grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
my disco - paradise
tallest man on earth - shallow grave
earth - the bees made honey in the lion's skull
sun kil moon - april

man man - rabbit habits
mae shi - hllyh
headlights - some racing some stopping
sigur ros - mea sum blah blah blah
lil wayne - carter 3

did you like headlights' last album (i thought the first song was ok, the rest was bad)

i like a lot of the songs on it, but as an album its not as good. Their EP that they released before it is pretty sweet though.

no age - nouns
birds of maya - volume 1
valet - naked acid
black hollies - casting shadows
bardo pond - batholith

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light
French Kicks - Swimming
Man Man - Rabbit Habbits
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
The Black Keys - Attack and Release

Honorable mention for R.E.M.'s Accelerate. It isn't great but considering the two albums that came before it I was quite happy.

5 LP records i like the most from this year would be:

Vampire Weekend - S/T
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Panda Riot - She Dares All Things
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Unwed Sailor - Little Wars

i guess my 5 are basically just the albums i've listened to the most

5 LP records i like the most from this year would be:

Vampire Weekend - S/T
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Panda Riot - She Dares All Things
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Unwed Sailor - Little Wars

That Vampire Weekend album is catchy as all hell. I think I played it on and off for a week straight once I first heard it but hardly ever since.

That Vampire Weekend album is catchy as all hell. I think I played it on and off for a week straight once I first heard it but hardly ever since.
oh man, totally. i may have overplayed it but i don't want that to detract from how fun an album it really is.

vampire weekend sucks.

1. the kills - midnight boom
2. devotchka - a mad & faithful telling
3. okay - huggable dust
4. french kicks - swimming
5. beach house - devotion

1. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In the Light
2. The Steeldrivers - S/T
3. Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5. The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Graves

Honorable mention goes to

The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
Sun Kil Moon - April
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
Two Man Gentlemen Band - Heavy Petting

05. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
04. Evangelicals – The Evening Descends
03. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
02. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
01. The Mars Volta – The Bedlam In Goliath


Pretty shit list in comparison to last year though.
None of these would've been in my top 25.

1.Deerhunter-Microcastle
no particular order:
Vampire Weekend-st
Fleet Foxes-st
Headlights-Some Racing, Some Stopping

edit: deathcab - narrow stairs

i have no idea if any of these are more than a flash in the pan but i enjoyed them

outside of shapan's list i don't really know any of these bands. i guess i'm not cool enough to be here.

in no order:
The Zutons - You Can Do Anything
The Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols
Weezer - Weezer (The Red Album)
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV & The Slip
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground

that kills album is pretty sweet

Oh yeah that Fleet Foxes is pretty good, I forgot about that one.

so i need to hear this man man album

D what happened to you? you used to buy into the punk-rock mindset

hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=XT4U3FAY

thx

the man man album was a big let down for me. so was the british sea power album, but i expected that. wolf parade's album was underwhelming but still alright. it feels like all the spencer krug bands are losing their identities the more he goes along.

i dont see what the big deal is with the fleet foxes record. seems very ordinary.

im gonna give the grouper album a listen some time tomorrow

no age - nouns
blank dogs - on two sides
fuck buttons - street horssing
the hospitals - hairdryer peace
skullflower - desire for a holy war

can you up the blank dogs please

i'm sure i won't like it but worth a shot

why wouldn't you like it, have you heard their other material and didn't like it?

it's up for download on their blog [along with everything they've released] for free anyway:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q2268x

i've got 'the first two weeks', did absolutely nothing for me

some of the eps and singles are iffy, but that full length, and the diana EP are fab.

yeah, the first two weeks is more of a grower, it's better to start with the diana 12"

i wouldn't say that the singles are that iffy, all the A-sides they've done: Doorbell Fire, Yellow Mice Sleep, Two Months, In a Web, are great. even Mirror Lights is good. the b-sides aren't as strong but i still enjoy them all, I can't think of a Blank Dogs song yet I really don't like.

1. the kills - midnight boom


<3

D what happened to you? you used to buy into the punk-rock mindset

lol

black mountain
brendan canning
four tet ringer ep
health remixes
lil wayne
im just hearing nouns for the first time right now and its great, even though i wasnt into them at all when i saw them open for deerhoof.

im gonna listen to nouns on the way to classes today

lets hope this is better than i recall, matt

i think i get no age and fuck buttons mixed up in my head for some reason

nouns is a grower, it's mostly fantastic though

but still not as good as weirdo rippers

Vampire Weekend is solid. I hate the fact that they wear sweaters and go to Ivy league schools more than anyone but it's mostly good shit.

so happy to see the tallest man on earth on so many lists

i cannot get into vampire weekend. something about it just irks the fucking shit out of me.

you mean like everything about it?

i read:

Vampire Weekend go to Ivy league schools more than anyone.

that's a good new euphemism for saying a band sucks.

the kills album made me sick - there are only about three good songs at the start and then the rest is fodder!

Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust, Sigur Rós
Evil Urges, My Morning Jacket
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Third, Portishead
Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, Atlas Sound

I haven't listened enough to put it here, but the Tallest Man on Earth is great, too.

then the rest is fodder!
lol

anytime there are threads like this, i hardly have listened to enough to hit the number.

so far i like

langhorne slim - langhorne slim
sigur ros - long title
death cab for cutie - narrow stairs
jon crosby - generica 2

vampire weekend
mae shi
gnarls barkley
supergrass
death cab

Vampire Weekend is an outstanding album. I love that they go to a lot of Ivy League schools a lot.

my roommate informed me that vampire weekend was playing on the radio at the grocery store. he is a lacoste-wearing fratboy douchebag who drives a suped up car.

vampire weekend tries to pull off the entire "we're cutesy and bouncy listen to us for fun!" but all it says to me is "please turn me off this is the most insignificant piece of music you'll ever listen to"

nouns is a grower, it's mostly fantastic though

but still not as good as weirdo rippers

can you up this

im listening to the new shearwater for the first time, its pretty good

No Age - Nouns
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nq9lnj

I once heard Vampire Weekend on the radio and it was one of the most surreal moments of my life.

vampire weekend tries to pull off the entire "we're cutesy and bouncy listen to us for fun!" but all it says to me is "please turn me off this is the most insignificant piece of music you'll ever listen to"



can you up this

im listening to the new shearwater for the first time, its pretty good

do you like the songs or not? who cares what they are trying to do? /argument that's been overdone forever

the songs arent good. by insignificant i dont mean their importance to like, music in general, i mean that i cant continue listening to the songs because they suck and have no appeal for me. practically all the music i listen to is catchy, and nothing on that album sticks in my head at all.

No Age - Nouns
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nq9lnj

thanks but i meant weirdo rippers

i feel that to enjoy Vampire Weekend i would need to be on copious amounts of speed

or have bad taste

Weirdo Rippers
http://www.sendspace.com/file/sfcijo

i feel that to enjoy Vampire Weekend i would need to be on copious amounts of speed

prob wouldn't hurt

argh! i can't make lists like this. i get to serious about what deserves to be on it and i end up with nothing

i think these are what i've listened to the most

boris
perfume
lil wayne
leviathan
scarlett johansson (does it count?)

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1. Meshuggah - obZen - the more i listen to this the more i suspect it's their best album to date.
2. *Shels - Sea Of Dying Dhow - fucking gorgeous. not just neur-isis wallpaper, but quality epic shoegazey metal.
3. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull - another one that took me ages to appreciate, but what a fucking spectacular album.
4. Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner - i have a high school crush on julie christmas
5. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Pain That Shit Gold - dope as.

leviathan

marry me.

sorry, that was just instinct. i say that to every human female i meet who listens to black metal.

what's your favorite black metal album? i think mine is lurker of chalice

i'm gonna have to be troo kvlt grimm here and say probaby Hvis Lyset Tar Oss.

i'll try that. i've never listened to any of the old stuff. he's a nazi, right?

kinda. i dunno. there are so many internet geeks arguing about what he is and isn't it's just kinda pointless to speculate. Though i do believe it is widely accepted that he stopped using guitars because they're "nigger instruments"

i looked it up. seems he's just racist/segregationist whatever

who cares... the riffs are crazy hypnotic.

And this Lurker Of Chalice thing is pretty good so far. Its a relief to hear some well-produced Black Metal that doesn't sound like it was recorded inside a hoover.

Also you really should marry me. I'm a handsome, fairly fit young man whose job will be worth a hell of a lot when the US economy collapses, cause i get paid in Australian $$.

not if you marry me:p we could move to norway though. how appropriate!

found that album. i like the title track

i tell you what. we'll get married on the catbus with a whole stack of netphorians, have the reception at burning man, then we can go live in a shack in the bleakest, most grimm part of norway (with good ADSL) and keep warm by the flames of my valuable australian dollars.

sounds nice, but norway isn't really that grim. it's mostly very pretty

damn. well there goes that plan.

also, you gots to learn how to spell grimm.

that just makes me think of
http://www.bl.uk/images/content/popup/grimm.jpg

So far...

Sun Kil Moon - April
Death Cab - Narrow Stairs
Why? - Alopecia
Fleet Foxes - S/T
Sigur Ros - Whateverthefuckit'scalled

In no particular order. Didn't like Vampire Weekend at all. Guess I should download some Tallest Man on Earth.

finally listened to grouper.

fucking excellent. this is like the kind of awesome surreal atmosphere i wanted to hear while listening to devotion. definitely a top 5 record of the year.

argh! i can't make lists like this. i get to serious about what deserves to be on it and i end up with nothing

i think these are what i've listened to the most

boris
perfume
lil wayne
leviathan
scarlett johansson (does it count?)

this is the worst list of anything i've ever seen

<font color=33FFFF> in no order:
Sean Smith - Eternal
Tyler Ramsey - A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
John Zorn - Dreamers
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3</font>

this is the worst list of anything i've ever seen

i know. i'm listening to scarlett johannson right now

you don't get to say anything bad about perfume though

can i just ask, why do people like atmosphere

hes not bad, i liked the new album. there was lots of cool instrumentation in there considering it as a hip hop album. his lyrics can be good when hes not crying too much about his ex-gf.

http://www.seattle.net/media/atmosphere.jpg

the new josephine foster album might reach my top 5

i havent given it a proper listen but i ahve one of her 7"s and its pretty fuckin good

Let's see, I'll do a Top 10.

1. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
2. Equilibrium - Sagas
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
4. Protest the Hero - Fortress
5. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
6. pg.lost - It's Not Me, It's You!
7. Opeth - Watershed
8. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III (You know it's good, but you won't admit it.)
9. Sun Kil Moon - April
10. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV

not in any particular order

sun kil moon - april
the tallest man on earth - shallow graves
josephine foster - this coming gladness
meshuggah - obzen
charlottefield - what friends are for

the m. jarvis and a. jarvis EP is pretty good too

new list:
01. The Mae Shi - HLLYH
02. Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
03. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
04. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
05. Man Man - Rabbit Habits
06. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
07. Sonic Youth/Meds Gustaffson/Merzbow - SYR 8
08. The Kills - Midnight Boom
09. Nomo - Ghost Rock
10. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV

redbull youre a fag

thomas function - celebration
gutter twins - saturnalia
nobunny - love visions
gentleman jesse and his men - gentleman jesse
blank dogs - on two sides

anyone with nin in their lists please stfu

redbull youre a fag

i'm listening to the acoustic version of gossamer

gutter twins - saturnalia
nobunny - love visions
gentleman jesse and his men - gentleman jesse

tell me about this please

anyone with nin in their lists please stfu

:rofl:

tell me about this please

gutter twins is the collaboration between greg dulli and mark lanegan. the kind of dark and gritty stuff you would expect from the two.
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/270rmj

gentleman jesse sounds like 70's power pop
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/w1km97

and nobunny is raw, doo wop influenced garage rock from a strange dude in a bunny mask.
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1256843.jpg
obvious ramones influence there too.
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/t57ga1

:rofl:

especially the ones with the new mars volta album in their lists

the sun kil moon album drains the life out of me by the time i finish it

but i like it

what's funny?

no order

deerhunter - microcastle (never stops is such a great pop track)

that's all i got.

the Earth album is so so fucking good

+rep

girl talk is relaly raelly bad.

what does that mean

certainly an album to check out (especially since it's up for free download): coen oscar polack - psychic investigations. it's this electro-acoustic stuff, abstract and cool.

http://www.narrominded.com/catalogue/nm029/

riiiiight *cracks knuckles*

1. portishead
2. cut copy
3. MGMT
4. nick cave and the bad seeds
5. bon iver
*fuck 5!
6. ratatat
7. tallest man on earth
8. the mars volta

and a secret favourite (not favorite you fucking yanks) - lil wayne

japanalex, how's your penis?

oh man don't even go there - cos if you go there there's going to be a penis

i'm already there, now please answer the question. how is your penis?

ready!!

5. Death Cab - Narrow Stairs
4. Why? - Alopecia
3. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
2. Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster
1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

1. Shearwater - Rook
2. No Age - Nouns
3. Beach House - Devotion
4. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
5. Portishead - Third

so i listened to the new stereolab album and now i want everything they've ever done

portishead - third
monotonix - body language
gutter twins - saturnalia
black mountain - in the future
local h - 12 angry months





i'm really surprised there aren't any mentions of radiohead - in rainbows in this thread. it tells me you people are buying into the bullshit that the promotional mp3's they put out in 2007 constitutes an album release, and therefore are not considering it as a candidate for 2008.

no offense, but that seems a lot more plausible than everyone agreeing its 2008 but not putting it on their lists because they don't like it enough to be in their top 5........though thats basically my thinking on the subject.

wow. so davin and japanalex share my favorite album of the year. that is such a huge fucking bummer

^ because (unlike alot of you scoff) I know what makes a good album!

i'm really surprised there aren't any mentions of radiohead

it is an official 2007 release - we can't do anything even if we tried *single tear*

official according to what? everything i've seen says Jan. 2008.

wow. so davin and japanalex share my favorite album of the year. that is such a huge fucking bummer

its all just a popularity contest for you, isn't it douchebag?

so daniel rossen of grizzly bear has another band hes in with his roommate from nyu. its called department of eagles, they have a new record that just leaked.

its called "in ear park" and its pretty fucking incredible. its probably already a top 5 album of the year for based on only a couple of listens. fans of yellow house should listen to this immediately.

hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=SD50M0V6

that really is the worst band name ive ever heard

what is the point of this? it sounds exactly like grizzly bear

well i was on a grizzly bear binge as it is so it works well for me

and one of the two is a primary songwriter for grizzly bear so its bound to have similarities. doesnt take away from how good it is.

no i just think if you're going to do a side project you'd want to be a bit more adventurous...why make a grizzly bear record without grizzly bear? dude's probably a huge control freak

rossen was initially in department of eagles and he joined up with grizzly bear before yellow house. so maybe this is just what his sound progressed to, grizzly bear's debut sounded way different without him when it was just droste's outlet. i havent heard of any of his doe stuff before this album, though.

edit: so i just listened to doe's LP before this one, and if you're looking for something thats not grizzly bear by rossen, this would be it. this is called the cold nose, the band has 2 LPs, cold nose and the upcoming in ear park.

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?xnvtoogtcnn

its not as good or focused as in ear park but i like it. it can get pretty random as it goes along and is pretty scattered in general, but you can hear their direction in that last song.

so i listened to the new stereolab album and now i want everything they've ever done

is chemical chords your first exposure to stereolab?

i really hate this year. think back. 2007. that was panda bear. and lcd soundsystem. and times new viking and no age were sort of new. and then tons of other good stuff.

this year is so fucking lame.

can't even remember 5.

portishead
CSS
fleet foxes
neon neon (was that last year?)
Lykke Li or REM I guess

neon neon was this year but i only like three songs or so. it's a comedy album.

have you heard the nothing people album

there are like 50 albums from this year that i like but i couldn't name 4 of them off the top of my head. thats the kind of year its been

Only one person listed Third?

wtf.

Apparently, I have difficulty reading the second page. But, still, wtf.

albums ive liked

bonnie prince billy - is it the sea
brian wilson shock treatment - hammer of the metal gods (feels like i've had this for 2 years)
burning star core - challenger
cheveu - cheveu
eddy current suppression ring - primary colours
earth - bees made honey
eat skull - sick to deaht
fabulous diamonds - 7 songs
graham lambkin and jason lescalleet - the breadwinner
grouper - dragging a dead deer..
growing - all the way
hauschka - ferndorf
heartburns - fixin to die
jonathan richmans - becuse her beauty..
larence english - kiri no oto
my disco - paradise
nothing people - anonymous
sun kil moon - april
times new viking - rip it off
tallest man on earth - shallow grave
valet - naked acid
witch hats - celulite soul

and a bunch of singles/comps/other

but i think most of the really good stuff was towards the beginning of the year and it's kinda dropped off since and nothing great's been out for a while

there are like 50 albums from this year that i like but i couldn't name 4 of them off the top of my head. thats the kind of year its been

i feel like i've listened to a lot of music that i did like, but wasn't so good that i didn't delete half of it or can even think of the other half without looking through folders. i've listened to many of the albums listed in this thread and i liked a lot of them too, but i can't bring myself to sum up this year in music by making a long list of music that i've listened to a couple of times and thought was 'pretty cool'. where are all the great bands making records people will still talk about twenty years from now?

i feel like i just have bad taste in music. if i was really into hip hop or emo or freak folk or eighties dance rock i bet i would have the best time

i've listened to many of the albums listed in this thread and i liked a lot of them too, but i can't bring myself to sum up this year in music by making a long list of music that i've listened to a couple of times and thought was 'pretty cool'

hey let's do this anyway. just copy/pasted from this thread

grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
earth - the bees made honey in the lion's skull
mae shi - hllyh
sigur ros - mea sum blah blah blah
no age - nouns
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
the kills - midnight boom
Deerhunter-Microcastle
blank dogs - on two sides
fuck buttons - street horssing
black mountain
Evil Urges, My Morning Jacket
Third, Portishead
nick cave and the bad seeds
times new viking - rip it off

what a big 'meh'

some of that i cant really remember that well so maybe i would think it sucked if i listened again, but all of it have in common that i wouln't care if i'd never heard it. maybe earth doesn't deserve to be on there, i can see myself getting into that some time

i just listen to all the wrong shit don't i?

on a more positive note i like withered - folie circulaire, i don't think anyone mentioned that

is chemical chords your first exposure to stereolab?

yup, i downloaded a few of their other albums. i listened to all of emperor tomato ketchup, some of dots and loops, and i havent listened to margerine eclipse. ive enjoyed practically all ive heard, im pretty sure ill go into their entire discography by the time september is over.

these are some of my favorite albums this year. kinda in order.

department of eagles - in ear park
the kills - midnight boom
okay - huggable dust
deerhunter - microcastle
french kicks - swimming
devotchka - a mad & faithful telling
grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
stereolab - chemical chords
beach house - devotion
the notwist - the devil, you, + me
sun kil moon - april
the roots - rising down
brendan canning - something for all of us
portishead - third
girl talk - feed the animals
the duke spirit - neptune
tokyo police club - elephant shell
the walkmen - you & me

meh. btw what's nothing people

i guess i should download that mae shi album. i saw a couple videos by them a while ago and got really annoyed and put off downloading aynthing by them.

and i just discovered that sunny day in glasgow album. its 2007 but its so good

i feel like i've listened to a lot of music that i did like, but wasn't so good that i didn't delete half of it or can even think of the other half without looking through folders. i've listened to many of the albums listed in this thread and i liked a lot of them too, but i can't bring myself to sum up this year in music by making a long list of music that i've listened to a couple of times and thought was 'pretty cool'. where are all the great bands making records people will still talk about twenty years from now?

i feel like i just have bad taste in music. if i was really into hip hop or emo or freak folk or eighties dance rock i bet i would have the best time

It's not you I think. There's more people making more music and that music is getting more and more easy to make available at the same time making records harder to sell. As a result the talent gets more and more diluted the more music is made available. Yeah I don't really hear much that will be remembered. Maybe its just a bad year (I still listen to a lot of my favorite albums from 2006)

Portishead - Third
Natural Snow Buildings - Laurie Bird
El Perro Del Mar - From the Valley to the Stars
Quiet Village - Silent Movie
Beach House - Devotion

a pretty tentative top 5 for me.

so to summarize this thread, basically nothing really good has come out this year

nothing good has come out this year UNTIL Dear Science drops.

I counted 107 good albums that have come out this year.

but gossamer said nothing good has come out this year

someone up grouper

oh crap, I totally forgot about The Walkmen.

I also liked that Pete & the Pirates album.

up grouper

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?x6fqnsi5kjq

thanks gristle.

only september and i can't think of anything challenging Tallest man for my no 1 position. Totally addicted to this album.

i couldn't stand the way that guy sings. but everybody's raving about it. maybe i should give it another chance

t's annoying at first. i got into it because i got into the tracks where his voice wasn't so noticeable. and then the rest of it just came. but after not listening for a couple of months it is a little overbearing again.

well, i wouldn't call it more annoying than the obvious Bob Dylan.

top 5:

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness

i kind of hate that have a nice life album

whereas i liked tallest man on earth immediately. the vocals are what makes it stand out obviously

this year so far:

Why? - Alopecia
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
Zozobra - Bird Of Prey
Rotten Sound - Cycles
Sigur Ros - Whatever The Fuck Its Called
Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
Steve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse
TSP - American Gothic
Ihsahn - angL
Dub Trio - Another Sound Is Dying
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
NIN - Ghosts
Disfear - Live The Storm
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Torche - Meanderthal
Meshuggah - Obzen
*Shels - Sea Of The Dying Dhow
Boris - Smile
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

i like 2008.

whereas i liked tallest man on earth immediately. the vocals are what makes it stand out obviously

.

yeah music like that is almost entirely dependent on vocals/lyrics. you can find a million dudes to write those chords and play them on acoustic guitar, but his voice is very unique. chad vangaalen's soft airplane is like that too. dudes voice saves that album.

this grouper is okay so far. paavoharju and child readers put out similar albums this year which i think are better.

up those

i always felt dylan had a certain swagger that made his voice charming. the tallest man on earth guy doesnt have that same charisma. i do like that album, but its not something i feel like revisiting.

wow someone mentioned american gothic

TSP - American Gothic

I'm a fanboy and all, but really?

^ jah.

say what you will, i like the songs. they're quaint.

american gothic is the first sp-related release i have no intention to ever hear

the new grouper album is really good i think. bit repetitive and not as interesting as the last but there are some fantastic songs on it.

for some reason i think the new silver jews album is ok and also that vetiver covers album. weird.

Child Readers - Music Heard Far Off:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ll6ngxkjlmz

Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cgzjvoiy4fz

lindstrøm- where you go i go too
blank dogs- on two sides
low motion disco- keep it slow

and i'm ambivalent about the rest since i haven't heard much of what's out there anyway. yearbook 2 by studio wasn't bad. mostly i'm looking forward to saint dymphna after having heard a few tracks.

i didn't realize how good the lindstrom was until i let it play in its entirety on a set of excellent loud speakers

I listened to the Lindstrom one a long car ride last week after not listening to it for a while. i'm not sick of any of it, it still sounds super fresh after listening to it a ton

the new tv on the radio is pretty boring and inoffensive.

celluloid love do you like mayyors

oh shit i forgot i had this max tundra sitting on my hard drive forever

shapan do you like the chap

caboladies is pretty damn nice.

ive had mega breakfast on my computer for a while, i think thats there latest chap album. i gave it a listen when i first got it and it just came off as really poppy and generic. havent listened to it since. i listened to a little of child readers the other day but only got through a couple of songs, ill listen to more of it this week.

im listening to the new tv on the radio right now and im pretty sure i just dont like this band. maybe its the vocals or something but ive just never gotten why people like them so much. listened to the kings of leon record last night, liked it.

mayyors are totally fucking awesome

have they released anything new yet

Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
No Age - Nouns
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Walkmen - You & Me

the last mayyors i got is from this 7" magans LOLZ or something like that

what

oh shit i forgot i had this max tundra sitting on my hard drive forever

this album is really nifty

what

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7beuzt

oh shit i forgot i had this max tundra sitting on my hard drive forever

Hi, Julio. Just the other day I half-assedly looked at his website to see if he had any projects on the horizon, as I hadn't heard his name in a long time. I somehow didn't manage to come up with the information that he had a new album coming out. What's it called? You like it pretty well?

While I'm here, I suppose I'll update my favorites:

Sam Amidon - All Is Well
Nat Baldwin - MVP
Thee Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers (I've listened to this on and off since it came out, but just this week I'm starting to really like it, especially "i do what i want, when i want"
Sic Alps - U.S. EZ
Blank Dogs - On Both Sides
Justus Kohncke - Safe and Sound
Ellen Allien - Sool
Matmos - Supreme Balloon (parts of this kinda suck, but overall it's enjoyable)
Beach House - Devotion (not great but I've had some good moments with it on)

I guess the Lindstrøm is ok, but overall it's not really doing too much for me yet.

Also, the Gas and Basic Channel reissues are fantastic.

Here's the new Max Tundra, matt:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/f16yex

Yeah I'm enjoying. its more poppy than some best friend. It's a little fey and cloy at times but its good in moderate doses. I didn't know Oh Sees had an album out this year. I gotta get on top of that. I really liked cool death of island raiders

Thanks for the link. The new Thee Oh Sees is good, and I definitely like Cool Death of Island Raiders, but by far my favorite release of theirs is Sucks Blood from last year. It's really one of my favorite albums to come out in a long long time. It took several listens for it to really sink in, but since then, I've been listening to it at least once a week for a year straight. I have a really difficult time putting my finger on what makes it so incredibly compelling and affecting to me. I mean, the songs themselves are great, but something about the way it was recorded and produced really brings the album to transcendent level. Maybe I'm gushing too much, but I really connected with it a lot.

nah. thats how i feel about cool death of island raiders. the production is very evocative. i guess. are you a fan of natural snow buildings? I dont blame anyone if they find them boring and not wanting to trudge through 40 minutes of droning, but speaking of transcendent music, these guys do it for me. they put out 3 albums this year alone to my knowledge and i like them all a lot.

ive had mega breakfast on my computer for a while, i think thats there latest chap album. i gave it a listen when i first got it and it just came off as really poppy and generic. havent listened to it since. i listened to a little of child readers the other day but only got through a couple of songs, ill listen to more of it this week.

im listening to the new tv on the radio right now and im pretty sure i just dont like this band. maybe its the vocals or something but ive just never gotten why people like them so much. listened to the kings of leon record last night, liked it.

the track Caution Me on mega breakfast is probably my favorite song of the year

i was surprised that the first mayyors 7" is $30+ on ebay now glad i caught it in time

the second one is one of the few things i've ever blind bought

i dont understand whats good about lindstrom

why dp people like techno

why do you like sun kil moon

shut the fuck up

uh because it doesn't sound like some endlessly repetitive bulshit made specifically for assholes to dance to in hispster clubs? as if you actually sit there and listen to this

i go to hipster clubs a lot and i've never heard lindstrom

ive never heard of lindstrom until this thread

thats your fav song of the year? never wouldve guessed it.

mayyors = pretty good

uh because it doesn't sound like some endlessly repetitive bulshit made specifically for assholes to dance to in hispster clubs? as if you actually sit there and listen to this
i thought you liked drone

techno is just like drone to me, only you can dance to it

im sorry that's not really a valid comparison.

i thnk techno is like the worst genre. lindstrom is pretty good at it but that doens't count for much

yeah this is like background music for infomercials. pretty embarassing how many people are pretending this is something special

im sorry that's not really a valid comparison.

i thnk techno is like the worst genre. lindstrom is pretty good at it but that doens't count for much

i think its a perfectly valid comparison. what makes burning star core so enjoyable

i mean i know the answer but do you

comparing the two on the basis of repetition is not valid

techno is lifeless, it's so calculated that all it can ever be to me is cheesy, nothing more. like it's such an insular subgenre. i'm not saying people don't do interesting things with computers.

burning star core is good for many reasons, one of them being it's rare to find a good [noise] improviser, particularly one that's involved iwth both more serious sound art people and more punk type dudes

that's a couple of reasons why i like him. why did you ask why i like bunring star core

(i dont think i could explain to you 'why' i like the sound of any band or artist, what a dumb thing to have to answer anyway)

the lindstrom album is like good if you're having a headphones mix contest in the reaktor forums but yeah it's nothing actually special. the health remix album is however is definitley one of the best ever balances between unhinged insanity and actual disco beats.

i think both good drone and good techno have hypnotic qualities. what's good about them is what's good about minimalism. subtle mood shifts / no instrumental wanking / nothing to distract you from the "core of the sound"

i may sound like a retard but i think drone and techno are very much alike in that department. that techno is "calculated" is both wrong and a silly argument.

lindstrom's "i feel space" is one of the best pieces of electronic music of the decade, and most of his stuff is tolerable to good.

but i haven't listened to the new album.

i love the dutchess and the duke album

have you guys listened to the dead science album? im enjoying it, its gonna take me a bit to soak it all in. kinda reminds me of xiu xiu.

new gang gang dance is so good. though 'vacuum' reminds me of a long lost loveless instrumental

and got around to listening to lykke li, thats also a superb album

lindstrom's "i feel space" is one of the best pieces of electronic music of the decade, and most of his stuff is tolerable to good.

but i haven't listened to the new album.

i feel space blew my mind and the new album hits me in just the same spot.

Also i don't really can't imagine anyone actually dancing to where you go i go too. I mean it sounds like disco because of the 4x4-ness of it but if you're really taking it as a dance record then I understand why you wouldn't like it. But I never even considered people would dance to it until I read this thread.

yeah its more cerebral than pop imo

new gang gang dance is so good.

seriously. there are few albums i was looking forward to but this is one of them and i'm glad it's there.

funny, i was just listening to it and 'vacuum' came up when i read your post.

Various - Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics - 1977-1985

Various - Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics - 1977-1985

you should up that

i second that

disco italia:

part1: hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?1ixaxlmuewl
part2: hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?r4yij1jmuk3

can someone up the gang gang dance please

it's just stupid techno

disco italia:

part1: hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?1ixaxlmuewl
part2: hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?r4yij1jmuk3

Sweet, thanks. My bf has a bunch of old Italo stuff that I think might be pretty rare. I've thought of ripping it all one day and posting it, I should get around to that.

can someone up the gang gang dance please

hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=BNC7M2ZW

goddammit right as i downloaded it somewhere else. thanks anyway shap, im sure someone else will use that

its ok wasnt my link anyways

sick album though

the only gang gang dance i've heard is god's money and it has sort of cheesy sounding parts

i will listen to this once i get my broadband connection back though

the only gang gang dance i've heard is god's money and it has sort of cheesy sounding parts

i will listen to this once i get my broadband connection back though

gang gang dance is a hit and miss band but their highs are really great. the s/t is definitely worth checking out. and the new one has some really fantastic tracks but then there's this fucking rap track that ruins the entire flow.

disco italia:


thanks for this it's awesome.

saint dymphna was pretty horrible on first listen, but now i think it's decent if you ignore the bad stuff (princes, ugh)

i think i like it better than god's money. they could use a good drummer though.

apropos, the new marnie stern album is of course very cool.

and got around to listening to lykke li, thats also a superb album

yeah im enjoying this too

can someone please upload that Sic Alps album, i am failing fucking spectacularly in my efforts.

I somehow missed Cut Copy before this.

WHat a fucking fantastic album.

I somehow missed Cut Copy before this.

WHat a fucking fantastic album.

:hanging:

i liked it at first but it didn't hold up that great

yeah im enjoying this too

switch that, i kinda got sick of it already.

is that because shapan likes it

no

just realized the songs aren't really that good. they just sounded really cool. just like that peter bjorn and john album (incidentally the lykke li was produced by one of these guys)

the new gang gang dance album will be in my top 10

do you like like the song princes, "smashingjj"

i really do

the new gang gang dance album will be in my top 10

top5 for me

the lykke li album is a singer/songwriter pop album, they generally dont have much staying power. kinda like feist's first album.

but its good for what it is

little teeth's LP finally came out and is alright, i wish they wouldve done a little more. the starfucker album is cool, stereolabish.

finally a batch of albums that are truly interesting upon first listen arrived at my home

pumice - quo
a.m. - rag red reverie
toshimaru nakamura - dance music
growing - all the way

the growing one sounds exactly like a 50/50 mixture of techno and drone. highly recommended for celluloid_love that bum

also grabbed

mark kozelek - 7 songs belfast
prurient - cocaine death

from hipinion. these are top-notch, but i think that's only if you already like said artists

listened to the vivian girls album on the way home, what a fun album

i have some mark kozelek sitting on my laptop, havent gotten around to listening to it

the usb port fell out of my hard drive so i don't listen to music anymore

favourite albums of 2008, listened to during the last 6 months

according to last.fm



1. vetiver - thing of the past
2. gang gang dance - saint dymphna
3. ex reverie - the door into summer
4. ulaan khol - I
5. burning star core - challenger
6. scarlett johansson - anywhere i lay my head
7. marnie stern - This Is it and I Am it and You Are it and so Is That and He Is it and She Is it and…
8. portishead - third
9. bon iver - for emma, forever ago
10.pumice - quo



cool

scarlett johansson is awful

yep

oh wait

yeah her voice is terrible

i like her voice

finally a batch of albums that are truly interesting upon first listen arrived at my home


toshimaru nakamura - dance music


What is this album like? I have only heard the Repeat/Pool album he did with Jason Kahn, but liked it pretty well.

humming machine like ambience at varying frequencies. its pretty cool

i hate that everything on my top 10 is featured in pitchfork

lol you thought i liked the scarlett johansson album?

switch that, i kinda got sick of it already.

yeah she's cute for a hot minute but it gets old fast. i even heard little bit dubbed over a victoria's secret commercial a few days ago. :erm: she's in love with bon iver and that could be potential genius in terms of collaboration and.or influence, but she's so poppy it's really hit or nasty miss.


and the new ggd easily = top rank. and I LIKE PRINCES. tinchy stryder raps a bunch of filler but it's fucking fun.

i hate that everything on my top 10 is featured in pitchfork

why do people still have this mentality? i mean i dont necessarily agree with everything pitchfork says(im sure they ripped that kills record ive been raving about and i dont even need to check) but its a good way to get music around because a lot of people check that site. if they give an album you like a good review it just means that more people will listen to it, which i thought was a good thing? you cant really be so insecure that the thought that you like an album that few people have heard makes you feel better about yourself, can you? finding albums isnt terribly difficult.

im pretty sure people are paying less and less attention to the substance of these reviews the earlier records leak, anyway. people just check reviews these days to see if they agree with their opinion, considering they've had enough time to form a pretty strong one in the time between the leak and release date. the occasional person who sees a high score for an album, skims through the review and listens to the album is a good thing. its a decent way to get the word out on some albums, like if someone made a thread about the album here. whether or not the number reflects any sort of accuracy is still up to the person listening.

pitchfork sometimes has horrible taste though. especially concerning the way it presents alleged new superstars of indie rock or whatever. if you like a lot of stuff pitchfork likes, chances are you're some dumb easily manipulated hipster type who eats up everything pitchfork says is good and can't form an opinion of his own.

if you're not, you'll have to meet lots of those people at shows you might consider attending

there are only so many shows you can go to to find out about music, a lot of this stuff is spread by word of mouth or by the internet. i know what you're saying that a lot of people are dictated by sites like pitchfork and thats lame but thats not really what im talking about. (i think theres only so much music you can listen to before you start thinking independently of whats fed to you, anyway) i dont know many people who think pitchfork or cokemachineglow or whatever is cool, but if it serves as an outlet to listen to some good records then thats fine and good. not based on whether or not they praise the album, but just based on the fact that its publicity and buzz for a band that someone who hasnt heard might like. there is so much good music that hearing about it from some other source aside from happening to catch the band live happens all the time. and odds are that source has a lot of bullshit opinions you dont know about. i just figure a lot of these music journalism sites are other sources. and honestly i havent read enough of their reviews to be able to act like ive figured any of them out.

personally i feel reviews are losing a lot of their pertinence because music leaks so early that more people form their opinions way before an album's release date. (some of these people probably post their reviews on pitchfork) there should probably be more of this tool judgement on those communities that provide all the music beforehand. but then it's hard to escape it and you just go around thinking practically everyone is a tool. i prefer to think people are more independent than that, if they like music they look for it, and they dont form their opinions until they listen to it for themselves. and there are plenty of sources that just let you know what exists.

if you like a lot of stuff pitchfork likes, chances are you're some dumb easily manipulated hipster type who eats up everything pitchfork says is good and can't form an opinion of his own.

ok, davin

i call 'em like i see 'em.