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

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

My top five:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The-Dream - Love Vs Money
Fever Ray - s/t
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Six Organs of Admittance - RTZ

Other stuff I've played here and there:

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
Doom - Born Like This
Merzbow - Suzume/Fukurou/Yurikamome
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t

Admittedly I haven't paid much attention to "new" music this year, these are just the things I've picked up and enjoyed thus far.

Looking forward to hearing (but still haven't picked up, or downloaded):

Boredoms
The Juan Maclean
Junior Boys
Royksöpp
Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Morrissey
Bill Callahan
Grizzly Bear
PJ Harvey and John Parish
Faust
Raekwon
Tombs

the Napoleon album is a lot of fun, reminds of Orlando quite a bit, maybe a bit Wham! too.

those don't sound like selling points at all!

ha

K'Naan is my fave by far at this point.

Others:
Lily Allen
Glasvegas
Heartless Bastards
Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives

The thing with the Woods album... is that, there is a dedication on the inner sleeve to a very good friend of mine who passed away in 2008, and so everytime I pull the record out of the sleeve, I feel a little twinge of sadness and loss.

:(

The military madness cover is ace too

zu's carboniferous is easily heading the pack, followed by:

storsveit nix noltes - royal-family divorce
ilk - panegyric territories vol. I
karl sanders - saurian exorcisms
capillary action - so embarrassing
john zorn - the crucible
stinking lizaveta - sacrifice and bliss

Need to add UGK's 4 Life somewhere in here.

Anyone else feeling the Tim Hecker or Six Organs releases???

Juan Maclean
The Veils
Distance
Serpentcult

Like, but not really feeling real strongly about: Neko, Fever Ray, Pains of Being Pure of Heart, Wavves

Like, but not really feeling real strongly about: Neko

Every time someone expresses considered/reserved feelings about Neko Case, a kitten loses an angel.

Six Organs is great ... forgot about that one. Might be my favorite thing by him, honestly. I like most of Chasny's stuff, but I think I like his more out there, long-form stuff more than the singer-songwriter-y stuff.

2009 is kinda weak so far.
correct me if i'm wrong.

Very strong for albums so far.. very strong for reissues.. and much like last year, weak for singles. Hopefully this will pick up.

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
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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