albums i kinda like so far this year, alphabetized

what's it called??

Don't jump the gun! DJ Martian strikes back with 2003 canon.

As Chuck has done that right thang by starting a thread on 2003 A-Z, then this is my tracking list for the first 4 months of 2003 [updated on an ongoing basis, always open to new suggestions and additions.]

From:
http://www.geocities.com/altmartinuk/2003.html
and
http://djmartian.blogspot.com

1. Aarktica - Pure Tone Audiometry (Silber)
2. Aborym - With No Human Intervention (Code666)
3. Adult - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
4. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release (Chemikal Underground)
5. AFI - Sing the Sorrow (Dreamworks)
6. Alejandra & Aeron - Bousha Blue Blazes (Orthlorng Musork)
7. Ellen Allien - Berlinette (Bpitch Control)
8. Am-Boy - Floridian (Wobblyhead) US Import
9. Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home (Young God)
10. Antipop Consortium - Antipop Consortium vs Matthew Shipp (Thirsty Ear)
11. Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes For Cash (Warp) Double CD of remixes
12. Appliance - Are You Earthed (Mute)
13. Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug And Pint (Chemikal Underground)
14. Arcana - Inner Pale Sun (Cold Meat Industry)
15. A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade)
16. Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy of the Enemy (Virgin)
17. Autechre - Draft 7.30 (Warp)
18. The Bad Plus - These are the Vistas (Columbia)
19. Bangkok Impact - Traveller (Clone/Creme)
20. Steffen Basho-Junghans - Rivers and Bridges (Strange Attractors Audio House) Import
21. William Basinski - The River (Raster/Noton)
22. Janet Bean - Dragging Wonder Lake (Thrill Jockey)
23. Beans - Tomorrow Right Now (Warp)
24. Belisha - People in the Dark (Filthy Sonnix)
25. Bent - The Everlasting Blink (Sport Recordings/MOS)
26. Black Box Recorder - Passionoia (One Little Indian)
27. Break Reform - Fractures (Abstract Blue Recordings)
28. Bridge & Tunnel - Great Outdoors (Surrender)
29. Brokeback - Looks at Birds (Thrill Jockey)
30. Susanne Brokesch - So Easy Hard To Practice (Disko B)
31. The Bug - Pressure (Rephlex)
32. The Buzzcocks - The Buzzcocks (Cherry Red)
33. Mira Calix - Skimskitta (Warp)
34. Calla - Televise (Arena Rock Recording Co)
35. Daniel Carter & Reuben Radding - Luminescence (Aum Fidelity)
36. Nick Cave - Nocturama (Mute)
37. Cave In - Antenna (RCA)
38. Cex - Being Ridden [instrumental version] (Temporary Residence)
39. Cex - Being Ridden [vocal version] (Temporary Residence)
40. Asa-Chang & Junray - Tsu Gi Ne Pu (Leaf)
41. Sylvain Chauveau - Un Autre Decembre (Fat Cat)
42. Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll (Spinefarm)
43. Circle - Alotus (Klangbad)
44. Clearlake - Cedars (Domino)
45. Clue to Kalo - Come Here When You Sleepwalk (Leaf)
46. Collide - Some Kind of Strange (Next Level)
47. Ravi Coltrane - Mad 6 (Sony Jazz)
48. Com.a - Shot Of Love (Tigerbeat 6)
49. Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch/Perro Verde)
50. Corker & Conboy - In Light of That Learnt Later (Vertical Form)
51. Cul de Sac - Death to the Sun (Strange Attractors Audio House) Import
52. Cult of Luna - Beyond (Earache)
53. Chris Cutler - Dust (ReR)
54. Daedelus - The Quiet Party (Plug Research)
55. DAF - 15 Neue DAF Lieder (Superstar Rec./Universal)
56. Data 80 - Data 80 (Force Tracks)
57. Deerhoof - Apple O' (5 Rue Christine)
58. Delicate Awol - Heart Drops From The Great Space (Fire)
59. The Detroit Experiment - The Detroit Experiment (Ropeadope)
60. Dinky - Black Cabaret (CarPark)
61. Dirty Three - She Has No Strings Apollo (Bella Union)
62. Displacer - Moon_Phase (M Tronic)
63. Diva Destruction - Exposing the Sickness (Alice In)
64. Dog - Neverland (Heavenly)
65. Dave Douglas - Freak In (RCA) Import
66. Bob Drake - 13 Songs And A Thing (Rer Megacorp)
67. Vikter Duplaix - International Affair (Hollywood Records/ Warners)
68. The Durutti Column - Someone Else's Party (Fulfil/ Universal)
69. Echoboy - Giraffe (Mute)
70. 8 Doogymoto - Minimalistico (Soundslike)
71. Electric Company - It's Hard to Be a Baby (Tigerbeat6)
72. Elend - Winds Devouring Men (Prophesy)
73. El Guapo - Fake French (Dischord)
74. Matt Elliott - The Mess We Made (Domino)
75. Eluvium - Lambent Material (Temporary Residence)
76. EZ Rollers - Titles Of The Unexpected (Moving Shadow)
77. Fao Jesus - Tse Tse Fly Soul (FAOjesus)
78. Szam Findlay - Die Hautfabrik (Resonant)
79. Fortdax - Folly (Tugboat Records)
80. Freaks - The Man Who Lived Underground (Music for Freaks)
81. Bill Frisell - Intercontinentals (Nonesuch)
82. Further Seems Forever - How To Start A Fire (Tooth And Nail)
83. Futureshock - Phantom Theory (Junior/Fuju)
84. The Gathering - Souvenirs (Psychonaut Records)
85. Paul Giger - Vindonissa (ECM)
86. Glass Candy & The Shattered Theatre - Love Love Love (Troubleman)
87. Glowing Glisses - Silver Surfer (Poker Flat) Import
88. The Go Betweens - Bright Yellow, Bright Orange (Circus)
89. Gold Chains - Young Miss America (Pias)
90. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (Mute)
91. Grand Ulena - Gateway to Dignity (Family Vineyard)
92. Tord Gustavsen Trio - Changing Places (ECM)
93. Robin Guthrie - Imperial (Bella Union)
94. Hajsch - 1992 (Sonig)
95. Yoshihiro Hanno - 9 Modules + (Progressive Form)
96. The Haunted - One Kill Wonder (Earache)
97. Kristin Hersh - The Grotto (4ad)
98. H-Foundation - Environments (Soma)
99. Hungry Ghosts - Hungry Ghosts (Normal)
100. Anders Ilar - Everdom (Shitkatapult)
101. Imitation Electric Piano - Trinity Neon (Duophonic)
102. I'm Not A Gun (John Tejada & Takeshi Nishimoto) - Everything At Once (City Centre Offices)
103. Ken Ishii - Future in Light (Exceptional)
104. ISO 68 - Here / There (Hausmusik)
105. Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures - La Nouvelle Pauvrete (~Scape)
106. Karda Estra - Constellations (Cyclops)
107. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (Peaceville)
108. King Crimson - The Power to Believe (Sanctuary)
109. King of Woolworths - L'Illustration Musicale (Mantra)
110. Kinski - Airs Above Your Station (Strange Attractors Audio House/ Sub Pop) Import
111. Tim Koch - Islandtones (U-cover)
112. Thomas Koner - Zyklob ( Mille Plateaux)
113. Kopernik - Kopernik (Eastern Developments)
114. Daniel Lanois - Shine (Anti-/Epitaph)
115. Le Rok - Hausarbeiten (Karaoke Kalk)
116. Lexaunculpt - The Blurring of Trees (Planet Mu)
117. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
118. John Lindberg - Ruminations Upon Ives and Gottschalk (Between the Lines)
119. Longwave - The Strangest Things (Hummer / EastWest Records)
120. Loop Guru - Bathtime With Loop Guru (Guruniversal)
121. Lory D - Sounds Never Seen (Rephlex)
122. Magas - Friends Forever (Ersatz Audio)
123. Daniel Magg - Facets (Compost)
124. Majesticons - Beauty Party (Big Dada/Ninja Tune)
125. Manitoba - Up In Flames (Leaf)
126. Marconi Union - Under Wires and Searchlights (Ochre)
127. Gary Martin - Viva La Difference (Exceptional)
128. Massive Attack - 100th Window (Virgin)
129. Christian McBride - Vertical Vision (Warner Brothers Records)
130. Mcenroe - Disenfranchised (Peanuts & Corn)
131. Meam - Meam (Skam)
132. Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia - My Elixir:My Poison (Truck)
133. Daniel Menche - Beautiful Blood (Alien 8)
134. The Microphones - Mount Eerie (k)
135. Mileece - Formations (Lo) Full UK Release
136. Ministry - Animositisomina (Sanctuary Records/ Mayan)
137. Molasses - Slow Messe (Alien8 Recordings)
138. Momus - Oskar Tennis Champion (American Patchwork)
139. Mono - One More Step and You Die (Ryko)
140. Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss (Labels/Monika)
141. Tadd Mullinix - Panes (Ghostly International)
142. Dorine_Muraille - Mani (FatCat)
143. Murs - The End Of The Begining (Def Jux)
144. Negura Bunget - 'N Crug Bradului (Code 666)
145. Phill Niblock - Touch Food (Touch)
146. Paal Nilssen-Love featuring Ken Vandermark - Dual Pleasure (Smalltown Supersound)
147. No-Man - Together We're Stranger (K-Scope/Snapper)
148. No Neck Blues Band - Intonomacy (Sound One)
149. Ogurusu Norihide - Modern (Carpark)
150. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon (Raster Noton)
151. Numbers - EE-UH! (Troubleman Unlimited)
152. Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste (United Dairies)
153. Michael Nyman - Sangam (Warner UK)
154. vidnaObmana - Spore (Relapse Records)
155. Old Man’s Child - In Defiance Of Existence (Century Media)
156. Opeth - Damnation (MFN)
157. Opiate - Sometimes (Morr Music)
158. OSI - Office of Strategic Influence (InsideOut)
159. Ossatura - Verso (Recommended)
160. Erlend Oye - Unrest (Source)
161. Paik - The Orson Fader (Clairecords)
162. Jeff Parker - Like Coping (Delmark)
163. Savas Pascalidis - Galactic Gogolo (International DJ Gigolos)
164. Pea Green Boat - Two Way Traffic (Head+Arm/ Sonic360)
165. Pelican - Pelican (Hydrahead)
166. Pest - Unnecessary Measures (Ninja Tune)
167. Plumbline - Circles (Hydrogen Dukebox)
168. Portal - Promise (Make Mine Music)
169. The Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
170. Pram - Dark Island (Domino)
171. Gerard Presencer - Chasing Reality (Act)
172. Pulseprogramming - Tulsa For One Second (Aesthetics)
173. Patrick Pulsinger - The Album, Easy To Assemble .. (Form & Function)
174. Qebo - Flopper (Vibrant Music)
175. Maja Ratkje - Voice (Rune Grammofon)
176. Rebelski - Thanks For Your Thoughts (Heavenly)
177. Red Snapper - Red Snapper (Lo Recordings)
178. Lou Reed - Raven (Warner Brothers)
179. Reverbaphon - The Medium Through Which Sound Travels is No Longer Present (Benbecula)
180. Rework - Fall Right Now (Playhouse)
181. Alexander Robotnick - Oh No!! Robotnik (Hot Elephant Music)
182. Roman - 5 Minutes To Match (Karaoke Kalk)
183. Sad Lovers & Giants - Melting In The Fullness Of Time (Voight-Kampff)
184. Scenic - The Acid Gospel Experience (Hidden Agenda)
185. Tobias Schmidt - Hooray For Everything (Disko B)
186. The Sea & the Cake - One Bedroom (Thrill Jockey)
187. Secret Mommy - Babies Who Hunt (Orthlorng Musork)
188. Set Fire to Flames - Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static (FatCat)
189. Sam Shalabi - Osma (Alien 8)
190. Adrian Sherwood - Never Trust A Hippie (Real World)
191. Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium (Thirsty Ear)
192. The Shipping News - Three-Four (Quarterstick)
193. Shuttle 358 - Understanding Wildlife (Mille Plateaux)
194. Sir Dupermann - Sir Dupermann (Smalltown Supersound)
195. Sixtoo - Antagonist Survival Kit (Vertical Form)
196. Sk-um - I Pagu Fallsins (Resonant)
197. Snog - Beyond the Valley of the Proles (Ant Zen)
198. The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party (Soundslike)
199. Solefald - In Harmonia Universali (Century Media)
200. Sonna - Smile and the World Smiles With You (Temporary Residence)
201. Sophya - Dream (Pandaimonium)
202. Soulo - Man, The Manipulator (Plug Research)
203. Spacek - Vintage Hitech (Studio K7)
204. S-Process - MNML (French Kiss)
205. State River Widening - Early Music (Rocket Girl)
206. The Stereonerds - HD Endless (Rather Interesting)
207. Strapping Young Lad - SYL (Century Media)
208. Stylophonic - Man Music Technology (Prolifica)
209. Styrofoam - I'm What's There To Show That Something's Missing (Morr Music)
210. SubArachnoid Space - Also Rising (Strange Attractors Audio House) Import
211. Surburban Knight - My Sol Dark Direction (Peacefrog)
212. Donna Summer - This Needs To Be Your Style (Irritant)
213. Summoning - Lost Tales (Napalm)
214. Sunn O))) - White 1 (Southern Lord)
215. Super Numeri - Great Aviaries (Ninja Tune)
216. Supersilent - 6 (Rune Grammofon)
217. John Surman/Jack DeJohnette & London Brass - Free and Equal (ECM)
218. Swag - No Such Thing (Version)
219. Ahmad Szabo - This Book Is About Words (Eastern Developments)
220. Aoki Takamasa - Indigo Rose (Progressive Form)
221. Nobukazu Takemura - Assembler/ Assembler 2 (Thrill Jockey)
222. Nobukazu Takemura - 10th (Thrill Jockey)
223. John Taylor [with Marc Johnson & Joey Baron] - Rosslyn (ECM)
224. Jimi Tenor - Higher Planes (Kitty Yo)
225. Terre Thaemlitz - Lovebomb (Mille Plateaux)
226. 1349 - Liberation (Candlelight)
227. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses (4ad)
228. Toktok vs Soffy O - Toktok vs Soffy O (Code Blue)
229. Tosca - Dehli 9 (Studio k7)
230. Takeo Toyama - Hello 88 (Karaoke Kalk)
231. Theo Travis - Slow Life (Ether Sounds Records)
232. Trio AAB - Stranger Things Happen at C (Caber)
233. Erik Truffaz - Walk Of The Giant Turtle (Blue Note)
234. Mika Vainio - In The Land Of The Blind (Touch)
235. Van Oehlen - Rock & Roll Is Here To Die (Blue Chopsticks)
236. Veer - Lideskape (Source Records Germany)
237. Venetian Snares - Winter in the Belly of a Snake (Planet mu)
238. Vessel - Dreaming In Pairs (Expanding)
239. Voivod - Voivod (Chophouse/Surfdog)
240. Otto Von Schrach - Chopped Zombie Fungus (Schematic)
241. VS Price - Minette (Expanding)
242. Christian Wallumrod Trio - Sofienberg Variations (ECM)
243. Wevie de Crepon - The Age Old Age of Old Age (Sonig)
244. Geoff White & Stewart Walker - Dischord (Force Inc)
245. Wire - Send (Pink Flag)
246. W.I.T - Whatever it Takes (Mogul Electro)
247. Jah Wobble - Fly (30 Hertz)
248. Wolfsheim - Casting Shadows (Metropolis)
249. Xela - For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights (Neo Ouija)
250. Yattering - Genocide (Candlelight)
251. Yellow 6 - Disappear Here (Make it Mine)
252. Susumu Yokota - Overhead (Play)
253. Yoshimi and Yuka - Flower with No Color (Ipecac Records)
254. Richard Youngs - Airs of the Ear (Jagjaguwar)
255. Zainetica - Escaping Dust (Rednetic Recordings)
256. Zeigenbock Kopf - Nocturnal Submissions (Tigerbeat 6)
257. Bryan Zentz - Seven Breaths (In-Tec Records)
258. Zongamin - Zongamin (XL/ licensed from Flesh Records)
259. Zorn - Cruel Summer (K20)
260. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea (Reprise)

EP Releases 2003

1. Austerity Program - Terra Nova (Hydra Head)
2. Daedelus - The Household (Eastern Developments) EP
3. Front 242 - Still & Raw (Xiii Bis) EP
4. Gescom - ISS SA (Skam) EP
5. Jaga Jazzist - Animal Chin (GSL) EP
6. Jello - Lungbone (Peacefrog) EP
7. Main - Transiency (Tigerbeat6) EP
8. Manitoba - Jacknuggeted (Leaf) EP
9. No-Man - All that You Are (Hidden Art) EP
10. R3Mote - Re-motion (Rotters Golf Club) EP
11. Schengen / Portal / Innerise / Weyland - Schengen / Portal / Innerise / Weyland (Make Mine Music) EP
12. Dwayne Sodahberk - The Partying Without Inhibition Or Dignity (Tigerbeat 6) EP
13. Styrofoam - A Heart Without A Mind (Morr Music) EP

UK Album Releases 2003 [Although Released in 2002 in Other Countries]

1. Android Lust - The Dividing (Dark Vision) UK Release 2003
2. Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons (FatCat) UK Release 2003
3. Dead Man Ray - Cago (City Slang)
4. Brian Harden - Instinctive State Of.... (Moods and Grooves) UK Release 2003
5. International Pony - We Love Music (Skint) UK Release 2003
6. Iran - Moon Boys (Tumult) US Import/ UK Availability 2003
7. Kaada - Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac Recordings) UK Release 2003
8. Mat Maneri - Sustain (Thirsty Ear) UK Release 2003
9. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (Atlantic/Lava) UK/European release with 3 bonus tracks
10. Projections - Between Here and Now (Guidance) UK Release 2003
11. Ruins - Tzomborgha (Ipecac) UK Release 2003
12. Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance (Century Media) UK Release 2003
13. Star of Ash - Iter.Viator (Jester) UK Release 2003
14. Upper Rooms - Canti Popolari (Beat Service) UK Release 2003
15. Cristian Vogel - Dungeon Master (Tresor) First Time on CD

Some Albums Released in Other Counties in 2003 [As of yet not given a Full UK Release, However could be available to order as an import from certain online stores/retail shops in the UK or ordered from an online music store in another country]

1. Aenima - Sentient (Middle Pillar)
2. Au - Recycling (Locust Music)
3. Decoded Feedback - Shockwave (Metropolis)
4. Tim Hecker - Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
5. Jacob Kirkegaard - 01.02 (Bottrop-Boy)
6. Le Coeur - Suddenly (Mental Groove)
7. Lickgoldensky - The Beautiful Sounds Of... (Escape Artist)
8. Magyar Posse - We Will Carry You Over The Mountains (Verdura)
9. Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - A Little Lost (Bottrop-Boy)
10. Sogar - Apikal.Blend (12k)
11. The Vandermark 5 - Airports For Light (Atavistic)
12. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Dartmouth Street Underpass (Locust)
13. Xiu Xiu - A Promise (5RC)

I am very jealous that he's heard the new Gathering and Katatonia.

To track down that Natacha Atlas CD's name (all that I have is an advance) I'd have to dig through a pretty huge pile. It's her most pop/least traditional album ever, and no doubt will be considered a huge sellout by some. Maybe even a Shakira move -- fine with me!

a.r.e. weapons
caroliner rainbow
clone defects
deadly snakes
drive-by truckers
dropkick murphys
electric six
rose falcoln
kentucky headhunters
lightning bolt
ted leo and the pharmacists
mushroom with gary floyd
bubba sparx EP
triple threat
voivod
white stripes
woodenhead
zemog el gallo bueno
zz top
*broklyn beats*
*crews control*
*garage rap vol. 1*+
*garage rap vol. 2*
*quannum mix CD winter/spring 2003*

But I bet Anthony would prefer Nada Surf or the Charms or Nasty On to a lot of these. (He should definitely go buy Rose Falcoln, though.)

Anyone who was on AIM last night chatting with me knows how I feel about the matter, at least in part. This is why I don't listen to music anymore (ha).

The Natacha Atlas album is damn good, BTW. Her best yet.

Rock is a wasteland.

i think the a.f.i. album is completely ridiculous -- i guess i just find its total sellout goth/queen/naked raygun/dark metal hodgepodge endearing. (i'd say "misfits," but i forget what they sound like.) and i actually LIKE how the little twerp whines -- honest! i ASSUMED i would totally despise the thing, but i just gave in to it. still, anthony's right -- it's pretty marginal as far as the list above goes.

That is all. Not because rock is a wasteland but because I've spent the last few weeks trying to sort through the oeuvres of whiney white boys Bob Mould and Tom Waits in a meaningful way.

Young Gods - Second Nature
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/y/younggods-second.shtml

(Sic) (Broklyn Beats)
50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (Shady/Interscope)
Barbara Morgenstern Nichts Muss (Monika)
Califone Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Thrill Jockey)
Cat Power You Are Free (Matador)
Cherrystone’s Rocks (Lo)
Deerhoof Apple O’ (5RC)
Franco Battiato Fleurs 3 (Sony)
Freeway Philadelphia Freeway (Roc-A-Fella)
Goldfrapp Black Cherry (Mute)
King Sunny Ade Best of The Classic Years (Shanachie)
Libertines Up The Bracket (Rough Trade)
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
Mr. Dibbs The 30th Hour
Music In My Head Volume 2 (Stern’s)
Paolo Conte Reveries (Nonesuch)
RJD2 The Horror EP (Def Jux)
Robbie Williams Escapology (Chrysalis/EMI UK)
Rough Trade Counter Culture 2002 (Rough Trade)
Stephen Malkmus Pig Lib (Matador)
The Angels of Light Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home (Young God)
The Bad Plus These Are The Vistas (Columbia)
The Go-Betweens Bright Yellow, Bright Orange (Jetset)
Thermals More Parts Per Million (Sub Pop)
Watch How The People Dancing (Honest Jon’s)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (Interscope)

Italian friend has shared a lot of his seventies stuff with me and I've grown very interested in Mr. Battiato. What's this one like?

Madonna, American Life
Edwyn Collins, Doctor Syntax
Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul from Miami, Florida 1967-1974
All Girl Summer Fun Band, 2
The Isley Brothers, Body Kiss

You'd probably hate it--not at all like his freak 70s stuff. Very smooth, synthy Italo crooner stuff, like a less hip Paolo Conte. Some of it lovely, but I think I have a weird weakness for this old Italian man genre that a grand total of nobody else (esp.ILM) would enjoy.

King Sunny Ade: The Best of the Classic Years
Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
Aphex Twin: 26 Mixes for Cash
Assembler: Assembler 2
The Bellrays: Raw Collection
Boyracer: B-Sides and Besides
Boyracer: Girlracer
Boyracer: whatever the other new one's called, it's not at hand
Dump: A Grown-Ass Man
The In Out: Il Dito & Other Gestures
Daniel Johnston: The Early Recordings vol. 1
Joy: s/t
Ted Leo & Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak
Stephen Malkmus: Pig Lib
Getatchew Mekurya: Ethiopiques vol. 14
The Microphones: Voices from Mt. Eerie/Drums from Mt. Eerie
The New Pornographers: The Electric Version
Kimmo Pohjonen: Kluster
Sonic Youth: Dirty reissue
Nobukazu Takemura: 10th
The Thermals: More Parts Per Million
The White Stripes: Elephant
Richard Youngs: Airs of the Ear
VA: Arktinen Hysteria
VA: Colette no. 5
VA: Flying Funk
VA: Strut Sampler One
VA: Velvet Tinmine

Of all of those, the New Pornographers, Velvet Tinmine and Getatchew Mekurya are out in front right now. Plus I'm forgetting lots of stuff that's not physically on my desk at the moment, plus I haven't heard the Wire album yet...

Dolores/Virgin Sweden

Oh shit, wait, it's just some dumbass Kill Rock Stars shit.

Right now I am listening to the new Luomo. It is my favorite album of the year so far, though it's not out for a while yet. That is all.

Well, I like Fabrizio de Andre, but I guess he's not quite this genre...

What's he like?

Others I'm curious about but haven't heard yet: Caroliner Rainbow, A.R.E. Weapons, New Pornographers. (Unfortunately, I don't receive free advance copies...)

:-O b-b-bbastard...

Brokeback - Looks at the bird
DFA - Disco Punk (Muzik mix CD) *
Hersh, Kristin - The Grotto *
High Llamas - Retrospective, rarities and instrumentals
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown *
International Pony - We Love Music
Manitoba - Up In Flames *
Miss Kittin - Radio Caroline, Vol.1 *
Monade - Socialisme ou barbarie *
Jimi Tenor - Higher Planes *
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses *
Tiga - DJ Kicks
v/a - Pop a Paris Vol.2 *
v/a - Pop a Paris, Vol.5

As for the Libertines, I mainly hear the Smiths and the Wedding Present, actually (I love the latter, hate the former). I just really started listening to it earlier this week, and I dig how loose it is.

Ellen Allien Berlinette
A.R.E. Weapons S/T
Azita Enantidromia
Bangkok Impact Traveller
Janet Bean Beverage Dragging Wonder Lake
Black Dice Beaches & Canyons
Brokeback Looks At The Bird
Cat Power Free
Califone Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Campfire Songs S/T
Chara Yoake Mae
Deerhoof Apple O
Dump A Grown Ass Man
Fog Ether Teeth
Grand Buffet Cigarette Beach
Hecker Sun Pandemonium
Kahmie Karie Trapesieste
Kopernik S/T
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Ranbow
Loose Fur S/T
Steve Malkmus & The Jicks Pig Lib
Mira Calix Nuno
New Pornographers Electric Version
No Neck Blues Band Intonomancy
Noxgat Turning It Down Since 2001
Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher
Shiina Ringo New Album
Sea And Cake One Bedroom
Smog Supper
Soft Pink Truth Do You Party?
Sole Selling Live Water
Songs: Ohio Electric Magnolia Co.
Sonic Youth Demon Lover OST
SUNN O))) White1
Nobukazu Takemura 10th
Tes X2
Turbonegro Scandinavian Leather
Yo La Tengo Summer Sun

(i realize this doesn't make it seem much different than metal, but there's some key aspect - empheremal perhaps - which creates universes of distance between the two.)

Only new song to really get me this year has been "Danger! High Voltage!" though the Evanescence song is fun (if pretty deficient lyrically. I like "I Had The Time Of My Life" and most duets anyway). I'm really curious about the A.R.E. Weapons. Mostly this thread makes me wish I got free shit in the mail, or at least had net access at home so I could download samples. Gotta do something about that.

I should say that LOTS of old albums I'd yet to hear or get into are rockin' my world these days. Most recently Ice-T's Iceberg/Freedom Of Speach and Joe Jackson's Look Sharp! So it's not like my days feel devoid of new musical discoveries.

But Andy K likes it so I'm gonna give it more time.

(there, i said it)

three full listens later that Luomo is really starting to settle at the top of my list hard. it's much more an album than Vocalcity, consciously so; it's also poppier--his Rooty to some degree.

the Yes New York comp is worse than you could guess. really.

things that i dont like so much about soft pink truth: rhythm /= funk/groove/whateva so conflict of interest with supposedly overt crayzee/party thing. sounds and ideas could be spread a little thicker, with more muscle rather than dry clicketyclick+intermittent "ooh! booty!".

probably hyped so much because it has this best-of-both world idea in it w/ Matmos as the credible soundfuck chemists but not proper fun suddenly being proper fun so great! nobody can diss now.

I went to high school with Kathleen Edwards!

See here, Sundar:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0336/eddy.php