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

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

Vieux Farka Toure
Amadou & Mariam
Rokia Traore

"Happy House" by the Juan Maclean!

last year dude

xpost: I know

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape

refuse to listen to this

Way to take a stand. That'll learn 'em.

Wow just listened to the Mount Kimbie EP... thought i wasn't going to like it because RA did, but i really really do; black is white, etc.

Gonna give a shout out to the Sharon Van Etten record on Language of Stone. Real good folky singer-songwriter stuff. It's called Because I Was In Love. One of my favorites of the year, for sure.

I haven't heard a big/exciting/anything new release in at least a few weeks, maybe even a month. Has nothing come out lately?

maxwell

You're the second person to give me that answer to that question today. Guess I'll check it out.

On the psychedelic side of things, Cave "Pschic Psummer" and Oneida "Rated O" are ruling. I've only just gotten a copy of the new Group Doueh record on Sublime Frequencies "Treeg Salaam, but it is incredible. Love his wah wah technique, the second side is the jam that keeps on giving.

The new Blues Control is their best yet, as well.

The new Ayelet Rose Gottlieb album, "Upto Here | From Here" is really great. It's basically a recorded version of this Valentine's Day show she did in NYC last year, which I completely loved, so I'm thrilled that I can finally listen to it again. A bunch of amazing compositions, Avishai Cohen is tremendous on the trumpet, and Ayelet still has the sexiest voice in the world at this very moment. I highly highly highly recommend. Particularly "Sweep Streets," and "Pomegranate Man."

Avishai Cohen is tremendous on the trumpet

Really? On the trumpet? Never knew he playes trumpet as well...

I have to second Trip Maker's praise for the new Oneida. I've been a stan for some time, but Rated O is on some next level shit. Each disc stands well on its own and every time I listen to one of them, I have a new favorite. Just great, great stuff.

Yeah! "Luxury Travel" has been my favorite this week.

The new Ayelet Rose Gottlieb album, "Upto Here | From Here" is really great.

Oh wow, I will have to check that out.

Avishai Cohen is tremendous on the trumpet

Really? On the trumpet? Never knew he playes trumpet as well...

― t**t, Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:16 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there are two different jazz dudes named avishai cohen

I'm listening to these clips and it sounds more conventionally jazzy than Mayim Rabim, or just less experimental in general. Would you say that's the case? I like her vocals enough that I'd be willing to give it a shot, I think. It's not as though I'm not too broke to actually buy anything right now though.

Hey, Mordy--which sounds a little too casually familiar in tone--you should check out the jazzy new Shiina Ringo album, the only thing I have to really recommend from this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3QX5ouT1M&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AyuwatJ&view=videos

soisong - xAj3z

Xp I'd say the new album is definitely much less experimental than Mayim Rabim, but her voice really is just incredible and gorgeous, and there are really some amazing vocal moments that could've been off Mayim Rabim. I'm loving it so far, but I only just heard it for the first time last night.

Shiina Ringo sounds crazy! Do you like Jewlia Eisenberg, btw? I keep hearing rumors that she's recording...

new Shiina Ringo = pretty awesome

Do you like Jewlia Eisenberg, btw?

Don't know her. I've seen her name mentioned here before (possibly by you) but I can't remember if I've looked into her.

She does really interesting vocal stuff - her group is called Charming Hostess, and my fave album by her is Trilectic.