Welke albums had ik in 2004 al moeten kopen?

TV on the Radio/Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Dé plaat van 2004 om je eens lekker in vast te bijten. The Mars Volta on downers. Ook hier een potpourri van stijlen, opmerkelijke zang, felle èn tedere teksten, onpeilbare diepgang

!!!/Louden Up Now Vaak is het heel erg als bands ideetjes uit het verleden recyclen, maar bij !!! (chk-chk-chk) stoort dat nooit. Uitgesponnen punkfunk die verwijst naar A Certain Ratio en Talking Heads, teksten doen er niet toe, de energie wel.

Loretta Lynn/Van Lear Rose Een 70-jarige countrylegende krijgt dankzij de jankgitaren van Jack White weer de geest. Lekker fel in Mrs. Leroy Brown, aangrijpend in Miss Being Mrs., en dat duet tussen Jack en Loretta werkt ook nog

Yerba Buena/President Alien Kan elk moment uitkomen hier in Nederland. Amerikaanse band met wortels in Zuid- en Midden-Amerika, verwacht Manu Chao-tische muziek met elementen uit hiphop, cumbia, son, salsa en merengue. Swing!

You gotta be fucking kidding mate! Een fake-Tiësto die Laidback Luke probeert na te doen. Wat een drama deze plaat. Dat nummer met 16 Down, kom óp zeg. Geen enkel oorspronkelijk idee, en dan ook nog eens matig uitgewerkt. Het enige verrassende is het intro. Ooit was Don zo'n leuke techhouse-dj, nu een vervelende meeloper.

Encre – Flux (Clapping Music)
Frédéric Truong – Película Del Camino (FTR)
Piano Magic – The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic (Green Ufos)
Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks (130701/Fat Cat)
Half Asleep – Just Before We Learned To Swim (Hinah)
Blonde Redhead – Misery Is A Butterfly (4ad)
Guapo – Five Suns (Cuneiform)
Uz Jsme Doma – Rubý Tuk (Indies)
Tara Fuki – Kapka (Indies)
Nitrada – We Don’t Know Why But We Do It (2.nd)
The Black Heart Procession + Solbakken – In The Fishtank 11 (Konkurrent)
Telefon Tel Aviv – Map Of What Is Effortless (Hefty)
The Caretaker – We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow (V/Vm)
Elizabeth Anka Vajagic – Stand With The Stillness Of This Day (Constellation)
Timesbold – Eye Eye (Zeal)
Bathyscaphe – -11034m. (Monopsone)
Múm – Summer Make Good (Fat Cat)
Sylvain Chauveau – Des Plumes Dans La Tête (Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L’Acier)
Eleni Karaindrou – The Weeping Meadow (ECM)
Shannon Wright – Over The Sun (Quarterstick/TuTu 64 Music)
Hypo – Random Veneziano (Active Suspension)
Faun Fables – Family Album (Drag City)
Pan American – Quiet City (Kranky)
Es – Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittättömyys (Fonal/Kraak)

Loterij gewonnen? :)

Voor Gzzz: tru-jazz, broken bop, whatever...

Ideaal om tijdens de eerste zomerhittes te beluisteren wanneer je 's avonds op de bank ligt, met het raam open terwijl de eerste verkoelende briesjes binnenwaaien..

r u kidding? zag ze een jaar geleden als voorprogramma van my morning jackett en ze waren leuk maar niet leuker dan spul coughing en vooral heeeeeeeel erg eendimensionaal

* Original Soundtrack Mayor of the Sunset Strip
* Stranglers - Norfolk Coast
* Gem - Tell Me What's New
* Beauty Pill - The Unsustainable Lifestyle

wacht met interesse op nieuwe Mike Watt en the Cure en nog veel meer wat eraan komt...

* Blow - Ghinzu
* Carbon Glacier - Laura Veirs
* The Closer You Get - Face Tomorrow
* Moratoria - Bikini Atoll
* Timesbold - Eye Eye

Uit het 1e kwartaal hadden we nog staan:

In alphabetic order:

1e kwartaal

Air - Talkie Walkie
Bauer - Baueresque
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile
Fennesz - Venice
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Ghinzu - Blow
Sophia - People are like Seasons
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
The Mountain Goats - We shall All be Healed
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
Timesbold - Eye Eye

In het 2de kwartaal voegden zich daar bij:

2e kwartaal

!!! - Louden up Now
Devendra Banhard - Rejoicing in the Hands
Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
Gomez - Split The Difference
Lali Puna - Faking the Books
Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
Patti Smith - Trampin'
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The Thermals - Fuckin' A
The Streets - A Grand don't come for Free
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Wiley - Treddin’ On Thin Ice

Een eervolle vermelding was er voor:

The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation

En volgens de releaselijsten worden deze zomer de cd-boekjes gedrukt voor:

Angie Stone - Stone Love
The Bees - Free The Bees
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
DJ Shadow - In Tune And On Time
Guided By Voices - Half Smiles Of The Decomp
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
Jill Scott - Beautifully Woman
Joni Mitchell - Beginning Of Survival
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Mouse On Mars Radical Connector
Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Radio 4 - Stealing Of A Nation
The Roots - Tipping Point

Meest intrigerende albumtitel (so far):

Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself

Ook nu weer veel bekende namen! Hopelijk wordt 't toch nog een mooie zomer!

-- verontruste veertiger (verontrusteveertige...), June 24th, 2004.

Ik kwam thuis met:
The Streets
The Veils
The Shins
Peaches
Telepopmusik
Keane
Kanye West
en nog 3 anderen, die ik nu vergeten ben. Staat vast in die andere thread.

Anyways: The Veils is mijn favoriet geworden en al het andere is meer dan de moeite waard.

01. The Broken Family Band - Jesus Songs
02. Mull Historical Society - This Is Hope
03. Daniel Wylie - Ramshackle Beauty
04. Franz Ferdinand - s/t
05. The Hidden Cameras - Mississauga Goddam
06. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
07. Hope Of The States - The Lost Riots
08. Richmond Fontaine - Post To Wire
09. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
10. Obi - Diceman Lopez

Is er nou eigenlijk nog steeds niemand die ook ontdekt heeft hoe briljant elke noot is die tot nu toe is uitgebracht door The Broken Family Band? Hoe graag ik m'n ontdekkingen normaal lekker voor mezelf hou: dit is zo goed dat de wereld het moet weten ;-)

01.
"Cambridgeshire’s The Broken Family Band are possibly Britain’s best cult band, excellent live, and armed with warped songs about alcoholism, abuse and loneliness, spread over various recordings including ‘The King Will Build A Disco’ and last year’s excellent ‘Cold Water Songs’. Recorded in a three day Belgian ale bender, the brilliant ‘Jesus Songs’ contains the ‘Walking Back To Jesus’ trilogy, taking in duelling guitars, a country hoedown, and a local choir. Elsewhere, there’s a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel’s ‘The King Of Carrot Flowers’, and the bittersweet ‘Poor Little Thing’, based on a real life "poor little cliche" (the band won’t say who). ‘Jesus Songs’ is packed with humour, invention, and soul, made by a band who don’t fit into any given pigeonhole or marketing schedule and who are all the better for it. Buy it - or the Virgin Mary gets it." (www.logo-magazine.com)

02.
Biography
What is hope? It's that unquenchable human optimism, a light inside of us that never goes out. But specifically, 'Hope' is a painting by New York artist Mediaeater. In the past year, this canvas has travelled round the world with Colin MacIntyre, the gifted solo songwriter/producer who records as Mull Historical Society. The painting has been a lucky charm, symbolising the man from Mull's fresh start: new label, new single, new album. And while he might be just one man, the Society already stretches around the world.

Colin's got two terrific records under his belt, of course. Mull Historical Society's bewitching 2001 debut album "Loss" marked the arrival of a major new musical talent, and was home to both the heart-bursting sugar-rush of Watching Xanadu and the soft, six-minute ache of Barcode Bypass. The 2003 follow-up,"Us", was equally, awkwardly beautiful; another sweet haul of haywire pop that seemed perfectly at home in the Top 20 of the albums chart, helped along by the chiming hit "The Final Arrears" and "Don't Take Your Love Away From Me", the sort of soul-cleansing ballad Robbie Williams could only ever dream of singing, let alone actually writing.

"Us was about me and what was going on in my life," explains Colin. "But since last summer, I've really opened things out. Everything has been a source: newspapers, books, art. I've been grabbing at things and stealing from places."

Prometea, the world's first cloned horse, was a major inspiration for This Is Hope, sparking off questions of science and progress in Colin's head whilst he was on holiday in Italy. It was the start of a year-long creative journey that took in everything from exploring New Orleans to the suicide of Doctor David Kelly. In Colin's own words, this is a record about life-fabrics: hope, love, death, time, science, man, woman, machine, war, community, ethics, genetics, metaphysics and evolution. It sounds like a lot to pack in, but the concept remained clear.

"This Is Hope" has always been a really strong vision, something I could almost grasp," he explains. "I almost knew what it was going to look like and sound like before I even had the songs. It's just felt like the most natural process."

After recording his last two albums in Glasgow, Colin compiled This Is Hope during an intense three-week recording burst in London studio The Strongroom. Since he was responsible for producing the record and playing most of the instruments - from bass guitar to banging beer kegs - preparation was hugely important. "I felt almost like an athlete honing myself for a big game," he remembers, "or an actor stepping up for a big part."

"The result is an album that manages to combine a starburst of ideas with a leaner sound, particularly noticeable on the sinewy opening track Peculiar. But fans of Colin's endlessly inventive approach to sonic science needn't worry; the rest of This Is Hope features a whole range of found sounds, including a lusty singalong from a MHS gig, a monologue from Colin's grandmother and three sisters recorded on mini-disc in the back streets of New Orleans singing a gospel chorus. And that's all in the same song!" (www.b-uniquerecords.com)

03.
"The news that Wylie was leaving the Cosmic Rough Riders two years ago was soul destroying at the time, given that they were easily one of the best and most underrated UK bands of their time. Two years on, we’ve got one cracking Cosmics album and an even better album from their former frontman. It’s not the way it’s supposed to happen when bands split in any direction, but Dan Wylie’s given us one of the albums of the year so far – broad and bright in its musical outlook with atmospheric songs that make you grin from ear to ear and occasionally sob into your beer with the sheer elation of it all. And although it took well over a year to complete, you know you’ll still be listening to it in a year’s time. A classic debut."
(www.americana-uk.com)

De vijf van het eerste half jaar:
Courtney Love (zwaar ondergewaardeerd)
PJ Harvey
The Cure (Robert Smith jankt weer vanuit zijn tenen)
Miss Kittin
Sonic Youth (oude liefde roest niet)

Onelinedrawing - The Volunteers (ex-Far frontman met een verzameling fraaie liedjes waarvan de dashboard confessionals en bright eyes van deze wereld nog niet eens kunnen dromen)

Drive Like You Stole It (Britse band die grofweg als een kruising tussen Cave In en Kim Wilde klinkt. Niet bijzonder, wel erg leuk)