What are the Hipster Albums of 2009?

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?

yeah that sounds about right

That F--k Buttons album got a lot of glowing reviews, not just from Pitchfork.

And, surprisingly (to me), The Clientele's new disc has been reviewed less than their prior discs, it seems. Also, Pitchfork gave it an "okay" review (something in the 7s, I think).

Not sure if your comment was directed toward my prior post, in any event. (xp)

But generally, yeah, I think if it's on Pitchfork's BNM list, it's a Hipster Album.

So: REAL ESTATE.

yeah no, it was not particularly directed at anyone, dude. having all of these albums already organized together like this just takes the fun out of it.

It's weird, but sometimes a Pitchfork Best New Music tag does little for an act. The magazine gave that Bear In Heaven disc an 8.4 and the BNM tag, but I've heard almost nothing else about the disc, and I wouldn't say it's a Hipster Album.

are bear in heaven any good, though? there was an album by a band called cymbals eat guitars that got BNM'd earlier in the year and it was absolutely horrible stuff, not at all a surprise that they didn't get very far.

Yeah. I downloaded that Cymbals Eat Guitars disc. Never felt compelled to listen to more than half a song, tho.

The :30 samples on that Bear in Heaven disc sound . . . okay. Hard to tell from that if the songs have the "massive choruses" promised by the P4K review. I'm going to give the full disc a go on Lala to see.

complete agreement on the complete turd that is that CEG album

There are two songs from that Bear In Heaven album here. Meh. I think the P4K review oversells the "towering choruses." And their use of electronics feels pretty uninspired to me.

lovesick teenagers by bear in heaven is pretty cool, besides i dunno, i actually kinda like cymbals eat guitars, but i can see why people wouldn't like them (the vocals)

I got a BNM once. Don't feel much diffnt now than before.

Of the two Bear In Heaven songs I heard on that site I linked, Lovesick Teenagers is by far the better of the two.

wrt to hipsters i mean

It must have given your band some extra attention, I imagine.

Some bands that got the BNM and seem like they were quickly forgotten:

Wilderness
The Deadly Snakes
Single Frame
Shining
Giddy Motors

Don't know the others, but Wilderness have made two discs since their BNM debut, and they've been pretty widely-reviewed and generally well-received.

But they didn't get the buzz and hype most BNM receivers enjoy after the review. Nobody except us fans (generally) really knows of Wilderness releases after the S/T or the band at all.

I guess. I'm a fan of theirs, too. I still think they could be a monster breakout band (among a certain fan-base, at least). They do have that huge, complex rock sound.

You guys sound so conceited and gross. Good luck with that.

What sounds conceited and gross?

clearly a hipster

lol wtf

You guys are just so hip for pointing out the hipster albums. Sounds like a jean style.

i can barely see over my pelvis

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.