In the past 15 years, who has released a better pair of consecutive, full-length studio albums than Modest Mouse's The Lonesome Crowded West -> The Moon & Antarctica?

there are like a zillion groups/artists that put out better albums over the last 15 years but if this is about twee bands i will nominate Lost Souls & The Last Broadcast. and the two Lansing-Dreiden albums. and the first two go-kart mozart albums.

my fave thing by them is the one that isn't an actual modest mouse album. had another name. that's a good one

Ugly Casanova? If so, I still have that one! Though I'm not really sure why.

i love those modest mouse records a lot though, definitely at least in my top 10 for this concept if not top 5

boards of canada music has the right & geogaddi

the jimmy eat world suggestion was particularly entertaining, and that's coming from someone who would rather listen to 'lucky denver mint' than just about anything else much of the time.

then you agree with me that those records are awesome

I think 'lucky denver mint' is awesome, that those two records are very good, but that they aren't even in the same league as the Modest Mouse records. but, y'know, opinions, etc.

anyway that thread xhuxk linked to should answer your question

the 'lol how about like EVERYONE' responders are really bringing something to this thread, so thank you for that.

haha if I started a thread titled "I DARE anyone to come up with a tastier meal than chile con carne" I wouldn't get to be all "oh how very predictable" when vegetarians/ppl with different tastes started chiming in

there are like a zillion groups/artists that put out better albums over the last 15 years but if this is about twee bands

― scott seward, Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:36 AM

this is not about twee bands. Modest Mouse is twee?

any kind of band/music/artist will do. gimme 10 of your zillion.

i love the Lansing-Dreiden album i have ... should pick up more stuff by them i guess.

Barbara Morgenstern, Nichts Muss -> The Grass Is Always Greener

Sarah Dougher, The Walls Ablaze -> The Bluff

Owen Pallett, He Shits Clouds -> Heartland

I know it's not actually "shits" but I have a pathological hatred of the word "poo" esp. as a verb

Ugly Casanova?

that's the one!

Bill Dixon featuring Tony Oxley, Papyrus, Volume 1 -> Papyrus, Volume 2
M.I.A., Arular -> Kala
Green, Eau de Vie -> The Planets

"gimme 10 of your zillion."

well i gave you three. i'll come up with 7 more in a bit. yeah you know kinda twee. they wear sweaters and stuff probably.

katatonia, discouraged ones -> tonight's decision / viva emptiness -> the great cold distance

there you go. that's 4. discouraged ones and tonight's decision. waaaaaay better than the two modest mouse albums. i haven't actually heard the lonesome crowded west but there is no way that it's as good as discouraged ones.

i'll come up with 6 more in a bit.

10 of my zillion:

Legendary Pink Dots: pick any, but Poppy Variations -> Whispering Wall is esp. strong

The Ex: Dizzy Spells -> Turn

Nurse With Wound: An Awkward Pause -> Man With The Woman Face

Eyvind Kang: Visible Breath -> The Face Of The Earth

The Fall: Imperial Wax Solvent -> Your Future Our Clutter

Fugazi, as mentioned

Sonic Youth: take your pick

Muslimgauze: Azad -> Fakir Sind

United Bible Studies: The Shore That Fears The Sea -> The Jonah

Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark Vols. 1 & 2

do not cosign on those katatonia records

discouraged ones might actually be my favorite album of the last 15 years.

kate bush - aerial --> 50 words for snow

good one!

t.i.: trap muzik --> urban legend

Catacombs > Wit's End

Cinemascope > Momentum

my real answer:

in an expression of the inexpressible --> melody of certain damaged lemons --> melody citronique EP --> misery is a butterfly --> the secret society of butterflies EP --> 23

Michael Hurley: Bellemeade Sessions -> Weatherhole

Electric six - fire & señor smoke

Eagles of death metal - peace love death metal & death by sexy

Tizzy, Scary In Adulthood -> Down With The Furies

Mountain goats - we shall all be healed & the sunset tree

Rocket from the crypt - group sounds & live from camp x-ray

i was gonna put in flagranti in here and realized they have two albums i haven't heard yet. but i bet they give isaac brock a good run for his money so fuck it!

wronger than anyone else --> sounds superb --> brash & vulgar --> worse for wear

Devin the dude - just tryin ta live & to tha extreme

brash & vulgar is seriously a great album and i don't think i've seen anyone on ilm talk about it.

xp

Les savy fav - go forth & let's stay friends

warning - strength to dream & watching from a distance

Straight Outta Lynwood - Alpocalypse

wait people like the moon and antartica

what a country

i liked it when i heard it. kinda like indie prog. though i preferred that one sunny day real estate album as far as indie art rock goes. it doesn't usually go very far.

that's kinda why i liked blueberry boat too. i mean at least they gave it a go. that's all i ask. give it a go.

well give it a go but don't sound like the eels or flaming lips and throw away all your beach boys albums. THEN give it a go.

why not...

Opeth - Ghost Reveries -> Watershed
Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers -> Normal as Blueberry Pie
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft -> Modern Times
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun -> Wars of the Roses
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend -> Contra

weird choice of consecutive ulver records but they work for me too bc of blood inside -> shadows of the sun

Stankonia -> Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

lol

Bennett's 'Street Vs. Science' and the one they did before that

Electric Version -> Twin Cinema

Aquemini -> Stankonia does count though.

Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Revolution.

Perfect From Now On -> Keep It Like a Secret

Yeah, I guess. Though the term still sort of signifies some "alternative" or "underground" element, which seems increasingly ridiculous considering the type of band presently being its figureheads..

overall i dunno it's weird i feel like between brits and their weird-ass definition of "indie" and all this nu-indie ipod commercial casio & glockenspiel kiddie shit the idea of what indie rock really was has gotten really twisted on ilm and elsehwere, not actually like i dunno a bunch of drunk shambly dudes rocking out to polvo and grifters and shit

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

yeah when i got into indie, i was listening to the grifters/those bastard souls, loads of grim lo-fi K records stuff, GVSB, palace bros, etc. make up, nation of ulysses, feelies, early rem, w/e. my wife was more of an indie head than me, she was into a lot of the sarah records stuff and UK twee.

a lot of indie scene now has become this sort of neither here nor there day-glo coachella party music like metric or latter day flaming lips or arcade fire, if it's not that glockenspiel pomplamoose ipod crap. i think the original "awkwardness" and amateurishness of the indie scene has become an affected put-on (and maybe it was partially in the first place but i don't think it was done so in this particular way.) which is kind of a bummer.

thread would be harder to argue with if it remembered/counted building nothing out of something

― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:16 PM

I remember it and love it. Doesn't count though. It's a comp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjecIllOEio

the guitar outro

Oneida about four times over

yeah the thread title was obviously just someone itching for a fight. nevertheless, the lonesome crowded west is incredible

Limp Biscuit

here's the treeship with teeth like god's shoeshine

i felt this way back in high school

I probably would have voted Blacklisted -> Fox Confessor, for the time period at issue.

(there was plenty of other stuff I loved, but it’s more idiosyncratic, and I wouldn’t go to the mat for it “objectively” like I would those two Neko albums.)

...Or is that pair disqualified, because she released a (similarly excellent) live album in between? I’m not totally clear on the rules here.

diamond eyes -> koi no yokan

i'll go with this suggestion from bradnelson

i am just now getting into deftones and right now they are the best rock n roll band in history after the stones

hell yeah

otm

Good Kid M.A.A.D City -> To Pimp a Butterfly
To Pimp a Butterfly -> DAMN
MBDTF -> Yeezus
Exai -> Elseq 1-5

Not too much else comes close for me for the last 15 years

The time period in question here was 1998-2013 (if we were doing the past 15 years from today, I’d have a different answer!)

now that i think about it, lonesome crowded west was more than 15 years old when this thread was made. mods???

tbf, the post title doesn’t require it being less than 15

ah fair enough. in that case,

Didn't It Rain -> Magnolia Electric Co
Strange Geometry -> God Save the Clientele
Last Exit -> So This is Goodbye

oh hah i already posted that last one back in the day

Every Broadcast long-player was released in the 15 years up to Feb '13. So, yes, several times times IMHO. #PVMIC