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

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.

i find it very soothing in its slightness

Couple of tracks from recent months:

Cosmic Metal Mother - Italian Cowboy
Cruise Family - We're in Heaven (Dream Mix)
Flights of Fancy - Tempo of the Night
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Issue Generator (For Eliane Radigue)
Burial - Ashtray Wrap
School of Seven Bells - Love From a Stone
Mano Le Tough - Mountains

I'm certain I've heard that Gang Colours album but I can't remember the slightest thing about it :(

Cruise Family - We're in Heaven (Dream Mix)
Flights of Fancy - Tempo of the Night
Mano Le Tough - Mountains

cosign! i need to get my hands on the flights of fancy and mano le tough eps but i love what i've heard from them

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

this is probably the least typical release they've put out tho, seems to be more of an homage to howarth or moroder scores than anything vaguely 'italo'. it's not particularly novel either tho, lots and lots of ppl are emulating '80s sdtks these days

LHF – Keepers of the Light [Keysound]
Yöt – Bitch Bender [Raha & Tunteet]
Shady Blaze – The Grind, Hustle & Talent [Green Ova]
Non Person – Things With Consequences, Part 1 [1-0-8]
Henny Moan – The Coming Thaw [CDR]
Agali Ag Amoumine – Takamba [Sahelsounds]
10-20 – Magnet Marsh [Broken60]
Dean Blunt – The Narcissist II [CDr]
DVA – Pretty Ugly [Hyperdub]
Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos – Icon Give Tank [RVNG]
Dro Carey – Tussin Underwater [Brain---So---Soft]
Starlito – For My Foes [Grind Hard]
Future – Astronaut Status [Self Released]
Lil Ugly Mane – Criminal Hypnosis: Unreleased Shit [Self Released]
Gucci Mane – Trap Back [Brick Squad]
Spaceghostpurrp - RVIDER KLVN GXX XX BXXXK Vol.1 [Self Relesed]

yeah, that's why i couldn't get into it, felt so predictable, just sort of drifted by without leaving an impression

xpost

yea i mean i definitely dig that style through the johnny jewel lens but i'm not sure it's going to win anyone over who isn't enamored with that idea in the first place

My heavily influenced ILM picks. A bit redundant posting this (since I've found so much on threads like this one), but thought I'd share anyway...

ALBUMS/EPs

Blondes, Blondes
John Talabot, fin
Grimes, Visions
Julia Holter, Ekstasis
Ital, Hive Mind
Todd Terje, It's The Arps
Gucci Mane, Trap Back
Cruise Family, We're in Heaven
Kalenna, Chamber of Diaries
DJ Sliink, Vibrate
Lil B 'The BasedGod', Gods Father
Peaking Lights, 936 Remixed

TRACKS

Usher, Climax
DJ Q, Brandy & Coke
JoJo, Sexy To Me
Metronomy, Corinne (Benoit & Sergio Cover)
Dawn Richard, Black Lipstick
Funkystepz, Circles
Konshens, Gyal A Bubble
Miguel, Adorn
Pachanga Boys, Time
Teyana Taylor, Make Your Move feat. Wale
Nicki Minaj, Stupid Hoe
I Octane, Money Me Want
Big K.R.I.T., We Buy Gold feat. 8Ball & MJG

TRACKS

melanie fiona - 4am
usher - climax
miguel - adorn
todd terje - inspector norse
john talabot - when the past was present
miguel migs ft. meshell ndegocello - close you eyes (deetron remix)
benoit & sergio - corinne
lil b - poppin' v
kendrick lamar ft. gunplay - cartoons & cereal
gunplay - low life
rick ross ft. drake & french montana - stay schemin
rich kidz ft. waka flocka - my life
riff raff & lil debbie - brain freeze
j. stalin - who are you
future - swap it out
alley boy - cops on the block
chief keef - 3hunna
kirko bangz - drank in my cup
tyga - rack city
young thug ft. shawty lo & skooly - curtains

i would just like to point out to all the people in the EOY thread who were whining about there being fewer tracks for individual albums/tracks and that the people in the rolling threads were keeping the good shit from you that i have started, and i have seen started, a lot more individual-artist threads this year, and 90% of them have completely died. which is fine, it's expected and that's why we HAVE rolling threads, but i hope to see no more whining this year

You should have been a primary school teacher.

i only like kids if i can give them back to their parents when i get bored of them

Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
VCMG - SSSS
John Talabot - Fin
Blondes - Blondes
UFOmammut - ORO I
Session Victims - The Haunted House Of House
Killing Joke - MMXII
White Hills - Frying On This Rock
Alexander Tucker - Third Mouth
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
Swans - We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head
Black Rain - Now I'm Just A Number (reissue)
John Foxx and the Maths - The Shape Of Things
SunnO))) - 00Void (reissue)
Burial - Kindred (EP)

Nice choices tpp, but I don't think that Rack City and Who Are You are 2012 releases...

John Foxx and the Maths - The Shape Of Things
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse

what are these like? i am def intrigued

Foxxy is a lot more bleak and grimy sounding than last year's album but it's got plenty of good songs on it and it's always a pleasure to hear Ben Edwards playing synthesizer.

Transverse is the real revelation though. There's a stream of it on our site if you want to listen to it. Although it might be in other places by now. The album is the straight recording of their forty minute, four song set at Mute's Short Circuit festival in London about a year ago. It's just an absolute pleasure from start to finish. It sounds like a really good TG live album, mixed with some great industrial techno and duelling guitars. Nik Void sounding like Daniel Ash/Paul Leary with a hangover and Cosey, well, like Cosey. Really puts a thunder in your chest.

Although I'm a total TG/FF/C&C Music Factory partisan.

Streamed Transverse on a whim late last night... er, WOW. Instant love for this!

Yeah this stuff sounds amazing.

1st quarter wrapup.. no one cares because i listen to too much rock but yeah... I think these are all 2012 anyway
01 Big Freedia "Booty-Whop"
02 Cloud Nothings "Cut You"
03 Mr Dream "Believing and Shitting"
04 Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
05 Grass is Green "Somebody's Something"
06 French Montana "Shot Caller"
07 A Place To Bury Strangers "So Far Away"
08 Japandroids "The House That Heaven Built" (as of yesterday)
09 Ceremony "World Blue"
10 Speedy Ortiz "Taylor Swift"

"Shot Caller" is probably 2011.. I dont remember.

Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
some of this is on spotify. sounds fuckin great so far