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[Kwaping]

What the? Autumn, Again by A Sunny Day in Glasgow 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!

[valley_parade]

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.

[McTaggart]

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.

[JD]

But the children might be corrupted by hearing complete swear words!

[Nodaisho]

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.

[Lupercal]

Next week Showbread is releasing a new album for free.  I have only heard "No Sir, Nihilism is Not Practical," but I really liked it.  Hopefully this will be good as well?
Trailer

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.

[squawk]

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

[David_Dovey]

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- Ιcailles 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

[JD]

Mongo Ninja is just pants on head silly.

[StaedlerMars]

Really High On Fire is in your lowest list?

Dang, I feel like a tool, I really love that fucking album.

[KvP]

Question: How the fuck does this work? I paid for the LCD Soundsystem set but no download link ever materialized, and the site is just fucking dumb.

[theoryC]

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 Derniθres Pensιes
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

[StaedlerMars]

There's not enough love for Body Talk in these lists.

[TheFuriousWombat]

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

[JD]

There's not enough love for Body Talk in these lists.

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

That reminds me, any word on when the third one is supposed to be released?

[JD]

The 22nd of november

[Wasteroo]

that Love is a Stream album is definitely one of my absolute favorites of the year

[JD]

Okay the bad wife is pretty great.

I also hear there will be another Made Out Of Babies next spring. I am excite.

[McTaggart]

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.

[StaedlerMars]

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?

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

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

[scarred]

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 nΊ3
Matt & Kim - Sidewalks
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
MGMT - Congratulations
Fences - Fences

Ugh
MIA - Maya
The National - High Violet

[David_Dovey]

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.

[StaedlerMars]

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.

[David_Dovey]

No biggie. A lot of people seemed to like it? That's OK, it just did literally nothing for me.

[Vuk]

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.

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

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

[kwami42]

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

[JD]

SSLYBY deserves at least a GOOD

[StaedlerMars]

New Girl Talk

http://illegal-art.net/allday/

[David_Dovey]

haha i remember girl talk!

[scarred]

Dude sucks dick on CD but damn does he throw a fucking amazing dance party.

[conradtao]

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/ Bjφrk - 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 Monαe - The ArchAndroid
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Jσnsi - 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

[Scandanavian War Machine]

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.

[David_Dovey]

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)

[scarred]

it's a pretty great system no lie

[kwami42]

You can personalize the list titles to your liking!

[Scandanavian War Machine]

modular design!

customization!

friendly UI!

[JD]

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.)

[conradtao]

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.

[De_El]

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

[JD]

You will never ever get me to listen to nicki minaj

not when the album cover is that creepy

[David_Dovey]

Nicki Minaj makes me want to strangle things.

[Retrospectre]

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

[scarred]

Bad:
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

 

[squawk]

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

[Retrospectre]

Bad:
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

 

I knew that would happen.

[JimmyJazz]

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

[scarred]

oh man I forgot about Broken Bells

that album was one of the most bland, boring things I've ever heard