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

12 eleni mandell - tiny waist artificial fire

'watch me fall', album of the year. also really enjoyed 'yesterday and today' by the field and the fever ray record. not much else

1. grizzly bear - veckatimest
1. dirty projectors - bitte orca
2. the-dream - love vs money
3. the bitters - wooden glove 12"
4. white denim - fits
5. discovery - lp
5. major lazer - guns don't kill people, lazers do
6. sunset rubdown - dragonslayer
7. rick ross - deeper than rap

fever ray still tops for me. here we go magic record is good too. bubbling under - super furry animals and major swellings. lots of stuff i havent given a proper listen too though like the yeah yeah yeah's, major lazer....

oh wait the phoenix record is good but not a patch on the last one

songs

here we go magic - tunnelvision
animal collective - brothersport
grizzly bear - all we ask
major lazer - keep it goin' loud ft nina sky & ricky blaze
dirty projectors - useful chamber
rick ross - all i really want ft. the-dream
best coast - the sun was high (so was i)
tyvek - frustration rock
atlas sound - walkabout ft panda bear
discovery - it's not my fault (it's my fault)

it's been a really good year so far, halfway and my list is looking alot better than last year's.

john scofield, piety street
bad plus, for all i care
ugk, ugk 4 life
dirty projectors, bitte orca
tbc brass band, modern times
maxwell, blacksummer's night

songz aka where the big singles at
1. Drake - "Best I Ever Had'
2. Goapele - "Milk and Honey"
3. House of House - "Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets)"
4. Jamie Foxx feat. T Pain - "Blame It"
5. Lily Allen - "The Fear"
6. Mariah Carey - "Obsessed"
7. Free Energy - "Dream City"
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"
9. The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing"
10. Jeremih - "Birthday Sex"

i support this list

Bachelorette- My Electric Family
Jay Reatard- Watch me Fall
Fever Ray- Fever Ray
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amedeus
Sunn O)))- Monoliths and Dimensions

Nothing else comes to mind.

delirious should probably be on my list

there's a new major swellings album?!!?

My favorite songs list:

Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave
Ganglians - Cryin' smoke
Jacuzzi Boys - I fought a cocodrile
jj - Ecstasy
Mount Kimbie - Maybes
Jesse Somfay - Amo alucinor
Four Tet & Burial - Moth
Animal Collective - Bluish
Kurt Vile - Freeway
Fever Ray - When I grow up
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti - Can't hear my eyes
Grizzly Bear - About face
Crystal Stilts - Love is a wave
Kool Keith - Livin astro
basement jaxx - raindrops
Wooden Shjips - For so long

Missing from my song list: Woods, Yacht, YYYs, Here we go magic, The pains of being pure at heart, the horrors, the bony king of nowhere, telepathe, odawas, mos def, in flagranti... and a few more that i'm to lazy to type right now.

yeah, lots of good stuff on moka's list too. i love "can't hear my eyes" a whole lot

has anyone heard the zola jesus lp on sacred bones yet? went back to new amsterdam yesterday and was surprised at how nice it was. think i'd just reduced her to being rester + some soundalikes.

Have there been any good debut albums this year?

(And I don't mean like Fever Ray or Future of the Left which are clearly extensions of previous artists.)

electrik red

discovery

lee fields & the expressions

added:

strange boys
bloody mary
the legends

Also, it's Future of the Left's second album.

xposts

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
LSD March - Under Milk Wood
Giuseppe Lelasi - Aix
Gudrun Gut - Apples, Pears & Deer in Poland EP
The Intelligence - Fake Surfers
Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellry
Fabio Orsi/Valerio Cosi - Thoughts Melt In the Air
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Sonic Youth - The Eternal

is it fair to say that if i found micachu to be unbearably awful live then i won't like the record? does she try to actually sing on record?

omar otm wrt strange boys what a wonderful album!

will have to hear this gudrun gut ep

add cass mccombs - 'catacombs' and michachu and the shapes - 'jewellry' to my list

xxxpost K3vin I think if you couldn't stomach her live it's probably not super different on the record...but the record is GREAT if you can clear that hurdle. Anyway for me at least her voice isn't in that dealbreaker category w/ like Joanna Newsom or the Of Montreal guy...just sounds like she's having fun w/ what she's got..,.

The Gudrun Gut EP has me v. juiced for another full-length...very much on the same vein as the last LP w/ the retarted, on-the-one, sort of polka thing going on. So hot, also has kind of a Fizheuer Zieheur vibe happening with vaguely Slavic, little horn or string stuff

"in" same vein

xxxpost K3vin I think if you couldn't stomach her live it's probably not super different on the record...but the record is GREAT if you can clear that hurdle. Anyway for me at least her voice isn't in that dealbreaker category w/ like Joanna Newsom or the Of Montreal guy...just sounds like she's having fun w/ what she's got..,.

― Hadrian VIII, Monday, July 27, 2009 10:29 AM (8 hours ago)

o____0

kevin barnes can sing!!! well! yeah i don't think i'm going to check them out, i don't have the patience for someone who's in a band of this profile but hasn't bothered learning how to sing and thinks blasting me with awful, pointless noise in the middle of her songs is a good idea. someone next to me at the siren fest said something about how "she makes her own intsruments herself!" as if that were a good thing, lol no

she brings my inner lex out where i wanna hate on her for neglecting to learn to dress herself, on top of everything else

blasting me with awful, pointless noise in the middle of her songs is a good idea

you have listened to skeletal lamping right?

"i'm learning to troll"

anyway i think micachu is alright but all that just seems underwritten to me. also the childish aesthetic really puts me off. if she can write a good song then she should write a real song not some 1:20 thing with a toy guitar and a xylophone

are you trying to tell me that there aren't blasts of pointless noise in skeletal lamping?

and i like twee stuff like architecture in helsinki and the boy least likely to but to see her being celebrated by people as some sort of like raw, outsider, underground pop musician (and she makes grime mixtapes!!) makes me roll my damn eyes

i'm saying you and i have talked about it before and also, no, imo there arent

xp

jordan pretty otm about micachu

has anyone heard the zola jesus lp on sacred bones yet? went back to new amsterdam yesterday and was surprised at how nice it was. think i'd just reduced her to being rester + some soundalikes.

― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Spoils is the only thing i've heard by her, and I think she has actual songwriting talent. too bad the production makes it kind of unlistenable

Kool Keith - Livin astro

Brilliant song and video, but it's from 10 years ago unfortunately.

my 10 albums so far
Dinosaur Jr
Phoenix
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Animal Collective
DOOM
Future Of The Left
Handsome Furs
Silversun Pickups
Junior Boys
Rick Ross

replace silversun pickups with Black Dice

ok and replace handsome furs with SUNN 0)))

'vulture' from the micachu album is the most addictive track ive heard this year. i really like the album, its a fun record, dont know anything about her. so i guess i havent been turned off by the hype. is there hype? i just came across the music on a radio show.

Micachu is the worst fucking thing ever.

The only thing that came out this year that I've been listening to is the new Bob Dylan album. Not very au courant of me.

there seems to be a strong chance that i wont even have a top 10 by the end of 2009.
also, due to an ongoing loss of interest caused by real life gubbins, i've no desire to hear most of the stuff listed so far.
[i've come to realise my head gets into this type of groove once in a while - but these days it seems to happen more and more often!?]
in fact, the only albums on the horizon that i reckon are good for me are the forthcoming soulsavers album, and flykllr (if it gets the all clear).

The only thing that came out this year that I've been listening to is the new Bob Dylan album. Not very au courant of me.

― o. nate, Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:36 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'm amazed at how this album just seemed to disappear after it came out.

How is it, o. nate? I'm guessing it's really good if you keep listening to it. :-)