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

_/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.

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

Maybe he just thinks she's crap ;)

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)

track:

ronika - automatic

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.

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

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

Pinkunoizu - Free Time!

albums [quick and prolly incomplete]

Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
The Men - Open Your Heart
Lovelock - Burning Feeling
Windy & Carl - We Will Always Be
Eyvind Kang - Visible Breath

can't claim rtc's comprehensiveness, but here are the dancehall tracks from 2012 (some of these are probably late 2011) I've been into:

Cham feat. O - Tun Up
Mavado - Clean Everyday
Lea-Anna - Murder (Remix)
Wayne Marshall - Borrow Clothes
Suku - Now
Timberlee - Prescription Makeup
Aidonia - Anyweh At All
Di Genius & Chino - Lowe Wi
Konshens - Gun Shot a Fire
Konshens - Bun Satan
Assassin/Agent Sasco - Hot
I-Octane - Til Kingdom Come
Popcaan - Stay Far
Tife - Wife Mi Up
Macka Diamond -Nah Fail

hadn't heard that I-Octane -- love his track on the Riva Stone Riddim comp tho.

Tracks:

A.Dd+ - "Shit Got Crazy"
Miguel - "Adorn"
Christian Mistress - "Haunted Hunted"
Pharaoh Overlord - "Rodent"

Albums:

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
The Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
Lambchop - Mr. M
Mind Spiders - Meltdown
Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
RAM - Death
Steelwing - Zone Of Alienation
Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

ez do you have lambchop on vinyl? good pressing/sound?

Sadly, I only have the cd and have, ahem, acquired the vinyl bonus tracks.

Would be a good record to christen your post office parking lot record player.

Black Breath album is called 'Sentenced To Life' btw, I wrote the title of their last album cos I'm dumb

add to my list:

Doc Daneeka & Benjamin Damage - They Live!
Walls - The Future Is Wide Open
Loincloth - Iron Balls of Steel

my "favorites of 2012" playlist currently contains:

Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Machinedrum - SXLND EP
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Trust - TRST

playlist here:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/7Hi5uKSCgKZM5doRaEIDOz

Would be a good record to christen your post office parking lot record player.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, March 16, 2012 2:14 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i actually did that this morning! sounds great! it passed the "You Can Call Me Al" test, a benchmark for record players

Glad yo hear shady parking lot player works well. But that was damn weird. I worried he might roll you then buy a money order.

yo=to

hadn't heard that I-Octane -- love his track on the Riva Stone Riddim comp tho.

― Mordy, Friday, March 16, 2012 11:31 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Puff It" from last year was also really good

haha no doubt! he was actually just a old stoner type dude, nice guy....table is GREAT actually, really a steal

xp Oh yeah, I know. I remember hearing him a few years ago and he's was much more aggro (i think the track was called Vampire or something). he's gotten really chilled and stonery - i love it!

Albums:

The Men
Frankie Rose
Julia Holter

not really part of the metal goon cru

but dang

Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction is the best rock record I've heard in a grip

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, March 16, 2012 9:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

You're right, and I would feel the same way.. I keep seeing the song mentioned everywhere.. I got halfway through and it didn't immediately hit me as something I feel like listening to ever again.. and I'm just left thinking "why am I trying to get into a new Usher song..."

anyway, here's my list of albums so far for the year of 2012:

Aaron Novik - Secrets of Secrets
Alcest - Les Voyages de L'Ame
V/A - Riva Stone Riddim
Christian Mistress - Possession
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Eluviete - Helvetios
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Fun. - Some Nights
Grace Woodroofe - Always Want
Hospitality - Hospitality
I-Octane - Nuh Frighten EP
Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound
John Mulaney - New in Town (comedy/spoken word)
Karen Dalton - 1966
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliees...
The Men - Open Your Heart
Nneka - Soul is Heavy
Zieti - Zemelewa

Ooh, I missed the new Nneka album being out! Looks like Amazon has it for $4.99 too. Good day for me.

it's great!

you forgot grimes

her 8.5 score from pitchfork really speaks to me

feel u on that

that karen dalton is really great

Ali Ag Amoumine - Takamba

― Moka, Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:18 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yeah, this is fantastic. especially like the last track on the LP ("mali") and the sweet, acoustic A side of the single ("amidinine")

african music has become my favorite kind lately, though i'm not sure exactly how this happened. another recent favorite:

music from saharan cell phones - various artists

also on sahel sounds, also from late 2011, technically

perseus- running back to you(track)

walsh- back 2 the high life

perseus is fantastic. that song is interesting but i like the jeremy glenn remix a bit better. very similar moves in both

this has been my catnip so far this year...

blondes - s/t
john talabot - ƒin
nina kraviz - s/t
donato dozzy & neel - voices from the lake
todd terje - it's the arps
ital - hive mind
symmetry - themes for an imaginary film
sfv acid - grown

(technically last year)
floating points - shadows
radio people - hazel

The Herringbones - Once More Tied To The Mast
Seckstronicks - Circkit Slave
Eat Your Greens - Veg Out! With...
Smack Mandate - Everybody's Bangin' Her But Me
Ugly Sister - Bogeydance

hmmm

so... none of those are real albums, right?

everything's real, mordy

"donato dozzy & neel - voices from the lake" this seems innaresting

voices from the lake is stunning

blondes - s/t
john talabot - ƒin
donato dozzy & neel - voices from the lake
todd terje - it's the arps

4 excellent choices from psychgawsple there

didn't feel symmetry but i have limited (ie: almost no) tolerance for italians do it better in general

album that i'm gonna mention here because it doesn't fit into a rolling thread and it's not ~amazing~ enough to start a thread of its own for, but it's still really worth a listen - they keychain collection by gang colours. really organic-sounding, pastoral electronic sketches that really hit the spot when it comes to spring hangover time with the sun streaming through the window and your brain in repose

Album faves at the vernal equinox:

Grimes - Visions
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Chairlift - Something
Hanne Hukkelberg - Featherbrain
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Underrated Silence (this year's Tycho - Dive)
Silver Swans - Forever

The Orbital + Zola Jesus - "New France" single is nice, too.

listening to that gang colours right now and it's really nice, although i'm a little surprised that you're into it, lex? it's definitely up my alley though.