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

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.

it comes down to -

animal collective
bill callahan
dirty projectors
sunset rubdown

worth checking out but maybe not necessary own :
micachu
dinosaur jr.

I'm actuallly not very fond of none of those 6 albums you mention, Zeno. They all have some very strong tracks but they don't feel good enough for me as a whole. Perhaps album has become a dead art form to me.

i agree non of them is a masterpiece to remember for centuries ahead.

so i guess,according to my opinion and musical taste:
2009 is kinda weak so far.
correct me if i'm wrong.

― Zeno, 01:28 יום שני 30 מרץ 2009 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still

the old, famous acts arent as good as they used to be (wilco,sonic youth..)
and the new,hyped acts (not so many i guess this year) arent as good as they supposed to be (wavves for example)

ur doin it rong

?!

i think Kevin means we're listening to the wrong albums.

listened to barely anything new this yr.

what i have listened to & liked -
Bill Callahan
my bros' tape on digitalis Blank Realm - Street Bananas
meth and red lol
UGK
Woods (at rear house and woods family creeps are as good imo)
Phil Sawyer reissh

yeah,the Woods album is good, forgot about it

that meth & red album is so blah and boring but I'm glad it came out because it reminded me how much I like the og blackout

yuh it is boring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0KpKKI8jDg

so we are officially half way there and here is my list as of today:

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. The Field - Yesterday and Today
5. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
6. Wilco - (The Album)
7. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
8. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
9. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

jj 'no 2'

my halfway there list:

1. DJ Quik & Kurupt, BlaQKout
2. Electrik Red, How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1
3. The-Dream, Love vs. Money
4. The Juan Maclean, The Future Will Come
5. DJ Paul, Scale-a-Ton (Skeleton)
6. A-Trak, Fabriclive.45
7. Wiley, Race Against Time
8. UGK, 4 Life
9. Maxwell, BLACKsummers'night
10. Donae'o, Party Hard

Fever Ray is one of the best albums of the decade IMO.

One that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet: The new Mos Def.

Discovery - LP

jam this @ outdoors

Goes Cube - Another Day

jam this period

Some albums I'm surprised haven't gotten more love:

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape
Finale - A Pipe Dream and a Promise
NOMO - Invisible Cities
Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
Filastine - Dirty Bomb

and I know that The Pains of Being Pure at Heart doesn't play well over here, but it's really pretty good.

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape

refuse to listen to this

I need to spend more time with the Fever Ray album and looking forward to checking out the Anni Rossi album

Here's my choices at H1 2009:

DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues LP (#1)
Ada - Adaptations Mixtape LP
Ducktails - Ducktails LP (#2)
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care LP
Henrik Schwarz, Ame & Dixon present The Grandfather Paraxdox LP
Carl Craig and Moritz Von Oswald - Recomposed LP

Vulcan - Meet Your Ghost LP (reissue)

Tracks:
Animal Collective - My Girls
Kreon - Jauce

Old but discovered this year:

Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound LP on Sublime Frequencies is blowing me away on the daily

At the halfway point:

Death - For The Whole World To See
Hacride - Lazarus
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo
Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel - Willie And The Wheel
Elvis Perkins - In Dearland
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
YOB - The Great Cessation
Zu - Carboniferous

meant to check that Zu record, thanks for reminding me.

and the new Tortoise is pretty good.

Nomo's fucking nice.

So far I have enjoyed...

The Sight Below - Glider
Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellery
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Yellow Moon Band - Journey to Several Remote Countries
JJ - no.2
Julianna Barwick - Florine
Prins Thomas and Lindstrom - II

Best mix

Joris Voorn - Balance 14

Best reissue

Flaming Tunes - Flaming Tunes

Anyone else heard Julianna Barwick? Surprised there's been no mention of her on here - apart from a mention in passing on the noise board.

Total Abuse, Gnaw, Consumer Electronics, Animal Collective, Electrik Red, Omar-S, DJ Sprinkles, Pissed Jeans, Sir Richard Bishop, Current 93, L'acephale, Shitty Limits, Future of The Left

^^^top, uh, 13, no order

Black Dice - Repo
Nomo - invisible cities
chicks on speed - the cutting edge (it's a double, but if you edit it down to a single album it's really great)
thieves like us - play
depeche mode - sounds of the universe
Aeroplane - Disco Balearic mix

I got turned off of Pheonix when they started to veer away from the slick pop/funk towards more guitar stuff. are they done with that mediocre guitar rock?

A few things i don't think have been mentioned
Bibio - Ambivilance Avenue
Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP
Four Tet and Burial - Moth/Wolf Cub
City Center - City Center

new julianna barwick is nice. have not spent as much time with it as i did sanguine, but it's very easy/pleasurable to listen to. piano one is a weird change of direction.

beyond the valley of the ultrahits - richard youngs

what kind of stuff is that, kamerad? pop/noise/folk...?

Wish I knew what types of bands/albums they were, what they sounded like, as a lady who hasn't followed newmusic with any intentfor at least four years...

pop. chamber/baroque stuff, kind of somewhere between kevin ayers and scott walker, if that appeals