Rolling "favorite music of 2012 so far" thread (albums and/or tracks edition)

Kellie Pickler - 100 Proof
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Imperial Teen - Feel The Sound
Burial - Kindred
Sinead O'Connor - How Bout I Be Me...
Lambchop - Mr. M

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2012 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

just discovered

Usher, "Climax"

late to the party - but this is fucking awesome

― pearsonic, Friday, 2 March 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeh, already feeling liked underrated this over at the jukebox.

― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Friday, 2 March 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh man, seandalai, that tenniscoats album is incredible

― Mordy, Friday, 2 March 2012 04:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

i love how Saya's voice constantly shifts + flickers between like traditional vox affect and naturalistic body affect - like she'll be singing so sadly and then her voice will just break for a second, like it's too much of a strain to keep up the musical pretense and she has to respond with more authentic sentiment. gorgeous.

― Mordy, Friday, 2 March 2012 04:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

ALBUM
Tennis Bafra - Abulia Jubilee ← Sounds almost identical to Sonic Youth in ways that should be criminal, right down to the singer's Thurston Moore impression, but I'm loving it anyway.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

Matthew Shipp Trio - Elastic Aspects

(Contemporary chamber jazz.)

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

(Because I get tired of long lists on threads of this sort that leave me with no idea--or a wrong idea--of what genres the artists in question record.)

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Field Music - Plumb
35 minutes, 15 songs, a little bit of postpunk groove, a little bit of post-McCartney melody, a little bit of post-prog instrumentation, and a whole lot of really gorgeous songs and smart lyrics. My favourite record this year so far.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Zieti- Zemelawa(Grigri Discs)

(Ivory Coast/American afropop--Singer and singer/rhythm guitarist from the Ivory Coast lay down tracks and then an American guitarist, drummer and others add more on top---retro guitar and modern vocal melodies)

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Narrow Garden - Eyvind Kang
Voices From The Lake - s/t
Henge Beat - Total Control
Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads - Dustin Wong
Escort - s/t
Man With Potential - Pete Swanson
Break It Yourself - Andrew Bird
Glimmer - Jacaszek

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

I actually love that Zieti album! xp

― Mordy, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

a little bit of post-McCartney melody

I'm genuinely not trying to pick apart your description of Field Music, but could you explain what is meant by "post-" McCartney?

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

you know that kathleen edwards newie grows on you after a while
give it a few spins and you are in her moment
i likey

― jimmy_chop, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

cosign. not as good as asking for flowers but solid work.

― Mordy, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

albums:

lapalux, when you're gone
heems, nehru jackets
shlohmo, vacation ep
shigeto, lineage
matthewdavid, jewelry ep
dva, pretty ugly
lamin fofana, dubious prety

tracks:

grimes, 'oblivion'
usher, 'climax'
kwes, 'bashful'

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

it took me like five minutes to work out that Asking for Flowers is the name of an album and not an action you were describing xp

― The Reverend, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

do ppl actually like grimes or is it just the album de jour for those in the know? cause i listened to it and bo-oring.

― Mordy, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, Grimes is definitely in my comfort zone, but what she does is done better by a lot of other people.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

speaking on behalf of those in the know, we don't actually like grimes, we're just pretending. thank you for your question.

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah I can't wait for everyone to stop talking about Grimes because its getting so frustrating pretending to like it when it plays

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

on the real i haven't gotten around to listening to the record much as a whole, but i've listened to Oblivion many, many times because it is an A+ pop song.

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

cosign that. I couldn't get into the album but "Oblivion" is very nice

― rob, Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

do ppl actually like grimes or is it just the album de jour for those in the know?

I don't even understand what this means?

― Tim F, Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

its his wording for that age old straw abt "no one really likes this, they just pretend to so they can seem hip"

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ah.

It's such an odd notion, really.

― Tim F, Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh please. Probably all taste is about pretending/signaling. It's only weird bc it suggests that there's any music that doesn't fit that criteria.

― Mordy, Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Probably all taste is about pretending/signaling.

Yes. But pretending/signaling is not something you do instead of enjoying. Enthusing about something just takes too much energy if you don't really feel it, even for those in the know.

I tend to think that a truly "pretend" response is more likely to be an expression of cautious approval or disapproval of something you haven't really listened to enough to have a fully fledged opinion on. That's when yr most vulnerable to the infection and spreading of social signals without any meaningful personal response.

― Tim F, Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Even, say, an example of Lex moving from ambivalence to outright dislike of Grimes - which I think even he would say is largely motivated by his irritation at her critical popularity vis a vis other acts he considers similar and more deserving - is a "genuine" response, in that I'm sure when he listens to her now he feels that irritation and dislike viscerally, the external social factors permeate the experience of the music until they cannot be disentangled.

― Tim F, Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

For people on ILM at least, I assume there is so much music that they *do* enjoy listening to/thinking about that there's no reason to spend time on something just to keep up appearances.

― Doch! (seandalai), Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I believe ilxors (like other human beings) front about what music they like all the time.

― Mordy, Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Maybe they do, I dunno. I can't see why they would though.

― Doch! (seandalai), Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't assume most people front about what music they like.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

uh...i might buy that people give records a shot because people are talking about them (and maybe more than a shot, maybe they really want or 'try' to like them), but saying you are into something that you don't like (or don't listen to) would just be so middle school.

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

who could be bothered, but then ilx

grimes does nothing for me but i guess i can see why others dig it, unlike everything else 4ad puts out of late

― some crap (electricsound), Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

I work with someone who loves Grimes, or has convinced me that he does anyway.

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 15 March 2012 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

So there you go!

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 15 March 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'd never heard of Grimes until this thread, but I just listened to it and I like it!

― o. nate, Friday, 16 March 2012 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

You lie!

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 16 March 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't really feel like listening to a new usher song

― billstevejim, Friday, 16 March 2012 03:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

/a little bit of post-McCartney melody/

I'm genuinely not trying to pick apart your description of Field Music, but could you explain what is meant by "post-" McCartney?

Facetious alliteration aside, I should probably have just said McCartney, or maybe post-Beatles, or post-66 McCartney.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 March 2012 04:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

_/a little bit of post-McCartney melody/

I'm genuinely not trying to pick apart your description of Field Music, but could you explain what is meant by "post-" McCartney?_

Facetious alliteration aside, I should probably have just said McCartney, or maybe post-Beatles, or post-66 McCartney.

Maybe I mean it's more like people who followed Macca. Like ELO perhaps. There's a whiff of prog in there, strings, pianos, but very poppy, a little British music hall.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 March 2012 04:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Even, say, an example of Lex moving from ambivalence to outright dislike of Grimes - which I think even he would say is largely motivated by his irritation at her critical popularity vis a vis other acts he considers similar and more deserving - is a "genuine" response, in that I'm sure when he listens to her now he feels that irritation and dislike viscerally, the external social factors permeate the experience of the music until they cannot be disentangled.

TBH i thought this was kind of a lame move if not a depressingly predictable one

― flopson, Friday, 16 March 2012 07:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

Maybe he just thinks she's crap ;)

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 16 March 2012 08:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm having a good year so far...

The 2 Bears - Be Strong
Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
Django Django - Django Django
Field Music - Plumb
Get The Blessing - OC DC
Grimes - Visions
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
The Lijadu Sisters - Afro-Beat Soul Sisters (re-issue comp)
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
Neil Cowley Trio - The Face of Mount Molehill
Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet
Punch Brothers - Who's Feeling Young Now?
Ryan Teague - Field Drawings
Scuba - Personality
Spiro - Kaleidophonica
Tindersticks - The Something Rain
Todd Terje - It's The Arps
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – Underrated Silence
VDU - Past Future Sequence
V/A - Johnny D presents Disco Jamms (re-issue comp)

― mike t-diva, Friday, 16 March 2012 09:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

track:

ronika - automatic

― cock chirea, Friday, 16 March 2012 10:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Maybe I mean it's more like people who followed Macca. Like ELO perhaps. There's a whiff of prog in there, strings, pianos, but very poppy, a little British music hall.

Thanks for this! And I pretty much agree, I'd just never heard the "post-McCartney" term, so I didn't know if there was some other meaning or reference I was missing out on. I really think this new Field Music might just grow to be my favorite of theirs yet.

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't really feel like listening to a new usher song

― billstevejim, Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people feeling the need to say shit like this just because someone else on ilm said they like it is just bizarre to me

― some dude, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

where is rtc w/ the dancehall/funky anonymous bangers? :(

― moullet, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Pinkunoizu - Free Time!

― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Seconding Roc Marciano - Reloaded. Stream is here: http://stereogum.com/1198722/stream-roc-marciano-reloaded/album-stream/

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

^ solid album

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:00 (5 months ago) Permalink

I still haven't gotten around to that but I loved his last album.

― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 November 2012 22:59 (5 months ago) Permalink

Been loving these tracks lately:

Chandeliers - Le Corsage (Feat Emma Yohanan)
Chrome Sparks - All There Is (Feat. Steffaloo)
Evan Voytas - Tomorrow Night We'll Go Anywhere
FLako - Mating Dance
Laetitia Sadier - Find Me The Pulse Of The Universe
Poliça - Wandering Star
Tame Impala - It Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Mesita - XYXY

― Moka, Saturday, 1 December 2012 18:28 (5 months ago) Permalink

Sa Dingding's The Coming Ones is now available via Grooveshark:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/The+Coming+Ones/8064053

― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:17 (5 months ago) Permalink

Listen to it!

― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

also for me: ricardo donoso's excellent "assimilating the shadow" and voices from the lake s/t

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 1 December 2012 21:06 (5 months ago) Permalink

I listened to the Chairlift twice through this evening. I've dipped in and out of it all year an enjoyed it on a track by track basis, but blimey if this isn't an outright fab collection of songs. Makes me think of how I'd have liked Eurhythmics to sound like or something.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Sunday, 2 December 2012 00:45 (5 months ago) Permalink

the donoso is tite

― j., Sunday, 2 December 2012 00:54 (5 months ago) Permalink

When do we start this for 2k13?

― Mordy, Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:35 (2 months ago) Permalink

There already is one.

Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2013

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:35 (2 months ago) Permalink

Thanks!

― Mordy, Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:36 (2 months ago) Permalink