What are the Hipster Albums of 2009?

4 very good albums so far

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this thread will devolve very soon into an argument about what constitutes a "hipster album" and what being a "hipster" entails

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someone will make the hilarious joke that a very well-known album is a "hipster album" and then others will defend it

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scott youve been lurking on dffd again haven't you

The new (and unpronounceable) Grizzly Bear disc.

you know all that diehard coloured vinyl limited nigel metal stuff?

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:54 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've always wanted to use nigel metal in a sentence.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:55 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

okay i so want nigel metal to become a thing now

its been and gone no? (isis,boris,pelican,neurosis,wittr,mastodon etc)

Mind you, everything is nigel or hipster to troo metalheads who dislike anything thats sold over 1000 copies.

http://www.curragh-labs.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nigel-tufnel.jpg

It still seems plausible to describe/pan the DirProjjies as ‘a Jack Johnson-sounding bro with broads wailing in the background.’

Hipster Runoff is the worst shit ever. someone oughta put a bullet in that guy for his insanely pompous cynicism and joylessness

its a pretty joyful blog imo

someone oughta put a bullet in that guy for his insanely pompous cynicism and joylessness

― Valid point, imaginary rude person (Shakey Mo Collier)

fnarf

hipster runoff is like the blues - it makes feeling bad feel good

The new (and unpronounceable) Grizzly Bear disc.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:09 AM (2 hours ago)

i feel like grizzly bear have sort of lost their spot on the hipster demographic, at this point they're coming dangerously close to dadrocking it.

500 Days of Summer OST maybe

max tundra shit

lindstrom shit

atlas sound shit

i feel like grizzly bear have sort of lost their spot on the hipster demographic, at this point they're coming dangerously close to dadrocking it.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:12 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

theyve graduated def - they should like live in a big loft w/the shins and modest mouse and all work at a newspaper together or something

lightning bolt shit

I would say black lips but they sound like green day

alt weekly, imo

xp to jho

raekwon

I know I am going to offend but I can't stand XX or whatever it's called. No soul. I am never reading mainstream music press again until they stop being such dorks. You can find stuff that is 10,000 times better in indie electronica.

totally

but they are young and like cool bands? isn't that enough to convince you their music is good?

;-)

neon indian iirc

yes, otm

blank dogs probably

The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic

are blank dogs popular enuff?

i'm so sad i saw that band live. ruined everything for me.

Nigel Metal's Main Magazine Decibel has published their top 40.

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jesus
man

wtf Jordan that is horrible!

it's from a movie yall, chill out

just another thread about indie albums and hipster runoff...

whats wrong with typing the word hipster over and over again

oh it's from a movie total lols an hero rite

;_;

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.

No wait. It is a jean style.

IS

GIBBER

Gucci Mane – The Cold War Series

Grizzly Bear
Bat For Lashes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Decemberists
Devendra Banhart

passion pit, dirty projectors scream hipster

Gucci Mane – The Cold War Series

― eatin' spaghett' (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, November 27, 2009 12:24 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol the cold war gimmick is what it took to make him a "thing"? or is this just a joke

i would've thought burrprint was the big hipster breakout.

the mixtapes are the peak of his hipster love, and it's only gettin bigger

It's not at Dipset 05 levels yet, but I can say in Williamsburg the seeds are def. planted.

i am truly sorry for your lots

well i figured that was coming eventually

The Bear in Heaven album is the only album I have found remotely interesting. It has some really cool rhythms and textures happening, and the album never stagnates from a mixing standpoint.

Animal Collective have become too formulaic to be interesting, XX is intolerable, and it is beyond me why people think the Girls album is worth any attention.

i didn't even tweet review Bear In Heaven!

Way way before CMJ fallout and glowing Pfork review I interviewed 'em for the Village Voice.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/09/yes_in_my_backy_17.php

I got their CD and I liked it and I thought "Oh this is pretty good, I'd like to give them some attention." But at no point did I think "Man, people are gonna flip the fuck out over this."

plowing through chillwave bands is doing nothing to snap me out of my thanksgiving funk btw. these bands are officially good for nothing.

i thought only old west african vinyl reissues and the baroness were cool??????

Enjoying the Bear In Heaven album 100x more than MPP. It's not going to end up on my year end or anything, but it is a pretty good hispter album of 2009 imo.

Oh, didn't know there was a Bear in Heaven record! I really liked them live the couple times that I saw them, and I liked Red Bloom of Boom, and then I kind of lost track of them. I had thought they were kind of slept on, so it's good to see them getting Pitchfork love.

Ahhhh . . . I'm sold. I'm going to have a beer, finish watching the UM/USF game, and download the Bear In Heaven disc all before I'm forced to watch the new iCarly at 8.

Can someone find that great burt stanton meltdown post that's just this long string of random hipster signifiers and jargon?

― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:21 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yesss i love this post

― max, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:22 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Billyburg, trucker cap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pool, Sparks, vegan, free-range tofu, "originally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnard, Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Greenpoint, Bushwick, and the "other" other hoods, X of the word "iron", "art loft", X = the ,urg, ther hoothStrts (non-Western), booth" otcap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pookes, = the new Williamsburg (aka Billyburg), offensol, Sparks, dively incorrect usePirBR, Union Poarks, diveat shoes Billybs, X = the nrucker vegtofu Greenpoint, Bushwick, w L train, trust funds, track bikest use, plaid shol, Sp, "origand ew Williamsburg (aka sively incorrec of the worad n", "art loft", X = tneinally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnarde "other" Billyburg), offenotcaerp, skinny jeans,The an, "irofree-rnge , Oberlin, Sarah Lawrencehe new L train, trust funds, track bikes, plaid shirts (non-Western), boat shoes

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― max, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:38 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like this post because its like burt_stanton.bot broke and is spewing out all the gobbledegook about hipsters that was programmed into him by his evil master

― max, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:39 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah it was like the part in wargames where the computer plays itself over and over again and goes faster and faster. "It's learning."

― Hurting 2, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:50 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― max, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:23 PM Bookmark

the new album is apparently a bit of a change from the first one. they sound like the half-way point between phoenix and tvotr to me (can you tell i don't listen to a lot of this kind of music?).

talking about BIH there.

bear in heaven

the xx nme's no2 album ('no 2' quite appropriate)

http://www.nme.com/list/50-best-albums-of-2009/159978/page/5

~*~prediction~*~

this thread will devolve very soon into an argument about what constitutes a "hipster album" and what being a "hipster" entails

― max, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:06 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

~*~prediction~*~

someone will make the hilarious joke that a very well-known album is a "hipster album" and then others will defend it

― max, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:07 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

prediction FAIL

tf is chillwave?

lol that nme 2009 list is really like 'oh shit we spend the decade listening to the wrong music fuck fuck fuck'

whenever I think of chillwave I think of jimmy buffet I don't know why

also whenever I see a genre name on ilm that I haven't seen anywhere else I feel as though I have been infected

lol that nme 2009 list is really like 'oh shit we spend the decade listening to the wrong music fuck fuck fuck'

hahaha, we need someone to re-enact this and put it to film.

Someone deleting all the McFly mp3s and "speed-listening" through the Grizzly Bear and Fever Ray albums.

i think they would be more concerned with we spent the decade trying to sell the wrong music to our readers fuck fuck fuck.

lol @ the NME review snippet for Dirty Projectors: The only real difficulty is that they almost sound like a brilliant pop band - yeah, and then they fuck it up hardcore!!!!!