The 2009 Magazine Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion.

7 Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers 235

like find me one american mag that still cares about this crap

50 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula 60

I've been trying to fins a leak of this to twitter review forever. Internet is scrubbed clean. Could someone hip me to a mediafire link on 77 or something?

*find*

DJ Mencap, if yr reading, I don't really buy into the term 'post-rock' but this Teeth Of The Sea record is one of the best albums perhaps lying within a certain 'post-rock' discourse that I've heard in years

50 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula 60

Whiney, I think there's a publicist now handling this who might get you a legit download.

xp yeah parts of it had me thinking of the stuff that got called post-rock before Mogwai etc - nerdy English noodling like Pram and Moonshake - but w/ a load of 70s drug rock thrown in

I'm not sure anyone in Britain still cares about the Manics, that album appears to be this year's Dig Lazarus Dig.

it certainly isn't noodling - it's pretty damn direct and righteous

(wasn't like Hood and Ganger and that last Slowdive album the predominant sort of British pre-Mogwai post-rock?)

Hmm, Ganger started about the same time as Mogwai iirc - Hood were around earlier but really obscure before being on Domino (whereupon they became the biggest band in the world etc) and not so much 'post'-anything as weird and fidgety - Slowdive were a thing too I guess

You mean "England's answer to black metal" Hood?

decent review, unnecessary neurosis dig, mentions my favourite torche song: http://www.lowcut.dk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=571:teeth-of-the-sea--orphaned-by-the-ocean&catid=29:album-reviews&Itemid=54

Hood were EBM! I keep saying that. It's still true. I only called them 'post-rock' because that's what everyone said they were. It's a silly term.

That was an xpost, btw :D

(yeah noodling isn't the right word... just reading back my review of it and recalling that the olde poste rocke thing is mainly contained in the last track on the album anyway)

Whiney, I think there's a publicist now handling this who might get you a legit download.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 1:38 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who is it?

rock, paper, scissors

http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.home.cfm

i work with them a lot; drop me a line and i'll point you at somebody whiney

The Quietus 20-1
20. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
19. Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean
18. Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum
17. Ben Frost - By The Throat
16. Githead - Landing
15. British Sea Power - Man Of Aran
14. Abouretum - Song Of The Pearl
13. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
12. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
11. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
9. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
8. Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity
7. Gyratory System - The Sound Board Breathes
6. Oneida - Rated O
5. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
4. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
3. The xx - xx
2. The Horrors - Primary Colours
1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions

I saw The Gyratory System live at Offset; they were quite good although I'd imagine better on record. A bit repetitive and noodly in the live sphere.

I really did not like that Soap & Skin album.

Hood were EBM! I keep saying that. It's still true.

http://www.shout.ru/news/front242_promo2003_01.jpg

Hood, yesterday.

gyratory system are really good actually.

at least, i thought their album was v interesting, in a brazen, experimental way. Others might think it sounds like someone who went mental with the GTA cheat where you can make fire engines fall out the sky.

Still wanna hear that Ben Frost album.

me too!

not seeing much love for 'the visitor' :-(

me three!

yes, gyratory system ARE much better on record. THANK U SPOFITY

actually they kinda rock

look at them, caring about processed trumpet rave-ups!

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs204.snc1/7133_638626271040_36910239_40921193_3199476_n.jpg

I'm shocked the NME couldn't find room for the Super Furry Animals album, they always have them in no matter what they put out. They even put his solo album in last time. Also really disappointed they missed out The Flaming Lips album.

nme probably think they cant sell the lips album to the kids

^^^yeah, especially considering this was their best album since RATW xpost

If you had have told me this time last year the Manics would be in their list and Super Furry Animals wouldn't I would have never believed it.

They gave the Flaming Lips album a great review, it really deserved a place.

It's strange how Animal Collective are really high up on these lists when I don't remember seeing any of their previous albums featured.

I really don't get the MPP fuss one little bit, and I never will.

^^^^^
I will second this every chance I have.

I actually bought that and the Grizzly Bear album and sold them both. They just didn't do it for me.

To these ears it's just crummy overstuffed wanktastic psychedelic murk masquerading as mind-altering pop. Somehow everyone seems to have decided it has exemplary groove and melody. I hear a chore to get through, and an almost preternatural lack of dynamics or narrative. They're showy tech-jams with earnest lyrics and lots and lots of sparkles.

So bummed the alternative version of While You Wait For The Others, with Michael McDonald fronting Grizzly Bear, isn't available anywhere. One of my favorites of the year. (xp)

It's strange how Animal Collective are really high up on these lists when I don't remember seeing any of their previous albums featured

Bet they'll be a backlash against MPP in a lot of the upcoming year-end lists. It will be No. 1 on the P4K list, but I bet it ranks below expectations elsewhere.

The Gyratory System album, which has just finished, COMPLETELY spunks all over MPP in just about every way imaginable.

I'm not sure anyone wants to know which music makes you spunk, LJ.

what is MPP?

merry pepper's lonely hearts pavilion

what is MPP?

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Mojo and Uncut album of the year

ah okay sorry thought it was a band...didn't know that album had reached acronym level

Mojo and Uncut album of the year

the uk just finally catching up on pitchfork innit?

I write MPP not because the disc has reached some high level of cultural significance, but because it's a pain to constantly have to type "Merriweather Post Pavilion."

(xp)

daniel otm...matt yours is a subtle dig but come on that name is kinda tiring and embarrassing to type

what's strange about the MMP placing? it's clearly a breakthrough album in the most traditional sense possible.

nb - I am not necassarily talking about musical quality yada yada.

sorry dudes honestly i just didn't put the pieces together mentally on that one!

ilx is the only place ive seen it referred to as MPP

I really don't get the MPP fuss one little bit, and I never will stop reminding ilx of this opinion (maybe by 2010).

― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:48

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