What are the Hipster Albums of 2009?

herman g. neuname is an hero

yeah chill out yall.

was aware it was only a staged mouth shooting fyi still

don't really mind animated gifs of people blowin their heads off (well, not REAL people anyway) but wtf is that from - has an odd look to it

'the black dahlia'

: /

I realize it is fictional fer chrissakes, it's just kinda really crass & offensive. otoh I feel like I'm the only one in the world ever to be offended by anything anymore so keep on trucking people

^^^^not very hip

i've always wanted to use chill out yall in a sentence.

I travelled through a land of men,
A land of men and women too,
And heard and saw such dreadful things
As cold earth wanderers never knew.

For there the babe is born in joy
That was begotten in dire woe,
Just as we reap in joy the fruit
Which we in bitter tears did sow;

And if the babe is born a boy
He’s given to a woman old,
Who nails him down upon a rock,
Catches his shrieks in cups of gold.

She binds iron thorns around his head,
And pierces both his hands and feet,
And cuts his heart out of his side
To make it feel both cold & heat.

Her fingers number every nerve
Just as a miser counts his gold;
She lives upon his shrieks and cries—
And she grows young as he grows old,

Till he becomes a bleeding youth
And she becomes a virgin bright;
Then he rends up his manacles
And pins her down for his delight.

He plants himself in all her nerves
Just as a husbandman his mould,
And she bcomes his dwelling-place
And garden, frutiful seventyfold.

An aged shadow soon he fades,
Wandering round and earthly cot,
Full filled all with gems and gold
Which he by industry had got.

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Phoenix (a Christgau-ism)
telekinesis (?)

i'd like to thank errbody that contributed to the killing of this thread

and reviving it

lolz Black Dahlia I saw that, what a mess that film was

worse than the band?

no, but it is still really terrible

re film : shame. i enjoyed the book and so have been waiting to see the film. guess i'll scrub that from my list then.

and avoid the metalcore band too

in my world, that goes without saying, but ta for the confirmation.
so, back to these hipster albums ..
i'm relying on this thread for future reference when they all appear in fopp @ £3 given that i have fallen off the radar in '09 (too much miles davis/david axelrod ..)

the film has its good points (as per usual with DePalma there is one long reveal-tracking shot that is fantastic). by contrast, the ending shot/sequence is some of the most laughably bad shit ever. also the acting is by and large terrible. and he takes at least one major liberty with the book that is completely against the grain of Elroy's writing (i.e., having one of the protagonists kill a woman)

no mention of monoliths and dimensions yet? for shame

new violens mixtape thing looks very cool and very hip!

download for free here:

http://www.violens.net/

1. Full Collision

2. I See You / Only Shallow
(My Bloody Valentine sung by Violens over The Byrds)

3. Lighting Lightning

4. Could You Stand to Know? / Abysmal Depths Are Flooded
(Violens sung over Xasthur)

5. Could You Stand to Know?

6. Outdoor Miner
(Wire feat. Jorge Elbrecht of Violens)

7. Lighting Lightning
(demo version)

8. Trance-like Turn

9. Spectator & Pupil
(RAC remix)

10. Warm Collision
(feat. Caroline Polachek of Chairlift)

11. Doomed (MGMT remixes Violens)

12. Violent Sensation Descends
(Lansing-Dreiden remixes Violens)

13. Unfinished Business
(Violens remix White Lies)

14. Avenue
(Violens cover Saint Etienne)

as lansing-dreiden's biggest fan i'm looking forward to the violens debut album a bunch!

4. Could You Stand to Know? / Abysmal Depths Are Flooded
(Violens sung over Xasthur)

doesn't get any hipper than this, people!

These Violens types any good then? I know the name entirely because they are about to support the band White Lies on tour and I can say that is not a thing that piques my interest as a rule

i like it. their stuff from the EP they did and a single is on youtube. reminds me of lansing-dreiden, and that's a good thing with me. one of them was/is a part of lansing-dreiden, i think? the singer/guitar guy. i never look these kinds of things up.

woods/ganglians

and they are good albums

whoever likes the hazards of love

The Very Best
Death (reissue)

whoever likes the hazards of love

― FACK, Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:40 PM (1 hour ago)

i've only heard hazards of love but love it, what else should i check out by them?

whoever likes the hazards of love

― FACK, Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:40 PM (1 hour ago)

i've only heard hazards of love but love it, what else should i check out by them?

― we be emi robin' (k3vin k.), Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Really? hmm. Maybe I should give it another chance. Their first three albums are pretty awesome, especially Castaways and Cutouts, and Picaresque. The Crane Wife seemed overproduced and kind of bland, tbh, and Hazards just seemed so unwieldy that I never devoted much time to it. I feel like the more The Decemberists invest in their rock-opera theatre-kid shtick, the harder it is for me to take them seriously.

loool dude i was joking

that's why i said hazards of love cause hipsters sometimes like the shittiest music (animal collective) and hazards of love is terrible, therefore hipster bait

Fucking hell. This is why you do not post to ILX while halfway through a nap.

aw. I'm sure there'll be a lurker around glad to take your advice.

GIRLS ALBUM

i hope i never, ever hear that record, accidentally or otherwise

I actually decided to give them a chance when I saw a big flyer up on the kiosk for a show they are playing in my town in February.
Watched a couple of videos on youtube and I know some of their friends and the guy who directed the videos.
:-/

Oh yeah, decided to check them out because the singer in the band is wearing a Suede shirt on the poster.
Will probably go to the show just to meet chicks.

good call, good call

I guess The Clientele's new disc isn't a "Hipster Album." And it's sure as hell not a big Rawk Album or a Mall-Rock or Emo-Punk Album. All of which leaves it in a funny nowhere land, which is a shame. Such a good group, and a fine new disc.

Anyway, F--k Buttons, I imagine.

so basically this is the thread where we list albums that were pitchfork best new music this year?