lex, i didnt know you were a fan. i have trouble pinning down your rock tastes, but do you like/know neko case at all? i can see you either hating her or loving her. may be a bit organic for you
― rock estela (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i only really know thrill, but it's great. 'pauline' is such a terrific song. as for neko, she's got a gorgeous voice which she puts to material of...varying quality. i thought the new pornographers totally sucked, but i love blacklisted. new one passed me by rather but i'll give it another chance at some point.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't found the reight material yet but god do I want to. that voice is honey. the fact that she's mind-meltingly gorgeous um...
― fandango, Thursday, 2 April 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
MIDDLE CYCLONE is no BLACKLISTED. But it's pretty darn good.
Here's the part where I cop to liking the new Bat For Lashes disc.
― Matt M., Thursday, 2 April 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 7:29 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah i was just talking to jordan recently about how we dont like the new pornographers all that much but love their individual solo careers. i'm sure dan bejar/destroyer isn't your thing, but yeah give that new neko another chance
― rock estela (k3vin k.), Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
1. junior boys 2. ugk 4 life3. mastodon4. the-dream5. wolves in the throne room6. black lips7. project pat 8. wavves9. slim thug10. lil boosie - superbad
boring
i've also been listening tolindstrom and ptantonyjuan macleanand sort of skimmedfever ray, dan deacon and royksopp.....but I just don't know if i'm feeling this stuff at all... or just listening to it because people are talking about it and I'm just goin along because there's not really that much out there
― crab ringgoon (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 2 April 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and def. add Kylessa at #11
11. kylessa
― crab ringgoon (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 2 April 2009 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
this woods lp is real nice. reminds me of theo angell's recent stuff a lot.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's my complete list of 2009 essentials1. Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light2. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream3. Dälek - Gutter Tactics4. Zu - Carboniferous5. Dan Deacon - Bromst6. Themselves - theFREEhoudini mixtape7. Kylesa - Static Tensions8. Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns10. Nite Jewel - Good Evening
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The 'Open Strings' 2xCD comp on Honest Jon's deserves to be on here, I think
― National Lampoon's Minimal House (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
K'Naan, Troubadour (A&M/Octone)P.O.S., Never Better (Rhymesayers)Heartless Bastards, The Mountain (Fat Possum Records)Various artists/Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir Present, B-More Club Crack (Koch)Monks, Black Monk Time (Light in the Attic)/Monks, The Early Years 1964-1965 (Light in the Attic)Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You (EMI)Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw (Midget)The Heptones, The Heptones Meet the Now Generation! (17 North Parade/VP)/Various artists, Joe Gibbs Scorchers from the Early Years 1967-73 (Gibbs/VP/17 North Parade)Trama, Mr. T ziptapeI Was a King, I Was a King (Control Group)Two Fingers, Two Fingers (Paper Bag Records)Black Blondie, Do You Remember Who You Wanted to Be (Black Blondie)Allen Toussaint, The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)Various artists, The Roots of Hip Hop (Harte)A.C. Newman, Get Guilty (Matador Records)
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
LSD March, Under Milk Wood
Woot woot
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got Under Milk Wood in the mail, should arrive any day now. Can't wait.
― ilxor, Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
These
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
You know... Geir's list could be a lot worse. I'm surprised to see Fever Ray(!) and Animal Collective on there, both pretty good records. Looking forward to that PSB album myself, they're a pretty consistent recording group. Royksopp's alright, Junior Boys a bit too easy listening compared to their last one, U2 very hit or miss... etc. But for all the shit Geir gets on here, I've seen much worse lists in this thread already.
― ilxor, Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir, do you not like The-Dream's album? Have you heard it?
Geir likes The Whitest Boy alive. Yea, I know it's a real Berlin-based electro/dream pop whatevs unit but still...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Why don't people like Whitest Boy Alive? Do those same people not like Kings of Convenience?
― Mordy, Saturday, 11 April 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually not even sure if I have heard of it. Recent mainstream pop has sounded better than in a long time, but it provides the act stays as straight 4/4 as possible - I cannot stand those staccato and syncopated "beats" in recent R&B.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 12 April 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Great Lake Swimmers newest is pleasent and harmless
― Zeno, Sunday, 12 April 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
1 the-dream - love vs money2 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz3 dirty projectors - bitte orca4 ryan leslie 5 ugk - 4 life6 antony and the johnsons - the crying light7 neko case - middle cyclone8 lily allen - it's not me, it's you9 platinum pied pipers - abundance10 death - keep on knocking
― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Friday, 24 April 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
1 the-dream - love vs money2 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!3 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix4 junior boys - begone dull care5 ugk - 4 life6 ryan leslie - ryan leslie7 camera obscura - my maudlin career8 dirty projectors - bitte orca9 lindstrøm & prins thomas - II10 the juan maclean - the future will come
i think the new boosie mixtape might slip in there once i listen to it also maybe RAWSE but man its really bored me so far
― pleasure p (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 April 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
strong list releases there imo
very permeable list too - i'm strong on the top 3 but everything else is just about even
― pleasure p (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 April 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
the long lost 'the long lost' and cortney tidwell's 'boys' are both spectacular. no idea when they are actually released.
― keythkeythkeyth, Friday, 24 April 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
lol we listen to the same shit
― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Friday, 24 April 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
the only albums i'd add to my list way up above are the it hugs back (great) and veils (good but patchy) albums..
i was gonna mention the thieves like us album.. i suppose its US release is 2009 so i guess it counts
there's lots of new stuff i haven't caught up with yet though..
― private static void (electricsound), Friday, 24 April 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Your musical compatibility with k3vin k. is SUPER
― pleasure p (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 April 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
right now...
Culoe de Song- The Bright ForestdOP- The Genius of the CrowdRandoplh- Ruff & Tuff singleJ*DaveyMeanderthals- Desire LinesIsolee- October Nightingale (this one is a grower, not dancefloor material, but excellent)Monika Kruse- Don't Come Close (Broombeck mx)
that's mostly stuff from this year. but in terms of old stuff, i've been listening to a shitload of ron trent, fela kuti and this amazing house and garage collection from 93
― the table is the table, Friday, 24 April 2009 01:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Randoplh- Ruff & Tuff single
right dude?
― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Friday, 24 April 2009 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Ten I'm pretty sure about:
DJ Koze, Reincarnations: The Remix Chapter 2001-2009 (Get Physical)Art Brut vs. Satan (Downtown)Ada, Adaptations: Mixtape #1 (Kompakt)A-Trak, FabricLive 45 (Fabric)The Juan MacLean, The Future Will Come (DFA)Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)Henrik Schwarz, Ame & Dixon, The Grandfather Paradox (BBE)Dan Deacon, Bromst (Carpark)Afrobutt, Wunderbutt (Electric Minds)Comet Gain, Broken Record Prayers (What's Your Rupture?)
Two I've only just started playing but probably like as much as anything on that list: Amadou & Mariam and the hourlong radio show posted here: http://www.duttyartz.com/2009/geko-jones-on-moglo-radio/.
― Matos W.K., Friday, 24 April 2009 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
that's a fantastic radioshow - thanks!
― willem, Friday, 24 April 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Top ten of 2009 so far:
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post PavilionBat for Lashes - Two SunsDoom - Born Like ThisThe-Dream - Love Vs MoneyFever Ray - Fever RayTim Hecker - An Imaginary CountryThe Juan Maclean - The Future Will ComeLSD March - Under Milk WoodMerzbow - 13 Japanese Birds [series of 13 releases]UGK - 4 Life
― ilxor, Saturday, 25 April 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
in ABC order ~akron/familyanimal collective bat for lashesblack diceboredomscirclecrippled black phoenixdecemberistsdirty projectorsemeraldsfever raygrizzly bearisiskylesamastodonpink mountaintopsomar rodriguez-lopezsuper furry animalsu2steven wilsonwooden shjips
― kamerad, Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
adding to my list:11. Wardruna - Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga
It's only available on expensive import tho, and i dont know if it will be released in america :(
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Wardruna is $9.99 on iTunes and $8.99 for Amazon MP3s. Worth a purchase from either place.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
forgot the new Future of the Left up there
― kamerad, Saturday, 25 April 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Currently top of this years pile...
Babe, Terror - "Weekend"Emeralds - "What Happened"Black Dice - "Repo"Animal Collective - "Merriweather..."DM Stith - "Heavy Ghost"
Hoping that Sunn O))) record delivers...
― The Drumless Drum, Saturday, 25 April 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Has there been a recent Sunn O))) record that hasn't delivered?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 25 April 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think so.
Best of 2009 so far for me is the first release by Netherlands Black Metallers Irrwisch: bass, drums and . . cello. Weird, but they make it work. Circulated as a demo late last year, official release 2009, so it counts.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 25 April 2009 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
the animal collective, grizzly bear and dirty projectors albums have consisted of probably 95% of the new music i've been listening to this year. my best discovery of the year so far has been the bitters (www.myspace.com/bittersband), and favourite local release is either the red mass (www.myspace.com/redmassfce) 12" or the o-voids (www.myspace.com/theovoids) i am in love with every single one of these bands, it's been a wonderful year so far.
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 25 April 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I really like the electro outro on one of those songs, but three plays of Franz Ferdinand just isn't doing it for me. Could be a vocals thing. I couldn't get into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the store either. I'll give both more chances, though...
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 25 April 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I like what I've heard of the new album, Ahora Mismo. . ., but by Puerto Rican sonera Choco Orta, but it's music for people who already like salsa, I'd say, rather than something with any likely crossover appeal.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Saturday, 25 April 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The SunnO))) album will melt your fucking face.
― Doran, Sunday, 26 April 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
adding to my list:11. Wardruna - Runaljod – Gap Var GinnungaIt's only available on expensive import tho, and i dont know if it will be released in america :(
I think this is the album you're referring to, and it's available on eMusic in the US. Not sure what to make of it from the samples.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 26 April 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The only album that I can wholeheartedly endorse at the moment is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs one. I'm a little surprised it's getting so few memtions, but I suppose the hiperati finished with them an album or two ago. But it's my favorite of the three.
Not moved by Animal Collective. Can't honestly say I enjoy Fever Ray, and although I realize that may be the point, at the moment I'm feeling like liking stuff. Jury still out on Neko and Phoenix. Doves sounds leaden, Gui Boratto sounds too much like last album. Maybe I should listen to the Lily Allen, but she's vanished too far into the black hole of celebrity for me to work up much enthusiasm. Surprisingly enjoying the Lady GaGa album, although maybe that was last year. Who can tell?
― mitya, Sunday, 26 April 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
SFA, Patrick Wolf, PJ Harvey, Grizzly Bear.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
(Not ranked:)
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post PavilionBat for Lashes, Two SunsFever Ray, s/tGrizzly Bear, VeckatimestJunior Boys, Begone Dull CareThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart, s/tPhoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixPJ Harvey and John Parish, A Woman a Man Walked ByRoyksopp, JuniorThe Whitest Boy Alive, Rules
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
still deciding about the lotus plaza album and LOtUSFLOW3R. don't know about the "crimson and clover" cover though
― kamerad, Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link