Thanks stephen! There really has been a lot good coming out this year.. You mentioned the James Blackshaw album upthread too, which I just got today. Really really great stuff.
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
pas/cal, james blackshaw, silver jews, destroyer, robert forster ... umm that might be it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah, malkmus too. that one is good!
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
indie rock, dudes.
haven't bought it yet, but fairly certain NOMO - Ghost Rock will be one of my favorites from this year.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The Seu Jorge album has just jumped into my top ten and I'm barely halfway through it.-- Scik Mouthy, Thursday, July 3, 2008 7:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark LinkUnsurprisingly it reminds me of Africa Brasil by Jorge Ben.-- Scik Mouthy, Thursday, July 3, 2008 7:41 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark LinkWow, I REALLY want to hear this.-- call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:43 (30 minutes ago) Link
-- Scik Mouthy, Thursday, July 3, 2008 7:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Unsurprisingly it reminds me of Africa Brasil by Jorge Ben.
-- Scik Mouthy, Thursday, July 3, 2008 7:41 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Wow, I REALLY want to hear this.
-- call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:43 (30 minutes ago) Link
My mate MattS, who knows these kinds of things, said that Seu Jorge apparently conceived it as a kind of follow-up to Africa Brasil. Which makes sense, totally. I've only listened once, so can't tell yet, but quality wise this is pretty awesome.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Africa Brasil is a top 10 all-time record for me so this is damn exciting news. Don't think it's in the US at all yet but I will download or maybe even import.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
That Pas/Cal album's not out for a few months still, isn't it? You've heard it?
― pgwp, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, there are promos floating around. it is pretty off the hook awesome.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I gotta find one of those promos... really looking forward to that album.
― pgwp, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
must concur with jeff treppell on the Blackstrap - Steal My Horses and Run. this has gotten lots of play here since early june. i would also go with:: hercules & love affair 2562 - Aerial portishead - third elbow - the seldom seen kid fleet foxes humanfly - II torche - meanderthal women
― drone/a/sore, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
forgot about Sparks! haven't heard it yet.
also, Paavoharju and Earth (also on the need-to-hear list)
didn't Es put out a CD on Fonal this year?
that United Bible Studies 3" CD I listed is from 2006, oops.
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
pas/cal is available at darla's site now.
― keythkeyth, Friday, 4 July 2008 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
took them long enough
― Tape Store, Friday, 4 July 2008 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
lol music
nat king cole - love is many a splendored thing
― usic, Friday, 4 July 2008 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
it's hard for me to say if these will endure, but these are my favorites so far (in alphabetical order):
2562 - Aerial Agalloch - The White (EP) Ascend - Ample Fire Within Atlas Sound - Let the Blind lead.. Boris - Smile Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light Earth - The Bees Made Honey Inside the Lion's Skull Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life Nachtmystium - Assassins Black Meddle vol 1 Nadja - Trinity Opeth - Watershed Prostitute Disfigurement - Descendants of Depravity The Drift - Memory Drawings Torche - Meanderthal
― rockapads, Friday, 4 July 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
AWESOME! So mebbe erykah badu and the fall will make top 10, and the breeders will make top 30...
screw you guys! best fucking year EVAH!
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 4 July 2008 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Opeth - Watershed Black Mountain - In the Future Lykke Li - Youth Novels Meshuggah - obZen Disfear - Live the Storm Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree Jucifer - L'Autrichienne Krallice - Krallice Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner Caina - Temporary Antennae Lukestar - Lake Toba Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 Torche - Meanderthal Ladytron - Velocifero Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing Mike Patton - A Perfect Place OST Eluveitie - Slania The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror Ihsahn - angL Sahg - II
― A. Begrand, Friday, 4 July 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
London Zoo by The Bug is an awesome album and I was pleasantly surprised to see Lex bigging it up in this morning's Grauniad.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 4 July 2008 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i wanna update my list:
hold steady - stay positive shearwater - rook dodos - visiter ponytail - ice cream no age - nouns mgmt vampire weekend the fall wolf parade destroyer boris
― Zeno, Friday, 4 July 2008 08:13 (sixteen years ago) link
thought you'd like it! is a measure of how much good stuff's been released this year that it's only on the fringes of my top 10, which is no slight at all cuz it's quite something.
apropos of nothing, on a portishead note - i'm very impressed by third but i really haven't been able to get into it, which isn't really anything to do with the music - my issue is kind of prosaic, it's been such a gorgeous summer so far that i just can't bring myself to listen to anything that ~bleak~. wrong time of year to release it, totally. i guess i shall get into it in november or something
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 July 2008 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Any individual tracks that sticking out for people? Probably needs its own separate thread, but I'd love to see something comparative for single songs that are knocking the metaphorical wind out of people.
― Cunga, Saturday, 5 July 2008 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- lex pretend, Friday, July 4, 2008 2:13 AM (Friday, July 4, 2008 2:13 AM) Bookmark Link
Yeah, in that respect and only that respect, it's kind of nice we had an extra-long winter here. It let that Portishead joint have some time to sink in before the summer came back.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 5 July 2008 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Jacaszek - Treny Machinefabriek + Stephen Vitello - Box Music Machinefabriek - Ranonkel Autechre - Quaristice Aleph-1 - Aleph-1 Rameses III - Basilica Christopher Willits & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ocean Fire Natural Snow Buildings / TwinSisterMoon / Isengrind - The Snowbringer Cult / Song For Laurie Bird Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill Wouter van Veldhoven - Four Simple Songs For Five Dead Bumblebees Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion Excepter - Debt Dept. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside
― nickinko, Sunday, 6 July 2008 09:39 (sixteen years ago) link
my alternate top thirteen which just means albums that got left off in the flux:
eddie floyd, eddie loves you so the mountain goats, heretic pride seun kuti and fela's 80, many things pritam/sameer, race soundtrack al green, lay it down equilibrium, sagas cowboys from hell, monster rodeo the b-52's, funplex lyrics born, everywhere at once los tigres del norte, raices a.r. rahman, jodhaa-akbar soundtrack matmos, the supreme balloon devian, ninewinged serpent
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 6 July 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
Any individual tracks sticking out for people?
I'm not sold on the whole album but "The Healer" by Erykah Badu is pretty fucking stellar.
― Hatch, Sunday, 6 July 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
1. Viva La Vida - Coldplay 2. Rocket Ship Love - Julian Berntzen 3. Twenty Years Erased - The Margarets 4. Konk - The Kooks 5. Join With Us - The Feeling 6. In Ghost Colours - Cut/Copy 7. Pretty.Odd - Panic! At The Disco 8. Youth Novels - Lykke Li 9. This Is Alphabeat - Alphabeat 10.Diamond Hoo Ha - Supergrass
I kind of expect Beck to enter into the Top 10 next week.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 6 July 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
hey geir what do you think of the lil' wayne record?
― kamerad, Sunday, 6 July 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, wait. The Kooks = worst album of the year
― Tape Store, Monday, 7 July 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
segond and the fractures - agamemnon baby oh yeah lockboxer - cherry denial slack camomile - weakness quiescence turvey knoller - lam blach tarpo purply - soul hissy fit neverminds - 69 horsefish jumblies - too close to mall aztec swordfish - green north diaphragm lum bar - wrack my spine 73 combost 78 - gronigen greengage
-- Dingbod Kesterson
way to make me feel more estranged from the music seen ok, who's list up there has music that I might like (I like Robert Wyatt, Early Genesis, Early Roxy Music, Grifters, Guided By Voices (to an extent), uhhh, Wild Honey, Lou Barlow, perfect songs for mix tapes, The Sea and Cake, Joe Jackson, Hall and Oates, Quasi, Sloan, Nada Surf, Tortoise, Nirvana...)
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 7 July 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
captain lorax, you might like the new elbow album (genesis), the shearwater album, the night marchers, king khan, the dodos, the whigs, the black angels, tommy jay, mgmt, bon iver, destroyer, stephen malkmus, deerhunter, singer, and kurt vile
― kamerad, Monday, 7 July 2008 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
New Records: EAT SKULL: Sick to Death ALAN + RICHARD BISHOP: Brothers Unconnected (tour CD) VIVIAN GIRLS: Vivian Girls GROUPER: Dead Deer PIERCED ARROWS: Straight to the Heart INCA ORE: Birthday of Bless You CRYSTAL STILTS: The 12” for now and their Slumberland record for later in the year DAN MELCHIORUND DAS MENACE: X-mas for the Crows NO AGE: Nouns RHYS CHATHAM: Guitar Trio is my Life!
Reissues/ Archival Recordings: SIC ALPS: Long Way Around to a Shortcut MINGERING MIKE: Super Gold Greatest Hits (“Coffe Cake” is the best song of the year, hands down – it’s Dave Chapelle meets strangely beautiful and very uplifting bedroom soul music from 25 years ago, holy fuck I can’t believe this isn’t being as widely hailed as Dori’s discovery of his artwork was…) WOODEN SHJIPS: Vol. 1 ECCENTRIC SOUL: Tragar & Note Labels BOLLYWOOD STEEL GUITAR FAMOUS L RENFROE: Children VICTROLA FAVORITES (or did it come out late last year? My brain is mushy now sorry) HIGH PLACES: 03/07 – 09/07 SHADOW MUSIC OF THAILAND ILYAS AHMED: Between 2 Skies/ Towards the Night
+ I can’t wait to hear the self-released HOSPITALS album that I pre-ordered last week and the next LOS LLAMARADA LP on S-S ought to be super great and the TYVEK record on Siltbreeze (I think it’s on Siltbreeze) and the CAUSE CO-MOTION! album on the also-revitalized Slumberland label -- meaning the early Nineties have officially returned which is great ‘cause I can’t wait to see the Grifters again, insert smiley face emoticon here.
+ Of course I love everything that Mississippi Records does; their Skip James reissue is so fine thanks to the best mastering guy on the West Coast, Tim Stollenwerk, and the upcoming releases by EVOLUTIONARY JAZZ BAND and their guitarist MARISA I FORGET HER LAST NAME are phenomenal. + I forget the name of it but the next LP on Sublime Frequencies of guitar-based stuff from I think Mauritania that Hisham recorded is super-amazing, maybe even better than the Group Inerane LP which was my favorite record of last year (even though I friggin misspelled it on end of year ballots -- also this next record is half-acoustic on one side which makes the electric side sound even hotter).
+ Finally, I’m curious what non-PDX folks will think of the WHITE FANG record on Marriage – super young kids really into Black Flag and the Boredoms…
― Mike McGooney-gal, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
FAMOUS L RENFROE: Children
You're right; this is another v. good reissue disc this year.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 7 July 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the wooden shjips reissue thing didn't hit me like the album. i need to keep listening
― kamerad, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Have you guys heard Jerusalem and the Starbaskets?
― Tape Store, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/jerusalemandthestarbasket
(just released a split with hush arbors)
― Tape Store, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been meaning to pick that up
― electricsound, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait, oops, wooden shjips, i was thinking wooden wand
Notwist making a surge into the top ten.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 7 July 2008 07:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Gave the Eat Skull album a go yesterday, pretty funtimes if not top ten material
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 7 July 2008 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
If we're including re-issues, then I'd add Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story to my list.
― o. nate, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Vinicius Cantuaria's Cymbals a lot; Ross Johnson's Make It Stop! Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story; Jamey Johnson's very very Waylon Jennings-esque That Lonesome Song; Chuck Prophet's even more Waylon-esque Dreaming Waylon's Dreams; and today's answer to the burning question: what happened to the Scene Is Now?--I'm Not Jim's You Are All My People. OK, the Scene Was Then, as in kinda roots-rock but very good, much better than I woulda expected.
― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
arms 'kids aflame' is pretty good, although "whirring" still seems to be the best thing on it
― electricsound, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been catching up on listening to a lot of the choices here, great stuff. But how 'bout we keep reissues here?
Reissues Thread 2008
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
1. Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story 2. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside 3. Jacaszek - Treny 4. Coldplay - Viva La Vida 5. Portishead - Third 6. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 7. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
1. erykah badu - nu amerykah pt 1 4th world war dwele - sketches of a man estelle - shine raheem devaughn - love behind the melody gnarls barkley - the odd couple algebra blesset - purpose nas - untitled mariah - e=mc2 portishead - third wayne - tha carter III
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks to J0hn for informing me that Tata Young has a new album out. Listening to it now...
Don't think anyone's mentioned Danity Kane, Van Hunt, or Taio Cruz. Like them in descending order and only the first one will probably be on my top ten list. (Van Hunt's album was shelved so probably doesn't count.)
― dabug, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and Britta Persson's album Kill Hollywood Me is good.
― dabug, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
INDIAN JEWELRY!!!
That record just hit me and I think it will end up being in my top ten this year.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link