The 2009 Albums Thread

azaghal1981 wrote:
I tried to get on hipinion once. My account was never activated. Lame.

I've found nowadays that if you have to get a mod's approval/permission to register, it doesn't happen unless you email them specifically and say "hi, can you pretty please approve my registration." After months of not hearing anything on my registration, I sent an email like that and was approved the same day.

Speaking of, a lot of spam showing up on this site. Wonder if we'll have to introduce mod approvals here.

For the stoner metal fans:
"It has been a long time coming and now it is finally a reality! Legendary guitarist: Scott 'Wino' Weinrich (Saint Vitus, Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, Place
of Skulls, The Hidden Hand) has an albums worth of 'solo' recordings in the works. Assisting Wino will on the album will be Jean-Paul Gaster (Clutch) on
drums and Jon Blank (Rez n) on bass. The album will be called: 'Punctuated Equilibrium' and tracks are currently being layed down with J. Robbins (producer
of the Hidden Hands: 'Mother Teacher Destroyer') in Maryland. Wino is really excited about the results so far and said: 'Punctuated Equilibrium' will bring
my career into focus'. Stay tuned for more info regarding this incredible album"


Grabbing now.

The Morning After Girls will finally release their album sometime in 2009.

Was recorded last summer but still no date yet. They will start a world tour sometime in the summer of '09 so it's believed that it will coordinate with the release. From what I've heard of it, its very good.

This will make IXKPD-BK's day.


Antony and the Johnsons' new one is around.

So the one guy who got his copy of the Animal Collective album early and ripped it doesn't know how to rip it properly. This is like pulling fucking teeth!
There's a 128k rip going around for anyone who isn't an anal audiophile.

azaghal1981 wrote:

  Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

It's safe to say that roughly 75% of what I listen to in the next 3-4 months will consist of this album. After a year of albums that fell short of expectations, this is just what I needed.

Ha, I thought that name was refering to them playing at the venue instead of the name of the album.

The whole animal collective album is up on sordo now.  Cd rip.

Probably the 160k cd rip that's been going around since thursday which is listenable except for the annoying gaps between tracks.
One would think that since some vinyl copies have been sent out, a good flac would've surfaced by now.

Pitchfork got something right!
(which seems to get rarer and rarer.)

It'll take a lot from another 2009 album to top this one for me.

Zu - Carboniferous

Pretty good if you're into noisy math rock with slight free jazz leanings. Mike Patton makes a spooky black metal-esque appearance on one track which is awesome as is just about everything Mike Patton does.

It's too early to issue a snap judgment, and yet here I go. The new Animal Collective sucks. Okay, I've only heard the first three songs, but I've heard them twice and they just kinda squish along like an old spooge towel. Does it get any better? Why are people getting chubbies over this thing?

You weren't too crazy about Person Pitch either if I remember correctly.


Sounds more to me than anything like MPP is sort of an expansion on the ideas laid out on PP.




But here's something I'm sure you can get behind:

Shrinebuilder album due out in the summer.
"The band's absurd lineup: Saint Vitus/Obsessed/Spirit Caravan/Hidden Hand guitar hero Scott "Wino" Weinrich, gigantic Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot leader Scott Kelly (pictured), former* Sleep and current Om bassist Al Cisneros, and Melvins drummer Dale Crover. Former Om drummer Chris Hakius was also originally supposed to be involved, but he dropped out around the same time he left Om. And that's fine; we're not about to start complaining about Dale Crover being involved."

Just came across this on another board:

December 03, 2008 11:51 AM ET

Michael D. Ayers, N.Y.
A mixture of old-fashioned studio work and home recordings will comprise Black Dice's fifth album, "Repo," due in April via Paw Tracks.

The group expects "10 to 15 songs" to make the final cut, and is wrapping up its last recording session this week at Rare Book Room Studios in Brooklyn, N.Y.

"Most of the record is songs that we are tracking live and mixing in a traditional kind of recording process," Aaron Warren tells Billboard.com. "But some of the stuff is more experimental, more home recording stuff that we've gotten into. We've messed around with that a little, but haven't had the skills to do until now."

Compared to 2007's "Load Blown," Warren describes the new material as "compact" and utilizing less gear than last time. "One of the great things about 'Load Blown' is that it has a sprawling, really luxurious quality that unfolds over a lot of time," he explains.  "And I think [this time] everything is a little more compact, where it's a lot of ideas that are happening fast. Because we're recording in such a compacted time, I think there is a more unified sound."

You're right, I wasn't all that wild about Person Pitch. I do put that one on occasionally because I grew to appreciate its Brian Wilsonian ambience, but I just feel like the songs don't go anywhere. They just kind of amble along, end, and then another one starts. Very pleasant sounding, to be sure, but just not what I'm looking for in music right now.

Indicative: I just realized the Sword is playing the RnR Hotel next week. Now THAT is exciting. So you can see where I'm coming from here.

I thought they are opening for Metallica?  I'm seeing Metallica next week!

Relaxer wrote:

Indicative: I just realized the Sword is playing the RnR Hotel next week. Now THAT is exciting. So you can see where I'm coming from here.

They are opening for Metallica. They also have a separate headlining gig the night before. I know this because I read the Onion, not because I would be caught near either show!

wanderlust wrote:
I thought they are opening for Metallica?  I'm seeing Metallica next week!

Relaxer wrote:

Indicative: I just realized the Sword is playing the RnR Hotel next week. Now THAT is exciting. So you can see where I'm coming from here.

wanderlust wrote:
I thought they are opening for Metallica?  I'm seeing Metallica next week!

You are?!? My man! Okay, you're no longer dead to me.

Fuck the haters, I think Death Magnetic is a perfectly great album. I don't like every song, but I really like about half of them.

Yes, someone's taking me to the show!

Relaxer wrote:

wanderlust wrote:
I thought they are opening for Metallica?  I'm seeing Metallica next week!

You are?!? My man! Okay, you're no longer dead to me.

Fuck the haters, I think Death Magnetic is a perfectly great album. I don't like every song, but I really like about half of them.