Vampire Weekend got you into Afropop, you mean?
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
!
No, but I can see me going that way, it works all the time, I think my interests in techno, noise, krautrock, folk etc, all stemmed from some indie band that Pitchfork or someone ranted about, and I usually end up listening to that original band way least. I think I like Vampire Weekend because they remind me of Graceland and Clang of the Yankee Reaper, both of which I love.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Know any afropop I might like by any chance?
HAS ANYONE HERE HEARD A MOUTHFUL BY THE DO?
-- Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:39 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^^^This is good.
Also receiving thumbs up from me: Los Campesinos, eMC, Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans, Glass Candy.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I've picked up the following in 2008: Atlas Sound, Cat Power, Hot Chip, Mountain Goats, Xiu Xiu -- and I enjoy all of them to various degrees, some more than others obviously, but nothing *incredible* has come down the pipeline in 2008, yet. I'd most recommend Mountain Goats and Atlas Sound albums, both are excellent; Hot Chip is spotty in places, still pretty good; Cat Power is sorta disposable; Xiu Xiu I haven't played enough yet to figure out.
The best album I've heard (not out yet, officially) is the Gutter Twins' release, Saturnalia, coming out in a week or two, I think. If you check out the Gutter Twins thread, there's a link to the whole album, streaming online. Really, really solid album.
Otherwise, I'm most looking forward to Portishead; based on their past work (duh) and everything I've heard about the new release, especially from those who've heard it and *LOVE* it, I'm thinking this could be the best thing to come out in the first half of 2008.
― stephen, Saturday, 23 February 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Destroyer - trouble in dreams - almost perfect. Vampire weekend - very good. Mgmt - 1st half - classic, 2nd half - dud. Chauchat - upon thousands - almost perfect. High places - i've only start listening to it yesterday, but looks promising.
btw,i can't stand the gutter twins the gutter twins .
― Zeno, Saturday, 23 February 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, the Cat Power is very disappointing, but it has made me listen to the original Metal Heart a lot which is a good thing.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 23 February 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
s'okay, i think your list sucks too ;-)
― stephen, Saturday, 23 February 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously though, Gutter Twins album is *excellent*; stream here:
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/39261992
― stephen, Saturday, 23 February 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
but my dad is stronger than your dad!
― Zeno, Saturday, 23 February 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Goslings - Occasion
Aaron Martin - River Water
Maninkari - Le Diable avec ses Chevaux...usually I avoid anything described as "cinematic" but this is beautiful kitchen sink ethno-psyche, somehow holds up over its nearly 2 hrs.
Box - Studio 1...hitting all those spots I wanted from the last Supersilent...like a wankier Supersilent, if Deathprod left the room and they decided to have "fun"
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 23 February 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned -- I had never actually heard any other Mountain Goats albums before.
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 23 February 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
GET IT HEARD/HERD OH I SLAY ME
moto boy ruby suns july skies vampire weekend
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and je suis animal is probably great but who can find it?
I'm liking the Gutter Twins - Saturnalia quite a bit. Bought tix to see them in March. Still like Vampire Weekend and Black Mountain a lot. Am absorbing these, all have good moments:
Apes - Ghost Games Big Sleep - Sleep Forever Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead Bob Mould - District Line Protest The Hero - Fortress Die! Die! Die! - Promises Promises Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers Nada Surf - Lucky Hot Chip - Made in the Dark Clark - Turning Dragon These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
El Guincho seconded. There is an awesome new Nicole Mitchell/Black Earth Ensemble album called Black Unstoppable but I dunno if it's actually from '08.
― sleeve, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
D5, I like jazz, but it's hard for me to find reliable recommendations for new jazz discs (even on ILX's Rolling Jazz thread). What are the best new jazz discs you've heard this year?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Hercules & Love Affair, Black Mountain, Sian Alice Group, Silver Mt. Zion, Lee Scratch Perry's Chicken Scratch, and the Crystal Antlers EP have been the best I've heard so far.
Atlas Sound is pretty but kinda shallow (reminds me of Matthew Dear), These New Puritans is OK if you want to hear someone new ripping off the Fall, Clinic is OK and I like it more than their previous album (it's got a messy sound to it that I'm digging).
And fuck, I'm sick of Destroyer.
― I eat cannibals, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone asked once on another thread if there were "new release" lists online for various global/non-English albums. Not sure if anyone is doing that gatekeeper function, which would be difficult considering the number of small and large label efforts in countless genres around the world.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
so far for 2008 :
Radio Scarecrow - The Black Dog (gorgeous from start to finish, a wonderfully layered rich album.) The Invisible Line - Temposhark The Heliocentrics - Out There Clark - Turning Dragon
― mark e, Saturday, 23 February 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Oooh, I didn't know Clark had a new album out this year. Has it been released yet? I really enjoyed his last one.
― Z S, Saturday, 23 February 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
daniel esq start here, also n.b. the next entry
"If That Arm Heals, It Ought To Be Broken Again" 2008 Jazz D Minor Bags Thread
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 23 February 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll second the Raveonettes and Gutter Twins and add Drive-By Truckers' Brighter Than Creation's Dark and Sam Amidon' All Is Well. I'm hoping the Erykah Badu will turn out good.
― deusner, Saturday, 23 February 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The Hot Chip is pretty good. Avoiding Vampire Weekend like the plauge til the furor dies down, though I plan to pick it up this summer. Really liking Genghis Tron's new record Board Up the House, started a thread on it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 February 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I wondered when this was going to happen.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Saturday, 23 February 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, that Shelby Lynne album is nice. I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say it's the best covers record by a female singer-songwriter so far this year.
― deusner, Saturday, 23 February 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
dance album of the year so far: prosumer & murat tepali - serenity
― r1o natsume, Saturday, 23 February 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, Nicole Mitchell album not from this year, but check this out for April!!!:
NEW HAVEN, CT -- Firehouse 12 Records will kick off its 2008 release schedule on April 29th with Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler (FH12-04-01-006), the new studio recording of Chicago-based flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell's extended composition of the same name.
― sleeve, Saturday, 23 February 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Times New Viking!!!Times New Viking!!!Times New Viking!!!
― earinfections, Saturday, 23 February 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Dimension 5ive, can you list some of those jazz albums you're talking about for lazy people like me?
― Patrick South, Saturday, 23 February 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I almost bought it...but I didn't.
So far I would list my favoritest things I've heard like this:
1. Cuong Vu, Vu-Tet 2. Steven Bernstein, Diaspora Suite (Miles-ish space funk, but Jewisher) 3. Louie Bellson and Clark Terry, Louie and Clark Expedition 2 (big-band corny stuff but really good and kinda forward-looking -- Duke Ellington once said Bellson was the world's greatest musician and he was married to Pearl Bailey so that's good enough for me, jack) 4. Matana Roberts, The Chicago Project (only had it for a couple of days, moving up quickly) 5. Cowboys From Hell, Monster Rodeo (metal-jazz from Switzerland, covers of the "Halloween" theme and straight-up beat-jacks from "Eye of the Tiger", so amazing) 6. Jason Kao Hwang/Edge, Stories Before Within (Third Stream weirdness, kinda good while shoveling at midnight) 7. The Wrong Object, Stories From the Shed (Zappa Tribute Band goes jazz-legit LOL) 8. François Ingold Trio, Fat Free (v.nice) 9. Keith Marks, Foreign Funk (jazz flautist gets down with "Axel F"...but actually better than that sounds) 10. Joe Locke Quartet, Sticks and Strings (I'm a sucker for vibes)
-- Dimension 5ive, Friday, February 22, 2008 5:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
okay my copy of Maceo Parker's Roots and Grooves just arrived and it is SHIT HOT Y'ALL. He's playing with the Cologne big band WDR; one disc of Ray Charles covers, one disc of good old Maceo funk stuff including an 18 minute "Pass the Peas." Dude can still play the holy hell out of that saxophone, it's like he hasn't aged a day. WOW BLAM ZING.
-- Dimension 5ive, Friday, February 22, 2008 7:29 PM
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 February 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
V/A Messthetics #104 & #105 Valet - Naked Acid Belong - Colorless Record EP Citified - The Meeting After the Meeting Lee "Scratch" Perry - Chicken Scratch: Deluxe Edition
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 24 February 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i just checked out charlottefield, and on first listen i like it very, very much. is the album available in the states? brighton seems like an interesting town...
all i have heard from 2008 specifically is bits and pieces of the new nick cave, the new xiu xiu and hot chip. first two are fantastic, as expected. hot chip is kind of boring but maybe it'll grow on me.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Sunday, 24 February 2008 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Citified - The Meeting After the Meeting
Wow, you're the only other person in internetland who seems to even know who they are! I'm glad they've started lengthening their songs a little. I just wish there were more than seven on the new cd.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll vouch for Decrepit Birth, Eluveitie, Furious Seasons, Gamma Ray, Ida, Joe Jackson, Magnetic Fields, Bob Mould, Mountain Goats, Zapruder Point. And reissues from Burning Witch and Xasthur. And an EPs worth of new songs added to Cradle of Filth's Thornography, and my copy of this Mexico 70 album says 2008 though I think it's really 2005 or 2006.
And my three favorite 2007 releases that didn't make it to me until 2008 are by Hundred Reasons, Kent and Puressence.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 24 February 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Puressence are still around?!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 February 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Goslings album. Always interesting sludgeness. Amazing band.
― W4LTER, Sunday, 24 February 2008 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i had totally forgotten about the ida album. i'm going to put it on now
― electricsound, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm ... Apparently I am the only one that likes Why?'s Alpecia. I would recommend the bookends "Good Friday" and "Simeon's Dilemma." I've heard about 20 albums from 2008 and this is the only one to cause me to repeatedly listen to it.
― ButterGut, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
albums i think are great so far:
Ladyhawk - Shots Clark - Turning Dragon oh, and that mountain goats person
british sea power, vampire weekend, bob mould, eMC, why? have also been getting some playtime
― ciderpress, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I've only been blown away by 2 albums of this year so far.
Xiu Xiu - Woman As Lovers Boris - Smile
― Bus Driver Stu, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
No love for Beach House's "Devotion"? Seriously? It's my favorite album of the year so far.
― mr. falcon, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i forgot about the constantines album that's always a good one
― ciderpress, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Black Mountain is my favorite so far. The Drive By Truckers is good but about 5 songs too long. Looking forward to Nick Cave, Gutter Twins, Boris among others.
― steampig67, Sunday, 24 February 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
All right, D5, I hope your Top 10 list above isn't in rank-order (or I hope all the selections on it are top-shelf outstanding), since No. 10 --The Joe Locke Quartet -- is the only one I found on eMusic.
I'll seek out some of the other titles elsewhere. I'm looking forward to trying some new jazz, so thanks for the recommendations.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
it should be pretty easy to find information about The Wrong Object, especially if you check out certain websites.
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
really sad that no one has said Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us cuz I think it's great.
― The Macallan 18 Year, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
very tentative top 10 so far, incl. late '07 releases that nobody I know heard last year (i.e., excluding Rihanna and Ryan Shaw, both of which I like but I figure I was just really late getting to):
1. Dolly Parton – Backwoods Barbie (Dolly) 2. Ross Johnson – Make It Stop! The Most Of Ross Johnson (Goner) 3. Frozen Bears – Hey, That’s a Good Looking Sportcoat! (myspace.com/frozenbears EP ’07) 4. James McMurtry – Just Us Kids (Lighting Rod) 5. Mechanical Bull – A Million Yesterdays (Woodstock Musicworks ‘07) 6. The Tonic Rays – The Tonic Rays (thetonicrays.com ’07) 7. Final Solutions – Songs By Solutions (Goner ’07) 8. Amanda Shaw – Pretty Runs Out (Rounder) 9. Sioux City Pete & The Beggars (Steel Cage) 10. Trent Willmon – Broken In (Compadre)
Next few official actual non-CD-R 2008 releases would probably be Alestorm, HorrorPops, Hayes Carll, Drive-By Truckers, Chris Cagle, Vampire Weekend, Left Lane Cruiser, Ayreon, Night Wounds, Chuck Wicks, Earth, and Kathleen Edwards, more or less in that order. Lazy Magnet seems interesting so far too.
Times New Viking and Mahjongg sounded good to me at first, but hold my interest less every time I play them, strangely enough. Haven't figured out why yet.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 24 February 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
(Sioux City Pete & the Beggars' album is called Necro Blues, btw.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 24 February 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
God this thread is annoying to search for.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R3MWCGYF9TLFUQ/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view?ie=UTF8&lm%5Fbb=
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I usually go through your Amazon lists at the end of the year to pick up anything I might've missed. Got Electrelane & Caribou that way, so cheers Nick.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, they work!
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:15 (sixteen years ago) link
people need to get with as high as the sky by THE MOLE. finest quality house thumpers.
― haitch, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that mole album is excellent
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
2008 has generally been kind of amazing so far though.
top albums, top trax...
erykah badu, new amerykah part one (the world war) mariah carey, e=mc² lil' wayne, tha carter iii ashlee simpson, bittersweet world ellen allien, boogybytes vol 4 robert hood, fabric 39 akiko kiyama, 7 years trus'me, working nights bun b, ii trill the bug, london zoo
cassie - turn the lights off young jeezy ft. kanye west - put on lil' mama ft. chris brown & t-pain - shawty get loose addictive ft. t2 - gonna be mine jordin sparks ft. chris brown - no air sway ft. $tush - f ur x trina ft. missy elliott - i got a bottle the-dream - ditch that... kelley polar - entropy reigns (in the celestial city) solange - sandcastle disco son of raw - a black man in space booka shade - control me estelle ft. kanye west - american boy wiley ft. blaze & triggz - if you're going out i'm going out too hood headlinaz - rollin' hercules and love affair - blind ne-yo - closer lloyd ft. lil' wayne - girls all around the world santogold - les artistes etienne jaumet - repeat again after me (âme remix) jay haze - ass to mouth warrior queen - things change kat deluna ft. busta rhymes - run the show
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Lex you have zero funky house in your list?!?!?
I need to help you with this problem.
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
funky house basically doesn't figure on my radar at all except for when it bleeds into other kinds of house, or grime or whatever
i forgot wiley's grime wave and the appleblim dubstep sllstars mix! and the roland appel album and and and
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Finds of the year so far:
Get Well Soon - Rest Now Weary Head You Will Get Well Soon The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine The Week That Was - The Week That Was Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend Islands - Arm's Way Lawrence Arabia - Lawrence Arabia Sennen - Where The Light Gets In Tilly & The Wall - O Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords MGMT - Oracular Spectacular The Presets - Apocalypso CSS - Donkey The INdelicates - American Demo Pop Levi - Never Never Love Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets Gotye - Like Drawing Blood Mystery Jets - 21
Fuck, it's been a good year so far! Also, lol indie.
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link
(nb: SAX MIX of 'a black man in space')
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Three favorites: Inara George - An Invitation Kleerup - Kleerup Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - The Howling
― Tape Store, Monday, 16 June 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
GOOD: Animal Collective (EP) Bauhaus Excepter (comp.) LSD Pond Malkmus + Jicks REM Stars of the Lid (tour only EP) Wedding Present
BETTER: Autechre Boris Earth Fuck Buttons Mountain Goats Spiritualized Times New Viking
BEST: Atlas Sound Nick Cave Gutter Twins Jamie Lidell M83 Portishead Raveonettes
Not yet heard, looking forward to: Breeders Four Tet Growing No Age Notwist Roots Sun Kil Moon
― stephen, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
these are albums i love:
animal collective - water curses booka shade - the sun and the neon light bruno pronsato - why can't we be like us? disfear - live the storm mara trax - it got me funk
and these ones are pretty darn good too:
evangelista - hello voyager v/a - step up 2 the streets
i haven't really been keeping track of singles too well.
― aaron d.g., Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The INdelicates - American Demo
fuck me this band swings from not half bad to fucking wretched on this record
― electricsound, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-1976
― sam500, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link