<333 demdike but i didn't vote for tryptych bcz yeah reissue part
almost read 'hatchback' as 'horseback' (who i did vote for)
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah idk i have like opinions about tracks but its like my god its such an effort to listen to an album. i usually just get into a couple of tracks straight away and move on to something else before i've properly listened to the whole album. the hatchback is weird in that its kindof an ambient album but it is seriously riveting all the way through. like i just get hypnotised by it and go fully zen.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't really fall for Moon Duo until hearing it on teh vinyl. Mastering + production job = stunning...I think James Plotkin was involved. Great record.
― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
like i feel the cosmos vibrate, my chakras are opening can you feel my healing winds etc
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
hatchback = balearic stuff right? i have a few tracks by them but didn't hear that album
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Moon Duo! Nice! One of my favorite things yet to come out of the Wooden Shjips axis.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
her voice and the spooky atmosphere esp. in the beginning of that laura marling song "the beast" reminds me so much of michelle shocked's first record "the texas campfire tapes" that it hurts. is she michelle's daughter?
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
the Demdike album felt like more of a 2010 thing to me, so didn't really think about voting for it. Not sure it would have made my ballot anyway.
xps basically what everyone else said
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Hatchback is one of the dudes from Windsurf (lol)
― Number None, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Love the moon duo and glad it placed as i cut it from my ballot too.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Whoop, another one of mine in Moon Duo. I've probably said this a million times now, but I couldn't get past the Doors influence of Wooden Shjips, but MD I really dig.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Never really got into Moon Duo apart from their Christmas tunes (posts v much in character), prefer Wooden Shjips who sound a bit more muscular to me.
― two lights crew (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
the title track from that moon duo album is probably the most fun song ive heard all year
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Hey this Moon Duo is pretty neat judging by 'When You Cut'
― pandemic, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
i like wooden shjips but prefer moon duo.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
anyone have specific track recommendations by hatchback or moon duo?
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Zeus and Apollo" is maybe the most immediate track on the Hatchback album, still all about the Krauty blissed-out beach vibezzz though.http://youtu.be/f2RkfFDCrWc
― two lights crew (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
lex youve been really quiet here compared to the tracks poll. Have you heard anything yet you hadnt hesrd but like?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:08 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Listening now. :)
― pandemic, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't vote but Hatchback was one of my favorite albums this year.
just...gorgeous
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
Moon Duo can do no wrong.
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
moon duo is great. especially this monster of a song. keyboard "riffs" rule!
http://youtu.be/RqcBjZmUbSU
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I loved the Moon Duo album but considered it too old for a 2011 list.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Krauty blissed-out beach vibezzz
How to sell me on a record in five words or less. I need to check out this Hatchback.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
It came out in 2011 though!
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
hatchback was my #1, was hoping it would place higher. very well-executed new agey ambient balearica, miles better than anything else the guy has done (save for maybe "white diamond"?). "orinoco waltz" is my favorite track fwiw
also love far side virtual. not going to try to explain WHY, cause it was sort of an obvious, immediate connection for me, and if you don't get it off the bat you are a lost cause imo
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
not really. it's harder to check out new albums (especially as my hard drive died at the weekend and took my entire music collection with it). other than marling and wruhme, i wasn't enthusiastic about any i'd already heard. i checked out a few tracks of the ones i haven't heard but nothing's grabbed me, though hatchback might be the likeliest yet. (well i assume i'll like grouper but i also assume i know what it sounds like and can hear it at my leisure)
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah "white diamond" is the old hatchback song i liked
w.r.t. the title track, i love how they perfectly mix the poppy boppy vibe with the soaring wanky psych guitar solos
― ≧^◡^≦ moon dayo (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
I might be wrong but it I am sure I was listening to it in summer 2010. I might be losing my marbles.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Pleasantly surprised that moon duo placed - I liked it well enough.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Tj5oC.jpg
48. Tom Waits — Bad As Me (352 points, 14 votes)
P4K: DNPP&J: 5
Spotify
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
xp
Maybe you are thinking of Escape?
My initial reaction to the new one was "too poppy" and "too repetitive" but those riffs drove their way into my brain in a good way.
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
The Escape EP was from 2010, but Mazes came out in March of 2011.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't vote for the Waits, but its a good record. I picked a good time to check back in on him.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't really like the Moon Duo album the one time i heard it, but forget the nature of my gripes.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Ah Bad As Me, which I voted for and gave a positive write up when it came out, but now...? I dunno, I've gone right off it. Too many dull ballads and hoary rockers. I'd say there are maybe four decent tracks here but I skip so much off this thing. Do like Let's Get Lost and Hell Broke Luce.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Was kind of like Wet Hair iirc? xp re Moon Duo
lex i'd be pretty surprised if you didn't like the Hatchback album. really should've placed higher, imo.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
demdike stare and moon duo = my first votes to make the countdown. yay!
i've cooled on the former a bit since late 2010/early 2011, as their assembled body of work tilts a little too steeply towards spooky aural wallpaper for my taste, but the high points (in my estimation, the denser and more beat-driven tracks like "forest of evil dawn" and "repository of light") are spectacular.
moon duo are easily my favorite thing to come out of the wooden shjips axis, and mazes is leaps and bounds beyond anything they've done prior. could listen to the title track forever. so effortlessly cool and catchy. motorik beach pop!
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh tom waits, nice. didn't quite make my ballot but i was really pleasantly surprised by it - it sounds like he really enjoyed making it, it has this fantastically unforced feel to it - just tom being tom and doing what he's best at. these were my favourites
talking at the same timehell broke lucelast leaf
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
tried to listen to laura marling's "the beast" but couldn't make it through
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Demdike Stare is fantastic, but I didn't vote for it because I kind of thought of it more as a comp/reissue.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
only played the TW album once so far but Hell Broke Luce completely owns
― bs and 'Why Do You Listen To Frog?' (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
basically a really nice balance between drunken rollicking explosions and chants / sentimental balladeering / casting a caustic observer's eye over the financial crisis
xps
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Lex, I agree it's def Tom's chillin out having fun being human album - think that's what made me like it in the first place, but I do miss his more character-based/theatrical side.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wl1sI.jpg
47. Clams Casino — Instrumentals (354 points, 12 votes)
P4K: 17P&J: 61
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
cannot stand Last Leaf! Chicago and Face to the Highway are both great (among the other quality tracks mentioned)
XPOST
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh god i just can't be bothered with clams casino until and unless rappers rap over it
so bored of 2am lonely laptop music in any case
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Man. So many albums I literally haven't even heard of. I'm excited.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link