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

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.

That all sounds familiar. I will have to check to see if I ever checked into it.

Hmmm, sounds interesting. I don't go too much for straight East European Jewish traditional music, klezmer, and the like, but with all these twists it is a little easier to get interested in.

when I read my writing style in threads like this I have to shudder, but still, this thread needs more posts, 1998-2002 Charming Hostess was my favorite bay area live band and I hope there's a well-recorded concert from that time burned to a CDR somewhere waiting to be taken off the shelf and released

Charming Hostess

They're really so great. I heard them play a show at Tonic a few years ago, and there were about 20 people in the whole club. I went with a bunch of friends and we actually shouted requests out at them. They seemed pretty shocked to be getting requests. (We really wanted to hear Fortress Moscow.)

Incidentlally, Mordy, just to be clear I don't necessarily want to suggest Shiina Ringo sounds much like Ayelet! For one thing, she's not nearly as solid and reliable technically as a vocalist. I just think she is someone you might like based on various things you've mentioned. (But there is some use of jazz on this new CD, even if its jazz in the service of pop aims rather than something like Mayim Rabim which is closer to what I think of as actual jazz (even if it is jazz + other things).

My halfway list, what a weird years its been. The stuff I like is all over the place.

1. Mastodon - Crack the Skye (Reprise)
2. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
4. Dinosaur Jr - Farm (Jagjaguwar)
5. Wilco - Wilco (the album) (Nonesuch)
6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
7. Coalesce - Ox (Relapse)
8. Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)
9. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland)
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (Interscope)
11. Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic)
12. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (V2)
13. Nomo - Invisible Cities (Ubiquity)
14. Handsome Furs - Face Control (Sub Pop)
15. Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
16. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
17. Wooden Shjips - Dos (Holy Mountain)
18. Tombs - Winter Hours (Relapse)
19. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
20. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
21. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand (Vice)
22. K'naan - Troubadour (A&M)
23. Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II (Eskimo)
24. The-Dream - Love vs. Money (Radio Killa/Def Jam)
25. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Astralwerks)

Honorable Mentions:
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
Cobalt - Gin (Profound Lore)
Glasvegas - Glasvegas (Columbia)
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South (Merge)
Obits - I Blame You (Sub Pop)
Morrissey - Years of Refusal (Attack/Lost Highway)
Fever Ray - Fever Ray (Rabid)
Mos Def - The Ecstatic (Downtown)
Silversun Pickups - Swoon (Dangerbird)
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (ANTI-)
Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)

1 the-dream - love vs money
2 james blackshaw - the glass bead game
3 dj quik + kurupt - blaqkout
4 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
5 electrik red - how to be a lady, vol. 1
6 ugk - ugk 4 life
7 dirty projectors - bitte orca
8 ryan leslie - ryan leslie
9 neko case - middle cyclone
10 antony and the johnsons - the crying light
11 lily allen - it's not me, it's you
12 eleni mandell - tiny waist
13 ciara - fantasy ride
14 maxwell - BLACKsummer'snight
15 death - ...for the whole world to see
16 freeway - month of madness
17 animal collective - mpp
18 ppp - abundance
19 dj paul - scale-a-ton
20 DOOM - born like this

i read ilm, if u couldnt tell u_u

my top ten so far this year:

outrageous cherry - universal malcontents
section 25 - nature + degree
hatcham social - you dig the tunnel i'll hide the soil
coloma - love's recurring dream
thieves like us - play music
cut off your hands - you + i
seeland - tomorrow today
my sad captains - here & elsewhere
the bats - the guilty office
it hugs back - inside your guitar