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

home seems preferable tbh. cozy.

just jankin' you whines i ain't heard any of that shit

that does look like a cool list

haha pallbearer is like a big pillow

man, I wish I hadn't pictures of Action Bronson when googling for Blue Chips because I don't know if I'll be able to get over the "Violent J's legit side project" vibes

haha okay the music is actually putting that to rest, phew

also it is REALLY PISSING ME OFF that I like "The Motto"

portishead sideproject fan to messageboard: "go hard or go home"

Favourite trax right now:

F(x) - Electric shock
Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck - Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh
Alex Anwandter - Cómo Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo?
Annelies Monseré - All Things Are Quite Silent
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Best Love
Heatsick - No Fixed Address
AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
Ikonika - I Make Lists

Best Coast, The Only Place--title song seems obligatory, sincere, self/peer-mocking, past that it's mostly a blue Pacific twilight breakup album, interrogating self and the ex, developing a tough Bronx accent sometimes, or maybe it's an Italian thing.
Patti Smith, Banga--ditch the first three tracks, maybe the last, "After The Gold Rush", which starts out as the perfect follow-up to themes and imagery in several originals, but then she shifts from"in the Nineteen Seven-ties" to "The Twenty-first Cen-tur-ee," repeated way too many times by a kiddie choir (!), and way too reductive when she ends it there, no burned-out basement, no thinking about what a friend had said. But most of the album still seems pretty damn strong so far--you can hear it and all her others on her MySpace---eeewww! But it's true, lot of other artists have tons of their albums on there, now that nobody goes.

portishead sideproject fan to messageboard: "go hard or go home"

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 20, 2012 12:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have u heard portishead in the last five years?

no thank god

You might should give <i>Third</i> a whirl. I'm not that big a fan of 90s Portishead, but <i>Third</i> is one of my favorite albums of the last several years. And that BEAK> album is the fucking business.

damn you bbcode!

yeah, dude, i was NEVER a big fan of 90s Portishead and Third blew my brain open. It's their best album by a country mile

I'm a have to third this opinion--the last Portishead record is their best record (and the new Beak> album is pretty good, too, as was that Anika disc)...

third is easily the worst portishead album (it's ok though)

^ all the evidence you need to determine it's amazing.

I can imagine liking the third Portishead album but not the first (and the first album but not the third) but it would seem odd to me to feel very differently about the second and third.

Portishead's good 90s tracks come from the second album, definitely.

it would seem odd to me to feel very differently about the second and third.

why would it seem odd? they're very different albums with very different aesthetics over a decade apart.

the second is my favourite portishead album, i love the first two, i admire the third but i never got beyond admire into love - it kind of stayed at this level of forbidding that meant i never really wanted to listen to it

I thought I hated Portishead until Third (although "Over" is grate)

Beak> is my Geoff Barrow-related record to date. I'm kind of tired of people as describing "kraut" as something dated or used-up, to my ears it's a living, breathing genre that has unfortunately been tied to a time and place

Also it should be noted that Geoff Barrow is a member of Beak> but he is not the primary creative force i.e songwriter

I can imagine liking the third Portishead album but not the first (and the first album but not the third) but it would seem odd to me to feel very differently about the second and third.--G.E. Moore.

Odd, really? Beth changed up her melody style 100% on Third. Also Silver Apples fixation [plus] silence and emptiness [minus] spy soundtrack groovieness [plus] English girl losing her mind [minus] MPC [plus] EMS

Third is by far my favourite Portishead album, it's perfect. I think they got better with each album, can't wait for the next one.

I wish I knew how incredible Portishead would be in the '00s before they scheduled that ATP they curated

Yep whiney I like third, I like beak too, I bought third on vinyl but the first shipment was warped but the store let me return it

I just thought go hard or go home was funny, but you were just schticking anyway I know

I dunno, i know its schticky, but i kind of do feel like its 2012 and life is hectic (cash rules) and there's no time to be making or listening to soft shit.

Beak> isn't like Cattle Decap or nuthin but it's moody and gloomy and nauseous and abrasive and weird

I agree with that

I like your list. That pallbearer is way better than baroness though.....what is white suns?

Future is interesting to read about, didn't really strike me that much though

White Suns is a noize band who kind of mixes AmRep noise-metal with void-gazing feedback drones in fits and starts

go hard or go home imo

lol you can't have it both ways, either you go hard or you put baroness in your #1 spot

it would seem odd to me to feel very differently about the second and third.

why would it seem odd? they're very different albums with very different aesthetics over a decade apart.

― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:41 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was thinking more that I would expect people who love Third for its forbidding darkness to find that Portishead already anticipated a lot of that vibe, albeit not nearly as dramatically - esp. on "Cowboys", "Half Day Closing", "Elysium", etc. It seems odd to me that people could hate or dismiss it and then go on to love the next one.

It's my favourite as well.

the third isn't so stylebound.

My prob with 90s Portishead is I can't stand Beth when she tries to sing "jazzy". Thankfully, by Third she had cut that out.

I dunno, i know its schticky, but i kind of do feel like its 2012 and life is hectic (cash rules) and there's no time to be making or listening to soft shit.

― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:52 AM (2 hours ago)

aero otm. i love that baroness album, but it's about as hard as a toasted marshmallow. it's like a comforter made out of chest hair. camping trips...

and portishead hasn't made a bad album

contendo OTM, all three Portishead albums are fantastic

I also agree with Tim in that I don't get how anyone couldn't see the roots of Third in Portishead

Agree that all three Portishead albums are great. I'd also add the Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man is rather brilliant too.

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm loving Robag Wruhme's Thora Vukk lately

Okay, then--

Sa Dingding - The Coming Ones

Album of the year so far. Hairy warts and all.

just listened to a single off that sa dingding album. not sure i get it, entirely, but it's not like most things. doesn't really take off until 1:03...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQSM1qwNI3U

at first blush,Frank Ooean's channel ORANGE seems mostly undone by flaccid vocals, 'til the second half of long-ass "Pyramids" and tracks 14-17, which as an EP would make a pretty good Prince homage. Fave so far is "Bad Religion," "Any religion that gets you on your knees is a bad religion/Unrequited love is a one-man cult/Lookin' inside a styroofoam cup," or something close to that. Anyway, too true!

The Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan--maybe I was softened up for this by their Pitchfork Festival set, live on YouTube--the best PF set I saw on there and I saw most of 'em. But even though it was my fave, took me a while to get into that performance, just like all the others (vocal mix was a little off for that whole Webcast, seemed like). The album got me by the elbow right away, marching me up a swaying, strangely flexible path, but a groove, nonetheless--all sorts of zigzags, complicated as it has to be, but with plenty of immediate gratification, sloshing purple post-soul-chamber-rock, with daisy chains and field trips and school play backdrops--anyway, hope Frank Ocean checks it out, speaking of "keepin' it surreal," eh Frank. Novelty at worst, and while I once thought they might accrue Talking Heads cred without Talking Heads hits, now I'm not so sure they won't end up with both.

Also might be influenced by listening to it on wav files, but they're no better than CD (are they?)

no, and they could be worse

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3556865/Why-Sa-Dingding-has-China-in-her-hand.html

Sorry, somehow read that date as 2012 at first, not that it matters so much.

Hospitality - Hospitality

Ohmigod - this rules.