I would put in the Telepathe record, but my "copy" appears to vary in tracklisting from the official tracklist, and the album technically comes out in 2009. But it is quite wonderous.
― Mister Craig, Friday, 28 November 2008 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Crap, we also forgot the Future Clouds and Radar which is pretty excellent (I told you we're no good at this).
― Wub-Fur Internet Radio, Friday, 28 November 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
for against - shade side sunny sidede rosa - appendices 2008arms - kids aflamepresets - apocalypsoyellow moon band - travels into several remote nations...the hussy's - super procause co-motion - it's timefriendly fires - s/tmanhattan love suicides - burnt out landscapescut off your hands - you and i
the graham day & the gaolers album will probably knock one of those out after i've heard it, on the strength of the EP and single that preceded it
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
is the new deerhoof more or less lol indie than their debut?
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 28 November 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
did you mean deerhunter? 'cause the new deerhoof is way less indie that the man the king the girl
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2008 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The new Drhf rocks and swings, and is a joy. Much better than Friend Opportunity.
― Mister Craig, Friday, 28 November 2008 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i meant deerhunter. and i've only heard the 1st one. i can probably find another thread 2 discuss~~
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 28 November 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
1. Morgan Geist - Double Night Time2. Belong - Colorloss
then a bunch of stuff i only sort of like
― abanana, Friday, 28 November 2008 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Their aren't nearly as many consensus favorites this year as we had last year.
― Cunga, Friday, 28 November 2008 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think there are any consensus favorites this year. that's why i'm eager to see what wins the pazz and jop poll.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 28 November 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
^^are you the motel de moka guy??― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:40 (Yesterday)
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:40 (Yesterday)
I am. But I'm not a guy, my name is Julia. How you guess?
― Moka, Friday, 28 November 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
top 25 incl. reissues -- will undoubtedly change but this is what i'm thinking maybe:
1 SIC ALPS: US E-Z (Siltbreeze)2 VIVIAN GIRLS: Vivian Girls (In the Red)3 WOODEN SHJIPS: Vol 1 (Holy Mountain)4 GROUPER: Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)5 NODZZZ: Nodzzz (What's Yr Rupture)6 CRYSTAL STILTS: Alight of Night (Siltbreeze)7 EAT SKULL: Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)8 MINGERING MIKE: Super Gold Greatest Hits (Emusic)9 DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE: X-mas for the Crows (Dagerman)10 FAMOUS L RENFROE: Children (Big Legal Mess/ Fat Possum)11 PIERCED ARROWS Straight for the Heart (Tombstone)12 VARIOUS: VICTROLA FAVORITES (Dust to Digital)13 JOLIE HOLLAND: The Living and the Dead (Anti-)14 BLANK DOGS: On Two Sides (Troubleman)15 VARIOUS: FIGHT ON YOUR TIME AIN'T LONG (Mississippi)16 LOS LLAMARADA: Take the Sky (S-S)17 ZOMES: Zomes (Holy Mountain)18 THE RANK STRANGER: Purgatory (self-released CD-R -- no label)19 VARIOUS: 1970s ALGERIAN PROTO-RAI UNDERGROUND (Sublime Frequencies)20 CAUSE CO-MOTION!: It's Time! (Slumberland)21 ILYAS AHMED: Between 2 Skies/ Towards the Night (Digitalis)22 ALAN + RICHARD BISHOP: Present the Brothers Unconnected (tour CD, on Abduction)23 INCA ORE: Birthday of Bless You (Not Not Fun)24 RAVEONETTES: Lust Lust Lust (Vice)25 SIC ALPS: Long Way Around to a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)
― Mike McGooney-gal, Friday, 28 November 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i really do wonder if people love that vivian girls record because they've heard black tambourine, or because they haven't...
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2008 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i really do wonder if you really do wonder that
― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Friday, 28 November 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i stopped
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2008 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
gonna have to revise mine eventually, every new person that posts lists something I forgot (which is a good sign I guess)
Eat Skull is DEF. in my top ten
― dmr, Friday, 28 November 2008 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
The list I posted isn't definitive. I'll probably end up eliminating fleet foxes at all and substitute with the Middle East or perhaps even the Vetiver record. As I said elsewhere I have a love-hate relationship with them fleet foxes, it all depends of how I feel about them when the time comes.
― Moka, Friday, 28 November 2008 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link
My top 4 picks are definitley staying in there though.
― Moka, Friday, 28 November 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
just got the Kanye with lots of other stuff I need to catch up on, but as of now, something like this:
1. Los Campesinos -- Hold On Now, Youngster2. Raphael Saadiq -- the Way I See It3. Hold Steady -- Stay Positive4. Drive-By Truckers -- Brighter Than Creation's Dark5. Orchestra Baobab -- Made in Dakar6. Kimya Dawson -- Alphabutt7. Vampire Weekend -- Vampire Weekend8. Jay Reatard -- Matador Singles9. Lil Wayne -- Carter III10. Roots -- Rising Down
― Hubie Brown, Friday, 28 November 2008 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Should somebody (preferably the people who also manage the polls) start the annual albums and songs nomination threads? I think we're ready for it. No reason to wait as long as we did last year, I think.
― Cunga, Friday, 28 November 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Hi Moka- I'm not a very bloggy dude but I like your blog. I found out about Air France through you and that's one of my favorites of the year!
So thanks.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 28 November 2008 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
People are sleeping on Kleerup and Mahjongg, I think?
― Trik Turner Fan Club President (Tape Store), Friday, 28 November 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
you can still stream mahjongg, btw: krecs.com/mahjongg/kontpab
― Trik Turner Fan Club President (Tape Store), Friday, 28 November 2008 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
someone voted for the esoterrorist!!
― deej, Friday, 28 November 2008 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Kleerup is mad boring.
I used to be bros with mahjhonng but haven't heard the new one. How is it?
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 28 November 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, the Kleerup record is mad boring. "With Every Heartbeat" classic 4 life tho.
― The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Friday, 28 November 2008 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Not enough Carter III on these lists why?
― Jena (who is actually a man) (Jena), Friday, 28 November 2008 07:55 (fifteen years ago) link
its way overrated
― deej, Friday, 28 November 2008 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
01 - Air France - No Way Down EP02 - Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista03 - of Montreal - skeletal lamping04 - Dungen - 405 - John Maus - Love Is Real 06 - Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep 07 - Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too08 - Larkin Grim - Parplar 09 - Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia10 - Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
― Snowballing, Friday, 28 November 2008 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 November 2008 08:38 (fifteen years ago) link
FROM others, either
Hey ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), glad to know you like the blog and that I helped introduce air france to you... it took me awhile to take ahold of them because I usually ignore hyperbolic bands on the blogosphere. I usually wait for the hype to die down and I pick the ones that survive it. Air France is a case in point, they're really good... I'll end up dropping them from my year end list because it's an ep though and I don't have enough of those this year to make a decent list.
― Moka, Friday, 28 November 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I usually ignore hyperbolic bands on the blogosphere. I usually wait for the hype to die down and I pick the ones that survive it.
^^^^^
― Matos W.K., Friday, 28 November 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Been listening to my records again and I've finally sketched my top 10 list:
1. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista2. Jacaszek - Treny3. Scott Tuma - Not for nobody4. Shed - Shedding the Past5. Tape - Luminarium6. Fleet Foxes - s/t7. Bruno Pronsato - Why Cant We Be Like Us8. Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill9. Lykke Li - Youth Novels10. Zdzislaw Piernik & Piotr Zabrodzki - Namanga
I usually make a top 12 album list because I really like that number. This is were it gets tricky for me because I have 17 albums in consideration for those two positions but they're so good I can't decide for either one of them. :(
Clark - Turning DragonVetiver - Thing of the PastDeath Vessel - Nothing is good enough for usDungen - 4Middle East - The Recordings of the Middle EastKeiji Haino - The 21st Century Hard-y-Guide-y Man: Koitsukara Usetaitameno HakarigotoLi Jianhong - San Sheng ShiVajra - LiveHigh Places - s/twilliam parker - double sunrise over neptuneli jianhong - san sheng shisean mccann - flutter oasisastro echo the echo from the purple dawndatashock & shivers - vol IVnasa - bummer dazenatural snow buildings - laurie bird
― Moka, Friday, 28 November 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i like your list moka. i guess when you look at mine it's apparent why.
stephan mathieu - radioland (die schacatel)bruno pronsato - why can't we be like us (hello? repeat)idea fire company - the island of taste (swill radio)tape - luminarium (hapna)flying lotus - los angeles (warp)move d & benjamin brunn - songs from the beehive (smallville)natural snow buildings - the snowbringer cult (students of decay)head of wantastiquet - mortange (ecstatic yod)kurt vile - the constant hitmaker (gulcher)mountains - mountains mountains mountains (catsup plate)
found populating a list of albums very difficult this year. there's a lot of stuff i've enjoyed the few times i've listened to it but never bothered going back to... the curse of ipod listening.
― resolved, Friday, 28 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Still pondering my list - won't be till mid-December when I figure it out, I guess - but it's good to see so much love for Jacaszek! That's a wonderful album, esp. on headphones.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 28 November 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i can never do this. i usually have three solid favourites and fifty more i like a lot. this year it's just two: Kelley Polar and Lindstrom.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Friday, 28 November 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
@resolved: Thanks. Have to admit I still haven't heard half of your list, will have to take a listen, are they ranked in order of favorites? Also are those the same Mountains that released 'Sewn' on Apestaartje two years ago? I love that one.
― Moka, Friday, 28 November 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Props for choosing the Corb Lund album. Has this just came out in the UK or something? It was released in 2007 here in Canada.
― everything, Friday, 28 November 2008 00:06 (19 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It came out late November 07 in the UK, which sneaks it onto an 08 list by my reckoning. Is there anything else like this out there, rootsy zingy Canadian throwback country?
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 28 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
― deej, Friday, November 28, 2008 12:44 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
update ur rolodex hes the esoterraSMACKYA now
― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, 28 November 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
1/ lambchop - 'ohio'2/ the bug - 'london zoo'3/ half man half biscuit - 'csi: ambleside'4/ vampire weekend - s/t5/ the fall - 'imperial wax solvent'
― Michael B, Friday, 28 November 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Most of my music purchases and listening is backcatalogue, so my current-year favorites are always poor indicator of what will endure.
Au Revoir Borealis - Dark Enough For Stars (Dream pop that crosses shoegaze with a mournful high-western sound.)Bug - London Zoo (Brooding, angry post-dancehall. A go-to album for grimacing during the morning commute.)Grace Jones - Hurricane (Mezzanine meets a Laswell production. Song for song, the equal of her Compass Point classics.)Haltya - Book of Nature (Finnish freeform psy borrowing liberally from late 70s funk and disco. Super Fun.)Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (Playlists save us from the unsuccessful slower balladry/filler.)Matmos - Supreme Balloon (Putting away the samplers for a analogue tribute to Wendy Carlos and 80s videogames.)Myra Davies - Cities & Girls (Finally, another spoken word collaboration with Gudrun Gut)Portishead - Third (I think we're all giving this one extra credit due to our emotional attachment)Señor Coconut - Around The World (Same schtick, this time he covers Trio, Daft Funk, Prince, and Eurythmics)Zeigeist - The Jade Motel (An atmospheric distillation of 80's electro pop. The reappearance of web-only tracks has unfairly harmed its reception.)
― derelict, Friday, 28 November 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Autistic DaughtersPortisheadLau NauGrouperGang Gang DanceSchool of Seven BellsEvangelista
...but there's a whopping great bunch of stuff that I haven't heard yet...
― NickB, Friday, 28 November 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL @ Lindstrom lovers calling kleerup 'boring'
― Trik Turner Fan Club President (Tape Store), Friday, 28 November 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
(p.s. for those who want to listen, someone uploaded that album to imeem)
― Trik Turner Fan Club President (Tape Store), Friday, 28 November 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Moka: very very loose order of favourites. i just got the mountains last week so... yeah it's the same Mountains. they just signed to Kranky. one of them released a solo lp on Type this year too, which has its moments.
― resolved, Friday, 28 November 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now YoungsterErykah Badu - New Amerykah: 4th World WarYoung Jeezy - the Recessionthe Bug - London ZooPortishead - ThirdHercules & Love Affair - s/tBun B - II TrillDave Aju - Open WideEl Guincho - Alegranzathe Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Friday, 28 November 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
is anyone digging this Gaslight Anthem record? it sounds like springsteen and glasvegas take an emo bath. i can't decide if that's good or bad yet (through 3 songs)
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 November 2008 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
(I think we're all giving this one extra credit due to our emotional attachment)
Why shouldn't one give an album extra credit due to emotional attachment?
― The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Saturday, 29 November 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
best record of the year, two-way tie between
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black ChannelSchool of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
these have also got a lot of love and a lot of playing from me...
The Asteroid No.4 - These Flowers Of OursOf Montreal - Skeletal LampingBishi - Nights at the CircusJe Suis Animal - Self Taught Magic From A Book
but granted there's a lot of stuff I just haven't heard this year... also there's a lot of stuff I bought that I really liked and played a lot when I got it, but wore off quite quickly. And the two records at the top have just been so persistently hanging around in my CD player that they've wiped everything else from my memory.
Reading this whole thread makes me realise how far away I've got from the general ILM hivemind, though. Only 2 other people digging on SVIIB and not one other mention of Fantasy Black Channel - but guess that's coz Louis got himself suggest banned.
― ...it's all just a learning curve (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 29 November 2008 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link