So we're... blah blah blah... of the way through 2009; what records are worth listening to so far?

I'm thinking this at the moment:

The-Dream - Love vs Money
Crazy Cousinz - This Is UK Funky
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Silkie - City Limits Volume One
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Part One
Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave It All Away... Now We're Taking It Back
Meanderthals - Desire Lines
DJ Koze - Reinterpretations
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
Henrik Schwarz, Ame, Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Courtney Love - Nobody's Daughter

Courtney Love - Nobody's Daughter

??? this is a thing now?

Yes! It's really good! Blowsy, bluesy, dylanesque confessional record.

In fact I was planning to revive a courtney thread just to talk about it.

"Michachu and The Shapes - Jewellery"

i luv this:

you like dirty projectors, tim?! :(

excited about c-love though

In fact I was planning to revive a courtney thread just to talk about it.

― Tim F, Friday, 22 May 2009 13:35 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do it! i havent heard anything abt it - is it at all fleetwood mac-y??

Yes! It's really good! Blowsy, bluesy, dylanesque confessional record.

Since when is a Courtney Love record *not* confessional?

you like dirty projectors, tim?! :(

everybody's doin it, lex

the water's fine etc

Lex likes Elbow and Electrelane. This popfairy lark is just a sham.

I like "The Stillness Is A Move" (Gang Gang Dance meets School of Seven Bells) much more than anything else on the Dirty Projectors album, but the rest reminds of the second Bows album and I can fuck with that.

Re Courtney - strictly, the new album is no more confessional than ever - her lyrical style hasn't changed a jot - but the album feels like something of a homage to confessional records, from the cover on in.

"gang gang dance meets school of 7 bells" - in its fucking dreams maybe

though i;m guessing those are mostly taken up by bjork

have you listened to that actual song though lex? I would have thought you would love it. The rest of the record sounds nothing like that unfortunately.

has there been any talk about that mungolian jet set anywhere on ilm? more space disco right?

dude "stillness" is nice but it's like the fourth or fifth best song on the album maybe

xp tim i know singles jukebox did an entry on "stillness" and if memory serves, lex hated it

Ha, the funny thing is, I even read that review (before I heard the DP album) but I didn't associate it with the song because no way does that singer remind me of Bjork.

I mean for that you've gotta go to Cortney Tidwell (whose new album is really good sounding, don't get me wrong - but she really does sound exactly like Bjork, especially when she starts playing with clicks&cuts style loops and it's like Verspertine 101).

Jordan, I think we're starting to talk about the mungolian jet set album on the mungolian jet set thread. Most of it is made up of stuff they've already released or had on their myspace - largely remixes and a smattering of new tracks.

I said she sounds like a cross between bjork and aaliyah, but that may have been entirely through lack of imagination

btw sarges, holla @ notepad.exe

The Bjork referencing is surely 90% because they've just worked with her yeah? It would never have occurred to me to make the connection otherwise.

btw sarges, holla @ notepad.exe

― chillin with my ella (The Reverend), Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:57 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

rly tho

I was unaware they worked w/ her and knew basically zero about them coming in.

i didn't know they'd worked w/her either - specifically it reminded me of 'alarm call', like, LOADS - admittedly this isn't björk's usual mode but the similarity was so pronounced. (except for dirty projectors being shit, obv.)

the cortney tidwell album is brilliant.

the similarity was so pronounced. (except for dirty projectors being shit, obv.)

So funny and so, so, so true.

Guido Möbius's Gebirge sounds also solid (at least on first two listens it does :)

ok, probably forgetting still, but here i go again:
1. The-Dream - Love vs. Money
2. Cortney Tidwell - Boys
3. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4. James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
5. Electrik Red - How To Be a Lady Vol. 1
6. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Game
7. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Baby Talk - Lush Life EP
10. The Thermals - Now We Can See

Singles
1. Demi Lovato - "Don't Forget"
2. Free Energy - "Dream City"
3. Lily Allen - "The Fear"
4. Jamie Foxx feat. T. Pain - "Blame It"
5. House of House - "Rushing to Paradise"
6. Cassie - "Summer Charm"
7. Jeremih - "Birthday Sex"
8. Phoenix - "Lisztomania"
9. Keri Hilson feat. Lil Wayne - "Turnin' Me On"
10. Ramzi Awn - "In the House"

Wait, people are still thinking of 2009 at the expense of the decade lists???

Keep up the good work, guys, I use a lot of your lists as guides for what to look for in my spare time.

And is it wrong that when I saw your list, Tape Store, that I still thought of Sean Combs' girl group when I see The Dream written down at the top?

Ha, well, to make my list even more confusing, supposedly the girls from Dream are recording an album under the name "Lady Phoenix"

just cause

Albums:
1. Electrik Red, How to Be a Lady
2. The-Dream, Love vs Money
3. DJ Paul, Scale-a-Ton
4. Muhsinah, Triangle
5. UGK, 4 Life
6. The Juan Maclean, The Future Will Come
7. Art Brut, Art Brut vs Satan
8. Ryan Leslie
9. Heavy, First Sessions
10. Rick Ross, Deeper Than Rap

Singles:
1. House of House, "Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets)"
2. DJ Quik & Kurupt, "9x's Outta 10"
3. K.I.G., "Head Shoulderz Kneez & Toez"
4. Keri Hilson f/ Lil Wayne, "Turnin' Me On"
5. Electrik Red, "So Good"
6. Kid Cudi, "Day 'N' Nite"
7. Maxwell, "Pretty Wings"
8. The Juan Maclean, "One Day"
9. Sticky f/ Lady Chann, "Your Eye Too Fast"
10. New Boyz, "You're a Jerk"

i don't think anyone's gonna crack my top three of dream/phoenix/e red however that ends up

lol @ lindstrom & prins falling from #1 right after hearing them to outside my top ten. I may be underating, but it just kinda lost its appeal :(

i listened to it last night and was super unenthused by the proceedings

really did feel amazing the first time I heard it tbh

i agree but i think once you're hipped to the tricks it's kinda just nice, not amazing

i think once the meanderthals album came out it made the L&PT one kinda redundant as one's go-to balearic bibbly bliss

i mean i still like it but it's just there

If I like...

Patrick Wolf
Animal Collective
Grizzly Bear
The Field
Micachu
Super Furry Animals
Bill Callahan

...so far this year, what else Might I like?

you said you liked phoenix

Yes! I knew I'd forgotten one.

I can't see you actively hating the James Blackshaw, so that maybe?

MOKIRA - Persona
DIRTY PROJECTORS - Spittle Horca
MICACHU - Jewellery
GUN OUTFIT - Dim Light
MOUTHUS - Divisionals
BLACK DICE - Repo
ERIC COPELAND - RGAG
DR. WHO DAT? - Beyond 2Morrow
OMAR-S - Fabric45 & Blown Valvetrane 12"
THRILLER (Actress & Lukid) - Swarm/Hubble 12"
ISMAEL PINKLER - Trote 12"
AARON DILLOWAY - Chain Shot
WOLF EYES - Always Wrong
JOHN WIESE - Circle Snare
SUNN 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Fave reissues so far:
THOMAS MAPFUMO & THE ACID BAND - Hokoyo!
BOB DYLAN - New Morning
BECK - One Foot In The Grave: Expanded Edition
DEREK BAILEY - Lot 74: Solo Improvisations
CLUSTER - Grosses Wasser
MOEBIUS & PLANK - Rastakraut Pasta
LOREN CONNORS - The Curse Of Midnight Mary (unreleased/archival stuff, so close enough)

Jesse Somfay - A Catch in the Voice
Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix
Raveonettes - Beauty Dies
Harlem - Free Drugs

recently feeling:

electrik red - how to be a lady, vol 1
the bats - the guilty office
deastro - moondagger
dj paul - scale-a-ton (skeleton)
dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout

dj paul - scale-a-ton (skeleton)

haha i love when ppl list the full name

its like dj paul did one of those british jokes with parentheses that i never really got

lol

It's good enough for me to say:

Shiina Ringo - Sanmon Gossip

More pop than avant and mostly very upbeat. Fairly retro. Lots of jazz/swing/R&B in keeping with a lot of her recent recordings. For reasons I can't pinpoint, her vocal quirks work for me much better on this album than they have in some other recent cases. Also, the ease with which she segues between Japanese and English (and her English is sounding pretty good) is exemplary.

hey moka the harlem album was 2008. isn't it fucking great, though?

2008? are you sure? Man I'm so dissapointed, turns out the raveonettes ep is also from 2008. And yes, it is fucking great!
Just read they signed to matador for another release later this year. Hope that one is even better so I get an excuse to add them to my 2009 list... things haven't been that interesting this year on my album section to be honest.