TS: Best Kranky Catalog of Any Artist on Kranky

Omissions due to not allowing >50 poll options:

DEAN ROBERTS - Be Mine Tonight
TOM CARTER - Monument
BRIAN MCBRIDE - When the Detail Lost Its Freedom
DAWN SMITHSON - Safer Here
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA - Minima Moralia
CHRIS HERBERT - Mezzotint
ANDREW PEKLER - Cue
RAGLANI - Of Sirens Born
LOTUS PLAZA - The Floodlight Collective
ETHERNET - 144 Pulsations of Light
FELIX - You Are the One I Pick
KEN CAMDEN - Lethargy and Repercussion
DISAPPEARS – Lux

low is probably the most honest choice but the cloudland canyon and jonas reinhardt albums are the kranky albums i go back to most..

Plenty of people are gonna vote Low (and I can't fault 'em) but I do love Cloudland Canyon.

Haven't made it to Reinhardt yet...

Labradford I guess, but throw the Dean Roberts record in with the Autistic Daughters and you've got a pretty good hand.

Agree.

Labradford is pretty unimpeachable; a worthy vote.

Gonna be a fuxxor and vote Godspeed - at the time they blew my mind and I think the first few releases still stand up well. Second/third choices would be between Charalambides and Labradford.

Gotta go with Labradford on this. I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since their last album. What a shame.

Keith Fullerton Whitman, with Low close behind

Charalambides easy - Our Bed Is Green is a nice reissue and their last two records are two of my favorites of the whole decade.

SOTL

oh wait, i totally misread the incredibly confusing and needlessly hair-splitting thread topic. it's actually Low

just listened to that dadamah record today! ill vote for that.

Oh man, it has to be Low, although I would love to vote for some of the others. I adore Lie in Light by Cloudland Canyon and Beat by Bowery Electric, for two, but Low are far and away the most consistent picks. Also, out of the ones that were excised I would like to give props to Felix - that album is great.

Oh yeah, and KFW is awesome too.

Labradford! The only live show that made me cry.

I'll be the odd duck and vote for Benoit Pioulard. Probably should be Low, but Precis over all.

STARS OF THE LID - The Ballasted Orchestra; Gravitational Pull,...; Per Aspera Ad Astra [w/ Jon McCafferty]; The Tired

This poll option totally got cut off by the character limit. If I recall, it's supposed to be:

STARS OF THE LID - The Ballasted Orchestra; Gravitational Pull,...; Per Aspera Ad Astra [w/ Jon McCafferty]; The Tired Sounds of,...; Avec Laudenum; And Their Refinement of the Decline

I can't argue with any of you guys' votes so far. Low, Labradford, Whitman, SOTL, Charalambides, and yes, even Godspeed are really good choices. (No worries about Godspeed pulling 0 votes, I'm sure Ned will cast a secret ballot for 'em.)

Can't say I'd vote for Benoit Pioulard here but both his albums are gorgeous. And the Cloudland/Bowery albums mentioned are both fantastic.

Haven't heard Dadamah yet, that damn album is waaaayyy out of print. =/

Curious what Ned will vote here.

A few other favorite albums of mine here:

Jessamine - s/t
Roy Montgomery - Temple IV
Windy & Carl - Depths / Consciousness
Jessica Bailiff - Hour of the Trace
Lichens - Omns
Both Tim Hecker albums
Cryptograms - still the best thing Deerhunter's done!

Ned won't actually vote and I've read him rave about a good few of these already. But I'm sure he'll chime in.

(*hinthint*)

SotL SBUIUD

Jessamine are too underrated.they were great.

voted for Philosopher's Stone - am still quite fond of those records, and (like many of the 'minor' Kranky releases) got lost in the Labradford/SOTL/Godspeed hype. that having been said though, checking out that list, it's staggering how many of their releases i've missed...so far.

this is so hard

Was just listening to Jessamine today, as a matter of fact. Surprised they're not better liked.

If that Clear Horizon album was called "Flying Saucer Attack" (which it basically is) it'd probably get a vote or two...

Going with Fandabidozi here.

Loscil can be pretty great, if a little undemanding, a little like Biosphere. First Narrows is worthwhile.

Someone tell me more about Boduf Songs, Tomorrowland & Spiny Anteaters plz.

SotL

Someone tell me more about Boduf Songs, Tomorrowland & Spiny Anteaters plz.

Boduf Songs is rooted in folk music with bits of psych/drone folded in for good measure. Pleasant, not really mindblowing in my experience but YMMV, of course. I haven't heard the latter two.

labradford are elemental and their whole awesome catalog is on kranky, so i voted for them

ANDREW PEKLER - Cue

totally great album!

his ~scape stuff is pretty rad also

tomorrowland are from ann arbor, mi and kind of neu!/ stereolabby, as i recall.

i do not know this ~scape!

check it out!

Has to be Labradford imo

Just did a quick count and I own physical copies of about 50-55 of these. Can't think of another indie label that I have that many releases by -- maybe 4AD comes close? -- and am still seeking more of.

Ned won't actually vote and I've read him rave about a good few of these already. But I'm sure he'll chime in.

Correct on me not voting. Of the many I truly love, nothing leaps out at me as 'the' favorite.

TEMPLE IV

SOTL or Labradford, though if more of Adam Forkner's output was under the name White Rainbow and released on Kranky he might be in with a shot

though I may just note that many people have said Labradford and some have said SOTL and nobody has said Windy & Carl, and throw my vote their way

SOTL, Labradford, Low... tough to choose. Songs for a Dead Pilot and Secret Name are probably my two favorite Low albums; Things We Lost is good, and I never heard Trust. I feel somewhat weird voting for them since their Vernon Yard material factors so highly into my estimation for them; and I don't really associate them with Kranky the way I do Labradford or SOTL.

I never heard Trust

I recommend you fix this ASAP, it's a stellar album.

Been meaning to revisit all of their post-TWLITF material. I'm less familiar with all the later albums.

Labradford are the quintessential Kranky band. I voted KFW, I just love him so...Charalambides and SoTL are also admirable choices. This is a really hard poll, Kranky are one of the greatest....

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Just voted Charalambides, kinda hard to fuck w/ any of those albums.

Kranky one of the most fantastic labels ever and every band on it is worth hunting down. However, I am cheap, lazy and indulgent and will probably always choose timeless commercial classics like Strategy or Out Hud over Charalambides or Stars of the Lid. I listen to Out Hud every day so I would feel dishonest in not voting for it.

throwing a vote to underrated Loscil

Loscil rule! i voted Low, but that's because if i hadn't, i would've been lying.

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I find the lack of love for Jessamine totally baffling...

^^agree, though in this poll there are definitely a number of bands who deserve the vote before them. I'd put Bowery Electric in the same boat - their discography is definitely worth investigation, despite no votes here. Top three is more or less as it should be. Surprised that Godspeed still has fans. I grew really weary of their shtick after their Slow Riot EP.

Stuff I'd recommend that got 0 votes: Bowery Electric, Cloudland Canyon, Lichens, White Rainbow, Boduf Songs and Clear Horizon.

Oh yeah that Dead Texan record is awesome too.