What are the Hipster Albums of 2009?

Which albums are beloved of hipsters this year?

1 Animal Collective
2 The XX

Do you honestly not know this or do you just want to make a list for the sake of it?

yes

Those are the only 2 hipster albums i know of this year, im out of the loop.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/11/which-indie-artists-will-be-selected-as-the-best-_____-of-the-year.html

wait, what about all the hipster stuff you listen to?

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you know all that diehard coloured vinyl limited nigel metal stuff?

i've always wanted to use nigel metal in a sentence.

This is the first time hipster runoff has ever made me actually laugh.

Bat for Lashes - Never really listened, but seems like it would be ‘acceptable’ to be the lone female in your year-end list. If you have a top 10, it seems healthy to have no more than 2 female singers/artists, since the majority of your readers are men.

Oh why not. Life's too short to not list hipster records.

3. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4. St. Vincent - Actor

hispter runoff more or less otm throughout

4 very good albums so far

5. JLS - JLS

scott otm, doom is like more hipster than hipster

yeah i like it but wolves in the throne room has to be somewhere in here

deep hipster

6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
7. Girls - Album

Much of what's in the "day-glo" genre.

4 very good albums so far

~*~prediction~*~

this thread will devolve very soon into an argument about what constitutes a "hipster album" and what being a "hipster" entails

~*~prediction~*~

someone will make the hilarious joke that a very well-known album is a "hipster album" and then others will defend it

devolve http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/images/smilies/popcorn.gif

scott youve been lurking on dffd again haven't you

The new (and unpronounceable) Grizzly Bear disc.

you know all that diehard coloured vinyl limited nigel metal stuff?

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:54 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've always wanted to use nigel metal in a sentence.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:55 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

okay i so want nigel metal to become a thing now

its been and gone no? (isis,boris,pelican,neurosis,wittr,mastodon etc)

Mind you, everything is nigel or hipster to troo metalheads who dislike anything thats sold over 1000 copies.

http://www.curragh-labs.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nigel-tufnel.jpg

It still seems plausible to describe/pan the DirProjjies as ‘a Jack Johnson-sounding bro with broads wailing in the background.’

Hipster Runoff is the worst shit ever. someone oughta put a bullet in that guy for his insanely pompous cynicism and joylessness

its a pretty joyful blog imo

someone oughta put a bullet in that guy for his insanely pompous cynicism and joylessness

― Valid point, imaginary rude person (Shakey Mo Collier)

fnarf

hipster runoff is like the blues - it makes feeling bad feel good

The new (and unpronounceable) Grizzly Bear disc.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:09 AM (2 hours ago)

i feel like grizzly bear have sort of lost their spot on the hipster demographic, at this point they're coming dangerously close to dadrocking it.

500 Days of Summer OST maybe

max tundra shit

lindstrom shit

atlas sound shit

i feel like grizzly bear have sort of lost their spot on the hipster demographic, at this point they're coming dangerously close to dadrocking it.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:12 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

theyve graduated def - they should like live in a big loft w/the shins and modest mouse and all work at a newspaper together or something

lightning bolt shit

I would say black lips but they sound like green day

alt weekly, imo

xp to jho

raekwon

I know I am going to offend but I can't stand XX or whatever it's called. No soul. I am never reading mainstream music press again until they stop being such dorks. You can find stuff that is 10,000 times better in indie electronica.

totally

but they are young and like cool bands? isn't that enough to convince you their music is good?

;-)

neon indian iirc

yes, otm

blank dogs probably

The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic

Yeah. I downloaded that Cymbals Eat Guitars disc. Never felt compelled to listen to more than half a song, tho.

The :30 samples on that Bear in Heaven disc sound . . . okay. Hard to tell from that if the songs have the "massive choruses" promised by the P4K review. I'm going to give the full disc a go on Lala to see.

complete agreement on the complete turd that is that CEG album

There are two songs from that Bear In Heaven album here. Meh. I think the P4K review oversells the "towering choruses." And their use of electronics feels pretty uninspired to me.

lovesick teenagers by bear in heaven is pretty cool, besides i dunno, i actually kinda like cymbals eat guitars, but i can see why people wouldn't like them (the vocals)

I got a BNM once. Don't feel much diffnt now than before.

Of the two Bear In Heaven songs I heard on that site I linked, Lovesick Teenagers is by far the better of the two.

wrt to hipsters i mean

It must have given your band some extra attention, I imagine.

Some bands that got the BNM and seem like they were quickly forgotten:

Wilderness
The Deadly Snakes
Single Frame
Shining
Giddy Motors

Don't know the others, but Wilderness have made two discs since their BNM debut, and they've been pretty widely-reviewed and generally well-received.

But they didn't get the buzz and hype most BNM receivers enjoy after the review. Nobody except us fans (generally) really knows of Wilderness releases after the S/T or the band at all.

I guess. I'm a fan of theirs, too. I still think they could be a monster breakout band (among a certain fan-base, at least). They do have that huge, complex rock sound.

You guys sound so conceited and gross. Good luck with that.

What sounds conceited and gross?

clearly a hipster

lol wtf

You guys are just so hip for pointing out the hipster albums. Sounds like a jean style.

i can barely see over my pelvis

No wait. It is a jean style.

IS

GIBBER

Gucci Mane – The Cold War Series

Grizzly Bear
Bat For Lashes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Decemberists
Devendra Banhart

passion pit, dirty projectors scream hipster

Gucci Mane – The Cold War Series

― eatin' spaghett' (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, November 27, 2009 12:24 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol the cold war gimmick is what it took to make him a "thing"? or is this just a joke

i would've thought burrprint was the big hipster breakout.

the mixtapes are the peak of his hipster love, and it's only gettin bigger

It's not at Dipset 05 levels yet, but I can say in Williamsburg the seeds are def. planted.

i am truly sorry for your lots

well i figured that was coming eventually

The Bear in Heaven album is the only album I have found remotely interesting. It has some really cool rhythms and textures happening, and the album never stagnates from a mixing standpoint.

Animal Collective have become too formulaic to be interesting, XX is intolerable, and it is beyond me why people think the Girls album is worth any attention.

i didn't even tweet review Bear In Heaven!

Way way before CMJ fallout and glowing Pfork review I interviewed 'em for the Village Voice.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/09/yes_in_my_backy_17.php

I got their CD and I liked it and I thought "Oh this is pretty good, I'd like to give them some attention." But at no point did I think "Man, people are gonna flip the fuck out over this."

plowing through chillwave bands is doing nothing to snap me out of my thanksgiving funk btw. these bands are officially good for nothing.

i thought only old west african vinyl reissues and the baroness were cool??????

Enjoying the Bear In Heaven album 100x more than MPP. It's not going to end up on my year end or anything, but it is a pretty good hispter album of 2009 imo.

Oh, didn't know there was a Bear in Heaven record! I really liked them live the couple times that I saw them, and I liked Red Bloom of Boom, and then I kind of lost track of them. I had thought they were kind of slept on, so it's good to see them getting Pitchfork love.

Ahhhh . . . I'm sold. I'm going to have a beer, finish watching the UM/USF game, and download the Bear In Heaven disc all before I'm forced to watch the new iCarly at 8.

Can someone find that great burt stanton meltdown post that's just this long string of random hipster signifiers and jargon?

― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:21 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yesss i love this post

― max, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:22 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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-- burt_stanton, Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:33 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

― max, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:38 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like this post because its like burt_stanton.bot broke and is spewing out all the gobbledegook about hipsters that was programmed into him by his evil master

― max, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:39 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah it was like the part in wargames where the computer plays itself over and over again and goes faster and faster. "It's learning."

― Hurting 2, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:50 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― max, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:23 PM Bookmark

the new album is apparently a bit of a change from the first one. they sound like the half-way point between phoenix and tvotr to me (can you tell i don't listen to a lot of this kind of music?).

talking about BIH there.

bear in heaven

the xx nme's no2 album ('no 2' quite appropriate)

http://www.nme.com/list/50-best-albums-of-2009/159978/page/5

~*~prediction~*~

this thread will devolve very soon into an argument about what constitutes a "hipster album" and what being a "hipster" entails

― max, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:06 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

~*~prediction~*~

someone will make the hilarious joke that a very well-known album is a "hipster album" and then others will defend it

― max, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:07 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

prediction FAIL

tf is chillwave?

lol that nme 2009 list is really like 'oh shit we spend the decade listening to the wrong music fuck fuck fuck'

whenever I think of chillwave I think of jimmy buffet I don't know why

also whenever I see a genre name on ilm that I haven't seen anywhere else I feel as though I have been infected

lol that nme 2009 list is really like 'oh shit we spend the decade listening to the wrong music fuck fuck fuck'

hahaha, we need someone to re-enact this and put it to film.

Someone deleting all the McFly mp3s and "speed-listening" through the Grizzly Bear and Fever Ray albums.

i think they would be more concerned with we spent the decade trying to sell the wrong music to our readers fuck fuck fuck.

lol @ the NME review snippet for Dirty Projectors: The only real difficulty is that they almost sound like a brilliant pop band - yeah, and then they fuck it up hardcore!!!!!