Rolling dilettante convocation 2011

Finally, it's here! A more instantly gratifying, more harum-scarum sibling-thread to Johnny Fever's 2011 General Interest, Non-Genre-Specific Listening Club - and once more, everyone's invited!

A few stipulations, first, however.

This is a thread for the suggestion of music in any form, be it song, EP or album. Nonetheless, you are urged to post links to individual songs at a time. It's a method that really worked in miniature on the 2010 tracks-poll analysis thread, and I'm keen to see it continue here.

The song shouldn't be one you've just discovered from years gone by and now quite like. This is tracks from the HERE AND NOW, from 2011, which have BLOWN YOUR FREAKING GODDAMN MIND INTO ORBIT. No half-measures. This shit has gotta have rocked your world from here to Alpha Centauri and not necessarily back.

Any style of music is welcome. If it's music that might blow the fuck up on one of the regular genre threads anyhow, doesn't matter...post it. We don't wanna miss a trick.

Nonetheless, if you post songs here, you should make an effort to listen to what everyone else has posted, with open ears. You really should give everything a chance, and without recoursing to the common-or-garden lazy dismissal, attempt to at least work out what it is the poster loves about it.

After all, some things only click after a few listens, and this thread will be nothing if not chock-full of sly earworms. And really big, brash stuff you'll fuck reindeer to.

Hooray!

Cool!

I may be a dilettante, but I don't need any special soundtrack to fuck reindeer. That said, I'm all ears.

mind blown into orbit... bilbao syndrome full length on gravid hands soon to come this is older stuff but still slays...

http://www.myspace.com/194001154/music-player?sindex=3.3&shuffle=true&amix=false&pmix=false&plid=14153&artid=8192209&profid=194001154&friendid=194001154&sseed=15602&ptype=3&stime=0&ap=1&rpeat=false

heavy metal drones riffs drones moogs heavy rhythms

ONLY NEW STUFF PLZ

*shakes fist*

will still give that a listen but PLEASE no circumventing this otherwise you'll set a precedent

This is tracks from the HERE AND NOW, from 2011, which have BLOWN YOUR FREAKING GODDAMN MIND INTO ORBIT. No half-measures. This shit has gotta have rocked your world from here to Alpha Centauri and not necessarily back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8X8KK90jc8

oh awesome. we hadn't had a good The Vines clusterfuck in awhile.

How new is new btw? Even without the eoy polls, most of my listening at the moment is 2010 catchup.

One album I enjoyed a lot but haven't seen much mention of here is Dylan Ettinger's "New Age Outlaws" (Spotify link). Sun Araw meets Vangelis is an accurate descriptor of the territory we're in...this one isn't my favourite track from the album but it is on Youtube and has a "fun" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzAuExSsh1Y

"Sun Araw meets Vangelis" + the cover art = interested Johnny Fever

Dylan Ettinger is fantastic! I heard a song on the FACT top 20 albums list, not sure which one though!

Yep - I only picked up on it via that FACT list.

someone on another thread tipped me off to a band called Catacombz; I think their Myspace only plays stuff from last year though so I'll wait until they put some new songs up...

just saw Catacombz live a couple of weeks ago. I appreciated that they put a Packers hat on their mic while playing in Chicago the weekend of the Bears/Packers game. Also their bass player had a nice leather jacket, I feel like you don't see dudes in bands wear tough leather jackets anymore. Musically they seemed pretty alright, kind of mining the same rhythmic/repetitive sound as Oneida but not as fully developed.

(of course I could definitely have used the poll to showcase weird new band around the Great Lakes area...I believe Catacombz is out of Wisconsin, and of course I hear more and more cool bands I love from Detroit/Ann Arbor area--Electric Fire Babies, Secret Twins, FAWN, the Hard Lessons & the Electric Six had new albums out this year...)

xp yeah I get a pretty big Oneida vibe from Catacombz, which obv is why I like them so...

o hai I'm Alex Winston, and I'm making some more of that kind of '80s/kind of Kate Bush/kind of submainstream music you just can't get enough of over the last three years, Johnny Fever. I hope you like my song "Locomotive."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g_T1h62ybo

Hi, Alex. As a matter of fact, I do like "Locomotive." I was worried I wouldn't care about you at all when I heard a couple of your songs last fall, but I really do like this new one. Thank you!

(the above conversation is fictional)

oh okay.

There's already a dedicated thread for Metal Mountains but I'm flagging it here for general dilettante attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qorhOSwROgU

Excellent psych folk set against a background of electric squall; a close comparison is Espers, but this is better.

(Spotify link for the album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJf bQgfbfZY&feature=related

^I saw these guys at the Ferndale DIY Fair, last year, and they were pretty amazing...

SECRET TWINS--kinda like White Stripes for Lex, and though I heard about them last year, they're pretty brand new...

they have a min-album out I believe but it's just the singer w/ an acoustic guitar, so all these Youtube clips are live. You can't really hear the vocals very well, but she has a great voice...

Get Out of the City

Lazy Cheetahs

Dead Heart (Won't Start)

looks like the youtube I embedded didn't work...oh well ^check out these links, their 3 best songs (out of 5 or 6) imo.

just found this thread

please everyone seek out the track "S/word and Leviathan" from the new Six Organs of Admittance. 12+ minutes of rapid fingerpicked acoustic guitar in starkly repetitive fashion, snowballing into a transcendent slow-burning drone and marvelous fiery peak

this song is really gorgeous:

http://alteredzones.com/posts/919/korallreven-honey-mine-memoryhouse-remix/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohnvxymZZgk

I know I've banged on about this elsewhere, but goddamnit I have to endorse this shit. It's the guy out the Notwist, and it's great!

I stumbled across Pope Joan last year and they instantly became one of my favorites. They're releasing this song as a single next month, so prick your ears up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SyxJM4XsEc

Some other live songs here.

I've been listening to Diego Bernal feverishly over the past week. He's got two albums free online - here and here - along with a few other things I can't be bothered to link to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMS2WmlYaRI

I likes.

Don't know a goddamn thing about this band but just popped up on random last.fming and holy shit I like this a lot - dirty beaches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1npX5-CP0A&feature=youtube_gdata_player

sounds like magnetic fields buried under a fuckton of reverb

Throw in Jesus and Mary chain and maybe suicide and some other stuff and I am inclined to agree w/you. To be clear, I also thunk that's a good thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qs1abZrv8E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"thunk" iPhone? Srsly?

They're Daniel's favorite band for the last 3 months at least.

Loving the new Munk single. Took me a couple times through to figure out why it sounded familiar until I finally realized it owes a big debt to "Everything She Wants" by Wham!, but that kind of makes me like it even more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EYDg2r0Ap0

lotta communista!

love the video btw. the music, eh.

this whole album is fucking amazing, first thing to truly blow my mind to bits this year. LJ u need to get on this asap:

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare pt 2: Judges

yeah that's really really good. loving the laurie anderson soundalike as well.

rest of the things itt...in due course. am a little busy today.

everyone itt please listen to this immediately

HOLY SHIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Pxh3hXc2A

loving the laurie anderson soundalike as well.

uh... just in care yr not kidding, that's THE laurie anderson :)

oops

also that track you linked is one of the best ones yes

Ilxor is right, this album is so great

listened again this morning at rather high volume and was at points noticeably short of breath and/or physically shaking (slightly) and/or welling up with tears -- this is visceral stuff, so fucking good.

sorry if that makes me sound like a pansy btw

it's pretty poignant for a load of honking yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q40h8dPmgwQ

it's pretty poignant for a load of honking yeah

A+

This album's probably the second-most arresting thing I've heard this year behind that Mogwai bonus-track (which makes My Father, My King sound like a normal-speed Bieber song)

hahahahahahahah

Anyway, at least I've heard this year's Cosmogramma (long) before voting season. I think I'd have gone a tiny bit nuts had I been a bit sharper onto the whole Flying Lotus thing last year (it, Badu and Owen Pallett, tbh, of the albums)

flying lotus does a fabulous live show btw if he ever comes round yr parts

idk what my parts are any more o_O

let's just say 'london, from late may onwards' because fuck seeing any bands here, they're shoving $60 extra on the fucking jet-fuel they flew in on

looking at you, gira

This is kinda chillwavey, but it's not a genre with NO gems by any means. Dig it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-n2O50BSQ

Catch any good local NZ bands LJ?

Not yet but we're going to Wellington soon, where the scene apparently lies...

Hey LJ: has anyone in NZ played you the Clean yet? They're like my favorite band.

Anyone who digs psych/drone stuff (and who doesn't?) should be checking out the recent Peaking Lights and Fabric albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-9_ddFKk8
Peaking Lights - 936 on Spotify

Fabric - A Sort of Radiance on Spotify No Youtubes so far; there's a Soundcloud preview with the first minute of each track but it's not a 100% compelling listen.

Just been checking an album that nobody paid any attention to last year, "Reset the Warehouse" by John Hughes. "Post-Dilla Cornelius" is a lazy way of describing the territory. Anyway, I like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR1b8j0kjNo

First single from the next Jenny Wilson album is a (pretty tight) Bob Marley cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu-Ea5bu_0

okay holy fucking shit. entire song. wooooooow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R7k1_kOqvk

fuck yeah!

I am fond of the recent trend of (a few) bands drawing most of their inspiration from '80s Fleetwood Mac. Here's "Freebirds" by Lover Lover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrG-2tB6lFc

(Hate the band name, love the music.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JjymFk-df8

^ just the merest wisp of a song, but I'm finding this very fetching

Video just showed up for this Tyson song I've been focusing on for a few weeks. VERY 80s, but not the kind of 80s that gets explored so often in the 00s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkYMl2GtxXY

Not heard a Joy Division cover like Spoek's before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfwSFI8LhQ

haven't stopped showing poeple that video since rob posted it on the African Dance/Urban thread.

and as people have mentioned, the whole album's fantastic.

I'd heard some of his tracks/guest spots, but didn't realize he'd released an album. I need to get on it.

Nice thread. Thanks for turning me onto Colin Stetson and Sleep Over - both fantastic.

Anyway, this is the most astonishing thing I've heard all year, I think. Two parts quiet, soulful perfection, one part fucking insane. So good it requires its own overture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7CaTJ2SvG8

Bump! This is my favourite kind of indie, the kind with life-affirming PSYCH GUITAR ACTION around the 3-minute mark:

http://twerps.bandcamp.com/track/self-assured

that TWERPS track has a real Flying Nun to it. It's awesome: thanx!!

I don't know where to put this so I'm putting it here.

http://vimeo.com/26727477

Oh, vimeos don't embed, ey? It's Zun Zun Egui - 'Fandango Fresh'

xps I love the twerps, especially when they do American voices.

Connan Mockasin should probably have his own clusterfuck thread by now. Does he?

No, he doesn't, which is a shame, although I think it'd play out pretty much identically to the Micachu and the Shapes thread

Here are a few more treats:

-// Book of Knots ft Mike Patton - Planemo - everyone's favourite crooner fighting off a swarm of guitars (and a violin) as the world implodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOIX2A1vi-s

-// North Sea Radio Orchestra - Berliner Luft - woodwind kraut-chamber-folk synth-prog strumalong really lovely music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqRJcoY5TN0

-// Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) - yeah they're a well-known band but it's a given that plenty of you are sleeping on them this time out, which is sad because this is one of the very best songs written this year in any genre - in fact it's probably the best thing they've ever done, and ensures that they join Mogwai in the 'band that's been around for 15+ years and has at last composed its masterpiece - but you'll have to listen for more than ten minutes' camp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJWXKnEqPM

ample, i'm going to go out on a limb and say that GNOD's In Gnod We Trust is definitely worth listening to at least once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPBwuqC3QI&feature=watch_response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfOhfpJ6DEE&feature=watch_response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KynZ_uF4A

(EXACTLY three weeks later lol...)

that's the whole album up there btw. enjoy.

I really realy liked those last two songs btw. I'm going to give that Wilco album a listen

There's a whole thread about this album, started by Tim F. no less, but I will put this here anyway. From what has unexpectedly turned out to be my favorite album of the year so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaIMXBvoXxA

I promise to come back and finish listening to Gnod but now I need to go to bed.

I tried some more Gnod but ultimately bailed. Boy Better Know better make the albums list. (Pretty confident it will since enough of us were loved it.)

oops editing at work

changed my albums ballot specifically to include that after leaving it off, so i'm pretty confident too

thanks for giving it a shot Rudipherous; I ended up not including Gnod in my albums ballot