So we're fuck-all of the way through 2008; what records are worth attention?

Vampire Weekend keeps holding up, despite expectations to the contrary. *shrug*

Scary Mansion's 'Every Joke is Half the Truth' is a better Cat Power record than Cat Power's own record. The Envelopes' second album 'Here Comes the Wind' continues to be rewarding. The Dø's 'A Mouthful' runs hot and cold, but the hot parts are worth hearing. She & Him's 'Volume One' (the M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel collaboration) is warm and fuzzy, perfect if you're in the mood. The Kills' 'Midnight Boom' is sort of a shift for them, but a welcome shift.

Looking forward to hearing Duffy, Santogold and some other things I can't think of right now.

I don't get why other people seem to love Hercules & Love Affair (ugh, Antony!) or that Baby Dee record (ugh, FAKE Antony!).

that scary mansion shit is wack doo

r0ng

all indie shit over here so far (in no order): los campesinos, vampire weekend, high places, hot chip, el guincho also the-dream (dec 07) and gucci mane (<-listen to this, also dec 07)

also definitely bon iver which is i guess is either 07 or 08

Yeah, maybe it's indie guilt, but I was kind of bummed when making my short list.

i've only listened to like 3 albums and they're all indie (counting hercules and love affair i suppose. i like it.). i enjoyed the vampire weekend ep but that was last year i think. haven't heard the album.

heard a bunch of mixes this year though, though honestly haven't heard that many classics. tim sweeney is keeping it up, juan mcleans RA was surprisingly good. He's blown me away live before though, respect.

i still can't get over lee burridge's balance(last year). i think there is about 1/4 that i still have to get through cause i keep having to do other stuff. always surprising. listening to tylero's mix right now, up to his usual excellent standards.

Atlas Sound's debut is v. good.

Come to think of it, the new discs by Times New Viking and The Ravenottes are v. good, too.

Hercules & Love Affair, Nick Cave, Black Mountain, Charlottefield, Dimension X, Diskjokke, Earth, The Mae Shi, Xiu Xiu and The Death of Her Money have made albums I'd recommend to people at will.

There's some other stuff like Kelley Polar, James Ruskin, Lights, Ocrilim and Clinic that needs to be played a bit more but is at least good IMO

Oh yeah, I forgot about TNV! And Kelley Polar!

The new Fred Falke ep is rather nice as well.

what i've heard of the kelly polar is as bland as usual.

It's good at 3am when nobody else is up except for you.

DJ Mencap- tell me more about that Charlottefield record. I got a single of their's years ago, but was unaware they are even still together.

Speaking of Resident Advisor, the Optimo podcast was good as well.

Well their old stuff was great but really on a Drive Like Jehu / Fugazi tip, but there's a lot more going on with this album. There's sort of folky bits and postpunk bits - I think they said they listen(ed) to a lot of This Heat IIRC? Assuming they made a bunch more records, I could see them being like Hood, except more of a punk rock band.

No offense to any of you here but if all the music you listen to is in the same category (indie pop, with some indie rock on the side) then no wonder everyone always decides in November that "this has been the worst year for music ever."

haha, despite being notorious for liking indiepop, based on everything mentioned here, d5 totally otm

(despite ME etc etc)

my point was more that i havent listened to anything yet. i enjoy lots of indie pop but it doesn't represent that much of my listening.

i've already heard a modest bunch of singles this year i think are great, but from an album point of view, whatever that's even worth these days, there's fuck-all on the ground. the raveonettes, maybe the i was a cub scout (or was that last year?)..

if the singles released thus far are any indication, the 2nd young knives album will be very good indeed.

So far this year the jazz scene is shit-hot with lots of bizarre awesome stuff that is actually kind of pop-friendly (see the jazz thread), I have heard some great r&b and amazing metal (see those threads), and a couple of things that are in no category.

Also I really enjoyed the Mountain Goats album, turns out that John D. is a pretty good songwriter after all.

Had you not liked his earlier work, D5? Or had just not heard his stuff yet?

Kind of a weird year for me so far listening-wise, actually -- nothing so far has impelled me to a series of repeat listens, which is always my litmus test for whether or not I'm really enjoying something. Then again at this time last year I only had one album like that, Jesu's Conquerer, so I'm not fretting or anything; also my attention's been more divided among many different non-musical things than it has been in a long while.

Are pixeltan releasing their album this year?

I really like the Vampire Weekend, it did the miraculous job of dislodging Blackout from my mp3 players constant rotation. I really feel like I might have worn that part of the drive out.

HAS ANYONE HERE HEARD A MOUTHFUL BY THE DO?

Also, All Is Yes by The Blessing is a wicked album, on the jazz front.

For fuXXors like me who don't like proper jazz. Or don't know about proper jazz. That is.

DJ Mencap- thanks, that sounds good, will check it out.

I think I would like the Raveonettes album, I've only ever enjoyed Whip It On by them though, the first proper album was such a letdown. I think I'm just very sick of a particular sound which is pretty constant in indie rock, particularly British indie rock. I don't know if it's a production thing, but I just hear it and think "Oh, indie". Apart from it I think I would like a lot of indie a lot more, if it weren't going so out of it's way to sound so, y'know, indie. The Sons and Daughters album was a case in point. I downloaded it based on a lot of "60's girl groups with edge" reviews. But 60's girl groups (well, the Ronnettes, Shangri-La's, the Chiffons anyway) have way more edge and imagination, and this more "serious" rehash sounds (to me) like a band that the girls might have formed for an episode of "Byker Grove"

That said I can like a lot of indie ish signifiers, and a lot of the time indie-goes-[insert musical genre here] bands can be really helpful as an entry way into a genre of music as it makes a slightly more familiar version of it that seems to become more and more irrelevant as you listen to more music from that genre. If that makes any sense.

Vampire Weekend got you into Afropop, you mean?

!

No, but I can see me going that way, it works all the time, I think my interests in techno, noise, krautrock, folk etc, all stemmed from some indie band that Pitchfork or someone ranted about, and I usually end up listening to that original band way least. I think I like Vampire Weekend because they remind me of Graceland and Clang of the Yankee Reaper, both of which I love.

Know any afropop I might like by any chance?

HAS ANYONE HERE HEARD A MOUTHFUL BY THE DO?

-- Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:39 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^This is good.

Also receiving thumbs up from me: Los Campesinos, eMC, Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans, Glass Candy.

I've picked up the following in 2008: Atlas Sound, Cat Power, Hot Chip, Mountain Goats, Xiu Xiu -- and I enjoy all of them to various degrees, some more than others obviously, but nothing *incredible* has come down the pipeline in 2008, yet. I'd most recommend Mountain Goats and Atlas Sound albums, both are excellent; Hot Chip is spotty in places, still pretty good; Cat Power is sorta disposable; Xiu Xiu I haven't played enough yet to figure out.

The best album I've heard (not out yet, officially) is the Gutter Twins' release, Saturnalia, coming out in a week or two, I think. If you check out the Gutter Twins thread, there's a link to the whole album, streaming online. Really, really solid album.

Otherwise, I'm most looking forward to Portishead; based on their past work (duh) and everything I've heard about the new release, especially from those who've heard it and *LOVE* it, I'm thinking this could be the best thing to come out in the first half of 2008.

Destroyer - trouble in dreams - almost perfect.
Vampire weekend - very good.
Mgmt - 1st half - classic, 2nd half - dud.
Chauchat - upon thousands - almost perfect.
High places - i've only start listening to it yesterday, but looks promising.

btw,i can't stand the gutter twins the gutter twins .

Yeah, the Cat Power is very disappointing, but it has made me listen to the original Metal Heart a lot which is a good thing.

btw,i can't stand the gutter twins the gutter twins .

s'okay, i think your list sucks too ;-)

Seriously though, Gutter Twins album is *excellent*; stream here:

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/39261992

but my dad is stronger than your dad!

Goslings - Occasion

Aaron Martin - River Water

Maninkari - Le Diable avec ses Chevaux...usually I avoid anything described as "cinematic" but this is beautiful kitchen sink ethno-psyche, somehow holds up over its nearly 2 hrs.

Box - Studio 1...hitting all those spots I wanted from the last Supersilent...like a wankier Supersilent, if Deathprod left the room and they decided to have "fun"

Ned -- I had never actually heard any other Mountain Goats albums before.

GET IT HEARD/HERD OH I SLAY ME

moto boy
ruby suns
july skies
vampire weekend

oh and je suis animal is probably great but who can find it?

I'm liking the Gutter Twins - Saturnalia quite a bit. Bought tix to see them in March. Still like Vampire Weekend and Black Mountain a lot. Am absorbing these, all have good moments:

Apes - Ghost Games
Big Sleep - Sleep Forever
Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Bob Mould - District Line
Protest The Hero - Fortress
Die! Die! Die! - Promises Promises
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers
Nada Surf - Lucky
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Clark - Turning Dragon
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid

El Guincho seconded. There is an awesome new Nicole Mitchell/Black Earth Ensemble album called Black Unstoppable but I dunno if it's actually from '08.

D5, I like jazz, but it's hard for me to find reliable recommendations for new jazz discs (even on ILX's Rolling Jazz thread). What are the best new jazz discs you've heard this year?

Hercules & Love Affair, Black Mountain, Sian Alice Group, Silver Mt. Zion, Lee Scratch Perry's Chicken Scratch, and the Crystal Antlers EP have been the best I've heard so far.

Atlas Sound is pretty but kinda shallow (reminds me of Matthew Dear), These New Puritans is OK if you want to hear someone new ripping off the Fall, Clinic is OK and I like it more than their previous album (it's got a messy sound to it that I'm digging).

And fuck, I'm sick of Destroyer.

Someone asked once on another thread if there were "new release" lists online for various global/non-English albums. Not sure if anyone is doing that gatekeeper function, which would be difficult considering the number of small and large label efforts in countless genres around the world.

so far for 2008 :

Radio Scarecrow - The Black Dog (gorgeous from start to finish, a wonderfully layered rich album.)
The Invisible Line - Temposhark
The Heliocentrics - Out There
Clark - Turning Dragon

Oooh, I didn't know Clark had a new album out this year. Has it been released yet? I really enjoyed his last one.

daniel esq start here, also n.b. the next entry

"If That Arm Heals, It Ought To Be Broken Again" 2008 Jazz D Minor Bags Thread

I'll second the Raveonettes and Gutter Twins and add Drive-By Truckers' Brighter Than Creation's Dark and Sam Amidon' All Is Well. I'm hoping the Erykah Badu will turn out good.

The Hot Chip is pretty good. Avoiding Vampire Weekend like the plauge til the furor dies down, though I plan to pick it up this summer. Really liking Genghis Tron's new record Board Up the House, started a thread on it.

And fuck, I'm sick of Destroyer.

I wondered when this was going to happen.

Also, that Shelby Lynne album is nice. I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say it's the best covers record by a female singer-songwriter so far this year.

dance album of the year so far: prosumer & murat tepali - serenity

OK, Nicole Mitchell album not from this year, but check this out for April!!!:

NEW HAVEN, CT -- Firehouse 12 Records will kick off its 2008 release schedule on April 29th with Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler (FH12-04-01-006), the new studio recording of Chicago-based flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell's extended composition of the same name.

Times New Viking!!!Times New Viking!!!Times New Viking!!!

Dimension 5ive, can you list some of those jazz albums you're talking about for lazy people like me?

I almost bought it...but I didn't.

So far I would list my favoritest things I've heard like this:

1. Cuong Vu, Vu-Tet
2. Steven Bernstein, Diaspora Suite (Miles-ish space funk, but Jewisher)
3. Louie Bellson and Clark Terry, Louie and Clark Expedition 2 (big-band corny stuff but really good and kinda forward-looking -- Duke Ellington once said Bellson was the world's greatest musician and he was married to Pearl Bailey so that's good enough for me, jack)
4. Matana Roberts, The Chicago Project (only had it for a couple of days, moving up quickly)
5. Cowboys From Hell, Monster Rodeo (metal-jazz from Switzerland, covers of the "Halloween" theme and straight-up beat-jacks from "Eye of the Tiger", so amazing)
6. Jason Kao Hwang/Edge, Stories Before Within (Third Stream weirdness, kinda good while shoveling at midnight)
7. The Wrong Object, Stories From the Shed (Zappa Tribute Band goes jazz-legit LOL)
8. François Ingold Trio, Fat Free (v.nice)
9. Keith Marks, Foreign Funk (jazz flautist gets down with "Axel F"...but actually better than that sounds)
10. Joe Locke Quartet, Sticks and Strings (I'm a sucker for vibes)

-- Dimension 5ive, Friday, February 22, 2008 5:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

okay my copy of Maceo Parker's Roots and Grooves just arrived and it is SHIT HOT Y'ALL. He's playing with the Cologne big band WDR; one disc of Ray Charles covers, one disc of good old Maceo funk stuff including an 18 minute "Pass the Peas." Dude can still play the holy hell out of that saxophone, it's like he hasn't aged a day. WOW BLAM ZING.

-- Dimension 5ive, Friday, February 22, 2008 7:29 PM

V/A Messthetics #104 & #105
Valet - Naked Acid
Belong - Colorless Record EP
Citified - The Meeting After the Meeting
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Chicken Scratch: Deluxe Edition

i just checked out charlottefield, and on first listen i like it very, very much. is the album available in the states? brighton seems like an interesting town...

all i have heard from 2008 specifically is bits and pieces of the new nick cave, the new xiu xiu and hot chip. first two are fantastic, as expected. hot chip is kind of boring but maybe it'll grow on me.

Citified - The Meeting After the Meeting

Wow, you're the only other person in internetland who seems to even know who they are! I'm glad they've started lengthening their songs a little. I just wish there were more than seven on the new cd.

I'll vouch for Decrepit Birth, Eluveitie, Furious Seasons, Gamma Ray, Ida, Joe Jackson, Magnetic Fields, Bob Mould, Mountain Goats, Zapruder Point. And reissues from Burning Witch and Xasthur. And an EPs worth of new songs added to Cradle of Filth's Thornography, and my copy of this Mexico 70 album says 2008 though I think it's really 2005 or 2006.

And my three favorite 2007 releases that didn't make it to me until 2008 are by Hundred Reasons, Kent and Puressence.

Puressence are still around?!

Goslings album. Always interesting sludgeness. Amazing band.

oh i had totally forgotten about the ida album. i'm going to put it on now

Hmmm ... Apparently I am the only one that likes Why?'s Alpecia. I would recommend the bookends "Good Friday" and "Simeon's Dilemma." I've heard about 20 albums from 2008 and this is the only one to cause me to repeatedly listen to it.

albums i think are great so far:

Ladyhawk - Shots
Clark - Turning Dragon
oh, and that mountain goats person

british sea power, vampire weekend, bob mould, eMC, why? have also been getting some playtime

I think I've only been blown away by 2 albums of this year so far.

Xiu Xiu - Woman As Lovers
Boris - Smile

No love for Beach House's "Devotion"? Seriously? It's my favorite album of the year so far.

oh i forgot about the constantines album that's always a good one

Black Mountain is my favorite so far. The Drive By Truckers is good but about 5 songs too long.
Looking forward to Nick Cave, Gutter Twins, Boris among others.

All right, D5, I hope your Top 10 list above isn't in rank-order (or I hope all the selections on it are top-shelf outstanding), since No. 10 --The Joe Locke Quartet -- is the only one I found on eMusic.

I'll seek out some of the other titles elsewhere. I'm looking forward to trying some new jazz, so thanks for the recommendations.

it should be pretty easy to find information about The Wrong Object, especially if you check out certain websites.

really sad that no one has said Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us cuz I think it's great.

very tentative top 10 so far, incl. late '07 releases that nobody I know heard last year (i.e., excluding Rihanna and Ryan Shaw, both of which I like but I figure I was just really late getting to):

1. Dolly Parton – Backwoods Barbie (Dolly)
2. Ross Johnson – Make It Stop! The Most Of Ross Johnson (Goner)
3. Frozen Bears – Hey, That’s a Good Looking Sportcoat! (myspace.com/frozenbears EP ’07)
4. James McMurtry – Just Us Kids (Lighting Rod)
5. Mechanical Bull – A Million Yesterdays (Woodstock Musicworks ‘07)
6. The Tonic Rays – The Tonic Rays (thetonicrays.com ’07)
7. Final Solutions – Songs By Solutions (Goner ’07)
8. Amanda Shaw – Pretty Runs Out (Rounder)
9. Sioux City Pete & The Beggars (Steel Cage)
10. Trent Willmon – Broken In (Compadre)

Next few official actual non-CD-R 2008 releases would probably be Alestorm, HorrorPops, Hayes Carll, Drive-By Truckers, Chris Cagle, Vampire Weekend, Left Lane Cruiser, Ayreon, Night Wounds, Chuck Wicks, Earth, and Kathleen Edwards, more or less in that order. Lazy Magnet seems interesting so far too.

Times New Viking and Mahjongg sounded good to me at first, but hold my interest less every time I play them, strangely enough. Haven't figured out why yet.

(Sioux City Pete & the Beggars' album is called Necro Blues, btw.)

For me there are three albums from this year that spring to mind as particular highlights so far:

Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Atlas Sounds - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

I would also add Raheem DeVaughn (shut up r&b haters, it's weird and good), Taint, Weinland, Devian, Raveonettes, the Mars Volta, Luciano, Akoya Afrobeat, Gilberto Gil, and yes probably Ayreon because we haven't had enough double-CD metal operas about environmental breakdown and the vapidity of modern culture.

Yes, Puressence are still around, and I think the new album is as good as anything they've done, and maybe better. Think somewhere between Muse and the Delays...

I'm always amazed by the lists you come up with, Xhuxk.

I'm looking forward to the Boris and Earth albums v. much as well

je suis animal 'self taught magic from a book', top indiepop record of the year so far. ambition is such an odd thing for an indiepop band to have. the days ep is also excellent.

I like your blog, D5. BTW, the disc I discovered there that has captured most of my attention is Marco Benevento's Invisible Baby. But is it jazz? Sounds more rock to me.

Anyway, I likely wouldn't have ever heard of it otherwise. So thanks.

Think somewhere between Muse and the Delays...

...oops. (More on the Muse front.)

but they were kinda always a bit like that

and when i say a bit i mean a lot

Can somebody link me to the Dimension 5ive blog of which Daniel, Esq., speaks?

Cave 17. Or at least I assume it's D5's blog, based on a comment he made upthread.

Are pixeltan releasing their album this year?

-- I know, right?, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:38 (2 days ago) Link

this is the chinese democracy of the dfa-loser generation

blind boys of alabama, down in new orleans
nik bartsch's ronin, holon

bang on a can's live recording of music for airports is pretty stunning

IT'S NOT A BLOG, GUYS! </D5>

...it's a LIFESTYLE.

(*cue the Reverend driving off in a sweet ride, cackling...*)

Yeah. What is it, then? It certainly looks like a group blog in its layout, and the posts look like blog-type entries.

It's looks like a blog, it smells like a blog, it quacks like a blog, but..... IT'S NOT A BLOG!!!

You'll have to ask D5 about that. He seems quite insistent about its unbloggedry.

it's more of a ... web...log, if you will.

ugh

it's a blugh

BLUGH! A Music Discussion War

Blugh: Defined.

ANYWAY, MY POINT WAS THAT I LIKED IT: WHETHER BLOG OR BLUGH.

thanks daniel, i appreciate it

i dont really want it to be a blog because that implies 'when we have time for it' rather than a regular sort of thing...but we dont really have time for it so whatever

No problemo. Thanks for alerting me to the Benevento disc. It's a nice find (and on eMusic, too!).

Does Mary J., which came out 12.18.07. count here?

sure why not.

OK then. It sounds grebt.

Foals album sounds good off one listen.

Since it came out late in 2007, and since I didn't hear the whole thing until this year, I will once again mention Ñejo & Dalmata's debut album Broke & Famous. This is a new and collected songs CD, since some of these tracks have been kicking around for a little while. With help from producer Danny Fornaris, they have their own distinctive sound. Reggaeton, yes, but the sounds swirling around are a bit different, and the way they hit the rhythm sometimes gives it a different feeling. Plus, really only about half the songs are dembow. I'm hoping The Reverend will eventually describe this stuff adequately, so I don't have to keep trying. There's a merengue (okay, merengueton), a cumbia, a weird dancey rocky song ("Mi Dia de Suerte"), a song with Chyno Nyno, some hip-hop, a funny ska/rock version of one of the other songs, a really bad salsa track, etc.

Pasarela
Algo Musical

9. Sioux City Pete & The Beggars (Steel Cage)
Sioux City Pete and the Beggars -- give them sex and money
I had my sights on blunt/dumb with that thread title and shot it right in the foot, no wonder no one bit. But yes, Necro Blues is 2006 actually, and quite lovely.

Sebastien Tellier of course.

The Foals sounded good when I saw them in a bar.

Brutal Knights

growing, el guincho, goldfrapp, diebold, box

new AMC album is lovely. Raveonettes album is excellent, their best album by far. New Goldfrapp is great.

Mountain Battles!

:)

anyone heard the new El Perro Del Mar LP? if it's got a couple of tracks like 'Dog' and 'I Can't Talk About It' on it i'll be happy

No djmartian shortlist of 400 albums, no thread credibility.

2008 - first quarter - boring

anyone heard the new El Perro Del Mar LP? if it's got a couple of tracks like 'Dog' and 'I Can't Talk About It' on it i'll be happy

the new one hasn't worked its magic on me yet.
but then again, i've not been in the mood for her style at all.
in fact, apart from the new Black Dog album, i have had a skinny 1st quarter.

i wanted the MGMT to be the great album of 2008, but its fucked beyond belief (not dave fridmanns fault - but grel calbi according to my checks), so i'm still waiting.

i cant pass beyond track 5 in the MGMT.
the thing is, the future also doesnt look so promising

Additions to my list up there: Be Your Own Pet, Torche, Boris

so far: foals, bob mould, mountain goats, boris (is that out yet? er ...), 5ive ... that's not bad so far, is it?

i think i'd probably like the vampire weekend album but i just. cannot. be. arsed.

eagerly, eagerly awaiting new M83 and notwist.

rings, fuck buttons, spiritualized, autechre.
these are a few of my favorite things.

Pretty good (and definitely worth attention, though not necessarily amazing): Dengue Fever's Venus on Earth.

yeah dengue fever is good.also vampire weekend,destroyer,mgmt.

New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) is the most solid album i've heard this year

current top 10 albums, actual 2008 releases:

1. Legless – Finding Mr. Perfect (leglesstheband.com)
2. Dolly Parton – Backwoods Barbie (Dolly)
3. Ross Johnson – Make It Stop! The Most Of Ross Johnson (Goner)
4. Lil Mama – Voice of the Young People (Jive/Zomba)
5. Amanda Shaw – Pretty Runs Out (Rounder)
6. Phil Vassar – Prayer Of A Common Man (Universal)
7. Opeth – Watershed (Roadrunner)
8. Lazy Magnet – Is Music Even Good? (Corleone)
9. The Mother Truckers – Let’s All Go To Bed (Funzao)
10. New Bloods – The Secret Life (K EP)

I have really, really enjoyed:

Heretic Pride
Erykah Badu's crazypants album
Crystal Castles (who knew?????)

LPs from this year i am digging

for against - shade side sunny side
i was a cub scout - i want you to know that there is always hope
ida - lovers prayers
auburn lull - begin civil twilight

+ plenty of singles

looking forward to hearing the cut copy album in full. i would also welcome albums by sky larkin and cut off your hands, if such things are likely

Oh! Forgot 'Acid Sauna' by The Doubtful Guest which totally rules if you like acid techno friggin mayhem

i would also welcome albums by sky larkin

oooh, the dance the radio gang ?

yeah. that last single of theirs was fabbo

auburn lull, july skies, moto boy, devotchka, ruby suns, gentle touch, the lk, orwell, still corners(though i think this was late last year)

So far 08 is equally as bad as 07.

So far 08 is equally as bad as way worse than 07.

Fixed.

good thing it hasn't only been 3 months

Ya, 2007 started off strong and petered out very quickly. Perhaps 2008 will be more of a slow burn.

The Dodo's album I feel is pretty great, as well as Los Campesinos!

Yes, Dodos disc is v. good.

good thing it hasn't only been 3 months

My generation is doomed. We may not have more than the first three months of 08 to compare to 07.

So far this year, I've really enjoyed:

Black Mountain - In the Future
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead...
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Los Campesions! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
The Whigs - Mission Control
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah
Boris - Smile
Meshuggah - ObZen

Of the three albums I've heard:

new Gnarls > new Portishead > new R.E.M.

M83 (maybe), Portishead, Raveonettes, Spiritualized, Long Blondes, Alastair Galbraith

Elbow, The Do, Guillemots, Foals, Portishead, Hercules & Love Affair, The Notwist, The Blessing, Cadence Weapon, Vanilla Swingers.

There's plenty of good stuff around, as always, if you're interested.

I love the She & Him album.

2008 is already a better year for albums than the whole of 2007 was. For me MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Be Your Own Pet, Hot Chip, The Young Knives, These New Puritans, Neon Neon, Magnetic Fields and Envelopes stood out so far.

Oh, forgot Gnarls Barkley.

slow start this year. Some gems:
Prurient - And Still, Wanting
Earth - The Bees...
Suishou No Fune - Prayer for Chibi
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

thats about it

oh and The Goslings - Occasion

The Benga album has some tasty moments.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that Goslings album too.

I'm curious to hear the new Long Blondes and Young Knives albums.

The Glimmers - The Glimmers are Gee Gee Fazzi
Kraak en Smaak - Plastic People
The Drift - Memory Drawings
Thomas Brinkmann - When Horses Die

Marcin Wasilewski Trio's January is pretty much the only new thing I've been listening to regularly so far this year...

Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth
YMCK - Family Music
Dust-to-Digital: Victrola Favorites
Harmonize Most High - Babylon
Mamadou Diabate, Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan, Vidwan Lalgudi Gjr Khrishnan - Strings Tradition
Autechre - Quaristice
Meshuggah - Obzen

Woods Family Creeps

i need to get that meshuggah album: i have high hopes for that too.

So far this year, in order: Vampire Weekend, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Destroyer.

I am LOVING LOVING LOVING the new Mystery Jets and Cut Copy albums, which is a little odd since I wasn't particularly crazy about either of their debuts. Portishead is quite nice too, although I'm a little hesitant about going balls-out crazy over it when it's not even the final version. And that Dodos album is a butt-ton of fun.

srsly I'm loving this year so far and there's still an absolute ton of stuff to come.

That new Snoop Dogg album is banging! Its got this crazy 80s sound that sounds very cool right now.

I have also really been feeling DJ A-Trak's Oh No You Didn't: Live in Vancouver Mix CD. Did you know he is Kanye's tour DJ? He really knows diverse music.

top 9 for me (can't think of a 10th one...), alphabetically:

Atlas Sound
Autechre
Boris
Earth
Malkmus + Jicks
Mountain Goats
Portishead
Raveonettes
Spiritualized

ah yes, forgot:

Nick Cave + Bad Seeds = #10

Oh Why? as well.

I have also really been feeling DJ A-Trak's Oh No You Didn't: Live in Vancouver Mix CD. Did you know he is Kanye's tour DJ? He really knows diverse music.

-- Rob Threezy, Thursday, April 3, 2008 12:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

lol

What?

i guess i just dont really know diverse music

His Dirty South Dance mix was also just incredible. Check that one too.

welcome back dk lol

haha does dk listen to a-trak now??? first nastradamus, now this

Rob, I'm pretty sure most here anyone who knows of A-Trak is aware of both his background and his tastes. and what is hazing you for stating things that are obvious and getting excited about someone he considers passe. You'll probably get more hazing from him and others. Don't worry about it. Welcome to ILX.

i just meant dude's clueless stuck-in-03 hollertronixism sounds like a jawns'n'jernts parody instead of actual posting

i guess maybe i can ask shipley to check the hollerboard and let me know if dudes still actually talk like that

borad up the house - genghis tron
man in the mirror - rhymefest
heretic pride - mountain goats
i am legend - young dro

that's all so far that's really grabbed me. i guess i need to get up on atlas sound?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/o9irkn.jpg

You'll probably get more hazing from him and others. Don't worry about it. Welcome to ILX.

can we write a script where this becomes the auto response to the first zing on an intro thread

What is your problem is "And What"?

What is your problem, I mean.

Anyway thanks for the welcome Reverend.

Let's anticipate Lil Wayne, "The Carter III"

No problem.

vampire weekend, hot chip, los camp!, high places, the dream, rick ross, webbie, be your own pet

Problem.

So far I like:

Autechre
Times New Viking
El Guincho
Victrola Favorites
Excepter CD

i have a list i plan on posting elsewhere

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I made a top 10 of the year so far. Boredom! yaaaay!

1) Sun Kil Moon - April
2) Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
3) The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
4) The Ravonettes - Lust Lust Lust (I'm as surprised as you are)
5) The Goslings - Occasion
6) The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
7) Beach House - Devotion (again, quite surprised)
8) Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers
9) Jucifer - L'autrichienne
10) Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Hear

I'm sure Boris, Portishead, and The Breeders would be on there if I'd heard them.

That Atlas Sounds album sounded pretty shithouse the one play i gave it.

I also mixed up the title of that album. its Feel not Hear. I suck.

beach house, hercules, portishead, constantines, destroyer, el guincho, dodos, sian alice group, in that order.

Spiritualized, Youthmovies. I mentioned Cadence Weapon, right?

new Indian Jewelry is kinda alright too

It's all about dOP for me this year I reckon.

Dodos - Visiter is the best 2008 record so far.

What is your problem is "And What"?

-- Rob Threezy, Thursday, April 3, 2008 1:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

never forget

lol was just about to say RIP

gonna listen to Protest the Hero for the first time later tonight

Diary of a 40 yr old still getting kicks from old favorites:

The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
Jay Clarkson - Over The Mountain
Jason Ringenberg - Best Tracks And Side Tracks
Minisnap - Bounce Around (they're The Bats minus lead singer Robert Scott)
They Might Be Giants - Here Come The 123s (fun for kids & adults!)

And a bit from younger bands:
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Die! Die! Die! - Promises, Promises

Good but not great:
Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
Robyn Hitchcock - Shadowcat
Sons & Daughters - This Gift

18th Dye - "Amorine Queen" another good one for the old folk.

Pigeons
D Charles Speer

Both on Black Dirt, probably my two favorite releases of the year so far.

i'm so excited about listening to protest the hero and playing mario and drinking beers tonight

2008 > 2007 so far for me. I would feel pretty good putting Hercules & Love Affair, Vampire Weekend, M83, Cut Copy, Kaki King, Atlas Sound, and Kelley Polar in a top 10.

protest the hero is fucking awesome.

need to hear everything jaymc listed

yeah my 4-5 favorite albums this year> 4-5 favorite albums last year, and i thought 07 was crazy strong

I'm not having the same experience wrt 2008 vs 2007. I dig the Ruby Suns album and I like the Vampire Weekend album a lot, but aside from those two albums nothing is bumping my favorites of 07 off any hypothetical lists.

I don't see anything bumping Portishead out of #1 for me, but I kind of hope something great enough comes along out of nowhere and does. That, whatever it will be, is something I can't wait to hear.

new Helen Love is great.

I am liking this Dengue Fever album more and more.

I'm excited about the new Weird Weeds album, I was sure that I knew them from somewhere and I finally remembered it's cause some of 'em played with Jandek. The track I played off of their new CD today was quite nice and I need to listen to the whole record.

also, The Fall's Imperial Wax Solvent is my favorite of the year so far.

This new Henry Fiol album, De Cachete, which you can download (in a good quality copy) from his own website, is quite good. This isn't, by a long stretch, my favorite sub-style of salsa, yet I've been listening to it over and over again. (Granted, that's partly due to the general dearth of decent new salsa.) Anyway, it's very much a roots-oriented sound, heavy on acoustic guitar, but Fiol puts his own stamp on it.

how the hell did a new fall album slip under my radar???

Seemingly everything involving Peverelist has been fantastic.

Thomas Function? Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

stupid name for a group, but i really like the Fuck Buttons record

xpost hahaha

Yeah, i'm going to buy that Fuck Buttons album as soon as I get paid. Its really very very cool.

you guys...the atlas sound album is so extremely great.

*****
Elbow, British Sea Power

****1/2
Barry Adamson, Camille, Vampire Weekend, Goldfrapp, Hercules & Love Affair

****
The Breeders, Laura Marling, Sebastian Tellier, System 7, Los Campesinos!

***1/2
Black Mountain, REM, Supergrass, Hot Chip

***
Jason Collett, Raconteurs, Cat Power

**1/2
Duffy, Foals

**
Sons & Daughters

Still evaluating:
Gnarls Barkley, Estelle, Yoav, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Portishead, Long Blondes, Lupen Crook & the Murderbirds, Benji Kirkpatrick

(In other words, a bloody good start...)

intrusion "reflection" 2x12"

stuff I like that hasn't already been mentioned:
Evangelista - Hello, Voyager
Rich Boy - Bigger Than The Mayor
AZ - Undeniable
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
Sheek Louch - Silverback Gorilla
Blake Leyh - X-Ray Yankee Zulu Tango
Grand Buffet - King Vision
Fabolous - Gangsta Grillz: There Is No Competition
The B-52s - Funplex
Lil Boosie - Da Beginning
various artists - The Wire: " … and all the pieces matter"
Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious

stuff I like that has already been mentioned:
Raheem DeVaughn, The Raconteurs, Erykah Badu, Young Dro, R.E.M., They Might Be Giants, Webbie

This thread needs more recent posts. I like:
Cloudland Canyon, Sic Alps, Lau Nau, Torche, Kayo Dot.
The Earth album has really been growing on me too!

the cloudland canyon lp is pretty impressive.

graham lambkin - salmon run (2007)

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness

The Golden Hour by Firewater is, to my addled mind, completely astounding.

I love Vinicius Cantuária's Cymbals, on Koch. Minimalist like João and spacious like I like it.

Reissues: two great Memphis exhumations. Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story and Memphis '70, with some cool stuff by the Minits, David Porter and Bowlegs Miller.

Long Blondes and Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan making a pitch for being favourites at the moment. Awaiting Spiritualized next Monday to consume it properly.

Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia - Pain Disappears is a gorgeous record I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else on ILX. Initial template in old-fashioned 2003/04 bedtime microhouse but with chiming guitars and boy/girl vocals over the top. Probably the prettiest record I've heard this year.

Intriguing.

I specifically mentioned this because I think you'd like it, btw.

It is pretty good, but towards the middle (and through the end) it all gets samey.

Any chance of winging a couple of tracks to me via gmail as a sample?

So I sat down and worked out my favourite songs of 2008, for now:

The Veronicas - Untouched
Crazi Cousinz - Bongo Jam
Aeroplane ft. Kathy Diamond - Whispers
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Chant)
Shy Child - Cause and Effect
Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
Gotye - Heart's A Mess (Supermayer Remix)
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Club Mix)
Seany B - Stomper
Peverelist - Infinity Is Now
Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love (Aeroplane Remix)
Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
Kelly Rowland - Work (Freemasons Edit)
Digital Mystikz - Shake Out Your Demons
Patti Bligh - Brother (2562 Remix)

black mountain - in the future
portishead- third
vampire hands - me and you cherry red
gospel gossip - sing into my mouth
bun b - II trill

the blind shake - caramel

Definite year-end list entries:

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One etc.
Hercules and Love Affair
Portishead - Third
Booka Shade - The Sun and the Neon Light
Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us
Jennifer Cardini - Feeling Strange

Also feeling:

Autechre - Quaristice
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
The Roots - Rising Down
The Kills - Midnight Boom

And other things that are already more than adequately recommended/discussed by ILM.

Oh! Almost forgot - Justus Köhncke, Safe and Sound. Niiice.

the Animal Collective ep is so very good

Pyramids self-titled on HydraHead is rather good.

Can't see the new Mudhoney or Melvins albums mentioned so far, so them.

2nd on the Pyramids album. It totally rules.

So far this year my favorite albums are:

Ponies in the Surf – See You Happy
Willie Nelson – Moment of Forever
Adam Green – Sixes & Sevens
Dolly Parton – Backwoods Barbie
No Kids – Come into My House
For Against – Shade Side Sunny Side
Jonathan Richman – Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild
A Weather – Cove
She & Him – Volume One
Jason Anderson - The Hopeful & the Unafraid

Also: Evangelicals, Auburn Lull, White Hinterland, Rameses III, Guilty Simpson, Matmos, Lyrics Born, Festival, Hammock.

The new PAAVOHARJU, Laulu laakson kukista,is absolutely astonishing, awesome and fantastic !!!

soda fountain rag 'it's rag time!', would be goods meets pipas meets florian? she's terrific.

Haha. I see Hegelson is pimping Vampire Hands again. It's really good—a bit quieter than what I usually like, and I wanted more PIL big drums, but it's held up through several listens.

I have been trying hard with Kayo Dot and have just about got it. Torche is v good also.

I thought that Kayo Dot was pretty disappointing, seemed lack some of the intensity that I liked in the earlier albums. It was just a little too composed for my tastes, I was hoping for a little looser attack.

I'm still enjoying the Jamie Lidell album much, much more than I ever expected to.

I had never heard Kayo Dot before this album, so it really hit me pretty hard. I should probably check out some of that older stuff then.

maybe it's bc i'm $+0|\|3D but this Atlas Sound album r u l e s

I'm getting the Kayo Dot, hopefully. Since leaving ILX I got hold of their first two albums and was completely blown away by both. "The Manifold Curiosity" and "___on limpid form" in particular are absolutely masterful creations. I gather Mr. Driver decided to sack everyone in the band who wasn't his girlfriend though so can't really imagine how the new one turned out.

wye oak 'if children' album isn't anything terribly different but it's quite lovely and the perfect antidote for people who used to like cat power

Add Debut Album by Terminus to my list. It's like Broadcast and/or Ladytron, with an added (and none-too-subtle) sci-fi movie component.

God this thread is annoying to search for.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R3MWCGYF9TLFUQ/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view?ie=UTF8&lm%5Fbb=

I usually go through your Amazon lists at the end of the year to pick up anything I might've missed. Got Electrelane & Caribou that way, so cheers Nick.

Wow, they work!

people need to get with as high as the sky by THE MOLE. finest quality house thumpers.

yeah that mole album is excellent

2008 has generally been kind of amazing so far though.

top albums, top trax...

erykah badu, new amerykah part one (the world war)
mariah carey, e=mc²
lil' wayne, tha carter iii
ashlee simpson, bittersweet world
ellen allien, boogybytes vol 4
robert hood, fabric 39
akiko kiyama, 7 years
trus'me, working nights
bun b, ii trill
the bug, london zoo

cassie - turn the lights off
young jeezy ft. kanye west - put on
lil' mama ft. chris brown & t-pain - shawty get loose
addictive ft. t2 - gonna be mine
jordin sparks ft. chris brown - no air
sway ft. $tush - f ur x
trina ft. missy elliott - i got a bottle
the-dream - ditch that...
kelley polar - entropy reigns (in the celestial city)
solange - sandcastle disco
son of raw - a black man in space
booka shade - control me
estelle ft. kanye west - american boy
wiley ft. blaze & triggz - if you're going out i'm going out too
hood headlinaz - rollin'
hercules and love affair - blind
ne-yo - closer
lloyd ft. lil' wayne - girls all around the world
santogold - les artistes
etienne jaumet - repeat again after me (âme remix)
jay haze - ass to mouth
warrior queen - things change
kat deluna ft. busta rhymes - run the show

Lex you have zero funky house in your list?!?!?

I need to help you with this problem.

funky house basically doesn't figure on my radar at all except for when it bleeds into other kinds of house, or grime or whatever

i forgot wiley's grime wave and the appleblim dubstep sllstars mix! and the roland appel album and and and

Finds of the year so far:

Get Well Soon - Rest Now Weary Head You Will Get Well Soon
The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine
The Week That Was - The Week That Was
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Islands - Arm's Way
Lawrence Arabia - Lawrence Arabia
Sennen - Where The Light Gets In
Tilly & The Wall - O
Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Presets - Apocalypso
CSS - Donkey
The INdelicates - American Demo
Pop Levi - Never Never Love
Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets
Gotye - Like Drawing Blood
Mystery Jets - 21

Fuck, it's been a good year so far! Also, lol indie.

(nb: SAX MIX of 'a black man in space')

Three favorites:
Inara George - An Invitation
Kleerup - Kleerup
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - The Howling

GOOD:
Animal Collective (EP)
Bauhaus
Excepter (comp.)
LSD Pond
Malkmus + Jicks
REM
Stars of the Lid (tour only EP)
Wedding Present

BETTER:
Autechre
Boris
Earth
Fuck Buttons
Mountain Goats
Spiritualized
Times New Viking

BEST:
Atlas Sound
Nick Cave
Gutter Twins
Jamie Lidell
M83
Portishead
Raveonettes

Not yet heard, looking forward to:
Breeders
Four Tet
Growing
No Age
Notwist
Roots
Sun Kil Moon

these are albums i love:

animal collective - water curses
booka shade - the sun and the neon light
bruno pronsato - why can't we be like us?
disfear - live the storm
mara trax - it got me funk

and these ones are pretty darn good too:

evangelista - hello voyager
v/a - step up 2 the streets

i haven't really been keeping track of singles too well.

The INdelicates - American Demo

fuck me this band swings from not half bad to fucking wretched on this record

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