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| benji |
Posted - 11/11/2009 : 19:53:15
maybe a little early for best-of lists, but why not...
2009 has been a fantastic year for new music for me.
I have not enjoyed more new music since probly 1997.
in the previous 5 years i'd be lucky to have got 1 album released that year, whereas this year i've got 7...is unheard of, especially with a top 4 i hadn't even heard of before this year.
anyways, down to my list:
1. Part Chimp - Thriller
undeniably album of the year.
so loud, so mean, so fantastic.
2. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
couldn't get more different from number 1. some fantastic folk/country. lovely. i know it was released in 2008, but it's my one blemish.
3. The Fernice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
so hillybilly it's just fantastic. i'm not a fan of bob dylan, but even to me he sounds like him. i think this is going to sound even better next year..
4. De Rosa - Prevention
a real suprise for me this year - i didn't think i'd like the scottish twange which comes across so strongly is this folk/indie/scot album, but i find myself going back to it alot.
5. Grand Duchy - Petits Fours
i really liked this album when it came out - it hasn't quite had the distance, but very enjoyable nonetheless.
6. Micah P. Hinson - All Dressed Up And Smelling Of Strangers
a 2-disc set of covers seems a weird choice for micah, but the first disc especially mostly works very well. acoustic micah is tough to beat. the 2nd disc of electric isn't so successful. oh well.
7. Black Heart Procession - Six
best BHP album since the last number album "3" - a nice return to form from the boys, but still a fair way from the best early recors...
and as for 2010 - best album/dvd of the year already decided:
http://vimeo.com/7500309
all i can say, thank god for polio! brian |
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| vilainde |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 23:12:21
quote:
Originally posted by jediroller
I've also bought the Leyland Kirby set, I blame Denis and The Wire.
You shouldn't have! It just got released in a 6-LP box set that is even nicer than the CD edition.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=268822
quote:
My problem is that I buy much too many CDs, I hardly have time to listen to all of them. I might have some sort of OCD.
Heh.. I know that feeling. I bought 20 CDs in January, most of which I won't listen much to. I'm restraining myself this month (well, already bought 5) to save my cash for The Golem.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| jediroller |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 07:17:37
After posting here, I've discovered Ben Frost's "By The Throat", which definitely belongs somewhere near the top of my list.
I've also bought the Leyland Kirby set, I blame Denis and The Wire.
My problem is that I buy much too many CDs, I hardly have time to listen to all of them. I might have some sort of OCD.
 "Les Blackolero, y sont forts en sacramant" - Czar | 06/26/2007 | 20:10:34
free music | Blackolero | Frank Black & Pixies Tributes |
| vilainde |
Posted - 02/10/2010 : 21:04:16
I thought I had posted in this thread already. Here's my top 20:
1) Celer - Engaged Touches (Home Normal)
2) Tenniscoats - Temporacha (Room 40)
3) Pastels / Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets (Domino)
4) Fever Ray - Fever Ray (Rabid)
5) Mariska Baars/Robert Deters/Rutger Zuydervelt - Gris Gris (Low Point)
6) The Field - Yesterday And Today (Kompakt)
7) Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)
8) Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
9) Dark Night of the Soul - Dark Night of the Soul
10) Biosphere - Wireless - Live Arnolfini, Bristol (Touch)
11) Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
12) Etienne Jaumet - Night Music (Domino)
13) Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)
14) AK-Momo - Return To N.Y. (Peacefrog)
15) Elegi - Varde (Miasmah)
16) Evangelista - Prince of Truth (Constellation)
17) Celer - Brittle (Low Point)
18) Gareth Hardwick - Aversions (Low Point)
19) Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020 (Sublime Frequencies)
20) Leyland Kirby - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What it Was (HAFTW)
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| Brank_Flack |
Posted - 02/10/2010 : 18:04:07
1) Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
2) Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3) Ramblin' Jack Elliott - A Stranger Here
4) Woods - Songs of Shame
5) Girls - Girls
6) WIlco - Wilco (The Album)
7) Dinosaur Jr - Farm
8) Alela Diane - Still To Come
9) Steve Earle - Townes
10) Dan Auebarch - Keep It Hid
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| billgoodman |
Posted - 12/26/2009 : 01:54:13
1. Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
2. Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery
3. Monsters of Folk S/T
4. Flaming Lips Embryonic
5. Neon Indian Psychic Chasms
6. Robert Pollard Elephant Jokes
7. Daniel Johnston Is And Always Was
8. All Smiles Oh For The Go And Not Letting Go
9. Lighting Dust Infinite Light
10. Wilco Wilco (the Album)
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
| TarTar |
Posted - 11/14/2009 : 05:49:20
One 2009 I really like is Ami Saraiya "Archaeologist"
Here's her playing the title track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHnylIBl2no
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor |
| Jose Jones |
Posted - 11/14/2009 : 05:15:17
handsome family - honeymoon
animal collective - mpp
jason lytle - your's truly, the commuter
the raveonettes - in and out of control
black moth super rainbow - eating us
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
dandy warhols - are sound (technically an old album)
albums that are on my list to hopefully love:
them crooked vultures
thee oh sees (twice!)
flaming lips
part chimp
DOOM
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they were the heroes of old, men of renown. |
| pot |
Posted - 11/14/2009 : 02:25:55
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Madensuyu - D is Done
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
Ty Segal - Lemons
Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Art Brut Vs. Satan
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Barbie Bangkok - People and Geometry
The Prodigy _ Invaders Must Die
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
Brakes - Touchdown
Staff Benda Billili - Tres Tres Fort
Anne Soldaat - In Another Life
Pj Harvey and John Parish - A woman a Man walked By
*emergency crappy askiitobee*
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 11/13/2009 : 16:25:25
My favorite this year was probably Kristin Hersh's as yet unnamed album available at her site.
http://kristinhersh.cashmusic.org/
Following on from last year's Speedbath album
http://kristinhersh.cashmusic.org/speedbath/
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| jediroller |
Posted - 11/13/2009 : 03:42:27
All things considered, I do like the Grand Duchy record... It's refreshing.
Things I've liked so far include:
Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Big Business - Mind the Drift
Borah Bergman Trio - Luminescence
Cobalt - Gin
Nadja & Black Boned Angel - S/T
John Zorn - Alhambra Love Songs
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Tombs - Winter Hours
Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Kylesa - Static Tensions
HKY - S/T
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - Thin Air
16 - Bridges to Burn
Still unsure about Evangelista, love some of the tracks but still tend to drift off on the others...
"Les Blackolero, y sont forts en sacramant" - Czar | 06/26/2007 | 20:10:34
free music | Blackolero | Frank Black & Pixies Tributes |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 11/12/2009 : 21:13:18
i really like the future of the left album - travels with myself and another
also, grizzly bear - vecketamist
super furry animals - dark days/light years
matisyahu - light
doves kingdom of rust was alright
disappointed with stellastarr*'s, franz ferdinand's, and bob mould's new ones
grand duchy is a no-brainer.
The waxworks were an immensely eloquent dissertation on the wonderful ordinariness of mankind. |
