What are the Hipster Albums of 2009?

Which albums are beloved of hipsters this year?

1 Animal Collective
2 The XX

Do you honestly not know this or do you just want to make a list for the sake of it?

yes

Those are the only 2 hipster albums i know of this year, im out of the loop.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/11/which-indie-artists-will-be-selected-as-the-best-_____-of-the-year.html

wait, what about all the hipster stuff you listen to?

x-post

you know all that diehard coloured vinyl limited nigel metal stuff?

i've always wanted to use nigel metal in a sentence.

This is the first time hipster runoff has ever made me actually laugh.

Bat for Lashes - Never really listened, but seems like it would be ‘acceptable’ to be the lone female in your year-end list. If you have a top 10, it seems healthy to have no more than 2 female singers/artists, since the majority of your readers are men.

Oh why not. Life's too short to not list hipster records.

3. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4. St. Vincent - Actor

hispter runoff more or less otm throughout

4 very good albums so far

5. JLS - JLS

scott otm, doom is like more hipster than hipster

yeah i like it but wolves in the throne room has to be somewhere in here

deep hipster

6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
7. Girls - Album

Much of what's in the "day-glo" genre.

4 very good albums so far

~*~prediction~*~

this thread will devolve very soon into an argument about what constitutes a "hipster album" and what being a "hipster" entails

~*~prediction~*~

someone will make the hilarious joke that a very well-known album is a "hipster album" and then others will defend it

devolve http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/images/smilies/popcorn.gif

scott youve been lurking on dffd again haven't you

The new (and unpronounceable) Grizzly Bear disc.

you know all that diehard coloured vinyl limited nigel metal stuff?

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:54 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've always wanted to use nigel metal in a sentence.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:55 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

okay i so want nigel metal to become a thing now

its been and gone no? (isis,boris,pelican,neurosis,wittr,mastodon etc)

Mind you, everything is nigel or hipster to troo metalheads who dislike anything thats sold over 1000 copies.

http://www.curragh-labs.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nigel-tufnel.jpg

It still seems plausible to describe/pan the DirProjjies as ‘a Jack Johnson-sounding bro with broads wailing in the background.’

Hipster Runoff is the worst shit ever. someone oughta put a bullet in that guy for his insanely pompous cynicism and joylessness

its a pretty joyful blog imo

someone oughta put a bullet in that guy for his insanely pompous cynicism and joylessness

― Valid point, imaginary rude person (Shakey Mo Collier)

fnarf

hipster runoff is like the blues - it makes feeling bad feel good

The new (and unpronounceable) Grizzly Bear disc.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:09 AM (2 hours ago)

i feel like grizzly bear have sort of lost their spot on the hipster demographic, at this point they're coming dangerously close to dadrocking it.

500 Days of Summer OST maybe

max tundra shit

lindstrom shit

atlas sound shit

i feel like grizzly bear have sort of lost their spot on the hipster demographic, at this point they're coming dangerously close to dadrocking it.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:12 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

theyve graduated def - they should like live in a big loft w/the shins and modest mouse and all work at a newspaper together or something

lightning bolt shit

I would say black lips but they sound like green day

alt weekly, imo

xp to jho

raekwon

I know I am going to offend but I can't stand XX or whatever it's called. No soul. I am never reading mainstream music press again until they stop being such dorks. You can find stuff that is 10,000 times better in indie electronica.

totally

but they are young and like cool bands? isn't that enough to convince you their music is good?

;-)

neon indian iirc

yes, otm

blank dogs probably

The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic

are blank dogs popular enuff?

i'm so sad i saw that band live. ruined everything for me.

Nigel Metal's Main Magazine Decibel has published their top 40.

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jesus
man

wtf Jordan that is horrible!

it's from a movie yall, chill out

just another thread about indie albums and hipster runoff...

whats wrong with typing the word hipster over and over again

oh it's from a movie total lols an hero rite

;_;

herman g. neuname is an hero

yeah chill out yall.

was aware it was only a staged mouth shooting fyi still

don't really mind animated gifs of people blowin their heads off (well, not REAL people anyway) but wtf is that from - has an odd look to it

'the black dahlia'

: /

I realize it is fictional fer chrissakes, it's just kinda really crass & offensive. otoh I feel like I'm the only one in the world ever to be offended by anything anymore so keep on trucking people

^^^^not very hip

i've always wanted to use chill out yall in a sentence.

I travelled through a land of men,
A land of men and women too,
And heard and saw such dreadful things
As cold earth wanderers never knew.

For there the babe is born in joy
That was begotten in dire woe,
Just as we reap in joy the fruit
Which we in bitter tears did sow;

And if the babe is born a boy
He’s given to a woman old,
Who nails him down upon a rock,
Catches his shrieks in cups of gold.

She binds iron thorns around his head,
And pierces both his hands and feet,
And cuts his heart out of his side
To make it feel both cold & heat.

Her fingers number every nerve
Just as a miser counts his gold;
She lives upon his shrieks and cries—
And she grows young as he grows old,

Till he becomes a bleeding youth
And she becomes a virgin bright;
Then he rends up his manacles
And pins her down for his delight.

He plants himself in all her nerves
Just as a husbandman his mould,
And she bcomes his dwelling-place
And garden, frutiful seventyfold.

An aged shadow soon he fades,
Wandering round and earthly cot,
Full filled all with gems and gold
Which he by industry had got.

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Phoenix (a Christgau-ism)
telekinesis (?)

i'd like to thank errbody that contributed to the killing of this thread

and reviving it

lolz Black Dahlia I saw that, what a mess that film was

worse than the band?

no, but it is still really terrible

re film : shame. i enjoyed the book and so have been waiting to see the film. guess i'll scrub that from my list then.

and avoid the metalcore band too

in my world, that goes without saying, but ta for the confirmation.
so, back to these hipster albums ..
i'm relying on this thread for future reference when they all appear in fopp @ £3 given that i have fallen off the radar in '09 (too much miles davis/david axelrod ..)

the film has its good points (as per usual with DePalma there is one long reveal-tracking shot that is fantastic). by contrast, the ending shot/sequence is some of the most laughably bad shit ever. also the acting is by and large terrible. and he takes at least one major liberty with the book that is completely against the grain of Elroy's writing (i.e., having one of the protagonists kill a woman)

no mention of monoliths and dimensions yet? for shame

new violens mixtape thing looks very cool and very hip!

download for free here:

http://www.violens.net/

1. Full Collision

2. I See You / Only Shallow
(My Bloody Valentine sung by Violens over The Byrds)

3. Lighting Lightning

4. Could You Stand to Know? / Abysmal Depths Are Flooded
(Violens sung over Xasthur)

5. Could You Stand to Know?

6. Outdoor Miner
(Wire feat. Jorge Elbrecht of Violens)

7. Lighting Lightning
(demo version)

8. Trance-like Turn

9. Spectator & Pupil
(RAC remix)

10. Warm Collision
(feat. Caroline Polachek of Chairlift)

11. Doomed (MGMT remixes Violens)

12. Violent Sensation Descends
(Lansing-Dreiden remixes Violens)

13. Unfinished Business
(Violens remix White Lies)

14. Avenue
(Violens cover Saint Etienne)

as lansing-dreiden's biggest fan i'm looking forward to the violens debut album a bunch!

4. Could You Stand to Know? / Abysmal Depths Are Flooded
(Violens sung over Xasthur)

doesn't get any hipper than this, people!

These Violens types any good then? I know the name entirely because they are about to support the band White Lies on tour and I can say that is not a thing that piques my interest as a rule

i like it. their stuff from the EP they did and a single is on youtube. reminds me of lansing-dreiden, and that's a good thing with me. one of them was/is a part of lansing-dreiden, i think? the singer/guitar guy. i never look these kinds of things up.

woods/ganglians

and they are good albums

whoever likes the hazards of love

The Very Best
Death (reissue)

whoever likes the hazards of love

― FACK, Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:40 PM (1 hour ago)

i've only heard hazards of love but love it, what else should i check out by them?

whoever likes the hazards of love

― FACK, Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:40 PM (1 hour ago)

i've only heard hazards of love but love it, what else should i check out by them?

― we be emi robin' (k3vin k.), Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Really? hmm. Maybe I should give it another chance. Their first three albums are pretty awesome, especially Castaways and Cutouts, and Picaresque. The Crane Wife seemed overproduced and kind of bland, tbh, and Hazards just seemed so unwieldy that I never devoted much time to it. I feel like the more The Decemberists invest in their rock-opera theatre-kid shtick, the harder it is for me to take them seriously.

loool dude i was joking

that's why i said hazards of love cause hipsters sometimes like the shittiest music (animal collective) and hazards of love is terrible, therefore hipster bait

Fucking hell. This is why you do not post to ILX while halfway through a nap.

aw. I'm sure there'll be a lurker around glad to take your advice.

GIRLS ALBUM

i hope i never, ever hear that record, accidentally or otherwise

I actually decided to give them a chance when I saw a big flyer up on the kiosk for a show they are playing in my town in February.
Watched a couple of videos on youtube and I know some of their friends and the guy who directed the videos.
:-/

Oh yeah, decided to check them out because the singer in the band is wearing a Suede shirt on the poster.
Will probably go to the show just to meet chicks.

good call, good call

I guess The Clientele's new disc isn't a "Hipster Album." And it's sure as hell not a big Rawk Album or a Mall-Rock or Emo-Punk Album. All of which leaves it in a funny nowhere land, which is a shame. Such a good group, and a fine new disc.

Anyway, F--k Buttons, I imagine.

so basically this is the thread where we list albums that were pitchfork best new music this year?

yeah that sounds about right

That F--k Buttons album got a lot of glowing reviews, not just from Pitchfork.

And, surprisingly (to me), The Clientele's new disc has been reviewed less than their prior discs, it seems. Also, Pitchfork gave it an "okay" review (something in the 7s, I think).

Not sure if your comment was directed toward my prior post, in any event. (xp)

But generally, yeah, I think if it's on Pitchfork's BNM list, it's a Hipster Album.

So: REAL ESTATE.

yeah no, it was not particularly directed at anyone, dude. having all of these albums already organized together like this just takes the fun out of it.

It's weird, but sometimes a Pitchfork Best New Music tag does little for an act. The magazine gave that Bear In Heaven disc an 8.4 and the BNM tag, but I've heard almost nothing else about the disc, and I wouldn't say it's a Hipster Album.

are bear in heaven any good, though? there was an album by a band called cymbals eat guitars that got BNM'd earlier in the year and it was absolutely horrible stuff, not at all a surprise that they didn't get very far.

Yeah. I downloaded that Cymbals Eat Guitars disc. Never felt compelled to listen to more than half a song, tho.

The :30 samples on that Bear in Heaven disc sound . . . okay. Hard to tell from that if the songs have the "massive choruses" promised by the P4K review. I'm going to give the full disc a go on Lala to see.

complete agreement on the complete turd that is that CEG album

There are two songs from that Bear In Heaven album here. Meh. I think the P4K review oversells the "towering choruses." And their use of electronics feels pretty uninspired to me.

lovesick teenagers by bear in heaven is pretty cool, besides i dunno, i actually kinda like cymbals eat guitars, but i can see why people wouldn't like them (the vocals)

I got a BNM once. Don't feel much diffnt now than before.

Of the two Bear In Heaven songs I heard on that site I linked, Lovesick Teenagers is by far the better of the two.

wrt to hipsters i mean

It must have given your band some extra attention, I imagine.

Some bands that got the BNM and seem like they were quickly forgotten:

Wilderness
The Deadly Snakes
Single Frame
Shining
Giddy Motors

Don't know the others, but Wilderness have made two discs since their BNM debut, and they've been pretty widely-reviewed and generally well-received.

But they didn't get the buzz and hype most BNM receivers enjoy after the review. Nobody except us fans (generally) really knows of Wilderness releases after the S/T or the band at all.

I guess. I'm a fan of theirs, too. I still think they could be a monster breakout band (among a certain fan-base, at least). They do have that huge, complex rock sound.

You guys sound so conceited and gross. Good luck with that.

What sounds conceited and gross?

clearly a hipster

lol wtf

You guys are just so hip for pointing out the hipster albums. Sounds like a jean style.

i can barely see over my pelvis

No wait. It is a jean style.

IS

GIBBER

Gucci Mane – The Cold War Series

Grizzly Bear
Bat For Lashes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Decemberists
Devendra Banhart

passion pit, dirty projectors scream hipster

Gucci Mane – The Cold War Series

― eatin' spaghett' (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, November 27, 2009 12:24 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol the cold war gimmick is what it took to make him a "thing"? or is this just a joke

i would've thought burrprint was the big hipster breakout.

the mixtapes are the peak of his hipster love, and it's only gettin bigger

It's not at Dipset 05 levels yet, but I can say in Williamsburg the seeds are def. planted.

i am truly sorry for your lots

well i figured that was coming eventually

The Bear in Heaven album is the only album I have found remotely interesting. It has some really cool rhythms and textures happening, and the album never stagnates from a mixing standpoint.

Animal Collective have become too formulaic to be interesting, XX is intolerable, and it is beyond me why people think the Girls album is worth any attention.

i didn't even tweet review Bear In Heaven!

Way way before CMJ fallout and glowing Pfork review I interviewed 'em for the Village Voice.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/09/yes_in_my_backy_17.php

I got their CD and I liked it and I thought "Oh this is pretty good, I'd like to give them some attention." But at no point did I think "Man, people are gonna flip the fuck out over this."

plowing through chillwave bands is doing nothing to snap me out of my thanksgiving funk btw. these bands are officially good for nothing.

i thought only old west african vinyl reissues and the baroness were cool??????

Enjoying the Bear In Heaven album 100x more than MPP. It's not going to end up on my year end or anything, but it is a pretty good hispter album of 2009 imo.

Oh, didn't know there was a Bear in Heaven record! I really liked them live the couple times that I saw them, and I liked Red Bloom of Boom, and then I kind of lost track of them. I had thought they were kind of slept on, so it's good to see them getting Pitchfork love.

Ahhhh . . . I'm sold. I'm going to have a beer, finish watching the UM/USF game, and download the Bear In Heaven disc all before I'm forced to watch the new iCarly at 8.

Can someone find that great burt stanton meltdown post that's just this long string of random hipster signifiers and jargon?

― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:21 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yesss i love this post

― max, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:22 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Billyburg, trucker cap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pool, Sparks, vegan, free-range tofu, "originally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnard, Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Greenpoint, Bushwick, and the "other" other hoods, X of the word "iron", "art loft", X = the ,urg, ther hoothStrts (non-Western), booth" otcap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pookes, = the new Williamsburg (aka Billyburg), offensol, Sparks, dively incorrect usePirBR, Union Poarks, diveat shoes Billybs, X = the nrucker vegtofu Greenpoint, Bushwick, w L train, trust funds, track bikest use, plaid shol, Sp, "origand ew Williamsburg (aka sively incorrec of the worad n", "art loft", X = tneinally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnarde "other" Billyburg), offenotcaerp, skinny jeans,The an, "irofree-rnge , Oberlin, Sarah Lawrencehe new L train, trust funds, track bikes, plaid shirts (non-Western), boat shoes

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― max, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:38 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like this post because its like burt_stanton.bot broke and is spewing out all the gobbledegook about hipsters that was programmed into him by his evil master

― max, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:39 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah it was like the part in wargames where the computer plays itself over and over again and goes faster and faster. "It's learning."

― Hurting 2, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:50 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― max, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:23 PM Bookmark

the new album is apparently a bit of a change from the first one. they sound like the half-way point between phoenix and tvotr to me (can you tell i don't listen to a lot of this kind of music?).

talking about BIH there.

bear in heaven

the xx nme's no2 album ('no 2' quite appropriate)

http://www.nme.com/list/50-best-albums-of-2009/159978/page/5

~*~prediction~*~

this thread will devolve very soon into an argument about what constitutes a "hipster album" and what being a "hipster" entails

― max, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:06 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

~*~prediction~*~

someone will make the hilarious joke that a very well-known album is a "hipster album" and then others will defend it

― max, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:07 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

prediction FAIL

tf is chillwave?

lol that nme 2009 list is really like 'oh shit we spend the decade listening to the wrong music fuck fuck fuck'

whenever I think of chillwave I think of jimmy buffet I don't know why

also whenever I see a genre name on ilm that I haven't seen anywhere else I feel as though I have been infected

lol that nme 2009 list is really like 'oh shit we spend the decade listening to the wrong music fuck fuck fuck'

hahaha, we need someone to re-enact this and put it to film.

Someone deleting all the McFly mp3s and "speed-listening" through the Grizzly Bear and Fever Ray albums.

i think they would be more concerned with we spent the decade trying to sell the wrong music to our readers fuck fuck fuck.

lol @ the NME review snippet for Dirty Projectors: The only real difficulty is that they almost sound like a brilliant pop band - yeah, and then they fuck it up hardcore!!!!!