So I've been out of the musical loop...

Alela Diane

A few of my favorites from this year:

93MillionMilesFromtheSun - 93MillionMilesFromtheSun
Asobi Seksu - Hush
Previously on Lost - Season 5 EP

the new phish
the new whitney houston

fuck yeah, baby.

I guess I'm in the minority on Silversun Pickups.  I was looking forward to it after loving their EP and last full album but this one hasn't connected.  Sounds overproduced and boring.

I do, however, love the Phoenix album.  Couple of really great tracks.  

Other favorites have been the new Metric, Royksopp, Thermals.  

Also liking the Obits, which I thought were obscure until I read this on Allmusic:  "After playing a single gig in New York City, a bootlegged live tape of the Obits made its way onto the internet (as does everything these days) and before long seemingly every hipster blogger who still thrilled to the sound of electric guitars was talking up the new band, with Sub Pop getting excited enough to sign the Obits before they could even get around to self-releasing a single."  

Damn.  I feel like I've fallen victim to the latest hipster insult: "I overhyped your favorite band before you even knew they existed"  

kosmo wrote:
I liked the dangermouse/sparklehorse album, one of these days I'm going take the shrink wrap off the limited edition book and figure what to burn on the enclosed CDR

Yea, I just bought the CD/Poster, since the book was sold out, and I liked the album too much to not give them some money for it.

How is the book?

It's all about crabcore now.

thirsty wrote:
It's all about crabcore now.

 
you guys are so eff'ing bleeding edge.  a "movement" based on one band - well done.

Apparently there is an emerging alt-r&b movement… Just shoot me now

I never said I liked crabcore. I've only heard one song. I also watched a .gif bounce across my screen of the guitarist waltzing around like a crab. It was terrible music but a funny dance.

sweetcell wrote:
you guys are so eff'ing bleeding edge.  a "movement" based on one band - well done.

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us

i once saw a local band setup up their mic's so they were about chest level and then proceeded to perform their set in the johnny/dee dee ramone stance, with their legs spread apart.

thirsty wrote:
It's all about crabcore now.

Now that would be a natural Baltimore show if I've ever seen one.

discovery - those guys from ra ra riot and vampire weekend are super crazy . . . and this new stuff is giving hot chip a run for the money.  shake your booty, shake your booty.


and is it just me, or is st.vincent the new and improved breeders?

walkonby wrote:
discovery - those guys from ra ra riot and vampire weekend are super crazy . . . and this new stuff is giving hot chip a run for the money.  shake your booty, shake your booty.


and is it just me, or is st.vincent the new and improved breeders?

Really?  That Discovery record is strictly Postal Service Lite and embarrassingly bad attempt at R&B

kosmo wrote:

walkonby wrote:
discovery - those guys from ra ra riot and vampire weekend are super crazy . . . and this new stuff is giving hot chip a run for the money.  shake your booty, shake your booty.


and is it just me, or is st.vincent the new and improved breeders?

Really?  That Discovery record is strictly Postal Service Lite and embarrassingly bad attempt at R&B

you say tomato . . .

walkonby wrote:

kosmo wrote:

walkonby wrote:
discovery - those guys from ra ra riot and vampire weekend are super crazy . . . and this new stuff is giving hot chip a run for the money.  shake your booty, shake your booty.


and is it just me, or is st.vincent the new and improved breeders?

Really?  That Discovery record is strictly Postal Service Lite and embarrassingly bad attempt at R&B

you say tomato . . .

I say Hot Chip have absolutely nothing to worry about, seeing they have more than one dimension to them and this reeks of strictly being a vanity project.

so i just heard the new flaming lips song - silver trembling hands.

taking back everything bad i've said about the band recently.

it rules.  they rule.  the whole world now rules.  it's like they've gone back to the soft bulletin motive for introspective futurefaceorama of perceptive pleasure.  just no more blood in the face, hulk hands, and shooting confetti guns.

art brut is good, too.

I'm going to have to agree with Kosmo re: Discovery from what I heard of that album.


If the rest of this Andrew W.K. solo piano album 55 Cadillac is as good as the first three tracks, it'll make my top 5 for sure.
I can't believe that the guy who wrote "Party Hard" is capable of work this phenomenal.

I listen to mainly hip hop so here's a few if you're interested:

Tanya Morgan - "Brooklynati"
Slaughterhouse - "S/T"
Mos Def - "The Estatic"

There's more stuff but I'll have to dig around and see what else…..

azaghal1981 wrote:
If the rest of this Andrew W.K. solo piano album 55 Cadillac is as good as the first three tracks, it'll make my top 5 for sure.
I can't believe that the guy who wrote "Party Hard" is capable of work this phenomenal.

I'm assuming you misspoke and that you really meant to say "I can't believe this guy wrote something else as phenomenal as Party Hard."