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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: CSW on December 14, 2014, 02:19:06 PM
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I remember there was a pretty good year end best of list on here last year, which I took good suggestions away from, so I thought I'd get the ball rolling this year.
I used to have a radio show where I'd do a year end show and talk about them all (which I posted on last years thread). But because i've moved from the UK to LA, I don't anymore and I really miss that and I wanted to do a bit more than a list. So I starteda blog, with youtube embeds. You can find it here if you wanna:
https://chriswhiteheadshow.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/my-favorite-albums-of-2014/
Short Version:
Ultimate Painting
Hookworms
Allah-Las
Woods
Ar-Kaics
Eagulls
Doug Tuttle
Dan Sartain
New Swears
OBNIIIs
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Parquet Courts
King Tuff
Ty Segall
Cozy
Cretin Stompers
Teledrome
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Mazes
White Fence
Verma
White Reaper
Klaus Johann Grobe
Warm Soda
Morgan Delt
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs
Thee Oh Sees
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For punk rock, tie between Golden Pelicans s/t and Buck Biloxi and the F@#ks-Culture Demanufacturer.
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Heck yeah on the White Reaper love!
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1. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else
2. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
3. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
4. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
5. New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
6. Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss It All
7. Twin Peaks - Wild Onion
8. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love
9. Ty Segall - Manipulator
10. The War on Drugs - Lost in a Dream
11. Ex Hex - Rips
12. Fucked up - Glass Boys
13. Spoon - They Want My Soul
14. La Sera - Hour of the Dawn
15. Real Estate - Atlas
16. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
17. Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE
18. Reigning Sound - Shattered
19. Alvvays - Alvvays
20. Hospitality - Trouble
21. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
22. Parkay Quarts - Constant Nausea
23. The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt
24. Paws - Youth Culture Forever
25. Broncho - Just Enough Hip To Be A Woman
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And I am calling it now for 2015:
1. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
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Top 3 Rock Records of 2014 that you probably missed:
1. Once and Future Band ("Brain" EP) - are you ready to prog? This trio (!??!!?) from Oakland are delivering on the level of Yes & Gentle Giant and are absolutely UNBELIEVABLE!!! https://soundcloud.com/onceandfutureband (https://soundcloud.com/onceandfutureband)
2. Ultimate Painting (s/t) - I never thought I'd lose my shit for another wimp-rock record but this one is so good I can't resist. People compare to VU's "Loaded" but to me it's it's own beast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhtXydv1mo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhtXydv1mo)
3. Bart Davenport ("Phsyical World") - so cool '80s soul vibe on the new LP from Bart, the real deal modern day McCartney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nqlrrMGMMM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nqlrrMGMMM)
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I only gave that Ultimate Painting album a couple of listens. Ill need to check it out more. As for Bart Davenport, I know have something new to listen to. Thanks!
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Albums:
1. The Both - s/t
2. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
3. Ex Hex - Rips
4. Sloan - Commonwealth
5. Spoon - They Want My Soul
Songs:
1. You Can’t Help Me Now - The Both
2. Inside Out - Spoon
3. Red Eyes - The War On Drugs
4. Fragmented World - Split Single
5. Cleopatra - Sloan
6. War Paint - Ex Hex
7. Youniverse - PUJOL
8. Pure Hate - Cheap Girls
9. Milwaukee - The Both
10. Low Key - Tweedy
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thanks for the Ultimate Painting rec CSW and mostlymeat. just ordered it!!
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1. Parquet Courts/Parkay Quarts ‘Sunbathing Animal’/’Content Nausea’
2. Real Estate ‘Atlas’
3. Mac DeMarco ‘Salad Days’
4. Ty Segall ‘Manipulator’
5. White Fence ‘For the Recently Found’
6. Foxygen ‘…And Star Power’
7. Thee Oh Sees ‘Drop’
8. Angel Olsen ‘Burn Your Fire For No Witness’
9. The Horrors ‘Luminious’
10. The War On Drugs ‘Lost in The Dream’
11. St. Vincent ‘St. Vincent’
12. Alvvays ‘Alvvays’
13. Purling Hiss ‘Weirdon’
14. Daniel Rossen ‘Silent Hour/Golden Mile’ EP
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Guided by Voices - Cool Planet
Guided by Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Blut Aud Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
The Well - Samsara
Electric Citizen - Sateen
Swans - To Be Kind
J Mascis - Tied to a Star
Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Fu Manchu Gigantoid
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
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12. Alvvays ‘Alvvays’
Shit I forgot about that one. That's a great album. And they we great whenwe saw them support Real Estate in England. Way better than Real Estate were...
thanks for the Ultimate Painting rec CSW and mostlymeat. just ordered it!!
You are welcome! Between both the UP and Mazes LPs, Jack Cooper had himself a hell of a year
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Here's what I can think of right now,
I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff
Watery Love - Decorative Feeding
Golden Pelicans - S/T
Good Throb - Fuck Off
Low Life - Dogging
Mordecai - Neil's Generator
Nots - We Are Nots
the Gotobeds - Poor People Are Revolting
Buck Biloxi and the Fucks - Culture Demanufacturer
GG King - Unending Darkness
and pretty much everything Total Punk released this year.
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I think the above posts just about have it covered but I'll add The Juke That Sat By The Door 12" by
OBNOX to the list.
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Alphabetical by artist...
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
Buck Biloxi & The Fucks - Culture Demanufacturer
Le Butcherettes - Cry Is For The Flies
Cayetana - Nervous Like Me
Mikal Cronin / Wand - Less Artists More Condos #11 [single]
Ex Hex - Rips
Fucked Up - Year Of The Dragon [EP]
Fucked Up - Glass Boys
Giorgio Murderer - Primitive World [single]
Honeyblood - Honeyblood
Hookworms - The Hum
HSY - Cyber Bully [single]
King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists
Melvins - Hold It In
Merchandise - After The End
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
Mourn - Otitis [single]
Mucca Pazza - L.Y.A.
Mudhoney - On Top
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love
Pharmakon - Beastial Burden
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Speedy Ortiz / Chris Weisman - Less Artists More Condos #14 [single]
Swans - To Be Kind
Thee Oh Sees - Drop
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused
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Great list
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Enough recs here to last me well into the new year!
Although I haven't gotten it in the mail yet, looking forward to the "lost" Del Shannon record that Trouble in Mind just re-issued; sort've like his Pet Sounds as described by the TiM website.
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Total Control - Typical System
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
Amen Dunes - Love
Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Caribou - Our Love
Marissa Nadler - July
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
WAND - Ganglion Reef
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Next Year:
Disappears - Irreal
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I liked Mac Demarco's album, he's a funny guy too.
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THE ONLY LIST THAT MATTERS IS COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's that time again. The only list that matters! LEARN! LEARN! LEARN!
Top 100 Music Albums of 2014
(alphabetical order)
31Ø8 - s/t (Trouble in Mind)
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere (Profound Lore)
Alcest - Shelter (Prophecy Productions)
Amanda X - Amnesia (Siltbreeze)
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
Apache Dropout - Heavy Window (Magnetic South)
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation (Profound Lore)
At the Gates - At War With Reality (Century Media)
Ausmuteants - Order of Operation (Goner)
Bassholes – Boogieman Stew (Columbus Discount Records)
Behemoth - The Satanist (Nuclear Blast)
Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
Broncho - Just Hip Enough to Be Woman (Dine Alone)
Charli XCX - Sucker (Atlantic)
Cheveu - Bum (Born Bad)
Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera Music)
Connections - Into Sixes (Anyway)
Corrosion of Conformity - IX (Candlelight)
Cretin Stompers - Looking Forward to Being Attacked (Hozac)
Criminal Code - No Device (Deranged)
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us (Season of Mist)
Dark Blue - Pure Reality (Jade Tree)
Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)
Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out (Nuclear Blast)
Eyehategod - s/t (Housecore)
Floor - Oblation (Season of Mist)
Glow God - House of Distractions (Play Pinball!)
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)
Good Throb - Fuck Off (White Denim)
Gotobeds - Poor People Are Revolting (12XU)
Guided By Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit/Cool Planet (GBVI)
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors (Sargent House)
Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
House of Lightning – Lightworker (Fair Warning)
Idylls – Pray For Terrene (self-released)
Jack White – Lazaretto (Third Man)
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls (Epic/Columbia)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz (Castle Face)
Kix - Rock Your Face Off (Loud and Proud)
Klaus Johann Grobe - Im Sinne der Zeit (Trouble in Mind)
La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
Manatees – Sit n Spin (Pelican Pow Wow)
Marisa Nadler – July (Sacred Bones)
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun (Reprise)
Medicine - Home Everywhere (Captured Tracks)
Melvins - Hold It In (Ipecac)
Mentalease - Indian Summer (self-released)
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Best of Boiler Room Classics (Flannelgraph/Joyful Noise)
Mortals - Cursed to See the Future (Relapse)
Mount Carmel - Get Pure (Alive Naturalsound)
New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Nots - We Are Nots (Goner)
NUN – s/t (Aarght)
OBN IIIs - Third Time To Harm (Tic Tac Totally)
OBNOX - Louder Space (12XU)
Overkill- White Devil Armory (eOne Music)
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
Predator - The Complete Earth (Scavenger of Death)
Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power (Don Giovanni)
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
Psalm Zero - The Drain (Profound Lore)
PyPy – Pagan Day (Slovenly Recordings)
Reigning Sound – Shattered (Merge)
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch and Go)
Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy (BMG)
So Cow - The Long Con (Goner)
Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
Spray Paint - Clean Blood, Regular Acid (Monofonus Press)
St. Lenox - Ten Songs About Memory And Hope (Anyway) [2014 digital release; physical release in early 2015]
St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
Street Eaters: BLOOD::MUSCLES::BONES (Nervous Intent)
Sultan Bathery – Sultan Bathery (Slovenly Recordings)
Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine)
Teledrome – s/t (Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)
The Ar-Kaics - s/t (Windian)
The Both - The Both (Superego)
The Cats - Relax On Everyone (Manondor)
The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
The Oath - The Oath (Rise Above)
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
The Young - Chrome Cactus (Matador)
Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
Tilts - Cuatro Hombres (Robotic Empire)
Tombs - Savage Gold (Relapse)
Total Control - Typical System (Iron Lung)
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (Century Media)
Ty Segall - Manipulator (Drag City)
Tyson Meade - Tomorrow In Progress (Shaking Shanghai)
Universe People - Are Coming To The Dance (Dragnet)
White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)
White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
Winger - Better Days Comin' (Frontiers)
Wrong Hole – 2012 (Pleasence)
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot)
Young Widows - Easy Pain (Temporary Residence)
Bonus #101: GG King - Unending Darkness (Scavenger of Death)
Bonus #102: Flesh Wounds - s/t (Snot Releases)
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I never know if you're joking, or serious, with these lists.
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Then you are not a serious person, Fredricks.
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I never know if you're joking, or serious, with these lists.
They're even in alphabetical order.
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I never know if you're joking, or serious, with these lists.
They're even in alphabetical order.
Then he must be serious.
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My top ten full-lengths:
1. Dama/Libra: Claw
2. Chris Herbert: Constants
3. Swans: To Be Kind
4. Scott Walker and Sunn O))): Soused
5. The Gary: Farewell Foolish Objects
6. Dubcon: UFO Pon Di Gullyside
7. Wrangler: LA Spark
8. Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2
9. Godflesh: A World Lit Only By Fire
10. Body Futures: Brand New Silhouettes
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Kevin Morby's album was pretty good I don't think anybody's mentioned the Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band album yet either.
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That Steve Gunn album, I liked that too.
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Jack Name - Light Show I'm just listing these as I remember them.
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It's that time again. The only list that matters! LEARN! LEARN! LEARN!
Top 100 Music Albums of 2014
(alphabetical order)
31Ø8 - s/t (Trouble in Mind)
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere (Profound Lore)
Alcest - Shelter (Prophecy Productions)
Amanda X - Amnesia (Siltbreeze)
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
Apache Dropout - Heavy Window (Magnetic South)
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation (Profound Lore)
At the Gates - At War With Reality (Century Media)
Ausmuteants - Order of Operation (Goner)
Bassholes – Boogieman Stew (Columbus Discount Records)
Behemoth - The Satanist (Nuclear Blast)
Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
Broncho - Just Hip Enough to Be Woman (Dine Alone)
Charli XCX - Sucker (Atlantic)
Cheveu - Bum (Born Bad)
Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera Music)
Connections - Into Sixes (Anyway)
Corrosion of Conformity - IX (Candlelight)
Cretin Stompers - Looking Forward to Being Attacked (Hozac)
Criminal Code - No Device (Deranged)
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us (Season of Mist)
Dark Blue - Pure Reality (Jade Tree)
Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)
Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out (Nuclear Blast)
Eyehategod - s/t (Housecore)
Floor - Oblation (Season of Mist)
Glow God - House of Distractions (Play Pinball!)
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)
Good Throb - Fuck Off (White Denim)
Gotobeds - Poor People Are Revolting (12XU)
Guided By Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit/Cool Planet (GBVI)
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors (Sargent House)
Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
House of Lightning – Lightworker (Fair Warning)
Idylls – Pray For Terrene (self-released)
Jack White – Lazaretto (Third Man)
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls (Epic/Columbia)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz (Castle Face)
Kix - Rock Your Face Off (Loud and Proud)
Klaus Johann Grobe - Im Sinne der Zeit (Trouble in Mind)
La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
Manatees – Sit n Spin (Pelican Pow Wow)
Marisa Nadler – July (Sacred Bones)
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun (Reprise)
Medicine - Home Everywhere (Captured Tracks)
Melvins - Hold It In (Ipecac)
Mentalease - Indian Summer (self-released)
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Best of Boiler Room Classics (Flannelgraph/Joyful Noise)
Mortals - Cursed to See the Future (Relapse)
Mount Carmel - Get Pure (Alive Naturalsound)
New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Nots - We Are Nots (Goner)
NUN – s/t (Aarght)
OBN IIIs - Third Time To Harm (Tic Tac Totally)
OBNOX - Louder Space (12XU)
Overkill- White Devil Armory (eOne Music)
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
Predator - The Complete Earth (Scavenger of Death)
Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power (Don Giovanni)
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
Psalm Zero - The Drain (Profound Lore)
PyPy – Pagan Day (Slovenly Recordings)
Reigning Sound – Shattered (Merge)
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch and Go)
Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy (BMG)
So Cow - The Long Con (Goner)
Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
Spray Paint - Clean Blood, Regular Acid (Monofonus Press)
St. Lenox - Ten Songs About Memory And Hope (Anyway) [2014 digital release; physical release in early 2015]
St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
Street Eaters: BLOOD::MUSCLES::BONES (Nervous Intent)
Sultan Bathery – Sultan Bathery (Slovenly Recordings)
Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine)
Teledrome – s/t (Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)
The Ar-Kaics - s/t (Windian)
The Both - The Both (Superego)
The Cats - Relax On Everyone (Manondor)
The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
The Oath - The Oath (Rise Above)
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
The Young - Chrome Cactus (Matador)
Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
Tilts - Cuatro Hombres (Robotic Empire)
Tombs - Savage Gold (Relapse)
Total Control - Typical System (Iron Lung)
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (Century Media)
Ty Segall - Manipulator (Drag City)
Tyson Meade - Tomorrow In Progress (Shaking Shanghai)
Universe People - Are Coming To The Dance (Dragnet)
White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)
White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
Winger - Better Days Comin' (Frontiers)
Wrong Hole – 2012 (Pleasence)
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot)
Young Widows - Easy Pain (Temporary Residence)
Every year I listen to this entire list (at least what's on Spotify and/or the ones I already own), even the metal. This year I'm struck by how many metal bands begin with the letters "A" and "B." As god (or Satan) is my witness, I will make it to that Bob Mould record.
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Every year I listen to this entire list (at least what's on Spotify and/or the ones I already own), even the metal. This year I'm struck by how many metal bands begin with the letters "A" and "B." As god (or Satan) is my witness, I will make it to that Bob Mould record.
Thank you for your devoted studies to The Only List That Matters. I should note that I modified the original post to include a Bonus selection. #101: GG King - Unending Darkness (Scavenger of Death). I intended to catch up with this one prior to issuing the final list but forgot to do so. I've since done so.
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Just listening to this and it's amazing:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpnnwYn93UA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpnnwYn93UA)
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Just listening to this and it's amazing:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpnnwYn93UA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpnnwYn93UA)
Been listening to this one too, that first song is really great.
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1. Black Moon Spell-King Tuff
2. Most Messed Up-Old 97’s
3. Run the Jewels 2-Run the Jewels
4. Benjamin Booker-Benjamin Booker
5. Sunbathing Animal-Parquet Courts
6. And the War Came-Shakey Graves
7. Manipulator-Ty Segall
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Various Artist - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles
Essential Numero Group reissue compilation. If you like songs about wizards, dragons, and death that sound like they were recorded by the stoners from your high school in their dad's garage... this collection is for you.
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I spent most of the year with the New Pornographers, War on Drugs, and Guided By Voices. It looks I slept on a lot of good metal and hiphop.
But I've been liking that YOB album this month. It's nice for listening to in the morning while the sheet of ice on my windshield defrosts.
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In random order:
1. Thou - Heathten
2. Inter Arma - The Cavern
3. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
4. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
5. Tilts - Cuatro Hombres
6. Scott Walker w/ Sunn0))) - Soused
7. Ex Hex - Rips
8. Mentalease - Indian Summer
9. The Oath - s/t
10. Ty Segall - Manipulator
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Admittedly I haven't heard a lot of what has been mentioned but here goes:
- Sloan: Commonwealth
- Weezer: Everything Will Be Alright In The End
- The Notwist: Close To The Glass
- Windings/LandLovers: Split LP
And lastly, it wouldn't be right if I didn't rate my own album highly, which I do.
- Anthony Mackey: Still Metal
https://anthonymackey.bandcamp.com/releases
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Various Artist - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles
Essential Numero Group reissue compilation. If you like songs about wizards, dragons, and death that sound like they were recorded by the stoners from your high school in their dad's garage... this collection is for you.
This is sweet!
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Ausmuteants - Order of Operation (Goner)
NUN – s/t (Aarght)
great choices, missed by so many outside of Australia.
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Enough recs here to last me well into the new year!
Although I haven't gotten it in the mail yet, looking forward to the "lost" Del Shannon record that Trouble in Mind just re-issued; sort've like his Pet Sounds as described by the TiM website.
The Further Adventures of Charles Westover is a fantastic album. I'm excited for you. "River Cool" is my hit pick from that LP.
I've been thrilling to the Super Deluxe Edition of Velvet Underground's '69 s/t. It's always been my favorite VU album, and this set is great.
I have a very hard time finding contemporary Reggae (either too much dancehall or Buju Banton-influenced vocals) that I like, but Chronixx's Dread & Terrible is a really good.
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Been listening to the Charles Westover LP non-stop since I got it. It's just really catchy, creatively produced psych rock. Doesn't follow the "concept" too far down the rabbit hole or anything. Also great ballad moments like "Silver Birch" which gets a cool Zombies-like melancholy going.
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no one mentioned the 'Nothing' album, "Guilty of Everything". I loved it. My fave album of the year, and the one i've played the most by far.
That then got me into Whirr (after a really good 4-track split EP they did with Nothing).
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That Ex Hex album refuses to leave heavy rotation for me. Seriously special.
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1. Ty Segall - Manipulator
2. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain
3. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
4. Taylor Swift - 1989
5. Chumped - Teenage Retirement
6. The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt
7. Run The Jewels - RTJ 2
8. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
9. Fucked Up - Glass Boys
10. Ex Hex - Rips
Honorable mentions: King Tuff, Perfect Pussy, Benjamin Booker, Jack White
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Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait