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

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

new Royksopp and new Lily Allen, NOT the new Super Furry Animals

Woods "Songs of Shame"

Twenty albums I've thoroughly enjoyed so far...

Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
Cobalt – Gin
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
The-Dream – Love vs. Money
Frank Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Glasvegas – Glasvegas*
Handsome Furs – Face Control
K’naan - Troubadour
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Morrissey – Years of Refusal
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
P.O.S. – Never Better
Satyricon – The Age of Nero*
Tombs – Winter Hours

* - I know these came out last year in other countries, but they both came out in 2009 here and I didn't hear them until this year.

except, uh, FranZ obvs

Stuff that won't leave the rotation:

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo
Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel - Willie and the Wheel
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
Zu - Carboniferous

The Antlers - Hospice (like more atmospheric/bit experimental Shearwater)
Zu - carboniferus - (john zorn meets metal)

A-Trak, Fabriclive.45
Boredoms, Super Roots 10
Camp Lo, Stone & Rob: Caught on Tape
DJ Koze, Reincarnations
DOOM, Born Like This
Freeway, Month of Madness
Gorilla Zoe, Don't Feed da Animals
Heavy, First Sessions
The Juan Maclean, The Future Will Come
Platinum Pied Pipers, Abundance
Royksopp, Junior
Ryan Leslie
Telefon Tel Aviv, Immolate Yourself
The-Dream, Love vs Money
Young Dro & Young L.A., Black Boy Swag, White Boy Tags

NOT the new Super Furry Animals

otm, complete head fake by those claiming it is some sort of return to form.

candy claws 'in the dream of the sea life'
giorgio tuma 'my vocalese fun fair'
last days 'safety of the north'
soap & Skin 'lovetune for vacuum'
hauschka 'snowflakes and car wrecks'
la bien querida 'romancero'
the projects 'words of love broadcast in code'
sin fang bous 'clangour'
hildur gudnadottir 'without sinking'

Atoi, Youth Machine
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, II
Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
Henok Achido, Almaz Charming Child
Richard Swift, The Atlantic Ocean
Bonnie Prince Billy, Beware
Golden Silvers, Golden Silvers (← this is on the bubble, because I'm not sure I like the re-recordings of the previous singles.)

there's nothing i'd be falling over myself to recommend, but as far as worth listening to:

phantom band - checkmate savage
de rosa - prevention
outrageous cherry - universal malcontents
joy formidable - balloon called moaning
fanfarlo - reservoir
burning hearts - aboa sleeping
asobi seksu - hush
still flyin - never gonna touch the ground

oh and the hatcham social album sounded pretty good on first listen

I'll cosign on the Joy Formidable.

Maybe Fanfarlo too. Was a fan of all the singles over the past couple years leading up to the album, but haven't fully embraced the album itself yet.

fever ray

jon, our lists have some surprising crossover.

Alela Diane - To Be Still
Beirut - Realpeople Holland
DOOM - Born Like This
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Golem! - Citizen Boris
Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis
K'naan - Troubadour
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (though not really holding up to repeated listens)
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (best of the year so far)
Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts EP
P.O.S. - Never Better
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Thursday - Common Existence
Two Tongues - Two Tongues
Useless ID - The Lost Broken Bones (actually 2008 release)

Not mentioned yet:

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart (out in US last week)
Intrusion - the Seduction of Silence
Keri Hilson - ...In a Perfect World
Omar-S - Fabric 45
Stimming - Reflections
These Are Powers - All Aboard Future
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

1 the-dream - love vs money
2 yeah yeah yeahs- its blitz
3 ryan leslie- ryan leslie
4 junior boys- begone dull care
5 phoenix- wolfgang amadeus phoenix
6 the juan maclean- the future will come
7 jeremy jay- slow dance
8 keri hilson- in a perfect world...
9 gorilla zoe- dont feed da animals
10 nodzzz- nodzzz

the handsome furs album is really good too

still gotta hear the koze and a trak things too

has been a week first three months tho yeah

how the time has passed

i like mountains
and lots of singles but not many full-lengths

what are Jeremy Jay; Nodzzz?

circlesquare, 'songs about dancing and drugs'

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

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

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

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

nodzzz album is 10 song 16 min pop-punk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

aw

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

Some good mainstream music would be nice.

plenty of it imo

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

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

2009 is kinda weak so far.

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

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

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

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

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

really looking forward to : The Black Dog and Flykkiller

is that the hyphy Federation?

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

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

The RTFO Bandwagon record sounds promising.

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

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

Neko Case
The Boss
The Pains

are all very good.

which probably makes this my best pop year in ages.

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

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

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

are they? don't hear it myself

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

i was listeing to them only once, so i might be wrong about arcade fire, but i do remember thinking
bout the lack of originality..
xpost

SFA and Zu. Nick is OTM about that Animal Collective record.

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

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

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

thank you for this record.

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

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

wanna grab that lindstrom

20 albums

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

10 reissues

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

10 singles

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

Loney Dear - Dear John

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

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

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

(I mean Sweet Warrior, duh.)

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

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

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

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

Dakota Suite, The End of Trying

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

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

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

My top five:

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

Other stuff I've played here and there:

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

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

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

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

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

those don't sound like selling points at all!

ha

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

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

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

:(

The military madness cover is ace too

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

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

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

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

Juan Maclean
The Veils
Distance
Serpentcult

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

Like, but not really feeling real strongly about: Neko

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

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

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

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

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

O-oh, so THAT's where angels come from?! Aw....

only a few things i actually love so far:

nels cline coward
the grandfather paradox
death for the whole world to see

See, up until Middle Cyclone, I'd always generally liked but never felt strongly for Neko. I absolutely adore her now.

^^^

2009 is kinda weak so far.

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

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 March 2009

fucks sake, must you not be able to deal with the fact that music fans sometimes feel out the vibe of a year by how good and abundant the quality of music they've personally found/heard is.... every year?

wait you have the unique music journalistic perspective of being able to sit on your ass and listen to music 24hrs every goddamn day till your ears pop if you fancy and remind us "there's more out there" (waw unique insight) I forgot.

carry on lecturing everyone else for totally human tendencies, it's okay!!

Melinda Doolittle, Coming Back to You

Ooh, this is good?

I liked the AGF/Delay okay when I finally got round to hearing it, but find it a little less meaningful (for want of a better word) & fresh than their first collaboration, It's a more professional, accomplished sounding version of pretty much the same expressions & feelings they were naively sketching out the first time, which is exactly why I don't find it as good although I'm sure it's just as genuine, if that makes sense....

Better than every other non-winner Idol album ever. xp

The Coasters - Greatest Hits. These guys have the jams, their music is still fresh. Also liking Fabio Orsi 'Music for Lovers' but I think that it came out late 08 :( Enjoying music coming out of the Deepchord camp (Quantec, Intrusion, etc). And eagerly awaiting more from Joan as Police Woman.

D4n: Re Melinda: I like it, it's bluesy (two Robert Johnson covers!) and there's some weirdness to it but I wouldn't bet the farm that anyone else would dig it. She can SANG though and that's the theme of the record more or less. Fine by me!

Jono El Grande – Neo Dada (Rune Grammofon)

This sounds very Diaspar (judging by what I'm hearing on their myspace).

...and another thing. I've been enjoying P.O.S. 'Never better'.

I have been enjoying Lotus Plaza the last few days. The latest AC Newman and Bonnie Prince Billy sound good to me.

People have mentioned most of what I've liked so far, but I'll rep for the Lonely Island (SNL Digital Shorts people) album.

I didn't realize the Lonely Island album was out! I'm gonna listen to it ASAP.

I keep confusing lonely island and loney dear. Anyway... Glad to see all the love for neko case--my favorite of the year so far.

I'm gonna step out of line and predict Mos Def - The Ecstatic from the 3 songs you can listen tohere

Also enjoying the Alela Diane LP.

yeah that alela diane is nice. she was recommended to me on the basis of my nina nastasia fanhood, which makes sense, but she's got her own thing.

recently liking

ugk - 4 ife
anni rossi - rockwell
eleni mandell - artificial fire
lindstrom and prins thomas - ii
freeway - month of madness mixtape

I went into the Alela Diane record fulling expecting to hate it, figuring it was some sort of Joanna Newsom/Edith Frost kinda thing, but it's a really nice SOUNDING record, and her songs are well-written. Also, my friend Otto plays drums on most of it, which was funny to see--he tends to not talk about all the "session" work he does, but he seems to be everywhere lately. Like, the new Vetiver record for example, which is also good. As my friend Dave puts it, you know it's Otto playing cuz it sounds like an Ian Matthews record.

1. The-Dream, Love vs. Money
2. Fever Ray - s/t
3. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
5. Ryan Leslie - s/t

On the horizon and, based on leaked material, pretty much guaranteed top ten, unless something goes terrible:
Exene Cervenka
Cassie
Ciara

Still haven't heard:
Pretty much everything else mentioned in this thread

I need to listen to The Thermals' new one!

haven't heard ryan leslie, but agree with Tape Store's first four...

ha yeah tape store and i are basically the same person

what did you think of the Fever Ray, k3vin? I see it wasn't on your list.

I know I posted a rather unspecific list earlier, but I think that as of 11:41 PM, March 31st, my top 10 would look sumn like:

1. Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, II
2. UGK, 4 Life
3. The Juan MacLean, The Future Will Come
4. Ryan Leslie
5. Royksopp, Junior
6. Heavy, First Sessions
7. Gorilla Zoe, Don't Feed da Animals
8. Camp Lo, Stone & Rob: Caught on Tape
9. Telefon Tel Aviv, Immolate Yourself
10. The-Dream, Love vs Money

Is this thread for tracks too?

your favorite 2009 songs thread

i'd have to throw ugk and l & ps in my top 10 too

xp been delaying thinking about that one

keeping an "09" playlist on itunes is a good thing - easiest way to keep track of shit you're feeling w/o a word document or something

I'm intrigued by The Veils' album.

ah i didn't know eleni mandell had a new album out! gotta check it. i keep a text edit document but really last.fm does all the heavy lifting in terms of tracking what i listen to.

I like Rokia Traore's last. While it has been out in the UK since last year, it only came out here this year.

As mentioned on the rolling whirled thread, I liked Traore's cover of "The Man I Love" from that album:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100200274

(I think I've been adding an "r" to her name.)

I think I could go for other jazz standards with this--whatever this stringed instrument is. (Sorry I don't know African instruments so much.)

Otherwise though I haven't heard the full album.

lex, i didnt know you were a fan. i have trouble pinning down your rock tastes, but do you like/know neko case at all? i can see you either hating her or loving her. may be a bit organic for you

i only really know thrill, but it's great. 'pauline' is such a terrific song. as for neko, she's got a gorgeous voice which she puts to material of...varying quality. i thought the new pornographers totally sucked, but i love blacklisted. new one passed me by rather but i'll give it another chance at some point.

I haven't found the reight material yet but god do I want to. that voice is honey. the fact that she's mind-meltingly gorgeous um...

MIDDLE CYCLONE is no BLACKLISTED. But it's pretty darn good.

Here's the part where I cop to liking the new Bat For Lashes disc.

i only really know thrill, but it's great. 'pauline' is such a terrific song. as for neko, she's got a gorgeous voice which she puts to material of...varying quality. i thought the new pornographers totally sucked, but i love blacklisted. new one passed me by rather but i'll give it another chance at some point.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 7:29 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah i was just talking to jordan recently about how we dont like the new pornographers all that much but love their individual solo careers. i'm sure dan bejar/destroyer isn't your thing, but yeah give that new neko another chance

1. junior boys
2. ugk 4 life
3. mastodon
4. the-dream
5. wolves in the throne room
6. black lips
7. project pat
8. wavves
9. slim thug
10. lil boosie - superbad

boring

i've also been listening to
lindstrom and pt
antony
juan maclean
and sort of skimmed
fever ray, dan deacon and royksopp.....but I just don't know if i'm feeling this stuff at all... or just listening to it because people are talking about it and I'm just goin along because there's not really that much out there

oh and def. add Kylessa at #11

11. kylessa

this woods lp is real nice. reminds me of theo angell's recent stuff a lot.

Here's my complete list of 2009 essentials
1. Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light
2. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
3. Dälek - Gutter Tactics
4. Zu - Carboniferous
5. Dan Deacon - Bromst
6. Themselves - theFREEhoudini mixtape
7. Kylesa - Static Tensions
8. Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly
9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
10. Nite Jewel - Good Evening

The 'Open Strings' 2xCD comp on Honest Jon's deserves to be on here, I think

K'Naan, Troubadour (A&M/Octone)
P.O.S., Never Better (Rhymesayers)
Heartless Bastards, The Mountain (Fat Possum Records)
Various artists/Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir Present, B-More Club Crack (Koch)
Monks, Black Monk Time (Light in the Attic)/Monks, The Early Years 1964-1965 (Light in the Attic)
Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You (EMI)
Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw (Midget)
The Heptones, The Heptones Meet the Now Generation! (17 North Parade/VP)/Various artists, Joe Gibbs Scorchers from the Early Years 1967-73 (Gibbs/VP/17 North Parade)
Trama, Mr. T ziptape
I Was a King, I Was a King (Control Group)
Two Fingers, Two Fingers (Paper Bag Records)
Black Blondie, Do You Remember Who You Wanted to Be (Black Blondie)
Allen Toussaint, The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
Various artists, The Roots of Hip Hop (Harte)
A.C. Newman, Get Guilty (Matador Records)

LSD March, Under Milk Wood

Woot woot

I've got Under Milk Wood in the mail, should arrive any day now. Can't wait.

These

You know... Geir's list could be a lot worse. I'm surprised to see Fever Ray(!) and Animal Collective on there, both pretty good records. Looking forward to that PSB album myself, they're a pretty consistent recording group. Royksopp's alright, Junior Boys a bit too easy listening compared to their last one, U2 very hit or miss... etc. But for all the shit Geir gets on here, I've seen much worse lists in this thread already.

Geir, do you not like The-Dream's album? Have you heard it?

Geir likes The Whitest Boy alive. Yea, I know it's a real Berlin-based electro/dream pop whatevs unit but still...

Why don't people like Whitest Boy Alive? Do those same people not like Kings of Convenience?

Geir, do you not like The-Dream's album? Have you heard it?

Actually not even sure if I have heard of it. Recent mainstream pop has sounded better than in a long time, but it provides the act stays as straight 4/4 as possible - I cannot stand those staccato and syncopated "beats" in recent R&B.

Great Lake Swimmers newest is pleasent and harmless

1 the-dream - love vs money
2 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz
3 dirty projectors - bitte orca
4 ryan leslie
5 ugk - 4 life
6 antony and the johnsons - the crying light
7 neko case - middle cyclone
8 lily allen - it's not me, it's you
9 platinum pied pipers - abundance
10 death - keep on knocking

1 the-dream - love vs money
2 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
3 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
4 junior boys - begone dull care
5 ugk - 4 life
6 ryan leslie - ryan leslie
7 camera obscura - my maudlin career
8 dirty projectors - bitte orca
9 lindstrøm & prins thomas - II
10 the juan maclean - the future will come

i think the new boosie mixtape might slip in there once i listen to it also maybe RAWSE but man its really bored me so far

strong list releases there imo

very permeable list too - i'm strong on the top 3 but everything else is just about even

the long lost 'the long lost' and cortney tidwell's 'boys' are both spectacular. no idea when they are actually released.

lol we listen to the same shit

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the only albums i'd add to my list way up above are the it hugs back (great) and veils (good but patchy) albums..

i was gonna mention the thieves like us album.. i suppose its US release is 2009 so i guess it counts

there's lots of new stuff i haven't caught up with yet though..

Your musical compatibility with k3vin k. is SUPER

right now...

Culoe de Song- The Bright Forest
dOP- The Genius of the Crowd
Randoplh- Ruff & Tuff single
J*Davey
Meanderthals- Desire Lines
Isolee- October Nightingale (this one is a grower, not dancefloor material, but excellent)
Monika Kruse- Don't Come Close (Broombeck mx)

that's mostly stuff from this year. but in terms of old stuff, i've been listening to a shitload of ron trent, fela kuti and this amazing house and garage collection from 93

Randoplh- Ruff & Tuff single

right dude?

Ten I'm pretty sure about:

DJ Koze, Reincarnations: The Remix Chapter 2001-2009 (Get Physical)
Art Brut vs. Satan (Downtown)
Ada, Adaptations: Mixtape #1 (Kompakt)
A-Trak, FabricLive 45 (Fabric)
The Juan MacLean, The Future Will Come (DFA)
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
Henrik Schwarz, Ame & Dixon, The Grandfather Paradox (BBE)
Dan Deacon, Bromst (Carpark)
Afrobutt, Wunderbutt (Electric Minds)
Comet Gain, Broken Record Prayers (What's Your Rupture?)

Two I've only just started playing but probably like as much as anything on that list: Amadou & Mariam and the hourlong radio show posted here: http://www.duttyartz.com/2009/geko-jones-on-moglo-radio/.

that's a fantastic radioshow - thanks!

Top ten of 2009 so far:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Doom - Born Like This
The-Dream - Love Vs Money
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
LSD March - Under Milk Wood
Merzbow - 13 Japanese Birds [series of 13 releases]
UGK - 4 Life

in ABC order ~
akron/family
animal collective
bat for lashes
black dice
boredoms
circle
crippled black phoenix
decemberists
dirty projectors
emeralds
fever ray
grizzly bear
isis
kylesa
mastodon
pink mountaintops
omar rodriguez-lopez
super furry animals
u2
steven wilson
wooden shjips

adding to my list:
11. Wardruna - Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga

It's only available on expensive import tho, and i dont know if it will be released in america :(

Wardruna is $9.99 on iTunes and $8.99 for Amazon MP3s. Worth a purchase from either place.

forgot the new Future of the Left up there

Currently top of this years pile...

Babe, Terror - "Weekend"
Emeralds - "What Happened"
Black Dice - "Repo"
Animal Collective - "Merriweather..."
DM Stith - "Heavy Ghost"

Hoping that Sunn O))) record delivers...

Has there been a recent Sunn O))) record that hasn't delivered?

I don't think so.

Best of 2009 so far for me is the first release by Netherlands Black Metallers Irrwisch: bass, drums and . . cello. Weird, but they make it work. Circulated as a demo late last year, official release 2009, so it counts.

the animal collective, grizzly bear and dirty projectors albums have consisted of probably 95% of the new music i've been listening to this year. my best discovery of the year so far has been the bitters (www.myspace.com/bittersband), and favourite local release is either the red mass (www.myspace.com/redmassfce) 12" or the o-voids (www.myspace.com/theovoids) i am in love with every single one of these bands, it's been a wonderful year so far.

I really like the electro outro on one of those songs, but three plays of Franz Ferdinand just isn't doing it for me. Could be a vocals thing. I couldn't get into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the store either. I'll give both more chances, though...

I like what I've heard of the new album, Ahora Mismo. . ., but by Puerto Rican sonera Choco Orta, but it's music for people who already like salsa, I'd say, rather than something with any likely crossover appeal.

The SunnO))) album will melt your fucking face.

adding to my list:
11. Wardruna - Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga

It's only available on expensive import tho, and i dont know if it will be released in america :(

I think this is the album you're referring to, and it's available on eMusic in the US. Not sure what to make of it from the samples.

The only album that I can wholeheartedly endorse at the moment is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs one. I'm a little surprised it's getting so few memtions, but I suppose the hiperati finished with them an album or two ago. But it's my favorite of the three.

Not moved by Animal Collective. Can't honestly say I enjoy Fever Ray, and although I realize that may be the point, at the moment I'm feeling like liking stuff. Jury still out on Neko and Phoenix. Doves sounds leaden, Gui Boratto sounds too much like last album. Maybe I should listen to the Lily Allen, but she's vanished too far into the black hole of celebrity for me to work up much enthusiasm. Surprisingly enjoying the Lady GaGa album, although maybe that was last year. Who can tell?

SFA, Patrick Wolf, PJ Harvey, Grizzly Bear.

(Not ranked:)

Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bat for Lashes, Two Suns
Fever Ray, s/t
Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
Junior Boys, Begone Dull Care
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, s/t
Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
PJ Harvey and John Parish, A Woman a Man Walked By
Royksopp, Junior
The Whitest Boy Alive, Rules

still deciding about the lotus plaza album and LOtUSFLOW3R. don't know about the "crimson and clover" cover though

Romulo Fróes - No Chão sem o Chão
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Beirut - March of the Zapotec & Realpeople: Holland
PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Some people ask me about contemporary Brazilian music and, well, this latest Romulo Fróes record is really worth listening. Although some will get disappointed because there's no 'exotic' flavor (which many expect from Brazilian music) in it, he really does a good job of renewing the Caetano Veloso/Jards Macalé late 70s type of songwriting.

He has allowed free download of the full record:

http://umquetenha.blogspot.com/2009/03/romulo-froes-no-chao-sem-o-chao-2009.html

damn that really is good! thanks

so is there any distinction between the two albums, or is it a standard double? my portuguese isn't up to the task of figuring it out

It's a double album, but Fróes says 'first session' is sort of the angry side of the whole work. On his myspace profile says it was recorded live in just one week.

He was labeled once by the São Paulo press as an 'indie samba' singer, because he said he saw common points in the melancholy of The Cure and some samba oldies but I guess he's not fully happy with being pigeonholed like that.

every year i hate albums a little bit more than the last

Ben Klock - One
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Martyn - Great Lengths
Fever Ray - S/T
Mastadon - Crack the Skye
Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez Vol. 2

can't wait to hear the new NOMO

cheval sombre album is really really good
seeland album exceeded my expectations
coloma going to be in my top 5 for sure
dreamdate lp is what slumber party should have kept sounding like

Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali hasn't really shown up yet. It's my favorite by far.

Higamos Hogamos - Higamos Hogamos
Zu - Carboniferous
Herbert Henck - Das Buch Der Klänge
Native Nod - Today Puberty, Tomorrow The World
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas - II
David Toop - Ocean Of Sound CDs
Gino Soccio - Closer
Bad Plus - For All I Care
Death - ...For The Whole World To See
Parliament - Motor Booty Affair

Vol. 5 of the B12 Archive series
Seeland - Tomorrow Today

Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

― The Macallan 18 Year

Glad to see someone else mention this record, it's fucking awesome.

i found the seeland album, it's frightfully dull, down to his voice i think, it is just dreadful. the interesting people apparently are still in broadcast.

Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali hasn't really shown up yet. It's my favorite by far.

It's a great album but it's from the last year

Amadou & Miriam came out March 2009 in the U.S.

weird it was reviewed in my local alternative newspaper back in like december, maybe earlier. although they might have purposely coincided the review with the montreal stop of the tour.

also as per records worth listening to: the strange boys' "the strange boys and girls club" and here we go magic's s/t album are both wonderful albums that have gotten way too little attention.

Lindstrom & Solale - Baby I Can’t Stop (Aeroplane Remix)
Javelo - Spleen (Compuphonic Remix)
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Rothaus
Doves - Kingdom of Rust (Still Going Remix)
Doves - Kingdom of Rust (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Prins Thomas - Fizpatrick
The Droyds - All I Ever Wanted (Prince Language Remix)
Arbeid Adelt - Death Disco (Todd Terje Edit)
Yuksek - Extraball (Pilooski Remix)
WhoMadeWho - The Plot (Discodeine Remix)
Loin Brothers - Heavy Helmet (Mock & Toof Remix)
Capracara - King of the Witches (Rub N Tug Remix)
Free Disco - Left Field Boogie
Den Haan - Release the Beast
Higamos Hogamos - Major Blitzkrieg (Mickey Moonlight Remix)
Sea Skid - Swami
Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt - Someone Told Me
The Private - My Secret Lover (Lifelike Remix)
Bottin - No Static (Club Version)
Zombi - Sapphire (Escort Remix)
House of House - Rushing to Paradise
Simon Baker - Way Out of My Head
Gus da Hoodrat - The Finger Prince, Part 5
Mr. Oizo - Postif (Hoodrat’s Acid Done Ate My Animals Edit)
Cassette Kids - Acrobat (Outlaws Party Mix)

this just might be my album of the year:

*Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra For New Music performing works of Alireza Mashayekhi*

on Sub Rosa

if you only buy one album of electronically manipulated Iranian modern classical music this year, make it this one. so friggin' cool and beautiful.

that record is fucking incredible, you are correct

oh, and it does have an actual title too: *Ornamentalism*

(and now i have to hear the persian electronic music disc that sub rosa put out previously.)

Both discs of that are great too. This one is best of both worlds though. He's Bay Area, his recent live sets are already well beyond the records that are coming out now. Cool guy.

zombi
thee oh sees
fredrik nordstrom
kate mann
yagya
U2
neko case
magik markers
fever ray
claro intelecto

i found the seeland album, it's frightfully dull, down to his voice i think, it is just dreadful. the interesting people apparently are still in broadcast.

― keythkeythkeyth, Saturday, 2 May 2009 23:10

OTM - hugely disappointing, very nothingy. Hope Broadcast get their record that was scheduled for a year or more ago sorted..

Did you you guys get promo's of the new Ata Ebtekar? Isn't it out on may 15th?

oh, and it does have an actual title too: *Ornamentalism*

Sounds intriguing! Is there anywhere I can hear a sample song or clip?

i got a promo. i'm gonna write about it for my first avant/noise/etc column.

gotta give a shout-out to that new Starving Weirdos album on Bo'Weavil again. i really dig that cd.

and i finally got a full copy of the new Hecker album on Mego. That's my other new fave. my kids love it too. they love dancing to it. elektro insect noises + fart noises = right up their alley.

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i got the new tortoise album in the mail and i tried to listen to it objectively (never really been a fan), but i've been listening to all this rad new stuff like the above and it just makes a group like tortoise look really lazy. like their inspiration for the album was a Battles ep and ten year old Trans Am albums. made me snooze. nowhere near as good as the Giant Brain album that came out this year. and, really, it just made me want to pull out an old sea & cake album and play that instead. plus, the songs just sound like ideas for songs. workshop sketches for songs. there is no immediacy there. no real reason to keep listening. there are no surprises worth waiting for.

um, sorry! just on my mind...

Thanks Scott. That column will appear on your noise thread I presume?

ZS, if the to me unreadable words aren't misguiding me, I believe there's a sample mp3 here

xp

Tomorrow Came Today - Joe McPhee
Double Sunrise Over Neptune - William Parker
It's not me, It's You
Easy Come, Easy Go - Marianne Faithful

my column will be in decibel magazine. in print. i don't know if it will be online or not.

i'm all about the new in 2009!

i'm trying to live down this thread:

2008: The Year I Officially Lost My Edge!

moved to a new town. starting a new column on cool new music. opening a cool new store. life begins at 40.

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Le Bateau Ivre,

thank you, I'm listening now.

Cool stuff Scott! I don't even know when life begins, if it already did or never will, but 40 seems a perfect age as any to lose your edge!

like their inspiration for the album was a Battles ep and ten year old Trans Am albums. made me snooze. nowhere near as good as the Giant Brain album that came out this year. and, really, it just made me want to pull out an old sea & cake album and play that instead.

I was there in 1996.
I was there at the first Trans Am shows when they opened for Tortoise.
I'm losing my edge.

But I was there.
I was there in 2003 at the first Battles practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the drum sounds with much patience.

I was there when Sam Prekop started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.

I was the first guy playing Giant Brain to the Tortoise kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.

really, though, i can't help it, tortoise album just made me think of other stuff that i like more. and other stuff that is/was done better. everyone should buy that giant brain album. probably nobody even heard it and it's way more exciting to listen to.

and i'm getting my edge BACK in 2009. which is why i love this year so far. economic swine flu notwithstanding...

I was there in 2009 at the "Patient Zero" swine flu case in a deserted shack in Mexico.

I'm always late to the party (its why I lurk here, after all), and most of my compelling listens (Bat for Lashes, Fever Ray, half of the Juan McLean) are well-repped for upthread. I thought I'd call your attention to:

Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes on the Street

A return to ECM, and also a return to the sound of the ECM albums. Too early for a final verdict, but I suspect it will hold up as well as Aka/Darbari/Java

Tim Exile - Listening Tree

I sort of wrote him off as another latecomer to drill n'bass, and his second gabberistic solo album sounded like IDM comedy hour. This is something else: a tribute to classic electro pop, while retaining all the studio wizardry - of this album arguably has as much as any other album in this thread. The short take (I've probably read somewhere) is Squarepusher covering Human League. The argument against is Exile's long, unresolved vocal melodies and the detached, clinical lyrics. Some of the reviews allege weak vocals, but they're no weaker than many of the genre classics. On constant rotation for the past two weeks, and I'm still hearing new things. On Warp.

dirty projectors, bitte orca

babe, terror, weekend

bill callahan, sometimes i wish we were an eagle

animal collective, merriweather post pavillion

odd nosdam, t.i.m.e soundtrack

matt & kim, grand

bob dylan, the new album

if i had to break it down to a whiney g extent:

9.0
the-dream
james blackshaw

8.5
yeah yeah yeahs
dirty projectors

8.0
ugk
ryan leslie
antony and the johnsons
neko case
ciara
lily allen
death

7.5
PPP
animal collective
eleni mandell
ida maria
morrissey
dan deacon
keri hilson
phoenix
the field

from ciara to eleni mandell is pretty fluid tho

(and now i have to hear the persian electronic music disc that sub rosa put out previously.)

You mean this disc?

yah, that's the one.

Higamos Hogamos - Higamos Hogamos

Yeah, that one sounds rather fine.

Also these:
The Saboten, Exa Pieco
David Åhlén, We Sprout In Thy Soil

Hey, that Dirty Projectors album… I realize that I'm copping to a miss-the-point, but I tend to like them except when the main guy is singing alone. Is there a lot of that on the new album? Seriously, when I've seen them live or listened to the album, it's always been with a "Shut up and let the girls sing" feeling, and so I wonder if I should investigate them again or if I'm still gonna be annoyed.

omar rodriguez-lopez

Hey kamerad, out of curiosity which OR-L release are you tossing in here? I've heard and enjoyed (more than I expected to anyway) New Money, but I wanted to see if you might be talking about one of the other 3 or 4 albums he's put out this year.

Here's my official list that kevin k is bitin.

http://www.aprilfish.net/?p=474

new money. haven't heard the others

Just realized that was Old Money, not New, but yeah, thanks. Just wanted to see if there was another worth tracking down.

yeah whatever it is. it's better to me than any mars volta album (which i realize isn't saying much) and my favorite thing i've heard he's been involved with since relationship of command

D. Rider - Mother of Curses

^^seriously this is my fav record of the year and i really really hope ppl will give it a chance, it's Todd from US Maple's new thing but it doesn't sound like US Maple (though his guitar style is very distinctive)...kinda fucked up, throbbing electronics with heavy triggered drums, lots of grinding low end, plus some baritone sax bleating....really rhythmic and kinda funky in a way....Todd's definitely a great frontman, very aristocratic and sort of cruel sounding....

but imagine i dunno...like you know how you want to like TV on the Radio when you read about TV on the Radio but then TV on the Radio just sounds, well, too much like how TV on the Radio sounds and not as much like this awesome polygot electro rock thing that's in your mind...well D. Rider sounds like how i want TV on the Radio to sound...

other RIYLs include maybe late period 90 Day Men....and obv. Todd brings his sort of warped genius guitar like Fripp by way of Beefheart stylee....

late period 90 Day Men

hmm apparently this record is for me.

yeah i bet you would like it. not that it necessarily sounds like them exactly, like d. rider sounds like itself to me, which is a good thing for the band

tyvek s/t
group bombino - guitars from agadez vol. 2
fever ray s/t
world's lousy w/ ideas vol. 8
kurt vile - god is saying this to you (probably 2008 I guess)
wooden shjips - dos

dj mixes:
twitch - 60 minutes of fear
omar-s - fabric 45: detroit
ame/henrik schwarz/dixon - the grandfather paradox

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/images/original/149428.Dirty%20Projectors%20Coverart.jpg

http://www.230publicity.com/images/japandroids_cover.jpg

http://images.google.com.br/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://tonemarrowreviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/here_we_go_magic_album_cover1.jpg&usg=AFQjCNH0EverrmykW8sN5JD2WEBCvQtZHw

http://perdizesdream.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/roughweekend1-cut.jpg

http://images.google.com.br/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://www.redimg.net/archivos/519/Casiotone%2520For%2520The%2520Painfully%2520Alone%2520-%2520Vs%2520Children%2520(2009).jpg&usg=AFQjCNE0yYAot8CDy_XHvgrscNk0uUIquA

(first is Dirty Projectors, 5th is Casiotone for the Painfully Alone)

casiotone's covers are great. apart from the one for the ep he released for my friend's label. which was a bit wank.

Michachu and The Shapes - Jewellery (can't believe there's not more ILX love for this - deserves some beyond the rolling indie thread)
The Sight Below - Glider
Prins Thomas and Lindstrom - II
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Here We Go Magic - S/T
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Joris Voorn - Balance 14
Dixon/Ame/Schwarz - The Grandfather Paradox
Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling OST

My laptop broke in January so I've not been checking out music quite as much as normal till a few weeks ago when I got my new computer. This thread is great for recommendations. Thanks everyone.

instead of opening word, the worst computer program in the world, i'm going to update my list for personal archival purposes here

1 the-dream - love vs money
2 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
3 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
4 green day - 21st century breakdown
5 junior boys - begone dull care
6 ugk - 4 life
7 electrik red - how to be a lady: volume 1
8 passion pit - manners
9 ryan leslie - ryan leslie
10 lil boosie - thug passion
11 gucci mane - zone 6 polar bear: gucci the glacier
12 dirty projectors - bitte orca
13 camera obscura - my maudlin career
14 lindstrøm & prins thomas - II
15 the juan maclean - the future will come

The Micachu album is wicked, aye.

I'm thinking this at the moment:

The-Dream - Love vs Money
Crazy Cousinz - This Is UK Funky
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Silkie - City Limits Volume One
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Part One
Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave It All Away... Now We're Taking It Back
Meanderthals - Desire Lines
DJ Koze - Reinterpretations
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
Henrik Schwarz, Ame, Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Courtney Love - Nobody's Daughter

Courtney Love - Nobody's Daughter

??? this is a thing now?

Yes! It's really good! Blowsy, bluesy, dylanesque confessional record.

In fact I was planning to revive a courtney thread just to talk about it.

"Michachu and The Shapes - Jewellery"

i luv this:

you like dirty projectors, tim?! :(

excited about c-love though

In fact I was planning to revive a courtney thread just to talk about it.

― Tim F, Friday, 22 May 2009 13:35 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do it! i havent heard anything abt it - is it at all fleetwood mac-y??

Yes! It's really good! Blowsy, bluesy, dylanesque confessional record.

Since when is a Courtney Love record *not* confessional?

you like dirty projectors, tim?! :(

everybody's doin it, lex

the water's fine etc

Lex likes Elbow and Electrelane. This popfairy lark is just a sham.

I like "The Stillness Is A Move" (Gang Gang Dance meets School of Seven Bells) much more than anything else on the Dirty Projectors album, but the rest reminds of the second Bows album and I can fuck with that.

Re Courtney - strictly, the new album is no more confessional than ever - her lyrical style hasn't changed a jot - but the album feels like something of a homage to confessional records, from the cover on in.

"gang gang dance meets school of 7 bells" - in its fucking dreams maybe

though i;m guessing those are mostly taken up by bjork

have you listened to that actual song though lex? I would have thought you would love it. The rest of the record sounds nothing like that unfortunately.

has there been any talk about that mungolian jet set anywhere on ilm? more space disco right?

dude "stillness" is nice but it's like the fourth or fifth best song on the album maybe

xp tim i know singles jukebox did an entry on "stillness" and if memory serves, lex hated it

Ha, the funny thing is, I even read that review (before I heard the DP album) but I didn't associate it with the song because no way does that singer remind me of Bjork.

I mean for that you've gotta go to Cortney Tidwell (whose new album is really good sounding, don't get me wrong - but she really does sound exactly like Bjork, especially when she starts playing with clicks&cuts style loops and it's like Verspertine 101).

Jordan, I think we're starting to talk about the mungolian jet set album on the mungolian jet set thread. Most of it is made up of stuff they've already released or had on their myspace - largely remixes and a smattering of new tracks.

I said she sounds like a cross between bjork and aaliyah, but that may have been entirely through lack of imagination

btw sarges, holla @ notepad.exe

The Bjork referencing is surely 90% because they've just worked with her yeah? It would never have occurred to me to make the connection otherwise.

btw sarges, holla @ notepad.exe

― chillin with my ella (The Reverend), Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:57 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

rly tho

I was unaware they worked w/ her and knew basically zero about them coming in.

i didn't know they'd worked w/her either - specifically it reminded me of 'alarm call', like, LOADS - admittedly this isn't björk's usual mode but the similarity was so pronounced. (except for dirty projectors being shit, obv.)

the cortney tidwell album is brilliant.

the similarity was so pronounced. (except for dirty projectors being shit, obv.)

So funny and so, so, so true.

Guido Möbius's Gebirge sounds also solid (at least on first two listens it does :)

ok, probably forgetting still, but here i go again:
1. The-Dream - Love vs. Money
2. Cortney Tidwell - Boys
3. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4. James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
5. Electrik Red - How To Be a Lady Vol. 1
6. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Game
7. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Baby Talk - Lush Life EP
10. The Thermals - Now We Can See

Singles
1. Demi Lovato - "Don't Forget"
2. Free Energy - "Dream City"
3. Lily Allen - "The Fear"
4. Jamie Foxx feat. T. Pain - "Blame It"
5. House of House - "Rushing to Paradise"
6. Cassie - "Summer Charm"
7. Jeremih - "Birthday Sex"
8. Phoenix - "Lisztomania"
9. Keri Hilson feat. Lil Wayne - "Turnin' Me On"
10. Ramzi Awn - "In the House"

Wait, people are still thinking of 2009 at the expense of the decade lists???

Keep up the good work, guys, I use a lot of your lists as guides for what to look for in my spare time.

And is it wrong that when I saw your list, Tape Store, that I still thought of Sean Combs' girl group when I see The Dream written down at the top?

Ha, well, to make my list even more confusing, supposedly the girls from Dream are recording an album under the name "Lady Phoenix"

just cause

Albums:
1. Electrik Red, How to Be a Lady
2. The-Dream, Love vs Money
3. DJ Paul, Scale-a-Ton
4. Muhsinah, Triangle
5. UGK, 4 Life
6. The Juan Maclean, The Future Will Come
7. Art Brut, Art Brut vs Satan
8. Ryan Leslie
9. Heavy, First Sessions
10. Rick Ross, Deeper Than Rap

Singles:
1. House of House, "Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets)"
2. DJ Quik & Kurupt, "9x's Outta 10"
3. K.I.G., "Head Shoulderz Kneez & Toez"
4. Keri Hilson f/ Lil Wayne, "Turnin' Me On"
5. Electrik Red, "So Good"
6. Kid Cudi, "Day 'N' Nite"
7. Maxwell, "Pretty Wings"
8. The Juan Maclean, "One Day"
9. Sticky f/ Lady Chann, "Your Eye Too Fast"
10. New Boyz, "You're a Jerk"

i don't think anyone's gonna crack my top three of dream/phoenix/e red however that ends up

lol @ lindstrom & prins falling from #1 right after hearing them to outside my top ten. I may be underating, but it just kinda lost its appeal :(

i listened to it last night and was super unenthused by the proceedings

really did feel amazing the first time I heard it tbh

i agree but i think once you're hipped to the tricks it's kinda just nice, not amazing

i think once the meanderthals album came out it made the L&PT one kinda redundant as one's go-to balearic bibbly bliss

i mean i still like it but it's just there

If I like...

Patrick Wolf
Animal Collective
Grizzly Bear
The Field
Micachu
Super Furry Animals
Bill Callahan

...so far this year, what else Might I like?

you said you liked phoenix

Yes! I knew I'd forgotten one.

I can't see you actively hating the James Blackshaw, so that maybe?

MOKIRA - Persona
DIRTY PROJECTORS - Spittle Horca
MICACHU - Jewellery
GUN OUTFIT - Dim Light
MOUTHUS - Divisionals
BLACK DICE - Repo
ERIC COPELAND - RGAG
DR. WHO DAT? - Beyond 2Morrow
OMAR-S - Fabric45 & Blown Valvetrane 12"
THRILLER (Actress & Lukid) - Swarm/Hubble 12"
ISMAEL PINKLER - Trote 12"
AARON DILLOWAY - Chain Shot
WOLF EYES - Always Wrong
JOHN WIESE - Circle Snare
SUNN 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Fave reissues so far:
THOMAS MAPFUMO & THE ACID BAND - Hokoyo!
BOB DYLAN - New Morning
BECK - One Foot In The Grave: Expanded Edition
DEREK BAILEY - Lot 74: Solo Improvisations
CLUSTER - Grosses Wasser
MOEBIUS & PLANK - Rastakraut Pasta
LOREN CONNORS - The Curse Of Midnight Mary (unreleased/archival stuff, so close enough)

Jesse Somfay - A Catch in the Voice
Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix
Raveonettes - Beauty Dies
Harlem - Free Drugs

recently feeling:

electrik red - how to be a lady, vol 1
the bats - the guilty office
deastro - moondagger
dj paul - scale-a-ton (skeleton)
dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout

dj paul - scale-a-ton (skeleton)

haha i love when ppl list the full name

its like dj paul did one of those british jokes with parentheses that i never really got

lol

It's good enough for me to say:

Shiina Ringo - Sanmon Gossip

More pop than avant and mostly very upbeat. Fairly retro. Lots of jazz/swing/R&B in keeping with a lot of her recent recordings. For reasons I can't pinpoint, her vocal quirks work for me much better on this album than they have in some other recent cases. Also, the ease with which she segues between Japanese and English (and her English is sounding pretty good) is exemplary.

hey moka the harlem album was 2008. isn't it fucking great, though?

2008? are you sure? Man I'm so dissapointed, turns out the raveonettes ep is also from 2008. And yes, it is fucking great!
Just read they signed to matador for another release later this year. Hope that one is even better so I get an excuse to add them to my 2009 list... things haven't been that interesting this year on my album section to be honest.

it comes down to -

animal collective
bill callahan
dirty projectors
sunset rubdown

worth checking out but maybe not necessary own :
micachu
dinosaur jr.

I'm actuallly not very fond of none of those 6 albums you mention, Zeno. They all have some very strong tracks but they don't feel good enough for me as a whole. Perhaps album has become a dead art form to me.

i agree non of them is a masterpiece to remember for centuries ahead.

so i guess,according to my opinion and musical taste:
2009 is kinda weak so far.
correct me if i'm wrong.

― Zeno, 01:28 יום שני 30 מרץ 2009 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still

the old, famous acts arent as good as they used to be (wilco,sonic youth..)
and the new,hyped acts (not so many i guess this year) arent as good as they supposed to be (wavves for example)

ur doin it rong

?!

i think Kevin means we're listening to the wrong albums.

listened to barely anything new this yr.

what i have listened to & liked -
Bill Callahan
my bros' tape on digitalis Blank Realm - Street Bananas
meth and red lol
UGK
Woods (at rear house and woods family creeps are as good imo)
Phil Sawyer reissh

yeah,the Woods album is good, forgot about it

that meth & red album is so blah and boring but I'm glad it came out because it reminded me how much I like the og blackout

yuh it is boring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0KpKKI8jDg

so we are officially half way there and here is my list as of today:

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. The Field - Yesterday and Today
5. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
6. Wilco - (The Album)
7. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
8. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
9. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

jj 'no 2'

my halfway there list:

1. DJ Quik & Kurupt, BlaQKout
2. Electrik Red, How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1
3. The-Dream, Love vs. Money
4. The Juan Maclean, The Future Will Come
5. DJ Paul, Scale-a-Ton (Skeleton)
6. A-Trak, Fabriclive.45
7. Wiley, Race Against Time
8. UGK, 4 Life
9. Maxwell, BLACKsummers'night
10. Donae'o, Party Hard

Fever Ray is one of the best albums of the decade IMO.

One that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet: The new Mos Def.

Discovery - LP

jam this @ outdoors

Goes Cube - Another Day

jam this period

Some albums I'm surprised haven't gotten more love:

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape
Finale - A Pipe Dream and a Promise
NOMO - Invisible Cities
Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
Filastine - Dirty Bomb

and I know that The Pains of Being Pure at Heart doesn't play well over here, but it's really pretty good.

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape

refuse to listen to this

I need to spend more time with the Fever Ray album and looking forward to checking out the Anni Rossi album

Here's my choices at H1 2009:

DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues LP (#1)
Ada - Adaptations Mixtape LP
Ducktails - Ducktails LP (#2)
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care LP
Henrik Schwarz, Ame & Dixon present The Grandfather Paraxdox LP
Carl Craig and Moritz Von Oswald - Recomposed LP

Vulcan - Meet Your Ghost LP (reissue)

Tracks:
Animal Collective - My Girls
Kreon - Jauce

Old but discovered this year:

Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound LP on Sublime Frequencies is blowing me away on the daily

At the halfway point:

Death - For The Whole World To See
Hacride - Lazarus
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo
Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel - Willie And The Wheel
Elvis Perkins - In Dearland
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
YOB - The Great Cessation
Zu - Carboniferous

meant to check that Zu record, thanks for reminding me.

and the new Tortoise is pretty good.

Nomo's fucking nice.

So far I have enjoyed...

The Sight Below - Glider
Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellery
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Yellow Moon Band - Journey to Several Remote Countries
JJ - no.2
Julianna Barwick - Florine
Prins Thomas and Lindstrom - II

Best mix

Joris Voorn - Balance 14

Best reissue

Flaming Tunes - Flaming Tunes

Anyone else heard Julianna Barwick? Surprised there's been no mention of her on here - apart from a mention in passing on the noise board.

Total Abuse, Gnaw, Consumer Electronics, Animal Collective, Electrik Red, Omar-S, DJ Sprinkles, Pissed Jeans, Sir Richard Bishop, Current 93, L'acephale, Shitty Limits, Future of The Left

^^^top, uh, 13, no order

Black Dice - Repo
Nomo - invisible cities
chicks on speed - the cutting edge (it's a double, but if you edit it down to a single album it's really great)
thieves like us - play
depeche mode - sounds of the universe
Aeroplane - Disco Balearic mix

I got turned off of Pheonix when they started to veer away from the slick pop/funk towards more guitar stuff. are they done with that mediocre guitar rock?

A few things i don't think have been mentioned
Bibio - Ambivilance Avenue
Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP
Four Tet and Burial - Moth/Wolf Cub
City Center - City Center

new julianna barwick is nice. have not spent as much time with it as i did sanguine, but it's very easy/pleasurable to listen to. piano one is a weird change of direction.

beyond the valley of the ultrahits - richard youngs

what kind of stuff is that, kamerad? pop/noise/folk...?

Wish I knew what types of bands/albums they were, what they sounded like, as a lady who hasn't followed newmusic with any intentfor at least four years...

pop. chamber/baroque stuff, kind of somewhere between kevin ayers and scott walker, if that appeals

Vieux Farka Toure
Amadou & Mariam
Rokia Traore

"Happy House" by the Juan Maclean!

last year dude

xpost: I know

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape

refuse to listen to this

Way to take a stand. That'll learn 'em.

Wow just listened to the Mount Kimbie EP... thought i wasn't going to like it because RA did, but i really really do; black is white, etc.

Gonna give a shout out to the Sharon Van Etten record on Language of Stone. Real good folky singer-songwriter stuff. It's called Because I Was In Love. One of my favorites of the year, for sure.

I haven't heard a big/exciting/anything new release in at least a few weeks, maybe even a month. Has nothing come out lately?

maxwell

You're the second person to give me that answer to that question today. Guess I'll check it out.

On the psychedelic side of things, Cave "Pschic Psummer" and Oneida "Rated O" are ruling. I've only just gotten a copy of the new Group Doueh record on Sublime Frequencies "Treeg Salaam, but it is incredible. Love his wah wah technique, the second side is the jam that keeps on giving.

The new Blues Control is their best yet, as well.

The new Ayelet Rose Gottlieb album, "Upto Here | From Here" is really great. It's basically a recorded version of this Valentine's Day show she did in NYC last year, which I completely loved, so I'm thrilled that I can finally listen to it again. A bunch of amazing compositions, Avishai Cohen is tremendous on the trumpet, and Ayelet still has the sexiest voice in the world at this very moment. I highly highly highly recommend. Particularly "Sweep Streets," and "Pomegranate Man."

Avishai Cohen is tremendous on the trumpet

Really? On the trumpet? Never knew he playes trumpet as well...

I have to second Trip Maker's praise for the new Oneida. I've been a stan for some time, but Rated O is on some next level shit. Each disc stands well on its own and every time I listen to one of them, I have a new favorite. Just great, great stuff.

Yeah! "Luxury Travel" has been my favorite this week.

The new Ayelet Rose Gottlieb album, "Upto Here | From Here" is really great.

Oh wow, I will have to check that out.

Avishai Cohen is tremendous on the trumpet

Really? On the trumpet? Never knew he playes trumpet as well...

― t**t, Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:16 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there are two different jazz dudes named avishai cohen

I'm listening to these clips and it sounds more conventionally jazzy than Mayim Rabim, or just less experimental in general. Would you say that's the case? I like her vocals enough that I'd be willing to give it a shot, I think. It's not as though I'm not too broke to actually buy anything right now though.

Hey, Mordy--which sounds a little too casually familiar in tone--you should check out the jazzy new Shiina Ringo album, the only thing I have to really recommend from this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3QX5ouT1M&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AyuwatJ&view=videos

soisong - xAj3z

Xp I'd say the new album is definitely much less experimental than Mayim Rabim, but her voice really is just incredible and gorgeous, and there are really some amazing vocal moments that could've been off Mayim Rabim. I'm loving it so far, but I only just heard it for the first time last night.

Shiina Ringo sounds crazy! Do you like Jewlia Eisenberg, btw? I keep hearing rumors that she's recording...

new Shiina Ringo = pretty awesome

Do you like Jewlia Eisenberg, btw?

Don't know her. I've seen her name mentioned here before (possibly by you) but I can't remember if I've looked into her.

She does really interesting vocal stuff - her group is called Charming Hostess, and my fave album by her is Trilectic.

That all sounds familiar. I will have to check to see if I ever checked into it.

Hmmm, sounds interesting. I don't go too much for straight East European Jewish traditional music, klezmer, and the like, but with all these twists it is a little easier to get interested in.

when I read my writing style in threads like this I have to shudder, but still, this thread needs more posts, 1998-2002 Charming Hostess was my favorite bay area live band and I hope there's a well-recorded concert from that time burned to a CDR somewhere waiting to be taken off the shelf and released

Charming Hostess

They're really so great. I heard them play a show at Tonic a few years ago, and there were about 20 people in the whole club. I went with a bunch of friends and we actually shouted requests out at them. They seemed pretty shocked to be getting requests. (We really wanted to hear Fortress Moscow.)

Incidentlally, Mordy, just to be clear I don't necessarily want to suggest Shiina Ringo sounds much like Ayelet! For one thing, she's not nearly as solid and reliable technically as a vocalist. I just think she is someone you might like based on various things you've mentioned. (But there is some use of jazz on this new CD, even if its jazz in the service of pop aims rather than something like Mayim Rabim which is closer to what I think of as actual jazz (even if it is jazz + other things).

My halfway list, what a weird years its been. The stuff I like is all over the place.

1. Mastodon - Crack the Skye (Reprise)
2. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
4. Dinosaur Jr - Farm (Jagjaguwar)
5. Wilco - Wilco (the album) (Nonesuch)
6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
7. Coalesce - Ox (Relapse)
8. Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)
9. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland)
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (Interscope)
11. Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic)
12. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (V2)
13. Nomo - Invisible Cities (Ubiquity)
14. Handsome Furs - Face Control (Sub Pop)
15. Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
16. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
17. Wooden Shjips - Dos (Holy Mountain)
18. Tombs - Winter Hours (Relapse)
19. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
20. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
21. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand (Vice)
22. K'naan - Troubadour (A&M)
23. Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II (Eskimo)
24. The-Dream - Love vs. Money (Radio Killa/Def Jam)
25. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Astralwerks)

Honorable Mentions:
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
Cobalt - Gin (Profound Lore)
Glasvegas - Glasvegas (Columbia)
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South (Merge)
Obits - I Blame You (Sub Pop)
Morrissey - Years of Refusal (Attack/Lost Highway)
Fever Ray - Fever Ray (Rabid)
Mos Def - The Ecstatic (Downtown)
Silversun Pickups - Swoon (Dangerbird)
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (ANTI-)
Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)

1 the-dream - love vs money
2 james blackshaw - the glass bead game
3 dj quik + kurupt - blaqkout
4 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
5 electrik red - how to be a lady, vol. 1
6 ugk - ugk 4 life
7 dirty projectors - bitte orca
8 ryan leslie - ryan leslie
9 neko case - middle cyclone
10 antony and the johnsons - the crying light
11 lily allen - it's not me, it's you
12 eleni mandell - tiny waist
13 ciara - fantasy ride
14 maxwell - BLACKsummer'snight
15 death - ...for the whole world to see
16 freeway - month of madness
17 animal collective - mpp
18 ppp - abundance
19 dj paul - scale-a-ton
20 DOOM - born like this

i read ilm, if u couldnt tell u_u

my top ten so far this year:

outrageous cherry - universal malcontents
section 25 - nature + degree
hatcham social - you dig the tunnel i'll hide the soil
coloma - love's recurring dream
thieves like us - play music
cut off your hands - you + i
seeland - tomorrow today
my sad captains - here & elsewhere
the bats - the guilty office
it hugs back - inside your guitar

1 the-dream - love vs money
2 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
3 electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
4 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
5 green day - 21st century breakdown
6 jay reatard - watch me fall
7 the juan maclean - the future will come
8 pill - 4180: the prescription
9 dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout
10 discovery - lp
11 major lazer - guns don't kill people, lazer's do
12 ryan leslie - ryan leslie
13 ciara - fantasy ride
14 dirty projectors - bitte orca
15 ugk - ugk 4 life
16 junior boys - begone dull care
17 javelin - jamz n jemz
18 gucci mane - writing on the wall
19 rick ross - deeper than rap
20 lil boosie - thug passion

camera obscura would go in there too

came around to that ross, huh?

http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/images/s/summer_sun_shine-3070.jpg

12 eleni mandell - tiny waist artificial fire

'watch me fall', album of the year. also really enjoyed 'yesterday and today' by the field and the fever ray record. not much else

1. grizzly bear - veckatimest
1. dirty projectors - bitte orca
2. the-dream - love vs money
3. the bitters - wooden glove 12"
4. white denim - fits
5. discovery - lp
5. major lazer - guns don't kill people, lazers do
6. sunset rubdown - dragonslayer
7. rick ross - deeper than rap

fever ray still tops for me. here we go magic record is good too. bubbling under - super furry animals and major swellings. lots of stuff i havent given a proper listen too though like the yeah yeah yeah's, major lazer....

oh wait the phoenix record is good but not a patch on the last one

songs

here we go magic - tunnelvision
animal collective - brothersport
grizzly bear - all we ask
major lazer - keep it goin' loud ft nina sky & ricky blaze
dirty projectors - useful chamber
rick ross - all i really want ft. the-dream
best coast - the sun was high (so was i)
tyvek - frustration rock
atlas sound - walkabout ft panda bear
discovery - it's not my fault (it's my fault)

it's been a really good year so far, halfway and my list is looking alot better than last year's.

john scofield, piety street
bad plus, for all i care
ugk, ugk 4 life
dirty projectors, bitte orca
tbc brass band, modern times
maxwell, blacksummer's night

songz aka where the big singles at
1. Drake - "Best I Ever Had'
2. Goapele - "Milk and Honey"
3. House of House - "Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets)"
4. Jamie Foxx feat. T Pain - "Blame It"
5. Lily Allen - "The Fear"
6. Mariah Carey - "Obsessed"
7. Free Energy - "Dream City"
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"
9. The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing"
10. Jeremih - "Birthday Sex"

i support this list

Bachelorette- My Electric Family
Jay Reatard- Watch me Fall
Fever Ray- Fever Ray
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amedeus
Sunn O)))- Monoliths and Dimensions

Nothing else comes to mind.

delirious should probably be on my list

there's a new major swellings album?!!?

My favorite songs list:

Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave
Ganglians - Cryin' smoke
Jacuzzi Boys - I fought a cocodrile
jj - Ecstasy
Mount Kimbie - Maybes
Jesse Somfay - Amo alucinor
Four Tet & Burial - Moth
Animal Collective - Bluish
Kurt Vile - Freeway
Fever Ray - When I grow up
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti - Can't hear my eyes
Grizzly Bear - About face
Crystal Stilts - Love is a wave
Kool Keith - Livin astro
basement jaxx - raindrops
Wooden Shjips - For so long

Missing from my song list: Woods, Yacht, YYYs, Here we go magic, The pains of being pure at heart, the horrors, the bony king of nowhere, telepathe, odawas, mos def, in flagranti... and a few more that i'm to lazy to type right now.

yeah, lots of good stuff on moka's list too. i love "can't hear my eyes" a whole lot

has anyone heard the zola jesus lp on sacred bones yet? went back to new amsterdam yesterday and was surprised at how nice it was. think i'd just reduced her to being rester + some soundalikes.

Have there been any good debut albums this year?

(And I don't mean like Fever Ray or Future of the Left which are clearly extensions of previous artists.)

electrik red

discovery

lee fields & the expressions

added:

strange boys
bloody mary
the legends

Also, it's Future of the Left's second album.

xposts

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
LSD March - Under Milk Wood
Giuseppe Lelasi - Aix
Gudrun Gut - Apples, Pears & Deer in Poland EP
The Intelligence - Fake Surfers
Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellry
Fabio Orsi/Valerio Cosi - Thoughts Melt In the Air
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Sonic Youth - The Eternal

is it fair to say that if i found micachu to be unbearably awful live then i won't like the record? does she try to actually sing on record?

omar otm wrt strange boys what a wonderful album!

will have to hear this gudrun gut ep

add cass mccombs - 'catacombs' and michachu and the shapes - 'jewellry' to my list

xxxpost K3vin I think if you couldn't stomach her live it's probably not super different on the record...but the record is GREAT if you can clear that hurdle. Anyway for me at least her voice isn't in that dealbreaker category w/ like Joanna Newsom or the Of Montreal guy...just sounds like she's having fun w/ what she's got..,.

The Gudrun Gut EP has me v. juiced for another full-length...very much on the same vein as the last LP w/ the retarted, on-the-one, sort of polka thing going on. So hot, also has kind of a Fizheuer Zieheur vibe happening with vaguely Slavic, little horn or string stuff

"in" same vein

xxxpost K3vin I think if you couldn't stomach her live it's probably not super different on the record...but the record is GREAT if you can clear that hurdle. Anyway for me at least her voice isn't in that dealbreaker category w/ like Joanna Newsom or the Of Montreal guy...just sounds like she's having fun w/ what she's got..,.

― Hadrian VIII, Monday, July 27, 2009 10:29 AM (8 hours ago)

o____0

kevin barnes can sing!!! well! yeah i don't think i'm going to check them out, i don't have the patience for someone who's in a band of this profile but hasn't bothered learning how to sing and thinks blasting me with awful, pointless noise in the middle of her songs is a good idea. someone next to me at the siren fest said something about how "she makes her own intsruments herself!" as if that were a good thing, lol no

she brings my inner lex out where i wanna hate on her for neglecting to learn to dress herself, on top of everything else

blasting me with awful, pointless noise in the middle of her songs is a good idea

you have listened to skeletal lamping right?

"i'm learning to troll"

anyway i think micachu is alright but all that just seems underwritten to me. also the childish aesthetic really puts me off. if she can write a good song then she should write a real song not some 1:20 thing with a toy guitar and a xylophone

are you trying to tell me that there aren't blasts of pointless noise in skeletal lamping?

and i like twee stuff like architecture in helsinki and the boy least likely to but to see her being celebrated by people as some sort of like raw, outsider, underground pop musician (and she makes grime mixtapes!!) makes me roll my damn eyes

i'm saying you and i have talked about it before and also, no, imo there arent

xp

jordan pretty otm about micachu

has anyone heard the zola jesus lp on sacred bones yet? went back to new amsterdam yesterday and was surprised at how nice it was. think i'd just reduced her to being rester + some soundalikes.

― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Spoils is the only thing i've heard by her, and I think she has actual songwriting talent. too bad the production makes it kind of unlistenable

Kool Keith - Livin astro

Brilliant song and video, but it's from 10 years ago unfortunately.

my 10 albums so far
Dinosaur Jr
Phoenix
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Animal Collective
DOOM
Future Of The Left
Handsome Furs
Silversun Pickups
Junior Boys
Rick Ross

replace silversun pickups with Black Dice

ok and replace handsome furs with SUNN 0)))

'vulture' from the micachu album is the most addictive track ive heard this year. i really like the album, its a fun record, dont know anything about her. so i guess i havent been turned off by the hype. is there hype? i just came across the music on a radio show.

Micachu is the worst fucking thing ever.

The only thing that came out this year that I've been listening to is the new Bob Dylan album. Not very au courant of me.

there seems to be a strong chance that i wont even have a top 10 by the end of 2009.
also, due to an ongoing loss of interest caused by real life gubbins, i've no desire to hear most of the stuff listed so far.
[i've come to realise my head gets into this type of groove once in a while - but these days it seems to happen more and more often!?]
in fact, the only albums on the horizon that i reckon are good for me are the forthcoming soulsavers album, and flykllr (if it gets the all clear).

The only thing that came out this year that I've been listening to is the new Bob Dylan album. Not very au courant of me.

― o. nate, Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:36 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'm amazed at how this album just seemed to disappear after it came out.

How is it, o. nate? I'm guessing it's really good if you keep listening to it. :-)

How is it, o. nate? I'm guessing it's really good if you keep listening to it. :-)

Yeah, it's pretty good. I find it easier to just throw on while cooking dinner or something than his previous couple of albums were - those seemed a bit heavier.

Have there been any good debut albums this year?
astra - the weirding

That Micachu record is outstanding and I've yet to hear a single criticism of it that isn't either _______ or ________ or both.

Just because people are making the same criticisms doesn't mean those points aren't valid.

clark - totems flare (crank it up)
john tilbury & polwechsel - field
dino jr. - farm

"The songs are too short", "the girl can't sing" and "random bursts of noise" are pretty shaky reasons for a record's dismissal. You could dismiss "Another Green World" on the same ground.

There are things to dislike about it... that at least four songs sound exactly like "Tequila". I played the record for Ben Jacobs when he was staying with me, and he said, "it's awesome, but I can't listen to it. Her Surrey accent horrifies me."

Anyway, I love it. And I'm sad the Telepathe record got slept on. When it came out I read a lot of "don't like Williamsburg, don't like Nylon, don't like Sitek", but the sound of that record is terrifying and amazing.

Cosign on the Micachu record; it's just so much fun, the criticisms seem very mealy-mouthed and off-base. I think she's got a great voice for what she's doing.

Got around to checking out that Hatcham Social record last night... and again this morning... and earlier this afternoon... and again here shortly. Lovin' it.

"The songs are too short", "the girl can't sing" and "random bursts of noise" are pretty shaky reasons for a record's dismissal. You could dismiss "Another Green World" on the same ground.

uhh, two of these complaints certainly wouldn't make any sense leveled at Another Green World...

well, call Eno a girl all you want, but I won't tolerate anyone accusing Another Green World of having "random bursts of noise."

anyway, carry on, i haven't heard Micachu.

Granted the only exposure I've had to Micachu was an NPR video podcast, but she struck me as someone that spent way more time developing her carefully crafted "aww shucks, I just woke up from bed and wrote this silly lil' song" image than she did in actually developing an engaging tune.

a few of these were already mentioned, but worth repeating:

Albums

Fever Ray
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
John Daly - Sea and Sky
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
El Perro del Mar - Love is Not Pop
Lindstrom & Prins - II
Yagya - Rigning

EPs

Giorgio Gigli - Observation Document
Even Tuell - Workshop 07
Donnacha Costello - While in Exile EP and Tragedy of Commons EP
Baby Ford - Gravy Train
Andre Lodemann - Coming Home
Sally Shapiro - Miracle
Burial & Four Tet - Moth
Chaton - +91 Ahead Session 3

To add to my list above, stuff I've added since my arbitrary cut-off date.

Oneida - Rated O (this would probably rank in the top 5, easily)
Maxwell - BLACKsummer'snight
Bowerbirds - Upper Air

Got around to checking out that Hatcham Social record last night... and again this morning... and earlier this afternoon... and again here shortly. Lovin' it.

yay! i think this record has been sadly slept on thus far

Heh, and I'm listening to it again right now

Thanks to everyone who mentioned Hatcham Social (which was totally off my radar). Great little album.

Albums I'm Looking Forward to:
Mariah Carey
Rooney
Yo La Tengo
Julian Casablancas
Cassie
Drake
Kris Allen
Jay Reatard
The Avalanches
Os Mutantes
Scarlett Johansson/Pete Yorn
Imogen Heap
D'Angelo
Christina Milian
Mission of Burma

I really like that Hatcham Social record ! I think this is the only place I have seen it mentioned, so thanks to those who praised it.

I find it hard to understand why this is apparently ignored when so many mediocre indie bands seem to be everywhere.

Yeah, I am really surprised by the lack of Hatcham Social love. You'd think with all of these bands like Crystal Stilts and Pains of Being Pure at Heart getting tons of buzz for mining the C86 thing, these guys would get some love somehow. Still very glad I grabbed that album knowing pretty much nothing about them.

i also recommend the bricolage album, which also mines the postcard vibe, albeit to the point of heavily borrowing from orange juice much of the time

i like the new declining winter record, the first post-Hood thing i have liked possibly because it sounds most like a Hood record though it's probably going to sound better in the autumn overcast than it does now in the 90 degree sunshine.

Polvo - In Prism .
one of the most successful reunion recordes ever.

oh man that micachu is good. i am definitely a sucker for short catchy quirky pop albums (unicorns, discovery etc) but there is so much to love on the album. to people saying she sings badly, it's basically a punk album so that's sorta irrelevant. also there is not a single random burst of noise on the entire album. every burst of noise is perfectly logical and lovely and not really even that unexpected.

The thread is upsetting me with no mentions of the wonderful "(A)spera" by Mirah. So, problem rectified.

these are my favorite albums of the year so far:

Necro Deathmort - This Beat Is Necrotronic

Subarachnoid Space - Eight Bells

Rice Corpse - Mrs. Rice Corpse

William Fowler Collins - Perdition Hill Radio

Violet - Violet Ray Gas And The Playback Singers

Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity

Sperm Whales/Color Rabbit - Split CD

Starving Weirdos - Into An Energy

Ata Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra For New Music - Ornamentalism

Overmars - Born Again (American release/reissue)

Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bar - Asylum Lunaticum

Frank Vigroux & Matthew Bourne - Call Me Madame (Good News From Wonderland)

Vagusnerve - Lo Pan

Kreng - L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - UTP_

An Anthology Of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008

Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge

Gog - Mist From The Random More

Tim Olive - The Specialist

Whoah! A new Subarachnoid Space? That one totally flew by my radar!

I just tried to order that Mama Bar CD and FE was out, oh well.

latest wye oak album is just gorgeous, way better than their first which was pretty decent too

it's not as shoegaze as some seem to be describing it but it's more gaze than, say, beach house or speck mountain

other 2009 albums i am loving the heck out of right now:

desolation wilderness
my sad captains
fanfarlo (is there any good reason ilm is ignoring this? tip: it doesn't actually sound like arcade fire, as some complete idiots seem to think)
paper moon (omg girly power pop does not get better than this)

oh and i nearly forgot, the dolly rocker movement's "purple journey..." album is total psych pop loveliness and doesn't sound australian at all

albums:
Ada - Adaptations
Desire - Desire (untitled CDR on Italians Do It Better)
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

singles:
DJ Kaos - "Love the Night Away (Tiedye mix)"
Lindstrom and Solale - "Baby I Can't Stop (Aeroplane mix)"
Shit Robot - "Simple Things (Work It Out) (Serge Santiago mix)"
Altair Nouveau - "Space Fortress"

my top whatever so far fwiw in no order

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Spinal Tap - Back From the Dead
Dev.D soundtrack
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
Company of Thieves - Ordinary Riches
Otis Taylor - Pentatonic Wars and Other Love Songs
Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
Meg & Dia - Here, Here, and Here
Fru Fru - Az Prileti Tucnak
Invisible System - Punt: Made in Ethiopia
Otep - Smash the Control Machine
Slivovitz - Hubris
KEEK - Ritter
Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles
R.Kelly - DJ Drama & DJ Skee mixtape
Trey Songz - Anticipation mixtape
Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood
P.O.S. - Never Better
Oneida - Rated O
Various Artists - Revolution Rising
Cheap Trick - The Latest
Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
Gomez - A New Tide
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Michael Olatuja - Speak
Paulina Rubio - Gran City Pop

some others too

Amazed that no one has mentioned this yet:
Jeniferever - Spring Tides
The first two tracks are amazing, the rest of the album very good.

Two new ones in my top ten, V.V. Brown - Travelling Like the Light and Pill - 4180 The Prescription mixtape.

yeah that pill mixtape is just amazing, can't wait for whatever comes next from him

i would have added those two too but my list was long and life is short

pill's dropping a new mixtape soon

it's called 4175: the refill i think (i might have the number wrong)

yeah i think ive heard of that, he may have even referred to it at the end of 4180

Not a full list, but this new Tinariwen disc is very good.

Wussy - Wussy - almost perfect joy. for everyone who loves great catchy melodies and hooks.their best record so far.

i will also add Part Chimp if the fact that they don't really know how to write songs, will not interrupt the joy of listening to their sound.but i doubt it.

Tinariwen

really liking the White Denim album...sounds like vintage-era SST bands (Minutemen, Meat Puppets) gettin' down at Studio One...

also the new Jim O'Rourke...

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/281/115/106/11510695/600x600.jpg

2009 songs to hear before you write anything off, sequenced as mixtape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-jl1L6YRCI

1. Heartless Bastards, The Mountain (Fat Possum Records), 2009: "Be So Happy" (album version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HevhOgvxQH4

2. Brother Ali, Us (Rhymesayers), 2009*: "Breakin' Dawn"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT-hYXqTN38

3. Mos Def, The Ecstatic (Downtown), 2009: "Auditorium"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3CdNl-7GE

4. K'NAAN, Troubadour (A&M/Octone), 2009*: "Fifteen Minutes Away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdr_fInv3PQ

5. Bruce Springsteen, Working on a Dream (Columbia), 2009: "This Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwft9wG8hb4

6. P.O.S., Never Better (Rhymesayers), 2009*: "The Basics (Alright)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRt3BdEBGI

7. Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs (Matador), 2009: "By Two's"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uIBqwd0Fp8

8. Eyedea & Abilities, By the Throat (Rhymesayers), 2009*: "This Story"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ7cGBAdOWk

9. U2, No Line on the Horizon (Island/Universal), 2009: "The Cedars of Lebanon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtUWyildbik

10. Mr. Lif, I Heard It Today (Bloodbog Tactical Enterprises), 2009: "What About Us?"

11. Dynas, The Apartment (BBE), 2009*: "The Apartment 2" (can't find on youtube):
http://www.zero-inch.com/artist/Dynas/track/The_Apartment_2/109525

12. Busdriver, Jhelli Beam (Anti-), 2009: "Me-Time (With the Pulmonary Palimpsest)"

13. Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw (Midget Records), 2009* (friends here): "Let's Be Mates"

14. Two Fingers, Two Fingers (Paper Bag Records), 2009: "That Girl" (I prefer original mix, but can't find it on Youtube)

15. Various artists, Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir Present, B-More Club Crack (Koch), 2009: Verb f. Eliza Doolittle, "Rockin with the Best"

16. Doom, Born Like This (Lex Records), 2009: "Batty Boyz"

17. Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You (EMI), 2009: "The Fear":

18. Major Lazer, Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do (Downtown), 2009: "When You Hear the Bassline"

19. Mastodon, Crack the Skye (Reprise Records), 2009: "Oblivion" (turn this up)

20. The Clean, Mister Pop (Merge), 2009: "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul"

Whups...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a0Y-CRx4nE

12. Busdriver, Jhelli Beam (Anti-), 2009: "Me-Time (With the Pulmonary Palimpsest)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iED-fN9Hm4w

13. Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw (Midget Records), 2009* (friends here): "Let's Be Mates"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxTtw2vYgk

14. Two Fingers, Two Fingers (Paper Bag Records), 2009: "That Girl" (I prefer original mix, but can't find it on Youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWAYMcec1S0

15. Various artists, Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir Present, B-More Club Crack (Koch), 2009: Verb f. Eliza Doolittle, "Rockin with the Best"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_pp6PysRNM

16. Doom, Born Like This (Lex Records), 2009: "Batty Boyz"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wGMlSuX_c

17. Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You (EMI), 2009: "The Fear":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lU2NAiWe8A

18. Major Lazer, Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do (Downtown), 2009: "When You Hear the Bassline"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kcErNWtw1o

19. Mastodon, Crack the Skye (Reprise Records), 2009: "Oblivion" (turn this up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbJKs-_enXQ

20. The Clean, Mister Pop (Merge), 2009: "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul"

* = any vague connection to Minneapolis/St. Paul

el goodo coyote. sounds like a long lost move record

On second thought, subtract Major Lazer, add Rancid's "East Bay Night" at the beginning of that tape, and shuffle a couple other songs--nobody cares, I realize, I just can't let bad sequencing stand.

man, that Mastodon vid is outta this world!

2009 has been a pretty darn good year.. nothing has ~BLOWN MY MIND~ as it were but I think there have been more good-to-great albums this year than ever before imo

i feel the same way, but imo there have been at least a couple mindblowers (love vs money, bitte orca).

Bannakumbi's Un Nuevo Dia is amazingly great, one of the only new salsa albums I've heard this decade worth shouting about. I'm going to try to put some of this into words after a few listens, but I have no doubt that is something exceptional.

Also:

Truco & Zaperoko - En Plena Rumba
Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra for New Music Performing Works of Alireza Mashayekhia
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - Upto Here|From Here

and though I haven't heard all of this yet, I can say so far, so good:

Acoustic Guitar Trio - Vignes

(That's Rod Poole, Jim McAuley, and Nels Cline.)

Will stan for the new Shakira album. (Anyone who o_O's pleasantly at the new Mariah should enjoy.)

nothing has ~BLOWN MY MIND

Correct.. I have yet to hear a 2009 release where I love almost every song. Lots of great singles though.

Porcupine Tree - The incident was pretty good.

What quintessentially me albums am I missing dudes - apart from the Marcus Nasty mix which I haven't heard yet:

Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady Volume 1
The-Dream - Love vs Money
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Fool's Gold - Fool's Gold
Silkie - City Limits Vol. 1
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave It All Away, Now We Are Taking It Back
Lil' Boosie - SuperBad
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
Meanderthals - Desire Lines
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
V/A - The Sound of UK Funky
Jeremih - Jeremih
Gucci Mane - Movie 3D: The Burrprint

My own top however-many:

DJ Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout
Death - For the Whole World to See
The-Dream - Love vs. Money
Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1
A-Trak - Fabriclive.45
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil's Halo
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3
DJ Paul - Scale-a-Ton
Geeneus - Volumes: One
The XX
Maxwell - Blacksummers'night
Nicolay - City Lights 2: Shibuya
The Sound of UK Funky
UGK - 4 Life
Pill - 4180: The Prescription
Donae'o - Party Hard
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
Wiley - Race Against Time
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Charlotte Hatherley - New Worlds
Crazy Cousinz - This Is UK Funky House
Deradoorian - Mind Raft EP
Ghostface Killah - Wizard of Poetry
Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully
Muhsinah - Triangle
Marco Polo & Torae - Double Barrel
Heavy - First Sessions
Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
Blaq Poet - The Blaqprint
Booker T. Jones - Potato Hole
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
Dyme Def - Panic EP
Ryan Leslie
Freddie Gibbs - Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik
Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Infernal Machines
Gorilla Zoe - Don't Feed da Animals

I guess I'll slide these two somewhere to make 40:

Nicki Minaj - Beam Me Up Scotty
JHawk - Jerkin' With JHawk, Vol. 1

20

the-dream - love vs money
electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
dam-funk - toeachizown
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
gucci mane - movie 3d: burrprint
yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
green day - 21st century breakdown
kurt vile - childless prodigy
the juan maclean - the future will come
lil boosie - superbad
pill - 4180: the prescription
mungolian jetset - we gave it all away... now we're taking it back
freddie gibbs - midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik
marcus nasty - rinse: 10
girls - album
gucci mane - the movie 2: the sequel
dirty projectors - bitte orca
raekwon - only built 4 cuban link... pt II
the xx - the xx
jay reatard - watch me fall

well, does the re-release of the taylor swift album count since it has 6 new songs?

tim, you need to hear the black meteoric star and redshape albums. have you heard any dâm-funk yet? also, you can't count lindstrøm & christabelle as 2009!

my top whatever in a vague order, sans v/a mixes -

electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
taylor swift - fearless
dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout
the-dream - love vs money
mariah carey - memoirs of an imperfect angel
fever ray - fever ray
gucci mane - the burrprint
lil' wayne - no ceilings
yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz
redshape - the dance paradox
maxwell - blacksummersnight
the xx - xx
meanderthals - desire lines
ciara - fantasy ride
demi lovato - here we go again
ugk - ugk 4 life
omar-s - fabric 45
nicki minaj - beam me up scotty
black meteoric star - black meteoric star
shackleton - three eps
the juan maclean - the future will come
jamie foxx - intuition
toddla t - skanky skanky
karizma - a mind of its own v2.0
amerie - in love and war
eleni mandell - artificial fire
gorilla zoe - don't feed da animals
mavado - mr brooks...a better tomorrow
pill - 4180: the prescription
cortney tidwell - boys

still need to give the meshell ndegéocello and miranda lambert albums a proper listen too...

Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully

Still an unrepentant scumbag, it sounds like.

agh i forgot raekwon...and marco polo & torae...and somehow deleted dâm-funk. this is so hard every year.

xp

also i have 'this is uk funky house' but as two hour long mixes & i'm too intimidated to listen to them :-/

(If it weren't for witness intimidation, Sigel would probably still be behind bars.)

He intimidated me into listing his album tbh.

Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully

Still an unrepentant scumbag, it sounds like.

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:01 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf?

hey tim check out the Maxwell album for serious

Sarges, the Crazy Cousinz mixes are def worth your time.

Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully

Still an unrepentant scumbag, it sounds like.

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:01 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf?

Rudipherous is from Philly and is for some reason connecting Philly resident Beanie's real life stints that have led to jailtime with his album title. But yea, the complaint doesn't make sense. I like the title. Are the Philadelphia Flyers still known as the Broad Street Bullies?

tim, you need to hear the black meteoric star and redshape albums.

Seconded Tim, this is fabulous and well worth a listen. One of my most played of this year.

Black Meteoric Star, that is... I haven't heard the latter.

whole lotta overlap with some of yours but

The-Dream - Love vs Money
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
Electrik Red - How to be a Lady, Vol. 1
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
UGK - UGK 4 Life
Maxwell - BLACKsummersnight
Ryan Leslie - s/t
Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
Pill - 4180
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Ciara - Fantasy Ride
Freddie Gibbs - Midwestgangstaboxframscadillacmuzik
Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You

Sarges, the Crazy Cousinz mixes are def worth your time.

Co-Sign. I've split the first disc into track-by-track if you want me to upload and send it your way. Haven't gotten around to doing disc two yet. But it's an amazing overview of the UK Funky scene. I should start getting a list into vague order this weekend. I've been avoiding it because it seems so DAUNTING. Reading over all of yours makes me feel like I've missed out on SO MUCH this year. every year, i suppose.

Re Beanie Sigel: I suppose it was uncalled for (and at least it doesn't belong on a thread like that). Beanie Sigel's name is a bit of a red flag for me after what I've read about him. It's not just the album title but the gangsta rap he continues to make after also acting it out in real life.

lol

*kills self*

yo beanie, please man, either quit the gangsta rap, or quit it with the guns alright?

*kills self*

― k3vin k., Sunday, November 8, 2009 9:51 PM (56 minutes ago)

lollll this was meant for a football thread, i did not have that severe reaction to rudipherous's post

gorilla zoe - don't feed da animals

lex this is a terrible album!

it's not, it's pleasant ear candy and about half of it gets stuck in my head on a regular basis

^^^hibidtae

been staring at that for 5 minutes trying to work out what it's an acronym for

WHAT KILLED THE UNDERGROUND

edging-towards-end-of-year list:

Zu -– Carboniferous
Sunn o))) –- Monoliths & Dimensions
Tyondai Braxton –- Central Market
Sax Ruins -– Yawiquo
The Flaming Lips -– Embryonic
Extra Life -– Secular Works
Kong –- Snake Magnet
Converge –- Axe to Fall
Richard Youngs -– Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits
Mike Patton –- Crank 2: High Voltage
Secret Chiefs 3 -– Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini
Knife World –- Buried Alone: Tales of Crushing Defeat
Storsveit Nix Noltes –- Royal Family Divorce
Master Musicians of Bukkake -– Totem One
Umlaut –- Umlaut
Part Chimp –- Thriller
Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods
Richard Youngs -– Under Stellar Stream
Evangelista –- Prince of Truth
Dÿse - Lieder Sind Brüder Der Revolution
Dokaka – Human Interface
Vom –– Primitive Arts
MadLove -– White with Foam

listened to the crazy cousinz funky mix, and duh it's really great - i think i like it better than the marcus nasty cuz it seems to skew more towards... the melodramatic/romantic (female?) side of funky as opposed to the more beat workout kinda stuff?

email it 2 me plz :D

really like this emptyset album i got in the mail. it's techno music!

Been enjoying the Ben Frost album. Scary stuff - not entirely suited to trying to work (or headphones) but very interesting.

Also, like what I've heard of the Demdike Stare album. Need to hear more if it's all that good.

Moreover here's my longlist so far for the year. Can't be much more to come I guess now. First album of 2010 I'm looking forward to is the Delphic one based on the singles so far...

The Sight Below - Glider
Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellry
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Yellow Moon Band - Journey to Several Remote Countries
JJ - no.2
Julianna Barwick - Florine
Prins Thomas and Lindstrom - II
Wilco - The Album
Marconi Union - Tokyo
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
The XX - XX
The Gentleman Losers - Dustland
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Andrew Weatherall - A Pox on The Pioneers
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Shackleton - Three EPs
Ben Frost - By The Throat

Ok. Uploaded the first This Is Funky House disc split into tracks. If anyone wants/needs a link, Webmail me, I guess, and I'll send you the link. (would post it, but I'm not exactly sure if that would be cool.) Working on splitting the second disc into component tracks.

And everyone really should hear this. It makes me wish every nascent scene had a compilation this good - the biggest producers in the scene mixing two discs: one of their own remixes and one of every major hit that UK Funky has thrown our way. Someone should get on this for Jerking stat.

i think the jerkin with jhawk tape is like the #1 easily available jerk mix

http://www.zshare.net/download/575196508d0e657a/

I have Jerkin' w/ JHawk but it's not quite the same, nahmean?

yes

Anyway, fuck it. Crazy Cousinz, Disc One:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmn2gnx24zm

If it shouldn't be here, mods can delete it, and apologies for the hassle.

i think the jerkin with jhawk tape is like the #1 easily available jerk mix

I digress.

http://matthewafrica.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-06T11_42_19-07_00

1. Cold Flamez: Miss Me, Kiss Me
2. Jaye Cooley: Drippin Wet
3. YT: Call Me Daddy feat. New Era & TayF3rd
4. Dizzy: Swagg It Out
5. YG: AIM Me
6. Looney Toonz: Cock A Doodle Doo
7. Swagg City: That Hoe Crazy
8. Asia Lynn: Bad Bitch
9. Vixen Ent: Toot My Shit
10. Clothes Off Movement: Better Than You
11. J.R.: Inhale It feat. TayF3rd & Ashlii
12. NHT Boyz: Introduction
13. Dinoo Supreemo: Dirty Ass Vans
14. Rude Boyz: Go Hard
15. Go Go Power Rangers: Tippin on My Dick
16. New Boyz: You're a Jerk
17. Rude Boyz: Tight Jeanz
18. Fresh Boyz: I Rock Skinnies feat. New Era
19. YT: Skinny Ass Nigga
20. Pink Dollaz: I'm Tasty
21. Camille Tianna: Hot Commodity
22. TayF3rd: Heard About Me feat. Project & New Era
23. Turfeazy: In a Tree
24. Vixen Ent: Bust Me a Nut
25. The Lowz: She Poppin' feat. Nie'Starr
26. Julian: Jerkin Song
27. L7: Knock Knock
28. YB: 2 Step
29. Ro2co: Toot It Up Done
30. Dinoo Supreemo: Step To
31. Aeiress Ent: Billy
32. Wes Nyle: Dougie
33. Nokio: Hi I'm a Jerk feat. YT
34. YB: I'm a Jerk
35. Jayy Starr: Where the Functions
36. New Boyz: Cricketz feat. Tyga
37. YG: I'm Still Poppin
38. Young Sam: I Do My Thang feat. Asia Lynn
39. Payso: Beat That Pussy feat. Cold Flamez
40. New Era: Dumb Bitch
41. Draft Pick: Get It Jerkin
42. Julian: Do It Don't Stop
43. The Bangz: Get It Girl feat. Pink Dollaz
44. Asia Lynn: Tip Toe feat. Aaliyah D
45. Fly Guys: We Jerkin
46. Ro2co: Shooting Dice
47. TayF3rd: Conceited

alright word

oh is that all one track?

yeah, it is

this is dope too

http://mrleubmixtapes.blogspot.com/2009/08/los-angeles-jerk-movement.html

01 Bobby Huntington feat. FKi - Tounge Martial Arts Remix
02 Red Duce - Pussy In My Mouth
03 Crown Vik - Go Bizerk
04 Michael Harrell - Hold Up Master
05 Dinoo Supreemo - Dirty Ass Vans
06 The Bangz - Hard In The Paint
07 YT ft. Tayf3rd , New Era - Call Me Daddy Remix
08 Wes Nyle - Reject
09 New Boyz - You're A Jerk
10 The Bangz ft. Pink Dollaz - Get It Girl
11 Flip Major - Yes Sir
12 Green Thumbs & Bbeezy - Jerkin' WIt A Pistol
13 Jaye Cooley - You Wid It
14 The Bangz - We Jerkin
15 Double-A feat. G-Low - No Doub
16 Fe Raw ft. Yung Miss - Got What They Want
17 Double-A feat. G-Low & T.J. - Hot Boi (Hot Chick Reply)
18 New Era - Do It Now
19 New Era - Filth In My System
20 Double-A feat. G-Low - On Point
21 Looney Toonz Ft. City and FlapJack - Cock A Doodle Doo
22 Red Duce - Shake My Ass
23 Conce1ted 1nk ft. Deadly - Turnt Up

Probably less of a hassle to track down all of those songs on zshare and make an "album" than to download the single mp3, tbf.

i'm gonna try & do the former, we'll see how it goes

Those are both mixed, rather than individual tracks.

Jerk does work very well in a mix format.

Finished splitting mix 2 of Crazy Cousinz an hour or so ago, but it's failed to upload twice. I will try again later and post the link when it does.

u r great

^^^

vol 1 is really great so far

vol. 2 is almost better? because instead of all these crazy cousinz mixes with the same basic patterns to them it's an overview of funky's first yr in the spotlight.

I like the Washed Out and Neon Indian records quite a bit. Anyone have any other recommendations based on those?

off the top of my head, three great albums that came out in '09:

brand new "daisy"
the flaming lips "embryonic"
and fever ray.

there are tonnes more that i could list without hesitating, like the xx and micachu and yeah yeah yeahs and fuck buttons and atlas sound, etc etc, but i'm sure these have all been listed already.