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
For me there are three albums from this year that spring to mind as particular highlights so far:
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull Atlas Sounds - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
― krakow, Sunday, 24 February 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I would also add Raheem DeVaughn (shut up r&b haters, it's weird and good), Taint, Weinland, Devian, Raveonettes, the Mars Volta, Luciano, Akoya Afrobeat, Gilberto Gil, and yes probably Ayreon because we haven't had enough double-CD metal operas about environmental breakdown and the vapidity of modern culture.
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, Puressence are still around, and I think the new album is as good as anything they've done, and maybe better. Think somewhere between Muse and the Delays...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 24 February 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm always amazed by the lists you come up with, Xhuxk.
― Dan S, Sunday, 24 February 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to the Boris and Earth albums v. much as well
― stephen, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
je suis animal 'self taught magic from a book', top indiepop record of the year so far. ambition is such an odd thing for an indiepop band to have. the days ep is also excellent.
― keythkeyth, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I like your blog, D5. BTW, the disc I discovered there that has captured most of my attention is Marco Benevento's Invisible Baby. But is it jazz? Sounds more rock to me.
Anyway, I likely wouldn't have ever heard of it otherwise. So thanks.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 25 February 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Think somewhere between Muse and the Delays...
...oops. (More on the Muse front.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
but they were kinda always a bit like that
― electricsound, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
and when i say a bit i mean a lot
Can somebody link me to the Dimension 5ive blog of which Daniel, Esq., speaks?
― Patrick South, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Cave 17. Or at least I assume it's D5's blog, based on a comment he made upthread.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 25 February 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Are pixeltan releasing their album this year?
-- I know, right?, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:38 (2 days ago) Link
this is the chinese democracy of the dfa-loser generation
― elan, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
blind boys of alabama, down in new orleans nik bartsch's ronin, holon
― Jordan, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
bang on a can's live recording of music for airports is pretty stunning
― kamerad, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
IT'S NOT A BLOG, GUYS! </D5>
― The Reverend, Monday, 25 February 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
...it's a LIFESTYLE.
(*cue the Reverend driving off in a sweet ride, cackling...*)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah. What is it, then? It certainly looks like a group blog in its layout, and the posts look like blog-type entries.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 25 February 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
It's looks like a blog, it smells like a blog, it quacks like a blog, but..... IT'S NOT A BLOG!!!
You'll have to ask D5 about that. He seems quite insistent about its unbloggedry.
― The Reverend, Monday, 25 February 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
it's more of a ... web...log, if you will.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 25 February 2008 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh
― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 25 February 2008 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a blugh
BLUGH! A Music Discussion War
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2008 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Blugh: Defined.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 25 February 2008 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
ANYWAY, MY POINT WAS THAT I LIKED IT: WHETHER BLOG OR BLUGH.
thanks daniel, i appreciate it
i dont really want it to be a blog because that implies 'when we have time for it' rather than a regular sort of thing...but we dont really have time for it so whatever
― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 25 February 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
No problemo. Thanks for alerting me to the Benevento disc. It's a nice find (and on eMusic, too!).
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 25 February 2008 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Does Mary J., which came out 12.18.07. count here?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 25 February 2008 09:43 (sixteen years ago) link
sure why not.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 25 February 2008 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
OK then. It sounds grebt.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 25 February 2008 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Foals album sounds good off one listen.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 25 February 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Since it came out late in 2007, and since I didn't hear the whole thing until this year, I will once again mention Ñejo & Dalmata's debut album Broke & Famous. This is a new and collected songs CD, since some of these tracks have been kicking around for a little while. With help from producer Danny Fornaris, they have their own distinctive sound. Reggaeton, yes, but the sounds swirling around are a bit different, and the way they hit the rhythm sometimes gives it a different feeling. Plus, really only about half the songs are dembow. I'm hoping The Reverend will eventually describe this stuff adequately, so I don't have to keep trying. There's a merengue (okay, merengueton), a cumbia, a weird dancey rocky song ("Mi Dia de Suerte"), a song with Chyno Nyno, some hip-hop, a funny ska/rock version of one of the other songs, a really bad salsa track, etc.
Pasarela Algo Musical
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Monday, 25 February 2008 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
9. Sioux City Pete & The Beggars (Steel Cage) Sioux City Pete and the Beggars -- give them sex and money I had my sights on blunt/dumb with that thread title and shot it right in the foot, no wonder no one bit. But yes, Necro Blues is 2006 actually, and quite lovely.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Sebastien Tellier of course.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The Foals sounded good when I saw them in a bar.
― the higgs, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Brutal Knights
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
growing, el guincho, goldfrapp, diebold, box
― maarten, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
new AMC album is lovely. Raveonettes album is excellent, their best album by far. New Goldfrapp is great.
― akm, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link