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

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

just heard the end of one song and there is applause suggesting this is a live album which is kinda blowin my mind just a bit

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

― billstevejim, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:13 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it is

Nice choices tpp, but I don't think that Rack City [is a] 2012 release...

― MikoMcha, Friday, March 23, 2012 4:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chart peak was in 2012

There's a new Big Freedia track out and I haven't heard it?!

My own, pathetic first quarter round up would go a little something like this:

ALBUMS
John K. Samson, Provincial
The Wedding Present, Valentina
The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Scrappy Happiness

(yeah, not a great year for me and albums so far)

TRACKS (not including songs from any of the aforementioned albums for the time being)
Cassie - "King of Hearts"
Charli XCX – “Valentine”
Leonard Cohen – “Show Me The Place”
Heartless Bastards - "Marathon"
Ladyhawke – “Black, White & Blue”
Nicki Minaj – “Stupid Hoe”
Miryo – “Dirty”
Plan B - "Ill Manors"
Saint Etienne – “Tonight”
Timbaland ft. Dev - "Break Ya Back"
Bobby Womack - "Please Forgive My Heart"

guess no one else likes the new Cardinal lp, Hymns...

Here's my rolling Spotify "new albums I have enjoyed in 2012" playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/0YUc5Yfd5pdxMPqQ4Fqqu4

xp I think I'm really enjoying Charli XCX.. Replace "Shot Caller" with one of her songs.

No idea there was a new Plaskett - must investigate.
Cardinal Hymns is kinda meh - hate to say it but I tried and tried.

mike, that world routes album is sick. thanks for the playlist!

call to hearts (intro)
black lipstick
bombs
automatic
change
heaven
faith
scripture
smfu (remix)
the battle (outro)

whats the name of the album?

rusty otm

weird album name