1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
2. East River Pipe - We Live in Rented Rooms
3. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
4. Destroyer - Kaputt
5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
6. Times New Viking - Dancer Equired
7. The Psychic Paramount - II
8. Woodkid - Iron
9. Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years
10. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
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OK year so far, a few of those need to be heard again before a proper placement, especially Shabazz Palaces.
1. Total Control - Henge Beat
2. The Psychic Paramount - II
3. Grouper - A I A
4. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
5. James Pants - s/t
6. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
7. The Men - Leave Home
8. UV Race - Homo
9. Snowman - Absence
10. Junior Boys - It's All True
HM: Dead Centre, Thee Oh Sees, The Pheromoans, Demdike Stare (would be near the top but it's a comp)
EPs: Burial - Street Halo, Naked on the Vague - Twelve Dark Noons
Top Ten of 2011
1. Wu-Tang Clan - Legendary Weapons
2. Chemical Brothers - Hanna: Sountrack
3. Florence + The Machine - Lungs: The B-Sides
4. Random Axe - Self Titled
5. Does It Offend You, Yeah - Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
6. Broken Bells - Meyrin Fields EP
7. The Strokes - Angles
8. Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We are Renegades)
9. I'm From Barcelona - Forever Today
10. Tron Legacy Reconfigured Soundtrack
TV Recently Finished:
Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) A
Rectify: Season 3 (2015) A-
Bojack Horseman: Season 2 (2015) A
True Detective: Season 2 (2015) A-
Wayward Pines: Season 1 (2015) B
Currently Playing: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (replay) (XB1) / Contradiction (PC)
Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
of the 44 albums i've heard this year:
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
w h o k i l l - Tune-Yards
Eye Contact - Gang Gang Dance
How Bright a Shadow! - In One Wind
Kaputt - Destroyer
Born This Way - Lady Gaga
House of Balloons - The Weeknd
Live in Marciac - Brad Mehldau
Gutter Rainbows - Talib Kweli
1. Grouper
2. Shabazz Palaces
3. The Weeknd (HoB)
4. John Maus
5. Tim Hecker
6. PJ Harvey
7. Danny Brown
8. Radiohead
9. Fucked Up
10. The Men
EPs: Burial, How to Dress Well
Anticipating: Balam Acab, Drake, Atlas Sound
1. House of Balloons, Thursday - The WeekndQuoting SirNewt (view post)
2. her de-released 1st album - Lana Del Rey
3. Ravedeath 1972 - Tim Hecker
4 Hurry Up We're Dreaming - M83
5. Zonoscope - Cut/Copy
6. Dye it Blonde - Smith Westerns
7. Kaputt - Destroyer
8. Within and Without - Washed Out
9. Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li
10. Cults - Cults
I still have a lot of stuff to listen to, especially a looming pile of free stuff.
1. Total Control - Henge Beat
2. The Psychic Paramount - II
3. Grouper - A I A
4. James Pants - s/t
5. Royal Headache - s/t
6. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
7. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
8. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
9. Dick Diver - New Start Again
10. The Pheromoans - It Still Rankles
Acapelli, you should really check out the Dick Diver album if you like twee stuff.
Remember when Arcade Fire's The Suburbs came out? That was good.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Didn't happen.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
LP's: Shabazz Palaces, Gang Gang Dance, Pure X, Tim Hecker, Julianna Barwick, WU Lyf, Grouper, Araabmuzik, ASAP Rocky, Chrysta Bell, Korallreven, Destroyer, Wild Beasts, PJ Harvey, St. Vincent,
EP's: Holy Other, Soft Moon, How to Dress Well, Clams Casino, Burial
top 10 songs:
1. Burial v Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
2. Shabazz Palaces - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum
3. Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla
4. Holy Other - Yr Love
5. WU Lyf - Dirt
6. Clams Casino - I'm God
7. M83 - Intro (just Zola Jesus' verse on it)
8. ASAP Rocky - Bass
9. Julianna Barwick - Prize Winning
10. Soft Moon - Alive
Arrebato (Zulueta - '80) 89
Elegia (Huszarik - '65) 95
Szinbad (Huszarik - '71) 77
Temptation of St. Tony (Ounpuu - '09) 80
Marguriete of the Night (Autant-Lara - '55)62
Kadin Hamlet (Erksan - '77) 52
Passion of a Darkly Noon (Ridley - '94) 79
Endangered Species (Rudolph - '82) 65
Made in Heaven (Rudolph -'87) 20
High Hopes (Leigh - '88) 74
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Am I the only one who thinks that the new Electric Six album is pretty cool?
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
1. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
2. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
3. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
4. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
5. Royal Headache - Royal Headache
6. Grouper - A I A
7. William D. Drake - The Rising of the Lights
8. Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
9. Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
10. Astronautalis - This Is Our Science
Just kind of an ok year for me. While I really enjoyed all of these albums listed I don't feel compelled to type out any honorable mentions. My number one though is miles ahead of anything I listened to this year and one of the best albums of recent years, imo.
1. St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
2. Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring for My Halo
3. John Maus, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
4. Real Estate, Days
5. Colin Stetson, New History Warfare - Judges, Vol. 2
6. The Weeknd, House of Balloons
7. Panda Bear, Tomboy
8. EMA, Past Life Martyred Saints
9. Drake, Take Care
10. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
how is ema not a joke band
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Fans of Odd Future don't get to ask this question.
anyway, i think i've heard everything i've wanted to hear this year. here's my top ten in alphabetical order, since i'm sure if i tried ranking them, the order would change tomorrow
British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
Elite Gymnastics - RUIN
G-Side - The ONE... COHESIVE/iSLAND
Green Ova Undergrounds/Main Attrakionz (Squadda B and MondreM.A.N.) - from "Blackberry Ku$h" to "Back $ellin Crack" (6 releases in total)
Katy B - On A Mission
Lil B - everything from "Angels Exodus" to "Gold House" (10 releases in total)
The Men - Leave Home
Tycho - Dive
Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
Yuck - Yuck
to be honest though, elite gymnastics is probably my number one. some honorable mentions:
Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You
Beyonce - 4
Destroyer - Kaputt
Feel Alright - hahahahahahaha
Gauntlet Hair - Gauntlet Hair
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx - We're New Here
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Iceage - New Brigade
Junior Boys - It's All True
Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven
Kyary Kyary Pamyu - Moshi Moshi Harajuku
.L.W.H. - The Tape Hiss Hooligan
Let's Wrestle - Nursing Home
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Machinedrum - Room(s)
Male Bonding - Endless Now
Martyn - Ghost People
Mind Spiders - Mind Spiders
Neon Indian - Era Extrana
Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
Pnau - Soft Universe
The Psychic Paramount - II
The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
Riff Raff SODMG - Sour & Gun Powder
SBTRKT - SBTRKT
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Taragana Pyjarama - Taragana Pyjarama
TKO Capone - Tropical Swaggin Duh
found a lot to love this year
That's kinda bad, but the track on the album is vastly better.
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Nonetheless, even as the most-listened to track on the album, it is far from the best (I still dig it a lot). Perhaps "Milkman"...
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It's an "acquired" taste all around to be sure. She's divisive, but I find her abrasive, self-involved and morose lyrics matched with equally dissonant sounds, drones and distortions to be highly effective.
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
I prefer "The Grey Ship", but yes, that live version of "California" is vastly inferior to the album cut. I can see her rubbing people the wrong way, but "a joke" seems a bit harsh. I dig the album - didn't quite make my list, but probably would've been in a top 50 if I went that far.
Aca - all I meant was that Odd Future is my joke group that I don't understand how they get taken seriously. 'twas all in good fun.
Here's my 2011 top 50 albums list:
http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2...-ii-music.html
Quick update:
1. El Camino, The Black Keys-****
2. Drive OST, Cliff Martinez and Assorted Artists-****
3. The King of Limbs, Radiohead-*** 1/2
4. Valhalla Dancehall, British Sea Power-*** 1/2
5. Collapse Into You, REM-*** 1/2
6. Destroyed, Moby-*** 1/2
7. Sky Full of Holes, Fountains of Wayne-*** 1/2
8. Suck It and See, Arctic Monkeys-*** 1/2
9. Thank You Happy Birthday, Cage The Elephant-*** 1/2
10. All At Once, The Airborne Toxic Event-***
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