What are the Hipster Albums of 2009?

no, but it is still really terrible

re film : shame. i enjoyed the book and so have been waiting to see the film. guess i'll scrub that from my list then.

and avoid the metalcore band too

in my world, that goes without saying, but ta for the confirmation.
so, back to these hipster albums ..
i'm relying on this thread for future reference when they all appear in fopp @ £3 given that i have fallen off the radar in '09 (too much miles davis/david axelrod ..)

the film has its good points (as per usual with DePalma there is one long reveal-tracking shot that is fantastic). by contrast, the ending shot/sequence is some of the most laughably bad shit ever. also the acting is by and large terrible. and he takes at least one major liberty with the book that is completely against the grain of Elroy's writing (i.e., having one of the protagonists kill a woman)

no mention of monoliths and dimensions yet? for shame

new violens mixtape thing looks very cool and very hip!

download for free here:

http://www.violens.net/

1. Full Collision

2. I See You / Only Shallow
(My Bloody Valentine sung by Violens over The Byrds)

3. Lighting Lightning

4. Could You Stand to Know? / Abysmal Depths Are Flooded
(Violens sung over Xasthur)

5. Could You Stand to Know?

6. Outdoor Miner
(Wire feat. Jorge Elbrecht of Violens)

7. Lighting Lightning
(demo version)

8. Trance-like Turn

9. Spectator & Pupil
(RAC remix)

10. Warm Collision
(feat. Caroline Polachek of Chairlift)

11. Doomed (MGMT remixes Violens)

12. Violent Sensation Descends
(Lansing-Dreiden remixes Violens)

13. Unfinished Business
(Violens remix White Lies)

14. Avenue
(Violens cover Saint Etienne)

as lansing-dreiden's biggest fan i'm looking forward to the violens debut album a bunch!

4. Could You Stand to Know? / Abysmal Depths Are Flooded
(Violens sung over Xasthur)

doesn't get any hipper than this, people!

These Violens types any good then? I know the name entirely because they are about to support the band White Lies on tour and I can say that is not a thing that piques my interest as a rule

i like it. their stuff from the EP they did and a single is on youtube. reminds me of lansing-dreiden, and that's a good thing with me. one of them was/is a part of lansing-dreiden, i think? the singer/guitar guy. i never look these kinds of things up.

woods/ganglians

and they are good albums

whoever likes the hazards of love

The Very Best
Death (reissue)

whoever likes the hazards of love

― FACK, Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:40 PM (1 hour ago)

i've only heard hazards of love but love it, what else should i check out by them?

whoever likes the hazards of love

― FACK, Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:40 PM (1 hour ago)

i've only heard hazards of love but love it, what else should i check out by them?

― we be emi robin' (k3vin k.), Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Really? hmm. Maybe I should give it another chance. Their first three albums are pretty awesome, especially Castaways and Cutouts, and Picaresque. The Crane Wife seemed overproduced and kind of bland, tbh, and Hazards just seemed so unwieldy that I never devoted much time to it. I feel like the more The Decemberists invest in their rock-opera theatre-kid shtick, the harder it is for me to take them seriously.

loool dude i was joking

that's why i said hazards of love cause hipsters sometimes like the shittiest music (animal collective) and hazards of love is terrible, therefore hipster bait

Fucking hell. This is why you do not post to ILX while halfway through a nap.

aw. I'm sure there'll be a lurker around glad to take your advice.

GIRLS ALBUM

i hope i never, ever hear that record, accidentally or otherwise

I actually decided to give them a chance when I saw a big flyer up on the kiosk for a show they are playing in my town in February.
Watched a couple of videos on youtube and I know some of their friends and the guy who directed the videos.
:-/

Oh yeah, decided to check them out because the singer in the band is wearing a Suede shirt on the poster.
Will probably go to the show just to meet chicks.

good call, good call

I guess The Clientele's new disc isn't a "Hipster Album." And it's sure as hell not a big Rawk Album or a Mall-Rock or Emo-Punk Album. All of which leaves it in a funny nowhere land, which is a shame. Such a good group, and a fine new disc.

Anyway, F--k Buttons, I imagine.

so basically this is the thread where we list albums that were pitchfork best new music this year?

yeah that sounds about right

That F--k Buttons album got a lot of glowing reviews, not just from Pitchfork.

And, surprisingly (to me), The Clientele's new disc has been reviewed less than their prior discs, it seems. Also, Pitchfork gave it an "okay" review (something in the 7s, I think).

Not sure if your comment was directed toward my prior post, in any event. (xp)

But generally, yeah, I think if it's on Pitchfork's BNM list, it's a Hipster Album.

So: REAL ESTATE.

yeah no, it was not particularly directed at anyone, dude. having all of these albums already organized together like this just takes the fun out of it.

It's weird, but sometimes a Pitchfork Best New Music tag does little for an act. The magazine gave that Bear In Heaven disc an 8.4 and the BNM tag, but I've heard almost nothing else about the disc, and I wouldn't say it's a Hipster Album.

are bear in heaven any good, though? there was an album by a band called cymbals eat guitars that got BNM'd earlier in the year and it was absolutely horrible stuff, not at all a surprise that they didn't get very far.

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