So what's your favourite noise/psych/mania release of recent times? (like in the last, ooh ten years y'know)

Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Plastic Crimewave Sound - Flashing Open

Let's make a top five...

Charalambides "Market Square" (maybe a little over ten years old.)
Vision Creation Newsun
UrDog "Garden of Bones"
Double Leopards "Halve Maen"
Matt Valentine "Glorious Group Therapy"

uhh.. that may not be quite a definitive top five. "Market Square" tops the list, though. There are just SO MANY.

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And Tim OTM re: Hypnotic Underworld--the best Ghost release yet.

I'm pretty hopped up on Charlambides "Joy Shapes" and Suburned Hand's "Headdress". Any number of Birchville Cat Motel and Peter Wright records over the past 5 years would fit the bill, too.

doglatin: first recordings were made in 1991, AFAIK. debut cassette was 93..

I feel like I have become a cliche.

broom dusters - 23 hrs 30 min
sandoz lab technicians - s/t
the unshown - the golden curse (old plastic crimewave thing)
natisuta hetekata - rei
sunroof - cloudz
frown - wallghost
gravitar - now the road of knives
up-tight - (self-titled, i think)
joshua jugband five - damascus doldrum
double leopards - halve maen

on first listen (forcing me to revise my general opinion), i think gang gang dance's new album might be really really great...

growing and metalux and double leopards were great live this winter, havent quite gotten into sunnO))) yet, wolf eyes is good in SMALL doses.

acid mothers temple
comets on fire
residual echoes
ghost
plastic crimewave
oneida
high rise
boredoms
up-tight
of montreal
tower recordings
six organs of admittance
jennifer gentle

curious to listen to kelley stoltz too

theres also the black forest/black sea/christina carter record floating about and sadly undermentioned

theres the record from mountains, and all the stuff on fonal and the avarus re-issues.

i suggest going to wfmu and doing playlist searches for some of the bands mentioned, listening to the archived shows featuring like-ish material can be great for drawing up new things to look for.

Ah, but I love you.

So much of what I could say having been said, I will refrain from saying it. But let me think a bit and I will try and name something wonderful but undeservedly obscure...

Also worth consideration are "A-V-P" by Avarus, Acid Mothers Temple's "The Incipient Light of the Echoes", Sung Tongs, Folk Scene by Tower Recordings, Coemts on Fire's Field Recordings From the Sun, and probably a hell of a lot more I can't think of right now.

There's a cd-r called Animal Speak, by an Australian group called Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. Kind of a silly name, but parts of this album are excellent. And that newish Gang Gang Dance, God's Money, is incredible, as well.

Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape

...is TERRIFIC!

I've been looking to get into more "noise/psych/mania" type music, this stuff is all new to me. So far all I've been enjoying other than MxBx is Vision Creation Newsun, Tower Recordings, and Animal Collective. I'm so glad this thread exists. It's going to prompt quite a few purchases for me.

"Halve Maen" n'thed
Fennesz -- Field Recordings
Flying Saucer Attack -- Outdoor Miner ep
Greg Davis -- Somnia
track 2 (and specifically the 2nd part of the track) from Spring Heeled Jack Live
Basinski -- Disintegration Loops
Flying Saucer Attack -- PA Blues
Koehn -- Koehn^2
Pure -- Low

Hototogisu - Floating Japanese Gardens... / Green
Joshua - Gold Cosmos
both the PG Six albums
Pelt - Ayahuasca
the Richard Youngs/Kawabata collab on VHF
Hall Of Fame - s/t (Siltbreeze)
Double Leopards - Urban Concussion (not as good as HM but still great)
Family Underground - Ancient Shadows
both of the Islaja albums
Fursaxa's lp on Time Lag
Sun City Girls (do they count?) - 330,003 Cross Dressers From Across The Rig Veda
Burning Star Core - Brighter Summer Day

Sunburned Hand can be pretty hit or miss, but that live record on Eclipse is nice. The Trickle Down Theory of Lord Knows What has some beautiful moments, as well. Rare Wood's wholly missable, though.

On the reissue front, there's that Satwa LP as well as the "Our Bed Is Green" reissue. Most of upthread OTM... Gold Cosmos, Tower Recordings, PG Six, Six Organs (mostly; some of it I am not so into. Compathia, for instance, is kinda samey.)

I'm in the process of writing up that new Excepter record now. I think it'll end up on Stylus, but I'm not sure if Todd trusts me anymore since I kinda stopped doing shit...

Hm, now I'm actually interested in Beaches and Canyons for once. (I do agree that the new Excepter is v., v. good -- makes me think of the first post-Bardo Pond band, actually.)

Yay the Satwa!

Ghost is great. I was worried about buying it since I hadn't heard it before and there's no free MP3's online (that I can find). Thankfully, it was $15 well spent. I only listened to about half of it though, but I doubt the second half will change my mind.

With the Boredoms, I'd only heard VCN before, and damn, this one is great. I love both albums, and they both have their own unique qualities. This one is a lot less friendly than VCN, which is great, I was looking for that.

Thanks ILM!

No you don't.

How did little folkies with accoustic guitars like the espers and sunburned hand of the man and animal collective somehow get lumped together with Hair Police and Merzbow? How did Hair police and Merzbow get lumped together? How did the Boredoms get lumped with Wolf Eyes?! I DONT GET WHAT NOISE IS.

The music resources I started reading for my other taste, primarily indie (PFM, Stylus, etc) aren't talking about this kind of stuff for the most part.

Ghost and AMT seconded.

Kinski - Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water
Mono - "The Kidnapper Bell" (best track Mogwai never recorded etc.)
kaitO - band red