getting older, but always trying to stay 'hip'. love finding and discovering good music. adamy was my favorite for that but he isn't here (rip in peace). this isn't me being hip though. just pretty pumped about this:
what new releases (last month or so), have you been enjoying? what are you looking forward to? another one announced would be the new N.E.R.D. album. i didn't really feel the last few, but the first 2.5 of them were dope.
Holy shit, had no idea Glassjaw was releasing new music.
I'm stoked to hear Neil Young's new stuff. He is a national treasure imo.
If you like Belle & Sebastian, they're releasing a series of EP's. Here's a song from one of them:
The new Midnight record is badass. I can't remember if you listen to this type of stuff or not, but it's sick.
Nortt is coming out with a new record called "Endeligt" at the end of the year too. Haven't heard anything from it yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to it.
Recent records I've liked a lot:
"The Dusk In Us" by Converge
"Phases" by Angel Olsen
It stopped from me from linking more than 5 videos. Noel Gallagher's new album is great ("Who Built the Moon?"), as is Liam's ("As You Were").
"Post Self" from Godflesh is awesome. I need to listen to it more though.
"Interior" by Quicksand is one I haven't heard in its entirety but I can tell I will like it a lot.
Electric Wizard came out with a new record like a month ago but I still haven't checked it out yet. I like them a lot though.
Neil gonna put his whiole catelog online for free or already did. thank you. will be checking a few of those out
Did not know Neil had a new album coming out. Definitely got to check that out.
I knew Noel and Liam had new albums out just havent had a chance to get into them. I heard liams new single and I really didn t care for it much. I am still a massive Noel fanboy so I have got to definitely check it out.
I think Noel is 10x the songwriter Liam is. But it's just hard not to enjoy hearing Liam's voice on something in 2017. Call it nostalgia, but I love it.
Forgot about Glassjaw. Still listening to Daryl's other project, Color Film (Living Arrangements) released earlier this year.
Its 100% nostalgia cause the songs are complete crap. Regardless if he was a better songwriter there is practically no difference between the two now. As shit as each other.Originally Posted by Bandit
Stuff I liked from this year that i have just discovered;
Perfumes Genius
Daniel Caesar's
The Menzingers
Thundercat
GoldLink
ARCA
Avvays
Stuff i liked from old favourtes
LCD
Bjork
Kendrick
Mac DeMarco
St. Vincent
Brand New
The Horrors
The XX
Phoenix
QOTSA
Arcade Fire
TAPS AFF!
These are the most recent ones I've kept and downloaded on my Spotify.
Glassjaw - Material Control
Swedish Death Candy - S/T
Flat Worms - S/T
Quicksand - Interiors
Dasher - Sodium
Decent Criminal - Bloom
Converge - The Dusk in Us
All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here
Melkbelly - Nothing Valley
Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
Weirds - Swarmculture
Idylls - The Barn
i have been digging some ARCA, might actually pick something up. not usually my style, but it's pretty dope.
lcd's new shit is pretty good. still makes me want to listen to the first two albums, probably nostalgia.
bjork is releasing a lot of shit, so i missed that. i never get really deep into her stuff, but i always give it a few listens and keep it in the library.
St. Vincent album was something new to me (got it through a subscription club), but also worthy of more listens. i only knew of her previously because her album with David Byrne of the Talking Heads.
brand new definitely good.
QOTSA: pretty fucking fun album, they definitely made a really dance-able album there. also comes out really well live, i thought. i thought of doing a review of it when i feel like starting to do reviews someday.
kendrick goes without saying.
i dug the Arcade Fire album and i think overall it is pretty damn good, i really like the story they are trying to tell with it.
thanks @Smeagol, i did not know that and will check that shit out. i will be giving some of these @Clive Plasma and @Bandit choices a listen as well these next few days. i made the thread for discovery like this, so i really appreciate it.
thinking of ARCA made me remember this album out of left field (for me), this year, that i enjoy and can't really explain as to why i feel that way.
Pharmakon - Contact
i guess if i had to describe the album: it's just fucking noise. mostly rough noise.
i like it, though.
reading/hearing interviews from the artist give me the impression that she is the "if you don't understand it, you aren't on my level" vibe. i don't really understand it, but it ain't stopping me from listening here and there. this is my first real foray into straight up noise with tape loops, indecipherable "lyrics" and the such. only seen a few videos of her 'performances'. usually art pieces, moreso than a concert. Stones Throw records always has some ridiculous shit, and this fits right up there.
I listened to that. Fucking weird. Other ones I've enjoyed this year (if we open it out to just 2017);
The Menzingers - After The Party
Gang - 925 Til I Die
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Frank Carter - Modern Ruin
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
The Smith Street Band - More Scared of You Than You are of Me
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Metz - Strange Peace
Helpless - Debt
Anchors - S/T
IDLES - Brutalism
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Brand New - Science Fiction
Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
Wren - Auburn Rule
Dead Cross - S/T
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - High Visceral Pt. 2
Brutality Will Prevail - In Dark Places
Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
Pile - A Hairshirt of Purpose
The Tidal Sleep - Be Water
Gnarwolves - Outsiders
Employed to Serve - The Warmth of a Dying Sun
ohhh so much music this is nice.
and a new frank ocean album yay
Thanks for the glassjaw flag.
I recently discovered the Silver Snakes *Saboteur* album. Listening to that a lot as well as the Color Film one mentioned previously.
Not new: Jay Reatard *Watch Me Fall*
Hooked on this album of late as well.
Semi-new, some old. Really like Pete Murray, you seem like you listen to a lot of different stuff... There's 3 albums for Lo-Pro, it took me awhile to really get into the last one but it's turned out to be my favorite of theirs. From there Murray started Life on Planet 9, they have two albums out, *Theory of Everything* from 2014 which I only just discovered this year, which is the better of their two... and *Higher* which was released this year. I haven't quite gotten into that one as much but still like it.
Last for now.... Death Valley High *CVLT AS FVK*
If you're not familiar with them they're what would happen if Orgy and Mindless Self Indulgence were one group.
I was reading 'top x albums of the year' articles and found an artist called Mount Eerie. His new album is so heartbreaking, about his wife dying.
Cold war kids - La Divine
U2 - Songs of experience
Beck - Colors
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The wild
Hollow Coves - Wanderlust EP
And Snow Coats have a few singles, but no EP or LP yet. Sounds promising for a new act.
Been a pretty weak year by recent standards imo. Still a good deal of enjoyable stuff though.
Here's some albums I've liked excluding electronic records as I'd imagine no one here would give a shit about those:
Tyler - Scum Fuck Flower Boy
Kendrick - DAMN
Big KRIT - 4eva is a Mighty Long Time
Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice
Future - HNDRXX
Young Thug - Young Thugger Girls
Slowdive - Slowdive
Protomartyr - Relatives in Dissent
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
At The Drive In - Interalia
Miguel - War & Leisure
Kelela - Take Me Apart
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Forest Swords - Compassion
Arca - Arca
Björk - Utopia
Converge - The Dusk In Us
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Mt Eerie dominated my listening back in January, Fleet Foxes and Tyler in the Summer. Been loving the new Miguel this week. Probably in part because it's so summery and it's so chilly and dark in London at the moment.
I give a shit, pretty sure Clive is into a bit of that as well.
post the electronic ones!
TAPS AFF!
it's hard for me to find new music i like these days. i'm just not inclined to actively follow new releases, and i guess i'm more particular than i used to be. i just find it rare that a song strikes me and i really like it. i will work through ringo's list.
Was just looking at my most played stuff from the year and still number one is PUP. Last album was an absolute humdinger although it was released in 2016.
TAPS AFF!
Yeah, I give a shit.
Completely forgot about that Slowdive album. Cracking record.
I'd say a lot of my year, outside of the heavier stuff, has been dominated by incredible afrobeat/grime records. The J Hus album was brilliant, and then there's been a wealth of great singles released.
Wanderwelle - Lost In A See Of Trees (my go to late night listening at the moment)
Legowelt - Legendary Freaks In The Trash Of Time (spacey techno from a master)
Gas - Narkopop (legendary ambient producer's first new album as Gas in 17 years)
Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica (legendary techno producers' first new album in about 20 years)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
more aggressive on the ear:
JASSS - Weightless
Tzusing - 東方不敗
Pessimist - Pessimist
More out there stuff:
Yves Tumor - Experiencing The Deposit Of Faith (uses lots of samples from well known artists and makes them almost unrecognisable)
Jlin - Black Origami
Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom (MikeHunt you might like this as I know you enjoy Rustie. Or hate it. I can see it being very divisive.)
Also some comps I enjoyed:
Welcome to Paradise, vol. 1: Italian Dream House 89-93
Outro Tempo: Electronic & Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1978-1992
Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon, 1976-1984
Miracle Steps: Music From The Fourth World
And I forgot the Moses Sumney album Aromanticism which includes "Quarrel". Such a good song.
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Eminem has a new album Dec. 15th, that may be worth checking out.
Will check these out tonight at work.
Rustie is playing his first show in years next week and my family have to be visiting. Sorry guys can you please cancel while i go and get out my nut.
After seeing a couple mentions of Mount Eerie I am listening now. Y'all about to make me break down in tears at work.
I saw him play at a church in London a few weeks ago. He's the sweetest guy in the world and it was so sad. He commented on how touring and playing these songs is making the emotions he feels when singing them a little less raw and how that's scary for him. Then during one of the last songs a bible reading started playing through the church's speakers and it was all very weird. Then he joked that people shouldn't listen to it while the sound guy scrambled around trying to switch it off. Then he finished his last song, said something along the lines of "thanks for listening to me do this" and went and sat down at the merch stand at the back of the church to sell some more t-shirts and vinyl, which he designs himself. It was all a bit surreal.
Listening to Elder for the first time. About 2 minutes into the album and am already loving it. This is right up my alley. Thank you.
Seems Los Campesinos! are still in form after a few years without a release.
pitchfork.com released their top 100 songs of the year list today. those lists used to pretty reliably give me a number of songs every year that i'd like a lot but the last several years they've been over the top awful, as is also the case this time.
are there any good music criticism sites? ringo?
Lists I'll actually be looking out for this year are The Quietus (probably the most interesting albums list), The Wire, Fact and Juno. Juno used to have great editorial on Juno Plus but that ceased to exist unfortunately. RA for electronic although their lists have been a bit naff lately. Gorilla vs. Bear still do good indie lists apparently too.
Been listening to The Midnight a bit too much lately. One of those sounds that pops up that you didn't know you wanted. 80s throwback synth-wave duo. Their latest single Lost Boy dropped a few weeks back.
Alice in Chains have a new album in a couple of weeks, and the Prodigy have a new album in November.
Here's an overview of what I've been listening to this year, in whatever order is on my Spotify most recently added. I'll bold the ones I really liked;
Fronterier - Unloved
Talons - We All Know
Tired Lion - Dumb Days
Popcaan - Forever
Fantastic Negrito - Please Don't Be Dead
Ty Segall - Joy
ASG - Survive Sunrise
The Nude Party - S/T
Converge - Beautiful Ruin
LIMBS - Father's Son
Jim James - Uniform Distortion
Modern Rituals - The Light That Leaks In
Mourn - Sorpreso Familia
Here Lies Man - You Will Know Nothing
Petyr - Smolyk
Mr Bison - Holy Oak
YOB - Our Raw Heart
Svalbard - It's Hard To Have Hope
Group of Man - What We Got In Common
Chvrches - Love is Dead
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Sleep - The Sciences
Rival Consoles - Persona
Killer Boogie - Acid Cream
Palm - Rock Island
MOL - Jord
Black Salvation - Uncertainty is Bliss
Preoccupations - New Material
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
Rejjie Snow - Dear Annie
Genghar - Where Wildness Grows
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Conjurer - Mire
Palm Reader - Beside The Ones We Love
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Titus Andronicus - A Productive Cough
The Men - Drift
Hookworms - Microshift
Giver - Where The Cycle Breaks
Shame - Songs of Praise
Will Haven - Muerte
I've only heard of one of those...I need to expand my musical taste
List a few bands you like and I'll see if any match up? A lot of these are quite heavy, but there's a variety in there for sure. Or just give them all a go...?I've only heard of one of those...I need to expand my musical taste
Monster Magnet
Chiodos
The Spill Canvas
Goblin
Graveyard BBQ
Combichrist
The Fratellis
Aphex Twin
Peaches
Screaming Females new album is unreal.
Also @Donald strong rumours of a new Aphex album very soon.
I've never heard any of their music but this seems a logical place to mention it after seeing Clive's band list - I saw a poster the other day for a punk band called Upturned Spastic Bus.
Aye, read something about his logo popping up in a couple of Underground stations.
Yo clive, what do you think of the Vein record?
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Tony Molina - Kill the Lights
Bugg - Turd World
Vein - errorzone
Take Offense - Tensions on High EP
Mil-spec - Changes EP
People who were into the softer stuff in this thread: check out that tony molina record. His first record was like fuzzy/stonery weezer type rock. Then his second was a little softer, and his 3rd has gone further in that direction and is my favorite yet. My only criticism is that a lot of the songs feel too short to me, like incomplete almost.
Last edited by Bandit; August 3rd, 2018 at 3:34 PM.
I quite liked it, but it's a bit nu-metal in places for me. Love the scatty drum loops though, haven't heard that shit in a while.
Blood Orange, WOW!
Dev Haynes regardless of what name he is putting out music under is always great but the Blood Orange project and the new album are seriously fucking mindblowing. I've listened to it 3 times today already and have no intention of stopping soon.
Just put this on based on your recommendation and really enjoyed Orlando.
Check out his other acts Lightspeed Champion (acoustic folk) and test icicles (post hardcore/dance/indie). Just to see how talented this guy really is.
Sad to hear about the singer, Sam Mehran, passing away last month.
Idles for album of the year.
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