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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => music, art and culture => Topic started by: Jaspersharpe on December 18, 2012, 12:48:17 pm
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2012 is almost over so what have you been listening to? In no order, these are all very good:
Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Mystery Jets - Radlands
St Etienne - Words and Music by
Hot Chip - In Our Heads
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Howler - America Give Up
Paloma Faith - Fall To Grace
Various Cruelties - Various Cruelties
Sure I'll think of some more.....
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Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room
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Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room
Heard that London Can Take It tune loads on the radio - meant to investigate further.....
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This is the one...
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - EVEREST (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgfzEm3CWU#)
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Recently picked up a copy of Baroness' Yellow and Green, it's a pretty weird, but rather good album.
In more punk tonings:
Great Cynics - Don't need much
Apologies, I have none - London
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
Off! - Off!
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1. Grimes – Visions
2. Walkmen - Heaven
3. The XX - Coexist
4. Sharon Von Etten – Tramp
5. Beach House – Bloom
6. Holy Other – Held
7. John Talabot – Fin
8. Errors – Have some faith in magic
9. Lower Dens - Nootropics
10. Mmoths - Mmoths
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PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - EVEREST
Is it on the album?
por moi (in no particular order)
Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Django Django - Django Django
Alt J - The Perfect Wave (thanks for the tip gme)
The Sea and Cake - Runner (was this your tipoff FD?)
Four Tet - Pink
Liars - WIXIW (thanks to Panton...?)
Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
Daphni (AKA Caribou)- Jaiolong
Orbital - Wonky
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No, it's been released as a single though and it's amazing!
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it's amazing!
I wasn't disputing that fact. Just that you referenced the album, then a single not on the album, which got me all confused and wondering if I had been too hasty buying the album and maybe it had been rereleased with Everest on it, which would have annoyed me no end.
But no, all is good.
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1. Grimes – Visions
2. Walkmen - Heaven
3. The XX - Coexist
4. Sharon Von Etten – Tramp
5. Beach House – Bloom
6. Holy Other – Held
7. John Talabot – Fin
8. Errors – Have some faith in magic
9. Lower Dens - Nootropics
10. Mmoths - Mmoths
some gems there
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Not in any order :-
Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Orbital - Wonky
XX - Coexist
Bob Mould - Silver Age
Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
Human Don't Be Angry - Human Don't Be Angry
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Forgot the Richard Hawley album. Really good.
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My top 10 of 2012 (not ranked in order):
Crystal Castles III
Grimes Visions
Blondes Blondes
Lorn Ask the Dust
Burial Kindred EP
Chromatics Kill for Love
Policia Give you the Ghost
Peter Dundov Ideas from the Pond
Daphni Jiaolong
Blanck Mass White Math EP
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Jeff Corbett – Mellaconti
Hornblend – Night Riser
Fire Garden – Toot n Sway
Pink Ushion - Kieserschmass
Bryan Tandi – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
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How could I forget Bryan Tandi? The man is a genius.
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I've listened to very little new music this year, but the Jake Bugg album is really good
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Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
Missed that, good heads up. So pleased she is still going strong.
Some other great recommendations, the time of year the Spotify goes into overdrive!
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Jeff Corbett – Mellaconti
Hornblend – Night Riser
Fire Garden – Toot n Sway
Pink Ushion - Kieserschmass
Bryan Tandi – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Fire Garden as in Sheffield's finest Prog Rock protagonists? Didn't realise they were still about!
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Jeff Corbett – Mellaconti
Hornblend – Night Riser
Fire Garden – Toot n Sway
Pink Ushion - Kieserschmass
Bryan Tandi – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
I mean those records are okay, but Jeff Corbett has done way better, and Kieserschmass started well but ends badly. And Bryan Tandi's entire oeuvre consists of moaning about child support payments: no ta!
I've enjoyed:
Bill Fay: Life is people
Remarkable comeback album from the man some have called the British Bob Dylan. Two cult albums followed by a lifetime of obscurity, and then this. 5 stars in Mojo!
Grimes: Visions
Weird one this, on paper it's twaddle (and some of it is) but also some proper magic. At the same time demonstrates some great influences whilst sounding very original. Live shows look well specious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnzPLuDa-iI#ws).
The Stone Roses: live at Heaton Park (bootleg)
Obvs. 'Reni makes Dave Grohl look like he's still at high school'. Not my words, the words of NME magazine. Kiss my face.
Liked the Public Service Broadcasting stuff too. Interesting interview on Radcliffe and Maconie where he claimed he'd never even heard Neu! until he started playing his stuff to others...
Be interested in other folks' reviews/ recommendations (appreciated more than just lists as I've no idea who most are nowadays...)
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Great thread, as Johnny says a bit of review is good rather than just lists.
Need some new tunes and need to get my stereo plugged in again
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These I loved (all Australian and well worth checking out)-
Tame Impala - 'Lonerism'
The Presets - 'Pacifica'
Flume - 'Flume'
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I forgot to add (not Australian)-
Aesop Rock - 'Skelethon'
Of Monsters and Men - 'My Head is an Animal'.
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In the words of Manowar 'if you're not onto metal you are not my friend', consider that a review for the albums below, but if that isn't enough and you haven't heard of them, I've added a song off each.
Baroness, Yellow and Green: It's amazing when you discover you've been sleeping on a band, and once you hear their new stuff, the even better news is that they have two great albums on their back catalogue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GdaTrP6hOE#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GdaTrP6hOE#ws)
Turbonegro, Sexual Harassment: An album that sounds like the sort of parties you really should have stopped going to when you left university, but every now and again you still find yourself drinking strong lager and having a slapping contest...
Turbonegro "You Give Me Worms" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZh3PF0u4Vg#ws)
Gojira - Enfant Sauvage - A french mathy metal band singing in english about environmental matters, heavy as fuck.
Gojira - Explosia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqB4YPcacdo#ws)
Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living - Second best show if the year in a sweaty OBL afterr they'd already played 5 other shows the same day
Cancer Bats - Bricks and Mortar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8M4L8VnlkA#ws)
Bossk - Pick Up Artist OK so not a new album but a new tune, hopefully an album on the way!
Bossk - Pick Up Artist (New Song 2012) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2rtqrHvC0#)
Deftones - Koi No Yokan - It's the Deftones, you should know what sort of awesomeness you're going to get.
Deftones - Poltergeist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUm3Ld8xlL4#)
The Sword - Apocryphon - A band that writes space rock about smoking weed and piloting spaceships, I guess you're either into this shit or not...
The Sword - Apocryphon Full Album (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9EXkKCS8g#)
Future album I'm most excited about: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/07/iggy-pop-patti-smith-pirates-album?INTCMP=SRCH (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/07/iggy-pop-patti-smith-pirates-album?INTCMP=SRCH)
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The Turbonegro LP is brilliant. Reminds me of The Dwarves, Stooges and Lazy Cowgirls.
I'll submit my annual report tomorrow.
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I liked the XX's coexist a lot.
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Burial Kindred EP
Well, if we're playing it like that...
Burial - Kindred
ASC & Ulrich Schnauss - 77
Amadou et Mariam - Folila
Vibronics - The French Connection
Indigo - Symbol #7
Sam KDC - Symbol #8
ASC & Sam KDC - Decayed Society
That's all I can think of off the top of my swede.
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Above selections not withstanding, it seems like I haven’t had the time to listen to whole albums. New music tends to have been individual or a few tracks here and there. So I can’t really recommend albums as such but here's some artists and sample tracks I’ve been liking. None are 2012 releases, some are deffo a lot older.
Jimmie Spheeris – I am the Mercury from classic 1970 album Isle of View. I don’t think Midlake’s The Courage of Others would exist without this track/album
Judee Sill – Crayon Angels. Another one from the 70s from a true crazy genius
Jolie Holland – Mexico City. More recent, American country/folk. Great voice.
Sixto Rodriguez – Sandrevan Lullaby. After hearing Radio 4 documentary
Beach House – Myth. Dream pop apparently
This Mortal Coil – The definitive cover of Tim Buckley’s Song of Siren.
As per JB, loving the Fay comeback album.
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I haven't listened to anything that came out this year. I thought that l'd get a chance this Week to do a bit of Spotifying but My Internet's gone down.
l did really like Abbey Road by The Beatles though. :jab:
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Inadvertantly ended up on a bit of a folk & electro-swing binge, but the following have been played a fair amount:
The Folkroom Anthology 1 & 2 (Free downloads) - Really nice folky stuff from this new label
Swingrowers / Pronounced Swing Growers - Tasty Italian electro-swing
Caravan Palace / Panic - Nice French electro-swing, bigger beats than their first album
Watsky / Nothing Like The First Time - Fun lyric-driven hip-hop from the kid who bought you the YouTube phenomonemeonomonon "Pale kid raps fast"
Delilah - 2-4am (Free download) - A surprisingly good pop act with nice dub-steppy undertones on many tracks.
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No particular order, and no doubt missing some crackers initially i'm going for:
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Fake Blood - Cells
The Herbaliser - There Were Seven
Django Django - Django Django
The XX - Coexist
more may follow
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Don't listen much to albums anymore, have adapted to the modern way of discontinuous listening.
Anyway, some albums I liked (biased on the side of the latter part of the year, who remember what they listened to half a year ago?) :
Bill Fay, Life is People. On repeat for a long time.
Darren Hayman (and the Long Parliament), The Violence. Concept album of the year?
Franc Ocean, Channel Orange. Everyone's album of the year, for good reasons.
Björn Olsson, lite nya melodier. Bjorn can whistle really well. A hero of the Swedish alt-rock scene.
Amanda Palmer, Theatre is evil. Everyone loves to hate it, I love it!
Elle Varner, Perfectly Imperfect. American R&B free of automatic pitch-controll YYFY.
Bobby Womack, Please forgive my heart. Comeback of the year?
Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball
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Enjoying this thread. Not created enough listening time for albums this year, but here are some tracks that have lodged in my noggin. Sorry if these aren't all current, no idea what's new and what isn't.
Ruari Joseph, Nervous Grin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFSuZALudKk#) - Cornish based folky guitar singer-songwriter. Pretty lyrics and a tide-like melody on this song.
Gunner Møller Pedersen, Stoned - an Electronic Symphony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhRPgCz_V0#) - Danish Composer. Burblings, cracklings and keening brass sections. Minimalist beauty.
Alela Diane, Pirate's Gospel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpwSxHiiNSw#) - "Trance-like arpeggios" and a haunting voice, plus catchiness.
Grubby Mitts, The Standard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtabWpBmNAk#) - A stripped down intro grows into life-afirming noises of goodness. There's a Free Download (http://freemp3x.com/standard-by-the-grubby-mitts-mp3-download.html) too. Check out the cheeky To A Friend's House The Way Is Never Long (https://soundcloud.com/losttoysrecords/to-a-friends-house-the-way-is) if you like that.
Jesse Woods, Hounds from Heaven (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrRj4nmsDOI#) - Music from (http://jessewoods.wordpress.com/about/) the poetic side of American hobo life. Catchy too.
Mahalia Jackson, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZuWzZvoYQ#noexternalembed) - Gospel legend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalia_Jackson), voice to knock your socks off.
Karl Blau, That's How I Got to Memphis (http://www.myspace.com/karlblau) - gentle, perfect alt-country. But I can't find a decent youtube version, so here's the very different Into The Nada - a gleeful concoction of drum machine, trumpet and bass.
Into the nada - Karl Blau (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMmduOsGDeU#)
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Kasra - FabricLive 61
DJ Hazard - FabricLive 63
S.P.Y. - What The Future Holds
THRASHER - 10 Years Of Prspct Madness
Enei - Machines
Ray Keith - I Am Renegade
Black Sun Empire - From The Shadows
Drum and bass has been the only good music released this year and even then there have been some disappointments (Break, Mindscape, Data, Big Bud).
Edit, my mistake:
Various - Minutes In Ice
Was an excellent techno album.
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http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012 (http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012)
"The xx's Coexist" was the favourite 2012 album for "interior designers who buy one record a year"
;D
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Rush - Clockwork Angels. How on earth 3 men approaching a combined age of 180 can produce possibly their finest (and heaviest) album in a career lasing 40+ years is beyond comprehension :bow:
Rush-Clockwork Angels (studio version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFG4HZlpQ4s#)
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Bobby Womack, Please forgive my heart. Comeback of the year?
Isn't the album called The Bravest Man in the Universe? Either way, yes a good return, exudes pure class.
I forgot I've been listening to Lightships - Electric Cables. Gerald Love (formerly of Teenage Fanclub) grows up and mellows out. Very laid back, but good.
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Chris, do you read rolling stone? :fishing:
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http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012 (http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012)
"The xx's Coexist" was the favourite 2012 album for "interior designers who buy one record a year"
;D
'Mumford and Sons' – "Boring English people with beards."
Brilliant.
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http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012 (http://www.flavorwire.com/357103/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2012)
That reminds me
DJ Rashad - Teklife pt. 1 - Welcome to the Chi.
DJ Rashad - On My Way (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06F3dbBpBuM#ws)
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Chris, do you read rolling stone? :fishing:
No, although I had intended the Q style "earnest review" tagline to come across in those comments. Maybe I've found my calling?
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Bobby Womack, Please forgive my heart. Comeback of the year?
Isn't the album called The Bravest Man in the Universe? Either way, yes a good return, exudes pure class.
Eh, yes. And Mr. Ocean writes his first name Frank. I was wearing mittens when I wrote my list. And the phone was on auto-correct. And I wasn't exactly sober... :oops:
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I'll submit my annual report tomorrow.
*taps watch*
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I only got 1 new album this year several older albums though
Deftone - Koi No yokan Brilliant album been played on repeat for a couple of weeks since I got it
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Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Actress - VIP
Chromatics - Kill for Love
John Talabot - FIN
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Come on folks, at least some idea of genre next to your albums would be good!
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Come on folks, at least some idea of genre next to your albums would be good!
OK:
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (Himalayan Storm-Dub-Techno-Wheeze-Phantom)
Actress - VIP (Lo-Fi-Plink-Tech)
Chromatics - Kill for Love (Empty-Synth-Sprawl-Pop)
John Talabot - FIN (Ibero-Stockhausenesque-Plip-Beat-House-Carnival)
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;D
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Burial Kindred EP
Well, if we're playing it like that...
Burial's Truant/Rough Sleeper EP is even better.
Everything else I liked has already been mentioned (loved Tame Impala) other than El-P's Cancer 4 Cure, which is also amazing.
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As ever, some great selections from the UKB culture vultures. My Spotify playlist is expanding with each addition.
New Stuff that's rocked my world this year.
Cerebral Ballzy: Cerebral Ballzy - A blast of 80's style hardcore punkrock with great tunes and brilliant production.
Burial: Street Halo/Kindred - Streets ahead of any other post rave/dubstep/bass music producers. Melancholy and exciting at the same time. Listen on a big bass heavy sound system.
The Eccentric Research Council: 1612 Underture - Maxine Peak (Shameless and film actress) and the Sheffield based "All Seeing Eye" conjure up a psychogeographic and contemporary evocation of the Pendle Witch trials. Really different and really good.
Ichabod: Dreamscapes from Deadspace - Psychedelic, stoner, sludge rock of the highest quality.
Bob Mould: Silver Age - A return to Sugar style pop rock blasts and a renaissance of sorts for the ex-Husker Du frontman. Sunny day psyche music.
The Seer: Swans - Just awesome, troublesome and epic.
Alexander Tucker: Third Mouth - Beautiful, gentle, finger picked guitar with an electronic backwash. Introspective, rainy, Sunday afternoon edge-of-sleep listening (and the cover art is great)
Hirsuite Pursuit: Tighten that Muscle Ring - Filthy gay fuck techno disco from Bryin Dall (Thee Majesty), Boyd Rice and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Coil). Funny, hardcore and just Ace.
Dragged Into Sunlight: Widowmaker - Take last year's DIS album and chuck in some Godspeed and the result is terrifying from this bunch of anonymous scouse noise merchants.
Gravenhurst: The Ghost in Daylight - Just lovely guitar and electronica gentleness with a hint of darkness from Nick Talbot.
Rangda: Formerly Extinct - Improv psychedelia from the 'supergroup' of Ben Chasny (Six organs of admittance), Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) and Chris Corsano.
Pig Destroyer: Book Burner - 19 tracks in 28 minutes. Blistering grindcore.
TurboNegro: Sexual Harassment - This is just brilliant. Like The Dwarves, Lazy Cowgirls, Cheap Trick and The Stooges got stuck in a mixer with a modern twist. I'd love to see them live.
Sandy Denny: Box Set - 19 CD's and accompanying books, artwork and other stuff from her entire career. Has all the recordings with Fairport, Fotheringay and solo performances. Just stunning.
That's it for new stuff. Other sounds that have rocked my world this year include:
Rihanna: Can't stop playing her Loud LP.
Phil Spector: Playing all the wall of sound stuff on repeat all year.
Bobby Beasoleil: Scorpio Rising - Soundtrack to the Kenneth Anger movie recorded by BB in prison following the murder of Sharon Tate.
Stephen Stills: Manassas - Country rock at its best.
Roxy Music: CD boxed set of all the albums. Just brilliant.
Liszt: Bartok in the desert - Scratchy recordings of Bartok played on piano by the pyramids of Giza. Great train window gazing soundtrack.
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Lovely set of obscurities; only things I ever new existed from the new stuff are Bob Mould and Burial.
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Bob Mould: Silver Age - A return to Sugar style pop rock blasts and a renaissance of sorts for the ex-Husker Du frontman. Sunny day psyche music.
Still not as good as Copper Blue though....
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Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind
This is very good.
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I've just fallen head over heels in love with this lot:
Japandroids - Younger Us (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6Ptx4CV6k#)
A thrilling blast of amped up Replacements-esque/Paul Westerburg wonder that made me go in search of this album:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_Rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_Rock)
..and then drop heavy hints to my wife about what she should be buying me for Christmas.
Talk about blowing the fucking cobwebs out! :punk: as, but with bits that sound like a more energetic National. If you search through youtube, like I did, you'll see what I mean.
Amusing Pitchforktv film here replete with rousing, air punching anthem and life on the road stuff:
Japandroids - "The House That Heaven Built" (Official Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVCtbfuDqw#ws)
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Still not as good as Copper Blue though....
Still one of my favourite albums....
back on topic bought a fair few albums this year but none that were released this year...
I'm getting old. :'(
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Going back to what SA Chris said at the start, I was blown away by this:
Liars - Brats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9jtjJ3zv0#ws)
I was into them about ten years ago circa Mr, you're on fire Mr but had lost track of them.
I just love the messed up Underworld meets the Butthole Surfers groove. Hands down, the best song film I've seen for a very long time.
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...and another second for the mighty Walkmen. Saw them again in Manchester recently and they were even better than a few years back. Such a great band; straight from the heart stuff that floors me every time.
Loving these two off the new album:
The Walkmen - Heaven (Official Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QaFK_GvO_s#ws)
The Walkmen - "We Can't Be Beat" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwo8F6H-AxE#ws)
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What a great track and vid Heaven is! :punk:
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No particular order, and no doubt missing some crackers initially i'm going for:
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Ditto for Grizzly Bear - went to see them in Portland recently - really quite extraordinarily good.
Would also add Swing Lo Magellan by the Dirty Projectors - even if only for the first track - spectacularly crunchy guitar.
This is a great thread!
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Still not as good as Copper Blue though....
Still one of my favourite albums....
back on topic bought a fair few albums this year but none that were released this year...
I'm getting old. :'(
Not that it negates my feeling of getting old but I did buy one 2012 release...
Oceania - Smashing Pumpkins
Return to form, sounds like the mid to late 90's again - probably why I forgot it was a 2012 release
Also, whilst I haven't actually got round to buying it, the new Killing Joke album sounds mucho promising
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Some great suggestions. Keep 'em coming.
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Tending to prefer Dying Fetus to Pig Destroyer, HTH.
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deadmau5
> album title goes here <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HklT2G2dZ0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HklT2G2dZ0)
Good (but not as good as 4x4=12)
And unexpectedly i now have some Jay-Z, and Jay-Z & Kanye West:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA32oH44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA32oH44)
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Forgot to mention the new Dinosaur Jr album; got it for Christmas (another heavy hint to my wife) and haven't stopped playing it since. J Mascis is the man, the main man! I could listen to him playing guitar forever.
Dinosaur Jr - Pierce the morning rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Vx0WqyYgA#)
Dinosaur Jr. - Don't pretend you didn't know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8PKWGeXpA#)
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Forgot to mention the new Dinosaur Jr album; got it for Christmas (another heavy hint to my wife) and haven't stopped playing it since. J Mascis is the man, the main man! I could listen to him playing guitar forever.
Dinosaur Jr - Pierce the morning rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Vx0WqyYgA#)
Dinosaur Jr. - Don't pretend you didn't know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8PKWGeXpA#)
It is good, though I don't think it quite matches 'Farm.' Got tickets to see them Feb 1, actually contemplating wearing some form or ear protection for first time ever.
Got to second or third the Grizzly Bear - wonderful, didn't think they could match Veckatimest but think they might have done (also another to see them this summer - I might do a round up of gigs later).
Tindersticks 'The Something Rain,' is also wonderful.
Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun', blistering.
Enjoying the atmospherics of Smoke Fairies 'Blood Speaks.'
I know there's more I've bought this year but can't think right now.
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actually contemplating wearing some form or ear protection for first time ever.
I stick a bit of cottonwool in my ears for gigs now, just to take the edge off. Got tinnitus from 2 years in artillery plus too many clubs and gigs, and it sucks, best avoid it if you can.
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I wear ear plugs for anything indoors now thats remotely amplified. My hearing is f*cked from playing in bands, too many loud gigs, surfers ear and headphones.
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How could I forget Part II: the new Godspeed album.
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I am probably one of the few in my cohort totally underwhelmed by Allelujah! Don't bend! Ascend!
I really liked the Dinosaur Jr album though (and for pretty pathetic reasons: it sounds more or less exactly as “Where you been”, and I was still just twenty then so music was still good.... :-[ )
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Forgot to mention the new Dinosaur Jr album; got it for Christmas (another heavy hint to my wife) and haven't stopped playing it since. J Mascis is the man, the main man! I could listen to him playing guitar forever.
Dinosaur Jr - Pierce the morning rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Vx0WqyYgA#)
Dinosaur Jr. - Don't pretend you didn't know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8PKWGeXpA#)
It is good, though I don't think it quite matches 'Farm.' Got tickets to see them Feb 1, actually contemplating wearing some form or ear protection for first time ever.
Got to second or third the Grizzly Bear - wonderful, didn't think they could match Veckatimest but think they might have done (also another to see them this summer - I might do a round up of gigs later).
Tindersticks 'The Something Rain,' is also wonderful.
Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun', blistering.
Enjoying the atmospherics of Smoke Fairies 'Blood Speaks.'
I know there's more I've bought this year but can't think right now.
I like Farm too, but I guess I'm just pleasantly surprised that they still keep coming up with the goods.
That Manchester Ritz gig is very tempting - I've only seen them play once before and that was more than twenty years ago!
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The internet's back up and running and I've been going through some of the stuff from this thread. Honestly, most of it sounds so over-produced. I had a couple of old bits of stuff from Julian Cope's 'Copendium' mixed in; a couple of Stooges tracks,Black Sabbath stuff, which I haven't listened to for years (and I'm not a metal fan). The old stuff sounds fresher.
I bought a turntable this year and dug out some of my old stuff, I've always been a big Neil Young fan but for some reason I'd only listen to 'On the beach' once. I think there were too many songs with 'blues' in the title for an indie kid. It was the only 'wow' moment this year. Neil sings like he's passed out on a table half-way through a line of coke, bought into the hippy dream and arrived at the ocean to find the real sharks weren't in the sea. That's my find of the year.
I've been listening to Scott Walker's 'Bish Bosch' today. I like it.
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Forgot to mention the new Dinosaur Jr album; got it for Christmas (another heavy hint to my wife) and haven't stopped playing it since. J Mascis is the man, the main man! I could listen to him playing guitar forever.
Dinosaur Jr - Pierce the morning rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Vx0WqyYgA#)
Dinosaur Jr. - Don't pretend you didn't know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8PKWGeXpA#)
It is good, though I don't think it quite matches 'Farm.' Got tickets to see them Feb 1, actually contemplating wearing some form or ear protection for first time ever.
Got to second or third the Grizzly Bear - wonderful, didn't think they could match Veckatimest but think they might have done (also another to see them this summer - I might do a round up of gigs later).
Tindersticks 'The Something Rain,' is also wonderful.
Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun', blistering.
Enjoying the atmospherics of Smoke Fairies 'Blood Speaks.'
I know there's more I've bought this year but can't think right now.
I like Farm too, but I guess I'm just pleasantly surprised that they still keep coming up with the goods.
That Manchester Ritz gig is very tempting - I've only seen them play once before and that was more than twenty years ago!
Come over Simon, you can have a doss at mine. I'm going with my son and his mates so another old fogey :-[ would be good. Totally agree, who'd have ever guessed this reunion would keep delivering.
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...and another second for the mighty Walkmen. Saw them again in Manchester recently and they were even better than a few years back. Such a great band; straight from the heart stuff that floors me every time.
Loving these two off the new album:
The Walkmen - Heaven (Official Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QaFK_GvO_s#ws)
The Walkmen - "We Can't Be Beat" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwo8F6H-AxE#ws)
Thanks for this listened on my laptop and wasn't really grabbed but through my nicer speakers the harmonies etc sound great. I'm hooked.
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Forgot to mention the new Dinosaur Jr album; got it for Christmas (another heavy hint to my wife) and haven't stopped playing it since. J Mascis is the man, the main man! I could listen to him playing guitar forever.
Dinosaur Jr - Pierce the morning rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Vx0WqyYgA#)
Dinosaur Jr. - Don't pretend you didn't know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8PKWGeXpA#)
It is good, though I don't think it quite matches 'Farm.' Got tickets to see them Feb 1, actually contemplating wearing some form or ear protection for first time ever.
Got to second or third the Grizzly Bear - wonderful, didn't think they could match Veckatimest but think they might have done (also another to see them this summer - I might do a round up of gigs later).
Tindersticks 'The Something Rain,' is also wonderful.
Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun', blistering.
Enjoying the atmospherics of Smoke Fairies 'Blood Speaks.'
I know there's more I've bought this year but can't think right now.
I like Farm too, but I guess I'm just pleasantly surprised that they still keep coming up with the goods.
That Manchester Ritz gig is very tempting - I've only seen them play once before and that was more than twenty years ago!
Come over Simon, you can have a doss at mine. I'm going with my son and his mates so another old fogey :-[ would be good. Totally agree, who'd have ever guessed this reunion would keep delivering.
Think this is going to clash with my mate's 50th party. I'll let you know if it doesn't.
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A couple of others to add:
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange. The soul guy from Odd Future. A really good groove electronic thing. Kind of Prince'y with some Moodymann and 70's feel.
Sleep - Dopesmoker. Finally remastered and reissued. One hour long stoner rock single track.
Jim Jones Revue - The savage Heart. Garage rock n'roll at its best.
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper.