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HoyaSaxa03
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Re: 2014 Albums April 10, 2014 at 05:53 AM UTC #
2014 Q1

EMA "The Future's Void": solid B, but she'll always be living in the shadow of "Past Life Martyred Saints"

Sun Kil Moon "Benji": culmination of 25 years of work for Kozolek, his crowning achievement

Drive-By Truckers "English Oceans": I love DBT, but … eh. Jason Isbell's "Southeastern" blows this completely out of the water.

The War on Drugs "Lost in the Dream": most listenable album of the year.

Darkside "Psychic": Yes, please.
Sidehatch
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Re: 2014 Albums April 12, 2014 at 02:02 AM UTC #
HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
2014 Q1
Jason Isbell's "Southeastern" blows this completely out of the water.


I totally agree, DBT was always off my radar for some reason, but friend of mine told me I could have a tix to the (then) upcoming Isbell show and promptly bought Southeastern and have been enjoying it ever since.
Great show at the 930 too. 

Really liking the Broods Ep
hutch
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Re: 2014 Albums April 12, 2014 at 10:33 PM UTC #
Southeastern is a snoozer….I sold my copy…its just too depressing for me… I don't need that….


I bet the show was great though….. he's a talented songwriter for sure..comes from good musical stock too…

but Southeastern just doesn't rock enough….for me…..its all personal taste at the end of the day but I think Southeastern is one of those albums that is a critics favorite this year but will end up collecting dust at the end of the day…

You can make a highly personal depressing album like Blood on the Tracks but still have it have enough songs with some tempo….Bob realized this which is why he recut the album…the original BOTT is slow and lacks tempo…he scratched it and went back in with different musicians and recut it and at the end of the day for all the people that ballyhoo what didn't come out what did come out is far more immediate

brokensocscene
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Re: 2014 Albums April 14, 2014 at 04:28 PM UTC #
Jason Isbell is boring….go listen to Robert Ellis instead
Sidehatch
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Re: 2014 Albums April 15, 2014 at 01:56 AM UTC #
hutch wrote:
Southeastern is a snoozer….I sold my copy…


the man with 10,000 albums sells one back.
man you must have really hated it
Yada
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Re: 2014 Albums April 15, 2014 at 10:37 AM UTC #
Sidehatch wrote:
hutch wrote:
Southeastern is a snoozer….I sold my copy…


the man with 10,000 albums sells one back.
man you must have really hated it


Bah!!! I would've sold it back too.
hutch
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Re: 2014 Albums April 16, 2014 at 12:23 AM UTC #
amidst the accident i misremembered apparently cause i just saw my copy of the snoozer southeastern in my basement…


i actually dare you sidehatch to listen to it and tell me its any good. it is boring.
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Re: 2014 Albums April 16, 2014 at 01:17 AM UTC #
did anybody talk about the new afghan whigs album, 'do the beast', after, what, like sixteen years or something.  i have never, actually, listened to the afghan whigs, but i heard one of the new songs  today . . . and i liked it.
StoneTheCrow
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Re: 2014 Albums April 16, 2014 at 12:38 PM UTC #
I was never really a fan of Afghan Whigs, for no good reason, but I did catch their Coachella set on line this past weekend.  i thought they were really good.

Really bummed I did not get tix to the Ottobar show but I do want to give them a try.  Is Gentlemen the right place to start?
Yada
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Re: 2014 Albums April 16, 2014 at 12:41 PM UTC #
StoneTheCrow wrote:
I was never really a fan of Afghan Whigs, for no good reason, but I did catch their Coachella set on line this past weekend.  i thought they were really good.

Really bummed I did not get tix to the Ottobar show but I do want to give them a try.  Is Gentlemen the right place to start?


I'm probably in the minority, but 1965 is really the album that hooked me… but I celebrate their entire catalog.
hutch
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Re: 2014 Albums April 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM UTC #
black love black love black love
Hexenjagd
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Re: 2014 Albums April 21, 2014 at 04:54 PM UTC #
Hive Bent - Dyatlov
http://hivebentmd.bandcamp.com/album/dyatlov
5 tracks of rock.

I cant imagine me liking too many albums this much in 2014.  Really good, if you are into that kind of thing.
Hexenjagd
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Re: 2014 Albums April 21, 2014 at 05:20 PM UTC #
New Cold Cave LP in May
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Re: 2014 Albums April 22, 2014 at 12:51 AM UTC #
Hexenjagd wrote:
New Cold Cave LP in May


didnt they already have a 2014 album called cremations?  im listening to it right now on spotify.
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