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

what are Jeremy Jay; Nodzzz?

circlesquare, 'songs about dancing and drugs'

Mordy - Yes! We do have some surprising crossover. That Lily Allen, minus a few standouts, soured on me over time.

J0rdan - glad to see more Handsome Furs love, that album is really great.

Has anyone else heard this Bachelorette album (on Drag City, out in May)? Need to listen a little more, but it might be kind of amazing ... Otherwise, new records this year ummmm, Neko Case ... Robyn Hitchcock ... errrr. Condo Fucks.

jeremy jay albums sound like original wes anderson soundtracks to me, except this one has some songs with disco synths

nodzzz album is 10 song 16 min pop-punk

I'll give a shout-out to that Mountains album. So good.
New Brethren of the Free Spirit is really good. haven't listened to any of the other new stuff on Important this year though, which kinda bums me out. Zola Jesus just put out a great mini-LP out on Troubleman, if you like the Sacred Bones type stuff, I'd recommend that as well.

I haven't heard that new Jeremy Jay album, but I plan on listening to it tomorrow! I hope it is good.

Thank you month of March for the following:
DOOM - Born Like This
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

jordan and i share our top three, which i'm not too surprised by since we've discussed the shit out of them already

1. the-dream - love vs money
2. yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
3. ryan leslie - ryan leslie
4. antony and the johnsons - the crying light
5. neko case - middle cyclone
6. lily allen - it's not me, it's you
7. PPP - abundance
8. animal cololective - merriweather post pavilion
9. keri hilson - ...in a perfect world
t10. ida maria - fortress round my heart
t10. the juan mclean - the future will come

when ciara's new one finally gets an agreed-upon tracklist it'll be somewhere top 5

like that condo fucks record a lot too, "this is where i belong" might be better than the original

haha, kevin, sometime not so long after you appeared I got into a convo w/ someone here where I said something to the effect of, "kevin's cool, but one jordan s. is enough"

aw

unexpectedly strong start to 2009.. Handsome Furs, Phoenix, Silversun Pickups, Doom (no longer MF), Junior Boys (most of it), Animal Collective, there's a new good superdrag song I keep hearing.. I like a lot of the songs on Dark Was The Night also, especially that Sigur Ros side project thing.. enjoying a few of the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs..

Some good mainstream music would be nice.

plenty of it imo

I need to add II by Lindstrom & Prins Thomas to my list post-haste, because o_O.

SFA, Grizzly Bear, PJ Harvey. The Mountains album is nice but pretty inconsequential. Animal Collective album is horrific.

2009 is kinda weak so far.

fuck's sake, must we deal with this every year

1. the-dream, love vs money
2. taylor swift, fearless
3. yeah yeah yeahs, it's blitz
4. ce'cile, worth it
5. omar-s, fabric 45
6. the juan maclean, the future will come
7. durrty goodz, ultrasound
8. agf/delay, symptoms
9. lindstrøm & prins thomas, ii
10. federation presents tnt, 3 the hard way

(taylor swift and ce'cile only had uk releases this year)

yeah i finally head fearless this past week and am basically in love with it

Rebotini - Music Components
Circlesquare - Music ..
Spektre - Live @ Glade
Scaramanga Six - Songs of Prey
Lily Allen - Its not ..
Ben Klock - One

really looking forward to : The Black Dog and Flykkiller

is that the hyphy Federation?

I know it's only the end of March now, but that's a lot of Lily Allen LP love so far. Think it will hold over til next January?

It barely held on till March for me, so I doubt it.

The RTFO Bandwagon record sounds promising.

As usual still catching up with last year and the couple of decades before that :) , but I have heard and enjoyed:

Telepathe, Dance Mother
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
T.I.T.S, Second Base

Neko Case
The Boss
The Pains

are all very good.

which probably makes this my best pop year in ages.

Lots of good things just around the pipeline. Laurent Garnier's got a humdinger and there's a new band called My Toys Like Me who don't sound quite like anything else I've ever heard.

as far as commercial mixes go, hard to imagine anyone will top henrik schwarz, ame and dixon's 'the grandfather paradox' this year. surprised to see no mention of it yet here

i'm listening now to Woods - Songs Of Shame and it's super-great,way better than anything theyve done before.
about Fanfarlo - arent they pure imitators of Arcade Fire etc...?

are they? don't hear it myself

Besides the ones already listed, the new Soundtrack Of Our Lives is great and one of their best ever.

i was listeing to them only once, so i might be wrong about arcade fire, but i do remember thinking
bout the lack of originality..
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SFA and Zu. Nick is OTM about that Animal Collective record.

Album mentioned on this thread I'd be most interested in hearing: The Antlers - Hospice

The album come out last year but my favourite single of 2k9 is Dream Big by Jazmine Sullivan so far.

ok, so Woods - Songs of Shame (Beach Boys Meets Fairport Convention for a 60's psych party or something)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s2175979.jpg

thank you for this record.

Animal Collective, Gnaw, Cobalt, SFA, Staff Benda Bilili, Wounded Knee, Fennesz, Omar S, probably Junior Boys, probably Meanderthals

yeah if you think this has been a weak year ur trippin imo, look harder

wanna grab that lindstrom

20 albums

Jono El Grande – Neo Dada (Rune Grammofon)
Faust – C’est Com…Com…Complique (Bureau)
Ian Gillan – One Eye To Morocco (Eagle Rock)
Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond (Fabric)
K’Naan – Troubador (A&M)
Kid Sister – Dream Date (Downtown)
Diagonal – Diagonal (Rise Above)
Megan Munroe – One More Broken String (Diamond)
Jessica Lurie Ensemble – Shop Of Wild Dreams (Zipa!Music)
Pat Green – What I’m For (BNA)
Rufus Huff – Rufus Huff (Zoho Roots)
Sarah Borges And the Broken Singles – The Stars Are Out (Sugar Hill)
Dirty Little Rabbits – Simon (The End)
Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy – Spirit Moves (Greenleaf)
Sinner – Crash And Burn (Candlelight USA)
Lady Sovereign – Jigsaw (EMI/Midget)
Rodney Atkins -- It’s America (Curb)
The Flatlanders – Hills And Valleys (New West)
Eric Church – Carolina (Capitol)
Steadlür – Everything Is Nothing (Roadrunner)

10 reissues

Benny – Amigo Charly Brown: Die Hits Von Gestern Und Auch Heut (Alaska)
(Various Artists) – The Chiswick Story, Part 1 (Ace)
Richard Thompson -- Walking On A Wire Discs One and Two (Shout! Factory)
(Various Artists) – Fly Girls!: B-Boys Beware: Revenge Of The Super Female Rappers! (Soul Jazz)
The Scene Is Now – Tonight We Ride (Lexicon Devil)
Sigh – Imaginary Soundscape (The End)
Zero Boys – Vicious Circle (Secretly Canadian)
(Various Artists) – Winter Dance Party: 50th Anniversary Special: The Day The Music Died (El Toro)
Death – …For The Whole World To See (Drag City)
Thin Lizzy – Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia 1977 (VH1 Classic)

10 singles

Jamey Johnson – “High Cost Of Living”
John Rich – “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”
Shystie feat. DJ Deekline – “New Style”
Sarah Buxton – “Space”
Love and Theft – “Runaway”
Caitlin & Will – “Even Now”
Floyd Taylor --- “Southern Soul Party”
Betty Padgett – “Sugar Daddy”
Raekwon -- "Heat Rocks"
Trace Adkins – “I Can’t Outrun You”

Loney Dear - Dear John

xhuxk, is the new richard thompson collection good? I've got two other Richard Thompson box sets, for god's sake. is it worth it/different?

Well, if you already have two boxes, I can't tell you. I don't have any, and I think the first two discs are a pretty definitive summation -- Probably what I'll put on, from now on, when I want to hear the guy. Discs three and four, on the other hand, I found barely listenable. Fortunately, the advance I was sent wasn't the whole box, but two separate 2-disc sets.

(Disc 2 seems to carry you more or less through to the mid '80s fwiw, after which I've always had trouble remotely caring about him -- though I did like Sweet Revenge more than I expected a couple years ago. Will probably try to spend more time with discs 3 and 4, but am not expecting much.)

(I mean Sweet Warrior, duh.)

cool, thanks, i'll investigate further ... don't think i need another multi-disc Thompson set, though. Unless there's like some definitive version of "Calvary Cross" that's never been released.

Syntheme, Stinking Lizaveta, Teeth Of The Sea and These Are Powers can go on my list too

Some mo' suchlike the likes o'which ain't been mentioned yet:

The One Ensemble Orchestra, Other Thunders (Daniel Padden & a company o'six)
PhoneCall, Behind The Music EP
Gutbucket, A Modest Proposal
Kristjan Randalu, Desde Manhattan
Dakota Suite, The End of Trying
Hoppy Kamiyama, The three cornered world

Dakota Suite, The End of Trying

^^ YES. The just released remix album of that one, 'The Night Just Keeps Coming In', is also gorgeous (remixes by Loscil, Machinefabriek, Peter Broderick, Hauschka, Deaf Center, Arve Henriksen, Gregg Haines, Tape, The Boats, Jacacsek, the list goes on and on...)

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Royksopp - Junior
Junior Senior - Begone Dull Care
Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
M. Ward - Hold Time
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - s/t

Kaspar Ewalds Exorbitante Kabinett, Ritter
The-Dream, Love V/S Money
Company of Thieves, Ordinary Riches
Radio Moscow, Brain Cycles
A.R. Rahman, Delhi-6
Super Furry Animals, Dark Days/Light Years
P.O.S., Never Better
Monte Carlo 76, Marisela
Asmegin, Arv
MIDIval PunditZ, Hello Hello
James Sudakow & Eric Zimmerman, there is no sound in space
Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica Città di Verona, Restless Spirits
Gadamer, s/t
Boomkat, A Million Billion Stars
Zach Williams and the Reformation, Electric Reformation
Experimental Dental School, Forest Field
Melinda Doolittle, Coming Back to You

I have like 40 more records to review for twitter. Here's a lost of stuff that's been recommended to me by friends and various critic/mag/blog year end lists... Can you guys tell me if any of this is worth my time?

Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Vulture Whale, Vulture Whale
Emmy the Great, First Love
Shilpa Ray, A Fish Hook an Open Eye
Peaches"I Feel Cream";
Lissy Trullie "Self-Taught Learner";
Band of Skulls "Baby Darling Doll Face Honey";
Del Marquis “Runaround”
Kate Miller-Heidke “Curioser”
Erin McCarley “Love, Save The Empty”
The Arch Cupcake “Box of Bees”
The Leisure Society - The Sleeper and Product
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
Sharon Van Etten - Because I Was In Love
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Bloody Mary, Black Pearl (Contexterrior)
The Glimmers Present Disko Drunkards (Glimmer Twins)
Italoboyz, Bla Bla Bla (Mothership)
10-20, 10-20 (Highpoint Lowlife)
The Sandwitches - ambient sadcake
Susan Boyle
British Sea Power - Man Of Aran
Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum
Dinky - Anemik
Dr. Dunks - How We Do In NYC
Brock Van Wey - White Clouds Drift On And On
Louderbach - Autumn
Prins Thomas - Live at Robert Johnson
Martyn - Great Lengths
Master Musicians of Bukkake -– Totem One
Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods
Dÿse - Lieder Sind Brüder Der Revolution
Dokaka – Human Interface
Vom –– Primitive Arts
Steve Earle - Townes
Sarah Jarosz - Song Up In Her Head
Iron And Wine - something
Mt. St. Helens - Vietnam
The Legends - Over And Over
Brandi Carlile - Give Up The Ghost
Joe Bonamassa - Ballad Of Joe Henrey
Willie Nelson - Lost Highway
Jack Rose & the Black Twigs - 
s/t

don't know most of those but you definitely must tweet susan boyle

a friend of mine has been saying really great things about rural alberta advantage lately. i haven't checked them out yet but he's generally got good taste wrt things in that vein.

Vulture Whale record is a fun record.

i didn't make it through all of 'how to make ambient sadcake' but the first song is lots of fun.

these are all ace, to varying degrees (and grouped together in your list, handily):

Master Musicians of Bukkake -– Totem One
Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods
Dÿse - Lieder Sind Brüder Der Revolution
Dokaka – Human Interface
Vom – Primitive Arts

well, i got those 5 from YOUR year end list actually, m to the g, since you like a lot of the same avant-metal stuff--but haven't had time to explore which are cool art-fuck stuff i'd like and which are boring noodley prog crap I'd hate.

I checked out Umlaut on your recommendation and was like *barf*, so i'm erring on the side of caution

that explains it.

well, those are all very different from umlaut - and from each other, for that matter. the dokaka is the weakest of the bunch, tbh, but is fun nonetheless.

ay have you done the meshell ndegeocello? one of my top albums

I have not, rev!

Two records I can't seem to steal from the ANYWHERE on the internet because their labels are obv good at crushing leaks:

Bob Dylan Christmas and BlakRoc

Kate Miller-Heidke “Curioser”

i recommend you snap this one over your knee

if u listen to blackroc before big krit im gonna ... i dont know. troll u or something.

blackcroc

http://www.shoes.com/ProductImages/Shoes_iAEC1021410.jpg

lmao

apropos

"Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum"

This is a wonderful record.

somedude otm about OOIOO

i'm gonna do a top 100 on BSCReview.com for 2009 but I think everyone needs to hear Ike Reilly's "Hard Luck Stories," it's download-only but damn, I love that guy. great due with shooter jennings called "the war on the terror and the drugs".

No love for David Bazan here?

at first listen the ooioo didn't grab me like the last few did, but maybe i should listen more.

it's no Gold & Green but it does quite nicely, I think, especially on the short-song-heavy 2nd side.

oops Green & Gold, that is.

http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/the-top-40/

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=227653904406

Just my personal year's end list on Facebook, not too exciting really.

holy shit that's really extensive. i wrote this in a fb note at 5 am when i got home friday morning.

albums 2009Share
Yesterday at 5:37am | Edit Note | Delete

i wasted a lot of time listening to music this year, these are some albums that made it worth my while.
i didn't take the ordering too seriously: #1 is the absolute best and #2 is second best, but after that it's really just give or take. also there's still a lot of stuff i haven't gotten around to listening to yet that i'm sure i'll love deeply, like the new boredoms, and sunn o))) too.

1) the-dream - love vs money
2) think about life - family
3) lil boosie - superbad: the return of boosie bad azz
4) destroyer - bay of pigs
5) ty segall/black time - split
6) nadja - the bungled and the botched
7) dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout
8) electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
9) ultrathin - endless summer ii
10) dirty projectors - bitte orca
11) drunkdriver & mattin - list of profound insecurities
12) gucci mane - the state vs radric davis
13) the luyas - tiny head/spherical matress 7"

honorable mentions:

crazy cousinz - this is uk funky vol. 1
davila 666 - s/t
the get em mamis - terawesome... See More
mayyors - deads 12"

i listened to super roots 10 last night, actually. it's not good.

last week I caught some of Here We Go Magic's set at End of the Road and they were really good so I grabbed their 2009 album and I really like it a lot and this thread is one that comes up when you search for their horrible, awful, why would you call yourself that name, so here we are

they are awesome anyway pity about the name!

lol indie