slipknot and not liking loud music, guy. I 'get' what derivative nth-wave nu-metal is, which is why I go out of my way to keep it from reaching my ears :-D
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And whatever the new Slipknot record is called.
Yeah, you should've guessed by now that no-one aside from me is going to give a shit about Slipknot on this board.
As for me, I think Volume 3 showed they had hitherto unseen depths and I'm curious where they'll take it on the next album.
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Eh, Ten Thousand Fists was okay. It had good vocals.
Slipknot was fun when I was 13, I'll give it that much.
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I will concede that Disturbed has written some pretty great riffs in their past as well. I mean, not exactly "Into the Void" caliber by any means, but not unlistenable.
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Man, I used to love Slipknot and Disturbed. A lot. Sometimes I still do but I don't think I will ever praise them for their ingenuity in songwriting.
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I put it to you that ingenuity is not always necessary. Slipknot are very angry and loud and it suits certain moods for me. It's a type of therapy, I suppose, in an emo teenagery type of way.
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Bah my music is wasted on you people, I see. Most people don't get Slipknot or Disturbed. Do any of you ralize that they have a lot of different sounding songs than the ones you've probably heard on the radio or TV? Whatever. Wasted on you people :laugh: . I still think those albums are going ot be great even if most of you don't like loud music.
BORIS
BARDO POND
DEAD MEADOW
GUITAR WOLF
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
GROWING
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LEE RANALDO HAS SILVER WINGS (http://www.myspace.com/lrhsw)
GOD I PICKED THE RIGHT DAY TO FINALLY LOOK AT THIS THREAD HUH.
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LEE RANALDO HAS SILVER WINGS (http://www.myspace.com/lrhsw)
Shameless self-promotion can be easily forgiven when the plugee is fantastic.
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how about the Fratellis new album
Attack and Release by the Black Keys
and The Age of Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
I figure if i pick albums that nobody is expecting than they might turn out better than the hyped up ones.
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Blood on the Wall's Liferz and the new Daturah have been on heavy rotation on my iPod the last couple weeks. They're very loud and, not liking Slipknot and all, I don't like loud music, so I have to listen to them with the volume real low, but they're still excellent.
I'm also not much of a country fan, but the new Kathleen Edwards record is very pretty indeed.
Oh, and the new Experimental Aircraft is fucking amazing
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and The Age of Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
I actually plan on buying this. Alex Turner with strings appeals to me.
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Yeah I did mean Amber Headlights. Didn't it sound totally half-arsed to you? I mean, the last song seemed to just cut off halfway through.
It's one of these albums I have to buy, and I just can't find it anywhere.
Anyway, I'm still waiting for Table of the Elements (http://www.worldofanarchie.com/pressf/toe-s2n.html) Guitar series 3 & 4 (http://www.gradationsofmorbidity.com/2008/03/table-of-elements.html), but I'd never be able to afford it.
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Yeah I did mean Amber Headlights. Didn't it sound totally half-arsed to you? I mean, the last song seemed to just cut off halfway through.
It's one of these albums I have to buy, and I just can't find it anywhere.
I think it sold about 12 copies. You're a few years late, unfortunately, because I'd have given you my promo copy.
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and The Age of Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
I actually plan on buying this. Alex Turner with strings appeals to me.
And it has been conducted by none other than Owen Pallett himself, it's already a must for me.
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I'm buying the new Raconteurs album tomorrow. Let's see if Jack White can manage to do something I give a shit about twice!
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and The Age of Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
I actually plan on buying this. Alex Turner with strings appeals to me.
And it has been conducted by none other than Owen Pallett himself, it's already a must for me.
The Owen Pallett connection is pretty much the only thing that assures that I'm at least going to try to hear it.
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There is a not a year in creation, certainly not one I was alive in that could give me a top ten albums list. I probably have a top three albums list from 2006, five if I am very lucky.
However, new Endless Mike and the Beagle Club and new Old Crow Medicine Show albums might make this a magical year. At least for my top two list.
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There is a not a year in creation, certainly not one I was alive in that could give me a top ten albums list.
I think my favourite year for music that I was alive for was 1994.
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Blur - Parklife
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
KoRn - KoRn
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Offspring - Smash
The Proclaimers - Hit The Highway
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
And, most importantly, Weezer's self-titled debut, the album which to date has probably influenced me more than any other.
1994 ruled.
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Yank Crime came out in '94 too. Fuck yeah, '94.
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Anyone heard the new Sun Kil Moon? I saw it at a record store today (earlier than expected for release) and was tempted, but I need money for tonight so I didn't get it.
It's very anticipated for me. Yep... (cough - Mediafire thread - cough)!
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Yo the new matmos album is siiick.
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I liked the new Raconteurs a lot on first listen. Which is a bad thing...
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And, most importantly, Weezer's self-titled debut, the album which to date has probably influenced me more than any other.
I'm amazingly optimistic about the new one coming out in June. It can't be worse than Make Believe..can it?
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I'm one of the few people who maintains that Make Believe was better than either Green or Maladroit. I think that 'Beverly Hills' is great satire - whether Rivers claims it's serious or not - and that 'We Are All On Drugs' is fantastic. I think that the next album is going to be great - he says in the liner notes to Alone that he's been doing lots of six-minute epics for it, which reminds me of 'Only In Dreams.'
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I really dug Maladroit. =/
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Then you're in an even smaller minority than I am, my friend.
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Here's my top 10 at the moment:
1. White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
2. Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
3. Gregor Samsa - Rest
4. Jade - Analogic
5. Balmorhea - River Arms
6. Chris Wood - Trespasser
7. Heidi Talbot - In Love And Light
8. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
9. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
10. Jon Foreman - Fall, Winter
I'm considering switching White Hinterland and Have A Nice Life's positions. Also, I'm not sure if Jon Foreman can legitimately be there considering that Fall, Winter is just a combination of the Fall and Winter EPs. Not that it'll matter for long though, since I assume something will knock him out of the 10th spot sooner or later.
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Well, i got Attack and Release by the Black Keys today.
brilliant blues rock
can't stop listening.
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All i know at this point is that M83's Saturdays=Youth is going to stay in my top ten this year.
managed to nab a leak and it's just... perfect. for me. me. *hugs it*
I wrote a quasi-review elsewhere because i needed to gush. copy pasta:
I could best describe it as 'M83 makes an 80's coming of age flick soundtrack with lots of long, introspective road-trip scenes'. If you've heard of m83 before, then you'll be pleasantly surprised at the turn they've taken their work, retaining their 'epic', escalating electronic sound into pop music territory. (It reminds me of Apparatt's "Walls", not sound-wise, but in the way they derived from themselves to make a more accessable album).
key tracks
"skin of the night": beautiful, ghostlike, delicate female vocals. it gave me chills when i first heard it on my laptop, and even more chills on the headphones.
"Up!": great (female again) vocals on this one. you'll be humming and singing along to the infectious if i clean my rocket out, we'll go flying today chorus.
other notable tracks: "couleurs", "highway of endless dreams", "we own the sky" and "graveyard girl".
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I could best describe it as 'M83 makes an 80's coming of age flick soundtrack
Not to point out the obvious but are you not aware that was his specific intent? It is literally a concept album about being 15 in the 80s. Hence the Molly Ringwald girl on the cover.
I think it's one of the best of the year, too. Top 10 for sure.
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The new Make Believe is really good.
But the new Joan of Arc is coming out soon, and there's clips all over the place. It sounds like it could be the strongest Joan of Arc album yet.
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Yeah the new M83 is fantastic. A lot of people bitched it out for being too much like the fuzzy bits of the last record but that's actually a really good thing.
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Memory Drawings by The Drift. Finally listened to it a couple times. It's phenomenal. Not sure if I like it more than their first album but it's awesome nonetheless. Best album I've heard all year for sure. It's in the mediafire thread so download it! Awesome jazz/dub inspired "post-rock" with lotsa trumpet.
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Aye, Memory Drawings is pretty fantastic. I have it sitting at #12 or so at the moment, but that could easily change as I give it some more listens.
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This thread needs more people masturbating over the White EP.
Goddamn, that stuffs good.
Masturbating? does musing bitterly on life in front of a fire as it snows, with a brandy snifter next to you count? Well, that doesn't really matter, as I can't do that, but I can zone out to it. Yeah, kinda late to the party, but I didn't notice this thread for a while.
Birch white is my favorite so far.
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Yeah the new M83 is fantastic. A lot of people bitched it out for being too much like the fuzzy bits of the last record but that's actually a really good thing.
Just for "Coleurs", its amazing. Just downloaded it, will listen to it soon. This be the kind of electronic music/ dance I can really dig!
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Dunno if I'm late to the party but Retribution Gospel Choir is pretty cool. Although it does sound a bit too much like Low for me to be fully convinced they needed to bother changing the name.
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Stuff I love already:
YOUTHMOVIES - GOOD NATURE . (gogetthisnow)
DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling .
Black Keys - Attack & Release .
Foals - Antidotes .
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! .
As for stuff I am impatiently awaiting -
-the October Game . Their debut, 'Box of a Billion Lights' , came out way back in 2006 on small indie label Carmandie Records, and is seriously one of the best things I have ever heard.... right now they're back in the studio recording more; the first track 'Threads' is currently on their Myspace www.myspace.com/theoctobergame (http://www.myspace.com/theoctobergame) .
-the Dresden Dolls - 'No, Virginia'
-Amanda Palmer - 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer?' . For whoever mentioned Ben Folds as being 'overdue' earlier, he produced this, so if he doesn't end up coming out with anythin just get this instead.
-Gliss have been posting demos on their myspace that sound really really promising - as sexy as their old stuff, but with added pop sensibility. As far as I can tell, the provisional album title might be 'Sister Sister' . No idea on a release date, though.
-Weezer.
-Captain - 'Distraction' . There is a track on there called 'The Gamble' that they performed for us in a live session that sounds mind-blowing.
-J.U.F. .... I only saw rumours of this floating around the internet and am unsure of whether to believe it or not but it would be very cool.
-Patrick Wolf
That is all I can think of off the top of my head. Did someone say more Porcupine Tree? That would be excellent.
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YOUTHMOVIES - GOOD NATURE . (gogetthisnow)
Holy shit, I have to get this.
Hurrah! Another Year was seriously good stuff, pretty psyched about the new one.
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I could best describe it as 'M83 makes an 80's coming of age flick soundtrack
Not to point out the obvious but are you not aware that was his specific intent? It is literally a concept album about being 15 in the 80s. Hence the Molly Ringwald girl on the cover.
I think it's one of the best of the year, too. Top 10 for sure.
I tend to not read what artists say about their upcoming albums until i listen to it first if i can manage it, and fortunately, this was one of those cases.
It pleased me, as it must please them, that their intent was read loud and clear.
I've been listening to this album almost every day now, and I haven't even seen the cover art yet!
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Guys the new Russian Circles is so so so so good. Right now it's definitely in my top 10 (13 Blues for Thirteen Moons is my top album so far though and it's gonna take a hell of a lot to top that) and it's definitely worth a listen. Go to the mediafire thread and download it you fucks!
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So it turns out that Sam Shalabi's new one is pretty great, and has just entered into my top ten:
1. White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
2. Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
3. Gregor Samsa - Rest
4. Jade - Analogic
5. Balmorhea - River Arms
6. Chris Wood - Trespasser
7. Heidi Talbot - In Love And Light
8. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
9. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
10. Sam Shalabi - EID
I listened to M83, and it's pretty good. I haven't given it a rating yet, but I'll most likely put it in my current top 30 or so.
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So fah':
1. Chris Walla - Field Manual
2. Cruyff In The Bedroom - Saudargia
3. Boris - Smile
4. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
5. Everybody Out! - Struggle & Strife EP
6. Dead Meadow - Old Growth
7. Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Honorable mentions so far: Everybody Out!'s self-titled LP (out tomorrow), and my album, which I'm hoping to have on sale by late May.
[/shameless plug]
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Old Growth? Really? I just can't get into it. It feels very half-assed for a Dead Meadow album. There's only one guitar jam on the entire album!
The US release of Smile is kind of borked, I am so glad I got the Japanese version. The US release doesn't have that first song, which is fucking awesome.
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Honorable mentions so far: Everybody Out!'s self-titled LP (out tomorrow), and my album, which I'm hoping to have on sale by late May.
That I do not get. If you are doing a list (presumably top ten) and don't even have ten to fill it, why do you make an honorable mention? Just make it seven.
Man that was a worthless nitpick but I never understand that.
Also I would buy your album but alas, I am not a cute girl.
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-Amanda Palmer - 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer?' . For whoever mentioned Ben Folds as being 'overdue' earlier, he produced this, so if he doesn't end up coming out with anythin just get this instead.
I have waited years for this day. The day another Amanda Palmer fan joined these forums. If we both put down $20, we can buy her eyebrows!
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Honorable mentions so far: Everybody Out!'s self-titled LP (out tomorrow), and my album, which I'm hoping to have on sale by late May.
That I do not get. If you are doing a list (presumably top ten) and don't even have ten to fill it, why do you make an honorable mention? Just make it seven.
Man that was a worthless nitpick but I never understand that.
Also I would buy your album but alas, I am not a cute girl.
Everybody Out's LP wasn't out when I made the list. Now it is. Question being: Do I try to find a pirated version, or do I get it when I see them next weekend.
Also Sean, I guess I can make an exception for you. You're like a cuter version of Patrick. =P
Jackie, that first track on the Boris album was re-mixed/re-done for the US version It's the track called "Statement".
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Old Growth? Really? I just can't get into it. It feels very half-assed for a Dead Meadow album. There's only one guitar jam on the entire album!
I was kinda disappointed by it too, but the music is still pretty sweet. I'm not sure if it's best-of-the-year material, but it's definitely one of the albums I've been enjoying the most since the year began.
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Jackie, that first track on the Boris album was re-mixed/re-done for the US version It's the track called "Statement".
True enough, but the original is SO much better imo.
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2008
in no order
the felice brothers - s/t
cadence weapon - afterparty babies
the tallest man on earth - shallow graves
she and him - volume one
thomas function - celebration
jamie liddel - jim
the chapin sisters - lake bottom
fuck buttons - street horrrsing
evangelicals - the evening descends
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shitttt
totally forgot
m83 - saturday = youth (probably my fave album of 2008)
spiritualized - songs in a&e
the kills - midnight boom
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shitttt
totally forgot
m83 - saturday = youth (probably my fave album of 2008)
spiritualized - songs in a&e
the kills - midnight boom
There is a little thing called "modify post", buddy. *thumbs up*
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whateverrrrrrrrrr
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...you'll fit in well.
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fuck I keep forgetting to listen to the new spiritualized
if it's within a fathom of how awesome 'Ladies And Gentlemen..." was I will enjoy it though
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Holy shit, the further I get in the new Islands album the more I absolutely love it. It's really terrific. The best thing I've heard this year? Yes, quite possibly. It's close either way. There's even a brilliant homage to The Who.
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Yeah the new Islands is pretty frickin' sweet.
...but it's still not The Unicorns. :|
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god damn do i miss that band
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Yeah, especially not since Jamie Thompson left. No more dual vocal awesomeness and such :x
Still, I'm doing my darndest to think of them as independent bands in order to avoid comparisons like that one.
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Arm's Way is my #1 album for 2008 so far. I'm pretty sure I haven't listened to anything else that's come out this year, though. Oops!
Also, WHY haven't I listened to the Unicorns yet?
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OK, so right now, and this is very tentative mind you, it's:
1. Army Way - Islands
2. 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
3. Memory Drawings - The Drift
4. Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats
5. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
I'm sure I'm forgetting things but that's the list so far. Of course, with new Mogwai and Sigur Ros on the way I expect (hope anyway) that everything will be pushed back two spaces.
EDIT: I fixed the order. Two and three needed to be swapped. This occurred to me after re-listening to '13 Blues...'
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I am listening to Islands right now, and oh my god
Other 2008 albums I like!
Beach House, Elf Power, M83, Hot Chip, BSP.
Albums I will like probably: Woof Parade, OWEN PALLETT HBALHGUHLBAGLHBG
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I thought that Beach House album was super boring at first, but I have been listening to it like three times a day for the past two weeks now.
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I thought so too but listening to it on repeat from about 11 PM - 3 AM while writing stupid essays was a very good bonding time.
Guys I am in love with the new Islands album holy shit
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I wasn't insanely keen on the last one, will the new one change my mind?
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Yeah, what he asked.
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YES!! Good god, yes. "Arm's Way" blows "Return to the Sea" way out of the water (no pun intended). I was equally lukewarm on the debut but wow is the new one great.
Also, looks like we're getting more Silver Mt. Zion this year. A live album is slated for a mid-summer release. Hell yeah!
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Attack and Release, the new Black Keys album is without a doubt one of my top 10 albums of 2008. It's so good I haven't been able to stop listening to it. I've probably listened to the whole album at least 15 times now and I still haven't gotten bored of listening to it yet. I became a Black Keys fan recently after my friend played their album Thickfreakness for me. Ever since that fateful day I have become enamored with the band and can't stop listening to them. In their new album they begin to branch off from their usual high powered blues riffs and maniacal drums and start to show their softer side, a side which is just as good their usual blues rock in my opinion. The bands decision to have Danger Mouse, an accomplished music producer, work with them on the album was a good one. Not only does it fulfill my need for awesome blues riffs, it also satisfies my growing hunger for "indie" (for lack of a better word) music . This album is much more polished than their previous works which may deter other Black Keys fans, but in my opinion it reveals how great of musicians they are. Attack and Release builds upon what they have already done and gives more depth to their sound. All in all, Attack and Release, go listen to it and hopefully you'll find as much to like about The Black Keys as I do.
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holy shit yes the new Islands is so good. as is the new Black Keys (which i just put up in the mediafire thread).
also, the new Raconteurs cd is way too fucking good.
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The record label that the Black Keys guy runs is putting out an album by some friends of mine, one of Knoxville's best bands, The Royal Bangs. It's coming out in early May. Everyone should buy it.
http://www.myspace.com/royalbangs
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I've never listened to the first Islands album, but Arm's Way is freakin' awesome. Definitely one of my new favorites for this year.
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There's a new Sloan album (http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5166) on the way and I can't help but notice the strategic release date -
June 6th - JohnnyC's Birthday
June 10th - Parallel Play released
June 12th - Tommydski's Birthday
June 20th - JC and Tommydski both in Toronto for Tronnocon
Could you be more subtle guys?!
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Are Sloan playing Tronnocon?
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I'm not sure how much it would cost to hire Sloan. I'm guessing quite a lot more than we have to spend!
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New Frightened Rabbit status: awesome.
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I'm not sure how much it would cost to hire Sloan. I'm guessing quite a lot more than we have to spend!
Lucky then, I'm playing for free!
Of course, you have to put up with an improvised noise jam.
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You know, I was really unsatisfied with Arm's Way as a whole album (it seemed like every other track was really good and the others were decent at best), but as I listen to it more and more, especially with a good pair of headphones walking between classes, it's incredibly more awesome than I initially thought.
You think they'll be playing songs off it at a show this Tuesday even though the album's not really out yet?
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Most definitely, they've been playing songs off the new album in various states for the past six months.
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the kills "midnight boom", the other 2008 album i've been listening to. i think it's hard for the Kills to do any wrong. there's so much conviction in their sound that even if its just a bunch of squeaky noises and armpit burping, i'd be like "cool, cool". they still make music with all the energy and wide-eyed excitement of a garage band made up of precocious drunk 16 year olds (and that's a good thing).
i'll give boris "smile" a go, but i'm really curious:
is it more Hard Rockin' Boris, or Sleeping with Sun O))) Boris?
cuz if it's the latter i'm totally avoiding it ;)
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Two listens in, the new Frank Black- sorry, Black Francis, album is pretty awesome
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is it more Hard Rockin' Boris, or Sleeping with Sun O))) Boris?
cuz if it's the latter i'm totally avoiding it ;)
The former, I guess. It's a little more experimental, but there's still tons of rock.
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Two listens in, the new Frank Black- sorry, Black Francis, album is pretty awesome
God, fucking love that record.
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yeasayer all hours cymbals the song 2080 is so damn catchy
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Having listened to Nadja's 'Desire in Uneasiness', I think I may have to amend my predicted top 10 of 2008. Nadja's taken up the first 4 spots instead of the first 3; I can't really see anyone else getting close, unless if Metallica manage to top AJFA (which I'm quite optimistic about, but it's still qutie unlikely), or The Angelic Process reform and get another album out.
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i think opeth is putting out a new album, so i am going with that one.
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This thread is still very relevant so excuse my pulling it up from page two. I just gotta say that something must be in the water since a lot of bands that I thought to be pretty good but not too fantastic have put out superb albums so far this year. The new Islands blew me away and now the new Wolf Parade has leaked and all I can say is, wow. Their debut was pretty mediocre but this new one is really excellent. I haven't heard the new Tapes 'n Tapes yet but my fingers are crossed for a similar level of improvement. It's a very good year for "indie pop/rock" just like last year was great for all the instrumental/ambient albums that came out. Seriously, listen to the new Wolf Parade. It's awesome.
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I feel very meh towards the new Islands.
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I feel very meh towards no-content posts.
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i really like the new Islands. it pretty much takes everything that i didn't like about the first one (only one or two things, admittedly) and totally gets rid of them and adds some new stuff that i think was desperately needed. the violin in the opening track, for example: so sick.
then there's "Creeper" which is just an awesome song no matter how you look at it.
i could go on, but i won't.
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i really like the new Islands. it pretty much takes everything that i didn't like about the first one (only one or two things, admittedly) and totally gets rid of them and adds some new stuff that i think was desperately needed. the violin in the opening track, for example: so sick.
then there's "Creeper" which is just an awesome song no matter how you look at it.
i could go on, but i won't.
I agree with pretty much everything you said. The Arm and Creeper are my favorite tracks on Arm's Way probably. My only minor gripe is the longer song lengths towards the end, but that's not really a gripe I just prefer shorter albums.
Moving on, there were videos on Pitchfork yesterday of The Thermals playing two new songs acoustically. You can watch them here: http://www.blogotheque.net/The-Thermals,4139
They sound really good, but way more like Urban Legends or Hutch and Kathy songs then Thermals songs. Either way a new Thermals album is definitely my most anticipated release of the year.
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I agree with pretty much everything you said. The Arm and Creeper are my favorite tracks on Arm's Way probably. My only minor gripe is the longer song lengths towards the end, but that's not really a gripe I just prefer shorter albums.
No, it's a little bit of a gripe. The whole stretch from "Life in Jail" through "To a Bond" drags on for quite a bit in a way that leaves me bored through at least half of each of those songs, and I felt this way when I saw them play "Life in Jail" and "In the Rushes" live, too. The songs simply meander a little too much without the sort of purpose or build present in, say, "Swans," or even "Vertigo." Taking the album as a whole, it's really more along the lines of "good" than "great." However, based on both the majority of the songs on the album and the way they play them live, Islands as a band has become a lot more interesting with Arm's Way.
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i think opeth is putting out a new album, so i am going with that one.
It's not "worst 10 albums of 2008" we're talking about here.
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I'm guessing that Opeth won't be releasing 10 albums this year anyway, Caspian.
So the majority of that list will have to filled up with the stuff in the last few posts.
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Arm's Way is a really solid album. I agree that maybe towards the back end it drags but it sounds amazing overall, great production. Much better than Return to the Sea, though I totally had a girl boner for that album anyway
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I'm guessing that Opeth won't be releasing 10 albums this year anyway, Caspian.
So the majority of that list will have to filled up with the stuff in the last few posts.
True. besides, Opeth won't be the worst. Well, it might be, it's really dependent on whether Sufjan releases an album this year.
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1. Ghosts I-IV- Nine Inch Nails
2. Third- Portishead
3. Quaristice- Autechre
4. The Whole Story Of Glory- Do Make Say Think
5. Nude With Boots- Melvins
6. Dance Parties EP- 65daysofstatic
So far.
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What's with the Opeth hating? Sure they have a lot of fanboys, that doesn't mean the music is crap.
So far two albums released this year blew me away, the first one being Cut Copy's In Ghost Colours, and the second one Agalloch's The White EP. Thrice also released a good album for a change, and Portishead's Third and Boris's Smile are also great.
@Broken_Drum: is Do Make Say Think's new release leaked yet? How is it?
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^ The new Do Make Say Think has been uploaded to the mediafire thread. Go download it!
Also I agree with the Yoeni Opeth is not a bad band at all! Of course, their newer stuff is weaker and I highly doubt their new album will be in my top 10 for 2008.
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The new Do Make Say Think is hardly a new album. There's only one new song on this Japanese released EP. There's also a reworked old song, some just plain old songs, and a couple live songs. I wouldn't even really include it in the best of '08 category since pretty much nothing on it is new. It's still worth downloading. A new DMST album, whenever it comes along, will almost certainly be on my top albums of the year list (speaking of which, does anyone actually know when a new full length album is due out?)
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Well considering You, You're a History in Rust came out last year I'm gonna say we're probably not going to see anything at least untill next year, possibly 2010.
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The kids love it!
But they don't know shit.
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What's with the Opeth hating? Sure they have a lot of fanboys, that doesn't mean the music is crap.
I actually love Opeth (esp. morningrise), I just like to joke around.
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Two people making negative comments isn't that bad.
Their music IS crap. Unless if you like extremely long, meaningless songs with various clean parts and heavy parts sandwiched together and repeated over and over in an attempt to sound 'artistic'.
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So essentially your criticism for Opeth is that they are long and sound 'artistic'?
Would you like to try again?
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Their music IS crap. Unless if you like extremely long, meaningless songs with various clean parts and heavy parts sandwiched together and repeated over and over in an attempt to sound 'artistic'.
What exactly is your problem with Mogwai?
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Two people making negative comments isn't that bad.
Their music IS crap. Unless if you like extremely long, meaningless songs with various clean parts and heavy parts sandwiched together and repeated over and over in an attempt to sound 'artistic'.
I take exception to that because calling a song "meaningless" is pretty much the height of condescension. I do not particularly like Opeth, but they do not deserve that.
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Listening to coldplays new song makes me think their album might be a surprise hit this year. The new sound is different to what they've done before, less high pitched whining and more bluesy guitar sounds, I hope they continue that theme throughout the album. Hopefully it wont get the same hype as X&Y which was ruined by its own popularity.
Also the Arctic Monkey's side project blew me away by actually being good. Its not amazing but so much better than the actual Monkey's stuff, it has a strong spaghetti western infuence, which i really liked.
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Their music IS crap. Unless if you like extremely long, meaningless songs with various clean parts and heavy parts sandwiched together and repeated over and over in an attempt to sound 'artistic'.
What exactly is your problem with Mogwai?
Didn't he just say so? Leave it be.
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Two people making negative comments isn't that bad.
Their music IS crap. Unless if you like extremely long, meaningless songs with various clean parts and heavy parts sandwiched together and repeated over and over in an attempt to sound 'artistic'.
"repeated over and over"? Did you ever listen to BWP in one take? They progress all the time, you'll hardly notice any parts being repeated. "extremely long"? I'd hardly say 10 minutes is extremely long, unless you have some problem with listening to some lengthy songs because you can't stay focussed. Lengthy songs often give the band the time to make the songs progress, just like with classical or jazz music. Yes they have heavy parts and softer parts, that makes the music so more beautiful. I don't like music that constantly hammers into you with grunts where everyone plays as hard as they can. At least Opeth takes the time to sound heavy, but beautiful at the same time. For me, this works really well.
Sorry for going slightly off-topic here.
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I am mostly through the new Black Angels album Directions to See a Ghost and it is definitely on the short list for album of the year. Fucking fantastic psyche-rock, somewhere between Spacemen 3 and Dead Meadow.
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wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade i am going to marry spencer krug
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That's not even legal.
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has anyone heard the new Bongripper? i like it alot more than Hippie Killer, after one listen. i'll have to listen to them both again to compare but for now, i think it's better.
oh, and it's currently available for download on deekmedia.wordpress.com if anyone's interested.
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Two people making negative comments isn't that bad.
Their music IS crap. Unless if you like extremely long, meaningless songs with various clean parts and heavy parts sandwiched together and repeated over and over in an attempt to sound 'artistic'.
"repeated over and over"? Did you ever listen to BWP in one take? They progress all the time, you'll hardly notice any parts being repeated. "extremely long"? I'd hardly say 10 minutes is extremely long, unless you have some problem with listening to some lengthy songs because you can't stay focussed. Lengthy songs often give the band the time to make the songs progress, just like with classical or jazz music. Yes they have heavy parts and softer parts, that makes the music so more beautiful. I don't like music that constantly hammers into you with grunts where everyone plays as hard as they can. At least Opeth takes the time to sound heavy, but beautiful at the same time. For me, this works really well.
Sorry for going slightly off-topic here.
The only Opeth I've heard is Morningrise, and that was more then enough. For bands that are 'heavy but beautiful' there's far better, Nadja being the obvious one, The Angelic Process, Ulver, Drudkh's Autumn Aurora, hell, Mogwai, and so on and so forth. Opeth's parts are jumbled together almost completely randomly. Also: you're right, 10 minutes isn't that long in general. I have no problem with 20, 30, 60 minute long drone tracks. However, listening to random clean and heavy parts forced together with no real attempt at worthwhile progression (short of "To Bid You Farewell", which is a pretty cool song) for ten minutes is a tiring experience.
New Bongripper is good times, too.
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i barely ever listen to new music, but i am liking cat power's jukebox a lot.
so that will probably be on my top ten of 2008 list.
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wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade wolf parade i am going to marry spencer krug
he's mine, bitch!
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That's not even legal.
It's no problem in Canada!
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Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
Vampire Weekend - S/T
In no particular order.
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I am a sixteen year old girl! It is totally legal. Maybe. I'm willing to call dibs now and wait two years if necessary, though. But that is very risky.
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The only Opeth I've heard is Morningrise, and that was more then enough. For bands that are 'heavy but beautiful' there's far better, Nadja being the obvious one, The Angelic Process, Ulver, Drudkh's Autumn Aurora, hell, Mogwai, and so on and so forth. Opeth's parts are jumbled together almost completely randomly. Also: you're right, 10 minutes isn't that long in general. I have no problem with 20, 30, 60 minute long drone tracks. However, listening to random clean and heavy parts forced together with no real attempt at worthwhile progression (short of "To Bid You Farewell", which is a pretty cool song) for ten minutes is a tiring experience.
Dear Caspian,
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There's certainly a couple of Mogwai songs that I would classify as 'heavy'. Glasgow Mega-Snake comes to mind pretty much straight away. And any of their better quiet-loud tunes.
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Mogwai are the heaviest band I have seen live. But the audience was nowhere near as lively (scary) as the guys at the System of a Down concert.
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I cannot possibly think of mogwai as heavy.
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1. Portishead - Third
2. NIN - Ghosts I-IV
3. Opeth - Watershed
4. ASHES dIVIDE - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
Haven't heard anything else yet, but I think The Dresden Doll's "No, Virginia" and Massive Attack's new album will be great.
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That's not even legal.
It's no problem in Canada!
I live in Canada and I didn't know that! You know what else is legal in Canada? Gay marriage. I will get to Spencer first, Squawk. Sorry to do this to you.
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Wait, what? I was referring to gay marriage.
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I cannot possibly think of mogwai as heavy.
Have you listened to 'Glasgow Mega Snake'? What about 'Like Herod'? 'Ex-Cowboy' maybe? Perhaps 'You Don't Know Jesus'? A lot of their songs recorded live (the Peel Sessions for example)? I'm guessing the answer is no. I challenge you to listen to those songs and then make that statement.
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Wait, what? I was referring to gay marriage.
Oh, I thought you were referring to Squawk being under 18 which is what I was referring to originally.
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Even in America, the age of consent is under 18 in a lot of states.
Outside America, it is frequently under 18.
This is a subject I have researched extensively! :wink:
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It's 16 over here, which is a high-five all round.
I think it's like, 13 in Spain and Denmark, and it's meant that their teenage sex/pregnancy rates are among the lowest in Europe. Or something. I should look it up.
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This is a subject I have researched extensively! :wink:
For the purpose of sexy sex tourism..
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This is a subject I have researched extensively! :wink:
For the purpose of sexy sex tourism..
whats unsexy sex tourism?
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Right now I've got (in no particular order, mind you):
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Weepies - Hideaway
Man Man - Rabbit Habbits
Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
Nada Surf - Lucky
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Chris Walla - Field Manual
The Matches - A Band In Hope
However, this will likely change with the release of some new albums.
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So has anybody else gotten the chance to listen to the new Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell album? It's called Sunday at Devil Dirt and it's pretty damned awesome.
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So far this year, I've not heard an album that I would be willing to put at number one on my list. The last few years, I've had numerous records emerge fairly early on that I knew I'd be considering further down the line, but this year everything I've got seems like it's top ten material, possibly, but no number one.
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Last year's number one was really easy to discern, considering it came out like, six days into January. Thanks, Deerhoof!
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last year? i would have put machine heads "the blackening" as best (metal) album.
this year, im liking testaments new album(i put it on mediaf!re) now their lead guitarist, alex skolnick is back after 16 years playing jazz.
im really liking joe satriani's new album, lots of groove and melody.
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You're doing it wrong. The best release of last year was "Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline." This year is still very much up in the air obviously but I've even cooled off a bit on a lot of current releases that I immediately loved. The new Silver Mt. Zion is not so good after many listens and the new Islands isn't quite as exciting as I thought at first. I still like these albums a lot but right now there hasn't been much this year that's completely grabbed me without letting go. Not at all like this point last year, that's for sure. I'm still putting my faith in Sigur Ros.
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last year? i would have put machine heads "the blackening" as best (metal) album.
Actually, I thought Ire Works was better, but Blackening is certainly the best thing Machine Head have done this side of 'Davidian.'
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Oh boy, I'm getting the latest Death is Not a Joyride album to review here in a few days and I'm ecstatic. From what I've heard they have one of the most interesting sounds I've heard in quite some time.
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The new Silver Mt. Zion is not so good after many listens
BLASPHEMER!
Actually I can understand how it could get dull for some. I'm still loving that record to death though. It will very likely be my #1 pick unless something (Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Mastodon, something else I don't know about) blows me away.
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Sigur Ros have an album coming out this year?
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If all goes well, they should. They've already begun (or even finished) recording most of the songs and are expecting a release late this year. But nothing concrete yet.
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It's scheduled for the summer, actually. It's pretty much finished so there's no real reason for it not to come out some time in the next few months. They're just finishing up some larger scale recording (there's a full orchestra/choir in at least one song) and general mixing and such. They start touring in June so it'll probably be done and out not long after.
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I heard there's going to be no bow. :cry:
A shame. There's those who are like "That's good, I want them to progress", but to be honest I am perfectly down with the idea of sigur ros spending their whole careers remaking ().
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Well you'll be sorry to know, in that case, that one of the band members told an Icelandic newspaper that all the lyrics will be "more understandable to the general public." I'm assuming that means the Icelandic public and, therefore, all Icelandic lyrics. I'm fine with that but I will miss the Hopelandic. I'm also praying he didn't mean the lyrics would be in English. That would be a really awful development.
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Yeah the bits of Hopelandic in ( ) that kinda sound like English a bit in places are much better than any English lyrics ever.
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No love for Evil Urges? I know it doesn't come out for a month, but it was upped on mediaf!re thread a while back, and I think it's awesome. Especially Highly Suspicous.
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Well good for you!
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That Neil Diamond album really interests me, and I'm going to track it down sometime soon. I've had a vague interest in his work ever since he was in a movie filmed in my old house, but never actually got around to checking anything out, beyond what few songs are commonplace. This record just sounds like too much of a curveball to avoid.
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I think it actually was posted a while back in December if I remember correctly
Edit: Found it
Owls - Owls
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/vl8pte (http://www.sendspace.com/file/vl8pte)
Dude, any chance of re-upping that album? I've only heard Everyone is my Friend and I want moar but can't find it anywhere. Much beers if you do.
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Not the best early post, but I'll have it up in a jiffy.
So, that new Make Believe album is exactly what you'd expect + a whole lot a fun.
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And the new JoA album is nothing like you'd expect, and I'm really worried about Tim. I think he's gone a bit mad.
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That's to be expected with how thin he spreads him self. Bloody hell, not even Spencer Krug stretches himself like that.
No wait, he wouldn't even dare.
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Not the best early post, but I'll have it up in a jiffy.
So, that new Make Believe album is exactly what you'd expect + a whole lot a fun.
sorry dude, I'm from Australia, so its only 6:30 in the evening. :-D
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I am incredibly shocked to say that I actually enjoy the new Death Cab for Cutie album. I hated Plans and thought the earlier stuff was at best "not bad" but really, the new one is... actually good. Not amazing, not top 10, not even top 20, but also not something I won't ever listen to.
The world has turned upside-down. Next thing you know, Sufjan Stevens will release an album I like and M. Night Shyamalan will do a good movie (seriously, The Happening looks so absolutely retarded).
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I doubt Sufjan will ever release a remotely likeable album.
Also, while Ride The Lightning was released in 1984, after rediscovering its' awesomeness a week ago I think that's going to be my top album for the year. Reign in Blood will be second. Naturally.
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I've just given the new Bonnie "Prince" Billy album a first spin. If you've been waiting for him to go back to his countryish roots, you should definitely pick it up. Good stuff. Can the man do no wrong?!
Also, I haven't heard it yet, but the new Martha Wainwright album has already won best album title of the year. (In case you don't know, it's called I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too.)
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I doubt Sufjan will ever release a remotely likeable album.
You obviously didn't listen to The Avalanche.
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I think the forums need a new rule:
That Caspian can say whatever the hell he want's about Sufjan Stevens but no-ones allowed to call him out on it because this kind of thing never ends well.
And by that I mean everyone please just ignore him.
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I have a record by these two girls called the Smoke Fairies, and it's utterly magnificent.
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I've just given the new Bonnie "Prince" Billy album a first spin. If you've been waiting for him to go back to his countryish roots, you should definitely pick it up. Good stuff. Can the man do no wrong?!
Do you mean Lie Down in the Light ? How did you get that already?! It's not even out until May 19th!
Australian release date May 10th. These days albums are often released in Australia first!
Also, Will Oldham fans might want to check out the new Grand Salvo album, cheerily titled Death. Imagine a dark-hued children's story about a bunch of animals and a hunter, dealing allegorically with issues of growing up and leaving your friends behind, with the songs interspersed with narration read by the singer's father. Now imagine that as very beautiful instead of unbearably hokey.
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The Mars Volta album was pretty damn good,
I just barely heard Heretic Pride, just barely heard of the Mountain Goats,
but they're pretty fucking sweet.
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I'm playing the new Hadouken! album right now.
I feel like I've woken up in an 80s style computer game wherein the objective is to sucker-punch as many tedious 'worthy' muso types with a group of hoodie-wearing asbo kids.
It's BRILLIANT.
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i am pretty excited for the new bottomless pit ep - should/do EPs count in here? can't wait til it comes out
so far in 2008 i am liking
mmj - evil urges
lo fine - not for us two
bsp - do you like rock music?
the felice bros - s/t
m83 - saturdays = youth
the sleeping years - we're becoming islands one by one
sordal - in fort knox with a penny
skyphone - Avellaneda
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I've been listening to the new Joan of Arc on repeat all day! I am pretty confident it is going to be one of my favorites.
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According to my last.fm, my play count for Joan of Arc has increased by over 300 plays since that album got leaked...
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Also, while Ride The Lightning was released in 1984, after rediscovering its' awesomeness a week ago I think that's going to be my top album for the year.
Next week:
'hay guys master of puppets is pretty good'
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I doubt Sufjan will ever release a remotely likeable album.
You obviously didn't listen to The Avalanche.
I've heard that album quite a few times, due to my brother and some of my friends thrashing it. That 'henney buggey' tune has some enjoyable horns lines, I guess; overall it's as soggy as anything else Sufjan has ever done.
Admittedly his electronica album was ok.
Also, Spluff: I am aware that it's kind of a given that RTL/MOP/Metallica's First 4 is excellent, I just hadn't been reminded of that rather obvious fact for some time.
Speaking of Metallica; their promo machine for their new album is slowly swinging into gear, and the first samples are on the internet (along with some pretty terrible advertising that I really hope wasn't made up by the band). Sure, there's only about a minute of it, but based on that minute it's a good deal better then St.Anger, kind of sounding like a rocky, slightly simplified AJFA. The first 6 metallica albums are all at least quite good imo; as long as the new album is as good as Load I probably have my album of the year. I know, I have terrible music taste.
McTaggart: Sorry, I must've forgotten the "you must only ever have good things to say about bands" rule. I'll be sure to only ever have good things to say about stuff from now on, no matter how awful it is.
And one more thing! The new M83 is really good, not as good as Dead Cities but still seriously excellent. That'll be the electronica record of the year for me, at least, unless if Boards of Canada or Nathan Fake release an album.
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Any links to the new Metallica material? I had a look, but I couldn't sit through the black album/load crap that they'd padded out all the videos with just to check if there was any new material in them.
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yeah, the long promo vid was balls. Here's a better and shorter one. I like these samples, but it is pretty hard to tell how the album will turn out thus far.
http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_1173152_metallica.htm
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The new Futureheads is coming out in a couple weeks. I am somewhat apprehensive but still excited for it based on the single that has been released.
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I'm not implying that you shouldn't say bad things about a band if bad things are warranted, it's just that you seem to make a point of hating Sufjan Stevens. Maybe I only notice some cases, but you seem to point out that you do not like him every chance you get. You don't like hismusic and that's ok! We get it. We're over it and you should be too. I apologise if I'm coming across as a dick but I get more tired and grumpier by the day. I will try to keep this reigned in.
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I'm super excited about the new Wolf Parade and Hold Steady albums.
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I do not like Sufjan Stevens either.
Sorry, Indie Rock.
HOW.
HOW.
HOW.
can you not like Sufjan Stevens?
Seriously.
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Its called subjectivity.
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He's alright but I don't got the time to listen to 'alright' much these days.
His music isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, I just don't particularly want to listen to it, y'know?
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Oh no, Sufjan Stevens is music you have to listen to more than once to really get into. I mean, maybe if you desire an entire indie rock experience every time you turn up your headphones, but if you're looking for lyrics, for meaning, you can find it in Sufjan.
Then again, I can see why you don't,
but I really suggest that you give him another listen if you think it's just 'alright'.
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I found Sufjan Stevens to be very immediate. There's a clarity in there which lets you hear just about everything on the first listen through, which helps.
He's alright.
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Oh no, Sufjan Stevens is music you have to listen to more than once to really get into. I mean, maybe if you desire an entire indie rock experience every time you turn up your headphones, but if you're looking for lyrics, for meaning, you can find it in Sufjan.
Again: Subjectivity.
I think Sufjan Stevens is fucking awful.
What are some of your other favourite artists?
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Anyone heard of a new Sufjan Stevens album coming out this year? No? Me neither. So can we get back to the topic at hand, please? Thankyou!
I'm hanging out for June the 14th. New Wolf Parade album and the new Silver Jews album coming out on the same day. Mid-year Christmas!
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According to my last.fm, my play count for Joan of Arc has increased by over 300 plays since that album got leaked...
Wait, what?
New, you say? Is it up on the Mediafire thread?
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I too hadn't realised that Boo!Human was out yet in any form?
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Thus far:
1. Portishead - Third
2. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
3. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
4. dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles
5. Vampire Weekend - s/t
6. Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
7. Grand Archives - s/t
8. Grand Ole Party - Humanimals
9. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
10. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
20 Best songs:
1. Shake A Fist - Hot Chip
2. Time to Pretend - MGMT
3. Small - Portishead
4. We Carry On - Portishead
5. Hercules' Theme - Hercules and Love Affair
6. Thou Shalt Always Kill - dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip
7. An Audience With The Pope - Elbow
8. Cath... - Death Cab for Cutie
9. Lately - The Helio Sequence
10. The Rip - Portishead
11. Louis Riel - Grand Archives
12. M79 - Vampire Weekend
13. Out of Reaches - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
14. Hold On - Hot Chip
15. Kids - MGMT
16. Gypsy March - Grand Ole Party
17. Supernatural Superserious - R.E.M.
18. By Torpedo or Crohns - Why?
19. I Will Possess Your Heard - Death Cab for Cutie
20. Letter From God to Man - dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip
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I'm anticipating the new Opeth album myself. I just recently came into possession of their discography and am looking forward to it. Also, Warrel Dane of Nevermore releases his solo album in just a few weeks time. I'm listening to it right now, and besides the anti-government rhetoric (though still with more than a few valid points), it preserves his unique vocal style and aura.
That said, more than a few bands I like are beginning development of a new album in '08. Dream Theater goes into the studio in the fall, Redemption follows shortly thereafter, and Into Eternity are releasing a cancer concept album in August. On the prog-metal front, its looking like a decent line-up.
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The Opeth album is pretty good, probably my 1# so far.
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I too hadn't realised that Boo!Human was out yet in any form?
http://www.sordomusic.com
Type "quack" into the box to get into their searchable database. With sordo, the mediafire thread is all but useless for leaks. That said, buy the album. I plan to buy the vinyl next month, it comes out in less than a week. JoA related bands are getting pretty popular now, word is getting round. But they're still perpetually broke because nobody actually buys any JoA related records. The fact that Tim sank a lot of time and money into Orchard Vale doesn't help their financial situation at all. Make Believe cancelled their only planned European tour for Of Course due to financial restraint, which is an awful shame. Tommydski, Astaldo and myself were supposed to catch them in Leeds, I can't remember whether we bought tickets or not.
It's reasons like this that I'm not going to be the guy who puts the new JoA in the mediafire thread where people are going to download it with no interest in purchasing it. Anybody who does intend to buy the album will probably seek it out on their own anyway.
It'd be nice to see those guys in Europe.
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That's very admirable. I ought get a job so I can start paying off my vast music debt. I bought Random Spirit Lover for the sole reason of hoping to have Krug come to Australia.
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Has anyone else heard the new Methadrone? It's kind of like a Neo Folk crew covering Jesu, it's pretty sweet. That's somewhere up there in the top 10, fo' realz.
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Meshuggah's new album is really damned good.
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I still haven't heard it but Meshugga is generally pretty fucking monstrous in a very good way. Looking forward to hearing it.
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Oh no, Sufjan Stevens is music you have to listen to more than once to really get into. I mean, maybe if you desire an entire indie rock experience every time you turn up your headphones, but if you're looking for lyrics, for meaning, you can find it in Sufjan.
Again: Subjectivity.
I think Sufjan Stevens is fucking awful.
What are some of your other favourite artists?
People want to get back on topic. I'm not turning this into a forum battle with you.
We can start our own Sufjan thread, or just message me if you really want to continue this.
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Seeing how there's been over 10 posts since those posts you're quoting, I think it's safe to say the thread is back on topic already. And on that note, I gotta say I'm really disappointed with the new Death Cab (not that I had high hopes) and fairly disappointed with the new Grails EP which really isn't all that interesting. The Grails is arguably more of a letdown considering how good their previous album was. The new Envy EP, "Abyssal," is, however, really excellent. It's an evolution into more intense realms from their last album, "Insomniac Doze," which was incredibly good Japanese screamo w/ heavily "post-rock" influenced instrumentals.
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People want to get back on topic.
I don't think you lurked enough to see how this forum works before you started posting. Going off-topic is the norm, not the exception.
@ Wombat: By new Grails, do you mean Take Refuge In Clean Living? I don't find it disappointing at all, in fact, I really fucking love it. It reminds me of Dead Can Dance in quite a few spots.
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@ Wombat: By new Grails, do you mean Take Refuge In Clean Living? I don't find it disappointing at all, in fact, I really fucking love it. It reminds me of Dead Can Dance in quite a few spots.
Maybe it needs to grow on me some more. Nothing grabbed me from the get-go like, for example, "Silk Rd." or the title track from "Burning Off Impurities." It's a pretty solid release and I don't dislike it but I guess I had high hopes that weren't fully met upon my initial listens. I still, however, have very high hopes for the new album due out later this year.
EDIT: I do, however, absolutely love 12-string guitar. Grails using it as a primary instrument makes them far better than a hell of a lot of standard post-rock fare. I'm a big fan of middle eastern music so anything with that flavor is automatically cool in my book. In that sense, the EP is pretty bad-ass and has some cool moments. On the whole, however, still not nearly as impressive as "Burning Off Impurities."
The new death cab is ok in my opinion. I like that song "I Will Possess Your Heart" a lot.
Maybe it's just me since I've been hearing a lot of positive things so far about this album but I listened to it in one sitting today and found myself underwhelmed and occasionally pretty bored. I do like "I Will Possess Your Heart" a lot though. It's definitely their strongest song in recent memory. Again, this is an album that I'm commenting on based upon early impressions. A few more serious listens and I'll have a more concrete impression of it and might change my mind.
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I think my positive reaction to the new Death Cab mainly comes from how absolutely fucking much I hated most of their last two albums. It's very rare a band that I seriously hate makes something where I go "What the... this is not bad at all!"
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Based on what I've heard (which granted isn't all that much, and shit it's not even halfway through the year yet guys jeez) and out of order:
Animal Collective - Water Curses (yeah, it's an EP, but I'm counting all releases here)
No Age - Nouns
Black Keys - Attack and Release
Portishead - Third
Autechre - Quaristice
Sun City Girls w/ J. Spaceman - Mister Lonely (I know it's only been leaked...but still badass)
Spiritualized - Songs in A and E
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Parasio UFO - Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Raccoo-oo-oon - Mythos Folkways Vol. IV, Future Vision C40
All fucking top notch albums.
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Sun City Girls w/ J. Spaceman - Mister Lonely (I know it's only been leaked...but still badass)
Wait, what the Hell? How have I not heard about this? Why are the Sun City Girls putting out a new album when they officially disbanded after Goucher died? I am so confused.
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It's a film soundtrack. Mister Lonely is the name of the film.
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I have no idea, I don't know a ton about the history of the Sun City Girls. Until I find the blog that I got this from I can't provide a link, only a blurb from those idiots at Pitchfork.
What's more, the soundtrack to the upcoming Harmony Korine movie Mister Lonely, which features music by Spaceman and the Sun City Girls, now has a tracklist and release details. The soundtrack is scheduled for an April 22 release on Drag City, but the film will hit theaters at the end of March.
Also there was You're Never Lonely With A Cigarette (http://www.mediafire.com/?cxxmdmzn2dx) which I just happened to find .
Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls' most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2LP idea was presented to them but Majora Records quickly stepped in to begin releasing most of the material. Included here are five tracks from early Majora singles: "100 Pounds of Black Olives" and "The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria" (the complete unreleased 12-minute version) from the single "You're Never Alone with a Cigarette" and all three tracks from Record #1 of the double 7" Three Fake Female Orgasms -- "Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling," "The Beauty of Benghazi," and "Souvenirs from Jangare." The short piece "Harmful Little Armful" is from the triple 7" box set Bruce Lee, Heroin, and the Punk Scene (from a Bay Area label Massacre at Central High) and rounding out the set are three unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the Torch LP: never before heard versions of "Amazon One," "Sev Acher," and "Wild World of Animals." This is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time.
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The Sun City Girls are one of the best bands ever. They have a fuckton of releases.
glowingraw dot blogspot dot com has pretty much all of their best studio releases, as well as a lot of other cool stuff. I'd start with Grotto of Miracles and Torch of the Mystics, then get the weirder stuff like Dante's Disneyland Inferno and 330,003 Crossdressers.
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Holy shit, thank you so much for that link! That's an awesome blog.
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Re: Narrow Stairs: As I've said before, "Talking Bird" really kills the whole album for me (and, now that I have the actual album to sit and listen to all at once, so does the subsequent "You Can Do Better Than Me"). If it just jumped from "Cath" to "Grapevine Fires" I would think about three times as much of the album as I do now. But seriously, what were they thinking? "Talking Bird" is an awful awful song, worse than anything off Plans, and to follow it up with "You Can Do Better," which is barely a song at all? For shame, guys. For shame.
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Meshuggah's new album is really damned good.
Yes. It's not going to be something I listen to often - Meshuggah is hardly easy listening, but when I do feel like it, it blows me away.
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I am apprehensive as to whether the new Deerhunter will totally fucking slay, like Cryptograms did, or will be a weird turn-off, based on the rumors I've heard.
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I listened to the last Bauhaus album, "Go Away White", something akin to four or five times today. Granted, it seemed a little less involved than their other material, but I thought it retained the sound and the feel they'd cultivated since day one and that it was a nice enough way to go out. Wish I could see 'em live again, though.
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Really? I don't like the new Bauhaus at all. It's basically a Peter Murphy solo album, and not a good one at that. It has none of the charm of their early material to me, and is nowhere near as good as Love and Rockets. Too much midtempo rock with Pe-tah warbling.
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No, I agree, that's a spot on analysis. I suppose its the mystique of the last album complex. That said, I do enjoy it all the same, regardless. I'm just one of those people that find it difficult to find fault and to generally enjoy even their favorite band's descent into the mundane. Besdies, the only other Bauhaus album I still have is Press Eject and Give Me the Tape, the live one. I lost all the others when my hard drive crashed so I'm not as in touch as I might be with the older material.
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I gave a hilariously misguided review of that album earlier in the year. I have since throught to myself, 'you wanker.'
http://rockmidgets.com/releases.php?page=3&id=2516
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I CARE.
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The new Shearwater album, "Rook" is sharing in the mediaf!re thread and it's incredible. My favorite album of their's to date, I do believe. It's fantastically rocking and, based upon a couple listens, blows "The Stage Names" away.
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The new Shearwater album blows "The Stage Names" away.
Seriously? Is there a crack dealer specializing in excellent product lurking somewhere on these forums? Did I miss the memo where I have to mainline heroin directly into my femoral artery before I can post? What is with you people lately?
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But what if what he says is true then fuck, my mind will be blown.
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It's possible. I mean, I like Okkervil River, but I like Palo Santo more than any Okkervil River album.
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But what if what he says is true then fuck, my mind will be blown.
Oh but it is. True, I tend to wax hyperbolic. It's a bad habit. I get easily carried away. But this is coming from someone who doesn't like Shearwater all that much and who thinks that, previous to these latest releases, if put into a ring to duke it out, OR would kill its more softspoken offspring. This release shakes things up, however. "Rooks" is more intense and, I think, more powerful than previous Shearwater releases. "The Stage Names" was good but underwhelming, especially when it comes to such tracks as the absolutely abysmal "Savannah Smiles." No, I avoid drugs, instead killing my ear drums with incessant music blasted through headphones and I would take "Rooks" over the "The Stage Names" any day.
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Right now I'm spinning the new Opeth, Watershed. I'm only on the second track but I'm somewhat unimpressed so far. It doesn't feel as nearly as good as their earlier stuff (which has kinda been true for a while), and it already feels they are even more like Porcupine Tree this time. I'll say more when I finish it.
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Guys, can we please just not compare Shearwater and Okkervil River? They no longer share any band members so there really is no basis for that comparison. Also, it's not like they're trying to make the same style of music. The two bands are vastly, vastly different.
Plus, I talked to Kim (of Shearwater) after their show in Fargo on Wednesday and she shared that they are all a little tired of the comparison. So really, there's no point.
I posted "Rook" because it is a gorgeous album and incredibly well written. I will not compare it to "The Stage Names" or any other Okkervil River album because there is no reason to do so. So please, just enjoy each of them for their own genius.
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Sorry. Good point.
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Nah, don't worry about it. We discussed it for a bit and she said that they don't mind because there once was a connection, but now that the two bands are completely independent, they want to establish themselves as their own band.
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As to not pollute Gabbly any more: I hate the new Opeth album. It's like they took everything I hated from Ghost Reveries and took some Between the Buried and Me to add to their sound to further their evil quest to become Porcupine Tree. AHHHHHH!
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hmm, i liked watershed. after watching them do Heir Apparent live i was hooked. i do thing they could have done with some more heavy songs, sthough Burden and Coil were excellent clean songs. the melody at the end of Heir is awesome
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It's like they took everything I hated from Ghost Reveries and took some Between the Buried and Me to add to their sound to further their evil quest to become Porcupine Tree. AHHHHHH!
That sentence made no fucking sense whatsoever.
(and really if anything it's Porcupine Tree that are becoming more like Opeth than the other way round... not that there's anything wrong with that)
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No, I know what he's talking about. I pointed it out way back in this thread before the album was release - the two bands are trying to switch places.
But Watershed is much less PT-ish than Ghost Reveries. It's pretty good, it reminds me of their earlier stuff in places.
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Fine with me; I love Opeth but I've always preferred Porcupine Tree by miles. Ghost Reveries is the most advanced and musical album they ever did. Still Life is one of my favorite albums, but I can only listen to it sparingly. Their newer albums are much more, all around.
I actually just saw Opeth live less than a week ago, and they were horribly underwhelming. The most entertaining part was when Mikael talked between songs. He speaks in very gentlemanly tones, and has an insanely deep voice.
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Sorry if I came off as blathering, I just am really upset that this record wasn't good at all. I thought is more Porcupine Tree-esque in that there was even more prog in there then there was before. Plus, its more like Between the Buried and Me than Porcupine Tree. Which makes more sense cause I kinda enjoy Porcupine Tree.
God I sound so disjointed.
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I finally caved in and started listening to Islands' Arm's Way, and I actually kinda like it. Shocking!
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Believe it or not, the new Sigur Ros is really spectacular. Probably the best thing I've heard all year. It also might be some of their best work ever. It definitely won't bore like AB and () were wont to often do. It's accessible but beautifully done. It trumps everything else on my 'best of 08' list. I'm so relieved!
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I've been listening to what I believe is Chemtrails by Beck. It's fantastic, and now I'm really excited about his new album. Think The Wizard Turns On... by the Flaming Lips and The Information from his previous album, now you pretty much have it.
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The new Venetian Snares record is going up on my top ten for the year. And, given that he likes to put out a lot of music in a short period of time, I might see another of his headed for my list.
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That new Deerhunter is incredibly good.
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NEW FLEET FOXES IS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
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HEALTH // DISCO
(it's supposed to be in all caps, that's just how awesome it is)
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I realise it's not that hard to achieve, but I reckon the new Weezer album is their best in 12 years.
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If you have not yet listened to Thea Gilmore's new album Liejacker, then you really need to.
Really, really need to. (http://rapidshare.com/files/122499386/Thea_Gilmore_-_Liejacker_-_02_-_Black_Letter.mp3.html)
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HEALTH // DISCO
(it's supposed to be in all caps, that's just how awesome it is)
I just checked out some samples. This really has a remix of the Crystal Castles remix?
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I really liked HEALTH//DISCO, but it is not top 10. The Snares might be though.
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Alright, I'm sort of confused right now. On iTunes they have a remix of the Crystal Castles remix, but every other listing for the album has the regular old remix. What's the deal here?
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It's the regular old remix.
There's a Lazrtag remix of the Crystals Castles VS HEALTH version out there though, confusion might start to occur.
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So uh, the new LITE album, Phantasia, is fucking fantastic. It has a bit of a heavier edge to it and a slight bit of post-rock injected into their music. It is really good stuff and I recommended it to everyone who digs math-rock.
I will probably not upload it into the mediafire thread because the download will be taken down in a few days.
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the new Bottomless pit ep, congress, is definitely one of my top EPs of this year. Maybe album if i can't find enough LPs to impress me.
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The new Colour Haze is easily the best thing I've heard all year. So, so, so good.
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So, turns out the new Silver Jews album, Look Out Mountain, Look Out Sea, is a real grower. Just like the last one, really: I was a bit underwhelmed by Tanglewood Numbers at first, and now I really love it. I can already feel the same thing happening with Lookout. Unlike a lot of people I really like Cassie Berman being in the band, and on the new album she's used really well: I can't imagine "Suffering Jukebox" being half as affecting with Stephen Malkmus singing the chorus, I think a female voice works really well with Dave Berman's music.
EDIT: Of course, I'm a die hard Silver Jews fan. I don't think I'd suggest this album as a starting point for anyone wanting to get into the band.
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So Laura has a new EP, yes maybe no, out on July first for us US kiddies and is selling it at their shows. They have a song from it on their myspace. It sounds heavier than anything they have done before, and it's pretty good.
Click this thing to hear that song. (http://www.myspace.com/lauranoise)
Edit: After a few listens I really like this song. Take that for what you will.
Edit Edit: It's apparently leaked so I'll download it tomorrow and give you all my 2 cents on it.
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So Laura has a new EP, yes maybe no, out on July first for us US kiddies and is selling it at their shows. They have a song from it on their myspace. It sounds heavier than anything they have done before, and it's pretty good.
Click this thing to hear that song. (http://www.myspace.com/lauranoise)
Edit: After a few listens I really like this song. Take that for what you will.
Edit Edit: It's apparently leaked so I'll download it tomorrow and give you all my 2 cents on it.
I love this song, so I'm downloading the leak now. Will be mediafired soon.
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It was like eating a cookie and then making me want a whole cake. In fact, I think I'll go "eat some cake" right now.
I find cakes and cookies exceedingly dissimilar.
Also, on the first listen of the HEALTH // DISCO album, I do not like it. This is probably heresy, but eh. It's not a hate, it just doesn't do anything for me. I'm thinking of trying it again at some point, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
As for the new Silver Jews. The last album, at first, was a take it or leave it. I took it, and let it grow, and now I love it. I think this album is similar enough that on my first listen, I just loved it automatically.
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So far:
1. Portishead - Third
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
4. Shearwater - Rook
5. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
8. Beach House - Devotion
9. Sian Alice Group - 59.59
10. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
P.S. The new Silver Jews is pretty good, but with every release other than American Water I just find myself thinking, "Well, fuck. I'd much rather be listening to American Water right now." That was especially true for Lookout Mountain. It was like eating a cookie and then making me want a whole cake. In fact, I think I'll go "eat some cake" right now.
I agree with a lot of this. Not all, but enough to make me quote the list and say so.
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girl talk's feed the animals will probably end up on my top ten of 2008, based on what i've heard so far.
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The new Colour Haze is easily the best thing I've heard all year. So, so, so good.
Same here, their best so far imo, and that's saying quite something. Doubt anything can top it this year.
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So far:
*List.*
P.S. The new Silver Jews is pretty good, but with every release other than American Water I just find myself thinking, "Well, fuck. I'd much rather be listening to American Water right now." That was especially true for Lookout Mountain. It was like eating a cookie and then making me want a whole cake. In fact, I think I'll go "eat some cake" right now.
I agree with a lot of this. Not all, but enough to make me quote the list and say so.
It's missing the Los Campesinos! LP, therefore it is wrong.
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anyone have a link to colour haze's new on? i saw one but it was only on rapidshare.de
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Perhapst's (John Moen from the Decemberists and the Jicks) self-titled debut is amazing. He comes across as a more playful Will Oldham combined with Carl Newman, folky but with plenty of enjoyable indie pop/rock sensibilities. On songs like the album's opener, "Quote" there is a significant Byrds/Tulsa vibe going around.
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Radiohead - In Rainbows
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace (or was this released late last year? I have no clue)
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA (got it for free (!!) at Warped Tour yesterday. As good as Hello Rockview and Pezcore)
I can't think of any more I have found to be exceptional, maybe the Red Album, but I liked the Blue one and the Green one better.
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Radiohead - In Rainbows
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace (or was this released late last year? I have no clue)
Yes, yes it was. And so was In Rainbows, but I guess it was physically in early january
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Black Light Burns' first album apparently only just got a UK release. This is good becuase that means it can be in my top ten! Yay!
'Iodine Sky' FTW!
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Also, on the first listen of the HEALTH // DISCO album, I do not like it. This is probably heresy, but eh. It's not a hate, it just doesn't do anything for me. I'm thinking of trying it again at some point, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
I saw these guys back in, like,January maybe, with Ad Astra Per Aspera and Coat Party, not knowing who they were. I was pretty disinterested. I haven't listened to the record though.
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Here's my top 10. I might change the order a bit, but these are the 10 albums I like best.
1. Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
3. Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
4. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
5. Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies
6. Portishead - Third
7. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
8. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
9. HEALTH//DISCO
10. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
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My current list
1. Portishead
2. Nick Cave
3. Hercules And Love Affair
4. Drive By Truckers
5. Erykah Badu
6. The Bellrays
7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy
8. Hanne Hukkelberg
9. Vampire Weekend
10. Laura Marling
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1. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Black Francis - SVN FNGRS
3. Fleet Foxes - s/t
4. The Presets - Apocalypso
5. Perhapst - s/t
6. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
7. Crystal Castles - s/t
8. Make Believe - Going to the Bone Church
9. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
Subsequent to change, still a lot of stuff I have yet to listen to or hasn't been released yet.
EDIT: Eksi Ekso's album I Am Your Bastard Wings will end up on their sometime soon, they sound like The Dears, Devotchka, BSS, Arcade Fire and Bridezilla combined.
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Albums I've been digging so far this year:
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow & Blue
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
The Dodos - Visiter
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Islands - Arm's Way
This Will Destroy You - s/t
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
I am much too lazy to attempt any sort of non-alphabetical ordering and there are still quite a few releases I am looking forward to so this is more of a "I like these and maybe you should check them out if you haven't" post.
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i get the feeling i havn't been listening to enough music this year
be your own pet, ayreon, dresden dolls, boris, witchhats, mt zion were good
judas priest, NIN and nick cave could have been better but are still ok
nothing horrible yet
waiting for the living end and amanda palmer solo
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As of now, and in no particular order:
M83
El Guincho
Hercules & Love Affair
Fenin
Cut Copy
Diskjokke
The Notwist
Sasha Funke
Silver Mt. Zion
Justus Kohnke
High Hopes:
Hold Stead, Mogwai, Gojira(?), The Sword(?)
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In no real order of importance:
Man Man
Gnarls Barkley
Girl Talk
The Hold Steady
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
Death Cab for Cutie
Crystal Castles
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
Islands
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Bon Iver was amazing supporting Iron & Wine. Not 100% convinced by the record yet though.
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Gojira(?)
Gojira is putting out an album this year? I did not know that. This is good news, I'll be able to listen to new metal other than mastodon then. Which should be excellent as well.
Also, I maintain that A Silver Mt. Zion's 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons is the record of the year.
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Reviewed the first album (under that name) by The Corrections, and it's magnificent.
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alright...my list is better looking now
(no particular order...yet)
portishead - third (another classic p'head album)
bottomless pit - congress ep (awesome followup to their great debut lp last year)
the blue seeds - s/t (nice folky female fronted band)
cold war kids - robbers and cowards (indie rock band of the moment...pretty solid album, pretty catchy)
the loose salute - tuned to love drummer from mojave 3's own band. lots of poppy tunes on here for summer. i'm not sure if this came out in 08 though. (mojave 3 evolved from Slowdive, interestingly)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (also a great summer album...is this band big yet?) this band actually has pretty weak lyrics, but the music/sound makes up for it.
thao nguyen and the Get Down Stay Downs - we brave bee stings and all (great folky singer/songwriter, she's really improved by leaps and bounds). her voice reminds me a bit of Cat Power, but the songs are not as downbeat.
atmosphere - when life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold it's kind of like 90s rap never dried up and we started listening to songs about how krispy the guy is or watch what he can do with his feet! blah
envelopes - here comes the wind more of that indie pop shit. supposedly we are suppose to see a similarity to the pixies but i just dont see it other than the male/female singer with female bassist thing
i wanted to throw girl talk on here, but his samples are never long enough and it seriously sounds like he mixed it all together while doing a fat rail of coke. there's no time to get comfy to the beat before it changes to something else. also the whole rap lyrics/rock music thing is played out. i did like most of Night Ripper though. but another album of the same thing is kind of boring.
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cold war kids - robbers and cowards (indie rock band of the moment...pretty solid album, pretty catchy)
This album was released in 2006
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my bad, i had heard it on the radio recently and i think amazon told me it came out in 08, but that was probably a import release date.
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They are in fact working on another album with a tentative September of '08 release date.
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I'm gonna have to say though, Robbers & Cowards was a pretty terrible album. There were, like, two good songs worth listening to, ever. Born Ruffians did that whole gambit much better.
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I think that if I give it a chance the new TZU album should be in my top ten for a least a month or so.
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I'm gonna have to say though, Robbers & Cowards was a pretty terrible album.
Oh, it is.
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I'm gonna have to say though, Robbers & Cowards was a pretty terrible album. There were, like, two good songs worth listening to, ever. Born Ruffians did that whole gambit much better.
I started hating it too...and then for some reason I just kept listening. I don't really think it has any staying power, I might hate it a month from now but at the moment their two singles are really doing it for me.
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It's June 30th! Time for my half-way-through-the-year Top Ten:
1. Fleet Foxes - s/t
2. Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
3. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster!
4. Windmill - Puddle City Racing Lights
5. Shearwater - Rook
6. Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
7. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
8. The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
9. Tickley Feather - s/t
10. White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
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GIRL TALK.
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From what I heard, the new Parenthetical Girls and the new Simon Bookish will be on my top ten.
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5. Shearwater - Rook
Yes. This. Thank you for listening to good music.
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1. Fleet Foxes - s/t
Hell yes.
I have also enjoyed music by Vampire Weekend, The Hold Steady, The Raconteurs, Punch Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie and several of the songs from Weezer's new record.
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I don't think I've heard 10 albums I've liked in 2008... here's 5:
The Black Keys- Attack and Release
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
Thao and the Whatever Her Band Is Called- We Brave Bee Stings and All
Islands- The Arm
My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
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I've only listened to the Fleet Foxes album a couple of times so far. It's good, I like it, it's pleasant to listen to, but I have a feeling I'm going to get bored of it after a while. There's just not much variety in the music, especially in the vocal harmonies: while they undoubtedly sing beautifully together, each song has basically the same vocal arrangement, which after a while makes it seem like not so much an essential part of the music, as just something pretty they decided to put on without bothering to put too much effort into it. Basically it's just not all it could be.
For the moment, though, I'm still enjoying it.
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I keep changing my mind about the order of the Top 3, but here's what I've got so far.
1) Women - Self Titled
2) Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now..Youngster
3) Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
4) Deerhunter - Microcastle
5) Times New Viking - Rip it Off
6) Dan Friel - Ghost Town
7) Hilotrons - Happymatic
8) The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
9) Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
10) Steven Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
I'm still anxiously awaiting the debut High Places full length and praying that The Thermals' next one comes out sooner rather than later.
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Guys, I honestly don't enjoy Vampire Weekend's album, it is flat.
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yeah vampire weekend is pretty boring you guys
up until now i had not heard an album this year that i could deem worthy of being number one but now i am leaning towards giving the stand ins that title
also, new deerhoof and new of montreal drop on the same day!!
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Chinese Democracy got released down under yesterday, and it's the best album this year, nay ever.
Wait. No it dodn't.
Fuck you Axel Rose.
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In retrospect I wouldn't call Vampire Weekend a good album, but it definitely has some spectacular tracks as far as I'm concerned. "Walcott" and "I Stand Corrected" are just plain infectious.
BTW, holy crap does At Mount Zoomer get better and better each time I listen. Right now that and Arm's Way are definitely contenders for my number one (I'm not going to count The Stand Ins until I've got it in my CD player), and just underneath them it's a war between Cut Copy, Hot Chip and The Dodos.
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The Nick Cave album is just growing and growing on me, I think it might just be album of the year.
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also, new deerhoof and new of montreal drop on the same day!!
it's like an acid trip for your ears!
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It's probably not the kind of music most people here listen to, but holy shit guys I've just listened for the first time to Roll With You by Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves and it's so damn good. Nothing ground-breaking, just great, tight, horn-driven 60s-style southern soul done the way it's meant to be done.
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I might check it out when I stop listening to Mission of Burma and that might take a while.
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It took me awhile, but I've fallen in love with Spiritualized's "Songs in A & E."
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Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Bonnie - Lay down in the light
No Age - Nouns
Apart from No Age, I'm evidently being very mellow at the moment.
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New Dears record in late October. It'll be called Missiles and from, what I've heard (i.e. "Breakdown in A Major) Lightburn has returned to the fine form of just about everything that was recorded before Gang of Losers. They've most likely made a Dears album and not a slightly unoriginal yet enjoyable pop album.
The first "single", "Break Down in A Major" can be found here (http://www.thedears.org/files/). Words cannot describe it's awesomeness but it is a combination of the expansive and synthy epicness of "Where the World Begins and Ends", the more promising guitar moments from Gol ("The Highest" in particular) and the mild proginess of their Protest EP.
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Guys, arguably the very best album of the year came out digitally (emusic and itunes I think) yesterday and will be out on vinyl very soon. It's Matthew Robert Cooper's "Miniatures." That name might not sound familiar to any of you. That's because he usually releases music under his moniker, Eluvium. That name might not sound familiar to you. If so, you probably don't like ingenious, beautiful, mesmerizing ambient brilliance. This new album consists of 9 relatively short tracks (it's only 33 minutes long) but each one is fantastic. Solo piano, sonorous organs, layers of fuzzy bliss, this release is an ambient fans dream come true. For real. Fans of Eluvium will definitely hear influences from the most recent Eluvium release, Copia, and from his earlier solo piano album but this really is something wholly new. He wrote these songs under his actual name because he saw this as something similar to, but separate from, what an Eluvium album should be. And it shows. This is something new and haunting and wonderful. Everyone should listen to this. It's nothing short of spectacular and it's probably my number one album thus far of 2008.
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I bought Natacha Atlas's new album today. Again, probably not what most people here listen to, but it's really really good. She's dropped the beats for this one and gone all acoustic for a much more traditional middle-eastern sounding album - and it sounds just beautiful. Her voice, of course, is gorgeous.
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Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life must be one of the best albums of the year.
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Oasis, The Verve and Slipknot are releasing albums this year. I don't think they'll topple Nick Cave as top of my list, but still.
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Me and Armini by Emiliana Torrini is placing, no doubt. It's just so damn good.
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Oasis, The Verve and Slipknot are releasing albums this year
Hahahahahaha.
More @ the former two than the latter, but still.
lol.
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Guys, arguably the very best album of the year came out digitally (emusic and itunes I think) yesterday and will be out on vinyl very soon. It's Matthew Robert Cooper's "Miniatures." That name might not sound familiar to any of you. That's because he usually releases music under his moniker, Eluvium. That name might not sound familiar to you. If so, you probably don't like ingenious, beautiful, mesmerizing ambient brilliance. This new album consists of 9 relatively short tracks (it's only 33 minutes long) but each one is fantastic. Solo piano, sonorous organs, layers of fuzzy bliss, this release is an ambient fans dream come true. For real. Fans of Eluvium will definitely hear influences from the most recent Eluvium release, Copia, and from his earlier solo piano album but this really is something wholly new. He wrote these songs under his actual name because he saw this as something similar to, but separate from, what an Eluvium album should be. And it shows. This is something new and haunting and wonderful. Everyone should listen to this. It's nothing short of spectacular and it's probably my number one album thus far of 2008.
Holy shit, I need to get this. I loved Copia, as well as just about anything Eluvium has ever done...
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Oasis, The Verve and Slipknot are releasing albums this year
Hahahahahaha.
More @ the former two than the latter, but still.
lol.
ROFLCOPTER! Go fuck yourself.
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Who's neglecting him? If I had any evidence that he was going to release his new record before the end of the year, then it'd be on my list. Besides which, his last album was a pile of shit, so I'm not too confident about this one, where Oasis' last was their best in a decade and the stuff I've heard from The Verve's was pretty bloody good too. If you like that sort of thing, of course.
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Still albums to come out, so I'm going to have to hold back on this one. We still have a Bloodbath album, as well as a Cynic album (their first since the early 90s) to come out.
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Can't wait for Missiles, Skeletal Lamping and possibly the next Black Lips album.
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*whole thing about the Matt Cooper album*
Dude, have you found a mediafire link to this or not? I'm going to order it but I really wanna hear it.
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I'm not on my own computer at the moment and won't be until tomorrow evening at the earliest so I can't upload anything at the moment. Rest assured, however, that I will up a link by Thursday at the latests.
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Heard one or two tracks from Sigur Ros's newest, but haven't gotten around to checking it all out yet. Not too bad so far.
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Ah yes, Sigur Mortis.
I have no idea why, but I just don't give a shit about them any more. And it's not that they went mainstream, cause I only got into them when I reviewed Takk... I just don't really enjoy listening to them much any more aside from a few songs.
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Well Sigur Ros is completely different now than back on Takk. The whole minimalist thing is gone, replaced by this playful summerish accoustic sound. I definitely don't mind it, as the ethereal minimalism has been really played out since Ágætis Byrjun.
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust is actually really good.
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I'm not on my own computer at the moment and won't be until tomorrow evening at the earliest so I can't upload anything at the moment. Rest assured, however, that I will up a link by Thursday at the latests.
I actually just found it on a blog I read, so I could upload it if you won't get to it till thursday.
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Sounds OK to me.
Well Sigur Ros is completely different now than back on Takk. The whole minimalist thing is gone, replaced by this playful summerish accoustic sound. I definitely don't mind it, as the ethereal minimalism has been really played out since Ágætis Byrjun
Yeah, not sure I agree that the "whole minimalist thing" is gone or that the whole album has a "playful summerish accoustic [sic] sound." That may be true for the first couple songs but things slow down and darken up for sure later on in the album. We still have long builds and songs that sprawl quietly, darkly, and minimally for much, if not all, of the run time. I think it's an excellent album but not as significant a departure from earlier material as you seem to suggest.
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I'll get it uploaded before the day is out.
Well, I just finished listening to it. While it was a stunning and gorgeous piece of music, I don't quite think its the album of the year. I think I need to hear this on vinyl though. It sounds like one of those albums that needs to be heard on vinyl.
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I haven't heard much new music this year, as I've spent a lot of time this year getting into older stuff that I wasn't listening to before. The only two albums I've really gotten into this year are the new Hold Steady one and The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound, which was just released today.
I guess maybe I should have bought that new Paul Westerberg album while it was available. Shitbutt.
Next-day Edit: The Drive-By Truckers album is also really good.
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my indie sense is burrrrrrrrning... needs more METAL.
here are my top ten(ISH) (METAL) albums of the year so far:
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare - good step up from United in Regret, overall very solid, but nowhere near as perfect as A Celebration of Guilt or A Diamond For Disease
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds - ZOMG, total brutal tech death masterpiece. There's so many different riff and layers to the music, that you still won't hear all the parts if you listen to this twenty times in a row. It's a bit more melodic than their previous ...And Time Begins, but they still managed to step up the level of t3chnical brutal1ty.
Enslaved - Vertebrae - This only leaked a couple days ago, but I after listening to it a couple times, I can already tell that it's one of the year's best. Very solid album all the way through. Recommended if you like progressive black/death a la Opeth.
Fellsilent - The Hidden Words - total downtuned polyrhythmic Meshuggah worhsip, and I absolutely love it. Really great guitar work.
Textures - Silhouettes - more polyrhythmic goodness. These guys have probably been around almost as long as Meshuggah, and to be honest, I liked this album a lot better than Meshuggah's obZen. Better songwriting, more melodic, easier to listen to :-P. obZen was still awesome n' heavy, but I just enjoyed Texture's new album more.
Hour of Penance - The Vile Conception - My favorite brutal death album of the year. Appropriate, as they're labelmates with Decrepit Birth. Incredible guitars, drummer's nuts, and great production*. <-- the production on most of today's death metal albums is a major factor on if I will enjoy it or not. Everything on the Vile Conception is so clear and concise, that it's not hard to hear how awesome it is. Hate Eternal would have been on here, but the production was way too loud and muddy for me to enjoy it.
Septicflesh - Communion - I think there's something in Greece's water, because this album is amazing. Great atmosphere, songwriting, production - overall a great surprise and a very solid album.
Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction - FUCKIN RIFFFFFFFFFFFFS
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House -what HORSE the Band would sound like if they suddenly got all serious and actually pulled it off really well.
Mouth of the Architect - Quietly - If you like Isis/Red Sparrowes/other good post metal band/, you will want to have babies with this album
MY album of the year contenders:
Mirrorthrone - Gangrene - Holy shit. I never heard this guy's previous albums before, but holy shit. This band, which sounds like it has more members than the Polyphonic Spree, actually consists of one dude, his computer, guitars/keyboard/drumkit from hell. Incredible musician, songwriter, producer. Even if you don't like this type of music (progressive black metal), you need to listen to this musical masterpiece. His songs are very heavily based on classical composition style type songs - pretty long, multi-layered, different parts/movements. Amazing listen, and highly recommended.
Evergrey - Torn - Probably my favorite band. I guess it's kind of biased that I have my favorite band as one of my favorite albums of the year, but it is an incredible album. Their sound is dark progressive metal - it's very heavily based on their excellent songwriting skills (and less technical emphasis), but the two dudes with guitars in the band can still fuckin' wail on the guitar. Their singer (yes, he sings) has also got some awesome pipes, very 'soulful'. They've got that distinctive Gothenberg sound, given that they are actually from Gothenberg, Sweden. These guys would win the best heavily-guitar-based album of the year.
Misery Signals - Controller Unless Metallica comes out with ...And Justice For All II, this is my album of the year. These guys take it to a whole nothur lebuhl. Everything about this album is perfect to me: the songwriting, the production, the guitar work, the drummer can kill it. I even love the lyrics. From my ears, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this album. You know something is up when dudes that skateboard and have short hair make better music than all those trve red wine sipping dweebs out there. Well done. :-D :-D
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Ho hum hmm...
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. School Of Language - Sea From Shore
3. Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
4. Vessels - White Fields And Open Devices
5. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
6. The Futureheads - This Is Not The World
7. Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
8. The Young Knives - Superabundance
9. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
10. This Town Needs Guns - Animals (even though it isn't out yet, it will be awesome!)
I would include Maps & Atlases - You & Me & The Mountain, but alas, it's an EP and so doesn't strictly speaking count :(
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Right now it would be
Alopecia by Why?
Heretic Pride by The Mountain Goats
Hold On Now, Youngster by Los Campesinos!
Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
Waited Up Til It Was Light by Johnny Foreigner
Feed the Animals by Girl Talk
American Demo by The Indelicates
Instant Coffee Baby by The Wave Pictures
Narrow Stairs by Death Cab for Cutie
The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow
[Just missing: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Atmosphere, Sac vs Pip]
I suspect that new Los Camp! album in October will get a place. If the new Bloc Party grows on me much more then that'll cause problems too. Oh and then there's Mogwai.
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Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Chris Wood - Trespasser
White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
Gregor Samsa - Rest
Jade - Analogic
Balmorhea - River Arms
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Sigur Rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
The Bug - London Zoo
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
the rest of my list (http://www.thephorum.net/index.php/topic,3663.msg67275.html#msg67275)
Have barely listened to any music that came out this summer so I have a lot of catching up to do.
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New Of Montreal will be on it, again. It's absurd how much this record is growing on me. Also Cut Copy- In Ghost Colors, and probably Aerial - 2562
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The new Verve is a lot lighter and airier than the previous ones. It seems more relaxed and mature, although it's their fourth best album by a street. 'Sit And Wonder' is fucking stunning, though.
The new Slipknot record is slowly growing on me (though the masks are shit this time round), it's kind of like a mix between Iowa and Vol. 3, but any traces of the first record have pretty much disappeared. I didn't hear any DJ scratching or anything :-S
Gallows put a new song on their myspace. It's not much of a progression, just a minute-long blast really, but I still really like it and can't stop listening to it.
My vague top ten at the moment, is:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
Weezer - Weezer
Chris T-T - Capital
Jacob's Stories - Undisciplined Art
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Hellsongs - Songs In The Key Of 666
Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Rhymefest - The Man In The Mirror
Julia Marcell - It Might Like You
Near misses:
The Corrections - Repeat After Me
Kaki King - Dreaming Of Revenge
Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is
Local H - Twelve Angry Months
Realeaf - Possibly Not
Slaves To Gravity - Scatter The Crow
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I'm not sure about my list there's been rumors 'round the playground that the new Walkmen disc, You & Me is top ten of the year material.
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I don't know how I feel about that assertion. Basically it seems like they decided to revisit the sonic territory of their first two albums, but with tighter playing and production and a quirky worldwide travel theme. I really enjoy The Walkmen sometimes but I wouldn't say they've ever stuck me as top ten material.
Of course, I have yet to spend a suitable amount of time with the album in my most comfortable and immersive environment (my car), so I could be missing nuances that could make me wrong.
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Guys the new Parts & Labor album is probably going to be the best album this year.
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Right at this moment right now I am really digging the hell out of A Place Where We Could Go by Jeremy Jay.
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Of Montreal and Matthew Robert Cooper just kicked MMJ and The Bug out of my top ten. I'm not sure if Of Montreal will last, but I'm pretty sure MRC will be there on New Years.
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My top ten:
1. Portishead - Third
2. Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Hercules And Love Affair - s/t
4. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
5. The Bellrays - Hard, Sweet, and Sticky
6. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah
7. Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
8. Shearwater - Rook
9. Fleet Foxes - s/t
10. Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light
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Right at this moment right now I am really digging the hell out of A Place Where We Could Go by Jeremy Jay.
I like his stuff. seems really romantic
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Guys the new Parts & Labor album is probably going to be the best album this year.
Is this leaked? Cause I would love to hear it.
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Nah, it's not. There is a song from it on their myspace page though.
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The Parenthetical Girls album is top ten material. I'll upload it in the mediafire thread right now.
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Top 10 Albums
1. The White EP - Aggaloch
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
4. Witch Hats - Celulite Soul
5. Boris – Smile
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig! Lazarus Dig!
7. The Living End – White Noise
8. Ayreon – 01011001
9. Juno – OST
10. Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward
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I've finally gotten around to listening to the Mystery Jets album. Yay, pop! There are some brilliant tracks on this album, two of them fighting tooth and nail for the title of "Favourite Sweet Pop Song of the Year". Two Doors Down is happier and just blindly hopeful which I love in a song, but also a saxophone which I totally don't. Young Love is just as fun and has pretty guest vocals. The first half of the album is really strong but then it flounders a little later on which was a little disappointing. Maybe not flounders, but I suppose it just gets less fun? It might well make my top ten depending on what else I hear this year.
Oh, and I love the upright piano. I catch myself thinking things like that a lot, I think I just prefer crappier pianos in music that's not simply a piece for piano.
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UPDATE:
1. Crystal Castles
2. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
3. Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
4. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
5. Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies
6. Portishead - Third
7. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
8. Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
9. Otto Von Schirach - Oozing Bass Spasms
10. HEALTH//DISCO
More at 11.
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I'm thinking this, in no particular order...
At Mount Zoomer by Wolf Parade
Alopecia by Why?
Nouns by No Age
Feed The Animals by Girl Talk
Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
Alegranza! by El Guincho
Visiter by The Dodos
In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy
Devotion by Beach House
Hercules and Love Affair by Hercules and Love Affair or DISCO by HEALTH
Also dig:
Women by Women, The Stand-Ins by Okkervil River, Saturdays = Youth by M83, Arm's Way by Islands, Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles.
Some disappointments. (Tapes 'n Tapes, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band) Some that I own but haven't listened to. (The Bug, Air France) Animal Collective and Fleet Foxes' EPs were both excellent, too.
I consider myself a pretty big fan and still haven't listened to Xiu Xiu's latest. Also, I can't bring myself to succumb to the leaks of Final Fantasy and of Montreal. I am waiting for their releases.
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The new Chad VanGaalen is out there on the interwebs and I think it comes out for real on Tuesday. Freakin' fantastic.
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I think it's fair game to release my list now, well so far.
List
Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Titus Androncius - Airing of Grievances
Portishead - Third
Shearwater - Rook
Drive by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
The Hold Steady - Stay Posative
Sun Kill Moon - April
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus Dig!
Runner ups/close:
Local H - Twelve Angry Months
Hercules Love Affair - s/t
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath *
White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E *
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Lie Down in the Light *
The Walkmen - You and Me*
TV On The Radio - Dear Scientist
I have noticed a lot of people havn't talked about Titus Androncius. If you like low production, post/revival punk check them out.
EDIT: Upon listening to it again, Walkmen album at least deserves a close. Very close. If's just my personal bias for th eother bands that really keeps it out.
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Of note, the Titus Andronicus record is low production but not Times New Viking's so-low-fi-it's-actually-unlistenable low production. It's just sleazy, noisy, grimy and dirty - in other words, it's pretty good.
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Really? You find TNV unlistenable? I love the Titus Andronicus record, though.
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I'm not sure I would call Times New Viking un-listenable, but I find it pretty unpleasant. I like some lo-fi because the warmth and distortion sounds good, but when it becomes grating and obscures the music past a certain point I become disappointed, especially with Times New Viking where I can detect good songs lurking underneath the mess. Also Titus Andronicus is the shit. I want to see them live so badly.
You should try the Daytrotter session by TNV. You can hear the songs and they are great!
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The new TV on the Radio album is pretty awesome. I don't think it's album of the year material but it might make my slightly longer list (top 15?) at year's end.
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You should try the Daytrotter session by TNV. You can hear the songs and they are great!
I know! That's why the new record makes me as mad as it does!
Hey, Times New Viking, you know who else made poppy records that were super-clippy from start to finish? Ricky Martin.
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Young Love is just as fun and has pretty guest vocals.
I'm not sure if you already know this or not but the girl who sings the guest vocals on Young Love is named Laura Marling and she has an album out this year named Alas I Cannot Swim, on which you will find several contenders for your Best Sweetly Melancholic Pop Song list of 2008. It's pretty good, I say!
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I forgot that that came out this year. This list is getting difficult.
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1. TV On The Radio - Dear Science (A bit premature, as its only been leaked two days, but its great)
2. Los Campesinos! - Hold On There, Youngster...
3. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
4. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
5. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Will wait for year's end to complete the list. I'm sure I forgot some here anyway.
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I think we should remake this thread in December, and see how our lists have changed. My list thus far goes somethin' like this:
1. Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - "Angles"
2. Fleet Foxes - "s/t"
3. The Mountain Goats - "Heretic Pride"
4. Why? - "Alopecia"
5. Giants - "Old Stories"
6. Cloudkicker - "The Discovery"
7. Elbow - "The Seldom Seen Kid"
8. The Raconteurs - "Consolers of the Lonely"
9. They Might Be Giants - "Here Come the 1,2,3's"
10. Jami Sieber, Shira Kammen, & Cheryl Ann Fulton - "Braid (videogame OST)"
Honorable Mentions:
Flogging Molly - "Float"
Colin Meloy - "Sings Live!"
Kaki King - "Dreaming of Revenge"
Not yet out, but probably will be added to the list later:
Ben Folds - "Way to Normal"
The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - "Black Pear Tree EP"
(the first song off of this album has already been leaked by John Darnielle, and it's awesome)
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The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - "Black Pear Tree EP"
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What now??
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Um, here is a top ten that I did not give very much thought at all for the ordering but this will probably be pretty close
1 Okkervil River
2 Why?
3 TV on the Radio
4 WOMEN
5 Beach House
6 of Montreal
7 Wolf Parade?
8 [reserved for Deerhoof]
9 [reserved for Love is All]
10 [reserved for Final Fantasy]
other things: sloan, earlimart!, shearwater, cut copy, fleet foxes, islands, BSP, hot chip
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Here's how it looks at the moment:
1. Snowman - The Horse, the Rat and the Swan
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle & Weird Era Cont.
3. Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling
4. Women - s/t
5. Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
6. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
7. Feral Children - Second to the Last Frontier & Ladyhawk - Shots
8. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
9. Mercy Arms - s/t & British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
10. Beck - Modern Guilt & Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash
Missiles by the Dears, Offend Maggie by Deerhunter and North America by Hank Pine and Lily Fawn may have a considerably profound effect on the nature of this list.
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1. Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
2. Fantasy Black Channel - Late of the Pier
3. Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
4. Twenty One - Mystery Jets
5. Stainless Style - Neon Neon
6. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
7. Stay Positive - Hold Steady
8. Saturnalia - Gutter Twins
9. Falling Off the Lavender Bridge - Lightspeed Champion
10. Get Awkward - Be Your Own Pet
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Alright, Here's my top 10 list (So far)
1. Miles Of Styles - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra
2. Nouns - No Age
3. Vs. The Snow - The LK (Technically this came out last year, but this is the first year it's available in america, so it made the list)
4. A Land For Renegades - Zombie-Zombie
5. The Devil, You+Me - The Notwist
6. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
7. Other People - American Princes
8. Volume 1 - She and Him
9. Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
10. Microcastle - Deerhunter
Honorable Mentions:
The Rhumb Line - Ra Ra Riot
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Disappointment of the year:
Slick Dogs And Ponies - Louis XIV
There still is tons of time for this to completely change, though.....
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TV on the Radio takes the cake so far.
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So far, with a VERY loose order...
1] Brad Mehldau Trio - Live
2] Boris - Smile
3] No Age - Nouns
4] Post Historic - Memory Banks of Blue
5] R.E.M. - Accelerate
6] Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
7] The Roots - Rising Down
8] The Faint - Fasciinatiion
9] Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
10] One Day as a Lion - One Day as a Lion
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new Gojira just made my top 5 albums of the year
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In No Particular Order
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Immortal Technique - Third World
The Cancer Conspiracy - Omega
Coldworker - Rotting Paradise
Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner
Mars Volta- The Bedlam in Goliath
Perth Express - Harrow and Wealdstone
im sure im forgetting some great ones but oh well
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revised
bottomless pit - congress ep
portishead - third
thao nguyen and the Get Down Stay Downs - we brave bee stings and all
islands - arm's way
faded paper figures - dynamo (i really recommend this to anyone who liked The postal service. sounds like the followup album they'll never make cos dntel is off making shitty music)
marnie stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That
tv on the radio - dear science,
annie - don't stop <3
envelopes - here comes the wind
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So Far
1. Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
2. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
5. Bloc Party - Intimacy
6. In Flight Radio - The Sound Inside
7. Islands - Arm's Way
8. Polysics - We Ate the Machine
9. Beck - Modern Guilt
10. Fleet Foxes -Fleet Foxes
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This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That
what?
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Good god that's awful.
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Revision, in proper order:
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Chris Wood - Trespasser
White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Balmorhea - River Arms
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Sigur Rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
Gregor Samsa - Rest
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The new Chad VanGaalen is out there on the interwebs and I think it comes out for real on Tuesday. Freakin' fantastic.
This album is so amazing. It's pretty much exactly the album I've always hoped he'd make.
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Good god that's awful.
haha yeah but the actual album is really good. i'd rec it if you dig deerhoof
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8. Polysics - We Ate the Machine
Whaaaaaaaaaaat?
Holy shit do I need this
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I am still waiting for Anathallo's new record. Then I can safely make a list.
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The previous one was jaw-dropping, so I'll be waiting for that too.
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My current listing (which will probably be my last listing because after the next month I'm not going to have much chance to listen to new music):
1. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
2. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
3. The Dodos - Visiter
4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
5. The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
6. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
7. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
8. This Will Destroy You - s/t
9. Islands - Arm's Way
10. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Jeez guys this is really tough. I just spent half an hour whittling this down from a 16-album list, and I swear the Islands and Hot Chip albums have moved up and down it a bajillion times.
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Was We are Beautiful, We are Doomed, from Los Campesinos! released this year? yeah, that.
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1. Sun Kil Moon - April
2. Cynic - Traced in Air
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
4. Portishead - Third
5. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
6. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
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Bah, the new AC Newman isn't coming out until January.
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Just heard the new Oasis album, it's really really bad :(
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Unprecedented!
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Just heard the new Oasis album, it's really really bad :(
I'm going to wait until it comes out and listen to it then.
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It'll probably still be really bad when it comes out
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ROFFLE
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copter? (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~burrows3/roflcopter.jpg)
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Agalloch: "The White EP"
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???
Oh, and this (http://www.shakon.com/calder.html)
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Bah, the new AC Newman isn't coming out until January.
Damn,
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Here are ten in a general, but by no means static, order. Of course there's still a couple of months left this year, so this could change I suppose.
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
TV On the Radio - Dear Science,
Hilotrons - Happymatic
Why? - Alopecia
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Subtle - ExitingARM
Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Dead
edit - oh shit. i forgot to make room for Fleet Foxes. Okkervil River too. Damnit.
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There may be changes by the end of the year, but so far:
Portishead - Third
Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Ladytron - Velocifero
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig
Drive By Truckers - BTCD
Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini
Monkey (Damon Albarn) - Journey To The West
Honorable mention and/or contenders for end of year:
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Breeders - Mountain Battles
Just about every current act I like has released and album this year, or will early next year.
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The new Grails album is incredibly awesome! I got a promo copy in the mail the other day and listened to it like 5 times in a row. Killer stuff! It'll probably be one my end of the year list.
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My favorites so far:
Eat Skull-Sick To Death
The Hospitals-Hairdryer Peace
Lambkin/Lescaleet-The Breadwinner
Blank Dogs-On Two Sides
The Feeling of Love-Petit Tu Es Un Hit?
Rosemary Krust-Slow Light
Nothing People-Anonymous
Dan Melchior-Christmas for the Crows
TV Ghost-S/T
Emeralds-Solar Bridge
Not Out/Haven't Heard
US Girls-Introducing
Total Abuse LP
Secret Abuse LP
Vivian Girls LP
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The new Oasis album is pretty good. Not as good as Don't Believe The Truth, but it's no disgrace like Standing On The Shoulder or Heathen Chemistry were.
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The new Thievery Corporation album, Radio Retaliation, kicks all sorts of ass. It belongs on any top 20 end of the year list.
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I have heard:
The Hold Steady- Stay Positive
Drive-By Truckers- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
The Gaslight Anthem- The '59 Sound
The Night Marchers- See You in Magic
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Rapid Response EP
Paul Westerberg- 49:00
King Khan & The Shrines- The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines
I have yet to pick up:
Deerhoof- Offend Maggie
Calexico- Carried to Dust
Fucked Up- The Chemistry of Common Life
The Dirtbombs- We Have You Surrounded
Rocket From The Crypt- All Systems Go 3
Dillinger Four- C I V I L W A R
The Riot Before- Fists Buried in Pockets
Elvis Costello & The Impostors- Momofuku
I'll probably make a real list in December.
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I haven't heard much new stuff from this year, but:
1 Twilight of the Thunder God by Amon Amarth
2 Overworld by Machinae Supremacy
3 Nostradamus by Judas Priest
4 Indestructible by Disturbed
5 Land by Tyr
6 Reincarnation by Galneryus
7 The Crucible of Man by Iced Earth
8 Revolution Roulette by Poets of the Fall
9 Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails
10 Darkness and Starlight by The Black Mages
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I don't understand why Okkervil River is not on all these silly lists? Much less near the top of them?
Mommy, why is the world so cruel and sad?
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Of the stuff I've bothered to listen to in 2008:
Women -- Women
Make Believe- Goin' To The Bone Church
That's about it.
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Is this better, imagist?
1. Fleet Foxes - s/t
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
3. Okkervil River - The Stand-ins
4. The Notwist - The Devil, You & Me
5. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
6. Women - s/t
7. El Guincho - Alegranza!
8. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
9. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
10. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
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Here's what I got as of right now:
1) Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now Youngster..
2) Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
3) Women - Women
4) Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
5) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
6) Times New Viking - Rip it Off
7) Marnie Stern - This Is It...
8) Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
9) Deerhunter - Microcastle
10) Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
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Here is my tentative list:
10. PAS/CAL - I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Laura
9. This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
8. Beach House - Devotion
7. The New Year - The New Year
6. Laura Barrett - Victory Garden
5. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
4. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
3. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
2. Parts & Labor - Receivers
1. WOMEN - WOMEN
I am pretty excited for the new Lucksmiths album, though. It's probably gonna bump somethin' out of the top 10.
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The new Love is All album leaked this week and it's totally fucking badass so far.
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I am pretty excited for the new Lucksmiths album, though. It's probably gonna bump somethin' out of the top 10.
The new Love is All album leaked this week and it's totally fucking badass so far.
Excellent news!
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TV Ghost-S/T
Do you have a digital copy of this?
They came to my town last year and were amazing. They were selling vinyls but I was in a rush to leave and didn't get anything.
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The new Department of Eagles and Brightblack Morning Light are both on my list for sure. Great stuff indeed.
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The new FFAF album is their best stuff in five years.
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In no real order, mine would be
Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Portishead - Third
The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Southern Tenant Folk Union - Revivals, Rituals & Union Songs
Sad to say, I won't be including Cardinology, which I listened to this morning: nowhere near Ryan Adams's best. :(
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No order but I'd say that mine, of what I've heard, would include.
Sun Kil Moon - April (is easily 1 or 2. Its so good)
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
Women - Women
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Syclops - I've Got My Eye On You
Portishead - Third
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Clark - Turning Dragon
blahblahlbah
Something about this year: not as many ALBUMS have impressed me as usual. Like, Hercules and Love Affair has 3 or 4 awesome songs on it, in my opinion, but as an album I don't like it that much. Same with the new Of Montreal and the second Los Camps!, too.
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These are not in any sort of order at this point. These are simply the albums that really stand out in my mind as I think back on the year at this point (although I'm sure I'm forgetting several that I loved):
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Sigur Ros - Med Sud...
The Drift - Memory Drawings
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath the Trees
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Shearwater - Rook
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
This Will Destroy You - S/T
The North Sea - Gated Community
Higuma - Haze Valley
The Alps - III
Albums that I loved at first and then started liking less:
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Fleet Foxes - S/T
Okkervil River - The Stand-ins (I liked it a lot. Then I re-listened, several times, to their PRE [fixed!] "Stage Names" albums and realized it didn't stand up)
Islands - Arm's Way (I was in love with this when I first heard. When I listen now, it seems just OK)
I guess I'll been narrowing the list and putting it in order once the year is actually over and done with.
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Okkervil River - The Stand-ins (I liked it a lot. Then I re-listened, several times, to their post "Stage Names" albums and realized it didn't stand up)
Huh? This is the only album since Stage Names. The only other release between the two was that free mixtape of covers.
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Woo, new Ryan Adams record a week on Monday.
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Okkervil River - The Stand-ins (I liked it a lot. Then I re-listened, several times, to their post "Stage Names" albums and realized it didn't stand up)
Huh? This is the only album since Stage Names. The only other release between the two was that free mixtape of covers.
I know that. And their stuff before it is better in my opinion. This and the Stage Names aren't as compelling which is why I don't think it'll make my personal list. I like the album, but I can't really help comparing it and seeing, for me anyway, a less interesting album as a result.
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I was just confused by the way you structured that sentence. You implied that The Stand Ins did not stand up to other post (meaning after) Stage Names albums, when it is the only post-Stage Names album. But I get what you are saying now and I can understand feeling that way. The Stand Ins is so wonderful to me because I have always been a bigger fan of their more rock-oriented songs ("Black" being my favorite not to mention the first song that made me pay attention to them, and the first three tracks of The Stage Names being incredibly pleasing to listen to in one run). The lyrical content is also superb as ever, being both piercingly insightful and worryingly self-reflective for the band. Even the little instrumental tracks between tracks are great, as they repeat themes from other parts of the album and tie them all together in a very neat, flowing and even cyclical fashion--with the closing song being bookended by the last and first of those tracks, both of which explore progressions common to each other and said song, putting the album on repeat makes for one long, uninterrupted experience. I've probably listened to the album over fifty, maybe near a hundred times this way, so... yeah.
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Oh man, my mistake. I meant "pre" not "post." I'm tired methinks. I think the album bears more listens before I decide for sure how I feel about it but I feel like it lacks the emotional power and intensity of their earlier work which was initially one of the big draws for me. Somehow the songs seem like nice rock songs now and, while certainly really good ones, that's not what I love about the band.
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Alright, I've changed my mind. The new Ryan Adams makes it to my top 10. But it's still not close to his best.
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kinda coinciding with what's gonna be my first visit to Gainesville's The Fest, a lot of my top 10 so far is punk rock of the gruff, raw-throated variety (i guess the amount of it i've listened to this year has played a part in persuading me to part with the cash to go over the US for The Fest). i had a shortlist of about 40 albums, and although maybe 10 or so were fairly easy to get rid of, it was real fucking hard to get it down to ten. so here's my top ten of 2008 so far, plus a few special mentions that were oh-so-close to making the ten:
1. Glass and Ashes - "Glass and Ashes"
2. Ginger - "Market Harbour"
3. Dillinger Four - "C I V I L W A R"
4. Banner Pilot - "Resignation Day"
5. Off With Their Heads - "From the Bottom"
6. The Gaslight Anthem "The '59 Sound"
7. Less Than Jake - "GNV FLA"
8. Fighting With Wire - "Man Vs. Monster"
9. Anchor Arms - "Cold Blooded"
10. The Riot Before - "Fists Buried In Pockets"
Special Mentions:
Bridge and Tunnel - "East/West"
Clouds - "We Are Above You"
The Night Marchers - "See You In Magic"
Ninja Gun - "Restless Rubes"
Pendulum - "In Silico"
Rise Against - "Appeal to Reason"
Torche - "Meanderthal"
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I fell kind of bad because I always mention something Skinny Puppy related here, but there need be made mention of the 2nd edition of the Subconcious Studios series From the Vault. They rock hard and are all at the top of my list.
Included are:
Doubting Thomas - The Infidel Special Edition Double CD (includes The Infidel, Father Don't Cry and 6 unreleased tracks)
Download - Furnace Special Edition Double CD (with Furnace and second disc of the original Furnace jam sessions)
Download - fIxEr
PlaTEAU - Music for Grassbars 2xLP (10 Year Special Edition)
The Tear Garden - The Secret Experiment
Hilt - Patsy/Minoot Bowl Dropped The Ball
Skinny Puppy - Back and Forth Volume Seven
Subconscious Studios - Rare (compilation)
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I fell kind of bad because I always mention something Skinny Puppy related here, but there need be made mention of the 2nd edition of the Subconcious Studios series From the Vault. They rock hard and are all at the top of my list.
Included are:
Doubting Thomas - The Infidel Special Edition Double CD (includes The Infidel, Father Don't Cry and 6 unreleased tracks)
Download - Furnace Special Edition Double CD (with Furnace and second disc of the original Furnace jam sessions)
Download - fIxEr
PlaTEAU - Music for Grassbars 2xLP (10 Year Special Edition)
The Tear Garden - The Secret Experiment
Hilt - Patsy/Minoot Bowl Dropped The Ball
Skinny Puppy - Back and Forth Volume Seven
Subconscious Studios - Rare (compilation)
kind of a long shot, but you're not dan carter from t' radio here in the UK are you?
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Nope.
Oddly enough, I am from London though. Just the poorer, Canadian version.
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Nope.
Oddly enough, I am from London though. Just the poorer, Canadian version.
i know the feeling. i'm from the smaller, shittier, English version of Boston.
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Wee first post!
In no particular order:
1. Opeth - Watershed
2. The Sword - Gods of the Earth
3. Ihsahn - AngL
4. Eluveitie - Slania
5. Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
6. The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia...
7. The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
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The new Mountain Goats E.P. Satanic Messiah is really good. Like, I know it's only got four songs, but after the first listen to it I seriously think it might be the best Mountain Goats recording since the Sunset Tree.
Oh hey, you can download it! http://satanicmessiah.com/ (http://satanicmessiah.com/)
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My list so far;
1 - Los Campesinos!'s We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
2 - TV on the Radio's Dear Science,
3 - Wolf Parade's At Mount Zoomer
4 - Ratatat's LP3
5 - Los Campesinos!'s Hold On Now Youngster...
6 - Electric Six's Flashy
7 - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip's Angles
8 - MGMT'S Oracular Spectacular
9 - Why?'s Alopecia
10 - Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping
Yep.
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Man, everybody loves that new Why? album and I admit it's pretty good but I can't help listening to it and thinking to myself that Hood did all this so much better half a decade ago.
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A few months have passed, and I"ve absorbed a few more albums since my last list:
Honorable Mention
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Local H - Twelve Angry Men
Hercules Love Affair - s/t
White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
List
1. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
2. Fleet Foxes - s/t
3. Titus Andronicus - Airing of Grievances
4. Shearwater - Rook
5. Wolf Parade - At. Mt. Zoomer
6. Drive by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
7. Sun Kill Moon - April
8. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazerus Dig!
10. The Dodos - Visiter
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Is this better, imagist?
1. Fleet Foxes - s/t
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
3. Okkervil River - The Stand-ins
4. The Notwist - The Devil, You & Me
5. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
6. Women - s/t
7. El Guincho - Alegranza!
8. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
9. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
10. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Yay! Finally a list where I've heard most of its contents!
(Wait, didn't Alegranza come out last year? Or was that just its native release?)
Also I think I'm gonna wait till the year is out to make my proper list again. My last one could have so many additions now!
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So far, in no particular order
Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Ben Folds - Way To Normal
Horse Feathers - House With No Home
The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Vetusta Morla - Un Día En El Mundo
The Weepies - Hideaway
and soon to be out with much anticipation
Alaska In Winter - Holiday
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Wait, didn't Alegranza come out last year? Or was that just its native release?
I know it was released in october in the states. I have no idea about the release in spain.
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It's getting to be about time to actually choose...
um, let's see
The order changes depending on the day
1. Girl Talk -Feed The Animals
2. The Dodos -Visitors
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -Dig, Lazuras, Dig!!!
4. Man Man -Rabbit Habbits
5. TV on the Radio -Dear, Science
6. Does it Offend You, Yeah? -You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
7. The Mountain Goats -Heretic Pride
8. of Montreal -Skeletal Lamping
9. Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks -Real Emotional Trash
10. Okkervil River -The Stand Ins
Honorable Mentions:
Animal Collective -Water Curses EP
The Decemberists -Always The Bridesmaid: A Singles Series
Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever ago
Sigur Rós -Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Islands -Arm's Way
N.E.R.D.- Seeing Sounds
Grails -Doomsdayer's Holiday (Will likely make the list once I get a chance to give it a decent listen)
Oh, And Momus just came out with a new album today, so, hopefully that album will be awesome.
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Here's my list as it will stand on the website:
1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2. United Nations
3. Chris T-T – Capital
4. American Music Club – The Golden Age
5. Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
6. The Verve – Forth
7. Weezer
8. Funeral for a Friend – Memory And Humanity
9. Hellsongs – Songs In The Key Of 666
10. The Mars Volta – The Bedlam In Goliath
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1. Shugo Tukomaru - Exit
2. Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
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As most albums for the year are already out and most reputable music sources are doing the same, i'll post my finalised top 10 for the year:
1. The Tallest Man On Earth – Shallow Grave
2. Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke
3. The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride
4. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
5. El Guincho – Alegranza
6. Coconot – Cosa Astral
7. Horse Feathers – House With No Home
8. Algernon Cadwallader – Some Kind Of Cadwallader
9. Johnny Foreigner – Waited Up ‘Til It Was Light
10. Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
Honourable Mentions
Does it Offend You, Yeah? -You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself In To
The Mountain Goats – Satanic Messiah EP (Sadly, too short to make it into top 10)
Ben Folds – Way To Normal
Vetusta Morla – Un Día En El Mundo
Alaska In Winter – Holiday
The Weepies – Hideaway
Sidenote: El Guicho – Alegranza was released Oct 2008 outside of it’s native Spain (possibly there also). However, there was another album, Foliás, released before Alegranza in 2007.
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i've thought about it many times, why isn't crystal castles' debut on anyone's list?
respectfully, it was a great release, despite the stealing.
& to counter that respectfulness, i will post my list in a few weeks. i always wait for December.
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If I plagiarise for an assignment, even if I only steal a little bit, I fail with an absolute zero, and if I ever try to be admitted to legal practice (law student) it'll be called up as evidence that I'm not fit to practice law.
Fuck Crystal Castles.
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I agree. Fuck Crystal Castles! No one gets away with sampling a drum loop on 3 songs out of 16 on my watch!
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Yeah. Their album hadn't much plagarizing apart from some sampled drums. Which I don't have a problem with. How about Girl Talk? Ha! Using an entire track hardly edited as the basis for a song, without credit, is kind of lame though, and the worst was the stuff about the Madonna drawing.
Anyway, even though they're douchebags you shouldn't let that affect your judgment of their music because plenty of famous people making great music are assholes. That being said, I don't rate their album that highly, it's ok, has some great tracks on it but doesn't work that well as a whole IMO.
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Yeah, I couldn't stand the Crystal Castles album. Really grates by the time you're about halfway in, and the album doesn't hit me personally as being much more than overhyped ravey music that happens to be "in" at the moment. It's quite likely that it will just go on the pile of albums that are met with little more than a few eye-rolls in a couple of years, thanks to a fickle audience.
I could be totally missing the point of course - not trying to get on the fans' ire in the least. It just didn't do much for me.
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Anyway, even though they're douchebags you shouldn't let that affect your judgment of their music because plenty of famous people making great music are assholes.
But buying their music sends them money and/or gets them recommissioned to create another album, which rewards musical theft and encourages them to do it more. However, on the other hand, one could argue that their music should appreciated in it's own right, and not in relation to the person who made it.
Would you consider listening to, say, Burzum, to be acceptable (one might argue that, by going to prison, he has already been punished for his crimes)? What about Charles Manson?
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10. Mogwai ~ The Hawk Is Howling
9. The Esther Caulfield Orchestra ~ Good Morning, Whiskey Breakfast\
8. Chad VanGaalen ~ Soft Airplane
7. Neon Neon ~ Stainless Style
6. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks ~ Real Emotional Trash
5. Helios ~ Caesura
4. School of Seven Bells ~ Alpinisms
3. Byrne/Eno ~ Everything That Happens Happens Today
2. Fleet Foxes ~ Fleet Foxes
1. Portishead ~ Third
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Anyway, even though they're douchebags you shouldn't let that affect your judgment of their music because plenty of famous people making great music are assholes.
really? personally, i need to feel at least SOME kind of emotional connection to music to truly enjoy it, and several bands i otherwise liked have had the listening experience soured for me when i've found out they're monumental bastards. this isn't to say that any artist who does the slightest thing that irks me will be cast out of my collection, it's got to be something pretty big or a constant display of asshole-ism. and even then, i'll still listen now and again, but i just don't enjoy it as much.
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Crystal Castles is not nearly as disturbing as seeing Does It Offend You, Yeah? on some of these lists.
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At the moment, I have a top 15 list. The order isn't really set in stone at all but here's how it currently stands
15. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
14. Marnie Stern - This is....
13. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
12. Park Gregor Samsa - Rest
11. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
10. Shearwater - Rook
9. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
8. Bohren un der Club of Gore - Dolores
7. Max Richter - 24 Post Cards in Full Color
6. Deerhunter - Microcastle
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4. The Drift - Memory Drawings
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
1. Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
I'll probably post a more concrete list, perhaps with some little comments or something later (actually at the end of the year).
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So, what the fuck, the 1900s have a new album out now? And I had no idea about it until today when they just announced it. What the hell. Who puts out an album in late November.
Anyway I need to find this somehow
Regarding top of 2008 lists, I'm not sure if I can make one! I think I'll just give awards out to albums.
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Pretty sure the Raconteurs' Consolers of the Lonely is the only album released this year I've enjoyed.
So, er, that.
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My current top 15:
1. Portishead - Third
2. Fleet Foxes - s/t
3. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
4. Vampire Weekend - s/t
5. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
6. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
7. Thievery Corporation - Oracular Spectacular
8. dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
9. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
10. Grand Archives - s/t
11. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
12. Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
13. Grand Ole Party - Humanimals
14. Deerhunter - Microcastle
15. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
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1. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
2. Dennis Wilson - Bambu (it was recorded mostly in the 70s but unreleased until 2008... that counts, right?)
3. She & Him - Volume One
4. Inara George and Van Dyke Parks - An Invitation
5. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
6. Andrew Nieporent and the Nonspecifics - Sometimes Crazy Works
7. Darrin Bradbury - Spring Time Choir
8. The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia
9. Chris Farmer - California Dreamin'
10. The No-Shirts - Stuck in Suburbia
I didn't listen to many new albums this year.
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I forgot, the new Tarentel album, "Live Edits: Italy/Switzerland" also deserves a spot on my list somewhere. Not too sure where though or what I'll bump off completely since, the more I think about, the more I think the albums I listed will be on my final list, albeit with a possibly mixed up order. Maybe I'll avoid that problem and just do a top 20.
EDIT: The new Wolf Parade might actually have to be on my list too. I dunno...it's just such a fun album and the final track alone pretty much makes it worthy of consideration.
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No apparent order so far:
Dungen - 4
Chris Walla - Field Manual
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
Boris - Smile (lumping the Japan release and the US release into one)
The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
Sigur Ros - Med Sur whateverthefriggodtheywereamazinglive
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Everybody Out! s/t
Cruyff in the Bedroom - Saudargia
Sebastian Grainger & The Mountains - American Names EP
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(pops out of nowhere)
10.MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
9.Dr. Dog - Fate
8.Beach House- Devotion
7.Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
6.Boris - Pink
5.Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
4.Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers
3.Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
2.Portishead - Third
1.Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
Honorable mentions - Albums from 2007 that want in on the action.
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6.Boris - Pink
Unless this is a typo and you mean "Smile" you're a couple of years too late there, bucko.
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Nah, it's so good that it carried over three years.
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I can live with that.
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I've really enjoyed these bands'/artists' albums released this year:
Land Of Talk
Fleet Foxes
Noah & The Whale
Adele
Islands
Kidz in the Hall
Crystal Castles (whatever)
Spritualized
Radius & Helena
Mogwai
Albums I will soon have heard that I will most likely adore:
Jenny Lewis' Acid Tongue
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals' Cardinolgy
Amanda Palmer
The Bronx
Artists I haven't heard yet but have a feeling I will enjoy:
Marnie Stern
Parts & Labour
Love is All
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that bronx album is the tits. you won't be dissappointed.
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One thing that puzzles me about these charts is how people rate Fleet Foxes so highly. To me, there is one good song on the album, 'White Winter Hymnal', and everything else strives to be that song and falls pretty far short.
Also, MGMT are pretty overrated (unless you like hallucinogenics then maybe it really is better).
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MGMT have a couple good songs ('Time to Pretend,' 'Kids' - I personally don't get 'Electric Feel') but the album itself is a vast disappointment after the first couple of listens.
I agree that Fleet Foxes only really have one good song, but for me it was 'Your Protector'
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Posted this in Listravaganza but, what the hell, I'll do it here too:
30. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
29. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
28. Marnie Stern - This is....
27. Seaworthy - Codes Adrift
26. Aughra - Proof of Dark Matter
25. Stars - Sad Robot EP
24. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
23. Eksi Ekso - I am Your Bastard Wings
22. Helios - Caesura
21. Barn Owl - Raft of Serpents
20. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
19. Higuma - Haze Valley
18. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
17. Gregor Samsa - Rest
16. The Tumbled Sea - Songs by the Tumbled Sea
15. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
14. Shearwater - Rook
13. Steven R. Smith - Anchorite
12. Young Widows - Old Wounds
11. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
10. Taiga Remains - Ribbons of Dust
9. The North Sea - Gated Community
8. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Max Richter - 24 Post Cards in Full Color
6. Deerhunter - Microcastle
5. Bohren un der Club of Gore - Dolores
4. The Drift - Memory Drawings
3. The Alps - III
2. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
1. Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
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on February the 11th this year I stated in this thread how I was excited about the new Phoenix album coming this year. too bad it's due next year... goddamn it...
anyways
in no order:
Something For All of Us - Broken Social Scene Presents... Brendan Canning
Microcastle - Deerhunter
Offend Maggie - Deerhoof
Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp
Hawk Is Howling - Mogwai
Dear Science - TV On The Radio
Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
Parc Avenue - Plants and Animals
Bright Blue Dream - {{{Sunset}}}
Parallel Play - Sloan
Plants and Animals, please tell me someone listens to them here.
same with {{{Sunset}}}, for that matter.
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Albums I will soon have heard that I will most likely adore:
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals' Cardinolgy
I doubt it.
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Plants and Animals, please tell me someone listens to them here.
same with {{{Sunset}}}, for that matter.
They're pretty good.
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I can't do it in order though :-(
Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Cranes - Cranes
Lulu Rouge - Bless You
Gojira - The Link Alive
Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
The Durutti Column - Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness
Foals - Antidotes
The Presets - Apocalypso
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
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Man, everybody loves that new Why? album and I admit it's pretty good but I can't help listening to it and thinking to myself that Hood did all this so much better half a decade ago.
do you want me to fight you? is that what you want?
admittedly i've never heard of Hood, but goddamn the new Why? album is so jam-packed full of clever and witty lyrics that i'm surprised they can fit it all onto a cd. shit.
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Gojira - The Link Alive
:?
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Gojira - The Link Alive
:?
this came out 4 years ago
here´s my list
1. Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
2. Sigur Rós – Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
3. Architect – Ghost of the Saltwater Machines
4. Blacklisted – Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God
5. Sun Kil Moon – April
6. Eagles of Death Metal – Heart On
7. Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
8. The Acacia Strain – Continent
9. Gregor Samsa - Rest
10. Spitfire – Cult Fiction
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fun facts - of the 5 bands i was wanting to hear the releases of this year only 2 actually ended up releasing anything...i also didn't hear anywhere near enough metal this year
assuming no more last minute inclusions (fucked up was pretty awesome for a last minute entry)
this should be my best of 2008
1. The White EP - Aggaloch
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. The Mountain Goats - Satanic Messiah
4. Fucked Up - The Chemisty of Common Life
5. Witch Hats - Celulite Soul
5. Boris – Smile
6. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
7. The Living End - White Noise
8. Glass and Ashes - Glass and Ashes
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig! Lazarus Dig!
10. Final Fantasy - Plays to Please
Top 10 Songs
1. Okkervil River – On Tour With Zykos
2. Fleet foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains
3. The Living End – Raise the Alarm
4. Aggaloch – Birch White
5. The Mountain Goats – Marduk T-Shirt Mensroom Incident
6. The Dresden Dolls – Boston
7. Ayreon – Comatose
8. The Mountain Goats – Lovecraft in Brooklyn
9. Silver Jews – My pillow is the Threshold
10. British Sea Power – Lights Out for Darker Skies
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You've probably heard more than 10 times as many songs as albums?
and motherfuck me i still have not listened to the White EP
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I'm not going to motherfuck you, but I will berate and ridicule you.
(but not yet, it will happen when you least expect it)
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Cool, i look forward to it!
...is it now?
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fuck now you expect it
way to ruin it for everyone
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You've probably heard more than 10 times as many songs as albums?
it's made a little simpler by the fact that most of the best songs will be on the best albums other wise they wouldn't be the best albums and i should know those albums well enough by now to pick out the good songs
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The Mountain Goats - Satanic Messiah
So good.
Album of the year contenders for me, off the top of my head and after midnight: British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?, Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago, and Natacha Atlas, some name I can't remember because it's in Foreign.
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Gojira - The Link Alive
:?
this came out 4 years ago
here´s my list
1. Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
2. Sigur Rós – Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
3. Architect – Ghost of the Saltwater Machines
4. Blacklisted – Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God
5. Sun Kil Moon – April
6. Eagles of Death Metal – Heart On
7. Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
8. The Acacia Strain – Continent
9. Gregor Samsa - Rest
10. Spitfire – Cult Fiction
I was watching the DVD as I posted. I fail. I meant The Way of All Flesh.
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I can't actually come up with a top ten albums list of 2008 that I am comfortable with because I just keep winding up making "top 10 remixes of 2008" lists instead. Like I wanted to put "In Ghost Colours" in my top 10 albums list but then I thought "man that Midnight Juggernauts remix of Hearts on Fire is fucking great and better than any individual song on that album anyway", and I realised Sample and Hold came out this year and it is not really good form to include remix albums on these lists, but how can I go without mentioning Shit Robots delicious remix of "It's the Beat". And then of course there's the Pogo remixes album and didn't the DVNO single with the LA Riots Remix come out this year?
I will try again later and try harder to not get distracted by dance music, I promise
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fleet foxes self titled was the only album that actually helped me remember why i still bother keeping up with the music scene at all.
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So far (in no particular order...
1. Opeth - Watershed
2. Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
3. Cynic - Traced in Air
4. Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
5. Secret Machines - s/t
Just going to go rummaging through my cd collection for some more...
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Can someone explain to me why everyone everywhere aurally masturbates to Fleet Foxes. They're kinda nice sounding and harmonize well but...from repeated listens that's all I get out of their music.
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I'm interested to know how slipknot ended up on two forumites top ten lists. Is there something I'm completely missing? I was at a party saturday and someone mentioned slipknot. I thought people forgot about this band.
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I'm interested to know how slipknot ended up on two forumites top ten lists. Is there something I'm completely missing? I was at a party saturday and someone mentioned slipknot. I thought people forgot about this band.
maybe because their new album (as with the one before it) is a really good commercial metal record? and that the two people in question liked it?
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How sardonic!
I suppose I just never would have guessed it, and also never would have guessed that anyone I know/associate with would have guessed it. I mean, again, I just thought slipknot was one of those bands brought up in the horrible bands time forgot thread.
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When I first started listening to them, Slipknot filled a certain need in me for music that's phenomenally angry and provides catharsis. The first two records still do that, but the last two have been very strong records in their own right.
Anyway, one of those top tens was by me, and since I had The Verve in it and Oasis was my number 11, you can probably guess how aligned my tastes are with the rest of the forum.
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Can someone explain to me why everyone everywhere aurally masturbates to Fleet Foxes. They're kinda nice sounding and harmonize well
That's it. They're also competent lyricists.
Pleasant music made well. Sometimes that's the best stuff you can listen to.
(i like fucked up better though)
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She & Him - Volume One
Windy & Carl - Songs for the Broken Hearted
Dressy Bessy - Hollerandstomp
Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
Portishead - Third
Biggest disappointment - Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
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Top 5:
1. Dear Science by TV On The Radio
2. The Hawk Is Howling by Mogwai
3. Rising Down by The Roots
4. Feed The Animals by Girl Talk
5. Diamond Hoo Ha by Supergrass
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Stephan Stills! <3
On a closer listen I take that Fleet Foxes off my list. The Jenny Lewis album is totally solid, though.
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SHEARWATER!! Really blew my mind and is unexpectedly my favorite of the year, and one of my favorites full stop (at least at the moment)
Some dumb review on Tiny mix tapes (usually a reputable website) gave it 1 star and most people have dismissed it basically. That TMT review said the band are just imitating Talk Talk in their style. The singer certainly has a similarly fragile and touching voice like Mark Hollis, and this comparison might explain why "Rook" has such an effect - it has the same attention to detail and aural space that classics like Laughing Stock had back in the day.
A future classic? Possibly...
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Here's my annual list of favourite albums.
Honourable Mentions (in no order)
- A Silver Mt. Zion – 13 Blues for 13 Moons
--I don't get the 13 tracks of noise at the beginning, and some of the lyrics are frankly a bit creepy, but Blind Blind Blind makes this album great.
- Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
--Oh man Oxford Comma is awesome. I HATE the Oxford comma, and they sing a song about it!
- M83 – Saturdays = Youth
--Welcome back to the 80s! Mellow, smooth and fun are three perfect adjectives for this album.
- Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
--Not much to say about this album other than it's a neat electronic/techno/poppy album.
- The Notwist – The Devil, You + Me
--As someone else said, this album is the Postal Service without being emo, and I couldn't think of anything better to say.
- This Will Destroy You – This Will Destroy You
--Man, I downloaded a lot of post-rock this year (Mogwai, This Is Your Captain Speaking, Russian Stations, Mono, The American Dollar, Laura, Misuse, The Samuel Jackson Five, We Made God, etc.), but this album was by far the best. This would've been #10 on my list, but I really wanted to put my current #10 on there. More complex than Explosions in the Sky, they've got the restraint-crescendo-explode thing down, but it never gets boring or old. (The album cover (http://a677.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/22/l_439f16833632900de940425ebf6a9eac.jpg) is both awesome and awful at the same time. Pretty sure it's intentional, though.)
Top Ten
10. [img width= height=]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drl200/l209/l20975v6fj8.jpg[/img]
Computer vs. Banjo – Computer vs. Banjo
--A neat album. Equal parts electronica and folk, it's like if Iron & Wine played their music through a synthesizer, minus Sam Beam's breathy vocals.
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The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
--A bit disappointed with this album, but not surprising. Their last album Boys & Girls In America was such a brilliant album (one that just keeps getting better every listen I give it) that it would have been near-impossible to record a better follow-up. That aside, Stay Positive is still a great album, completely true to the band's bar rock. One other criticism - they sound too polished, too complete. Every other record feels a bit unfinished, a bit raw. I think they spent too much time in the studio perfecting Stay Positive. I mean, I heard Sequestered in Memphis on XRT for god's sake...
8. [img width= height=]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drk800/k809/k80992x9hct.jpg[/img]
Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
--I don't really know what to write about this album. It's Sigur Rós, so I love it, but it's a big step in a different direction for the band. The epic track Ára Bátur is perhaps too epic that it spills over the top. Nevertheless, a good album from a great band. Definitely not their best, but the guys tried something different. In that, though, they succeeded.
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British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
--I do. I DO like rock music! And this album is a great rock album!
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Parts & Labor – Receivers
--Man, thank you Sound Opinions. I was listening to NPR one night last year, Sound Opinions was on and they were interviewing Parts & Labor. They were talking about their (previous) album, Mapmakers. I really dug it. Noise rock at its finest, Receivers is a wonderful tribute to 80s underground rock and 60s acid rock, but perfect for today.
5. [img width= height=]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drk300/k338/k33835pa3g8.jpg[/img]
No Age – Nouns
--Now I'm not a big fan of punk, but these guys rock. Lo-fi audio at its finest (can lo-fi even be fine?). I wish I could've seen them when they were in town - I heard the show was killer.
4. [img width= height=]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drl400/l402/l40247z9o4z.jpg[/img]
Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
--I know I said I'm not a big fan of punk, (see above). These guys are more indie-punk than anything. Weird way to categorize them, but I can't think of anything else. And, as I've said before, I'm no music critic - I like what I like and can't tell you why. This album is fantastic.
The next three are so far above and beyond the initial 7. All three are incredible albums that just catapulted their way to the top of the list. Incredible recordings by three very different artists, I had a difficult time deciding their order. I ultimately settled on the following, solely based on the number of times I played them all this year:
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The Dodos – Visiter
--A joy to listen to. Playful and boisterous. Words fail me in describing this album. Incredible musicianship.
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TV on the Radio – Dear Science,
--God I love these guys. Every album is so different, so unique, so damn good. So much more complex than anything they've ever recorded before (which doesn't seem possible), this album has such a range of songs. From the danceable Golden Age to the incredibly touching Family Tree to the most blatent "I want to fuck you" song I've ever heard, Lover's Day.
1. [img width= height=]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drl300/l394/l39423kwhes.jpg[/img]
Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
--Absolutely brilliant. I don't know how he does it, but Gregg Gillis is a fucking genius. This album is just awesome. Released on the internet on 19 June 2008, I've probably listened to it 200 times. That's more than once a day. I just can't get enough. I listen to it at work, I use it as my running soundtrack, I listen to it at home... Unbelieveable how good this album is.
There you go!
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That Girl Talk album is incredible. I've gotten as many of my friends hooked on it as I possibly can and all it takes is just one listen because it is just that awesome.
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That This Will Destroy You album cover literally is just the cover for the album. The CD cover is completely different. The album cover is obviously a joke. You might have noticed the difference if you had paid for it instead of downloading it.
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Didn't British Sea Power's record come out last year?
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It was leaked towards the end of 2007.
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1. [img width= height=]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drl300/l394/l39423kwhes.jpg[/img]
Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
--Absolutely brilliant. I don't know how he does it, but Gregg Gillis is a fucking genius. This album is just awesome. Released on the internet on 19 June 2008, I've probably listened to it 200 times. That's more than once a day. I just can't get enough. I listen to it at work, I use it as my running soundtrack, I listen to it at home... Unbelieveable how good this album is.
Man I couldn't stand that Girl Talk album, but it looks like you're forcing me to give it another try.
Here's (http://liffeymusic.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/top-albums-of-2008/) my top 25.
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Fleet Foxes are Anodyne Pap, with one catchy song.
That is all.
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That This Will Destroy You album cover literally is just the cover for the album. The CD cover is completely different. The album cover is obviously a joke. You might have noticed the difference if you had paid for it instead of downloading it.
Oh snap!
(seriously though I know that, I just like the album cover much, much better. The real (http://www.nowlikephotographs.com/images/thiswilldestroyyouselftitled.jpg) cover is cool too, in its own right.)
Man I couldn't stand that Girl Talk album, but it looks like you're forcing me to give it another try.
I like Girl Talk 'cause I don't like rap/r+b music, but I do love classic rock.
Fleet Foxes are Anodyne Pap, with one catchy song.
That is all.
Man I just cannot get into Fleet Foxes. Everyone's all like "White Winter Hymnal is sooooo good". The first time I heard it I was like "that's it? I don't get it."
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That This Will Destroy You album cover literally is just the cover for the album. The CD cover is completely different. The album cover is obviously a joke. You might have noticed the difference if you had paid for it instead of downloading it.
The so bad it's terrible album cover is the vinyl cover too. So if you bought the vinyl, you would get the so bad its still terrible and no it will never be good cover.
Cause, you know, some of us like vinyl.
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At least it's not boring like the standard one.
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What about the special edition (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Spluff/slickdestroyyou.jpg) cover?
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i'm totally in love with the new mount eerie cd. it's seriously one of the most beautiful things i've heard all year.
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So, I answered this thread back in September, and now I am doing so again to see what has changed. HERE WE GO.
1. Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - "Angles"
2. Fleet Foxes - "s/t"
3. The Mountain Goats - "Heretic Pride"
4. Why? - "Alopecia"
5. Giants - "Old Stories"
6. The Killers - "Day & Age"
7. Cloudkicker - "The Discovery"
8. Elbow - "The Seldom Seen Kid"
9. Ben Folds - "Way To Normal" (both real and fake)
10. James Yuill - "Turning Down Water For Air"
Honorable Mentions:
Shearwater - "Rook"
The Braid OST
Flogging Molly - "Float"
Colin Meloy - "Sings Live!"
Kaki King - "Dreaming of Revenge"
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i'm totally in love with the new mount eerie cd. it's seriously one of the most beautiful things i've heard all year.
Dawn or Lost Wisdom? I haven't heard Dawn yet, but Lost Wisdom is a gorgeous and wonderful record.
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lost wisdom.
mount eerie with julie doiron.
i don't even have to make a top ten of 2008 list. lost wisdom from mount eerie is number one.
or perhaps i just listen to waaay too much lo-fi.
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Wow, how the hell did I forget the new Grouper album? That should have been somewhere in the top 5 of my list. It's seriously great.
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Wow, how the hell did I forget the new Grouper album? That should have been somewhere in the top 5 of my list. It's seriously great.
I just listened to it, it is beautiful although darkly so.
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In no particular order:
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3
Underoath - Lost In The Sound of Separation
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Thrice - Alchemy Index vols.1&2
Thrice – Alchemy Index vols.3&4
Panic at the Disco – Pretty.Odd.
Protest The Hero – Fortress
The Last Shadow Puppets – Age of Understatement
Rise Against – Appeal To Reason
Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and all His Friends
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God damnit what happened to music.
Or at least music taste.
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1) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2) Fleet Foxes - s/t
3) Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
4) Neon Neon - Stainless Style
5) Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
6) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
7) Vampire Weekend - s/t
8) David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
9) Lyrics Born - Everywhere At Once
10) El-P - Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixx2
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Sigur Ros' "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust"
Gnarls Barkley's "The Odd Couple"
Okkervil River's "The Stand Ins"
"A Colbert Christmas- the Greatest Gift Of All"
Q-Tip's "The Renaissance"
Mogwai's "The Hawk Is Howling"
... Er, you guys do the rest...
EDIT:: Holy Neo-Soul, Batman! The Roots released an album this year...?
In no particular order:
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3
Underoath - Lost In The Sound of Separation
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Thrice - Alchemy Index vols.1&2
Thrice – Alchemy Index vols.3&4
Panic at the Disco – Pretty.Odd.
Protest The Hero – Fortress
The Last Shadow Puppets – Age of Understatement
Rise Against – Appeal To Reason
Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and all His Friends
Quite the sense of humor you've got on you.
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In no particular order:
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3
Underoath - Lost In The Sound of Separation
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Thrice - Alchemy Index vols.1&2
Thrice – Alchemy Index vols.3&4
Panic at the Disco – Pretty.Odd.
Protest The Hero – Fortress
The Last Shadow Puppets – Age of Understatement
Rise Against – Appeal To Reason
Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and all His Friends
I heartily endorse this event or product.
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apparently every year end list ever must include at least one rap album and at least one shitnothing band that no one else has ever heard of, preferably both
otherwise how will people know you are cool
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young widows - old wounds
THIS.
I just downloaded that album about a week ago and it was amazing.
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otherwise how will people know you are cool
yeah, and we all know it's all about being cool, not actually liking music.
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I guess its to go against the whole "I like everything but rap and country" thing.
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band that no one else has ever heard of
Uh, you do know where you are right now?
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Fairly sure these are my ten.
1. WOMEN - s/t
2. Calexico - Carried to Dust
3. Make Believe - Going to the Bone Church
4. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
5. Black Mountain - In the Future
6. The New Year - s/t
7. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
8. Sloan - Parallel Play
9. Portishead - Third
10. Opeth - Watershed
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Just checked a few of these so called new good bands songs out on youtube, and they suck, girl talk, I can sorta dig, but I wouldn't choose to listen to it. It's good to know I've not really missed out much by not paying attention and finding old stuff I missed the first time round. Not listened to much new except the new murs album (let down, about 5 good tracks), and daft punk alive to the point I played it to the death. Stiill, I haven't given the new Portishead release a chance yet though, suspect I want to. I also wouldn't mind checking out "the owls" mentioned on page 1 if someone wants to upload it again, lol. :P
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My Top Ten
1. Okkervil River - "The Stand Ins"
2. Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
3. Xiu Xiu - "Women As Lovers"
4. The New Year - "S/T"
5. Shearwater - "Rook"
6. Marnie Stern - "This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That"
7. Gojira - "The Way of All Flesh"
8. Sloan - "Parallel Play"
9. This Will Destroy You - "S/T"
10. Krallice - "S/T"
Honorable Mentions: Joan of arc - "Boo Human", Make Believe - "Going to the Bone Church", She & Him "Volume 1", The Mountain Goats - "Heretic Pride", The Notwist - "The Devil, You + Me", and Flogging Molly "Float"
This was actually a pretty good year in music.
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10) Crystal Castles - "Untrust Us"
9) Why? - "Alopecia"
8) Beach House - "Devotion"
7) The Black Keys - "Attack and Release"
6) Wild Sweet Orange - "We Have Cause To Be Uneasy"
5) Bohren & der Club of Gore - "Dolres"
4) Mr. Bear - "These Machines"
3) Western Fifth - "Stand Like a Theif"
2) Okkervil River - "The Stand-Ins"
1) Balmorhea - "River Arms"
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yeah, and we all know it's all about being cool, not actually liking music.
Right, nobody makes big extensive lists with commentary and formatting in order to look cool.
I bet you also believe nobody smokes cigarettes to look cool. Because it is a scientific fact that smoking makes you look cool. In fact, it's pretty much the only valid reason I can think of to smoke. It's why I never want a cigarette unless I'm out at a bar or club.
God, I wish people would get over their fears of seeming "shallow" and admit this shit to themselves.
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God, I wish people would get over their fears of seeming "shallow" and admit this shit to themselves.
Maybe the person who needs to admit he's shallow is you, because you really are. How's that working out for ya?
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i don't know if you can say anything considering you have gnarls barkley on yr best of
*Takes off glove and ker-slaps*
So people don't like Soul anymore?
EDIT::
I'm shallow, I don't need anyone to tell me that.
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If you want soul you need to listen to Erykah Badu and also to the year's best live album, Mavis Staples' Hope At The Hideout.
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Maybe the person who needs to admit he's shallow is you
Everyone is shallow about some things.
Everyone.
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If you want soul you need to listen to Erykah Badu and also to the year's best live album, Mavis Staples' Hope At The Hideout.
But of course.
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I think I need to add Ray LaMontagne's CD to my list. I didn't even know that it came out this year, but listened to it this weekend and think it's really good.
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yeah, and we all know it's all about being cool, not actually liking music.
Right, nobody makes big extensive lists with commentary and formatting in order to look cool.
I bet you also believe nobody smokes cigarettes to look cool. Because it is a scientific fact that smoking makes you look cool. In fact, it's pretty much the only valid reason I can think of to smoke. It's why I never want a cigarette unless I'm out at a bar or club.
God, I wish people would get over their fears of seeming "shallow" and admit this shit to themselves.
that's jumping to a conclusion (and generalising) a bit, isn't it?
personally, i find half the fun of listening to music is being able to share it with others, and discovering new stuff myself. and also having interesting discussions. those are the reasons i post lists etc. on here. fuck knows a lot of what made up my list in the listravaganza thread is hardly considered cool on this forum.
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Hyperbole and irony are frequently used tools of satire.
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Everyone is shallow about some things.
Everyone.
if looking at the world like that makes you happy, then go ahead and believe that. : )
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Hyperbole and irony are frequently used tools of satire.
that post back there wasn't satire. it was just sarcastic and bitter. then again, i guess either of us could be right, what with the whole "impossible to tell people's emotion/mood through just text" thing.
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I was watching a really bad stand-up comedian once, and at one point in his set when a joke didn't get a laugh he suddenly said 'oh I'm sorry, that was satirical'. The entire crowd cracked up and the rest of his set was great. I still don't know if it was on purpose, but my friends and I were saying 'oh, I'm sorry, that was satirical' for weeks afterwards.
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that post back there wasn't satire. it was just sarcastic and bitter.
That's jumping to a conclusion.
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apparently every year end list ever must include at least one rap album and at least one shitnothing band that no one else has ever heard of, preferably both
otherwise how will people know you are cool
I've never heard of HALF of the bands you talk about.
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that is probably more of a generational thing though.
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Good point.
And for that matter, I'd also like to add Tyga's "No Introduction" album and "No Introduction- The Series" mixtape (came out before the album) to my top 10 albums for the year.
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1. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
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Last year, Deerhunter were cyber-fellatiated by Pitchfork for their droning, pretentious sophomore album, Cryptograms. Don't get me wrong, I like Cryptograms a lot but listening to it in full feels like a chore, this being a major criticism of the album. Anyway, a year later I find out that Cox has somehow whipped up enough material for several solo albums and a double album for his main band. Cryptograms had to be recorded twice as the first session yielded nothing usable, they only did a second session because Liars in encouraged them to and the recorded it in 2 days. Whatever they said to Cox, has really sparked his creativity
Cox has himself a pretty large canvas on Microcastle/Weird Era Cont., he's splashed it with shades of blissful shoegaze, 50's pop, sexual ambiguity and an enveloping sense of warmth. The songs range from simple piano ballads ("Green Jacket"), Murmur era R.E.M. on "Focus Group" to the dreamy indie rock of "Agoraphobia".
2. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
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I left this record alone when it first came out because, quite frankly the first thing of theirs that I listened to was the RAWWAR EP they released to years prior to Saint Dymphna left a sour taste in my mouth. I downloaded this one day because I was bored and found that the whole record was really really catchy and danceable. There's definitely a lot going on in Saint Dymphna, synths, drum beats, altered vocals and samples (Most notably My Bloody Valentine on interlude "Vacuum") weaving their way in and out throughout the whole record creating a rich and dynamic whole.
3. Deerhoof – Offend Maggie
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Deerhoof are awesome, part funk ("Snoopy Waves"), part indie rock and part weirdo j-rock/pop - is this a cliché now?
4. Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
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Lo-fi indie rock, yay!
5. Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
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It's punk but not punk, it's loud angry, melodic and takes a lot of chances with its diverse instrumentation and melodies. "Son of the Father" bursts out like Les Savvy Fav song, Pink Eyes sounds a lot like Tim Harrington. Its chorus is like the album's mission statement, "its hard enough being born in the first place/ who would ever want to be born again?" There's also an exploration of faith against reason and science and how meaning is found in the actual quest for answers on "No Epiphany" and "Days of Last"
6. Mount Eerie f/ Julie Doiron and Fred Squire – Lost Wisdom
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I've kind of been disappointed by most Elverum's post Microphones' work but this album just seems complete. Doiron and Elverum's voices are so intricately intertwined throughout the whole album as melodies and counter melodies swirl around their voices. This only adds to the moments of catharsis that occur at least once in almost every song.
7. Shearwater - Rooks
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More beautiful Romantic indie-folk rock from Jonathan Meiburg, I feel this record was largely overlooked this year and unfairly derided as a Talk Talk cover band. Yes, they did in fact cover "The Rainbow" and there's an obvious influence but Meiburg isn't trying to be them.
8. Hunchback – Pray for Scars
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Christopher Alexander of CMG puts it best:
Rock n’ roll came calling for the four Monmouth County transplants of New Brunswick’s now defunct Hunchback, and it turns out their the sons and daughter that my dad never had. On their previous album, they turned “The Last Man on Earth” into one of the best Ramones songs never written. Pray for Scars turns the pop-punk down (although it’s still there: check “A Year and a Day” and the stupendous “Inside Out,” sung by the band’s drummer, Miranda), but the B-movies never stop. Most of all in the vocals of guitarist Mike (all last names are Hunchback in their universe), which sounds like an impersonation of a fourteen year old impersonating someone disturbed, likely from an abbreviated childhood of extreme isolation and trauma. It’s goofy and gets to be more than a little distracting, but it’s completely fucking awesome: “Is it too much to ask to put down the scalpel / and just hold you?” he sings in the beginning of “The Doctor,” next to a surf riff gone horribly wrong (and, when the band kicks it in, like maybe someone in Scratch Acid had written it). “Is it too much to ask, since I’m killing myself by cutting you up?” I mean, who says that, and in that tone of voice, with a straight face? Someone who has this kind of whiplash band behind him, recalling by turns Murder City Devils, the Jesus Lizard, Bleach-era Nirvana, and the earliest Mudhoney. It can only be described as unhinged precision, whenever it occurs: in the 11/8, hairpin bombast of “All that Fear Allows,” the out of time pop sludge of single “Werse Houses,” or in the lumbering, cavernous gut-splatter that kicks off the album, “The Bells, The Bells.” Like the Misfits at their best, Hunchback are simultaneously taking the piss and true believers in this horror business stuff. Their completely whacked out cover of Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” illustrates the point perfectly.
9. Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
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Liz Harris makes beautiful dreamy music, on her first two albums they were hidden in fuzz with the melodies peeking through every now and then and the vocals inaudible. Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, is more or less misty than fuzzy, the melodies, vocals, harmonies and song structure are more clearly defined but none the less eerie, subtle and beautiful.
Hon. Mentions (in no particular order):
British Sea Power, Portishead, Xiu Xiu, Beck, Abe Vigoda, No Age, the Ruby Suns, Vivian Girls, Snowman, Women, Why?, DJ Rupture, of Mont, Okkervil River, Feral Children, Parts and Labor, Ladyhawk, Ladyhawke, Marnie Stern, Mogwai, Crystal Antlers/Stilts/Castles (the fuck?), Destroyer, Bodies of Water, King Khan, Jay Reteard (although these two only release compilations this year), SM, Sic Alps, Rivers Cuomo, Make Believe, Wilderness, Nick Cave, of Montreal and Will Oldham.
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10. Evil Urges- My Morning Jacket
9. Ghosts From The Past- Bang Gang
8. Miniatures- Matthew Cooper
7. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill- Grouper
6. Earth To The Dandy Warhols- Dandy Warhols
5. Grouper/Inca Ore Split
4. Ghosts I-IV- Nine Inch Nails
3. Heart On- Eagles Of Death Metal
2. 500 Experiences- This Noise Between Us
1. Electronic Projects For Musicians- Apples In Stereo
my fave album this year was a bside collection. Hopefully 2009 will be better. Grouper did fantastically this year AND introduced me to Inca Ore (who is now one of my favourite artists). This Noise Between Us have a website where you can download their 2 EPs for free, both came out this year and 500 Experiences is awesome synth-based ambient and dark ambient, includes a cover of Symphony No. 6. Nine Inch Nails Ghosts set was fantastic industrial ambient, and hes still way ahead of the game in music distribution, not just giving albums for free but actually experimenting with what else could work to help conserve the music industry.
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I <3 everyone that puts Shearwater on their list. That's you, Tom, and maybe some others. God that album is amazing.
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I just remembered that I forgot to listen to "Electronic Projects For Musicians"...
... Oops... I'll listen to it while I play Silkroad.
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1. Ohgr - Devils In My Details
2. Ad.ver.sary - Bone Music
3. Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune
4. Beehatch - Brood
5. Bahntier - Venal
6. Hecq - Night Falls
7. ESA - The Sea and the Silence
8. Bitcrush - Epilogue In Waves (if you like Jesu.....)
9. End.user - Left
10. Floatpoint - Beam Error
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I only have a top 4.