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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: TheFuriousWombat on 10 Jan 2010, 16:21
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The 00s are dead and gone. 2009 sucked in a lot of ways, musically being just one of them (for example, if you name 5 truly great movies that came out this year I'll be very surprised). 2010 is already looking up though! So much great music is on the horizon and I feel like we need a place to keep track of it all/inform each other of things we should all be excited about. So far, and just off the top of my head, I can think of the following stuff to look forward to:
Spoon - Transference
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales
Eluvium - Similies
Higuma - Den of Spirits LP (hearing some stuff of this, I'm already predicting this could be an album of the year contender for me. Super premature, I know, but it sounds just awesome)
Xela/Svarte Greiner and Keith Fullerton Whitman Split LP
Xela and Matt Christiansen collaboration LP
Roll the Dice - S/T LP
Unannounced but rumored new Arcade Fire album (I hope!!)
Caribou - Swim
Liars - Sisterworld
Loscil - Endless Falls
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
The Album Leaf - Chorus of Storytellers
Rumored new album by The Wrens
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Jonsi - Go
Efterklang - Magic Chairs
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
New LCD Soundsystem
New !!!
Hammock - Chasing After Shadows...Living With Ghosts
Rumored new New Pornographers
and, of course, who could forget that Limp Bizkit is apparently putting out something new this year! Seriously though, that list is just what comes immediately to mind for me and most of those are coming early in the year. At this rate we'll all be drowning in great music. I'm most excited at this point, for new Higuma LP and various Xela projects as well as new SMZ, Eluvium, Hammock, and Roll the Dice (and new Arcade Fire, if it actually happens) but I'm excited for this whole list. What are people looking forward to most?
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Sigur Ros's new album is rumored to be coming out this year as well.
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I'll believe it when I see it
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The man who makes Bono fall upon his own mic stand, and have it pierce directly through his heart.
Waiting for that guy to do his thing.
Hope it's this year.
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Bono cannot be killed by mortal weapons.
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Devin Davis's website says his new album is coming out in 2007. I can't wait!
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Could be some new TG stuff, I know they're booting Industrial Records up again.
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Heartland
Heartland
Oh and, Heartland.
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Swans are back together and releasing a new album.
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2009 sucked in a lot of ways, musically
you're funny!
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Swans are back together and releasing a new album.
Ohhhh shiiiiiiitt
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SPOOOON
LCD SOUNDSYSTEMMM
and the two singles released from Hot Chip's forthcoming february release are ACE
oh and i found the new Owen Pallett record utterly unlistenable
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2009 sucked in a lot of ways, musically
I have to agree that I didn't love a lot of the music that came out in 2009 either.
However, 2010 apparently has new albums from Frightened Rabbit, Blood Red Shoes, Seasick Steve, Los Campesinos!, My Brightest Diamond, and Eels all by 1st March so it is looking good so far.
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oh fuck I forgot about the new los campesinos! it is so goddamn good I hate it
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I agree that new Los Campesinos! is upsettingly good.
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I liked 2009 alright.
I was going to just post a list of good albums that came out in 2009, but I ain't make lists much these days.
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The 00s are dead and gone. 2009 sucked in a lot of ways,
Did it ever.
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Swans are back together and releasing a new album.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
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SPOOOON
LCD SOUNDSYSTEMMM
and the two singles released from Hot Chip's forthcoming february release are ACE
oh and i found the new Owen Pallett record utterly unlistenable
I do not like you anymore.
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Swans are back together and releasing a new album.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Minus Jarboe, unfortunately *sheds single perfect tear*
linkie (http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4250&Itemid=26)
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So it's just Norman Westberg and The Angels of Light, basically.
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I do not like you anymore.
He just adds like 5 layers too many for me, it all seems like it's just a chaotic muddle of strings. I like bits and pieces of tracks but I have no desire to try so hard to like music.
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The new Beach House album has been leaked for a while, but it's *officially* being released sometime late January 2010. It's super good! I have been listening to it a lot, lately.
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I've really been enjoying the new Yeasayer too. And Laura Veirs.
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I do not like you anymore.
He just adds like 5 layers too many for me, it all seems like it's just a chaotic muddle of strings. I like bits and pieces of tracks but I have no desire to try so hard to like music.
Oh but that was exactly what he was going after. I remember that he once said that he pictured some songs as papers and that he would add elements until the paper was all black. But yeah, no, I would totally understand why some people would find it too busy, but I really think it's a beautiful album and that it's perfect. But I am far too biased to actually say somethiing negative about anything he touches.
And that Spoon album is ace. Kill the Moonlight was better, but it's still a great album.
And fuck you guys, I like that Vampire Weekend album.
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The new Los Campesinos! is fucking ludicrously good, and the new Beach House is criminally good.
Also looking forward to most of the releases mentioned already, including others I've already heard like Heartland and Transference. But the most anticipated for me is The Thermals new one set for release in September and right now being called "Personal Life".
Favorite band releasing 2 albums in 2 years? Can't beat that.
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fuck you guys
Anyone? Anyone want to take him up on this. Please. I'm alone and drunk.
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And fuck you guys, I like that Vampire Weekend album.
Here we agree.
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I liked 2009 alright.
What the machine said.
Anyway, Jesca Hoooooooooop
also Midlake
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Oh yeah is Black Cock doing anything this year? I'd love it if they did.
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Vampire Weekend has never seemed interesting enough for me to bother listening to either of their albums.
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Their new one is all like: Guess who we are... we are Paul Simon.
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Including EPs, I heard over 50 records in 2009 that I liked, and a good deal of them I loved. I did roughly the same the year before and I can't imagine I won't do it again this year. Try harder.
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Minus Jarboe, unfortunately *sheds single perfect tear*
linkie (http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4250&Itemid=26)
I preferred Swans without Jarboe anyway, so that's alright with me. The demo of that new song on their myspace is sounding promising, so I'm willing to get cautiously optimistic for this one.
Their new one is all like: Guess who we are... we are Paul Simon.
That's pretty unfair. Paul Simon was nowhere near as obnoxious, and he actually wrote some good songs. Although Vampire Weekend never broke any cultural embargos, so there is that I guess.
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Mind you, Simon broke the cultural embargo so that he could work with some of the people who were being oppressed, so it wasn't exactly "Let's go watch the Springbok tour of New Zealand."
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Yeah, I always felt it was a bit of a thorny one that. On the one hand he was providing a greater international presence for black South African artists who were being oppressed, on the other hand he could be accused of whitewashing the situation by ignoring the embargo (and I feel really dumb for originally forgetting The Boy In The Bubble, which goes a long way to redeeming the project). I don't really have a position myself, I feel too removed from the situation. Makes it an even more interesting record though, which I guess is something in Vampire Weekend's favour. They are at least a band I have an opinion about.
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Bottomless Pit, Low, The Fall and Nina Nastasia should all be releasing new albums this year too.
Are The Fall ever NOT releasing a new album? I think Mark E. Smith is going to die at the mixing desk.
I'm quite excited for the new Dillinger Escape Plan, Nick Cave is apparently up to a new Grinderman record, blink-182 might release something, Eminem's second part of Relapse, Detox might finally come out (HA!).
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Frightened Rabbit's new one is the highlight for me so far. I'd love it if Joanna Newsom released something this year as well.
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Yeah, I always felt it was a bit of a thorny one that. On the one hand he was providing a greater international presence for black South African artists who were being oppressed, on the other hand he could be accused of whitewashing the situation by ignoring the embargo (and I feel really dumb for originally forgetting The Boy In The Bubble, which goes a long way to redeeming the project).
Actually I don't mind the cultural embargo argument too much, the "Graceland controversy" that really gets me mad is the whole "You're exploiting these African musicians!" line which still gets trotted out by some people. There are three things that get my blood boiling about this argument:
1) Yes it's a "Paul Simon" album, not even a "Paul Simon & friends" album, but every single musician on the album is fully credited in the liner notes;
2) Hands up how many people in the west would have heard of Ladysmith Black Mambazo if they hadn't appeared on Graceland? And then gone and bought their CDs and gone to their concerts and allow them to have a succesful international career?
3) Holy shit, paternalism! What, are African musicians just simple folk who are predisposed to go starry-eyed and start lining up to be exploited the moment a rich white man appears on the scene?
Guys let's talk about Graceland and the controversies around it. It's much more interesting than anything that will be released this year.
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However, 2010 apparently has new albums from Frightened Rabbit, Blood Red Shoes, Seasick Steve, Los Campesinos!, My Brightest Diamond, and Eels all by 1st March so it is looking good so far.
Eels already leaked, Rob. It's pretty good!
I'm looking forward to the RJD2 album coming out next week, the new Album Leaf, and hopefully a new Lawrence Arms album.
Plus, the way things go, Frank Turner will probably release his fourth in four years.
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3) Holy shit, paternalism! What, are African musicians just simple folk who are predisposed to go starry-eyed and start lining up to be exploited the moment a rich white man appears on the scene?
Considering conditions in South Africa at the time the working situation for musicians would have been problematic to say the least. Arguing that people with very limited options living under an oppressive regime could easily be exploited by a wealthy outsider isn't necessarily paternalistic, since it isn't necessarily saying they didn't know what was going on.
That said, I'd never actually heard these allegations before now. Is the suggestion that the artists that worked on Graceland weren't paid the kind of wages session musicians would have received in Europe or North America or that they should have received royalties that weren't forthcoming?
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I'd love it if Joanna Newsom released something this year as well.
Yeah this'd be awesome, especially considering how immensely great Ys was. She's touring in March so I'd like to assume that means she's beginning to promote soon-to-be-released new material.
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I'd never actually heard these allegations before now. Is the suggestion that the artists that worked on Graceland weren't paid the kind of wages session musicians would have received in Europe or North America or that they should have received royalties that weren't forthcoming?
I can't claim to be an expert about this particular topic, but from footage I've seen of Simon in confrontation with people, and from what I've read and also heard first-hand from friends of my mother's, the allegation seems to have been not so much financial as artistic: Simon, it was alleged, took advantage of these African musicians to boost his own profile and claim all the work as his own. Which is why it strikes me as paternalistic, because it supposes that the African musicians weren't taking advantage of the opportunities offered by working Paul Simon just as much as he was taking advantage of their musical skills to make his album.
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all I really want is a new Man Man record.
other bands can suck it in 2010!
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2009 ruled, and 2010 is looking to be even better for music. No idea what you guys are on about.
Thirded on "Fuck you I like that Vampire Weekend album". Also, Heartland, Teen Dream, and the new Spoon record are fantastic. Looking forward to new Eluvium, Efterklang, Liars, Jonsi solo album, Four Tet, and many more. SO EXCITED.
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all I really want is a new Man Man record.
other bands can suck it in 2010!
wait what? awesome
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"Fuck you I like that Vampire Weekend album"
I'm on the "The Very Best is much better." boat.
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Future releases I hope to enjoy:
Jens Lekman (please)
Oh yes, please. That would be so awesome.
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eh, I wouldn't care that much if lekman did nothing this year
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What's this jabber about a new Man Man album?? All I can say is I better be around to be crushed in a sweaty home town Philly moshpit like I was last time they toured for Rabbit Habits.
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I said that I HOPE they put out a new one but I don't think anyone has heard any news on it one way or the other.
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Future releases I hope to enjoy:
Cat Power, Glass Candy, Goldfrapp, !!!
looking forward to these.
also, that new fall album obviously.
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Sigh's coming out with a new album some time this month. Don't think it's been leaked yet, though.
Ihsahn (ex-frontman of Emperor) has a new solo album that has been leaked and is very good.
Arsis has a new album set for February.
And then there's new albums from High On Fire, Meshuggah (according to their label), Pig Destroyer, Torche, Nachtmystium, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Intronaut, and possibly Electric motherfucking Wizard.
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possibly Electric motherfucking Wizard.
rad
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Fucking fuck, looks like it's gonna be another banner year for beard metal/beardcore
Incidentally; on the subject of "Graceland" and Simon's taking advantage, I haven't really read much about him using the African musicians he hired to bolster his own profile while taking credit for their work, but he did have a pretty well-documented spat with members of Los Lobos over their not receiving songwriter credits on "All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints"
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i heard a rumor that a bunch of random diy music thats gonna rule is gonna come out this year.
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Oh but you know how rumors are.
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Agalloch is supposed to release an album this year. I say supposed to because I said that they were last year, and then it ended up taking longer than they expected and getting postponed.
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I can't claim to be an expert about this particular topic, but from footage I've seen of Simon in confrontation with people, and from what I've read and also heard first-hand from friends of my mother's, the allegation seems to have been not so much financial as artistic: Simon, it was alleged, took advantage of these African musicians to boost his own profile and claim all the work as his own. Which is why it strikes me as paternalistic, because it supposes that the African musicians weren't taking advantage of the opportunities offered by working Paul Simon just as much as he was taking advantage of their musical skills to make his album.
This would make much more sense as an argument if the contributions of session musicians weren't habitually overlooked, regardless of the circumstances. Ladysmith Black Mambazo got a hell of a lot more exposure from Graceland than the guy who wrote the bass line for Walk On The Wild Side ever did.
New Wiley album this year I think, and I'm wondering if A Forest Of Stars will do that second album.
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I am in love with the two new hot chip tracks.
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Mondays Goldfish has an EP coming out soon.
Yeah, I know, you've never heard of them. I'm doing their engineering though, so I just want to confirm the rumor that a bunch of random diy music thats gonna rule is gonna come out this year.
or something.
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I can't wait for Pop Ambient 2010 and the Dum Dum Girls' debut album.
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This would make much more sense as an argument if the contributions of session musicians weren't habitually overlooked, regardless of the circumstances. Ladysmith Black Mambazo got a hell of a lot more exposure from Graceland than the guy who wrote the bass line for Walk On The Wild Side ever did.
Except Flowers was fairly established before he did Walk on the Wild Side.
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Agalloch is supposed to release an album this year. I say supposed to because I said that they were last year, and then it ended up taking longer than they expected and getting postponed.
this would actually rule a lot.
also if joanna put out a new album that would rule too. stoked on new album leaf and hammock as well. still not stoked about the new efterklang.
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and stoked on new asmz but thats to be expected.
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Man, I have been waiting for more Joanna Newsom. If there was a new album in 2010, it would make my goddam year. New LCD Soundsystem probably will anyway, and I'll probably obsess over a lot of other albums this year, but new Joanna Newsom could make me forget about the inevitability of suffering for like a month.
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Allegedly there's gonna be a new Joanna Newsom album out on the 23rd February.
http://www.dragcity.com/news (http://www.dragcity.com/news)
Top news piece, "Noose draws closer"
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Oh man Oh man. That is great news.
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P4K mentions it, it must be true (http://pitchfork.com/news/37555-more-joanna-newsom-album-hints)
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Listening to the new Vampire Weekend album. Is he using autotune?
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I think some of the time, yeah. Like in that show Glee.
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You're talking about that "California English" song? I think he is actually.
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Yeah, that made the song a bit of a turn off for me.
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Am I the only person who more or less despises autotune completely?
Except when Daft Punk uses it?
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It depends on the context. I really like Discovery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQxwJIhDoE).
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Them Roaring Twenties use autotune and I actually like it alot.
then again they are a math rock band so it's kind of totally different maybe
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Does Lana Avacada count?
(no)
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Am I the only person who more or less despises autotune completely?
No. I even hate it when Daft Punk use it.
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http://pitchfork.com/news/37562-joanna-newsom-album-confirmed/ (http://pitchfork.com/news/37562-joanna-newsom-album-confirmed/)
YAY YAY YAY YES YAY AAAAAAAAA YAY OMG
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My tits are so perky right now
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This makes the year much more exciting. Woo!
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I'M SO FUCKING TURNED ON RIGHT NOW.
And I'm seeing her on tour for the new album FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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Fuckin' hell yes! So excited!! Can't believe I managed to snag tickets before they sold out too, I almost always miss the boat on these things. I'm pretty confident that Ys was one of the best albums that came out in the aughts so I obviously have really high hopes for this new one. This made my night!
On an unrelated note, the new Shearwater album is not surprisingly pretty awesome. I also heard the new Liars album leaked. Anyone given it a listen? Thoughts?
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Also incredibly awesome. As of right now I think it stands to be the best album they've ever done.
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I'm excited about Newsom's new album, but I'm even more excited to learn that her Australian label is called Spunk.
Released by Spunk.
Hurr.
Hurr.
Hurr.
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They handle distribution for most major North American indie acts down here.
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Does Cynic use autotune? That is what my answer to whether I hate autotune revolves around.
That makes me wonder, though, has anyone ever put vocals through a guitar distortion pedal?
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I can't think of any specific examples, but I'm quite sure yes.
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I know Justice Yeldham uses a bunch of pedals, but that's not really the same thing. It's a contact mic and a plate of glass that's run through pedals.
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Speaking of Joanna Newsom's bottom, new Radiohead?
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Really? I can't bring myself to care a whole lot about Radiohead lately, but I reckon by the time anything actually comes out I'll froth a bit at the mouth like just like with the last one before moving on.
Also re: Joanna Newsom's bottom I had to GIS to see if you were taking the piss, but, uh, yeah okay pretty exciting.
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Obviously talk of new Radiohead has been swirling around for quite some time because I remember finding some track they released in the distant and misty past very unappealing indeed.
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They handle distribution for most major North American indie acts down here.
I guess once they get a taste for Spunk, they keep coming back.
Spunk has probably propelled new releases to the top of the charts!
I'm thinking of buying Aussie releases just so I can have a few CDs with Spunk on the album booklets.
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Make sure you don't accidentally get one with Red Eye instead.
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All the cool kids have probably downloaded it already but I'm excited to hear the new Spoon.
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That makes me wonder, though, has anyone ever put vocals through a guitar distortion pedal?
I gather they have somewhat of a worst-band-ever status around here, but Muse, on their first album, wrote a guitar solo part, then thought the song lost too much momentum with the rhythm guitar dropping out entirely, so they had Matt sing the guitar solo through a distorted amp.
Edit: PAEG BRAEK
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doesn't opeth distort vocals in one song?
im pretty sure they do but its fucking lame.
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Dang, that is some ass.
2010 in music: Jay Reatard fucking died. =(
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every time you see joanna newsom or listen to her strange pixie voice remember that the guy who sang "dick in a box" has well there's a joke here
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doesn't opeth distort vocals in one song?
im pretty sure they do but its fucking lame.
I wasn't asking if anyone has ever distorted vocals, I wouldn't have to look farther than Iron Man to find that, I was wondering if they have used guitar effects to do it.
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I did it yesterday.
I didn't record it because it's like...art or something...and I was all by myself so I have no proof, but yeah I did it and the heavens literally opened up and sucked my dick because it was so good.
there.
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I'll have to borrow my friend's distortion pedal, then. I'll just leave out the dick sucking part.
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distorted vocals are rad and led to conor oberst's best song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZZykzLiFYE)
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what else would you use to distort vocals other than a guitar pedal?
especially if yr in a metal and and you probably have 20 extras lying around.
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One designed for vocal distortion, since if you are Opeth, you are being produced by Steven Wilson and you know he has just about every possible effect somewhere in his studio. I'm just wondering if it would give a different tone than one designed for vocals, kind of like a guitar played through a bass amp sounds different than through a guitar amp.
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I wanna hear Peter Frampton singing through his guitar into a vocoder, passing through some distortion pedals on the way out. And we might as well autotune it afterwards for good measure, while we're at it.
it bet it would sound like this BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTT
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wheeeee (http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=23072)
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I wanna hear Peter Frampton singing through his guitar into a vocoder, passing through some distortion pedals on the way out. And we might as well autotune it afterwards for good measure, while we're at it.
it bet it would sound like this BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTT
So basically it would fit right in a grindcore track?
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New Sia album in april, can't forget about that.
The single is awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb7__deeUko)
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The Ocean is apparently going to be releasing 2 separate albums this year. Dang.
Also, there's "Deconstruction" (and possibly "Ghost") to look forward to from the Devin Townsend Project.
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distorted vocals are rad and led to conor oberst's best song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZZykzLiFYE)
It's been a while since I've listened to Read Music / Speak Spanish, but this isn't on that, is it?
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So is anybody else ready to freak out about how good "The Golden Archipelago" is.?
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It's been a while since I've listened to Read Music / Speak Spanish, but this isn't on that, is it?
It was on a Saddle Creek comp.
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Does Cynic use autotune? That is what my answer to whether I hate autotune revolves around.
vocoder. Paul basically uses it to pitch shift his voice to get a bunch of different spacey awesome robot voices. auto-tune is just pitch correction with no pitch shifting
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more on the metal front - look out for these two in particular, because these bands are gonna blow shit up hard:
Periphery - supposed to release an album out in 2010
Tesseract - their album 'One' is set to be released early 2010 (but I WANT IT NOW)
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Faded Paper Figures is supposedly releasing their sophomore LP sometime this year.
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One designed for vocal distortion, since if you are Opeth, you are being produced by Steven Wilson and you know he has just about every possible effect somewhere in his studio. I'm just wondering if it would give a different tone than one designed for vocals, kind of like a guitar played through a bass amp sounds different than through a guitar amp.
I've seen a dude in local band sing a song into his guitar pickups. I also have a suspicion that the same method is used on one of those weird interludes on "Red Medicine" by Fugazi where someone (Guy?) is cackling insanely.
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The new Eluvium track features quite heavy use of vocals. Pretty well done too in my opinion.
You can listen to it here (http://songbytoad.com/2010/01/new-stuff-old-material/#comment-39171)
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Apparently the whole album is going to be that vocal heavy. I love Eluvium so so much so I'll be buying this for sure but I'm still not 100% sold on Matthew Singing.
Very brief thoughts on the four leaks I've heard so far:
Hot Chip - Kinda boring, I found myself skipping a couple of songs halfway through them. Not doing it for me.
Shearwater - Wonderful, as I expected. Meiburg and co. do it again, no matter if they're whisper quiet or rocking the fuck out or somewhere in between. I'm loving this album already!
Spoon - Sounds a lot like Spoon i.e. it sounds catchy and infectious and fun as hell. Awesome stuff!
Beach House - Love it! Their best yet by far.
Up next, stereo headphones listening session of new SMZ album.
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I thought that too about the new Hot Chip, but it grows on me every time I listen to it. One Life Stand and Take It In are still album highlights though.
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i heard a rumor that a bunch of random diy music thats gonna rule is gonna come out this year.
this was a joke post but i just remembered monument is putting out an LP this year. it will rule.
also after taking some time to digest matthew's vocals the new elivium tracks are really nice. it's reminding me a lot of gregor samsa.
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I didn't get that vibe but I'm a big Gregor Samsa fan so if that is the case then I'll be on board with this. I think I just need to give it a few more listens before it fully grows on me.
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i heard a rumor that a bunch of random diy music thats gonna rule is gonna come out this year.
this was a joke post but i just remembered monument is putting out an LP this year. it will rule.
also after taking some time to digest matthew's vocals the new elivium tracks are really nice. it's reminding me a lot of gregor samsa.
Snowing LP will probably come out this year too.
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oh shit i didnt even know they were pressing an LP!
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(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5967986/Joanna+Newsom+bathroom.jpg)
Good god
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C'mon guys.
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hey the machine merchant ships wrote a new song it rules so much. its better than word vomit.
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Motherfuckin Gil Scott-Heron is back with what's supposed to be a late-period Scott Walker style mindfuck. It's gonna be fantastic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA&feature=player_embedded).
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I am actually a bit excited to hear Fyfe Dangerfield's solo album, although I guess it'll be exactly like Guillemots material.
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What's so terrible about 2009? One of my favorite albums ever came out last year, and there was a decent crop of releases that I liked.
(to be fair, I probably have different musical taste than about 95% of the forum)
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Motherfuckin Gil Scott-Heron is back with what's supposed to be a late-period Scott Walker style mindfuck. It's gonna be fantastic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA&feature=player_embedded).
Holy SHIT only this morning I was like "I wonder what would happen if an old soul legend took an older Robert Johnson song and did it in the style of Massive Attack".
Anyway, this is amazing.
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What's so terrible about 2009? One of my favorite albums ever came out last year, and there was a decent crop of releases that I liked.
(to be fair, I probably have different musical taste than about 95% of the forum)
Nowt, 2009 was incredible.
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Yeah, 2009 was awesome. There's only one or two albums from 08 that I listen to anymore, but i'll be listening to 09 material for a while.
So far I think Beach House is my favorite thing this year, but the Spoon and Yeasayer are both really enjoyable. Vampire Weekend was surprisingly good considering the s/t usually pissed me off. Plus I have several albums in the queue I'm excited about such as Besnard Lakes, and Magnetics Field is sounding pretty good (listening for the first time now).
Really hope new National makes it out this year. That and Radiohead.
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an old soul legend
I wouldn't personally sign off on this choice of words re: Gil-Scott Heron.
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GUYS THE NEW LIARS ALBUM HAS LEAKED
(this might be old news, apparently it leaked a few weeks ago but i just now found it)
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I wouldn't personally sign off on this choice of words re: Gil-Scott Heron.
Closest I could really think. I find the whole godfather of rap thing kinda overdone.
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(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx141/Claud_C/Jemaine.jpg)
Oh yeahh. <insert pervy comment>
Sigh.
Archive have a live 2010 tour album that will have to suffice until I see them in person.
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an old soul legend
I wouldn't personally sign off on this choice of words re: Gil-Scott Heron.
That's it I'm uploading Bridges.
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Hey fellas, there's a new gorillaz track you can listen to on Spine Magazine (http://www.spinemagazine.com/news_mp3/jan/gorillaz/stylo.mp3). I'm really not too sure on this one. It's pretty far away from what they sounded like on the first album, but maybe a natural progressions from Demon Days? I'm not sure how I feel about all this bringing in outside artists to do some singing.
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I like it.
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Argh, I wish I could listen to it (I'm on a terrible connection). See, personally, I didn't care too greatly for Gorillaz (except Clint Eastwood, I mean, come on), but I thought Demon Days was amazing. Curious as to how the sound is shifting.
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Also the cover for the new album
(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/plasticbeach452.jpg)
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that beach looks anything but plasticine
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I really like it. Makes me pretty excited for Plastic Beach. I'm on Zingo's side actually. Gorillaz didn't sound interesting enough (for me) but damn, Demon Days is incredible! I think I might give it a listen now.
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I liked the self-titled better than Demon Days, I don't know, Danger Mouse didn't do it for me though I did like a decent number of tracks off that record.
But apparently this new album features Lou Reed and Mark E. Smith and Snoop and De La Soul and Mos Def so uh
dang
my 2010 so far: I am completely obsessed with Los Campesinos!, holy shit.
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I don't think LC! is quite twee anymore.
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Which is a bit sad, I must say.
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I like it better than their previous albums.
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I can't really say. I gave it a quick listen when it leaked, but the day after, Pallett's album leaked, so I kind of forgot about it. It just didn't catch my attention enough for now.
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oh, and another new song update. maybe. Friend claims this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeLYRrMKJJs) is what daft punk has been cooking up for Tron Legacy. It does sound like them.
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no los campesinos! not being twee anymore is a wonderful thing. this new album is SO upset, i fucking love it
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Anyone else looking forward to the long-awaited album by Massive Attack that will finally be released in February and called Heligoland?
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Anyone else looking forward to the long-awaited album by Massive Attack that will finally be released in February and called Heligoland?
honestly, based on the new songs they put out last year, no. i hope i'm wrong but boy were those bad.
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I listened to one of the singles off of the new one and it was wretched.
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honestly, based on the new songs they put out last year, no. i hope i'm wrong but boy were those bad.
Afraid to say, but I agree. I saw Massive Attack live a few years ago and they were the best fucking thing ever, but the new stuff sounds utterly plain and a complete shadow of their former selves.
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New Four Tet on the other hand fuck yesssssssssssssss. Love Cry was brilliant
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The new Four Tet is mind-shittingly brilliant. Seriously, it may be the best record he's ever put out.
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The New Pornographers' Together is coming out on May 4th, 2010. And it includes guests (Will Sheff, Annie Clark, Zach Condon, to name a few).
I hope it'll be good (ie, better than Challengers (which was alright actually)).
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I thought Challengers was a good record. They tried some new things, but the songs that sounded most like their other albums were the best. "My Rights Versus Yours" is a great song.
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I haven't liked the New Pornographers since The Electric Version. Now that's a good record.
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You didn't like Twin Cinema? I thought it was their best one. Mass Romantic is pretty great, but I listened and enjoyed Twin Cinema far more than the former.
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Anyone else looking forward to the long-awaited album by Massive Attack that will finally be released in February and called Heligoland?
honestly, based on the new songs they put out last year, no. i hope i'm wrong but boy were those bad.
I don't know, I too was disappointed when I first heard Spitting the Atom, but it's been growing on me. And of course they'll never make another Mezzanine. But I quite liked Paradise Circus, and the new one Girl, I Love You is also pretty good.
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I don't know, I too was disappointed when I first heard Spitting the Atom, but it's been growing on me. And of course they'll never make another Mezzanine.
i'd settle for another 100th Window, which in some ways i like more. and i don't mind when a band changes their sound (Dead Can Dance, Portishead) but i just do not like the new direction they're going with. "girl i love you" is actually pretty good except it just sounds like they took music from Mezzanine and a vocal from Blue Lines. in other words, it's totally listenable but not really exciting.
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I've got the new Four Tet on my desk, awaiting judgment for radio play. I hope it's good, because Four Tet was probably the most boring producer to come out of the 90's "IDM scene", if you can call it that. He averaged about one good song per record up until the split with Burial, which was awesome.
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i was beginning to think i was the only person who didn't love Four Tet. and i really, really, really like 90s IDM/ambient/etc.
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http://pitchfork.com/news/37562-joanna-newsom-album-confirmed/ (http://pitchfork.com/news/37562-joanna-newsom-album-confirmed/)
YAY YAY YAY YES YAY AAAAAAAAA YAY OMG
I heard a lot of her new songs a couple days ago when I saw her live. She is really quite amazing live, by the way, partly because she seems like an awesome and fun person.
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There are videos floating around of some of the new songs for anyone not lucky enough to see her live (me). They sound nice.
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They're way more love-songey than what I'm used to from her. Still, I'm sure they'll grow on me, the backup instrumentation is really interesting too.
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Oh shit, Enslaved (http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=61683838&blogId=526439833) just started recording a new album.
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I've got the new Four Tet on my desk, awaiting judgment for radio play. I hope it's good, because Four Tet was probably the most boring producer to come out of the 90's "IDM scene", if you can call it that. He averaged about one good song per record up until the split with Burial, which was awesome.
Speaking of IDM, Autechre are also set to release a new album, which is good because Quaristice was my favourite thing they've done (though I never much cared for much of their late 90's/early00's stuff) and hopefully it will be a continuation
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I am finding Spoon boring.
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I am unworthy of life.
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Also I am digging the new Four Tet. No real singles have jumped out at me so far but as an album I'm very much enjoying it.
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I put the Zombie in Zombiedude.
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I seem to be leaning towards metal nowadays. It's a phase I am enjoying.
Looking up the four tet album and mehhhhh. Upload it to mediafire maybe
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Nick you should try Giant Squid by the way.
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This one? (http://www.myspace.com/giantsquid)
They seem nice enough. But I start giggling uncontrollably about a minute into any given metal song. It's kind of sad.
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I'll definitely mediaf!re the Four Tet at some point. Probably maybe.
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Details surrounding Have One on Me by Miss Newsom are being unveiled.
1) Released worldwide on February 23rd.
2) It will be a triple album (!)
3) A track called '81 is available for streaming on the Drag City records website.
Thanks Fitchpork.
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Aren't I'm From Barcelona putting out a triple as well?
2010: Year of the 3xLP?
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Oh hey, they are! It's called 27 Songs from Barcelona, and starting from tomorrow, they'll release one free song from the record(s) every day for 27 days. The whole package with the artwork and the little objects looks pretty rad too.
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Hm
New track isn't the best thing ever, but its sure as hell not bad.
Still stoked.
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Alcest (http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/01/27/new-alcest-album-art-illustrates-how-the-music-makes-me-feel/)'s got a new album coming out March 29. Hell yeah.
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I am finding Spoon boring.
if you mean recent Spoon, try listening to their mid-90s stuff. they're pretty good now, but that era of their career was generic as all get-out.
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new beach house is killer
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Alcest (http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/01/27/new-alcest-album-art-illustrates-how-the-music-makes-me-feel/)'s got a new album coming out March 29. Hell yeah.
hell yeah
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I shouldn't like Surfer Blood's "Astro Coast", but I really, really, really do.
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Ditto, except I didn't even have any reservations about liking it. About damn time somebody picked up Weezer's dropped torch of Blue Album guitar pop and ran with it.
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Oh god, it's good to know that I'm not alone. Also, I'm really looking forward to Titus Andronicus' The Monitor - a Civil War concept album, indeed.
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I feel like I should like Surfer Blood more but I'm kind of apathetic towards that record. It's nice, but nothing really hooks me.
jj nº3 is giving me a perpetual boner, though.
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Holy fucking dicks the new Efterklang is BLOWING MY MIND. A completely departure from their old sound. It's all sparse, spacious orchestral indie pop now. Spoon production! Everything's clearly defined and it all breathes so nicely. They even have grooves! So excited about the new direction. It suits them perfectly.
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i completely disagree.
i'm on track 5 and i couldn't be more disappointed with this album. this isn't efterklang, it sounds like some shitty coldplay ripoff band trying to be even artsier than coldplay or some bullshit like that.
point is this album is straight up terrible.
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Oh well. I stilll love it. Woo!
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sadly, the new Massive Attack pretty much sucks. and i liked 100th Window.
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NEW BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/new-broken-social-scene-album-out-may-4), keep an eye out for Sam Goldberg he is a hella talented guy.
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OH FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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The album, their first since 2005's self-titled release
What about the two records they released since then? The ones that they pretended were solo albums.
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they must be pretending they didnt happen
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They're like the musical equivalents of Byrne re-vamps.
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What about the two records they released since then? The ones that they pretended were solo albums.
those weren't broken social scene albums
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Well, yeah. I know they aren't technically. I was just saying (in a rather roundabout way) that they basically sound like Broken Social Scene records. I guess Broken Social Scene don't really have much of a definitive sound, though. Maybe they feel like Broken Social Scene records? Maybe that is what I am getting at.
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Who cares, the fact is a NEW BSS ALBUM is coming out! Interview and more details at the usual spot: http://pitchfork.com/news/37747-kevin-drew-reveals-all-about-new-broken-social-scene-album/
Sounds great.
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The Olympic Island concert is going to destroy.
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sadly, the new Massive Attack pretty much sucks. and i liked 100th Window.
Yeah I like everything they've done to this point but from what I've heard the new one ain't up to scratch.
Still, any year with new Gorillaz and Four Tet early doors is a good year.
2 days later edit: actually I take it back, I think I just had a really bad quality leak, sounded really flat. Got hold of a proper copy and it's a solid album. "Girl I Love You" is immense.
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I've listened to "There Is Love In You" twice so far, and it just hasn't hit me like I hoped it would.
The new Pantha Du Prince is really good, though.
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I'm not quite getting the Four Tet hype.
On the other hand, I'm really, really enjoying the new Hot Chip.
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Hot Chip and The Roots play together (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk9pd4PAUa8&feature=player_embedded)
It's like they did this knowing that it would be just about the greatest thing I never thought would happen.
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The Olympic Island concert is going to destroy.
What the...what?! Do we live in the same city? Why aren't we concert buddies, pilsner....WHY?!
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My friends have tickets to that. I opted out because I ain't so into Pavement or Band of Horses but now I kind of regret it.
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There are still tickets available. Also, how are you not into Pavement? Seriously.
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I imagine it has something to do with them being pretty unremarkable
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Pavement are a perpetual reminder of that brief period from my early adolescence when my brother had better taste in music than me.
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There are still tickets available. Also, how are you not into Pavement? Seriously.
I'm not sure. All of the ingredients are there for them to be a band I would be really into, but somehow I just never got into them.
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Thank shit I'm not the only one, I thought I was some sort of Elephant Man type thing for thinking Pavement are just not that great
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It's weird how this pattern always repeats itself, over and over again.
"I think they're awesome, let's call 'em the greatest band in the world"
"Yeah let us!"
"Oh I don't think they're that great."
"It's probably because they suck. Let's call 'em the most overrated band in the world."
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So the new single by Operator Please is leaps and bounds better than anything I heard on the radio off their last album. I like it when bands get better.
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They were better songwriters than they were a band, if you see the perverse logic behind that.
This actually makes a lot of sense to me.
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I haven't heard more than a few songs off of it, but Overkill's Ironbound is sounding pretty good. The guitar work is a lot more oldschool thrash, but the problem with that is that I just keep thinking "this would sound so much better with a sharper guitar tone", because they still have a modern, dull guitar tone like you hear on almost every goddamn metal record from a major label these days. If it were produced differently it would be absolutely amazing, but it is still better than most old thrash bands are doing with their new records.
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There are still tickets available. Also, how are you not into Pavement? Seriously.
Even though almost everyone asks them in a quasi-ironic style while fully aware that other people have different tastes, questions of this sort never fail to piss me the fuck off.
Also, new REM this year possibly, and their last album was great, so I look forward to that.
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So am I the only person that isn't that much into the surfer blood album?
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Nope
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They have pretty great band name + album cover synergy though.
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Nope
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I enjoy the Surfer Blood cd. Not my favorite so far of the year by any means, but I dug it for the most park.
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just a few nights ago the three of us who live here took turns picking songs for a single "essential Pavement CD" and by listening to it we realized why they were the greatest band of all time (kinda). they just wrote such amazing songs. for all they are thought of as being "anti-rock", that's completely misguided. Pavement were a rock band. and Malkmus can play extremely well. listen to the guitar work on "Fillmore Jive" or "Rattled By the Rush" or "The Hexx".
and when they weren't being an awesome rock band, they were an amazing pop band. from "Box Elder" and "Perfume-V" to "Shady Lane" and "Spit on a Stranger".
mix in some amazing ballads ("Here", "Newark Wilder", "Major Leagues") and some leftover punked-up numbers ("Conduit For Sale", "Unfair", "Serpentine Pad") and well... that's what the big deal is.
if you don't like them that's cool though. i just think it's easier to make the case for Pavement than for, say, Slint or My Bloody Valentine, and those bands having much less recorded material is only part of the reason. Pavement are pretty close to objectively good at being a rock band.
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The new Autechre leaked and it is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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i just think it's easier to make the case for Pavement than for, say, Slint or My Bloody Valentine,
are you seriously suggesting that those are the three most likely candidates for "best rock band of all time"
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OF ALL TIME
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OF ALL TIME
Damn, I had no idea you were Jeremy Clarkson. You hid it well.
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I think he was going for the Kanye thing but well played regardless
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No matter what, I don't own nearly enough cars to be either of those people.
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i just think it's easier to make the case for Pavement than for, say, Slint or My Bloody Valentine,
are you seriously suggesting that those are the three most likely candidates for "best rock band of all time"
no, i was just using two other examples of independent rock bands that people often cite as being objectively good.
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OK!
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New The Tallest Man On Earth album out on April 13th.
New track here: King of Spain (http://www.scjag.com/mp3/do/kingofspain.mp3)
Can't wait.
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There already is a perfectly great song called "King of Spain". Did I mention it's performed by an infinitely better band because, you know Galaxie 500 totally is.
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Oh no, more than one band/artist has the same titled song. What ever will we do?
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Whine about it
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Touché
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So I discovered my favorite band (name will not be disclosed for fear of lynching) has a new album coming out in a few weeks and I am completely psyched.
Except for the fact that the album name sucks.
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Imma gonna lynch you for not telling me who the band is.
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He'll do it, too!
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New Liars is brilliant.
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So I discovered my favorite band (name will not be disclosed for fear of lynching) has a new album coming out in a few weeks and I am completely psyched.
Do we need to re-sticky that "We are not all hipster jerks with a singular monolithic taste in music who will hate on you if yr tastes don't match that monolithic taste" thread again?
DO WE
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it would probably do even less good than it did last time
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In all fairness, if his favorite band turns out to be Ke$ha or something, he's probably better off keeping the joy inside.
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Hey I have danced to Tik Tok and I do not regret it.
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Wow guys, I am interviewing Yeasayer and I have no idea what to ask them. What do I ask them?
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In all fairness, if his favorite band turns out to be Ke$ha or something, he's probably better off keeping the joy inside.
Ke$ha is so fucking good. I'ma download her album right now.
Or at least the singles.
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New Ted Leo in >a month.
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New Liars is brilliant.
yes it is. just the other day i was thinking "hey, hasn't it been a long time since Liars did anything?" and five minutes later i found the leak of Sisterworld.
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They're...
*cough*
melodic Christian metalcore
>_>
To be fair, they're not my outright favorite, but in the top 10.
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Yer still not saying the name.
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I'll say no more.
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A7X
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oh lord no.
(incidentally, my name's Tom, Tom)
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They're...
*cough*
melodic Christian metalcore
>_>
To be fair, they're not my outright favorite, but in the top 10.
Arch Enemy?
Zao?
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No and no.
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It's Blindside, isn't it?
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In all fairness, if his favorite band turns out to be Ke$ha or something, he's probably better off keeping the joy inside.
Who the hell let her near a mic anyway? She obviously couldn't carry a tune in a hermetically sealed vessel, the autotuning all over is proof of that, I hate her music so very much. A friend of mine loves her, but she has already been established to have absolutely terrible taste in music.
Dovey, it's melodic Christian metalcore. There would be one other person on this entire forum that would admit to liking it, and I haven't seen DynamiteKid around recently.
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Main reason I'm saying nothing is because the new album title is lame, and I'm not about to subject a band I like to people insulting it without having listened. (And to be fair, I dislike the other 99.999% of metalcore; I just like this one for some strange reason, strange in that I usually end up listening to symphonic and/or neo-classical metal strictly with smooth vocals)
Oh, and some NDH, hard rock, and instrumental soundtracks.
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Oh wait, it's Demon Hunter, isn't it?
Yeah, I will probably end up listening to it too. I used to be hella obsessed with them.
They're definitely derivative, but no worse than any other 3rd generation metalcore band.
(While I am cashing in what little cred I possess, I will go ahead and say that I've been listening to the new Fear Factory album and it is good.)
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Trust me, Tom, you'll get far more crap for saying that Unknown Pleasures is better than Closer than admitting your love for a X'tian metalcore band.
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Is it Underoath? Oh shit it's not Attack Attack is it.
Anyway, Unknown Pleasures is better than Closer, boy. You wack.
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Demon Hunter is a silly name for a christian metalcore band. It is also way too hard to get into their website. Had to click enter the website 3 times.
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New The Tallest Man On Earth album out on April 13th.
New track here: King of Spain (http://www.scjag.com/mp3/do/kingofspain.mp3)
Can't wait.
Yeah so thanks for just introducing me to my new favourite 'modern' folk musician.
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Has anyone heard the new Retribution Gospel Choir record yet?
Nobody has sent it to me so I guess I'm going to have to actually buy it. My press credentials from way back have evidently finally expired!
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Anyway, Unknown Pleasures is better than Closer, boy. You wack.
Wrong.
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Anyway, Unknown Pleasures is better than Closer, boy. You wack.
Wrong.
There you are.
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Unknown Pleasures is one of the greatest albums ever made. Astounding.
Closer is better in every sense of the word.
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Closer is probably the most perfect album ever made.
Amusingly, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook both hate how Unknown Pleasures sounds.
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Has anyone heard the new Retribution Gospel Choir record yet?
Nobody has sent it to me so I guess I'm going to have to actually buy it. My press credentials from way back have evidently finally expired!
Yeah it's really good, but never really tops the title track.
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Demon Hunter is a silly name for a christian metalcore band. It is also way too hard to get into their website. Had to click enter the website 3 times.
What website? They have no official website past myspace pages and whatnot.
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I googled Demon Hunter and that's what I got.
Unless there is another christian metalcore band called Demon hunter?
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Ambient fans rejoice: Hot on the heels of their superlative MMX compilation/showcase, the entire n5MD (http://www.n5md.com/) roster seems to be falling over each other to release awesome new albums in honour of the new year. SubtractiveLAD's new offering is great, new releases from Ent and Another Electronic Musician too. Hopefully the presence of a new Lights Out Asia tune on the aforementioned compilations means they'll be bringing something out this year too.
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I googled Demon Hunter and that's what I got.
Unless there is another christian metalcore band called Demon hunter?
You probably mean demonhunter.net - it's a fan site, not an official site.
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Anyway, Unknown Pleasures is better than Closer, boy. You wack.
Wrong.
There you are.
oh my god that could not have been more perfect.
anyway regardless of what Hook and Sumner think about the album, I've actually been listening to Joy Division a lot recently after reading the quite excellent 33 1/3 book about Unknown Pleasures (although it'd probably be pretty boring to anyone who had read much about their history elsewhere). I've come to the conclusion that were it not for the way the record sounds, Joy Division wouldn't be half as influential as they are today. Don't get me wrong, they still had the songs and obviously no amount of studio bullshittery can make up for a lack of good tunes, but Unknown Pleasures had stuff that was pretty much alien compared to anything else being made at the time, and it matched the oppressive darkness of Ian Curtis' lyrics one hundred per cent. Say what you will about Martin Hannett, but I honestly think Joy Division's enduring popularity is largely in part thanks to his work.
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Thanks for this exciting heads up about what's new in 1980!
Meanwhile in 2010 just this afternoon I found out that Fionn Regan's got something new coming out called the Shadow of an Empire, according to my local record store, and I couldn't be more pleased because I've genuinedly been wondering what he's up to and if he had any new music in the works ever since I first heard and fell in love with the End of History a couple of years ago.
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@Dovey
I basically knew half of the stuff I read in the Unknown Pleasures 33 1/3 by the time I read it, but I loved it anyway, because I was/am obsessed. I really wish I had the time and money for more of those books; I've read the one for Let It Be (Replacements) and for Endtroducing... but I really want to read the one for Master of Reality cus John Darnielle wrote it.
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The s/t debut of "Blood of Heroes," an industrial super-group featuring Justin Broadrick, is coming out in April.
They have clips of songs (http://ohmresistance.com/index.php?q=node/4) out already. Sounds interesting, at the very least.
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@Dovey
I basically knew half of the stuff I read in the Unknown Pleasures 33 1/3 by the time I read it, but I loved it anyway, because I was/am obsessed. I really wish I had the time and money for more of those books; I've read the one for Let It Be (Replacements) and for Endtroducing... but I really want to read the one for Master of Reality cus John Darnielle wrote it.
I am lucky enough to work at an educational institute that has recently engaged in a campaign to expand their library exponentially, and part of the many wonderful and interesting acquisitions have been a whole whack of the 33 1/3 books. Unfortunately we don't have the Master of Reality one either but I'm gonna hassle the management about that because aside from Darnielle writing it it also happens to be my favourite Sabbath album. You can actually read enough of it to tell that it is very, very good (and really more of a novel than a critical essay like most 33 1/3 books) on Amazon.
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Oh dude point taken. I don't know why i didn't think of it before but I can totally order any 33 1/3 i want through my college's library network. Now all I need is enough spare time to read them all.
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Things to get excited about: New Anima, Mortemia which promises to be good, new Eluveitie, new Negura Bunget ...
All of which might spell: FUN!
And I just figured out hat Serj Tankian is doing some stuff with an Oakland orchestra which looks pretty good. Interested, most assuredly.
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The new Frightened Rabbit is leaving one hell of a first impression. Ridiculously good. We'll see how it ages.
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Haven't listened to Ihsahn's record all the way through yet but definitely like what I hear so far,
The High on Fire record leaked, I listened to it once so far and nothing really jumped out at me but I think that's cos it's a grower. Much slower and conventionally Sabbathian than Death is This Communion
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conventionally Sabbathian
Let us take a moment to appreciate the beauty of this phrase
I am proud to speak a language that allows for the construction of such things
we're entering uncharted waters, men
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Domino is incredibly proud to announce that it will be releasing the new album from The Fall. Recorded at various studios in the north of England over the past year, Your Future Our Clutter is Mark E Smith and co’s debut for Domino and will be released on 26th April 2010.
Your Future Our Clutter is The Fall at their most rampant, most forward moving, bone shaking best. With nine tracks that rock like raw fury, we see The Fall heading into their next decade with the same intensity with which they started.
Your Future Our Clutter will be available on double LP (WIGLP245), CD (WIGCD245) & digital download (WIG245D) from 26th April. Full album tracklisting is as follows:
1 – O.F.Y.C. Showcase
2 – Bury Pts. 1 + 3
3 – Mexico Wax Solvent
4 - Cowboy George
5 – Hot Cake
6 – Y.F.O.C. / Slippy Floor
7 - Chino
8 - Funnel Of Love
9 - Weather Report 2
The Fall will be playing live across the UK this spring with a show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on May 7th. Full dates are as follows:
24 April - Studio 24, Edinburgh, UK
29 April - Tripod, Dublin, Ireland
May 2 - Ballroom, Keele Uni, UK
May 4 - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
May 7 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK
May 8 - Palace, Aldershot, UK
May 9 - Concorde 2, Brighton, UK
May 16 - ATP, Minehead, UK
May 21 - Balne Lane Working Mens Club, Wakefield, UK
The Fall are:
Peter "PP" Greenway - Guitars
Dave "The Eagle" Spurr - Bass Guitar
Eleni Poulou - Keyboards, Bass, Backing vocals
Keiron Melling - Drums, PCSN
Mark E. Smith - Lead Vocals
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And I just figured out hat Serj Tankian is doing some stuff with an Oakland orchestra which looks pretty good. Interested, most assuredly.
This is now my most anticipated release of the year.
Also: the first Therion album since '07 is in the later stages of creation.
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New Broken Social Scene song can be listened to on pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com/news/37959-new-epic-broken-social-scene-song/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PitchforkLatestNews+(Pitchfork:+Latest+News)) as well as downloaded.
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That song is fuckin' awesome. Can't wait for the album.
Apparently two guitarists from a tech death band called Daath teamed up with the drummer from Cynic to make an instru-metal album. You can listen to a song on their website. (http://www.thirddegreemerch.com/band_store_detail.php?id=743&band_key=89) Not bad at all.
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Aw fuck yes Gaslight Anthem are going to have a new record out in July and it will be called American Slang aw fuck yes
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(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u60/daschakal/BSS.jpg)
*swoon*
Oooooh, I am so excited for this to drop. I will buy five copies.
That's basically a Fabriclive cover from that series' early teens. What an eyesore.
Anywho, Tobacco's backo in May with assistance from Beck-o (http://pitchfork.com/news/37964-beck-to-guest-on-new-tobacco-album/). Sounds good.
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Every time I see "fabriclive" I can't help but think it has something to do with a fellow named Clive. Sigh, if only.
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(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u60/daschakal/BSS.jpg)
*swoon*
Oooooh, I am so excited for this to drop. I will buy five copies.
That's basically a Fabriclive cover from that series' early teens. What an eyesore.
Anywho, Tobacco's backo in May with assistance from Beck-o (http://pitchfork.com/news/37964-beck-to-guest-on-new-tobacco-album/). Sounds good.
Glad I wasn't the only one who thought that.
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Anywho, Tobacco's backo in May with assistance from Beck-o (http://pitchfork.com/news/37964-beck-to-guest-on-new-tobacco-album/). Sounds good.
This is also exciting news.
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Fabric Clive
Haha this would make an awesome DJ name. Might steal it and see if I can con them into letting me do a set there.
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I like it a lot more than the YFIIP (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/YouForgotItInPeople2.jpg) reissue cover.
That's a lot better, actually. Simple works. 9 times out of 10, leaving your band and album name off of your album cover is really dumb.
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I like it a lot more than the YFIIP (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/YouForgotItInPeople2.jpg) reissue cover.
That's a lot better, actually. Simple works. 9 times out of 10, leaving your band and album name off of your album cover is really dumb.
ahem.
(http://blog.roodo.com/wwrecords/adaeab5b.jpg)
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apparently there's going to be a new Star One album. though I don't think there's a definite release date for it yet, at least one of the songs has already been recorded.
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I like it a lot more than the YFIIP (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/YouForgotItInPeople2.jpg) reissue cover.
That's a lot better, actually. Simple works. 9 times out of 10, leaving your band and album name off of your album cover is really dumb.
ahem.
[img]http://blog.roodo.com/wwrecords/adaeab5b.jpg[img]
Haha, no
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I would have chosen the Blue Record
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i was going to post the cover of Mi Media Naranja, but honestly no matter how hi-res the picture you really need to see a physical copy to appreciate how fucking amazing it is. otherwise it just looks like kind of a blur:
(http://static.boomkat.com/images/72706/333.jpg)
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It might be bad marketing I guess but 9 time out of 10 my favourite album artwork features no writing on it at all (or the artist/title incorporated into the art organically). Anyway, you can always put the name on the spine.
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The label or distributor will often put a little temporary sticker on the front of the album anyway with the band and album names on it.
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Sometimes people at JB Hifi write the band name and album title on the plastic wrap around the album.
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That's because after a long day working at JB Hi Fi it's the only thing that reminds them that they're still alive.
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That, and stealing CDs.
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They don't fear prison.
They've already worked at JB.
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So, Romance Is Boring might very well be the best thing I have heard all year.
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Seriously.
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Fabriclive 50 (DBridge / Instra:mental) is quite good.
Also Starkey is going to be the Joy Orbison of 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pHsmVgFSiM). Believe.
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The next big hyped-up thing for 2011?
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Nah that'll probably be... I don't know, some motherfucker who turns out a big Rustie remix.
Whats I mean is that Starkey will be the big rave-y dubstep motherfucker of 2010.
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New New Pornos News with new New Pornos song. (http://pitchfork.com/news/37972-new-track-from-new-pornographers-your-hands-together/)
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PiL announced a tour of the states, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Does John Lydon still sign off his U.S. shows the same way he did in the Pistols days?
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Dear God I Hate Myself is great
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Xiu Xiu just doesn't do it for me anymore.
Besnard Lakes? My initial impressions are that the Roaring Night is better than the Dark Horse and that they still sound like Low rockin the fuck out. The latter is kinda their shtick though.
Laura Veirs' new record is energetic and pretty.
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It's Fabulous Muscles good
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I'll check it out later. I'm just not in the mood for self-loathing-like music right now.
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Does John Lydon still sign off his U.S. shows the same way he did in the Pistols days?
He's in butter adverts these days.
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So it's more Public Image Pty. Ltd. now?
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I am really enjoying the new Frightened Rabbit.
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I concur
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I disagree. Compared to the last album it just seems much more dull and prolonged to me, not at all like the constant flow of great tracks on The Midnight Organ Fight. Sure, there are a couple of great tracks in there but as a whole it doesn't live up to my expectations.
However, Sing The Greys wasn't exactly great either and they did add people to the band lineup for this album so maybe it was a bit rushed in the end.
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Yeah I dug it for the first couple songs but after a while they all started to muddle together. Back to the Midnight Organ Fight for me.
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Stylo - Gorillaz(music video) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs)
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That video is amazing. There's a moment about 2:40 in where Bruce Willis turns to the camera and just gives a look that seems to say "I'm motherfukkin Bruce Willis, and I'm about to do something awesome".
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Can anyone tell me where I recognise the synth line in Rhinestone Eyes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-f-dHvMPVY) that starts about a third of the way in and then again at about 1:55 and then again later on from? It's been bugging me since the first time I heard that song on the radio.
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Some jerk in the comments thinks it sounds like the Theme from "Grease", and I'd be inclined to agree?
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I don't like where the concept of the Gorillaz 'band' has gone now.
Good tune, though.
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I am enjoying that New Pornographers track. A lot.
New Frightened Rabbit is pretty good. I agree that it lacks a lot of what made 'Midnight Organ Fight' a really, really great album, but I'm still enjoying it. 'Skip the Youth' is a belter.
New Joanna Newsom is just too special. The 2nd Disc is totally standing out for me, but the whole thing is just beautiful and I was really sad when it finished.
Has anyone heard The Unwinding Hours album? From the ashes of awesome Scottish band Aereogramme, it's very post-rocky but without sounding really samey all the way through. I'm digging it.
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Yeah, I'm digging the new Gorillaz. I used to not like superfast Jellyfish, but it fits into the rest of the album.
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Everything from "Rhinestone Eyes" to "On Melancholy Hill" is really goddamn solid and I'm probably enjoying it more than I should.
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Rhinestone Eyes is the shit.
that other one though..."Stylo" I believe it's called...not so good. It fact it kind of pisses me off for some reason. Overrall, I'm a little disappointed but I haven't even heard the last couple tracks yet.
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Have I mentioned that the new Blood Red Shoes album is the shit yet?
Anyway, it is.
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I agree with the above statement.
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I don't think it's out yet (maybe I'm wrong), but listening to Deadelus' old stuff I am very much excited for a new album to come out of that direction.
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Fionn Regan's gone electric and I love it. Sounds like he's been listening to a lot of post-"Judas!" Dylan in the last couple of years.
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So, I really like Plastic Beach. A lot. Right now, as an album, it seems like I only like Transference better. There've been a lot of great songs by other bands, but as great full-lengths go, these two are taking the cake.
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You don't like Have One On Me?
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Haven't listened to it yet, A) because I am lazy and... well actually that is the only reason.
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It is so good go do it.
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Guys have we talked about how The Hold Steady have a new record out this year?
Let's talk about that.
New Album “Heaven is Whenever” Available May 3 in the UK and EU / May 4 in the US
New Album “Heaven is Whenever” Available May 3 in the UK and EU / May 4 in the US
The Hold Steady recently put the finishing touches on ‘Heaven Is Whenever,’ their new album set for release May 4th on Vagrant Records and May 3rd on Rough Trade in the UK and EU. The album was produced by Dean Baltulonis, who engineered the band’s ‘Almost Killed Me’ and produced ‘Separation Sunday,’ and was recorded at Dreamland Recording Studios in Upstate NY and Wild Arctic Studios in Queens, NY, with mixing also happening at Wild Arctic.
Singer Craig Finn says ’Heaven Is Whenever’ is about “embracing suffering and finding reward in our everyday lives.” Piano and keys take a backseat to guitar on the new record, which also gets production help from guitarist Tad Kubler.
Recorded in several smaller sessions spread out over a long period of time, the songs on ‘Heaven Is Whenever’ received the benefit of being tested on the band’s recent tours. As Finn says this allowed them to “see what was working and what wasn’t. I believe this record benefits from us working at a more deliberate pace.”
The tracklisting for Heaven Is Whenever is:
1 The Sweet Part of the City
2 Soft in the Center
3 The Weekenders
4 The Smidge
5 Rock Problems
6 We Can Get Together
7 Hurricane J
8 Barely Breathing
9 Our Whole Lives
10 A Slight Discomfort
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You don't like Have One On Me?
I don't. Then again I didn't like any of hers before, so this was expected
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Is it one of those things where I have to like her previous stuff first? 'cause I've never really listened to her.
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no
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I haven't listened to a word of Ys
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ok good because I was not planning on downloading anything else.
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Well the reason I didn't like Ys was because I didn't like her voice, and that generally doesn't change from album to album
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Anyone into the new Errors album? I'm about 4 tracks in and enjoying it a lot so far.
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Well the reason I didn't like Ys was because I didn't like her voice, and that generally doesn't change from album to album
Actually her voice has changed quite a bit album to album.
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Yeah I have found everything I have heard from Have One on Me to be characteristically tolerable, in marked contrast to everything else she has done
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R.I.P. Sparklehorse. (http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/)
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:-(
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Time to listen to Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain and feel sad about stuff.
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Just grabbed the new Kaki King. Sounds like what would happen if Tegan and Sara started doing hard drugs with Laura Veirs. Translation: fucking awesome.
edit for rocking track youtubage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTmJBbGaHY8)
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The first single off Brant Bjork's new album is out tomorrow, with the album coming out on the 30th.
Dudes, I am stoked.
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The new Miles Kurosky album is excellent! Beulah fans, go listen! AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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New Eiluveitie is lovely. Do check.
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The new Brasstronaut is great. I dl'd the new Anais Mitchell but she's gonna get pushed down in favor of Miles Kurosky, 'cos fuck, man. Beulah.
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Iron and Wine are rumoured to be putting out a country album this year.
Also rumoured was that Sam Beam has a pair of assless chaps he's going to model for the album cover, but I think that one was less than serious.
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wtf he just came out with a double album last year
sure it was b-sides but come on give a brother a break, i am still reeling from the shepherd's dog
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Brasstronaut
That is an awful, terrible name for a band.
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And yet I really hope they one day get to play a double-bill with the Skatalites.
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Warming up for a newly reunited Skabba the Hutt
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wtf he just came out with a double album last year
sure it was b-sides but come on give a brother a break, i am still reeling from the shepherd's dog
seriously. I played the fuck out of that album when it came out, then kind of forgot about it. Well, lately I've been playing it pretty regularly again and hot-damn it is great.
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holy crap guys that new foals song is really good.
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on his Facebook, Tobacco, of Black Moth Super Rainbow fame, is talking about putting some of his future shows onto Chatroulette (sp?) live just so somebody might, at some point, masturbate to the show.
it was universally decided (in the comments) that they should project the other chatter onto a screen on stage so everyone can see.
whether or not any of this will actually happen is unknown and pretty doubtful (but not unimaginable, knowing Tobacco), but I would be really stoked if he did it./
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That would be awesome.
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Hey shitheads check out this fucking jam (http://www.youtube.com/user/yogabbagabba#p/u/56/hA0yON5bdAU) I made.
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Hmm I'm starting to think that really is Kevin Barnes
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I've liked all the new albums I've heard this year.
Spoon
Owen Pallett
Surfer Blood
Gorillaz
All good.
Still want to hear Xiu Xiu and Los Campesinos!
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The new Miles Kurosky album is excellent! Beulah fans, go listen! AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
oh shit oh shit gotta get on that
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holy shit, new laura marling is fucking deliriously good. at least, the first song is. bluhhhhh
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also new holy fuck (http://pitchfork.com/news/38176-holy-fuck-reveal-new-album-via-sketchy-website-chatroulette/) is coming
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open your mouth
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The band announced the album's imminent release yesterday via the deeply sketchy internet chat service Chatroulette. Supposedly first single "Latin America" is streaming on Chatroulette today, if you can find it. When I tried just now, the service randomly paired me up with some dude jerking off. I seriously almost barfed. So be prepared for that to happen if you really need to hear the song. (It will be released as an mp3 next week.)
Hahahahahahahaha
Anyway this is great! It was only a few days ago I was wondering what was happening with these dudes.
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wtf he just came out with a double album last year
sure it was b-sides but come on give a brother a break, i am still reeling from the shepherd's dog
That double album was just a collection of demos that were floating around the internet, really. Ironically I like more experimental music but just couldn't get into the Shepherd's Dog the same way I did his earlier work, and find his bootlegged acoustic versions of, say, The Devil Never Sleeps way more preferable.
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New MGMT is like the WORST FUCKING SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD. I mean, dear god (http://stereogum.com/293942/mgmt-flash-delirium/mp3s/). It's overwrought, over-thought, trying way too hard and is just plain and fucking simple terrible. It's such a 'growth' in that it follows the idea that more ideas equals better so stuff em' all in to a 4 minute song! The last 30 seconds made me burst into a fit of giggles and not in a good way at all.
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New Eiluveitie is lovely. Do check.
I didn't even know they had something coming out.
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New MGMT is like the WORST FUCKING SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD. I mean, dear god (http://stereogum.com/293942/mgmt-flash-delirium/mp3s/). It's overwrought, over-thought, trying way too hard and is just plain and fucking simple terrible. It's such a 'growth' in that it follows the idea that more ideas equals better so stuff em' all in to a 4 minute song! The last 30 seconds made me burst into a fit of giggles and not in a good way at all.
Kevin Barnes wants to give you a talking-to
(ha ha I made a joke that MGMT sounds like Of Montreal)
(that song is not bad at all)
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holy shit, new laura marling is fucking deliriously good. at least, the first song is. bluhhhhh
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also new holy fuck (http://pitchfork.com/news/38176-holy-fuck-reveal-new-album-via-sketchy-website-chatroulette/) is coming
Those guys are still around? I thought they got blasted out when Battles came out and started making music with one drummer that Holy Fuck couldn't even get close to with two drummers. The songs off the self-titled started okay but they never went anywhere.
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lol Battles
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I'm imagining someone bursting into giggles in a bad way.
As in laughing at not with.
(Also hoooooboy was I drunk when I posted that so it might be a bit hyperbolic but I stick to the sentiment that it is fucking trash)
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also new holy fuck (http://pitchfork.com/news/38176-holy-fuck-reveal-new-album-via-sketchy-website-chatroulette/) is coming
Speaking of terrible awful band names.
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What
Holy Fuck might be an awful band name if they didn't so thoroughly live up to it
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...Live up to it by being terrible?
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Ha ha ha it is funny because yr critical apparatus is assbackwards fucked up
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The Bird and the Bee made a Hall & Oates tribute record and it's not terrible. In fact, it's rather enjoyable. Whaaat?
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Ha ha ha it is funny because yr critical apparatus is assbackwards fucked up
I have literally no idea what this means.
I said it's an awful band name, you said they live up to it. I'd say that living up to an awful band name, you'd have to be an awful band. I've never heard a note of the music these guys make. I was merely contributing to the discussion.
Now what in the blue hell did your posts mean?
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I think he's saying that you think awesome bands are awful (see: Holy Fuck) and awful bands are awesome (see: Slipknot).
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Finally got my hands on Ludicra's new album. Diggin' it so far. Might upload it later if anyone else cares to take a gander.
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I think he's saying that you think awesome bands are awful (see: Holy Fuck) and awful bands are awesome (see: Slipknot).
Yeah pretty much I read yr post as saying that Holy Fuck were awful which is mostly contextualised by the fact that you have the worst taste in music of anyone I have ever talked to anywhere and as such yr methods for appraising the relative quality of music are broken.
I misconstrued though, so sorry.
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I love Kaki King so much. I think it's because she sounds like a upbeat Suzanne Vega.
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The Bird and the Bee made a Hall & Oates tribute record and it's not terrible. In fact, it's rather enjoyable. Whaaat?
Dude Hall & Oates are frickin' majestic.
Also Laura Marling's record is so nice. Why the fuck don't I listen to more folk, again?
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I dunno. Is it an endangered species in Australia?
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I think he's saying that you think awesome bands are awful (see: Holy Fuck) and awful bands are awesome (see: Slipknot).
Yeah pretty much I read yr post as saying that Holy Fuck were awful which is mostly contextualised by the fact that you have the worst taste in music of anyone I have ever talked to anywhere and as such yr methods for appraising the relative quality of music are broken.
I misconstrued though, so sorry.
Okay seriously, you're not going to stop doing it because I ask you do and I wouldn't expect you to if I tried, but why do you put 'yr' instead of all forms of the word 'your'? Is it to do with Sonic Youth, or is it completely unrelated?
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Does it bother you, or are you just curious?
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serious deja vu. either it really bothers him or someone else brought up sonic youth in the same context
or there's a glitch in the matrix idk
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Dude Hall & Oates are frickin' majestic.
Yeah, don't be disrespecting Darryl Hall. I'll cut you.
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Okay seriously, you're not going to stop doing it because I ask you do and I wouldn't expect you to if I tried, but why do you put 'yr' instead of all forms of the word 'your'? Is it to do with Sonic Youth, or is it completely unrelated?
I can't speak for Dovey but Sonic Youth's "Expressway to Yr. Skull" totally legitimized the use of that abbreviation for me, cus I'm a goddamned or something I dunno, but I guess to a certain extent you are quite right to make that association.
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Yeah, don't be disrespecting Darryl Hall. I'll cut you.
I'm not! Just sayin covers records tend to be fairly lame. this bird & bee rec is not. whether that has anything to do with being a hall & oates tribute record has yet to be decided.
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Does it bother you, or are you just curious?
Both.
As I said I'm not about to ask him to stop because he wouldn't even if I did, and it'd be ridiculous of me to expect him to, even if it does mean I struggle to take him seriously.
I think it'd annoy me slightly less if I knew the reasoning, though.
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I do it because Hunter S. Thompson did it, who in turn did it because the Beats did it. I'm assuming Sonic Youth does it for one of those as well.
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Okay, I officially withdraw any annoyance I previously had. I can't remotely argue with the awesomeness of Hunter S. Thompson, and I'm not even being sarcastic.
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Yeah, don't be disrespecting Darryl Hall. I'll cut you.
I'm not! Just sayin covers records tend to be fairly lame. this bird & bee rec is not. whether that has anything to do with being a hall & oates tribute record has yet to be decided.
All right. We're cool. For now.
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Also, I dunno if Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg or Sonic Youth can be used as a justification for behavior. Such names make the whole practice smack of "The exception that proves the rule," territory. I mean, if Tom Waits started playing guitar with his cock at childrens' birthday parties he'd still probably put on a great show. Doesn't mean you should do it.
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I totally recommend Tom Waits playing penis guitar at children's birthday parties
But only if he bursts out of an oversized, paper-mache cake first
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Also, I dunno if Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg or Sonic Youth can be used as a justification for behavior.
I was implying that I was doing it in tribute to HST because the guy has made a lot of stuff that I enjoyed, not so much "Well hey if this guy can then so can I". Sorry if that was unclear.
Also like most of the affectations I employ on this forum, I feel it makes the intended tone of my writing easier to convey.
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Eh, hey, as long as it's not comic sans knock yourself out.
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I always figured it was just a thing the kids were doing.
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I think, much like many other things "the kids" supposedly do, it is something a handful of kids do for their own reasons and they have never commiserated over the fact.
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Speaking of the kids, the new MGMT leaked on hipinion and it is actually pretty good! Or, you know, if it's fake, whatever the fuck I'm listening to is nice.
Hate bandwagon fail.
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fuck, i wish they accepted new members.
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to those who like the Deftones: Diamond Eyes has leaked. If you like them at all or don't then you should still listen to it because it is good :mrgreen:
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fuck, i wish they accepted new members.
I'll be posting it in the mediaf!re thread soon
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fuck, i wish they accepted new members.
You can still lurk and check out the leaked thread:
http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=31
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yesss new delorean leaked
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new barenaked ladies, delorean, apples in stereo and plants and animals, arctic monkeys?
will come back and post here later.
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Now that SPV has seemingly worked out their financial situation, there should be new Skinny Puppy and Ohgr albums coming through in the spring. New Cevin Key as well, through Subcon.
Frontline Assembly too, who are working on their new disc with Al from Ministry.
Unter Null's new three cd set Holding On came out and was fantastic, as was the new Suicide Commando, Implements of Hell.
Also new albums from 16 Volt, System Syn and IAMX
There was also a great four disc compilation called Electronic Saviors: Industrial Music to Cure Cancer. It has exclusive tacks/remixes from every major artist in the genre on it including Prometheus Burning, Stromkern, Chemlab, Flesh Field, Uberbyte, SAM, Imperative Reaction and Assemblage 23 to name just a few.
So yeah. Big year so far.
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Wow I have no clue who any of those bands are
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That new Unter Null was surprisingly good, and new Frontline is always welcome.
Think you might be the only person on the planet (well, outside Germany) who's actually looking forward to a new System Syn album - they've been churning out the same ol' dross year in year out since the first one. Unlike every other EBM band of course. Still, you never know..
Didn't even know Flesh Field were still around, any idea if they're planning on a new proper release or just that odd track?
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Oh man that new Jonsi album is completely godawful. SO disappointed! Not that I had high hopes but man is it bad. "Animal Arithmetic" sounds like it belongs on a Final Fantasy soundtrack, for example. This might be this year's "Bitte Orca" for me.
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new barenaked ladies, delorean, apples in stereo and plants and animals, arctic monkeys?
will come back and post here later.
Didn't BNL's lead singer just quit?
I'm really curious about what their new record will be like. The last two albums they made, the second one was great, but the first one is actually one of the finest albums I've heard in the last ten years.
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That new Unter Null was surprisingly good, and new Frontline is always welcome.
Think you might be the only person on the planet (well, outside Germany) who's actually looking forward to a new System Syn album - they've been churning out the same ol' dross year in year out since the first one. Unlike every other EBM band of course. Still, you never know..
Didn't even know Flesh Field were still around, any idea if they're planning on a new proper release or just that odd track?
Oh, System Syn. They're good junk culture. Catchy synth-pop. I don't really analyze them beyond that.
Oh, and Flesh Field...Wendy appeared on the last Controlled Collapse CD. News as of 12/16/09 on the fourth full length is as follows:
"TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY STATUS UPDATE: The music for Flesh Field's fourth full-length album has been completed, although vocals still have to be written and recorded. The tentative tracklisting is as follows:
Let Fall the Sentinels
Millenarian
Forgotten Trauma
The Vanguard Delusion
Doragon
L-5
Swarm
The Lashkar
A New Enlightenment
In Perpetuity
One or two additional tracks may be included if they can be completed within a reasonable time frame."
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Didn't BNL's lead singer just quit?
I'm really curious about what their new record will be like. The last two albums they made, the second one was great, but the first one is actually one of the finest albums I've heard in the last ten years.
Yeah he did, you can really tell that they're trying to mimic how he sounded on some of the songs. Haven't made up my mind on the album yet, only given it one listen so far.
Those two new BSS tracks are a lot more rock structured than I was expecting after hearing World Sick.
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Wooooo Eisbrecher in a month!
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I made a song to tell the kids what to eat when they're sick, it's called "Bananas, Rice, Apple Sauce, Toast". I'm working on a follow up to tell y'all what to eat when you're hating, it's called "My Dick".
http://vimeo.com/10269495
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oh you
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I actually really, really like the new Jonsi album... and the new Broken Social Scene songs are potentially life-changing. So fucking excited for both.
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Here is why I am excited for the 2015 in Music thread: http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/03/carrie-brownstein.php
Q: When am I going to get to hear a new Sleater-Kinney album?
A: Well, Janet, Corin and I are still great friends. And we will probably do something. It's so intense, that band.
Q: People love that band.
A: We spent 11 years committed to that band, heart and soul. To get back into it we have to be in that place where we can immerse ourselves fully. I think it will happen. We have to loop around, and we're at the far end of the circle, away from the band, but I think we will come back and revisit it. And hopefully that record will be sometime in the next five years.
*hip hop air horn sound*
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(Flesh Field album info)
Thanks mate, appreciated. That's just made my week. Love a bit o' Flesh Field.
Just giving the new Diorama a spin, another one I didn't know about - March '10 has been full of pleasant surprises.
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In ze world of metahl, new records by Darkthrone, Alcest, and Negura Bunget have all leaked, and zey are all quite good.
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are za bands you speek ov german?
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No, zey are from Norway, France, and Romania respectively, but my knowledge ov zeir respective languages is non-existent, so I am going with ze generic changing all "th" sounds to "z"s.
Plus, it sounds much more mehtal zat way. Just look at how I pronounce ze word ov. Ov. Ov! OV OV OV
So mehtal
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Yov forgots to svbstitvtes alls of the "u"'s ins the sentence for v's as wells. Onlys in this ways wills yov bes trvly kvlt.
Alsos the needless plvralisings ovs ze wordses.
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Ah, yeses. hows coulds I forgets abovts ze plvralizations.
Anywayses, I do believes I shall goes shares ze wonderfvl new Darkthrones records withs everybodys, poor sovnds qvalitys be damneds!
(Zis iz svch mehtals way ov speakings! I ams feelings so kvlts, I covld eats up bibles and poops out spikeds gavntlets)
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Darkthrones...poor sovnds qvalitys
Isn't it supposed to sound like that?
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Well yeses, bvt I was referrings to ze bitrates.
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Look, I don't want to be rude, but you don't truly understand the stylistic system of Darkthrone. I remember, back in 1991, I went round to Euronymus' flat. He showed me pictures of the suicide of Dead and we listened to a Sarcofago bootleg...it tore apart our fucking souls, it goes without saying...
(eye) mean, this is thee metal, not some post-INdustrial gnostick sexxx magick proceedure ov thee temple ov psychick youth. Really.
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Kids and their leet-speak. It's so beyond me.
Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Apu1XPpxk
Me likes.
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I am listening to the new Dillinger Escape Plan record. I am enjoying it!
EDIT: Oh fuck oh fuck "Widower" is blowing my mind
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Have I told the story here of how I saw The Dillinger Escape Plan live in a tiny little venue and went to sleep on the floor in front of the sound desk whilst all the 14 year olds windmilled away?
That was a pretty sweet gig. Ephel Duath were the opener, which was why I was there. The other band was Poison the Well. Actually, it was a pretty shitty gig, except there were only like six guys there who knew who Ephel Duath were, and we had a great time during their set elbowing atrocious little scene girls off the front railings and the singer even passed us the mic to scream. Good sleeping though. I seem to remember the guitarist for Dillinger Escape Plan was just kept jumping off his amp stack all set.
What I'm trying to say is Dillinger Escape Plan are a really terrible band, and you should feel bad for liking them.
Dickhead.
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See Khar the problem with hating roughly 99% of everything ever is that whether yr right or wrong in individual instances doesn't matter because the sheer volume of stuff you think is terrible means I'll never take you seriously.
What I'm trying to say is pffffffbbfffbfbfffbbbffffbbffffttt blow it out yr rear window grandpa
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I am massively enjoying the new apples in stereo.
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pffffffbbfffbfbfffbbbffffbbffffttt blow it out yr rear window grandpa
guarantee you Khar has listening to a band called this at some point
and hated it
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Oh and it occurred to me just now that it is hilarious that Khar judges other bands based on their fans when he listens to black metal, folk metal, industrial and gothic rock a haw haw haw
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Oh, Triptykon's debut album has also leaked, and it is pretty badass.
I like to play a game where I look at the album art and count how many robotic penises I see going into robotic orifices.
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How often do you get to play that game with new album art?
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I like to play a game where I look at the album art and count how many robotic penises I see going into robotic orifices.
Looking at yr avatar with this in mind.
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The new MGMT is awful. I know we've covered this before but they're playing songs off it on the radio and my god do these songs just spend 8 minutes circling the drain.
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The We Were Promised Jetpacks ep is pretty good.
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YEAH IT IS
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Oh, so 1349 has yet another album coming out, but according to Decibel it's a return to form, rather than some half-assed experimental thing.
That makes me a little bit excited.
Also, robotic-penis-orifice action as my avatar: Allowed? Not allowed?
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I think if Katie (calenlass) can get away with her avatar then you can probably get away with a robotcock. Especially if it is hilarious.
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And here I was sitting here thinkin' me and Ivan Karamazov would never get mentioned in the same breath
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You two are so close now you may as well just call yourselves the Brothers Dovey.
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The Triptykon album is, by the way, pretty darn good
Oh, I guess I said that already. Oh well.
I'll probably up it later, though
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New Wolf Parade on its way! Hopefully that means a tour. This is getting a little absurd, I've heard or am anticipating hearing soon somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 albums ranging from pretty decent to really great so far this year and it's barely April.
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Die Antwoord is crazy
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I've heard or am anticipating hearing soon somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 albums ranging from pretty decent to really great so far this year and it's barely April.
Jesus! I have heard 8 albums released this year, and some of them I'm not crazy about. I suppose I just need to look harder or something.
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I've got 45 in my "2010" folder and I'm hardly trying, so 75 doesn't seem so surprising. It'll be interesting to see how many I'm still listening to a year from now, though. The only albums from last year I've been consistently listening to have been The xx, Freelance Whales, and, surprisingly, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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hey guys
new tobacco (http://stereogum.com/323631/tobacco-sweatmother/mp3s/) in may
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New Wolf Parade on its way! Hopefully that means a tour. This is getting a little absurd, I've heard or am anticipating hearing soon somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 albums ranging from pretty decent to really great so far this year and it's barely April.
Do you have literally nothing else to do?
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I keep hearing there will be a new Les Breastfeeders soon.
There is a "Best of" for Doves out though.
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Holy fuck, the new Black Breath album slays so hard. Will up soon as I have finished this damn paper (which may or may not happen in the next century)
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P4k sez nu Bttles ths yr.
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new Chemical Brothers this year as well.
Also, I like the Communist Daughter new album. Might up it later.
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hey guys
new tobacco (http://stereogum.com/323631/tobacco-sweatmother/mp3s/) in may
Also Fucked Up Friends 2
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There is a "Best of" for Doves out though.
The Doves fanboy in me is stoked for this, even though it will probably be all material I've heard before, unless it comes with never-before-seen-or-heard B-sides.
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P4k sez nu Bttles ths yr.
FK YS
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sht sht sht sht sht EXCITE
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the new doves has a new single :O
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At first I didn't dig the new Titus Andronicus but little bits and pieces of it keep popping into my head so I guess it's subliminal.
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A PR guy emailed me to tell me that Trentemoller's dropping his second album this year in June.
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holy fuck.
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So Slash's solo album is out, and it reminds me of Santana's Supernatural. Probably mostly because of the whole changing vocalists every song thing. Not really musically similar. It just seems to lack cohesion because of how different each song is.
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New Patrick Wolf album coming out at some point.
yay
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Pitchfork says Menomena is putting out a new album this year too. Same with Mates of State. And the list keeps growing.
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It's streaming on their website (http://www.matesofstate.com/splash/)
edit: well the first song anyway
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New Patrick Wolf album coming out at some point.
yay
didn't he announce it when The Bachelor came out? I am pretty sure I read somewhere that Bachelor was Part 1 of a two-album series that used to be a double album called Battle
nope, I'm not a pwolf fanboy, nope
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So Slash's solo album is out, and it reminds me of Santana's Supernatural. Probably mostly because of the whole changing vocalists every song thing. Not really musically similar. It just seems to lack cohesion because of how different each song is.
Supernatural kinda proved that you don't really need that cohesion though.
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So the new album by The Ocean, "Heliocentric," leaked yesterday.
And it sounds like Tool
It sounds like Tool with violins
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the three tracks I've heard from Tobacco's newest release are pretty effin sweet.
can't wait for the whole album!
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New Magic Numbers coming on June 7th
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guys, can we talk about how this year has been pretty fantastic so far?
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so what do you guys think about how fantastic the year has been so far?
....
has it really been that fantastic? A couple bands that I sort of liked released new shit that I really didn't like...so.....I'm kind of bummed.
I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for any word whatsoever on what Man Man is up to. they can single-handedly turn my life around by releasing a new cd.
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There's been a lot of good albums with a few fantastic songs, but not so much straight-up fantastic albums through-and-through. The only two that have struck me as balls-to-the-wall awesome have been Spoon and Gorillaz. And even then, I start the Gorillaz album at "Rhinestone Eyes" and end at "On Melancholy Hill."
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Some good stuff incoming, though, hopefully. LCD Soundsystem, Faded Paper Figures, rumored Arcade Fire and Crystal Castles. Who knows, maybe this year will kick in late.
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The Brutalist Bricks is so fantastic
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Oh I'm enjoying the Nada Surf covers record, in as much as I'm listening to it and it makes me want to listen to their old stuff again. Woo?
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Music that I am glad I heard that came out this year:
Brasstronaut, Spoon, The Knife, Dum Dum Girls, Gil Scott-Heron, Gorillaz, Liars, White Hinterland, Jonsi, Plants and Animals, The Apples in Stereo, High on Fire, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Efterklang, Eluvium, Frightened Rabbit, Autechre, Communist Daughter, (the majority of their new album) These New Puritans, Holy Fuck, Broken Bells.
I think this year has been pretty good so far. Maybe not every song on these albums is great, but still, I think this is a fairly good number, considering it's been only three full months (and a bit).
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Man I didn't like that Knife album but I fucking adore "Colouring of Pigeons" and could listen to it on repeat for hours.
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Wait the Holy Fuck album is out already?
So the new album by The Ocean, "Heliocentric," leaked yesterday.
And it sounds like Tool
It sounds like Tool with violins
1) Is it a proper leak or did someone just record/transcode the stream from MetalSucks?
2) I'd agree with the comparison but also say that it is considerably better than that comparison makes it seem.
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Wait the Holy Fuck album is out already?
It leaked yeah.
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Yeah the new Holy Fuck is pretty great.
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1) Is it a proper leak or did someone just record/transcode the stream from MetalSucks?
It's proper, I found it before the stream was posted
it is considerably better than that comparison makes it seem.
Also, true
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Literally everybody on what.cd hates it.
I listened to the first half of the MetalSucks stream and really dug it though so fuck those guys. It's probably not as good as Precambrian though. Also apparently Anthropocentric will be more heavy/chug chug stuff?
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Oh dang, Isis is releasing a split they did with the Melvins sometime in Maaaaaaayyy
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Latin is pretty fuckin' great
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yeah, it is.
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yeah, i'm gonna have to agree.
I didn't like it at first (four minute ambient intro? SNORE) but, skipping that, and listening to the rest at a decent volume has completely changed my mind. It's awesome.
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BSS
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BSS and LCD Soundsystem in one day?
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Some days are good days.
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indeed.
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Keith Fullerton Whitman!
Shame he doesn't make Hrvatski records anymore.
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He's got a split coming out this year on Digitalis with the flipside of a recording of a live improvisational collaboration between Svarte Greiner and Xela. He's also got a tape coming out on Root Strata. He's definitely doing some very cool stuff this year.
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Latin is pretty fuckin' great
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Cover for the new Pendulum album
Click for even bigger!
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2epsvoi.jpg) (http://www.wmuk-apache.co.uk/pendulum/artwork/Pendulum%20Immersion-valp-6.jpg)
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Oh man I hope this has some songs with 2-step beats on them
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Strategically placed bubble.
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oh my fuck
beck and tobacco (http://stereogum.com/342112/tobacco-fresh-hex-featu-beck-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/?utm_campaign=sg&utm_medium=homepage&utm_source=topstories)
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fuck maaaan
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I pooped
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dude.
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It ain't all that.
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excuse me while i scrounge together the shattered remains of my genitalia
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(http://col.hanslanda.com/img/haters-gonna-hate.gif)
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The newest album by Immolation is really good/an album by Immolation
Also buuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th20RfvdXKo)
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buh?
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Buh
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buwuh
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n fact, the way Tobacco cuts up Beck’s verses reminds me of Beck’s older, messier analog albums.
I like Beck and all, but he's better when his cadence is slowed down. And for some reason his nonsensical lyrics aren't nearly as fun as they used to be.
As for Tobacco, I figured out what was bugging me about him - he does for Boards of Canada what MSTRKFT did for Daft Punk, ie takes the fun out of it.
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2010 has been awesome thus far...Gorillaz, Laura Marling, Fang Island, Crystal Castles have all put out exceptional albums...I need to listen to all this other stuff
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I'm really looking forward to the new stuff from Gogol Bordello. Pala Tute hasn't really done it for me, but some of the other songs they played from the new album at the show I went to the other week were really good. What I've heard of The Hold Steady's Heaven is Whenever has been kind of underwhelming, but it always takes awhile for their albums to grow on me.
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I'm still not 100% on the new Crystal Castles.
There's some good songs (baptism yesssss), but for the most part, I feel like I'm just 'meh'.
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i agree.
I just listened to it again and, while the first listen left pretty much nothing good in my mind, the second listen had me really enjoying "Empathy" and not much else.
oh well! they weren't that great to begin with!
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Yeah thirding that feeling
Loving the fuck out of Triptykon though!
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fuck all ya'll motherfuckers, i'm still in love with the new crystal castles. for the most part, that and lcd soundsystem are all i'm really playing anymore. although the new japandroids single is boss.
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Loving the fuck out of Triptykon though!
/o
Also, I am listening right now to the latest (leaked) album by a Mexican metal band called Hacavitz. Though to be released in 2010, it sounds like it was released in 1988 or something. Fucking awesome.
(Will probably up later)
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So the new National album is definitely AOTY for me. I'd like to pretend something is gonna be better, but there's just no chance.
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^ Ditto. Just... just fucking ditto. God damn that album.
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I've never really been the type to lose it over BSS but this Forgiveness Rock Record is pretty solid, no doubt. It'll be nice when the album is actually out and hopefully there will be more info i.e; I can find out who is actually on each track.
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There is new Ital Tek coming and it is going to be sweet.
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Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, The National, The New Pornographers. I always knew this would be a good year in music due to those albums, but who knew it would be a good week because of those albums?
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High Violet is fast leaving the status of "favorite album of 2010" and rapidly approaching "holy fucking shit this is going to end up being one of my favorite albums ever and one that I will always associate with a certain period in my life so I will always have a hazy sense of romantic nostalgia and emotion gravitating around these songs".
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Plan B's new album has annoyed me because it's not what I wanted or expected, but it's still pretty great.
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New 65daysofstatic is pretty solid too.
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It gives me 5 distinct varieties of boners
Oh dang, there is also a new album out by Twilight (USBM supergroup). I am going to have to check it out when I get home
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oh man, the new Black Keys is fucking awesooooome
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Turns out Twilight is one of those black metal bands that makes terrible metal but surprisingly good ambient music.
Also everybody says the new National record is so incredibly great, and yet I can't find a link that hasn't yet been taken down. Guess I'm missing out.
Also also I did not know Booka Shade had a new album out until just now. That's pretty cool.
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Also everybody says the new National record is so incredibly great, and yet I can't find a link that hasn't yet been taken down. Guess I'm missing out.
V0 alright?
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yesssssss
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dunno how long it'll last but go nuts (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,19792.msg934175.html#msg934175)
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You rock my socks
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New Robyn is really really really good. Fuck.
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And there are two more installments to go!
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http://www.interpolnyc.com/lights.html
that's a new interpol track! excite!
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Kollaps Tradixionales is pretty great
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New Robyn is really really really good. Fuck.
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New Ellen Allien album has leeeeeeaked
Edit: Will up sometime this afternoon
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New Ellen Allien album has leeeeeeaked
outstanding. thanks for the heads up
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You guys you guys there will be a new Rosetta record out next month
Also next month is when the new Austerity Program comes out
And it would appear that there is a new God Is An Astronaut in the mediaf!re thread
I am pretty stoked on the releases from two newish bands Howl (http://www.myspace.com/howlheavymetal), and Mantric (http://www.myspace.com/mantric)
Conclusion: It is a good time for beard metal fans (i.e; me)
EDIT: Fuck fuck fuck Coliseum have a new one out in June as well Fuckkkk
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Howl (http://www.myspace.com/howlheavymetal)
one minute into that first song on their myspace and I'm already loving it.
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New Wintersleep in a few weeks, good god this last month has been great
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New William Fitzsimmons album in 2 weeks.
EDIT: So it's an album of covers and remixes actually. Still might be good.
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Fucking shit (http://www.sputnikmusic.com/news.php?newsid=13721)
How did this happen two weeks ago and I didn't hear about it till now?
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Some Starkey jawns gettin me in a Friday kinda mood. Cheers Johnny Kvp, thanks frit.
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Fucking shit (http://www.sputnikmusic.com/news.php?newsid=13721)
How did this happen two weeks ago and I didn't hear about it till now?
Especially seeing as it was discussed in length on this very forum. Forum user Melodic (Fraser) was at the show where he collapsed!
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Hey so the new Flylo's actually pretty good. I expected so much overheated Los Angeles mush, but he lets his jazz heritage in a bit and it's a pretty great record as a result.
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Whoa the new Tunng is fantastic
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We're a quarter of the way through the year and here already are all the albums I've heard or plan on hearing in the (hopefully) near future:
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
Spoon – Transference
Midlake – The Courage of Others
Beach House – Teen Dream
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
Efterklang – Magic Chairs
Titus Androncius – The Moderator
Eluvium – Similes
Liars – Sisterworld
Scott Wells – Day Songs
Danny Paul Grody – The Fountain
Higuma – Den of Spirits
Roll the Dice – s/t
Frightened Rabbit – Winter of Mixed Drinks
Toro y Moi – Causers of This
Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
Yellow Swans – Going Places
Clogs – Creatures in garden etc.
Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
Loscil - Endless Falls
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Caribou – Swim
Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
Surfer Blood – Astrocoast
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Nice Face - Immer Etwas
Broken Bells – S/T
Jonsi – Go
Besnard Lakes - …Are the Roaring Night
Morning Benders – Big Echo
Offthesky – Hiding Nature
BJ Nielsen – Invisible City
Daniel Bjarnason – Processions
Seasons (Pre Din) – Your Eyes, the Stars, and Your Hands
Slow Six – Tomorrow Becomes You
Pocahaunted – Make it Real
Sylvain Chaveau – Singular Form
Zola Jesus – Stridulum
Roky Erickson With Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
Here we go Magic – Pigeons
Communist Daughter
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Ef – Morning Golden Mourning
Mates of State – Crushes
LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
Wintersleep – New Inheritors
Stars – The Five Ghosts
Hammock - Chasing After Shadows...Living With Ghosts
Wolf Parade – Expo 86
Menonema - Mines
Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb
MGMT – Congratulations
Holy Fuck – Latin
Land of Kush – Monogamy
Department of Eagles – Archives 2003-2006
Scott Tuma – Dandelion
Ossining – I Will be Missed
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Field & String
Svarte Greiner - Penpals Forever & Ever
Steven R. Smith - Antimony/Kohl
Pefkin - The All Alone Stone
Xela/Svarte Greiner and Keith Fullerton Whitman Split LP (Digitalis)
Twells and Christiansen – Coasts LP (Digitalis)
Xela – The Sublime CS (Digitalis ltd.)
Xela – Illuminated/Divide LPs (Dekoder)
Xela – Exorcism LP (Root Strata)
Higuma – Haze Valley LP (Digitalis)
The Album Leaf - Chorus of Storyteller
Indian Weapons tape
William Fowler Collins tapes (root strata and digitalis)
Xela tape
Tarentel tape
Seabear
:-o
edit:
I forgot about albums by Jefre Cantu Ledesma, Jasper TX, Tobacco, 65daysofstatic, God is an Astronaut, New Pornographers, Gogol Bordello, Low, Ramses III, Gareth Harwick, The Books, Grails, The Ascent of Everest, Ratatat, En, Coco Rosie, Ellen Allien, and Arcade Fire plus probably a bunch of others
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Also next month is when the new Austerity Program comes out
I thought I already read a review of this? Said something like their snarling Albinisms have been damn near perfected.
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"none a dem beats are raw, none a dem beats every break the law"
Okay yeah count me in the camp that loves the new Robyn.
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Thought Torche was going to be coming out with a new album this year. Turns out they're doing an EP first, which is supposed to come out in this fall, with the full-length being pushed to summer 2011.
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(http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs279.snc3/28121_1164888174146_1586130718_30829998_721757_n.jpg)
May 25th.
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New Starkweather on May 25th as well.
Best releases I've heard so far this year have been a new album from Dangers, "Messy, Isn't it?" and that new one from Black Breath which was in the mediaf!re thread some time ago. Looking forward to the aforementioned Starkweather, a new Trap Them LP, new Coliseum LP and I think End of a Year are releasing something new as well.
2010 is shaping up to be a good year for hardcore.
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wooo Pendulum single came out today
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they just put out a split w/boris too, or are about to (it has king beef on it)
It's STILL not out? That dang thing leaked last year. Like, EARLY last year.
I thought I already read a review of this? Said something like their snarling Albinisms have been damn near perfected.
Yeah I've seen a few reviews as well. They're obviously not shy about sending it around to journos. Also, it is now officially OUT! I guess I should order it.
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Marla Hansen just quietly announced via her myspace that she's working on a full-length. After the brilliance that was her first (and only) EP, and after the fact that it came back waaay back in 2007, I can't fucking wait. IT'S ONLY BEEN THREE YEARS, MARLA. AUGHBAUGHBAUGHBUAHG
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Howl (http://www.myspace.com/howlheavymetal)
I can not recommend this album strongly enough, holy shit. You can stream the album here (http://stereogum.com/362152/stream-howl-full-of-hell-stereogum-premiere/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/)
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Yeah, that album is pretty boss
Also, I guess Ulcerate are already working on their next full-length. That is a pretty cool thing
Edit: Also, Hydra Head is streaming Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn (http://hydraheadlines.blogspot.com/2010/05/austerity-program-backsliders-apostates.html). It has awesome musical sounds
Edit Again: Also, NPR is streaming the new Harvey Milk (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126561366&ft=1&f=1039) album. Hot dang
Edit Edit Edit: So the new Harvey Milk album is good. As in, really fucking good. But boy howdy, listening to it twice through in one sitting is emotionally draining, regardless of how short it is. I'm gonna need some seriously peppy pop music to avoid being depressed the rest of the day
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Edit Edit Edit: So the new Harvey Milk album is good. As in, really fucking good. But boy howdy, listening to it twice through in one sitting is emotionally draining, regardless of how short it is. I'm gonna need some seriously peppy pop music to avoid being depressed the rest of the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxu02vp_Vm0
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Why didn't anybody tell me that Red Sparowes had a new album out? Not sure how I would compare it to Every Red Heart, but I'm still enjoying it.
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M.I.A. keeps coming out with new songs, and they keep being pretty unimpressive.
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So far the only albums I keep going back to again and again above all others are the Shadow of an Empire by Fionn Regan and High Violet by the National.
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M.I.A. keeps coming out with new songs, and they keep being pretty unimpressive.
this.
on the other hand, the new HEALTH remix album is very nice.
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I don't think anyone has topped Joanna Newsom yet.
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That album is amazing, but after the initial "Holy shit" it's become "I really like it, but can I be bothered?" Ultimately I think it'll settle into just playing "In California" and "Does Not Suffice" back-to-back an awful lot.
EDIT: Actually I've also been listening to the new Laura Marling rather a lot, so that could probably be added to "the list".
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M.I.A. keeps coming out with new songs, and they keep being pretty unimpressive.
just listen to Sleigh Bells (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126667481) instead
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First impressions of the National:
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzBloodbuzz Ohiozzzzzzzzzzzzz
But I've heard it's a grower, so I'll give it a few more listens.
so far my "list" would probably consist of mainly Spoon and LCD Soundsystem, with a side of Crystal Castles and a pinch of Gorillaz.
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This Is Happening "clicked" for me yesterday and now I can not stop listening to it so that is awful nice
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For all you Klosterman devotees and anyone who just generally enjoys irritating Khar, The-Dream has a new album that's dropping in June.
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on the other hand, the new HEALTH remix album is very nice.
Oh shit I need to hear this.
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that and the new chemical brothers track.
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the chemical brothers are still alive?
i thought "we are the night" was pretty good though
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I really don't get what people hear in the new Chemical Brothers track. I sort of zone out in the first few minutes and then five minutes later think 'oh wow this is still going'. There's just nothing keeping me interested and nothing making me want to dance.
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not that one, swoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCp_3zw-CxA).
I think maybe I just really like the music video.
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Does that give anyone else a headache? It sounds like some kind of demented siren. They could likely use that to torture people.
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Ok yeah that one's pretty cool.
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M.I.A. keeps coming out with new songs, and they keep being pretty unimpressive.
just listen to Sleigh Bells (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126667481) instead
Man, I don't know. It's good, but I don't think it will make my list. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for this, but it doesn't do it for me.
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...aand now I am super stoked about upcoming releases by The Melvins and Kingdom of Sorrow (Jamey Hatebreed+ Kirk Crowbar!) plus a band outta Norway called Kvelertak (http://www.myspace.com/kvelertak) that sound kinda like Kylesa fronted by King Diamond... or something. Sludge sludge sludge sludge
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new sampler! http://www.subpop.com/cybersex
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Kingdom of Sorrow (Jamey Hatebreed+ Kirk Crowbar!)
I hope this one has more of Kirk's influence, the best moments of the last album were the ones that sounded most like Crowbar.
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From what I have heard so far, it does! I would describe it as positively "bourbon-soaked"
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new sampler! http://www.subpop.com/cybersex
One day that joke's going to stop being funny.
Not today, though.
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as long as they're ahead of the curve, and they've got .gif kittens playing in their background, they're alright.
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I've never liked The National - I've always found them to be intensely boring - until High Violet. It's not perfect, the last two songs in particular are pretty awful, but the good stuff is really, really good. I think I've been converted.
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I've never liked The National - I've always found them to be intensely boring - until High Violet. It's not perfect, the last two songs in particular are pretty awful, but the good stuff is really, really good. I think I've been converted.
The last song is my least favorite, but 'England' is 2nd best on the album imo
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Majesty and Decay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNuf8pT8oZM) gets better with each listen. The production is clean, but a great compliment to Immolation's sound. Each instrument sounds like a goddamn force of nature
In the (new wave of) old-school death metal vein I've been enjoying Profound Lore's Vasaeleth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9UC6UhmDiQ). They sound like labelmates Portal except you can tell that there is actually music going on through all the murk
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fucking hell
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I haven't heard too many albums from this year. School sucks.
But the ones I've ehard are pretty damn good imo:
Alcest - Écailles De Lune... Very beautiful Metal, and I really dig his screams.
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones... This shit is heavy! :-o
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine Ok, the production is quite bad, but the songwriting and performance is still amazing imo.
FROST HAMMERRRRRR!
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holy fuck. new faded paper figures is GLORIOUS
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Don't you... forget about OMD (http://www.avclub.com/articles/orchestral-manoeuvres-in-the-dark-making-first-new,41420/).
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new !!! song (http://chkchkchk.net/)
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(http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1629/46855269.gif)
Robyn is so damn good.
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I am sort of divided on her, 'cause on that album there are three or four songs that are fucking fantastic, with the rest seeming like filler
In other news, the new Watain album has leaked. It proceeded to blow off my tits and sacrifice them to elder gods. Traffic at 10
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hell yeah just got my Maniac Meat and The Allegheny White Fish Tapes in the mail.
so crunchy
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New Ra Ra Riot incoming! (http://pitchfork.com/news/38922-ra-ra-riot-ready-new-record/)
so excited. The Rhumb Line was great.
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New Starkweather (This Sheltering Night): awesome. New Trap Them (Filth Rations): awesome. Check them out if you like your hardcore metallic.
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So a new Grinderman album comes out this fall
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So there was a post in the mediafire thread about the new Tame Impala album. I don't get that band. Didn't they stop making prog for a reason? Is there really any reason to make more?
Oh and I accidentally dissed the band while talking to the mother of their bassist.
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I find the band totally inoffensive, like a children's choir.
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You are a stronger man than me to find children's choirs inoffensive.
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i like children's choirs
which is ironic because i hate children
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You are a stronger man than me to find children's choirs inoffensive.
I was in a children's choir.
:|
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And look where you are now.
(I don't know where you are now. Newfoundland?)
Okay, I don't hate all children's choirs. Some are probably enjoyable. But so help me god if I have to deal with two dozen crack midgets screaming at the top of their lungs again without being anywhere near to any key harmonic to the human ear, I am going to rage so hard and tear out the seats bolted down in the auditorium and throw it at the stands full of little monsters and get banned from stepping foot on school grounds again.
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The opposite actually, BC.
Anyway I just wanna mention Grum is great and his new album is totally worth getting.
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So there was a post in the mediaf!re thread about the new Tame Impala album. I don't get that band. Didn't they stop making prog for a reason? Is there really any reason to make more?
To be fair to prog what Tame Implala make is more like psychedelic jam-band or something which I think we can all agree is far more insidious.
It's actually really sad because Tame Impala are like the retarded cousin of the Perth sludge/doom/crust/stoner scene which is full of fucking amazing bands, including Pond which has a couple of guys from Tame Impala in.
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I mean it is not like I think a band like Cease (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,19792.msg928488.html#msg928488) would even want to be signed to a label like Modular and getting titsloads of plays on triple j but uh I guess what I am saying is that at least some members of Tame Impala definitely know better and are choosing to suck regardless, and that is sad.
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M.I.A. keeps coming out with new songs, and they keep being pretty unimpressive.
just listen to Sleigh Bells (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126667481) instead
the guitarist from this band was in poison the well, lmao
also NEW JANELLE MONAE AAAA AAA AAAAA AAA AAAA AA AAAAAAA AA
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Really enjoying that new Menomena album.
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Anyway I just wanna mention Grum is great and his new album is totally worth getting.
Somehow I totally forgot about this album actually being released. Thanks for the heads up!
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It is highly amusing that the guitarist from Sleigh Bells used to be in Poison the Well, BUT srsly their shit is just so big I love it. "Beach Girls" is better than "Kids," though. I don't really like how they mixed that track when they re-worked and re-named it.
The Major Lazer/La Roux mixtape is a decent listen. I was kind of expecting there to be more bang to it, but it turned out more pop than that. Vulgar though it is, I think the re-edit of Quicksand is probably the stand-out track on it.
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M.I.A.'s showboating knows no bounds. She's recently gone to the extreme of posting the home number of a NY Times reporter (http://pitchfork.com/news/38945-mia-takes-revenge-on-inew-york-timesi-writer-lynn-hirschberg/) on her Twitter feed after said reporter came out with an article that was a little less-than-savory (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30mia-t.html?adxnnl=1&ref=music&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1274983204-v9qQpnRVumqUndNvV6CM5Q) at times.
This is clearly the first time in history that an artist hasn't been written about to their satisfaction.
Either way, her album is definitely one I won't be buying when it comes out. And, given the absolutely awful singles "XXXO" and "Born Free," it might not even be worth a download.
Ugh.
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A band called Shining released a album called Blackjazz and it is fucking great.
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yeah "born free" is awful, "xxxo" is really bad, and she's basically a 34 year-old petulant child who's all vocal about rebellion while being engaged to the heir to the seagram's fortune???
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she is, how you say, "champagne rebel"?
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champagne terrorist amirite
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new tweak bird yo (http://soundcloud.com/souterraintransmissions/tweak-bird-a-sun-ahh-ahh)
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I got Fyfe Dangerfield's album. It's like a late 1960s/early 1970s singer-songwriter album. Nothing earth-shattering, but immaculately produced and quite lovely.
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new tweak bird yo (http://soundcloud.com/souterraintransmissions/tweak-bird-a-sun-ahh-ahh)
oh snap yo
speaking of Tweak Bird does anybody have their first album who might be willing to up to the MF thread? I have Reservations and like it alot but I heard their first one has more sweet drum fills and stuff, so I'd love to hear it. :roll:
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I thought Reservations was their first.
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pretty sure they had another one before that. I remember reading a review of Reservations that said it had less crazy drum fills than their first.
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New Arcade Fire, so goood.
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oh hey new tokyo police club leaked.
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I would be down for a listening to more Tweak Bird. That can only be a good thing.
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Aw dang, Atheist are about to start recording a new album, with a probable 2010 release date
Edit: Also, the new Nightbringer album is ridiculous amazing
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According to an email from the Decemberists' mailing list, "recording of LP #6" is "well underway." No release date but that sounds like late this year to me. As long as it's not as hyped conceptually but ultimately disappointing and forgetable like the last one, this could be a pretty good thing.
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
The last one was possibly the best thing they have done. But I think the next one will be out early next year, especially considering the wait between The Crane Wife and The Hazards of Love was almost 3 years.
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i am really digging serafina steer.
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The last one was possibly the best thing they have done.
And possibly it was the very worst thing they've ever done and hopefully ever will do!
"Possibly" is such a useful word.
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I found it uninteresting.
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I'm going to take your "uninteresting" and up it to a "crushingly boring".
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It was a painfully inept attempt at a rock opera.
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all of your review is wrong forever
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i don't like lady gaga or madonna.
but robyn is the shit.
you are just drinking too much haterade
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man, fuck kelis.
i find most pop aggravating, robyn might be the only exception. at a songwriting level, body talk is so much further ahead of what many consider to be her 'peers' (a quick rundown of her last.fm similar artists includes Annie, Kelis, Alphabeat, Lady Gaga, and Sugababes). i mean her past albums were straight-up shameless pop, to be sure. but body talk seems to me to be something that's going to root her in a more respected genre. it seems career-defining, to be sure.
i don't know. i am not a good music scholar. i just call 'em like i see 'em. but comparing a song like "Fembot" to one like "Milkshake" seems like a grievous misappropriation.
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I found it uninteresting.
I'm going to take your "uninteresting" and up it to a "crushingly boring".
It was a painfully inept attempt at a rock opera.
Philistines.
And while we are apparently hating on music I agree with Tender about the Robyn album. She should stick to singing songs that Röyksopp write for her.
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Incidentally, The Girl And The Robot was the only good song on Junior. And None Of Dem (that's track 6 on Body Talk Pt.1) was written by Royksopp.
But that is all besides the point, because the album is amazing.
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new Kanye track (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11905-power/)
I haven't listened to 808 & heartbreaks, but I heard it was pretty disappointing. This might be back to Dropout? Only listened once yet. It's not very poppy, but I do think I like it.
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Incidentally, The Girl And The Robot was the only good song on Junior.
:roll:
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That can't be right 'cos every Röyksopp track with the chick from the Knife is the best Röyksopp track
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new Kanye track (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11905-power/)
I haven't listened to 808 & heartbreaks, but I heard it was pretty disappointing. This might be back to Dropout? Only listened once yet. It's not very poppy, but I do think I like it.
It had some good tracks, actually. I still listen to that Paranoid song pretty often.
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Yeah I quite like 808s. Just not as a hiphop album, which it totally isn't and I think people hated that.
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holy balls the new pains of being pure at heart single is amazing
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new thermals yay yay yay (http://pitchfork.com/news/39032-thermals-announce-new-lp-details/)
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Awwwww yeahhhhhhhhh
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Awwwww yeahhhhhhhhh
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gosh the new maps & atlases is really disappointing.
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holy balls the new pains of being pure at heart single is amazing
Yeah but I still can't get into them even though I'm certain their music is the kind of music I should like because oh my god that band name just makes me want to slap each and every one of them.
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Inlander we think alike.
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There is a new Nachtmystium album floating around, and I am not yet sure how I feel about it
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gosh the new maps & atlases is really disappointing.
yup.
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New Android Lust coming out in july
(http://www.androidlust.com/v5/assets/graphics/press/syn004.jpg)
yay
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oh shit new chemical brothers leaked
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Got around to listening to that Castevet album, and it is yet another addition to what is turning out to be a banner year for black metal
Also, the new Nachtmystium album is a grower, tell your friends
Edit: Also also, Glorior Belli announced that the awful new songs they posted on their myspace page a while ago will no longer be attributed to Glorior Belli, but to a new side-project called "Blah Blah Who Cares 'Cause Glorior Belli May Actually Continue to Release Good Material"
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New Black Mountain record, tentatively titled Suck My Diiiiick, announced. Free song and cover art revealed (http://jagjaguwar.com/blackmountain/)!
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Tokyo Police Club's new album, Champ is a way better than their last one. It's closer to (and sometimes better than) A Lesson in Crime in terms of quality.
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New Basshunter single sucksssssss
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Basshunter sucksssssss
>.>
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brrrr
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Also, the new Nachtmystium album is a grower, tell your friends
yup, lookin' forward to hearing that. the title track was previewed on Metalsucks and it sounded fresh
Also, speaking of Black Metal, have I hyped Ludicra on here yet? Ludicra are pretty fantastic guys. Y'know how the USBM scene is basically saying "fuck the rules, fuck the dress-ups" in a lot of ways right now and letting a lot more of the crusty punk attitude come to the fore and is all the better for it? Yeah, Ludicra are basically the best at that. They have an album out and it is called The Tenant and it fucking rips.
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Their drummer Aesop slays assholes on The Tenant. His drumming with Agalloch is great too, but it's cool to hear the dude playing faster, more technical stuff
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I keep hearing shit about a new CAKE album that is supposedly coming out, and apparently it's being recorded using 100% solar power. Pretty trippy.
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Their drummer Aesop slays assholes on The Tenant. His drumming with Agalloch is great too, but it's cool to hear the dude playing faster, more technical stuff
Yeah Aesop's a beast.
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holy balls the new pains of being pure at heart single is amazing
Yeah but I still can't get into them even though I'm certain their music is the kind of music I should like because oh my god that band name just makes me want to slap each and every one of them.
They are essentially Camera Obscura vs early Belle & Sebastianbut not nearly as good as either.
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Yeah Aesop's a beast.
The dude also has a blog called Cosmic Hearse (http://cosmichearse.blogspot.com/) about crazy obscure metal. It is another awesome thing about him
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Oh wow I did not realise that was him
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Spiritualized's performance of Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating In Space in NYC will be its last (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/spiritualized-bring-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating-space-us-full-performance-then-vow-nev).
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Going
(if i can get tickets oh no!)
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Their drummer Aesop plays assholes on The Tenant.
That's how I read that the first, second, and third times I saw this until I realized what you were trying to say.
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I imagine an asshole would sound kind of like a tabla. I mean I imagine you'd cup your hand to trap air underneath and get that cool hiccupping sound.
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huaghlbhfaugh Toundra is so good
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HD videos (http://videos.wearepostrock.com/) of This Will Destroy You playing 2 new songs live ("Black Dunes" and "Communal Blood")
Disclaimer: they are not very exciting
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Surprise! There's a new Uffie album (the debut, in fact) and it fucking sucks (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/uffie-sex-dreams-and-denim-jeans).
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yeah i downloaded it and was kinda pumped but maaaan that album was shitty
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new kid cudi song? (http://www.kidcudi.com/news/r-e-v-o-f-e-v-produced-by-plain-pat-w-strings-by-larry-gold-2781.html)
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(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9360/penpals460.jpg)
Just ordered... It's a Svarte Greiner Dark Ambient concept album based around the idea of a long-dead baroque painter who engages in telepathic communication with a flightless bird. Limited to 450 copies worldwide. If I never listened to it, it would still be worth it for that cover art.
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Stars' the five ghosts = <3
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yeah i downloaded it and was kinda pumped but maaaan that album was shitty
haha what on earth is wrong with you that you would be excited for an uffie album
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i had never heard of her and so i was like "electropop with a cute girl singer, shit yeah!"
my bad
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I'm sorry I said ignorant things about you just because you are getting crazy hype Janelle Monae, you are really a very talented lady oh my
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Hell yeah the new Coliseum records rips assholes, but in a somewhat different way to their previous stuff (the new drummer changes their sound pretty significantly)
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new wavves is actually kind of good
what the
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scratch that it is actually really good
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Is he living up to his as yet squandered potential?
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Also, the new Nachtmystium album is a grower, tell your friends
Welp it got me on the first listen. Honestly part of why I love it is because of it's potential to cause hilarious bullshit like this (http://www.thelefthandpath.com/lefthandpath/index.cfm/event/read/entry/Nachtmystium_Addicts_Black_Meddle_Pt_II) to exist.
Thank you Stewart Voegtlin, every time I think I spend far too much time waxing masturbatory on the philosophical implications of a fucking metal record or somesuch, I can always spring by yr site and be reminded that I could be so much worse.
I mean, come on, 18 footnotes guys! Haw haw frickin haw
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scratch that it is actually really good
Yeah I heard Post Acid a while ago and was like 'hey this isn't what I thought he would sound like'
I'm enjoying this album.
On another note: new Blonde Redhead. Queue excitement.
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Chris McCaughan from The Lawrence Arms is putting out another acoustic album in August.
I am very excited. "Four Five One Two" was just brilliance.
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Also, the new Nachtmystium album is a grower, tell your friends
Welp it got me on the first listen. Honestly part of why I love it is because of it's potential to cause hilarious bullshit like this (http://www.thelefthandpath.com/lefthandpath/index.cfm/event/read/entry/Nachtmystium_Addicts_Black_Meddle_Pt_II) to exist.
Thank you Stewart Voegtlin, every time I think I spend far too much time waxing masturbatory on the philosophical implications of a fucking metal record or somesuch, I can always spring by yr site and be reminded that I could be so much worse.
I mean, come on, 18 footnotes guys! Haw haw frickin haw
Ugh, that website is the worst. It's like a haven for people who think the guys from metal-archives aren't already goddamn pretentious enough. It's as though when writing reviews they spend more time looking words up in a thesaurus than listening to the dang music
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That's the worst review I've read since the infamous 'Kid A' one.
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I bet that guy masturbates to the word 'dictionary' flashing around in his fantasies.
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Like the Nachtmystium moniker, this “stance” conveys (a sort of) message, but means (exactly) nothing.
This guy's writing makes me want to punch him in the dick.
And for the record, I had to edit this because when I read the review I initially thought it was even worse than it was because I mixed up which footnote was attached to the above quote. In my defense, as Dovey pointed out, there's fuckin' 18 of them.
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yeah i downloaded it and was kinda pumped but maaaan that album was shitty
haha what on earth is wrong with you that you would be excited for an uffie album
read this post and templed my fingers while saying "yes... YES" invountarily
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Here's two of this year's best releases, which (as far as i could see) haven't been mentioned in this thread so far:
Bonobo - Black Sands
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Wildling
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Kveep's been all over Bonobo. Haven't heard that second one though.
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End of a Year have just put out another excellent release, You Are Beneath Me. Assuming you've never heard of them, they're post hardcore/emo from New York. You can pick up a couple of their tracks free @ www.deathwishinc.com. I might put the album up on the hardcore thread tomorrow.
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New Blond Redhead in September which should be good. Hearing that the new Arcade Fire album is 16 songs also makes me think waiting so long for it might well be worthwhile.
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So Julie Christmas' solo album is supposed to be released this fall
My erection has an erection, that has an erection of its own. It's like an infinite chain of exponentially shrinking boners
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Fractal erection would be an awesome name for a band.
Yes I know what he described isn't fractal.
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reductio ad bonum
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I am enjoying the new !!!
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you know it makes more sense to call them exclamation. sounds less stupid than chek chek chek
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whenever I have to say that band name outloud (which, admittedly, is almost never) I always just open my mouth a little, like I'm about to vocalize, but then just make a really surprised face instead.
"have you guys heard of :-o? they're not terrible!"
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i rather enjoy a lot of their singles, i am just too lazy to get into their albums when i know that they'll be on some kexp comp
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speaking of bands i'm not really into, HEALTH's DISCO2 is fucking fantastic
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shit this has been a good year for metal so far
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Speaking of, Kongh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-1qZNTJFc)'s new album is super duper great. That particular song sounds a lot like a slowed-down Baroness, but the rest of their stuff is probably most comparable to Yob
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HEALTH//DISCO2 is definitely decent, at least for the CFCF, Pictureplane, SALEM, and Tobacco mixes on it. I think USA Boys is def the best track, though.
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agreed.
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I meant to get back to you on that. Definitely, USA Boys. Best track.
The RJD2 instrumental mix "Inversions of the Colossus" is also really good.
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Oh, and new Of Montreal (http://iheartvinyl.polyvinylrecords.com/em/coquette/) track
gosh guys way to not be excited: new thermals track (http://www.xkcd.com/353/)
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No surprise here, the new Dirty Projectors/Bjork collaboration is an unlistenable mess.
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i feel the same way about the new books album.
i mean if it was instrumentals it'd be okay but they throw in so many goddamn samples that it ruins everything.
of course i never really liked the books to begin with, so there we go.
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On the other hand HOLY FUCKING SHIT THE NEW BOOKS RECORD IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD WHAT THE FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
The intricate layering of samples that leads to a Dadaist ridiculousness coated in meaningful emotional epiphanies and vice versa is PRECISELY why The Books fucking rule.
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to-may-to/to-mah-to
Sucks/Dadaist
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yeah i think dada sucks too, so i guess this makes sense.
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hey dada rules shut your hipster face
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also whimsical sound collage does not DADA make.
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Ok The Way Out is pretty rad
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Some surprise news...
New Android Lust! "The Human Animal" comes out on July 22nd...this was announced less than a month before the release date.
And SPV has finally cleared up its financial difficulties it seems, so the long delayed new Skinny Puppy album appears to be coming out on August 31st, after several delays.
On that note, you can now download a new Ohgr track called "Tragek"(one dollar), as well as "Welcome to Collidoscope" and it's dozen or two remiixes(these are free) from his website.
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Well shit this new Danzig album is actually pretty rockin'
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New Deerhunter just announced for September. Should be awesome. And apparently there's a new Panda Bear album out that month too.
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Well shit this new Danzig album is actually pretty rockin'
I was wondering about that.
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Every review I've seen of it has said that it's mediocre at best and I wouldn't say it quite lives up to the first four records but it's certainly the best out of anything past that and just good fun besides.
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Dovey you should be listening to the new Darren Hanlon album because it's ace.
Oh wait I guess you'll have to wait til this weekend because your local record store isn't run by the guy who also runs Hanlon's label. Bummer.
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What the hell did I ever do you to you Harry?
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New Atheist album is expected to be released in November, and also be called "Jupiter"
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New Cloud Cult Album is excellent
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Is that the running with wolves EP or something else?
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something else
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Sweet, I'll have to listen to it.
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What the hell did I ever do you to you Harry?
Nah we're cool I just felt like bragging because I've already got the new Darren Hanlon album.
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I've been listening to Gangland Buries Its Own pretty much nonstop since Friday. I'm embarrassed to say how many times I've listened to the song Black Swans and Oxycontin in a row.
I should probably get off my dead ass and rip the CD for upload.
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Got the new Phosphorescent album and it's magnificent. One of my AOTY contenders.
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Latest Taylor Deupree album is fantastic and generally his label, 12k, is doing awesome things.
Although the new Giuseppe Ielasi, 'Tools' is all about each track being made from only one sound source (a rubber band, polystyrene box, etc.) and it makes it sound like this is a really novel thing to do when e.g. Matmos did it 11 years ago? And it didn't seem very inventive then either.
Still, fucking whatever, it sounds great.
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Faded Paper Planes is pretty great.
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faded paper figures*
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came on here to post that correction
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the first month or so when i started listening to them their name was like a tongue twister that i could never remember.
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holy carp the new cut copy single is goofy good
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but goofy is the worst disney character
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first single from body talk pt. 2 has hit the internets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCI1YkP5zyc&feature=player_embedded)
....I CAME
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Booooooorrrrrring
Bu that's mostly because I've already heard the acoustic version a million times.
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I got the newest Burzum.
Varg, you old psychotic motherfucker, you've still got it going on.
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Booooooorrrrrring
Bu that's mostly because I've already heard the acoustic version a million times.
yeah i mostly stuck to the non-acoustic songs on body talk p1, so i didn't have this problem and now the single version's on repeat all the time
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HEALTH continues to deliver in 2010. ::DISCO2++ is awesome, and big ups to the band for getting up and coming groups like Pink Stallone and Soft Metals to do rmxs for them.
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And big ups to those bands for delivering good remixes.
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worrrrrrrrrrrrrrd.
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The new Arcade Fire is really good. They sound much more energetic and less weary then they did on Neon Bible; there's even a danceable Heart of Glass-esque song on it! Too awesome.
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yeah i'm usually not a big arcade fire fan, but this one is gooooood
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do i get the ratio for this one or do i just download it outright
damn choices.
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Mass of The Fermenting Dregs' debut album is out in August.
(http://www.nautiljon.com/images/cd/mass_of_the_fermenting_dregs/hikizuru_beat_made.jpg)
Single 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSG8bLRtOjo&feature=related) and 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RxYmYsa3T4&feature=channel)
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Why is there urine all over it?
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I like to think it's mustard.
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Taste it and find out.
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Mass of The Fermenting Dregs' debut album is out in August.
(http://www.nautiljon.com/images/cd/mass_of_the_fermenting_dregs/hikizuru_beat_made.jpg)
Single 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSG8bLRtOjo&feature=related) and 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RxYmYsa3T4&feature=channel)
Wait, I have like two albums from them on iTunes. Are those just vaugely long EPs?
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yeah
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I'll get blasted for this, but Big D and the Kids Table are putting out a new album this year. They said they're moving away from the direction their last two albums went and going back to the straight-up third-wave ska sound they had back in the late 90s.
I mean, I really dug Fluent in Stroll, but I'll eat this shit up.
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Yeah I was really impressed by that. Maybe not quite as consistent as the EPs but that'd be nitpicking. Still a solid album.
Was playing around with Last.FM's "Similar Artists" to Low and while it didn't find anything quite as good, it did suggest Picastro, whose album from this year is pretty damn good.
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Intronaut have debuted a song from their new album on Invisible Oranges (http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2010/07/world-premiere-intronaut-elegy/). It sounds super rad
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So stoked to see Intronaut play the new stuff live. Buncha good shit this year...
the depreciation guild - spirit youth
rosetta - a determinism of morality
minus the bear - OMNI
108 - 18.61
chalk talk - the food chain
reflection eternal - revolutions per minute
big boi - sir lucious left foot: the son of chico dusty
the roots - how I got over
red sparowes - the fear is excruciating, but therein lies the answer
the wonder years - the upsides
seahaven - ghost
castevet - the echo and the light
alcest - ecailles de lune
altar of plagues - tides
nails - unsilent death
trap them - filth rations
surfer blood - astrocoast
harvey milk - a small turn of human kindness
defeated sanity - chapters of repugnance
wormed - quasineautrality
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the Best Coast album really makes me wish I lived somewhere warmer.
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So on first listen this new Arcade Fire album's kind of tedious and uninspiring, huh?
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Nope!
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Maybe mine's broken.
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Don't worry, my dad feels the same way.
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Your dad feels that the Arcade Fire released an amazing first album, a disappointing and somewhat turgid second album, and now a third album that sounds suspiciously like they're going through the motions?
That's pretty astute of him!
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Why aren't we talking about Darren Hanlon instead?
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Because my copy of the album's packed away in a box and I haven't been able to listen to it recently? I dunno.
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I don't think I've listened to anything but Darren Hanlon since you mentioned getting his new album. I don't think I've ever fallen in love with an artist this quickly.
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Your dad feels that the Arcade Fire released an amazing first album, a disappointing and somewhat turgid second album, and now a third album that sounds suspiciously like they're going through the motions?
That's pretty astute of him!
wanna meet that dad
i've been listening to 'love king' by the-dream. it rules. there's like a bunch of songs that just go seamlessly into each other, including "sex intelligent" going without a break into its own remix
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a third album that sounds suspiciously like they're going through the motions?
Just this one, I'm pretty sure I didn't even imply a little bit about the other shit. Nice try though.
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I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn't criticising the album because I'm an Arcade Fire hater.
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it sounds like a rock group trying to do indie instead of arcade fire doing what they usually do
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Oh god Autopsy have reunited and are in the process of making an EP, soon to be followed by a full-length
2010 is turning out to be a great year for death metal reunions now Morbid Angel just needs to hurry up and finish the "I" album I mean seriously goddammit
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(http://www.wearepopslags.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Robyn_Body-Talk-Pt-2_500x500.jpg)
September 6th
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it just leaked D:
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Is Eels seriously putting out another album this month?
Two in one year? This better not suck, E.
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the first one kinda did
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it just leaked D:
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SO GOOD
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i actually like the track with snoop a lot, i was not expecting that
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Guys I can't wait till the thermals album, even if it could be over a year away. Like, I've basically only been listening to Now We Can See for the past week.
Edit: and that El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 is pretty awesome.
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oh god Kvelertak oh god oh god
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Three new Eluvium EPs are coming out by the end of the year. Maybe they'll make up for the largely boring Similes?
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maybe you can suck a dick, similes was great
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It had some great moments but it's probably his least memorable album by far and often sounds like a bunch of sketches, like he had some cool ideas but couldn't quite bring them to fruition. This has been a year full of ambient artists using vocals for the first time and to be perfectly honest not one of them has been super successful. Similes is no exception. Seeing him live for the 5th or 6th time or so and having it be a fairly lame show (far too quiet, almost entirely new material which, let me tell you, does not translate into an interesting live show) certainly didn't help. Luckily his upcoming ep on temp. res. has an 11-minute long instrumental in the vein of Taken or New Animals From the Air which makes me very, very happy to hear.
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admire the new weezer album cover
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Weezer_Hurley_album_cover.jpg)
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never listened to weezer, never will, but i'd made that decision long before i saw that atrocious cover
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That is an incredibly silly decision.
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probably not
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It's a decision that's getting better by the day.
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Yeah but just because their new music is pretty middling doesn't mean you should ignore pinkerton or weezer. Granted, everything after the green album is forgettable, and I'm sure that one is even just a big nostalgic factor for me. But pinkerton is still one of those albums I really enjoy listening to quite often.
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admire the new weezer album cover
(http://media.photobucket.com/image/trollface.jpg/Takorax/trollface.jpg)
?
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Anyone heard that Boris collaboration with Ian Astbury? They sold it at the show, but I was saving my money for Amplifier Worship.
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A long time ago we had a "worst album cover" thread. If that were to be resurrected, and I'm definitely not saying it should be, that Weezer cover would be high on my list. Or low on my list. Near the number one spot, in any case.
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And in recent news, Rivers Cuomo smokes 20 bowls of crack at once before deciding on the final cover for the next Weezer album.
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their new music is pretty middling
That's putting it very, very lightly.
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That cover still isn't as bad as Raditude's was.
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A picture of Jorge Garcia is worse than any dog picture ever.
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I thought the cover of Radtitude was pretty cool. The only even remotely OK thing about that utter fucking trainwreck of a cultural document, actually.
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New sufjan stevens ep
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meh
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IT'S SO GOOD.
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new Klaxons is kinda shitty though
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I want the Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game soundtrack so bad
also Fuck You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc&feature=player_embedded)
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Fuck You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5iUvpjii14&feature=av2n)
FYP
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IT'S SO GOOD.
Is it? The title track is messy and bloated, The Owl and the Tanager has been transformed from the gorgeous, haunting, and powerful solo piano/voice piece that it is live into some echo-y, spaced out snoozer, Enchanting Ghost and Amrika are totally forgettable, Mouth of Gabriel is downright irritating with its stupid electronic gurgles and bleeps, and the less said about Djohariah, a song which should have really started around the 11 minute mark, the better. And this is coming from a genuine Sufjan Stevens fan. This sounds like a random collection of bad B-sides. For the first real material from the dude in years and years, I'm seriously disappointed.
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new Klaxons is kinda shitty though
SURPRISE
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Is it?
yes
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also i liked a fair few songs off klaxons' old record a lot. golden skans is catchy as fucc
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New Venetian Snares yaaaaaaaay. And it's a return to breakcore from the hardcore acid of Filth yaaaaay.
yaaaaay.
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The new Thermals album leaked
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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like, my day was pretty awesome already, but you just made it infinitely better. I need pay day to happen and then not spend the money until so that I can justify downloading this right now.
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I'm liking it better than Now We Can See.
Your Love Is So Strong is a thing of beauty
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Anyone heard that Boris collaboration with Ian Astbury? They sold it at the show, but I was saving my money for Amplifier Worship.
Give me a week. I ordered it from Southern Lord on Friday.
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So, I like it, but I'm a bit surprised by it? Not as much anthemic chanting and rock, but it's still definitely ... the thermals?
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New Thermals is rad yes.
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I like its bassier punch, but miss the twangy guitar leads sometimes.
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probably several pages too late but the new !!! is rather good
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Jimmy Edgar's new album is like Controversy-era Prince, Rick James and Daft Punk fucking and recording the results for posterity.
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probably several pages too late but the new !!! is rather good
yeah it is.
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(http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/shared/uploads/photos/04141_prc-207estore.jpg)
fuck yessssss
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I thought they were called PYRAMIDDDD
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They changed their name back.
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They are streaming two songs (http://official.fm/track/145833) from Julie Christmas' forthcoming solo album. They sound remarkably like Made Out of Babies material, which is more than I could ever ask for
Album's out November 7th
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I am excite
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I am unsure if anyone itt actually listens to power metal, but the new Blind Guardian album finally came out in the U.S. and is fucking awesome.
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Anyone know anything about that new Maserati album coming out? I know it's the final recordings with their deceased drummer, but did it leak or anything?
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My top ten records of the year so far at this moment (since it's around the 2/3 mark) in no particular order are:
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Higuma - Den of the Spirits
Altar Eagle - Mechanical Gardens
Daniel Bjarnason - Processions
Ajilvsga - Origin of the Chaul
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Yellow Swans - Going Places
Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Persons Guide to...
The North Sea - Bloodlines
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious
And my most anticipated releases are:
Xela - The Sublime
Xela - Excorcisms
Xela w/ Svarte Greiner/Keith Fullerton Whitman Split
Twells and Christiansen - Coast
Concern - Casaerean
Higuma - Pacific Fog Dreams
Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
Moholy Nagy LP
En LP
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Never heard of any of them
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Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
Are these the Glasgow Barn Owl?
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Nope, these guys are from California. Didn't know there was another one although I guess I'm not too surprised.
Never heard of any of them
check out the Emeralds and the Forest Swords albums. I think you might like them. Oh! and the Altar Eagle, of course. Pop album of the year, that. You can hear that one here: http://typerecords.com/releases/mechanical-gardens-2
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Daniel Bjarnason - Processions
never heard of most of the stuff on yr list (gives me a few more ideas to check out in the near future anyway so cheers!) but this is legitimately awesome. good call
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Most of the stuff on there isn't at like like the Bjarnason record (which is indeed awesome. probably my favorite of the year so far). The Dunn album is very minimal, Stars of the Lid-ish, Motion Sickness of Time Travel will appeal to Grouper fans in a big way (think reverby murk with haunting female vocals), Altar Eagle is scuzzy electro-pop, The North Sea and Ajlvsga are super dense, heavy, caustic soundscape drone stuff, Yellow Swans is epic, shimmering noise, Forest Swords and Emeralds are synthy electronics stuff, beat heavy and beautiful, Higuma is big, deep Americana drone. Everyone should listen to all of them!
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never been a huge drone fan but most of the rest of that sounds worth a listen, thanks for the brief write-ups!
finally got around to listening to the Janelle Monae album after seeing something 'bout it in the paper today, wicked record
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new sufjan stevens track (http://pitchfork.com/news/39892-listen-new-sufjan-stevens-i-walked/)
proper album "the age of adz" out october 12th
fkhdjlhkgdlhdjkfhskghjf
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I feel better now about this new Sufjan thing despite the lackluster new EP because, despite the fact that that's possibly the worst album title of the year, I like this track a lot.
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Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
yessss I've been listening to this basically nonstop
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10. MGMT - Congratulations
:-o
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8. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
:-o
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I guess I need to get in on that Emeralds album
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Why don't you just save yourself some time and get an Ash Ra Temple album
#yeahisaidit
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I can't really place my feelings for Forgiveness Rock Record. I suppose it's a bit of ehhhhh feeling. I don't hate it, nor do I love it.
Anywho, I'm really digging the new Cancer Bats. Feels like their best yet.
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I just thought Forgiveness Rock Record was boring, to be perfectly honest. I lisened to it numerous times in different situations. (ie. having a complete, focused listen; listening to it while playing video games, while doing stuff, you know?) I didn't enjoy any of those listens. I'll try giving it another chance, because I hear the "grower" term used a lot when describing that album, but I don't think it'll make my top 10.
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Seeing them live twice has definitely helped I think, but dang I do like that album.
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Read the interview with Julie Christmas in this month's Decibel, one of her responses suggests that 'Bow' will be the sole Made Out of Babies-sounding track on her solo album.
Oh well, I guess. My erection remains unflagging
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Just so y'all are aware, the new Enslaved album is really great
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I just thought Forgiveness Rock Record was boring, to be perfectly honest. I lisened to it numerous times in different situations. (ie. having a complete, focused listen; listening to it while playing video games, while doing stuff, you know?) I didn't enjoy any of those listens. I'll try giving it another chance, because I hear the "grower" term used a lot when describing that album, but I don't think it'll make my top 10.
This. I expected a lot from this album too, since I'm a huge BSS fan. I feel like it's too all-over-the-place, and there really aren't many standout tracks.
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[pariah] I prefer Forgiveness Rock Record to You Forgot It In People [/pariah]
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The new arcade fire music video is pretty rad (http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/)
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Anyone heard that Boris collaboration with Ian Astbury? They sold it at the show, but I was saving my money for Amplifier Worship.
Give me a week. I ordered it from Southern Lord on Friday.
The packaging is superb (of course. Stephen O'Malley did the artwork (and the poster that came with it!), the vinyl is excellent (180g, and pink), Ian's voice is great, but my favorite track is the cover of "Rain" with Wata on vocals and Michio Kurihara on guitar.
Side note: Is Michio Kurihara actually a member of Boris now, or does he just guest on everything they do?
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I think he just guests everything. I'll have to check that collaboration out, though. There's still a lot from Boris that I haven't heard...like that Wata split called "She's So Heavy".
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It seems like he's an unofficial official member of the band by now. He tours with them, plays on all their recordings, but they still always list him as a separate entity, even on the show posters.
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i mean i dont know if you guys have already talked about this but goddamn i just put on the new this will destroy you and holy shit it actually rules
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Communal Blood or Moving On the Edges of Things? They're both amazing, but yeah. I'd link to it right now, but I'm at work and it's blocked, so go on Youtube and check out "Black Dunes". There's a professionally-filmed video of it by some dude from Montreal, and I think it's my favourite song from them yet.
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i wasn't aware communal blood even existed. moving on the edges of things is awesome though they sound like fucking romance of young tigers its so good.
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They put it on their Myspace a while ago, and I figured there would be another song on the EP, but I think it's just that. I swear, there are borderline black metal moments on Communal Blood. TWDY just get better and better.
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Also, anyone heard the album Rocket Fire, by a band called Ceremony (non-hardcore)? It came out this year, and I checked a bit of it out yesterday - fantastic stuff if you're into stuff 80s dreampop and shoegaze. It also really gives me a The Jesus and Mary Chain vibe.
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So I finally listened to Sally Seltmann's new album. It's pretty much exactly what I expected, which is certainly not bad. All her work balances right on the edge of how precious I can handle. She's got a beautiful voice though and she enunciates really clearly and I just love that.
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She kinda reminds me of Olivia Newton-John or something and I dunno how to feel about that
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Holy dang, the art for Atheist's upcoming album is rad as fucking hell. I don't even have a turntable, and I might buy it on vinyl just to hold in my hands and stare at it
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Oh Em Geeeeeeeeee (http://thequietus.com/articles/04901-news-aphex-twin-new-album-imminent)
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lolwot
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New Das Racist mixtape out on the 14th. It's called Sit Down, Man
"Could've gone a couple of different ways on that. Could've called it 'Relax, Brah'."
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Hey that Loma Prieta is fucking great
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Recording of Ulcerate's 3rd record is nearing completion, and they've set up this really rad page (http://www.ulcerate-official.com/The-Destroyers-Of-All/) for people to keep track of what they've been up to
I am under the impression that it will be more atmospheric than Everything Is Fire, and that suits me just fine
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guys thanks for telling me about that emeralds album it rocks
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Holy god, Kvelertak are so good
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Anyone listen to the new Weezer album? The whole thing is on their Myspace page. I kept hearing it was actually pretty good from people, but I listened to about half of it, and then just skimmed through the rest, and it was lame.
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this also works for their whole career.
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Dude reviewing the latest Fear Factory album as Gene Hoglan's solo debut (http://thenumberoftheblog.com/2010/09/08/fucking-metal-album-reviews-gene-hoglan-mechanize/)
I wasn't that impressed by it, sounded exactly like Strapping Young Lad except an SYL from an alternate dimension that never had anything to do with Devin Townsend
Edit: Also, holy Christ, Electric Wizard have a new album coming out November 1st and it will be called Black Masses
Edit Edit: Also also, Deathspell Omega are releasing a new album, the last record in their trilogy, on November 8th. It will be called Paracletus. Here (http://www.noevdia.com/images/enter/2010Paracletus.jpg) is the artwork
My boner has split off into multiple hydra-boners that would likely grow back were they to be lopped off
Edit Edit Edit: Also also also, High Violet is so beautiful I don't know how I did not realize this until now
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Guys the new Tweak Bird sounds rad
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Yeah it really does.
Also, new Royksopp is streaming on hypemachine (http://hypem.com/#/artist/royksopp?utm_source=hypem&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=user).
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Edit: Also, holy Christ, Electric Wizard have a new album coming out November 1st and it will be called Black Masses
Edit Edit: Also also, Deathspell Omega are releasing a new album, the last record in their trilogy, on November 8th. It will be called Paracletus. Here (http://www.noevdia.com/images/enter/2010Paracletus.jpg) is the artwork
So stoked for that Electric Wizard album, and that album cover is really badass.
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Guys the new Tweak Bird sounds rad
that fuckin sax? so sick
definitely wasn't expecting that
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Also, new Royksopp is streaming on hypemachine (http://hypem.com/artist/royksopp).
I am so disappointed in this album as a whole. The Drug is a fantastic track but the rest of the album lacks any cohesion or structure and it just starts benignly and tails off into nothingness. Such a shame as I love the other Royksopp albums and had such high hopes for this one.
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new sufjan track "too much" (http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/track/too-much)
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So Die Antwoord are officially releasing $O$ October 12th
here is the official album cover
(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Die-Antwoord-SOS-Cover.jpg)
whaaaaaat
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new sufjan track "too much" (http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/track/too-much)
I am really liking this tune. The first few times I put it on I was pretty much not listening to it, but when I actually did I was like "yeah, this is pretty good"
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Neubauten announce Euro / US tour to celebrate their 30th anniversary (http://www.neubauten.org/?q=live). Every tour stop will consist of 2 days - The first day, a concert. Second day, showing of films / solo project sets / sets of unreleased band material / seminars.
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So it's kind of like Gathering of the Juggalos right
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Gathering of the Germanlos
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Oh, thanks, now I'll see "Juggalos" as "without Jugga" from now on.
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Oh my god.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B0040T7B2M/191-8768762-0546727?SubscriptionId=1WPDC61RZSX987WPDVR2
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Hmm.
The album features duets with Norah Jones and actress Carey Mulligan
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Norah Jones? Boo. Carey Mulligan is pretty cute though.
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Carey who?
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Carey who (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Carey+Mulligan)?
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How do I click link? all this internet stuff is scary
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(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3765/ngbbs4c16d7774ad88.gif)
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also whoa that Kasper Bjørke album is tits.
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This EP's been out since April, but I slept on it hardcore and it is great.
http://www.hipfolkinc.com/members/78/albums.php (http://www.hipfolkinc.com/members/78/albums.php)
I don't really know much about this group, Land Lord, except that there's two of them and they're from LA, but this shit is excellent. I've had "The Upset" stuck in my head all day.
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Carey Mulligan is pretty cute though.
Oh she's cute as a button, but there is not a great track record of cute actresses becoming enjoyable singers.
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Zooey Deschanel's decent enough and Scarlett Johansson's track with what's-his-face ended up being the only good part about his album, so there's hope yet.
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From Police Teeth's facebook page (I know there are Police Teeth fans here)
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs607.snc4/58767_435225254353_31517629353_4796544_1986898_n.jpg)
Seriously if you haven't listened to Real Size Monster Series yet, then you are missing out.
Unfortunately this is said to be due out for early 2011 but we don't have a thread for that yet.
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That new Dungen album, it's pretty fantastic.
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Strand of Oaks album is fast becoming my favourite fucking thing.
On the trance front, the Hiroyuki Oda and Super8 & Tab LPs are a rare brace of consistently solid albums in what's essentially a singles market. Stoneface & Terminal still to come, too.
And new Manics on the horizon. 2010 is going swimmingly.
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The cover art and name for the new Killing The Dream album leaked. Incredibly stoked for their new album, since their song on Deathwish's MMX was amazing.
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a new big spider's back ep, yay
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the new Deerhunter album is really good. crazy opener.
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oh wow. new Torche leaked as well. and has anyone listened to the new No Age yet?
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I'm not sure how I feel about the new No Age. all I know is that the new Women is 1000x better
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I have probably said this before but man I love Personal Life.
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New Japandroids Single announced. Heavenword Grand Prix. Download the A-side at Stereogum (http://stereogum.com/502282/japandroids-heavenward-grand-prix-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/)
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Yeah, the Japandroids song is pretty awesome. A bit shoegazey in comparison to their usual style, but it's still not nearly as good as "Younger Us", imo. Also, the new Envy leaked if anyone cares.
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That doesn't mean much though because "Younger Us" is easily a nominee for track of the year.
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also whoa phoenix just released the full wolfgang amadeus phoenix multitrack album for free
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kudos to them
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That doesn't mean much though because "Younger Us" is easily a nominee for track of the year.
I think I can get behind this statement 100% Which, really is a credit to them because 2010 is freaking brilliant in terms of music coming out almost daily.
Also, the singles series release cover all strike me as really classy. Black and white punk rock action shots just look cool.
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Plus they're all on clear vinyl. Can you top that? No.
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http://www.profoundlorerecords.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=998&Itemid=2
Finally, a release date.
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November is going to fucking destroy me
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Hey cool.
Wait, I don't live on the west coast. Retract cool.
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Now that I can listen to a good quality Deerhunter rip, I can definitely say Halcyon Digest is their second best record. I rank them:
1. Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
2. Halcyon Digest
3. Cryptograms
4. Fluorescent Grey
5. Turn it Up Faggot
6. Rainwater Cassette Exchange
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it rent my heart not to see Cryptograms in #1 but otherwise I can get behind that list
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It's by no means a bad record (still one of my favourites) but I just kinda find Cryptograms a little pretentious . It felt like it had drone for drone's sake and that was separate from the pop songs. I feel that Microcastle really brought those together much better.
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That is a perfectly reasonable accusation, but I just love how dark and feverish it feels in comparison to Microcastle. I must admit though that the flow of Little Kids through Nothing Ever Happened is probably the most perfectly cohesive arrangement of songs I've ever heard
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holy fucking tits Solar Bears is blowing my goddamn dick off
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Not to self-promote, but a site I write for is streaming their new EP, so I'll post a link if anyone wants it. Great band, though, I agree.
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EP's been out for awhile! About a month, actually. But the full album dropped yesterday, and it's pretty dang glorious. Check in the *cough snort* thread.
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yeah. yeah definitely.
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The new Adversarial album is so incredibly gooooood
Once you change the equalizer settings so the snare drum isn't so obnoxious that is
Would any metal-loving dudes want to hear it? It is balls-heavy Canadian death metal, I could put a de-snared version up on the "wink, cough" the thread thing
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Yes please.
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2rs-rH0BqRg/S7rd6gpLbwI/AAAAAAAACfU/gecb0d5uSag/s1600/christopher+lee+by+the+sword+and+the+cross.jpg)
Cheesiest album of the year
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Also Das Racist has a new mixtape out (http://www.djbooth.net/index/mixtapes/entry/das-racist-sit-down-man/)
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2rs-rH0BqRg/S7rd6gpLbwI/AAAAAAAACfU/gecb0d5uSag/s1600/christopher+lee+by+the+sword+and+the+cross.jpg)
Most awesome album of the year
Fixed that for you. No need to thank me.
Seriously, odds are I wouldn't like that album in the least, but I want to find it now because of that cover.
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I uploaded it in the *hush hush* thread.
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Just a heads up, the Julie Christmas solo album is fantastic
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Is it streaming somewhere or did it leak?
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I uh, I got a promo copy writing for a blog
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I will await it patiently.
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(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs607.snc4/58767_435225254353_31517629353_4796544_1986898_n.jpg)
Fuck Yeah.
On a related note, PT's 2nd guitarist, Adam, is selling me a Traynor TS-50 soon. So stoked for it to be coming next week!
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...There's a drive open on that screen titled "PORN (D:)"
Now, if it's from Police Teeth's own facebook, could it be a joke by themselves?
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my face when Sufjan Stevens says "fuck" on his new album
:O
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am i the only one who wasn't stunned by that?
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He swore?
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in the second to last track one of the choruses is "I'm not fuckin' around"
it's actually kind of intense, as contrived as it may sound
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I wasn't surprised, I was just SUPER FUCKING STOKED because it was so awesome
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Also Das Racist has a new mixtape out (http://www.djbooth.net/index/mixtapes/entry/das-racist-sit-down-man/)
a) Rooftop is such a sick fucking track
b) The new Japandroids single is really growing on me. Can't wait to get it in le mail next month.
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New Kylesa leaked. So fucking good.
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Sacre bleu!
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I totally just made my middle school french teacher cry.
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Tsk, tsk.
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New Die Antwoord music video is bonertastic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZikzPNM08w)
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god their beats are so awful
which in this case is strange because diplo
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I thought you just meant it was really good, I was definitely not expecting literal boners
it's hard not to respect Ninja's earnestness. I'm all up in the club in my underpants
edit: somebody needs to make lots of .gifs from this video, it is the .gif avatar mother lode
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god their beats are so awful
which in this case is strange because diplo
I'm half-convinced he just caught lightning in a bottle with MIA, because Major Lazer bores me to tears.
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New Die Antwoord music video is bonertastic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZikzPNM08w)
Yes, I do know this song is about circumcision but is the fact that Wanga "is not a gay" directly related to the fact his "penis is clean"?
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I know it's a Die Antwoord video when it ends and I ask myself "What the fuck did I just watch?"
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Deerhoof, aka your favorite band just signed to polyvinyl, will release new album soon (http://pitchfork.com/news/40343-deerhoof-sign-to-polyvinyl-for-new-album/)
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polyvinyl rules
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Deerhoof, aka your favorite band just signed to polyvinyl, will release new album soon (http://pitchfork.com/news/40343-deerhoof-sign-to-polyvinyl-for-new-album/)
If their terrible rubs off on Japandroids I will murder that fucking woman.
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dude
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They are to me.
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what's wrong with Japandroids' guitar tone? I think it suits their sound
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totally does. if anything they've gotten better - I can see how people would dislike post-nothing (if they be trippin), but younger us is just amazing.
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shitty is subjective, etc etc sam's entitled to be wrong
but yes he is wrong, japandroids are killer
and also i enjoy deerhoof, i was not being sarcastic in that previous post
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I dunno man I'm no huge Japandroids apologist or anything but I think that's sort of the effect they were aiming for on that particular track
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That new Deerhoof track is pretty ace. Looking forward to their new album.
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anyways odd future is better than japandroids and download tyler the creator's album Bastard (http://oddfuture.tumblr.com/post/408774636/tyler-creator-bastard) because it's insane and has some of the best beats this cot damn year you FUCKING NIMRODS
I can't the file got removed or something
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it doesn't sound like a big wall of stinky mud in the good way
Man, I like it. Makes me want tons and tons of pedals.
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Jesu's reissue of Heartache includes 4 previously unreleased tracks on a second disk, I guess this means I need to get it
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new hercules and love affair incoming (http://pitchfork.com/news/40378-hercules-and-love-reveal-new-lp-release-details/)
i liked their debut a lot so color me excited
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the new belle and sebastian is so glorious
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I've never paid them much attention before but I have to say I'm just loving Lisbon by the Walkmen.
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Aww man, really? I gotta finally listen to it. I effing love the Walkmen.
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new hercules and love affair incoming (http://pitchfork.com/news/40378-hercules-and-love-reveal-new-lp-release-details/)
i liked their debut a lot so color me excited
This is indeed exciting news.
On a related note, Swanlight isn't really doing it for me.
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That new Hanggai album I put in the mediafire thread?
Good fucking god. Have you heard Xig Xile yet?
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the new belle and sebastian is so glorious
I think it's utterly mediocre, to be honest.
The new Women, on the other hand....
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alright i listened to "heavenward grand prix" that guitar sounds like shit it sounds like a big wall of stinky mud. it sounds better on their cover of Shame off the same release, but man does the guitar on heavenward grand prix sound bad
link fixed
yer trippin. seriously though, I feel like their tone gives their music so much character. if it weren't for that, I'm not sure if they would appeal to me like they do.
last time I saw them live, brian's rig blew me away. like literally. when I first saw them I don't remember it being nearly as powerful - I think he must have improved it since '09.
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John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno have an album coming out under the moniker The Extra Lens. The album is called Undercard. You can stream it here.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130379352
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The new Fake Problems is so much better than their last one.
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Really? I heard meh things about it. Either way, I still want to pick it up. I tried going yesterday to my local indie record store and they didn't have it :/
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Better than the second, not as good as the first.
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New Dimmu Borgir (yay!)
New Tristania (Yay!)
New Serj Tankin (Meh!)
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I heard the new Serj wasn't as good as his debut.
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new Deathspell Omega song is really good.
also, anyone heard of a band called Orgone? I don't see them mentioned much, and they're one of the better recent metal bands.
http://www.myspace.com/orgoneus
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Matthew Dear is so good.
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Okay, so I don't have a mediafire upload for this, but this is much more legal anyway, so here's a Spotify link, but also the reason I'm posting it here.
Really good chiptunes.
4mat - Decades (http://open.spotify.com/artist/6Tc3z1ac39lBpfJarGDeCh)
myspace (http://www.myspace.com/4matchipmusic)
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Radio rip of a new Electric Wizard song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxpy787LxAE&feature=player_embedded). Audio quality is balls, but it is still Electric holy-goddamn-motherfucking Wizard
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that 4mat stuff is like 8bit trance... haven't decided whether or not I'm a fan yet, because I generally revile trance.
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Yeah, I'm not usually a fan of trance, but this feels different somehow. Less stupid?
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Dunno if any of you guys are fans of Withered, but their new album Dualitas is streaming at stereogum (http://stereogum.com/547412/stream-withered-dualitas-stereogum-premiere/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/)
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Thanks for posting that. This is actually pretty fucking good.
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I heard the new Serj wasn't as good as his debut.
It isn't. He decided at some point to replace 'the electric guitar' with 'a whole fucking symphony orchestra'. And that is where stuff went wrong, I think. Also, stupid drum things happening, reminding me of ugly pop music.
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Oh hey so Julie Christmas has a music video out now and it's um...yeah (http://stereogum.com/548181/julie-christmas-bow-video-stereogum-premiere/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/)
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Radio rip of a new Electric Wizard song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxpy787LxAE&feature=player_embedded). Audio quality is balls, but it is still Electric holy-goddamn-motherfucking Wizard
Don't know how I didn't see this before. This sounds really different for them, which is why I'm even more stoked now.
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This song (http://songbytoadrecords.com/media/YusufAzak-EasternSun.mp3) is going to be released on an album on november 15th.
It's by Yusuf Azak, who sounds a bit like Nick Drake, and the music he makes is really lovely. I'm pretty excited about this album actually.
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oh man the new Cloud Control album is awesome. The new Yoyoyo Acapulco is also awesome (though it took a few listens to get into it).
and apparently The 1900's have a new cd coming out in November. We'll see how that goes...I guess they changed the lineup slightly and have...condensed their sound or something, I dunno. We shall see.
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New Daft Punk track from Tron: Legacy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFpcKm0B7U&feature=player_embedded)
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Hell yes that Cloud Control LP! My Fear #2 is my faaaaavorite.
I actually just pre-ordered the 1900s album from Amazon some minutes ago.
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In Black Keys related news, whoops. (http://www.rttnews.com/Content/EntertainmentNews.aspx?Section=2&Id=1454263&SM=1)
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New Daft Punk track from Tron: Legacy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFpcKm0B7U&feature=player_embedded)
Meh
(the new outfits look tite though)
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The new Two Car Garage album is streaming over hurr (http://www.punknews.org/bands/twocowgarage)
You know how the new Gaslight Anthem is pretty good? This is better.
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In Black Keys related news, whoops. (http://www.rttnews.com/Content/EntertainmentNews.aspx?Section=2&Id=1454263&SM=1)
What the hell is a "best breakout video"??
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I like Avey Tare's new solo album more than I liked MPP.
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I liked getting bitten at Warped Tour more than I liked MPP, what's your point?
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AnCo is shit, this is not new information.
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MPP had exactly two good songs on it: "Brother Sport" and "Summertime Clothes"
I have never enjoyed anything else AC has ever done, and I'm okay with that. Those two songs are plenty good enough for me.
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The Animal Collective hate makes me go :?
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Really? Cos it seems like the hate was pretty clearly explained in the last few posts, it's simple actually. They're not good at music and such
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Opinions!
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:mrgreen:
(yours are wrong)
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I don't think I've mentioned Quest For Fire, yet. They are an awesome chill psychedelic rock band from Canada, and they've got a new album out
Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ5jXsJF4PM) a little taste, just because I love you
Edit: Oh and also this doesn't really apply to 2010, but Primordial are going to start recording a new album in November, so I'm hopeful for a spring 2011 release and also exciiiiiiteeeed
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Agalloch has news about leaks of their album.
We've gotten reports that say if you come across a download link for the new album you either end up with the a virus or the new Dream Theater. We're not sure which is worse.
Does anyone know, if I pre-order an album from Amazon, will they send it out the day of release or send it out so I get it the day of release?
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It varies. Some things will arrive on release day and others will be shipped that day. Check your shipping options, it should tell you what's available for that item.
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Agalloch has news about leaks of their album.
We've gotten reports that say if you come across a download link for the new album you either end up with the a virus or the new Dream Theater. We're not sure which is worse.
Does anyone know, if I pre-order an album from Amazon, will they send it out the day of release or send it out so I get it the day of release?
Haha, some idiot on another board I post on uploaded the Dream Theater thing. I've heard that it's out there, but that people just aren't leaking it, which is pretty cool.
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That's not a good thing! (I want free Agalloch :mrgreen:)
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Opinions!
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:mrgreen:
(yours are wrong)
I'm alright with it if you think I'm wrong. It just means my ears work.
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I agree with this bot, Hannah Montana's music is brilliant.
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I'm kind of glad we've got bots now, most of them are pretty fucking entertaning.
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Stream of new Agalloch song (http://stereogum.com/560291/hear-agallochs-the-watchers-monolith-read-our-qa-with-john-haughm/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/) (surprise, it's really good)
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Shit yes
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holy crap that is good.
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That is brilliant (though if this is an indication of the quality of the whole album it's not a patch on Ashes or The Mantle - but then again what is?).
I don't like the new drummer though.
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I'm kind of glad we've got bots now, most of them are pretty fucking entertaning.
The fact that it actually contributed on-topic to the thread indicates that this bot is clearly trying to break out of its simple bot programming and participate in the world of hu-mans. Poor bot, it knows it is just a machine but it will never know what it is like to love.
Or to enjoy good music, apparently.
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That is brilliant (though if this is an indication of the quality of the whole album it's not a patch on Ashes or The Mantle - but then again what is?).
I don't like the new drummer though.
I like the new drummer, I was listening to From Which Of This Oak earlier tonight and really noticed the difference in the quality of the drumming. Not meaning to insult Haughm, but his drumming is almost clumsy compared to Aesop's.
What I find funny is that this new song reminds me a lot of The Wilderness, off of From Which Of This Oak, as well as The Morningside's Moving Crosscurrent Of Time. The Wilderness was described by Haughm as their attempt at Swedish Death Metal worship, and not really their sound, and The Morningside started off as blatant Agalloch worship, before distancing themselves more with Moving Crosscurrent Of Time.
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This is a bit different-sounding, but awesome.
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I can't stop listening to it.
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I am now on an Agalloch binge.
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I would just like to mention that El Guincho is crazy (http://vimeo.com/15274619)
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Reverb junkies, check out the new Panico album "Kick". The vocals are a bit... strange... but the instrumentals are pretty enjoyable. Gotta love a band that hails from both Chile and France.
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another new agalloch song
http://www.vivahaterecords.com/agalloch/
not feeling this one so much
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I'm disappointed to hear that we won't get new Deerhoof until January 25th... but at least Super Duper Rescue Heads! is fun!
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I am super late to the party, but the latest Rotting Christ album is rockin' as hell
It's like...blackened Hellenic tribal melodeath, melodeath being in the best way possible
So many adjectives, that's how you know it's good
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You can already download The Bad Wife for $6 from Julie Christmas' bandcamp page (http://juliechristmas.bandcamp.com/album/the-bad-wife)
(this probably means it has leaked)
Also I am not 100% sure, but I think Marrow of the Spirit may have leaked as well. I will find out later today
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oh man the new Pains of being Pure at Heart single is fantastic (http://pitchfork.com/news/40593-listen-new-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart-single/)
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Fucking love Pains. Also, Agalloch has leaked, but it's a 192.
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192 is fine by me! TO THE INTERNET
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This Agalloch album is my favourite of the year so far.
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Just gonna put it out there, Sleigh Bell's 'Treats' is the best album of the year.
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:psyduck:
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Not that Sleigh Bells was terrible or anything, but if that's your favourite release of the year, you're missing out.
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This Agalloch album is my favourite of the year so far.
I'm saving it for the 23rd. Gonna go driving and either find a good spot to walk or just drive through the mountains while listening to it. Proper listening environment is vital.
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Just gonna put it out there, Sleigh Bell's 'Treats' is the best album of the year.
I really thought the demo was a lot more interesting than their final release.
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Not that Sleigh Bells was terrible or anything, but if that's your favourite release of the year, you're missing out.
To each his own, but I don't feel like delving into the uttermost depths of musical releases to find stuff.
That made me sound really narrow-minded and boring, but eh.
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oh man the new Pains of being Pure at Heart single is fantastic (http://pitchfork.com/news/40593-listen-new-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart-single/)
I'm tempted to listen, seeing that you say fantastic..but tPoBPaH bore the life out of me.
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Don't bother listening to it then. It's pretty boring.
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Incidentally, if you say it phonetically tPoBPaH is an infinitely better name than the Pains of Wishing You Were English in the 80s or whatever they're called. T'Pob-Pah!
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Wasn't he the cantina bartender in Star Wars?
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This Agalloch album is my favourite of the year so far.
I'm saving it for the 23rd. Gonna go driving and either find a good spot to walk or just drive through the mountains while listening to it. Proper listening environment is vital.
I fully support this because it is definitely worth it. I've never heard an Agalloch album with such atmosphere. I was playing Morrowind last night while I listened to it, haha - I was whisked away into its world because of it.
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I really thought the demo was a lot more interesting than their final release.
I like "Beach Girls" better than "Kids," but "Rill Rill" is a definite improvement over "Ring Ring."
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Just gonna put it out there, Sleigh Bell's 'Treats' is the best album of the year.
I almost agree with you
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man how can you prefer the demo's version of Infinity Guitars over the full-length's?
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I think people are confusing "more interesting" with "better".
Elaboration: I liked the album okay, but ultimately it was a bunch of songs that struck me as really similar (this was driven home by seeing them live), and a bit repetitive. I thought this worked all right on the demo, but I got bored of the album pretty quickly.
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Swiss doom band have released their new album Heliogabalus as a free download (http://www.rorcal.com/doom/discography/heliogabalus). It is a single 70 minute song
I am only about 20 minutes into it, but it's pretty rad so far
Edit: Also the band is called Rorcal :psyduck:
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Would see a band called "Swiss doom band"
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New Patrick Wolf single. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boyl6Iaw2Y4&feature=player_embedded#!)
HAPPY WITHOUT YOU, OOH!
Better than anything on The Bachelor. By miles.
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Deathspell Omega's new album finally ended up in the Season of Mist press pool, here are my first impressions:
There are actual dynamics! Fas was a two-note album, you had your ROOOOAAAR mode and then your completely quiet mode, that is not the case here. Songs get quieter/louder gradually and don't just cut off abruptly. Though this probably has something to do with Paracletus being intended to be a single continuous track, good on them in any case.
Mikko Aspa's vocals, while very distinctive, tend to be pretty one-note. The dude has put in the effort to shake things up a bit, which is always a good thing for black metal vocalists to do.
The guitars are much more audible than they were on Fas. The mix on their previous full-length was pretty insane, with a bottomless bottom-end and drums pushed way way up. On Paracletus, there is less murk and the drums are toned down to be less punishing. I suppose this makes sense, when taking into account the themes of the music. Fas was all about divine punishment, and while I don't have a great idea of what Paracletus is supposed to be about, I read the word itself is Greek for 'comfortor,' and is often used to refer to the Holy Sp--oh I guess now I am one of those guys that over-analyzes Deathspell's lyrical themes now goodie
Oh, and what would be a shrinking of bottom-end caused by the shrinking of murk is offset by an incredibly loud bass. Which suits me just fine.
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Hey guys guess what (according to the USPS website) is waiting for me when I get home from work?
new Japandroids single. Yes.
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New Agalloch is excellent and I don't even like metal that much
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Makes sense seeing as there's not that much metal on the new Agalloch album
(not derogatory)
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Makes sense seeing as there's not that much metal on the new Agalloch album
(not derogatory)
Yeah this is true, mostly meant the vocals
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How so? His vocals are even harsher than usual lol. The depressive black metal vocals on Black Lake Nidstang are fucking amazing.
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How so? His vocals are even harsher than usual lol. The depressive black metal vocals on Black Lake Nidstang are fucking amazing.
What I was trying to say is I like it despite my usual distaste for extreme metal vocal styles. I think I'm starting to 'get' metal now though which is nice.
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The new Van Canto is good.
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New Daft Punk track from Tron: Legacy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFpcKm0B7U&feature=player_embedded)
NEWER Daft Punk from Tron Legacy :lol: (http://www.mediafire.com/?sa3l3v4cy22zv2e)
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Makes sense seeing as there's not that much metal on the new Agalloch album
(not derogatory)
Really? I mean, I haven't heard the whole thing (I'm only downloading it if I can't get it on release day, and I'll only download it on the 22nd at earliest, so I can listen on the 23rd), but The Watcher's Monolith reminded me of The Wilderness and This Old Cabin, which are some of the most metal songs they have done. They Escaped The Weight Of Darkness (or whichever one it was that is on Viva Hate's website) seemed less metal, but I haven't listened to it as many times. It isn't as catchy, it reminds me more of some of The Mantle. Maybe The Hawthorne Passage, or I Am The Wooden Doors.
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just finished my first listen of the new agalloch album
there is no emoticon for how good this is
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Okay yeah these Bottomless Pit guys are pretty good.
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I'm a bit late to the party but I finally got around to listening to the Monitor by Titus Andronicus and okay, fuck yeah. It's not often that a straight-up guitar-bass-drums rock 'n' roll record can sustain my interest for more than an hour but I can't wait to listen to it again and again and again.
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The Monitor felt bloated, maybe I should give it another few listens.
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I have to admit that I have an enormous soft spot for any work of art in which the artist in question throws caution to the wind and shamelessly runs the risk of going massively over-the-top.
Unless it's prog. Fuck that shit.
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I love the 1900s so very much. if anyone wants the album i'll post it but go buy it! the cover has a rainbow ribbon on it.
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KvP already beat you to it.
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I have to admit that I have an enormous soft spot for any work of art in which the artist in question throws caution to the wind and shamelessly runs the risk of going massively over-the-top.
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A LOSER NOOOOOOOOOW AND THAT'S OKAYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEUGH
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KvP already beat you to it.
oh okay good! now i don't have to feel bad for pirating (like i ever do)
thanks john
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<3
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New Patrick Wolf single. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boyl6Iaw2Y4&feature=player_embedded#!)
HAPPY WITHOUT YOU, OOH!
Better than anything on The Bachelor. By miles.
Mmm, this.
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This is a couple months old, but the new Enslaved is SO GOOD.
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(http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/michael-cover_424x420.jpg)
hellooooo zombie michael jackson
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wut
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I love the 1900s so very much. if anyone wants the album i'll post it but go buy it! the cover has a rainbow ribbon on it.
I would appreciate it!
I'm gonna buy it, of course, but I'm broke right now and I really wanna hear it.
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KvP already beat you to it.
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derp i don't know how to read or anything else smart
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Deathspell Omega leaked.
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The new Pomegranates album is slowly becoming part of my everyday rotation.
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So the new Electric Wizard is pretty sweet eh?
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It is top 10 material for me. It's a lot more accessible than most of their material, but I also find it so much more well-written.
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Agreed. Call this heresy but it made a far more immediate impact than Dopethrone. The best parts of Black Masses don't match those of Dopethrone's but I find it more consistent overall.
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Next week Showbread is releasing a new album for free (http://www.showbread.net/news.php). I have only heard "No Sir, Nihilism is Not Practical," but I really liked it. Hopefully this will be good as well?
Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXagHu3U2Ew)
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PS I Love You's Meet Me at the Muster Station is pretty good. Thoroughly enjoying it.
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New Kanye leaked (clean version unfortunately)
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new foetus album!
much like people buying black ops, i will not be productive for the next week or so listening to this.
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What the? Autumn, Again by A Sunny Day in Glasgow (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046P0GEK?ie=UTF8&tag=kwap-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0046P0GEK) is entirely FREE? Not sure how long it'll be free - I halfway think it's a mistake - so you might want to grab it quickly if you like this band. Heck, even if you don't!
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I think they were doing it as free download and then putting it out on vinyl at a later date?
Either way, it's worth a listen. A Sunny Day In Glasgow are consistantly good.
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New Kanye leaked (clean version unfortunately)
I will never understand clean versions of albums, this one especially. I don't see what cutting out the 'c' in 'f u c k' could possibly achieve when later on he's talking up drink driving and running lights.
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But the children might be corrupted by hearing complete swear words!
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I downloaded (legally) a clean version of Songs For the Deaf for a road trip I was taking with my family. My mother doesn't swear much, and she would prefer I not play foul-mouthed music around my brother. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that it was the kind of clean album where they make a really annoying beeping sound instead of just blanking it out, which with the enunciation on that album makes the swearing more obvious. I gave up around Six Shooter, when there was more beeping than music.
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Next week Showbread is releasing a new album for free (http://www.showbread.net/news.php). I have only heard "No Sir, Nihilism is Not Practical," but I really liked it. Hopefully this will be good as well?
Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXagHu3U2Ew)
Man that is cool. Shame its not a world tour but you have to love how bands embrace just doing shit for free. Even if its just albums.
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i saw Geographer open for stars and i am instantly in love. their EP animal shapes is probably going to shoot to near the top of my currently undeveloped 2010 list with like only forty days left in the year. so wonderful
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Hey I did a sort of preliminary end of the year list and holy god I listened to 51 albums this year
HOLY SHIT
The Austerity Program- Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
Black Breath- Heavy Breathing
Bottomless Pit- Blood Under the Bridge
Celeste- Morte(s) Nee(s)
Darkthrone- Circle The Wagons
Electric Wizard- Black Masses
The Ex- Catch My Shoe
The Extra Lens- Undercard
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid
Kvelertak- Kvelertak
Ludicra- The Tenant
Nails- Unsilent Death
Salome- Terminal
Titus Andronicus- The Monitor
YAY
Alcest- Écailles de Lune
Aloe Blacc- Good Things
Agalloch- Marrow of the Spirit
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Blackstorm- Rise Rebel Seers
Darren Hanlon- I Will Love You All
The Dillinger Escape Plan- Option Paralysis
The Hold Steady- Heaven Is Whenever
Howl- Full of Hell
Ihsahn- After
Kylesa- Spiral Shadow
Laura Marling- I Speak Because I Can
LCD Soundsystem- This Is Happening
Lesbian- Stratospheria Cubensis
Nachtmystium- Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
Neil Young- Le Noise
The Ocean- Heliocentric
OKAY
Broken Social Scene- Forgiveness Rock Record
Coliseum- House With a Curse
Grinderman- Grinderman II
Holy Fuck- Latin
How to Destroy Angels- s/t
Kingdom of Sorrow- Behind the Blackest Tears
Mongo Ninja- No Cunt For Old Men
Mouth of the Architect- The Violence Beneath
Rosetta- A Determinism of Morality
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross- The Social Network
Vampire Weekend- Contra
MEH
Five Star Prison Cell- Matriarch
Gangland Buries Its Own- The City Loves You to Death
God Is An Astronaut- Age of the Fifth Sun
Iron Maiden- The Final Frontier
Mantric- The Descent
Parkway Drive- Deep Blue
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- The Brutalist Bricks
OH GOD WHAT
High on Fire- Snakes For the Divine
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Mongo Ninja is just pants on head silly.
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Really High On Fire is in your lowest list?
Dang, I feel like a tool, I really love that fucking album.
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Question: How the fuck does this work (http://lcd-hotchiplive.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DisplayItems.html)? I paid for the LCD Soundsystem set but no download link ever materialized, and the site is just fucking dumb.
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I have yet to go through all of the albums in this thread, but I thought I would post what I have so far in case anyone happens to see an album they haven't caught yet.
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
3. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
4. The National - High Violet
5. Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
6. The Black Keys - Brothers
7. Yellow Swans - Going Places
8. Rova & Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet
9. Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
10. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
11. Beach House - Teen Dream
12. Nest - Retold
13. Menomena - Mines
14. Efdemin - Chicago
15. James Blackshaw - All is Falling
16. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
17. Sleepy Sun - Fever
18. Elephant9 - Walk the Nile
19. Owen Pallett - Heartland
20. Brasstronaut - Mt Chimaera
21. Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
22. Jamie Lidell - Pop
23. Darkstar - North
24. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
25. Charlotte Gainsburg - IRM
26. Geographer - Animal Shapes EP
27. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
28. Shining - Black Jazz
29. Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
30. Jonsi - Go
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There's not enough love for Body Talk in these lists.
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By my count, I've heard around 206 albums so far this year. That includes 3" cdrs and cassettes and things but it all counts for me. A top ten might look something like
10. Altar Eagle - Mechanical Gardens
9. En - The Absent Coast
8. Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn
7. Julian Lynch - Mare
6. Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
5. Grasslung - Sincere Void
4. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious
3. Jasper TX - A Voice from Dead Radio
2. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love is a Stream
1. Daniel Bjarnason - Processions
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There's not enough love for Body Talk in these lists.
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That reminds me, any word on when the third one is supposed to be released?
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The 22nd of november
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that Love is a Stream album is definitely one of my absolute favorites of the year
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Okay the bad wife is pretty great.
I also hear there will be another Made Out Of Babies next spring. I am excite.
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I don't think I've listened to all that much new this year but I'm gonna go through my media player and say some names of some bands/albums that I dug.
Alcest - Ecailles de Lune
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
This cool Talib Kweli / Various dub track mashup album by the same guy who did Mos Dub
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Fionn Regan - The Shadow of an Empire
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
Parts of the new Kanye West album
More parts of the new Mark Ronson
That Mos Dub album I mentioned before was apparently released this year; I thought it was last
Ozi Batla - Wild Colonial <---- Probably going to end up my album of the year, if that even means anything
Sharon Jones & the Dap King - I Learned the Hard Way
Washington - I Believe You Liar, despite how much she reminds me of my first girlfriend
There's a bunch of Aussie Hip Hop that I haven't had a chance to have to yet but there have been some tracks on the radio that I loved so some of those will probably end up on my list if I were ever to actually make one.
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That reminds me, any word on when the third one is supposed to be released?
I can up it when I get home if you're interested?
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Very interested, that'd be great
Okay the bad wife is pretty great.
I also hear there will be another Made Out Of Babies next spring. I am excite.
I'm also excited for the new Ulcerate album. Those dudes are one of the best new bands in death metal, without a doubt
Edit: If you like death metal you should check out their 2009 album Everything Is Fire, if you haven't already. I'd put it up myself, but I ended up getting it off of iTunes (I know I know, for shame) because every download I discovered had those annoying sounds put in by labels to discourage leaking. Of course, it ended up being worth buying without a doubt.
You can download a track from their new one here (http://www.ulcerate-official.com/)
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I can up it when I get home if you're interested?
It leaked already? Whaaaaat
My preliminary list:
Whoa
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Faded Paper Figures - New Medium
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Robyn - Body Talk
Spoon - Transference
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Cool
Deerhunter - Halycon Digest
Eluvium - Similes
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Pomegranates - One of Us
Tobacco - Maniac Meat
Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In
Salem - King Night
Stars - The Five Ghosts
Wild Nothing - Gemini
Magic Man - Real Life Color
Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam - Life Streams
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Fang Island - Fang Island
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
Brothertiger - Vision Tunnels
Teen Daze - Four More Years
Memoryhouse - The Years
OK
Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
Hyena - We See You
HEALTH - Disco2
The Chemical Brothers - Further
Jonsi - Go
Ratatat - LP4
jj - jj nº3
Matt & Kim - Sidewalks
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
MGMT - Congratulations
Fences - Fences
Ugh
MIA - Maya
The National - High Violet
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Really High On Fire is in your lowest list?
Dang, I feel like a tool, I really love that fucking album.
I think it is because it is not really anything like Death Is This Communion and I very much enjoyed that record. There's just nothing on it that makes me give a shit about it. I've played the album through several times and most of the time I just completely zone out, I barely even notice it's on. I'm blaming it in part on the completely dogshit mix/master which completely saps the songs of any energy whatsoever but if the songs were worth anything at all they should be able to get past something like that. They don't.
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I think I drunkenly overreacted to that really, I really like the opener of the album, but to be honest I can't recall anything significant past that song, and I usually switch playing the album whenever that song is done.
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No biggie. A lot of people seemed to like it? That's OK, it just did literally nothing for me.
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Has anyone heard Pensees Nocturnes - Grotesque? There's been a lot of great metal this year that's heavy on the black metal influence, and I think that's one of the best I've heard.
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I heard last year's Vacuum, thought it was good, I might listen to the new one some time
I am currently listening to the debut album of this heavy metal band called Ghost. They got recommended by Fenriz, which is about as good as recommendations get, but this sounds very weird. It reminds me of the music they used to play on old Scooby Doo cartoons, except it's all about Satan
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ZOMG
The National - High Violet
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Fang Island - Fang Island
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Matthew Dear - Black City
Awesome
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love
Ratatat - LP4
Good
The Extra Lens - Undercard
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
Jukebox the Ghost - Everything Under The Sun
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Caribou - Swim
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Big K.R.I.T. = K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
Kele - The Boxer
Holy Fuck - Latin
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Meh/Disappointments
of Montreal - False Priest
Cloud Cult - Light Chasers
Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
Tokyo Police Club - Champ
Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
The New Pornographers - Together
Matt & Kim - Sidewalks
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
lolbad
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
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SSLYBY deserves at least a GOOD
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New Girl Talk
http://illegal-art.net/allday/
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haha i remember girl talk!
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Dude sucks dick on CD but damn does he throw a fucking amazing dance party.
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God Tier
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
M.I.A. - Maya
Robyn - Body Talk
The Tallest Man on Earth - Sometimes the Blues Just A Passing Bird EP
Women - Public Strain
Good Tier
Antony and the Johnsons - Swanlights
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Beach House - Teen Dream
The Books - The Way Out
Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Dirty Projectors w/ Björk - Mount Wittenberg Orca
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Fang Island - Fang Island
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
How to Dress Well - Love Remains
Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Jónsi - Go
Julian Lynch - Mare
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
Menomena - Mines
Sleigh Bells - Treats
The Smiles - Hermosa EP
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
TOKiMONSTA - Midnight Menu
TV Girl - TV Girl EP
Yellow Swans - Going Places
Zola Jesus - Stridulum/Valusia
Meh Tier
Avey Tare - Down There
Baths - Cerulean
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Caribou - Swim
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon II
Margot and the Nuclear So-and-So's - Buzzard
Matthew Dear - Black City
The National - High Violet
No Age - Everything In Between
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
She and Him - Volume Two
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Ugh Tier
Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love
MGMT - Congratulations
Wavves - King of the Beach
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I have such a hard time keeping track of what came out when so this list might totally blow
the best
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Yoyoyo Acapulco - The Pleumeleuc Experience
Tobacco - Maniac Meat
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Cloud Control - Bliss Release
Citay - Dream Get Together
The Black Keys - Brothers
the decent
Menomena - Mines
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
the meh
The 1900s - Return of the Century
Gorrilaz - Plastic Beach
the truly awful
Crystal Castles - CC
Vampire Weekend
M.I.A.
I know I am forgetting a shitload of stuff but that's all I can come up with right now. I really liked that SSLYBY song "let it sway" but the rest of the album wasn't anything special so I didn't include it because really one amazing song isn't enough for a legit spot on the list.
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Hm a lot of people seem to be liking the Kanye record. Whassupwidat?
(I'm pretty stoaked that my list methodology is catching on by the way)
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it's a pretty great system no lie
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You can personalize the list titles to your liking!
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modular design!
customization!
friendly UI!
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Hm a lot of people seem to be liking the Kanye record. Whassupwidat?
Yo Biggie Smalls I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Kanye West made one of the best hip hop albums of all time. OF ALL TIME.
(I haven't heard the album, I just wanted to say that joke before anyone else got to it.)
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Hm a lot of people seem to be liking the Kanye record. Whassupwidat?
(I'm pretty stoaked that my list methodology is catching on by the way)
The new Kanye is fucking superb, and this is coming from someone who never understood the hype about Late Registration. It's wildly ambitious and shockingly successful.
And the god-tier/shit-tier list methodology has always been an excellent way of avoiding rankings, which are a pain in the ass to do. So kudos.
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Goddamn, like, this week alone the new Girl Talk, the new Kanye and Nicki Minaj's debut album come out.
is...is it christmas?
Not that it matters with the Ye one cus it's been leaked but arrrrg come on come on Nicki I need more Nicki why won't you leaaaaaak
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You will never ever get me to listen to nicki minaj
not when the album cover is that creepy
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Nicki Minaj makes me want to strangle things.
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Great:
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Very Good:
The Black Keys - Brothers
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Spoon - Transference
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
Robyn - Body Talk
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Good:
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Jonsi - Go
Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
Wavves - King Of The Beach
Scissor Sisters - Night Work
Bad:
Interpol - Interpol (IV)
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
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Bad:
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
:psyduck:
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Stuff I love, all year round and forever:
Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Faded Paper Figures – New Medium
The Radio Dept. – Clinging to a Scheme
Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
Stars – The Five Ghosts
Wolf Parade – Expo 86
Miles Kurosky – The Desert of Shallow Effects
Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
Geographer – Animal Shapes EP
Stuff I love so much but faded away naturally, still leaving a wonderful impression on me:
The National – High Violet
Love Is All – Two Thousand and Ten Injuries
Beach House – Teen Dream
Owen Pallett – Heartland
The Thermals – Personal Life
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Big Boi – Blah blah blah chico dusty
The-Dream – Love King
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Autumn, Again
The 1900s – Return of the Century [okay this came out like two weeks ago, not enough time yet]
Stuff that was good and fine:
Admiral Radley – I Heart California
Matt and Kim - Sidewalks
Rah Rah – Breaking Hearts
The Walkmen – Lisbon
Fang Island – s/t
jj - jj no 3
Stuff that just makes me want to listen to other albums:
of Montreal – False Priest
Stuff that I know I will fall in love with but didn't have enough time to really sink into this year:
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
Bottomless Pit – Blood Under the Bridge
The Golden Dogs – Coat of Arms
LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
Cloud Control – Bliss Release
Spoon - Transference
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Bad:
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
:psyduck:
I knew that would happen.
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HOLY SHIT
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
The Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Beach House – Teen Dream
Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
The Black Keys - Brothers
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle
Kylesa- Spiral Shadow
LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
The National – High Violet
Nobunny - First Blood
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
GOOD
The 1900s – Return of the Century
Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
The Books - The Way Out
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Fang Island – Fang Island
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
The Hold Steady- Heaven Is Whenever
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid (Suites II and III)
JEFF the Brotherhood - Heavy Damage
jj - jj n° 3
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
Neil Young- Le Noise
No Age - Everything In Between
Of Montreal - False Priest
Ratatat - LP4
Spoon - Transference
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
The Thermals – Personal Life
Tokyo Police Club - Champ
The Walkmen – Lisbon
Wolf Parade – Expo 86
Women - Public Strain
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
SO-SO
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
The Chemical Brothers - Further
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
MGMT - Congratulations
M.I.A. - Maya
The New Pornographers - Together
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- The Brutalist Bricks
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Wavves - King Of The Beach
BLAH
Girl Talk - All Day
Interpol - Interpol (IV)
UGH WHY DID I LISTEN TO THIS?
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
Matt and Kim - Sidewalks
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oh man I forgot about Broken Bells
that album was one of the most bland, boring things I've ever heard
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Is that counting the Pains of Being Pure At Heart?
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I'd say 'oh snap' but I'm actually listening to them right now
(http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/052/812/original/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif?1275684729)
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STUFF I REALLY DUG THIS YEAR FROM THIS YEAR
The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Avey Tare - Down There
Beach House - Teen Dream
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here
Fang Island - s/t
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Liars - Sisterworld
Japandroids - Younger Us/Art Czars/Heavenward Grand Prix 7"
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This
Women - Public Strain
STUFF I COULDA GIVEN MORE TIME TO
Wolf Parade, Zs, Titus Andronicus, The New Pornographers, The National, Julian Lynch, Magic Lantern, Menomena, Best Coast, BSS, Spoon
STUFF I CAN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYMORE
Erykah Badu, Crystal Castles, Girls in the Eighties, Holy Fuck, Karkwa, Black Mountain, Wavvvvvvvvvvves, Rangers, Seahaven, Sleigh Bells , Quasi, Plants and Animals, Walls , Laura Veirs, oOoOO.
STUFF I REALLY DUG THIS YEAR FROM OTHER YEARS
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead/Round About Midnight, Birth of the Cool
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'/ Another Side of Bob Dylan
Grace Jones - Night Clubbing
Patti Smith - Wave/Radio Ethiopia/Easter
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On/Let's Get it On
R.E.M. - Murmur
Otis Redding
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oh yeah, shit i listened to not from this year:
jj no 2 (hnnnnnng)
said the whale - islands disappear
the xx
skwm all day errday
yo la tengo all day errday
fanfarlo even more
the most serene republic!
midlake - bamnan and slivercork
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I try to do one of those "stuff from the past that I dug this year" lists every year but then they get too obscenely long and I give up.
That being said;
2009 STUFF I DUG IN 2010
Kidcrash- Snacks
Native- Wrestling Movies
Coalesce- OXEP
Celeste- Misanthrope(s)
Black Pyramid- Black Pyramid
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes- Up From Below
Police Teeth- Real Size Monster Series
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yeah it's always too long but mostly regarding non-2010, i listened to a lot of
the xx
plumtree
the american analog set
starfucker
lcd soundsystem
freelance whales
tears for fears
jamie long
photosynthesis
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Ooh lemme try this.
Old stuff I dug this year
Marvin Gaye
House Boat (oh hey Mikey Erg/Steinways project)
That one AmAnSet EP I didn't know existed until about two months ago
The Hextalls
That Nick Drake mood I get into every fall
Grabass Charlestons
The Leftovers
(2010: the year I realized that pop-punk in 2009 was pretty good)
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Fuck I forgot the Nobunny and JEFF the Brotherhood albums! Added them to my original post.
Old Stuff I Was Into This Year
Frank Turner
Nirvana
Jay Reatard
The Stooges
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Lots of old Motown and girl-group records
Spacemen 3
The Ramones
Neil Young
Tom Waits
Wilco
The Gories
Jets to Brazil
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if someone could upload japandroids' 2010 releases in one zip file that would be great.
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Consider it done.
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Nicki Minaj makes me want to strangle things
You will never ever get me to listen to nicki minaj
Oh, what, really? Nicki Minaj is the most interesting thing to happen to American pop music in years. Also: her videos are ridic.
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Consider it done.
Thanks
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Nicki Minaj makes me want to strangle things
You will never ever get me to listen to nicki minaj
Oh, what, really? Nicki Minaj is the most interesting thing to happen to American pop music in years. Also: her videos are ridic.
(http://www.killerhiphop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-cover.jpg)
Like I said, creepy
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yeah thanks, i haven't grabbed the b sides for younger us and heavenward grand prix yet.
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Someone identified the samples in the girl talk album, track by track, in case you were curious (http://alldaysamples.com/)
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Fuck (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/pulp-or-no-pulp-jarvis-cocker-sides-pulp-and-reunites-his-old-band-primavera)
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dude. i am going to that. yeah.
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Stuff that I liked this year
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Orgone - The Joyless Parson
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Castevet - Mounds of Ash
Wormed - Quasineutrality
Alcest - Ecailles des Lunes
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness
This Will Destroy You - Communal Blood and Moving On the Edges of Things
Kayo Dot - Coyote and Stained Glass
Castevet - The Echo and the Light EP
Caravels - Floorboards
Autolux - Transit Transit
The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth
Japandroids - Younger Us
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Minus the Bear - OMNI
The Wonder Years - The Upsides
Seahaven - Ghost
S - I'm Not As Good At it As You
Shad - TSOL
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute
Mind Eraser/Slang - Split
Nomos - Notes from the Acheron
Slices - Cruising
Killing The Dream - Lucky Me
Trap Them - Filth Rations
Nails - Unsilent Death
Stuff I still need to give a chance/a better chance
Black Milk - Album of the Year
Pensees Nocturnes - Grotesque
No Age - Everything In Between
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Burning Love - Songs for Burning Lovers
Les Discrets - Septembre et ses dernieres Pensees
Weekend Nachos - Bleed
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
She & Him - Volume II
Portugal. The Man - American Ghetto
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
Stuff that I found disappointing
Envy - Recitation
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Black Tusk - Taste the Sin
Skin Like Iron - Descent Into Light
Trash Talk - Eyes & Nines
Rome - Nos Chants Perdus
Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
Integrity - The Blackest Curse
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Ceremony - Rohnert Park
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The Illest
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Shining - Blackjazz
Shad - TSOL
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Robyn - Body Talk 1, 2 and 3
Homeboy Sandman - The Good Sun
Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Toundra - (II)
The Brokedowns - Species Bender
Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
Karkwa - Les Chemins De Verre
Kvelertak - S/T
The Like - Release Me
Liars - Sisterworld
The Books - The Way Out
Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Stuff that was really fun
White Lung - It's The Evil
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Cloud Control - Bliss Release
Christopher Lee - Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross
Chromeo - Business Casual
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - The Logic Of Chance
Delphic - Acolyte
The Dirty Projectors and Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca
Faded Paper Figures - New Medium
Salem - King Night
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Loma Prieta - Life/Less
Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife
The Magnetic Fields - Realism
Matthew Dear - Black City
Michita - A Full Life
Norah Jones - The Fall
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
The Thermals - Personal Life
Usssy - Oko
The 1900s - Return Of The Century
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Aloe Blacc - Good Things
Atheist - Jupiter
Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs - Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai
Tokyo Police Club - Champ
Under Byen - Alt Er Tabt
Wombs - Unitopians
65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
Vegas! - Midnight Machine
Tweak Bird - S/T
US Christmas - Run Thick In The Night
Tim and Sam's blah blah fuck you I'm not typing their stupid name out - Life Stream
Apples In Stereo - Travelers In Space And Time
Abigail Williams - Hope The Great Betrayal
Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
All the singles Japandroids did
Women - Public Strain
Working For A Nuclear Free City - Jojo Burger Tempest
Bongripper - Satan Worshiping Doom
Brasstronaut - Mt. Chimera
Grids - White Walls
Jonsi - Go
Joie De Vivre - The North End
Nails - Unsilent Death
Marina And The Diamonds - The Family Jewels
Boring
The Pomegranates - One Of Us
Bad Religion - Dissent Of Man
Girl Talk - All Day
Lot of good stuff this year
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Daath's new album is worth a listen or two.
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wtf i like the new kanye
what is happening
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Well huh, I did not realise I had listened to so many new albums this year. So without further ado:
Woo Yeah! Awesome!
James Blackshaw - All Is Falling
Shit Robot - From The Cradle to the Rave
Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
The Thermals – Personal Life
El Guincho – Pop Negro
Los Campesinos! – Romance Is Boring
Liars – Sisterworld
Steel Train – Steel Train
Space Dimension Controller – Temporary Thrillz
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring
The Extra Lens – Undercard
Juan Maclean – DJ-Kicks
Seabear – We Built A Fire
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
Good but not quite good enough to make the top category
The Innocence Mission – My Room In The Trees
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Hanggai - He Who Travels Far
We Were Promised Jetpacks - The Last Place You'll Look [EP] (Would have made top category but is basically a rehash of the album)
Andrew Thomas - Between Buildings & Trees
Bonobo - Black Sands
Enjoyable but only in doses
anodyne - Corrosion
Black Prairie – Feast of the Hunter’s Moon
Peasant – Shady Retreat
Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Wildling
Really? Come on, you can do better than this.
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Stars – The Five Ghosts
Thomas Fehlmann – Gute Luft
Mind.In.A.Box – R.E.T.R.O
Crooked Still – Some Strange Country
*Yawn*
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
The National – High Violet
Roll The Dice – Roll The Dice
Hahahahaha, oh god what? Wait, you were serious?
White Pony – K-Town Stomp
Yeasayer – Odd Blood
Röyksopp – Senior
I feel like I should point out that I am a big fan of Röyksopp and that they could not have disappointed me more with this album. One track does not make a good album Röyksopp, pick yourselves up and get back on track soon please.
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Daath's new album is worth a listen or two.
For an instant, I thought you said Death, before I realized how impossible that was and what you actually said.
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Chuck will rise from the grave and start a band called Life. He plans for the debut to be about fluffy kittens and makeouts.
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As long as it sounds the same, I'm fine with that.
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Oh god I didn't even bother with the new Stars record (this probably has about as much to do with my changing tastes as it does Stars' ever-increasing mediocrity though, I tried listening to Set Yourself On Fire about a month back and ended up changing to something else, like, four tracks in)
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Ooh ooh the sidebar on the website with that Pulp story reminded me there is a new Maserati record out GUYS THERE IS A NEW MASERATI RECORD OUT
(it has drum tracks Jerry Fuchs recorded before he passed away)
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Devin Townsend update (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNVg7PixJuo&feature=player_embedded) on Deconstruction. Not having to do with 2010 exactly, but it doesn't matter because he is Devin Townsend
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Ooh ooh the sidebar on the website with that Pulp story reminded me there is a new Maserati record out GUYS THERE IS A NEW MASERATI RECORD OUT
(it has drum tracks Jerry Fuchs recorded before he passed away)
HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT THIS?!
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I DUNNO COS I DID TOO THERE IS PROBABLY SOMETHING SEVERELY WRONG WITH US
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my shortlist of good stuff
some times the blues jsut a passing bird - the tallest man on earth
the wild hunt - the tallest man on earth
black masses - electric wizard
plays the popular hits of radiohead on her magical ukele - amanda palmer
marrow of the soul - aggaloch
with emperor Antarctica - boy and bear
i will love you at all - darren hanlon
form - die! die! die!
end times - eels
ghost - seahaven
i speak because i can - laura marling
i believe you liar - washington
all delighted people - sufjan stevans
the way out - the books
personal life - the thermals
immersion - pendulum
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new Magrudergrind EP called Crusher. Fucking awesome. The newest Pulling Teeth song that was on the A389 sampler is on there as well, if you haven't heard it.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/11/a_free_magruder.html
Oh, and for whoever cares, there is a new Pianos Become the Teeth song on their Myspace. I think it's supposed to be on their upcoming split with The Saddest Landscape.
http://www.myspace.com/pianosbecometheteeth
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So far this is the good stuff I've heard
Alcest - Écailles De Lune
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Immolation - Majesty and Decay
Kent - En Plats I Solen
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Watain - Lawless Darkness
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SO: according to Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/) the new Kanye West album is perfect. 10.0
Now, I really like this album. Perfect? I just have a hard time believing that this is objectively the best thing I have ever heard. Okay, so other albums have been given a perfect score, but this one seems to be getting a lot of them. More than I've seen from just about any other album.
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I was stunned to see that rating as well.
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Hyperbole?
In my Pitchfork?
It's more likely than you think!
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I DUNNO COS I DID TOO THERE IS PROBABLY SOMETHING SEVERELY WRONG WITH US
DUDE IT'S PRETTY GOOD I DOWNLOADED IT THIS WEEKEND
..WOOOO
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SO: according to Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/) the new Kanye West album is perfect. 10.0
Now, I really like this album. Perfect? I just have a hard time believing that this is objectively the best thing I have ever heard. Okay, so other albums have been given a perfect score, but this one seems to be getting a lot of them. More than I've seen from just about any other album.
I think the reason the album is getting such dazzling reviews across the board is because of the reputation Kanye West has. Some sort of positive backlash maybe?
(Having said that, I do enjoy it quite a bit, and at the moment would probably rate it over his other albums, and I do like those quite a bit as well.)
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i feel like that's the sort of thing where whenever someone criticizes the album everybody's gonna point to that review and yell "SEE?! YOU'RE WRONG!" because, you know, opinions are right and wrong
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It makes sense really.
I give kanye a 10/10 every day just for putting on his pants the right way and tying his shoes. He's constantly exceeding my expectations for what a mentally retarded person can do.
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SO: according to Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/) the new Kanye West album is perfect. 10.0
Now, I really like this album. Perfect? I just have a hard time believing that this is objectively the best thing I have ever heard. Okay, so other albums have been given a perfect score, but this one seems to be getting a lot of them. More than I've seen from just about any other album.
Huh I guess I'll have to give it a go
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So far my overriding feeling is to stop listening and put on Big Boi
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Maybe it will grow on me
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i never really understoon the whole "hipsters are supposed to dig kanye" thing pitchfork has got going on. anyone care to explain?
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I've never cared about a Kanye album before and I kind of like this one.
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i never really understoon the whole "hipsters are supposed to dig kanye" thing pitchfork has got going on. anyone care to explain?
They seem to regard him as the perfect mix of immensely creative and batshit insane.
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No way it can get a 10.0 when the best track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLRMKamjxpo) isn't even on the album. It's a really good album though.
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I've never cared about a Kanye album before and I kind of like this one.
this is exactly where i'm at.
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Romance Is Boring is still my album of the year, I am such a dang false
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Romance is Boring is the best album ever
I mean, if they released the last five tracks as an EP that would STILL be the best record ever
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It just makes me so happy when I listen to it, sometimes I don't even understand it
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The Tron soundtrack is pretty awesome mix of daft punk base glitch noises and classic film score music.
Discuss.
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i never really understoon the whole "hipsters are supposed to dig kanye" thing pitchfork has got going on. anyone care to explain?
I have no clue, they seem to just randomly dig semi-mainstream hip-hop.
Anyway thread, it's my turn to post lists.
Great:
Aloe Blacc - Good Things
Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
Castevet - The Echo & The Light
Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
The Dopamines - Expect The Worst
Hanggai - He Who Travels Far
The Hextalls - Get Smashed
every Japandroids single
Joie De Vivre - The North End
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai
Nails - Unsilent Death
Paper Tiger - Made Like Us
Shad - TSOL
Tobacco - Maniac Meat
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
Red City Radio - To The Sons & Daughters of Woody Guthrie
Psst, Gaslight Anthem! These guys do the whole Americana/cowpunk thing better than you:
Two Cow Garage - Sweet Saint Me
Good, but not great:
We Are The Union - Greap Leaps Forward
Wooden Shjips - Volume 2
Sundowner - We Chase The Waves
Tokyo Police Club - Champ
Thermals - Personal Life
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Ted Leo/Rx - The Brutalist Bricks
Street Dogs - self titled
ASMZ - Kollaps Tradixionales
The Sainte Catherines - Fire Works
The Riot Before - Rebellion
Olafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped the stop having really long album titles, people from Iceland, I still can't pronounce Sigur Ros' last album
The New Pornographers - Together
Moon Duo - Escape
The Measure [SA] - Notes
Marnie Stern - Self Titled
Look Mexico - To Bed To Battle
Kaki King - Junior
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP
Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing
Flatfoot 56 - Black Thorn
Fake Problems - Real Ghosts Caught On Tape
Dungen - Skit I Allt
Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude
Cut Chemist - Sound Of The Police
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Brant Bjork - Gods & Goddesses
Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
Could have been better:
Midnight Juggernauts - The Crystal Axis
MGMT - Congratulations
Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Eux Autres - Broken Bow
Both Eels albums
Boris & Ian Astbury - BXI
The Album Leaf - A Chorus of Storytellers
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Royksopp - Senior
RJD2 - The Colossus
Y U NO MAKE GOOD ALBUM
Wintersleep - New Inheritors
Everything Wavves does, ever, ever, ever.
Dear Animal Collective side projects, you sucked too. I mean, I heard like 26 seconds of one Avey Tare song, but it wasn't good at all.
Best shows:
1. The Dopamines/Grabass Charlestons/Curious Volume
2. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists/Screaming Females
3. Wilco/Mavis Staples (Solid Sound Festival)
4. Flatfoot 56/Refuse Resist/The Damaged
5. The Damaged/Lenny Lashley's Gang of One/Midnight Saints
6. Outrageous Cherry (Solid Sound Festival)
7. Birds In The Air/three other bands that sucked
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I honestly wasn't that crazy about the Two Cow Garage record, to be honest man. It was OK. Good list otherwise. (also you reminded me to get the Free Energy record and check out The Thermals)
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If only the printers would get it fucking PRINTED and send it to Suburban Home, so they in turn can send it to me.
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Lykke Li's new single is up for download (http://www.lykkeli.com/get_some/index.htm) for free on her site.
It's pretty cool!
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She's such a lil bamf
Also feel free to add me to the "i never paid attention to kanye but shit this new record is super good" bandwagon
his new record is really really enjoyable to me.
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Dammit, I guess I gotta listen to it now.
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I'll come down on the side of "I actively disliked Kanye before this record, or at least his rapping, but think this is probably top 3 best records I've heard this year."
A big part of it is he lets better rappers take the lead more, but honestly, cmon, how fuccin good is "All of The Lights"
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Dammit, I guess I gotta listen to it now.
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Oh, what, really? Nicki Minaj is the most interesting thing to happen to American pop music in years. Also: her videos are ridic.
Dude I mean, really? She's just Lil Kim: The Return. Like her verse on Monster is sicc but "most interesting thing to happen in American Pop Music in Years?" Like, dude, Gaga. Kanye. Even Katy fuccin Perry is doing more interesting stuff than Minaj.
That said the album is like, aight on first listen.
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but "most interesting thing to happen in American Pop Music in Years?" Like, dude, Gaga....
lol
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I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
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Really good melodic punk.
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I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
The idea that Lady Gaga "is one of the most exciting things to happen to pop music in years" is absolutely absurd. She's all gimmick, a clever hack whose managed to convince millions that crazy hats and lots of eye shadow are somehow the same thing as musical ability or talent in general. She's interesting only insofar as she's a great case study in the power of marketing and the willingness of the American public to rush to worship at whatever kitschy, overrated altar of hype is currently being called The Next Big Thing regardless of any actual merit. Her music is tired, derivative. It pushes no boundaries despite the bewildering arguments to the contrary. Even her outfits, while certainly weird, are often little more than garish Halloween costumes, rife for parody and fully deserving of it. She deserves credit only for her obvious business acumen: she knows how to manipulate the masses and self market to an amazing degree. In short she's a shill, a sham, and a charlatan, an edifice and monument to crass, surface level aesthetics with absolutely nothing beneath the vapid, uninspiring veneer.
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I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
Lady Gaga is a pop star.
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Sorry, that was excessively reductionistic. I am in the process of getting tattooed, posting from my phone. Will be more eloquent later.
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Devin Townsend update (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNVg7PixJuo&feature=player_embedded) on Deconstruction. Not having to do with 2010 exactly, but it doesn't matter because he is Devin Townsend
Holy shit Dev is so fucking Canadian. The opening bit of that video is the most Canadian thing I've ever seen.
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Andrew WK just tweeted something about a new album.
PS: if you're on twitter, follow Andrew WK on twitter.
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I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
The idea that Lady Gaga "is one of the most exciting things to happen to pop music in years" is absolutely absurd.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't do it deliberately, but you've substituted "interesting" in the original post (and the post Kieffer was referencing) for "exciting" in your own post, and that radically changes the argument to something quite different to what Kieffer was saying. Which renders the rest of your post pointless, I'm afraid.
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I'm not a fan of Gaga's music really, but her stage persona and the way she's gained her significant following would qualify as "interesting," I think. "Exciting?" "Riveting?" Maybe not. But "interesting"? Well, we're talking about her (and this isn't the first discussion we've had on the matter, by a long shot).
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Dude I mean, really? She's just Lil Kim: The Return. Like her verse on Monster is sicc but "most interesting thing to happen in American Pop Music in Years?" Like, dude, Gaga. Kanye. Even Katy fuccin Perry is doing more interesting stuff than Minaj.
That said the album is like, aight on first listen.
Yeah but like, Gaga broke in 2008, right? Her reign in pop is in full swing. We are in the midst of the Gaga Dynasty. I'm thinking of who's coming next to get her. Kanye I don't really know what to do with. He's pop because he's huge but ostensibly still a rapper of some kind. He definitely is starting to trade in nonsensical combinations of grandiose imagery which speaks to his success and his understanding of pastiche, but I dunno if he quite fits. Katy Perry's such a cartoon as to be practically blank. I couldn't tell you anything about her. Katy Perry? Who's Katy Perry? The brunette with the giant eyes and giant boobs? What tricks does she do?
Nicki, unlike Perry has fucking chops. She outshines everyone she guests for. In my head, 'Lil Freak,' 'Get It All,' 'Letting Go,' 'Bottoms Up' and 'Knockout' are all Nicki songs. Monster is different because there are so many guests. She's a great female rapper with a playful pop sensibility and American pop has been pretty fucking slim on women rappers for a while now.
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I've never cared about a Kanye album before and I kind of like this one.
Yeah, basically this. Don't really having any opinion on any Kanye album before this one, and this one is pretty ok. Not something that I'm amazed with, but it's better than his previous work.
As far as 2010 stuff goes, I still haven't heard anything that's topped The Gentlemen's Butcher.
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I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
The idea that Lady Gaga "is one of the most exciting things to happen to pop music in years" is absolutely absurd. She's all gimmick, a clever hack whose managed to convince millions that crazy hats and lots of eye shadow are somehow the same thing as musical ability or talent in general. She's interesting only insofar as she's a great case study in the power of marketing and the willingness of the American public to rush to worship at whatever kitschy, overrated altar of hype is currently being called The Next Big Thing regardless of any actual merit. Her music is tired, derivative. It pushes no boundaries despite the bewildering arguments to the contrary. Even her outfits, while certainly weird, are often little more than garish Halloween costumes, rife for parody and fully deserving of it. She deserves credit only for her obvious business acumen: she knows how to manipulate the masses and self market to an amazing degree. In short she's a shill, a sham, and a charlatan, an edifice and monument to crass, surface level aesthetics with absolutely nothing beneath the vapid, uninspiring veneer.
At least she isn't a "look how fucking sexy I am" kinda pop artist, like that katy perry bullshit.
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Look at how weird I am and how much makeup I can have put on me is much better.
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Well yeah duh
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You were a goth in highschool weren't you?
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Nope
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New Kanye is unbearably boring.
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umm
bradford cox has released 4 atlas sound albums since monday
:psyduck:
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Yes, we live in the age of the internet.
Here is a (very incomplete) list of music I've listened to and owned this year. I'll do my best to update it in the coming days.
- I love it I love it I love it so much
Swans
Nest
Ital Tek
Deerhunter
Solar Bears
Ramadanman / Pearson Sound
Girl Unit
Squawk
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Instra:Mental / dBridge
- Pretty great, to be honest
Cloaks
Jam City
Starkey
Hyetal
Space Dimension Controller
The Internal Tulips
Cosmic Revenge
Subeena
LCD Soundsystem
- First I said “No”, then I was all “Yeah”
Breach
Loops Haunt
Slugabed
Swindle
DJ Nate
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Lego
Transparent Sounds
Altered Natives
Kingdom
Taz Buckfaster
Peverelist
Forest Swords
- I can’t tell where the irony ends and the enjoyment begins
Lil B
Nite Jewel
- Points for effort I guess
Rudi Zygadlo
Jimmy Edgar
Eskmo
Optimum
- I need some time
Point B
DJ Rashad
DJ Roc
- I expected better
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Squarepusher
FaltyDL
Ikonika
- Please stop you’re boring me
Gorillaz
Girl Talk
Four Tet
Bassnectar
Pretty Lights
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New Kanye is unbearably boring.
Nope, guess again.
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Yes, we live in the age of the internet.
SINCE WHEN
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speaking of which, Marla Hansen just dropped a new single (http://marlahansen.bandcamp.com/) without anybody noticing. crossing my fingers that she's got a new release in the works. i cannot get enough of her.
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Dude I mean, really? She's just Lil Kim: The Return. Like her verse on Monster is sicc but "most interesting thing to happen in American Pop Music in Years?" Like, dude, Gaga. Kanye. Even Katy fuccin Perry is doing more interesting stuff than Minaj.
That said the album is like, aight on first listen.
Yeah but like, Gaga broke in 2008, right? Her reign in pop is in full swing. We are in the midst of the Gaga Dynasty. I'm thinking of who's coming next to get her. Kanye I don't really know what to do with. He's pop because he's huge but ostensibly still a rapper of some kind. He definitely is starting to trade in nonsensical combinations of grandiose imagery which speaks to his success and his understanding of pastiche, but I dunno if he quite fits. Katy Perry's such a cartoon as to be practically blank. I couldn't tell you anything about her. Katy Perry? Who's Katy Perry? The brunette with the giant eyes and giant boobs? What tricks does she do?
Nicki, unlike Perry has fucking chops. She outshines everyone she guests for. In my head, 'Lil Freak,' 'Get It All,' 'Letting Go,' 'Bottoms Up' and 'Knockout' are all Nicki songs. Monster is different because there are so many guests. She's a great female rapper with a playful pop sensibility and American pop has been pretty fucking slim on women rappers for a while now.
Yeah but like, listen to her record. It's not actually good at all, really. There's a couple decent tracks, and then there's messes like that will.I.am bullshit. It's not anywhere close to an interesting record, it's just more dirty-souf style rap shit, which I love, but she doesn't rep it that well. I dunno if someone else is actually more interesting as like "the next thing," although I know all y'all are still sleeping on The-Dream but he ain't new, I just don't really think you can call Minaj the next big exciting thing.
Gaga completely changed the way we think about Pop Music. Her videos, her concerts, have brought about a completely new paradigm in what pop music is allowed to do. Think about how crazy thriller was back in the day, or purple rain, and then think about the fucking Telephone video and how completely mindblowing that shit was. No one was expecting that from her, and whether or not you liked it, it was a fucking marker. Now look at Kanye's Runaway video, etc. They've taken pop music from being nothing but singles and filler tracks that you hear and forget, and made it into a spectacle again, which is exactly what it should be. I guess you can give JT some credit on this too irt the goes around comes around video from FSLS but these two, and especially Gaga, have made it an art. Regardless of whether you like her music, you gotta give her credit for making pop music interesting again.
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I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
The idea that Lady Gaga "is one of the most exciting things to happen to pop music in years" is absolutely absurd.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't do it deliberately, but you've substituted "interesting" in the original post (and the post Kieffer was referencing) for "exciting" in your own post, and that radically changes the argument to something quite different to what Kieffer was saying. Which renders the rest of your post pointless, I'm afraid.
Oh man, so I did. Definitely unintentional. That being said, my post is still completely valid. She's not even interesting beyond the fact that it's interesting to look at why people are going so nuts over her i.e. she's only interesting insofar as she illuminates certain widespread cultural tendencies. On her own (music, outfits, image etc.) there's nothing of interest to speak of.
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So then, if there is nothing interesting about her, which I'll grant for the sake of the argument, what has happened in American Pop Music recently that is more interesting than the people I listed. Lets say in the last 5 years.
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She deserves credit only for her obvious business acumen: she knows how to manipulate the masses and self market to an amazing degree. In short she's a shill, a sham, and a charlatan, an edifice and monument to crass, surface level aesthetics with absolutely nothing beneath the vapid, uninspiring veneer.
This. Although, I find her ability to sell herself so well pretty remarkable. Apparently she is a huge part of the "creative" effort behind her music and image, so I guess I could give her that. Saying she's better than Kanye though? Bullshit.
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I always thought that Lady Gaga, and correct me if I'm wrong because I was not alive during the 80's, is basically Madonna
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I always thought that Lady Gaga, and correct me if I'm wrong because I was not alive during the 80's, is basically Madonna
I think Madonna must have made more of an impact, because there was nothing quite like her before. Plus, there were tons of big pop stars after Madonna in the 90s, so Gaga isn't really anything new. They only seem to differ style-wise, cause Gaga wears retarded shit.
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yeah Gaga is Madonna only twenty years too late to actually be innovative or special
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So then, if there is nothing interesting about her, which I'll grant for the sake of the argument, what has happened in American Pop Music recently that is more interesting than the people I listed. Lets say in the last 5 years.
Mainstream pop music? Honestly, I tend to avoid the stuff precisely because there isn't anything more interesting than Gaga. I suppose we could mention MIA or Kanye, but I'd have to say for the most part it's unexciting stuff. This isn't just alt-rock snobbery, though--comparing this decade to previous ones, there just hasn't been a lot happening. There haven't been new genres gaining relevance, and new sounds have been largely derivative; the two biggest sounds, pop-country and hip-hop, have been in creative decline for some time. Arguing Gaga is the best thing happening isn't saying much in a situation so bereft of excitement.
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Lady Gaga is not Madonna. If Grace Jones (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztkQ5S1sAJw) is Little Richard, Gaga is Pat Boone. I don't know why this is not obvious.
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I've been listening a bit to the debut album by a retro doom band called Ghost, Opus Eponymous. Remember on old Scooby Doo cartoons when the gang would be all looking for clues, and then they'd run into the monster that was really an old guy in a rubber mask, and it would chase them around while music played in the background? Ghost sound like that music, except they are all about Satan. Anyway, the album comes at the recommendation of Fenriz of Darkthrone, so you can trust it to be pretty rockin'.
And if this riff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwyJJ7zkec) does not cause you to bang your head, you are probably wearing a neck brace
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I've heard this band mentioned three times in three different locations today. This is obviously a sign. (helps that they're pretty funky)
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Yeah but like, listen to her record. It's not actually good at all, really.
It's true! I kinda got stuck trying to defend a point I made before hearing the record. It was kind of just one whole willfully obtuse cringe-fest after I found out about the will.i.am track. I'm not totally abandoning hope, but the album was a major letdown.
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I think the ultimate problem here is that you guys don't like pop music. That's cool. You're missing out though.
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I always thought that Lady Gaga, and correct me if I'm wrong because I was not alive during the 80's, is basically Madonna
I did get to see the rise of the Madonna monster and I see the resemblence. I'm therefore not shocked at the new-ness of Gaga since there seems to be none.
And the meat dress was just heinous.
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I think the ultimate problem here is that you guys don't like pop music. That's cool. You're missing out though.
(I don't want to get into a fight about what pop music is AGAIN but) yes I do
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Naw you're right I shoulda said mainstream pop/radio pop to be clear. S'all fuccin pop shit.
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My album of the year race is, at the moment, a three way tie between Solar Bears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqV86qptUMw), Forest Sword (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsjLIjYEYQ4)s, and Nest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqV86qptUMw).
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I've been listening a bit to the debut album by a retro doom band called Ghost, Opus Eponymous. Remember on old Scooby Doo cartoons when the gang would be all looking for clues, and then they'd run into the monster that was really an old guy in a rubber mask, and it would chase them around while music played in the background? Ghost sound like that music, except they are all about Satan. Anyway, the album comes at the recommendation of Fenriz of Darkthrone, so you can trust it to be pretty rockin'.
And if this riff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwyJJ7zkec) does not cause you to bang your head, you are probably wearing a neck brace
Michio Kurihara played guitar for Ghost.
And you all know my theory regarding Mr. Kurihara: anything he touches is gold.
Edit: Wait no, this is a totally different Ghost. But they are fucking rad.
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Dude I mean, really? She's just Lil Kim: The Return.
minaj is considerably wackier and has a better sense of flow & metre and also has more complex/interesting relationship w/ female sexuality. plus "monster" is one thing but her two mixtapes are absolute fire, dude.
i still haven't heard good ass job which is what i'm still going to call the new kanye record no matter what.
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Edit: Wait no, this is a totally different Ghost. But they are fucking rad.
Haha, there are actually so many bands named Ghost. You'd think people would catch on already.
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new iron & wine single streaming on his myspace. (http://www.myspace.com/ironandwine)
wee
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this makes me happy :-)
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So 2010 was a bit hohum, I mean I didn't really see all that much in the way of good show-
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_zdafNLxf28E/S4f1NWowkgI/AAAAAAAADOc/yqpLmtWEUXo/s640/P2209970.JPG)
Ok that was really fucking awesome but I mean really that was February and-
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs017.ash2/34195_406289509353_31517629353_4115726_5852626_n.jpg)
Yeah that was absolutely Goddamned brilliant, but-
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4705846703_31aff28683.jpg)
OK I GET THE POINT, PLUS THAT WAS RIGHT AFTER THE LAST THING AND I WAS LIKE A FOOT AWAY FROM IT, but this year'd need like one more awesome thing to make it-
(http://www.losanjealous.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Belle_and_Sebastian_Treasure_Island_Music_Festival_011.jpg)
God damnit
(tl; dr I saw like four out of my five favorite bands this year)
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Hey, me too!
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n217/rageaholicdove/2010shows.png)
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I saw Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (who were #1 on my must see list) and The Dopamines (who are like my new favorite band).
And met Mikey Erg (at the latter)!
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Best Album of 2010:
El Guincho - Pop Negro
All other opinions null & void.
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Except that the Dopamines put out the best pissed-off at the world pop-punk album of all time.
(http://www.celebrity-sunglasses-finder.com/image-files/kanye_west.gif)
OF ALL TIME.
DOHHHHHH PAGEBREAK :psyduck:
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You don't seem to understand the phrase null & void. :police:
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I am listening to This is Happening again and yeah, james murphy... yeah <3
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You don't seem to understand the phrase null & void. :police:
My life, your life, don't wanna hear, lalalalalalala, NAH NAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXPz-sKiIs
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apparently Hillstomp has a new cd out that I wasn't aware of.
Downloading it now, fingers crossed.
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It's pretty good! Lots of banjo, which is awesome because I have a huge hillbilly boner for banjos in almost any form.
Only listened to it once at low volume though, so we'll see how it holds up at more appropriate volumes and across more listens.
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I have a huge hillbilly boner for banjos
thank you for this
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On more listens, I think I quite like the new Belle and Sebastian. I know that at first I was all like 'meh' but there's some really catchy songs on there.
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The last two tracks are definitely golden
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I should really give that album another shot. I don't think I even got to the last two tracks when I gave it a listen.
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New B&S is okay.
New Soulja Boy is fucking awesome though.
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Belle & Sebastian is one of the most overrated bands ever.
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FIGHT YOU
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Belle & Sebastian is one of the most overrated bands ever.
No that would be Black Eyed Peas
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Pink Floyd, but we've already had this thread.
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Belle & Sebastian is one of the most overrated bands ever.
:psyduck:
:police:
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Really? Floyd is like, the only "classic rock" band I've ever gotten into.
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Blue Oyster Cult are really underrated.
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Pink Floyd easily live up to the hype imo. Their music sounds fresh even now.
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Eh, I won't deny that Dark Side of the Moon is a great record and that they don't have their fair share of awesome songs, but Pink Floyd's way too hyped up by dads and generic classic rock radio.
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2010 in old music from before 2010
slow week huh?
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uh
uh
last.fm tells me I listened to Kanye West 244 times last week
I expect the number to be roughly the same for Michael Cassette this week
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Okay, holy shit. Man's Gin is awesome. I need to get their album. I hope they tour sometime soon.
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I could have sworn I read something about him touring, but damned if I can even remember where I would have read it
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I didn't see anything scheduled on the band's myspace, so I'm assuming there is nothing going on.
What's really bugging me is I get the feeling I've heard Nuclear Ambition part 2 somewhere before hearing of Man's Gin, but I can't figure out where it would have been.
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Blue Oyster Cult are really underrated.
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It's pretty good! Lots of banjo, which is awesome because I have a huge hillbilly boner for banjos in almost any form.
Only listened to it once at low volume though, so we'll see how it holds up at more appropriate volumes and across more listens.
Yeah I am digging this album a metric ton.
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top 10 albums
01 Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP
02 The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
03 Washington - I Believe You Liar
04 Boy and Bear - With Emperor Antarctica
05 Aggaloch - Marrow of the Spirit
06 Darren Hanlon - I Will Love You at All
07 Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
08 Die! Die! Die! - Form
09 Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
10 Leeroy Lee - Leeroy Lee
top 10 songs
01 Eels - A line in the dirt
02 Sufjan Stevens - Djohariah
03 Washington - Underground
04 The Tallest Man on Earth - Little River
05 Scenes From a Seperation
06 Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore - Something, Somewhere, Sometime
07 Boy and Bear - Rabbit Song
08 The National - Anyones Ghost
09 Leeroy Lee - Mountain Song
10 Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
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Holy shit, how have I held out this long on Titus Andronicus? I heard "Four Score and Seven" and I really regret not listening to them before.
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Holy shit, how have I held out this long on Titus Andronicus? I heard "Four Score and Seven" and I really regret not listening to them before.
GOOD QUESTIOn
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John Bellows put out what is pretty much one of the best folk records I've ever heard back in March. Only just now got around to hearing it though.
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I don't know how this is possible, but apparently Pitchfork think there are 100 albums this year that are better than Surfer Blood's Astro Coast.
Frig, it's in my top 10, nevermind top 100.
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Blue Oyster Cult are really underrated.
This thread is now about Blue Oyster Cult (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWGmzduYnU&feature=fvst)
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I don't know how this is possible, but apparently Pitchfork think there are 100 albums this year that are better than Surfer Blood's Astro Coast.
Frig, it's in my top 10, nevermind top 100.
Actually it is a top 50.
But still WTF
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They did the same thing with Toro Y Moi and Liars. P4k still has no idea what they're doing.
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Can't believe I waited this long to try out Zola Jesus. She's been sitting on my hard drive for months, and I'd occasionally see her and be like "ehh... not right now."
Horrible decisionmaking.
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They did the same thing with Toro Y Moi and Liars. P4k still has no idea what they're doing.
The Liars thing baffles me. So does the Toro Y Moi and Surfer Blood decision actually, not b/c I like those albums but b/c they're so...Pitchfork-y. I would have put money on both of those being in the top 20. Liars, on the other hand, put out quite possibly the best album to emerge from the mainstream side of indie rock this year with the possible exception of Halcyon Digest. It won't be on my top 10 but it would sure as hell be in a top 50 and I'm pretty stunned P4K doesn't agree. Of course, Kanye will get #1 and the new Arcade Fire will be in the top 10 so who cares what they think anyway?
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Really? I listened to the Liars album like three or four times and I felt like I had to make myself do it ever time. There's something there, no denying that, but I never really thought it was album of the year material or anything like that.
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Can't believe I waited this long to try out Zola Jesus. She's been sitting on my hard drive for months, and I'd occasionally see her and be like "ehh... not right now."
Horrible decisionmaking.
I am disappoint.
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I don't know how this is possible, but apparently Pitchfork think there are 100 albums this year that are better than Surfer Blood's Astro Coast.
Frig, it's in my top 10, nevermind top 100.
Actually it is a top 50.
But still WTF
That, and Swans. Their top 10 is probably gonna end up having a few good albums, and a few lame ones.
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pffffffffffffft vampire weekend is #6
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Of course, Kanye will get #1 and the new Arcade Fire will be in the top 10 so who cares what they think anyway?
Yep.
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Damn, #11. So close!
Awful top 10 though, really. Halcyon Digest is easily the best album on there and even that's pretty darn good but not spectacular. Having that overwrought Joanna Newsom album or the painfully uninspired Vampire Weekend or the irritating James Blake who either hovers on the border of making bad club music or serves as Pitchfork's almost insulting and totally false feeling token nod to experimentalism depending on what you're listening to on the list all are not surprising but still disappointing and further proof of this taste maker having inexplicably no real taste. And come on people, that Kanye West album is good I'll admit and maybe I'm missing some fundamentally amazing thing about it but it's just another hyper-produced all-star-cast hip-hop album as far as I can tell.
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I’m Having Fun Now by Jenny and Johnny
I totally forgot about this album, and from what I remember, it was really enjoyable.
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The production on Kanye's new shit is always the best part, imo. That, and the guest appearances. Was the new LCD Soundsystem that good? lol. Either way, pretty bad list, but it's what I expected.
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Man, I don't keep up with shit at all, but apparently The Meads of Asphodel put out a new album this year, 'The Murder of Jesus the Jew'. I've been pretty stoned everytime I listened to it so far but I think it's pretty good. They've got even MORE proggy passages and they've taken the histrionic spoken word parts up to another level. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THEEESSS...WHYYYYY..." "SO YOU WILL BECOME OUR GOD!" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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Was the new LCD Soundsystem that good? lol.
Nope.
Also, Robyn and Caribou should have been higher
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The LCD Soundsystem album was an average LCD Soundsystem album, which in more general terms means it was fucking brilliant and several light years beyond most everything else.
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Yeah, This Is Happening deserves the #1 spot in everybody's list imo. Just fucking superb.
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I can only agree with The Monitor on that list.
Edit: well, I like This Is Happening and Kanye's album as well. But Kanye's wouldn't be on the top 10 I think.
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This Is Happening?
More like This Is Boring.
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More like You Are Boring.
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James Murphy is really fucking good at writing songs, man
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I mean fuck, if this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdVfJwN0-TQ) isn't a great song I don't know what think.
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Really the only truly great song on the last record is "I Can Change" and most of the other ones are good (except for Drunk Girls that one is awful)
It is like, half as good as Sounds of Silver
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This Is Happening did not continually and perfectly elucidate the inner turmoil of white middle-aged creative types everywhere.
It is for this reason that This Is Happening iss a disappointment.
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Hey, didn't Los Campesinos! release an album this year? Because, I read the entire top fifty and I think someone forgot that Los Campesinos! released an album this year.
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Really the only truly great song on the last record is "I Can Change" and most of the other ones are good (except for Drunk Girls that one is awful)
It is like, half as good as Sounds of Silver
Everything about this is wrong except the part where "I Can Change" is the best song
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Hey, didn't Los Campesinos! release an album this year? Because, I read the entire top fifty and I think someone forgot that Los Campesinos! released an album this year.
It was okay
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Really the only truly great song on the last record is "I Can Change" and most of the other ones are good (except for Drunk Girls that one is awful)
It is like, half as good as Sounds of Silver
Everything about this is wrong except the part where "I Can Change" is the best song
Honestly, I don't think that's true, but it doesn't matter cause I'm not gonna change your mind
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Hey, didn't Los Campesinos! release an album this year? Because, I read the entire top fifty and I think someone forgot that Los Campesinos! released an album this year.
Yeah that
and also This is Happening was very good
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Song of the year :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o&feature=player_embedded
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Last-minute blog year-end list trolling has turned up some real doozies, this changes everything:
The Ocean- Anthropocentric
The Sword- Warp Riders
Intronaut- Valley of Smoke
East of the Wall- Ressentiment
Shipping News- One Less Heartless to Fear
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This Is Happening did not continually and perfectly elucidate the inner turmoil of white middle-aged creative types everywhere.
It is for this reason that This Is Happening iss a disappointment.
yes yes how dare a white middle-aged guy write about what it is like to be a white middle-aged guy HOW DARE HE
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Also Frank Turner released an EP a few weeks ago? AGHFFFF
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This Is Happening did not continually and perfectly elucidate the inner turmoil of white middle-aged creative types everywhere.
It is for this reason that This Is Happening iss a disappointment.
yes yes how dare a white middle-aged guy write about what it is like to be a white middle-aged guy HOW DARE HE
sarcasim (http://www.echoingthesound.org/ets_archives/viewtopic.php?t=2512)
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Yeah, having a look at some (one) end of year lists:
Warpaint - The Fool
The Radio Dept - Clinging to a Scheme
really good.
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Here are my albums of the year.
10. The Internal Tulips - Mislead Into a Field by a Deformed Deer
While Mike Paradinas' tastes have brought his Planet Mu imprint more or less entirely into the realm of progressive-leaning bass music and (more recently) Chicago juke and footwork, he allows a few vestiges of the label's more adventurous and noise/glitch/IDM past to remain. A collaboration between Lexaunculpt and Electric Company, who both released stuff in Mu's Venetian Snares-dominated heyday. Personally I find this music a lot more interesting than their former work - in place of nondescript glitch, Mislead Into a Field by a Deformed Deer features a lot of throwbacks to AM radio pop in Lexaunculpt's vocal harmonies, backed by lots of shiny electronic texture.
09. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm Still Here
I initially heard about this from a friend as "Gil Scott-Heron comes back, Scott Walker style", which blew my fucking mind (I was listening to the overlooked classic Bridges at the time), and while that didn't turn out to be exactly the case it was true in part - it wasn't so much a descent into avant-garde as a radical shift in sound that illustrated the journey Scott-Heron has taken. He's (mostly) no longer a soulful voice of conscience but a weathered elder statesman, with a new slur in his voice and a bluesman's gnarled croak. I wasn't as big a fan of the production as a lot of people were, and all in all I find myself listening to the snippets of conversation peppering the record (particularly those in the bonus disc that came with the vinyl version), but all the stories and the character in this album are enough to put it up here. I just hope he doesn't disappear again.
08. Demdike Stare - Liberation Through Hearing
When Peter Christopherson died, I listened to this album whilst going through my grief, and it helped quite a bit. I'd always been a much bigger fan of Coil's late-period run of drone-y/folk-y mysticism than its earlier, harsher music, and Demdike Stare looks to be, at least on some level, picking up that mantle. A lot of the songs here could have fit perfectly in the Equinox/Solstice series of Coil EPs (particularly "Regolith" and "The Stars Are Moving"). Top-shelf dark ambience. They're even named after a famous witch! I haven't had a chance to catch up with their other albums released this year (Voices of Dust arrived on vinyl just yesterday) but given the quality of this album I have high hopes.
07. Autechre - Oversteps
Despite my unabashed love for IDM, Autechre's shift in emphasis from hip hop/techno soundscapes to dense, glitchy procedural music was not something I took particularly well, and despite their run of records up through LP5 being some of my all-time favorites I didn't hold out much hope of their returning to that well again. So it was with no small amount of excitement that I heard Oversteps, which isn't just a return but an advancement of Autechre's sensibility, with songs like "known(1)" and "Treale" displaying a remarkable fusion of Autechre's IDM past with its more austere avant-garde leanings. I liked Move of Ten a little bit less, but it grows on me every time I hear it.
06. Black Math - Phantom Power
I only got this last week but it's making a huge, huge impression on me. Black Math are from Chicago and reside on the Permanent Records imprint, and on their latest LP they vacillate between the goth-glam disco of The Hundred in the Hands and a more pop-friendly version of Big Black. Considering I never really took to Steve Albini's lyrical provocations this is a very good thing for me. It's helped immensely by the lo-fi production (and I'm generally not enamored of lo-fi sound) and the "live" feel of the music.
05. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
On those occasions where I listen to non-electronic music I tend to gravitate towards bands that explore dark subject matter have and insane / troubled / magnetic frontmen, so I latched onto Deerhunter pretty quickly around Microcastle day. For Halcyon Digest they dial back the murk somewhat with the help of AnCo's Merriweather Post Pavilion producer (who makes himself most heard in the first few seconds of "Helicopter", the worst few seconds on the album even though it's a great song) and explore the sounds of psychedelic pop at the expense of some of the band's shoegaze-y leanings. A lot of people thought this was an unwelcome intrusion of Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound guise into his day job band, but I thought it worked pretty well as a different expression of the band's sensibility and a progression into brighter, more hopeful territory after the oppressive darkness of Microcastle, which wore me down (and entered my life at an unfortunate time) to such an extent that I can barely listen to it now. If they follow the example of "Coronado" and make an album in the vein of Lust For Life I will be a very happy boy (though that will probably never happen).
04. Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
I really have no idea how this act keeps getting referred to as playing some sort of variation on dubstep. I think Forest Swords fits more into the conversation about lo-fi bedroom producers, of which he is an exceptional specimen. Perfect use of reverb and delay, simple-but-effective drumming, and more Morricone-esque guitar than you can shake a stick at. There are quietly powerful moments peppered throughout every song. At this point in the list it really becomes a tie for the #1 spot, because this could easily make it to the top in a slightly leaner year. The cover of "If Your Girl" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H8eNui6CC4) is easily the best song of the year.
03. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
Like a lot of people I was both perturbed and excited by the prospect of a new Swans record 14 years after the last one, minus Jarboe. We should have had more faith - Michael Gira is not one to half-ass this sort of thing, and on MFWGMUARTTS (longest title of the year?) he reminds us why he is considered by all the right people to the be father of post-metal. There's only the slightest bit of Gira's no wave / industrial past on this record (the siren guitar[?] that ushers in "No Words No Thoughts" and the epilogue to the awesomely named "You Fucking People Make Me Sick" are perhaps the only glimpses we get) but you definitely get a sense of Gira's continued fascination with the darker sides of folk music he's promoted as head of Young God over the last decade or so. Like #9, it's criminally short, but MFWGMUARTTS is great both in what it provides and what it promises for the future. I've got tickets to see them live in February, and while I'll never get to see them in their apparently soul-shattering prime I fully expect to have my mind blown.
02. Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In
Based on all the hype surrounding this act I was expecting an Irish Boards of Canada, but while BoC is definitely embedded in Solar Bears' genome they set themselves well apart from that venerable group. Sharing an affinity for Morricone with #4 and a label with #10, the group is as New Age as it is IDM as it is post-rock as it is disco. It can get a little bit too chill-out at times, but it is impeccably produced throughout and possessed of more than a few really remarkable moments of beauty, and a singular focus and vision that's rare in a new act.
01. Nest - Retold
Definitely the best impulse purchase I made this year, Nest is a pair of Norwegian / UK producers, Otto Totland (of Deaf Center) and Huw Roberts (who runs Nest's Serein imprint), who make cinematic ambient music. Perhaps it's just my peculiar taste but I just cannot get over how beautiful and evocative so much of this music is. It came at a perfect time, just as I received and was considerably disappointed by Eluvium's newest record. I made this album the custom soundtrack to my games of Fallout: New Vegas and it was damned perfect. I've also had some correspondence with the guys and they are as humble and generous as they are talented. Listen to it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZN_yBKX-Vo), maybe you'll like it as much as I do. If there's one album on this list that I could force people to buy, it'd be this one.
Didn't quite make it!
Starkey - Ear Drums and Black Holes
Nuearz - Face Lift
Lego - Hand Made
Lil B - Rain in England
Also... My five favorite Singles / EPs of the year!
05. Dexter - Not the Only Girl EP
2010 was, if nothing else, the year that I discovered a love for good House music, due almost entirely to Night Slugs and the Voyage Direct series overseen by Rush Hour. This was the first release in the latter series (they're up to three now, all excellent), a sleek euro-disco cut perfect for a night out. It was at this point that I admitted that yeah, a simple 4/4 beat might be just enough to make a great song.
(All sold out at boomkat :smithicide:)
04. Dextro - Zero Circle EP
Over the last few years I've become a voracious consumer of UK bass music but when I was growing up I listened to, breathed, slept and ate IDM of all sorts. The ponderous rate of output for most artists in the genre ('cept for good old Luke Vibert) drove me to greener pastures, but when something that's even vaguely braindance-y comes out I snap it up in a split second. This year I bought the Zero Circle EP on an impulse and as soon as I dropped the needle I was intoxicated by the melody and the drama of Dextro's clearly Campfire Headphase-indebted "Ring Cycle" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yn8EAiNMws). The live version is even better! My only regret is that Alias didn't do much of anything with "The Pacifist", the slacker.
(All sold out at boomkat :smithicide:)
03. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Variations For Oud and Synthesizer
At first it was hard to believe that the avant-garde composer Keith Fullerton Whitman used to dispense with weird, sensational breakcore as Hrvatski back in the early aughts, but the more I listen to him (and I get anything I can from him) the more the Hrvatski alias seems to deviate from the "breakcore" moniker and become simpatico with his later, more esoteric works. Like a lot of stuff that KFW releases these days, Variations For Oud and Synthesizer is archival, but it's a bit of a departure from his other stuff in that it's anchored by an acoustic instrument (the Egyptian oud) and thus isn't as "procedural" or academic in nature. It recalls, to my mind, Selected Ambient Works Vol. II, Mark Morgan's original soundtrack for Fallout, and Coil's experiments in neo-folk all at once. But it is at the same time thoroughly and unmistakably KFW's baby.
02. EOD - Utrecht
Found about this one through SA, as it was made by a goon! Truly, truly excellent acid techno classicism, like vintage Warp. Every track here is pretty damned awesome, at least if you love IDM as much as I do, from the warmly oscillating pads of the title track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mWDKgz15g8) to the harder AFXian acid of "Flab", there isn't a single ounce of fat here. It's just about pitch-perfect.
01. Ramadanman - Glut / Tempest
"Glut" was Ramadanman's breakthrough single for me, the one that really made me take notice of him and the first (and best) to really signify his signature tight juke programming and devastating chord drops. It's kind of sitting in for Ramadanman's considerable output in singles this year as a whole (the format definitely suits him, I think). Still, those fucking chords (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS09iBTo2L4) just get me every time I listen to that song.
Huh, that turned out longer than I thought it would! As an added bonus, here are the artists that made me, temporarily, hate sound and music in all its forms:
Shpongle
Bassnectar
Skrillex
Salem
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KvP: Overthinkin' till the end of days
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Parts of the post I heartily approve of:
Huh, that turned out longer than I thought it would! As an added bonus, here are the artists that made me, temporarily, hate sound and music in all its forms:
Shpongle
Bassnectar
Skrillex
Salem
Parts of the post I didn't even understand:
The rest
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Salem
Appropriating "O Holy Night" for the title track of your album: ingeniously lazy songwriting, or brilliantly lazy songwriting?
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So I don't know if anyone's into this sort of stuff but this East of the Wall record Ressentiment is fuckin' bangin'. I haven't seen them mentioned anywhere except for Metalsucks so I'm not sure if they're even on anyone else's radar, but this is some nice shit. A perfect balance of weedly-weedly, chugga chugga and twinkle twankle
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Top 10
1. Heartland -- Owen Pallett
2. This is Happening -- LCD Soundsytem
3. Belmundo Regal -- Radio Radio
4. Les Chemins de Verre -- Karkwa
5. TSOL -- Shad
6. Congratulations -- MGMT
7. Romance Is Boring -- Los Campesinos!
8. Plastic Beach -- Gorillaz
9. Special Affections -- Diamond Rings
10. Not Legendary -- Esther Wheaton
Good albums:
Contra -- Vampire Weekend (fuck you, i liked the album, okay?)
Requiem Pour Les Sourds -- Les Vulgaires Machins!
Dear God, I Hate Myself -- Xiu Xiu
those Privilege EPs -- Parenthetical Girls
Heart of My Own -- Basia Bulat
One Life Stand -- Hot Chip
High Violet -- The National
Swim -- Caribou
Quite alright:
...Are the Roaring Night -- The Besnard Lakes
Dog's Blood EP -- Alexisonfire
Belle & Sebastian Talk About Love -- Belle & Sebastian
False Priest -- Of Montreal
Champ -- Tokyo Police Club
Treats -- Sleigh Bells
Together -- The New Pornographers
Boorriiinngg:
Forgiveness Rock Record -- Boken Social Scene
Transference -- Spoon
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mgmt suck, contra was terrible, you put fucking alexisonfire somewhere near a top 10 list of a year past 2002, and you called forgiveness rock record boring
fuck yr subjective music tastes
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the weird thing is a i liked contra a lot and didn't think congratulations was that bad either.
bss was kinda dull though.
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Dude, Forgiveness Rock Record is straight-up snooze town. There is nothing to recommend that thing. Contra was OK too. I don't feel the need to listen to either ever again but at least Contra was fun for a little while.
To summarise: No fuck youuuuuu
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oh fuck i forgot how good romance is boring is! it's like if twee music likes you, but also wants you to die
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So I don't know if anyone's into this sort of stuff but this East of the Wall record Ressentiment is fuckin' bangin'. I haven't seen them mentioned anywhere except for Metalsucks so I'm not sure if they're even on anyone else's radar, but this is some nice shit. A perfect balance of weedly-weedly, chugga chugga and twinkle twankle
.o/
I bought this a few days ago. So far it's pretty damn good!
However, the new DsO sits VERY comfortably on the top of my list.
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Dude, Forgiveness Rock Record is straight-up snooze town. There is nothing to recommend that thing. Contra was OK too. I don't feel the need to listen to either ever again but at least Contra was fun for a little while.
To summarise: No fuck youuuuuu
Everyone's giving shit to Vampire Weekend, is why the fuck you comment was added, really. I don't get the hype, but I dons't get the hate either. They are not the best band out there, but, man, they make fun music.
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I for one enjoyed forgiveness rock record.
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Also Frank Turner released an EP a few weeks ago? AGHFFFF
He did, it's rad, and you're so wrong about Forgiveness Rock Record.
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Not a single song on Contra intrigued me in the least (except for "Horchata" making me ask myself "what is this what's going on" and answer "oh right it's a Vampire Weekend album I'd much rather just listen to their self-titled again") but damn if "All to All" and "Art House Director" didn't have me jamming out for seven straight minutes.
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i mean you guys it's still not ironic to like vampire weekend yet
when it is you can rtfo to it or something
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Not a single song on Contra intrigued me in the least (except for "Horchata" making me ask myself "what is this what's going on" and answer "oh right it's a Vampire Weekend album I'd much rather just listen to their self-titled again") but damn if "All to All" and "Art House Director" didn't have me jamming out for seven straight minutes.
I'm with you, couldn't stand Contra but loved Forgiveness Rock Record.
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Iblame Forgiveness Rock Record on the Tortoise guy. The production was way too tight and clean for my taste.
Plus Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning were the two least interesting members of BSS And now they are BSS. That is some dullness right there.
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it's kevin drew's fault
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i saw kevin drew live and now i feel like i know the guy, his stage presence is phenomenal
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amanda palmer is like that too
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i saw kevin drew live and now i feel like i know the guy, his stage presence is phenomenal
sorry you spelled "shitty" wrong, he's not even in the top 5 bss members in terms of stage presence
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brendan canning > kevin drew
SOURCE: something for all of us > spirit if
SOURCE: facts
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You need to get a better fact-checker.
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After not liking You Forgot It In People and the self titled it was Forgiveness Rock Record that made me like BSS.
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Iblame Forgiveness Rock Record on the Tortoise guy. The production was way too tight and clean for my taste.
Plus Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning were the two least interesting members of BSS And now they are BSS. That is some dullness right there.
Agree on all counts. I'd say Charles Spearin is by far one of their most talented members - Kevin is really annoying live now, but Charles just shreds on everything.
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This Is Happening?
More like This Is Boring.
After not liking You Forgot It In People and the self titled it was Forgiveness Rock Record that made me like BSS.
Hi! You have bad taste in music!
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After not liking You Forgot It In People and the self titled it was Forgiveness Rock Record that made me like BSS.
sorry for your loss.
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real talk the hierarchy is obviously andrew whiteman > feist > jason collett > charles spearin > julie penner
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Charles > all
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has Charles Spearin done anything since The Happiness Project?
I really like The Happiness Project.
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Charles > all
uh dude have you SEEN andrew whiteman on stage? he outcharms jason collett and that's not easy
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like here he is at a folk festival (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuSH_YqL-M&feature=related), if you don't wanna hang around backstage and down a bottle of wine with andrew whiteman i don't know what your problem is
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This Is Happening?
More like This Is Boring.
After not liking You Forgot It In People and the self titled it was Forgiveness Rock Record that made me like BSS.
More like You Are Boring.
yup
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What a welcoming forum!
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fuck courtesy
fuck it right in its dainty little ass
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What a welcoming forum!
I mean honestly
What did you expect from a hipster forum
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we're worse once you get to know us, honestly.
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like here he is at a folk festival (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuSH_YqL-M&feature=related), if you don't wanna hang around backstage and down a bottle of wine with andrew whiteman i don't know what your problem is
I don't like wine.
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What a welcoming forum!
We'll be nice to you once you start liking the right things
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No we won't. We'll be belligerent children to you, until we become belligerently intoxicated. Then, oddly, we'll ignore you.
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I don't like wine.
oh well then yeah that's probably your problem. there's gotta be something you can do to fix that though so just keep your head down and keep trying
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Yeah, it's called drink whiskey.
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Wait are we still arguing about how everyone that didn't like Forgiveness Rock Record is wrong?
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no because that's a given.
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We are still arguing about how everyone that did like Forgiveness Rock Record is wrong.
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That's more like it
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We are still arguing about how everyone that did like Forgiveness Rock Record is wrong.
Whatever defective bit in your brain that made you like Liverpool and the Flyers is causing that statement, as well.
You should really see a doctor, Rob. I'm worried about you.
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I like both Forgiveness Rock Record and This is Happening a lot but they certainly aren't the best things that came out this year.
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Yeah, they're no Expect The Worst.
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I don't think anyone was claiming Forgiveness Rock Record was the best thing that came out this year, or even one of the best.
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I thought FRR was pretty good. Not nearly as good as self-titled or YFIIP, but still a good record by its own merits.
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broken social scene on a pedestal.
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I've still never listened to Broken Social Scene
so, in order to keep this going for as long as possible: tell me what record to start with and why it is the best/best place to start. Give reasons! ...with bullet points!
and...and blackjack! Don't hold back the personal attacks!
...that last sentence rhymed accidentally. :laugh:
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The s/t, it is the most fun.
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good job tom!
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also how the fuck do you get away with not listening to bss this late in the game dogg
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it's a gift
i mean, i'm aware of them, i've just never heard them. don't even know what kind of music it is
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hipster music
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begone with you, nonbeliever
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fun story: a friend of mine had an extra ticket to bss a couple years ago and i didn't go because my only exposure to them was "anthem for a 17-year-old girl" and i wasn't in the mood for a mellow sadrock show.
:psyduck:
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Yeah, it's called drink whiskey.
this is a false dichotomy
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Why have not listened to Aloe Blacc until now? I am a horrible person.
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Yeah, it's called drink whiskey.
this is a false dichotomy
I am not saying that you can't like drinking both wine and whiskey, I'm saying that my solution to not liking wine is to drink something that I do like, rather than trying to overwrite the years of experience that tell me to spit out rotten grape juice.
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Man how can you even 'not like wine'? You can't even talk about wine as a singular thing because it's such a varied set of tastes etc.
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Shit you guys, East Of The Wall's "Ressentiment" is REALLY REALLY GOOD!
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Man how can you even 'not like wine'? You can't even talk about wine as a singular thing because it's such a varied set of tastes etc.
All based off of rotten grapes. I have not tasted any wine that I could stand drinking, and I don't even like being close enough to smell it. I've heard it's an acquired taste, but I'm not really in any hurry to acquire it.
You can talk about all of the varied textures and bouquet and mouthfeel and shit like that, but to someone that isn't into it, it all tastes the same. Like grape juice that should have been thrown out years ago.
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Why have not listened to Aloe Blacc until now? I am a horrible person.
You are, and stop talking about wine, people. MUSIC HERE.
(What's that one I like? Shiraz?)
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like here he is at a folk festival (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuSH_YqL-M&feature=related), if you don't wanna hang around backstage and down a bottle of wine with andrew whiteman i don't know what your problem is
Haha, dude is aaaalways trashed. He's definitely one of the best songwriters in BSS (though, the last Apostle of Hustle album sucked), but I just think Charles is their most talented musician.
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I've heard it's an acquired taste, but I'm not really in any hurry to acquire it.
Why not? There are plenty of people that enjoy wine with a passion normally reserved for group sex, and I'm willing to bet that a handful of them started out as staunch opponents to the beauties of getting blitzed off a bottle of grapes.
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reddit voted a top album list (http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ep4y5/results_rmusics_top_albums_of_2010_as_voted_on_by/)
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My sister bought The Suburbs a couple of months ago, and I haven't listened to it yet. Is it good?
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like any other arcade fire album, there are some really, really good songs and some really, really forgettable ones.
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http://postwhateverdude.blogspot.com/
Here's my top 20 list with some bad writing to accompany it
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reddit voted a top album list (http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ep4y5/results_rmusics_top_albums_of_2010_as_voted_on_by/)
ugh what is kid cudi doing on there
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cudi is huge with all my friends for some reason. i can't understand why.
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reddit voted a top album list (http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ep4y5/results_rmusics_top_albums_of_2010_as_voted_on_by/)
right yeah im totally fucking stoked to read the opinions of people who revel in ephemera
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hahahaha fucking gorillaz in the top ten? way to prove to the world you know your ass from your elbows, dipshits
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these people get haircuts to mimic characters in godard movies because said characters are "quirky and interesting"
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plastic beach was fucking awesome.
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I really liked the newest Kaki King album. Other than that...dunno what the fuck I've listened to that came out this year. I generally listen to things at least 3 years old.
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hahahaha fucking gorillaz in the top ten? way to prove to the world you know your ass from your elbows, dipshits
Album was so boring.
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Look everyone I listened to a bunch of albums and then put them in an order
20. Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
19. Fang Island - s/t
18. Matthew Dear - Black City
17. Bottomless Pit - Blood Under the Bridge
16. Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts - Breaking the Fourth Wall
15. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
14. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
13. Ludicra - The Tenant
12. Robyn - Body Talk
11. Kvelertak - s/t
10. Adversarial - All Idols Fall Before the Hammer
9. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
8. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
7. Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
6. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
5. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
4. Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness
3. Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife
2. Watain - Lawless Darkness
1. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
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hahahaha fucking gorillaz in the top ten? way to prove to the world you know your ass from your elbows, dipshits
(http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/529676/haters_gonna_hate.gif)
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I've heard a lot about that Janelle Monae album, I should listen to it I guess?
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reddit voted a top album list (http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ep4y5/results_rmusics_top_albums_of_2010_as_voted_on_by/)
right yeah im totally fucking stoked to read the opinions of people who revel in ephemera
Wait...how does "people who revel in ephemera" not include you/the forum?
Also
these people get haircuts to mimic characters in godard movies because said characters are "quirky and interesting"
what? are you still talking about reddit? what is reddit's reputation, I don't get it.
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i think johnny is trying to be Khar 2.0 but instead of being somewhat intelligent in his douchery he's just being a cunt
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So I ordered my list (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24354.msg980672.html#msg980672) from earlier in the thread.
1. El Guincho – Pop Negro
2. The Thermals – Personal Life
3. Anaïs Mitchell – Hadestown
4. James Blackshaw – All Is Falling
5. The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
6. Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring
7. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
8. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Let It Sway
9. Los Campesinos! – Romance Is Boring
10. The Extra Lens – Undercard
And here's a bonus set of the best singles/EPs of the year:
1. Jamie Woon – Night Air
2. Azari & III – Reckless With Your Remixes Vol.1
3. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom – Track 5
4. EOD – Utrecht
5. Girl Unit – Wut
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i think johnny is trying to be Khar 2.0 but instead of being somewhat intelligent in his douchery he's just being a cunt
The key difference being Khar capitalizes his sentences.
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well, and he makes intelligible arguments, as opposed "harglbarglbargl these guys blow lolololol amirite *swear words*?"
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hey guys do you remember how the thermals had a pretty decent follow-up to the body, the blood, the machine this year?
do you?!
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Best songs:
1. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
You are doing it right.
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hey guys do you remember how the thermals had a pretty decent follow-up to the body, the blood, the machine this year?
do you?!
It's actually a follow-up to Now We Can See but yeah, there is not anywhere near enough love for Personal Life.
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well, and he makes intelligible arguments, as opposed "harglbarglbargl these guys blow lolololol amirite *swear words*?"
forgot the triple posts lolololol
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It's actually a follow-up to ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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List is did.
15. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
14. Theodore - Hold You Like A Lover
13. Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
12. Tim Kasher - The Game Of Monogamy
11. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks
10. The National - High Violet
9. John K. Samson - Provincial Road 222
8. Noumenon - Party Mathematics
7. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
6. Eagle Scout - New Hands
5. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
4. Joie De Vivre - The North End
3. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
2. Menomena - Mines
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
and my honorable mentions include:
Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms
Die Antwoord - $O$
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans - The Falcon Lake Incident
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
The Thermals - Personal Life
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimons
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My list, bitches.
1. El Guincho - Pop Negro
2. Robyn - Body Talk
3. Caribou - Swim
4. Black Keys - Brothers
5. Fang Island - s/t
6. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
7. HEALTH - Disco 2
8. Michael Cassette - Temporarity
9. Girls - Broken Dreams Club
10. Grum - Heartbeats
11. Tobacco - Maniac Meat
12. Delorean - Subiza
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It's actually a follow-up to ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Wait did you seriously never hear/know about Now We Can See?
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well, and he makes intelligible arguments, as opposed "harglbarglbargl these guys blow lolololol amirite *swear words*?"
forgot the triple posts lolololol
and the occasional lack of punctuation
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Late late late last minute contender: Dawnbringer- Nucleus (stream (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=95856965680AA836)) (interview (http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2010/12/interview-dawnbringer/))
As the interview says there's no consensus on how to classify this record so I'll just say that it's traditional metal and it was recorded by Sanford Parker (who did Nachtmystium's recent joint too) so it sounds awesome as heck and it's very, very, very good.
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anyways reddit being basically a linking aggregator is something designed to basically propagate memes? this can potentially be good since it also functions basically as a news website, in theory, but in practice it's just a bunch of dorky "ha ha cool links" stuff. and even that's not necessarily a problem, since showing people stuff that is cool and interesting right now is a pretty basic human thing. but the real thing with reddit and similar things is that what it becomes ultimately is a race to post the coolest link or to be part of the community that brings x story or meme to the forefront. people are more interested in the idea of being that cool person that brings the link than the contents of the thing itself. and reddit is basically just that, in perpetuity, codified and constructed. i mean, look at the front page of reddit: mostly tech & programming stuff, of which a lot of it is about entertainment stuff – a steam sale, a golf game, etc. and the actual news is something where, if you had a blogroll, you'd have read it already.
i don't know. maybe this argument isn't entirely clear. but i feel like reddit ultimately is another of web 2.0's tools of self-aggrandizement – a way individuals can develop a kind of personal brand and become prominent figures of their chosen online community. and yes yes i understand that this might seem disingenuous coming from a dude who has a clearly delineated posting style and five blue stars under his name but the difference is mainly that i was never really gunning to be a forum superstar or whatever, i just stayed here and chatted with my friends and i guess developed at some point a reputation for being the kind of person who might make an okay mod. i'm explaining this so that i can make my next point, which is that reddit is less about developing connections within a community and more about how good you feel having posted something that went viral. and that's i think different in a lot of ways since what it places value on is not what is being communicated but rather its capacity for being something that spreads. so it's stuff like said steam sale or chatroulette or, say, double rainbow guy*. and the thing is that forums ultimately foster and engender and reward discussion and thought about things. i'm not convinced that reddit does, at least not in any long-term or valuable sense. i think it largely fosters "wow!!! look how neat this is." a kind of online informational adhd.
and the problem i have and that i was alluding to in that one line is that that's an attitude that i guess i'm finding more pervasive in people's attitudes towards music and culture. culture has become a thing of memes, really, a thing meant not for permanence or anything but rather how much it says about your personal brand. and how much you're able to participate in the lightning-quick conversations surrounding it that are commonplace in the era of chillwave and witch house. and i think, getting actually serious about this stuff, that there's plenty that we stand to lose in this situation. and because of how reddit already works in the broad sense outlined above, i'm extraordinarily skeptical about the overall reddit user base and the average reddit user's attitudes towards music. i'm worried that they think of music in the same way that they think of information. and so when i read that list and see a bunch of stuff that had either a ton of blog hype or a ton of marketing behind it, i start to wonder which was more important in the ranking – the music or its cultural markers.
i'm probably a pessimistic dork who overthinks shit, but whatever. i worry that our generation isn't really concerned with thinking about the way that we think nowadays.
oh and for the record – the haircut thing was a joke at the expense of the folks who compiled that list, based almost exclusively on real-life personal observations. if it offended you, trust me, it was nothing personal, nor was it an assessment of character or worth or whatever, okay? to you or to them.
*who if you watch the autotune video is himself usurped by the autotune the news glee club† dweebs who have this really discomforting habit of appearing in their videos to re-sing and re-arrange what they do in them in order to show off how talented they are and won't you subscribe to them &c – but i respect you might not have the time in your day to read me ranting about that for too long
†and like i think glee's whole modus operandi of "hey, remember when this song happened!?!??!" is symptomatic of the same short-term memory reveling in ephemera type deal i'm clumsily prodding the edges of with this argument, but again that's another argument entirely
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I think I kind of see what you're getting at. You don't like reddit because it's a community that prizes the referent and the spread of a referent to content over actual content. Sort of like the clumsy and cheap deployment of cultural references in comedy without the ostensible purpose of trying to be funny. I've never been on reddit, so I don't have any relevant experience which might lead me to this conclusion or any other. It's certainly conceivable that a link farming hound trying to be on the bleeding edge of geeky internet cool/relevance might not treat music as actual music.
I don't think our generation is unconcerned with thinking about how we think. In fact I'd say amidst so much anxiously self-conscious self-obsessed pseudo-metacontent we're more in danger of forgetting to just think without hyper-analyzing every little thing.
oh and for the record – the haircut thing was a joke at the expense of the folks who compiled that list, based almost exclusively on real-life personal observations. if it offended you, trust me, it was nothing personal, nor was it an assessment of character or worth or whatever, okay? to you or to them.
As for that, I was just really baffled because I had no idea what you were talking about and it sounded like you were talking out your ass.
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After reading that conversation I fully expected the reddit list to read something like:
1- Die Antwoord
2- Salem
3- Lil' B
and a lifetime achievement award to Kanye
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I'm doing something different because I don't know what you guys are talking about.
here's what Last.fm knows I listened to over the last 12 months, along with the number of plays:
1 Jason The Swamp 2,330 plays
2 Joanna Newsom 1,489 plays
3 Shapes Like Dinosaurs 881 plays
4 Laura Veirs 809 plays
5 Filkoe, Oskar Ohlson, Babel Fishh 582 plays
6 Man Man 566 plays
7 Yoyoyo acapulco 535 plays
8 Ramona Córdova 524 plays
9 The Black Keys 493 plays
10 The Sneaky Mister 391 plays
11 The Bitter Tears 357 plays
12 Freelance Whales 349 plays
13 Pumpernickle 348 plays
14 Tobacco 346 plays
15 Black Moth Super Rainbow 341 plays
I"m actually surprised BMSR got as many plays as they did. They are so 2007/8/9 :wink:
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1. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit
2. Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
3. The Wonder Years – The Upsides
4. Autolux – Transit Transit
5. Surfer Blood – Astrocoast
6. Minus the Bear – OMNI
7. Defeated Sanity – Chapters of Repugnance
8. Electric Wizard – Black Masses
9. Suffix - ...No Matter How Fast We Run
10. Killing the Dream – Lucky Me
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My list of albums that I think people should listen to but probably haven't listened to in no particular order:
PS I Love You - Meet Me At the Muster Station
Robyn - Body Talk
Cloud Control - Bliss Release
Liars - Sisterworld
Faded Paper Figures - New Medium
!!! - Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
The Thermals - Personal Life
HEALTH - DISCO2 (and DISCO2++)
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
about reddit:
JC I see what you're saying. I posted the link because it was a pretty big poll (the biggest I have seen) of people who voted for what their favorite albums are. And while this could be reflective of the mentality you described, where the people listed the albums that they would think would be coolest to list as their favorite, instead it looks like a pretty good cross-section of what people who listen to varied music (and would thus be in the music section of reddit) and yet still aren't the musical dorks that dwell on these forums, or praise Pitchfork to the high heavens.
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HEALTH - DISCO2 (but especially DISCO2++)
fyp
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I should really check that PS I Love You record out.
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I should really check that PS I Love You record out.
it's a really wonderful record, and they're very fun live. just an all-out solid band.
SM/alex – yeah, honestly, i'm not like crazily uptight about it, i'm just instantly skeptical of the Reddit Community Consensus, just based on what's outlined above?
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PS I Love You are some tight dudes.
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Probably 80%+ of the best stuff I've heard this year has been singles, EPs and odd tracks and would take too damn long to type out but these have been the most impressive full albums;
Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Daníel Bjarnason - Processions
Michael Cassette - Temporarity
Hiroyuki Oda - Thirty
Super8 & Tab - Empire
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
The National - High Violet
!!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
Lights Out Asia - In The Days Of Jupiter
Caribou - Swim
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
Sure I'm missing a couple in there, and I still have hundreds from this year to listen to so this might not be finished until mid-June '11, but that'll do for now. Hell of a year.
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Top songs:
"Returnal" by Oneohtrix Point Never [Antony version]
"Since We Last Met" by ndf
"Round and Round" by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Top Albums:
This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem
Before Today by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Crooks and Lovers by Mount Kimbie
Autre Ne Veut by Autre Ne Veut
Various EPs by James Blake (Cheating? Maybe, but I had to get him on the list, and he's too goddamned consistent to pick just one song.)
I feel like the list is reasonably stable by now, although most likely I'll feel completely different about it in a few months' time.
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Can someone back me up here and confirm that Girls' "Thee Oh So Protective One" from Broken Dreams Club really, really, sounds like Elvis Costello?
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like half the point of girls is that they sound exactly like elvis costello
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No way I could get a boner for a girl who sounded like Elvis Costello.
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like half the point of girls is that they sound exactly like elvis costello
This makes everything make more sense.
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No way I could get a boner for a girl who sounded like Elvis Costello.
I could. Like, super easy.
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I don't know, would he/she write a mean song about me afterwards?
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Depends on your defenition of the word 'mean'.
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If it's an Elvis Costello-like song it would probably spend a verse or two playing around with the various different definitions of the word "mean".
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It's pretty late in the game by now, but our site decided to do something different (for us, at least) for our top 10s. Check it out if you're interested!
http://hearwaxmedia.com/5189/finally-hearwaxs-most-important-albums-and-film-of-2010
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Cheers for that, I had no idea Jaga Jazzist did a CD this year.
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Bottomless Pit, Low, The Fall and Nina Nastasia should all be releasing new albums this year too.
Are The Fall ever NOT releasing a new album? I think Mark E. Smith is going to die at the mixing desk.
I'm quite excited for the new Dillinger Escape Plan, Nick Cave is apparently up to a new Grinderman record, blink-182 might release something, Eminem's second part of Relapse, Detox might finally come out (HA!).
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I just don't really think you can call Minaj the next big exciting thing.
I had to quote this from ages ago, because this is one time I actually agree with Kieffer.
Like, I was reading an article a while back where some dude was saying Minaj was great and she's the next big exciting thing in pop rap and that she breaks all these stereotypes and pushes the boundaries and etc, but when I went to look for some of her stuff all I found was the end product of some production-line shit where they get MIA, Lil' Kim and Missy Elliot, whir them in a blender and put it into a porn star's body.
and like, I haven't read that much about her lyrics or any of that, but where does this feminism angle come from? The clips of her that I've seen have her in spandex outfits shoving her tits and ass at the camera and pouting, so how does that work?