2007 Music Journo-Blag! (now/w top-10's&25's&50's!)

[Keepcoolbutcare]

shamelessly stolen from Mori, myself, and Nacho.

if you need this explained to you, don't bother posting in the thread...

2k7 Album List

!!! - Myth Takes - ***1/2

The 1900s - Cold & Kind - **

A Place to Bury Strangers - S/T

Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass - ***

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - **

Antibalas - Security - ***

The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - ****

Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated - ***

Battles - Mirrored - ***

Betty Davis -

Betty Davis - ****1/2
They Say I'm Different - ****1/2
Nasty Gal - ****1/2

Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation - ***

Black Lips - Good Bad not Evil - ***

Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City - *

Bonde Do Role - With Lasers - **1/2

Boredoms -

Super Roots 5
Super Roots 6
Super Roots 7 - ****1/2
Super Roots 9 - ***1/2

Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow - ***1/2
Boris -

Akuma no Uta - ***
Hard Rocks - ****1/2

Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth - ***

Buck 65 - Heck(?) - ****

The Budos Band - The Budos Band II - ***1/2

Busdriver - RoadKillOvercoat - **1/2

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder - **

Common Sense - Resurrection

Dalek - Abandoned Language - ****
Dalek -

Absence - ****1/2
From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots - ****1/2

Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings - ***

Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity - ***1/2

Deerhunter -

Cryptograms - ***1/2
Fluorescent Grey EP - ***

Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale - ***1/2

Devin the Dude Presents the Coughee Brothaz - Waitin' Our Turn - ***

Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English - ***1/2

Dungen - Tio Bitar - ***1/2

Edan - Sound of the Funky Drummer - ***

El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead - ***

El Perro del Mar - Look! It's El Perro del Mar! - ***

Elmore James - Rollin' and Tumblin' - ****

Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone - ***1/2

The Fall -

Hex Enduction Hour - ****1/2
Dragnet - Expanded Deluxe Edition - ***
Grotesque (After the Gramme)

Feist - The Reminder - ***1/2

Fela Kuti -

Confusion - ****
Gentleman - ****

The Field - From Here We Are Sublime - **

Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab - ***1/2

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once (not quite original sndtk) - ***

Grinderman - Grinderman - ***

Health - HEALTH - ***

Hope For Men - Pissed Jeans - **

Imperial Teen - The Air The TV The Baby and the Band -

James Murphy & Pat Mahoney - Fabric Live 36 - ***

Jay-Z - American Gangster -

Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

Justice - Cross - **1/2

Lester Bang and the Delinquents - Jook Savages on the Brazos - ***1/2

Kleenex/LiLiPUT - LiLiPUT - ***1/2

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - ****1/2

Liars - Liars - ****

Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 - ***

Los Campesinos! -

Sticking Fingers Into Sockets - ****
International Tweexcore Underground - **

Low - Drums and Guns - **

M.I.A. - Kala - ****

Makes Nice - Candy Wrapper - *

Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm - ***

Matt and Kim - S/T - ****

Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back - ***

Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures - *

Menomena - Friend and Foe - ***1/2

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - ***

Mogwai - Come on Die Young - ***1/2

Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade - **

Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin' Up - ****

No Age - Weirdo Rippers - **1/2

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? - **1/2

Okkervil River -

The Stage Names - ****1/2
[u]Black Sheep Boy - ****1/2

Panda Bear - Person Pitch - ***1/2

Patton Oswalt -

Werewolves and Lollipops - ****1/2
Feeling Kinda Patton - ****

The Ponys - Turn the Lights Out -
Laced with Romance -

Prodigy - Return of the Mac - **1/2

Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof - ****

Radiohead - In Rainbows - ***1/2

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights - ***1/2

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away - **

Shocking Pinks -

Shocking Pinks - ***1/2
Dance the Dance Electric - ***1/2

Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release - **

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - ***1/2

Spoon - Ga ga ga ga ga - ****

Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

The Twilight Sad - 14 Autumns and 15 Winters - ***

UGK - Underground Kingz - ***1/2

Various Artists - 50 Incredible Rap Songs & 20 Bonus Tracks - ***

Various Artists - The Original Sound of 1970's Funky Africa - ***1/2

The White Stripes - Icky Thump - ****

White Williams - Smoke

Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams - ***

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is {EP} - ****

Zion I & Grouch - Heroes in the City of Dope -

[AtomicHyperbole]

I got Menomena on preorder and had, until I discovered Cerys Matthews' cover of Soul Love, it on my profile. Fucking excellent stuff, reminds me of The Beta Band.

[Brocktune]

fuck, this is gonna be a bitch. a 2007 music journal? fuck, id better get fucking cracking. and there is no way im gonna do this by specific date. all that bullshit aside, i suppose ill get started.


JANUARY

CSS - "Cansei de Ser Sexy" - better than i thought it would be
Ladytron - "604" - heh, Kraftwerk anyone?
Cake Like - "Goodbye, So What"
Fela Kuti - "Zombie" - fucking amazing. ORDAH!!!!!
Fela Kuti - "Open & Close"
Fela Kuti - "Afrodisiac"
Fela Kuti - "Gentleman"
Fela Kuti - "Shuffering & Shmiling"
Fela Kuti - "The 69 Los Angeles Sessions"
Fela Kuti - "Roforofo Fight"
Fela Kuti - "Expensive Shit"
Fela Kuti - "Open & Close"
Fela Kuti - "Confusion"
Fela Kuti - "He Miss Road"
Fela Kuti - "Sorrow, Tears & Blood"
Fela Kuti - "Opposite People"
Kid Whatever "Hi, Sorry I'm Late, I Brought Some Reocrds"
Tenacious D - "The Pick of Destiny"
Peeping Tom - "Peeping Tom"
Stereolab - "Emperor Tomato Ketchup"
William Shatner - "Has Been"
William Shatner - "Captain of the Starship" - K-TEL released this one. 'nuff said
Thievery Corporation - "Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi"
Thievery Corporation - "The Cosmic Game"
Quruli - "Antenna"
Boris - "Pink"
X-Ray Spex - "Let's Submerge: The Anthology"
Can - "Ege Bamyasi"
NFL Films - "Autumn Thunder: 40 Years of NFL Films Music"
Beck - "The Information"
Beck - "Guerolito"
Supreme Beings of Leisure - "Supreme Beings of Leisure"
Electrocute - "Troublesome Bubblegum"
Neil & Iraiza - "Johnny Marr?"
X - "Los Angeles"
Aphex Twin - "The Richard D. James Album"
Daft Punk - "Homework"
Blur - "Parkspliced"
Prince - "Dirty Mind"
King Crimson - "Discipline"
El Vez - "Graciasland" - do NOT miss El Vez if he comes to your town!
Ursula 1000 - "All Systems Are Go Go"
Pepe Deluxe - "Beatitude"
Smokey & Miho - "The Two EP's"
Sting - "Songs from the Labyrinth"
O.S.T. - "The Dark Crystal"
Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain"
O.S.T. - "Beat Street"
Slick Rick - "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded"
Man or Astroman? - "EEVIAC"
Andrew Bird - "The Mysterious Production of Eggs"
The Orb - "The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Underworld"
James Brown - "The Payback"
Fantastic Plastic Machine - "Readymade Records Tokyo: Remixes"
Pizzicato Five - "Couples"
Pizzicato Five - "Romantique 96"
Miho Hatori - "Ecdysis"
Ex-Girl - "Kero Kero Kero"
Leonard Nimoy - "The Way I Feel"
Neu! - "2"
Alec Empire - "Generation Star Wars"
Big Black - "Songs About Fucking"
Le Tigre - "Feminist Sweepstakes"
Guitar Wolf - "Run Wolf Run"
Afro Celt Sound System - "Volume 1: Sound Magic"
DeVotchKa - "How It Ends"
V.A. - "Escalator Records, Tokyo"
El-P - "Collecting the Kid"
Roxy Music - "For Your Pleasure"
Brainiac - "Bonsai Superstar"
Brent Spiner - "Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back"
Gogol Bordello - "Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony"
OOIOO - "Feather Float"
Squarepusher - "Music is Rotted One Note"

FEBRUARY

Os Mutantes - "Mutantes"
Lady Soverign - "Public Warning"
Fantastic Plastic Machine - "Too"
V.A. - "Sushi 3003"
Detroit Grand Pubahs - "Funk All Y'all"
Kleenex/Liliput - "Liliput"
The Modern Lovers - "The Modern Lovers"
Takako Minekawa - "Cloudy Cloud Calculator"
V.A. - "Break N Bossa: Vol. 1"
Mr. Oizo - "Analog Worms Attack"
V.A. - "St. Germain Pres Cafe: Vol. 8"
United Future Organization - "Bon Voyage"
Vive Le Fete - "Nuit Blanche"
Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Technodelic"
Los Abandoned - "Mixtape"
Serge Gainsbourg - "Bonnie & Clyde"
V.A. - "Sushi 4004"
Go!Go!7188 - "92.1 Jiken"
Hy - "Street Story"
Homemade Kazoku - "Musication"
M-Flo - "Astromantic Charm School"
Ananda Shankar - "Melodies from India"
Controller Controller - "History"
V.A. - "Paris Under a Groove"
Flipper's Guitar - "Dr. Head's World Tower"
Mr. Children - "FAKE"
Afro Celt Sound System - "Vol. 3 - Further in Time"
Einsturzende Neubaten - "Haus der Luge"
Kahimi Karie - "Nunki"
Takako Minekawa - "Roomic Cube"
V.A. - "We Are Escalator Records vol. 1"
The Breeders - "Pod"
Macdonald Duck Eclair - "Short Short"
Rip Slyme - "Five"
P-Model - "Music Industrial Wastes - P-Model Or Die"
Pink Martini - "Hang On Little Tomato"
Bonnie Pink - "So Wonderful"
Miguel Migs - "Nude Tempo One"
Fela Kuti - "No Agreement"

MARCH

V.A. - "Dance Dance Revolution: SuperNOVA" - yeah. see this is why i play In The Groove, and not DDR.
Ananda Shankar - "And His Music"
Rhymester - "Uwasa No Shinzou"
Fela Kuti - "London Scene"
Girls Against Boys - "Cruise Yourself"
Gal Costa - "Nao Identificado"
Kyosuke Himuro - "Neo Fascio"
Stance Punks - "Let It Roll"
Mika Bomb - "Hellcats"
Polysics - "Karate House"
Brainiac - "Hissing Prigs in Static Couture"
Funkadelic - "America Eats It's Young"
Mika Bomb - "The Fake Fake Sound of Mika Bomb"
X - "Under the Big Black Sun"
Funkadelic - "Let's Take it to the Stage"
Television Personalities - "And Don't the Kids Just love It"
Perez Prado - "Latino"
Perez Prado - "Mambo Happy"
Funkadelic - "Hardcore Jollies"
Ohio Players - "Pain"
Ohio Players - "Gold"
V.A. - "G.S. I Love You: Japanese Garage Bands of the 1960's" - the perfect companion piece to your "Nuggets" box set.
Parliament - "Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome"
Parliament - "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein"
OST - "Glastonbury: The Film"
Blur - "Leisure"
Pizzicato Five - "In The Mix"
Hi-Posi - "Kanashiikojonankajanai"

APRIL

V/A - "Thai Beat A Go-Go"
Asobi Sesku - "Citrus"
The Meters - "The Meters"
The Meters - "Look Ka Py Py"
The Meters - "Rejuvenation"
Junior Murvin - "Police & Thieves"
Afro Celt Sound System - "Pod"
Hi-Posi - "Soul Of Hippopotamus"
The Congos - "Heart Of The Congos"
OST - "Donnie Darko"
Blur - "Bustin' & Dronin'"
The Mekons - "Fear And Whiskey"
!!! - "Myth Takes"
Funkadelic - "One Nation Under A Groove"
Parliament - "Mothership Connection"
Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - "Return Of The Super Ape"
Wall Of Voodoo - "Dark Continent"
OST - "Barbarella"
Funkadelic - "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow"
V/A - "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - VCFL"
V/A - "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - Wave 103"
V/A - "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - Fresh 105"
Barry White - "Sings For Someone You Love"
Cornelius - "Sensuous"

MAY

The Boredoms - "Super Ae"
Television - "Marquee Moon"
Tinariwen - "The Radio Tisdas Sessions"
Tinariwen - "Amassakoul"
Tinariwen - "Aman Iman"
Menomena - "Friend And Foe"
Royksopp - "The Understanding"
Maceo Parker - "Mo' Roots"
Vive La Fete - "Attaque Surprise"
The Meters - "Cabbage Alley"
The Meters - "Rejuvenation"
Burning Spear - "Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost"
V/A - "Fine Time: A Tribute to New Wave"
CSS - "CSS Suxxx e.p."
The English Beat - "Special Beat Service"
The Streets - "Original Pirate Material"
The Meters - "New Directions"
Cab Calloway - "Zaz Zuh Zaz"
Kool Moe Dee - "I'm Kool Moe Dee"
Grinderman - "Grinderman"
Maceo Parker - "Live From Planet Groove"
Billy Connolly - "Raw Meat for the Balcony"
Yoshimi and Yuka - "Flower With No Color"
V/A - "Hammond Heros: 60's R&B Organ Grooves"
The Surfaris - "Gone With the Wave"
OST - "Death Proof"
V/A - "Ultimate Jukebox Hits of the 50's"
The Ditty Bops - "The Ditty Bops"
April March - "Chrominance Decoder"
April March - "Chick Habit"
V/A - "The Players: 12 Super Rare Original Funk Monsters from the Late 60's & Early 70's"
V/A - "Ain't It Hard! Sunset Strip 60's Sounds: Garage & Psych from Viva Records"
V/A - "Capitol Gold 50's Legends"
V/A - "Ultimate Jukebox Hits of the 50's" - i cant fucking believe that "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, despite being a number 1 hit, is not included on ANY oldies comp. Christ, wtf does a guy gotta do to get a little sugar from ya, Jimmy?
V/A - "26 A-Go-Go Ultra Rarities from the 60's Singapore Underground"
OST - "Planet Terror"
Mason Williams - "The Mason Willams Project"
V/A - "Evita's Tango"
V/A - "Rare Mexican Cuts of the 60's"
V/A - "Nymphomania Vol. 1"
Arthur Russell - "24-24 Music"
Arthur Russell - "The World of Arthur Russell"
Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight"
Bonde Do Role - "With Lasers"
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - "Whipped Cream and Other Delights"
Les Breastfeeders - "Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe"
Andre Popp - "Delirium in Hi-Fi"
The Trashmen - "Surfin' Bird"
Les Baxter - "Jungle Jazz"
Enoch Light - "Persuasive Percussion"
Andre Williams - "Mr. Rhythym"

JUNE

V/A - "Radio Cramps: The Purple Knif Show"
Les Wampas - "Chaud, Sales et Humides"
The High Llamas - "Beets, Maize, and Corn"


and yes, just like KC said, this list consists of stuff that i am hearing for the first time in 2007. these were not necessarily released in 2007.

the only exception would be soundtracks. there is a good chance that at least some of the stuff on any given soundtrack i will have heard before. but if it gets listed, that means that 2K7 is the first time that i have listened to a soundtrack in its entirety, and not in the movie, game, or tv show that it is from.

oh yeah, and as you can obviously see, i have waaay more time to listen to records than i do to watch movies. *sigh* c'est la vie, no?

one more caveat i would like to add. just because I have listened to an entire album for the first time this year, does not mean i am wholly unfamiliar with some to most of the work contained on said album. but this is the first time i have listened to the entire album in its entirety.

[Keepcoolbutcare]

and there is no way im gonna do this by specific date.

yeah, kinda pointless when doing albums. Plus, with leaks making release dates irrelevant, with albums being cultural artifacts one keeps coming back to over time, with the interblag having practically every bit of music ever recorded somewhere in it's darkest nethers...yeah, date of first listen or whatever shouldn't really come into play here.

just stuff you first heard in 2k7 should suffice...

[Nachokoolaid]

Wow, some of you are really into music. I don't really listen to that much music, and when I do, it's rarely "hip" or something new. I like what I like, and like an old bastard with the high dollar Fixodent, I'm stuck in my ways.

EDIT: Oh, and it's cool to get a mention in another thread! Sorry, guess I'm not used to the Zone "popularity."

[magicmonkey]

January

808 State - Ninety
Chungking Express - OST
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
DJ Yoda and Dan Greenpeace - Unthugged
DJ Yoda - The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda
Faithless - To All New Arrivals
Forbidden Zone - OST
Gruff Rhys - Candylion
Jim Capaldi - Oh how we danced
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
Monkey Swallows the Universe - The Bright Carvings
Performace - OST
Perry Como - Gold
Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Death Wish IV - OST
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Various Cardigan albums

[Keepcoolbutcare]

Fela Kuti - "Zombie" - fucking amazing. ORDAH!!!!!
Fela Kuti - "Open & Close"
Fela Kuti - "Afrodisiac"
Fela Kuti - "Gentleman"
Fela Kuti - "Shuffering & Shmiling"
Fela Kuti - "The 69 Los Angeles Sessions"
Fela Kuti - "Roforofo Fight"
Fela Kuti - "Expensive Shit"
Fela Kuti - "Open & Close"
Fela Kuti - "Confusion"
Fela Kuti - "He Miss Road"
Fela Kuti - "Sorrow, Tears & Blood"
Fela Kuti - "Opposite People"

gotta love the king of Afro-beat...

[mistertim]

Ok, Here we go:

No ratings for records, but a number out of 5 for gigs.


January:

Rekkids
The Lapse - Betrayal!
Shellac - Terraform
The Dismemberment Plan - "!"
Neu! - Neu '75

Gigs
Florence Is A Robot - The Oakford Social Club, Reading, Sun 21st Jan [3/5]
Publicist - DURRR, London, Mon 22nd Jan [4/5]

[Adam Balm]

Hey guys. What's this thread all about?

[doglips]

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away - **

Too much weak sauce?

I fucking love it, lol.

[doglips]

OK, so just new releases/first hears in '07?

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder 8/10
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls...... 9/10
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury 8/10
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away 8/10
Jamie T - Panic Prevention 8/10
The View - Hats off To The Buskers 2/10
Deerhunter - Cryptograms 8/10
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 8/10
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future 6/10
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City 4/10
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 8/10
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 9/10
4 Hero - Play With The Changes 5/10
Grinderman - 9/10
Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold 8/10
Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods 6/10
The Rakes - Ten New Messages 7/10
Panda Bear - Person Pitch 8/10
The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out. 6/10
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 10/10
The best Talking Heads album ever? Quite possibly, that's praise enough.
Cat Power - You Are Free 9/10
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times 4/10
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead......... 8/10
Bjork - Volta 7/10
Battles - Mirrored 10/10
You know, if this record had not been released on WARP I probably would have ignored it. Being a long time fan of many of their artists coupled with the fact Pitchfork +9'd it meant I had to click on the download button. Very thankful I did, easily my most played this year, partly due to the fact I still have a lot to discover - every listen is making me greaten my respect for the invention and talent that has gone into Mirrored.
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards 4/10
The National - Boxer 10/10
I haven't seen anyone ( I mentioned it in Now Listening ) love or hate 'Boxer', the new album by The National, so thought I'd bring it up as I went to see them on Wednesday night. I know SFG has listened to it from his blag, but not really seen any comment anywhere else ( unless I missed it ) on the zone.
Boxer is getting rave reviews all over the place with an equal amount of negative comment too. That's why I mentioned love or hate, I really think this is one of those albums. I can see some people would back away from Boxer as it does flirt with areas of melody that Coldplay and the ilk inhabit, but Matt Berninger's ( lead singer ) vocals and lyrics lift the 12 songs way above any of those contemporaries.
It's a record of stark beauty, a claustrophobic blanket of sound ( if you'll indulge that ) - the songs differ in tempo but you can tell they all come from the band enjoying what they do and all being in sync with each other artistically. This gives the album an amazing consistency of sound, with some wonderful arrangements ( Sufjan guests on a couple of tracks ) across it's running time.
I've 10/10'd Boxer, it ticks every box you could wish for, and whilst obviously walking a tightrope over middle-of-the-roadness, the inherent beauty and emotive core The National have crafted take Boxer somewhere else entirely.
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed 9/10
The National - Alligator 9/10
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English 6/10
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House 7/10
Les Breastfeeders - Déjeuner sur l'herbe 7/10
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release 8/10
White Stripes - Icky Thump 7/10
Yacht - I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real 9/10
Burial - Burial 9/10
Cat Power - The Greatest 9/10
Apparat - Walls 9/10
Burial - Ghost Hardware EP 10/10
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation 8/10
Interpol - Our Love To Admire 7/10
Well I was expecting a little more than this. They've taken the blueprints for TOTBL and Antics, photocopied them one on top of another and come out with a feint image. Bad analogy but that's all this is. Still solid Interpol, but they need to try harder than this. Disappointing, it may grow on me, but I've listened to it a lot.
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom 9/10
Now I knew I was going to like this as I love all the singles, but damn, this is a great pop record. A museum of new wave & 80's electronic riffs and whilst it feels like pastiche, NYPC know exactly what they are doing - Opener Get Lucky and The Get Go are excellent.
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 6/10
Asobi Seksu - Citrus 9/10
M.I.A. Kala 10/10
That has to be the best set of beats put down for an album, for well, ages. M.I.A. is like some sort of day-glo musical chameleon.
Any other artists taking on some of these tracks would seem cliched or just plain crazy but MIA just seems to exude cool quality. She's obviously in full control of her artistic choices, sure they may come across as knowing but they sure sound great.
All the singles are excellent, but what we haven't heard already really is something else, 20 Dollar and Paper Planes are the songs of the year.
Okkervil River - The Stage Names 9/10
Feist - The Reminder 8/10

[stereosforgeeks]

New Releases 2007:

January:
Explosions in the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Busdriver - Roadkillovercoat
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Softlightes - Say No To Being Cool Say Yes To Being Happy
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
!!! - Myth Takes
Bright Eyes - Four Winds
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Benni Hemm Hemm - Kajake
Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space
Alasdair Roberts - The Amber Gatherers
Au Revoir Simone - The Bird Of Music
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Go Jeff - Wake The Dance Machine
Husky Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real
Julie Doiron - I Woke Myself Up
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm
Piebald - Accidental Gentleman
Rob Crow - Living Well
Tarwater - Spider Smile
The Go Find - Stars On The Wall
Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
The Bees - Octopus
The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus
The Love Kills Theory - Happy Suicide Jim
The Postmarks - The Postmarks
Until June - Until June
Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors

February:
Ozomatli - Dont Mess With The Dragon
Apathy - Baptism By Fire
Apathy and Celph Titled - No Place Like Chrome
Of Montreal - Icons, Abstract Thee
Mouthful Of Bees - The End
The Good The Bad and The Queen - The Good The Bad and The Queen
Do Make Say Think - You Youre A History In Rust
Jesu - Conqueror
Lifetime - Lifetime
28 Costumes - Die
Beware of Safety - It Is Curtains
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Tongues
The Photo Arrows - Straight Into The Drift
Trans Am - Sex Change
Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Damo Suzuki - Please Heat This Eventually
LSD and the Search for God - Self Titled
The Butterflies Of Love - Famous Problems
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Halfway Into The Woods
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Nat Baldwin - Enter The Winter
Larsson - This is
Low - Drums And Guns
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Living With The Living
Aa - Gaame
This Story - Darling It's War
Indigo Moss - Indigo Moss
Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian
Soft Circle - Full Bloom
Cex - Sketchi
Studio - Yearbook 1
Ateleia - Formal Sleep
Xbxrx - Wars
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Federico Aubele - Panamericana
Super Geek League - Peppermint Rainbows
The Chinese Stars - Listen to Your Left Brain
The One AM Radio - This Too Will Pass
Willy Mason - If the Ocean Gets Rough
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Hot Cross - Risk Revival
Papercuts - Cant Go Back
Last Days Of April - Might As Well Live
Dustin Kensrue - Please Come Home
Palomar - All Things Forests
Xiu Xiu - Remixed and Covered
Air - Pocket Symphony
31 Knots - The Days And Nights Of Everything Anywhere
Bill Callahan - Woke on A Whaleheart
Blonde Redhead - 23
Duane Dolieslager - The Opposite Of Optimist
Friday Mile - Love and Gasoline
Julius Airwave - The City the Forest
Kris Racer - Has A Banner Year
Rosie Thomas - These Friends Of Mine
The American Dollar - The Technicolour Sleep
Yellow6 - Painted Sky
Bear Colony - We Came Here To Die
Calla - Strength In Numbers
Chimaira - Resurrection

March:
Feist - The Reminder
Idlewild - Make Another World
Pelican - City Of Echoes
Badgerlore - We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits
Carla Bruni - No Promises
David Karsten_ aniels - Sharp Teeth
Efterklang - Under Giant Trees
Gruff Rhys - Candylion
Roommate- New Steam EP
Sister Vanilla - Little Pop Rock
The Fucking Champs - VI
Electralene - No Shouts, No Calls
Kaddisfly - Set Sail The Prairie
Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance
Radical Face - Ghost
Dog Day - Night Group
Linguistics - The Writes Of Passage
Love of Diagrams - Mosaic
Lucy Vincent - Head Of The Tide
Shade - Arms Raised on Rooftops
Vyvian - Life In Hysteria
You Say Party We Say Die - Lose All Time
The Photo Atlas - No Not Me Never
No Age - Get Hurt
Jonathan Cooke - Cosmic Casino
Fucked Up - Hidden World
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
Battles - Mirrored
End Of Level Boss - Inside The Difference Engine (Exile On Mainstream)
Germans - Cape Fear
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Nadja - Touched
Ola Podrida - Ola Podrida
Scraps Of Tape - This Is A Copy Is This A Copy
The Sea and Cake - Everybody
Suicidal Birds - Versus Life
The Book Of Knots - Traineater
The Sinister Turns - Turn To The Left
This Specific Dream - Ohm
Todd Carey - Watching Waiting
Voxtrot - Voxtrot
TV On The Radio - Live At Amoeba Music
Indir - All Die Schoenen Zeiten
Foreign Islands - Restart Now
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
Aerial - The Sentinel
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Cocorosie - The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
Get the People - St
Overview - Forty-Four Stone Tigers
The Electric Soft Parade - No Need To Be Downhearted
Tiger Force - A Wasp In A Jar
Tuna Laguna - Ripples and Swells
Bright_Eyes-Cassadaga
Coyote Bones - Gentlemen On The Rocks
Death of A Party - The Rise and Fall of Scarlet City
Dei Suoni - A Path Where No One Thought
Lannen Fall - Stories
The Sails - Drum Roll Please
Moonbabies - Moonbabies At The Ballroom

April:
Sorry No Ferrari - The Get Down Syndrome
Caspian - The Four Trees
The Academy Is... - Santi
Landscape - With A Little Help from My Friends
New Pretoria - The Backyards Legacy
The Concretes - Hey Trouble
The National - Boxer
Thisstoryhasalastname - Honest Is Possible
Tinariwen - Aman Iman Leau Cest La Vie
The Blow - Poor Aim Love Songs and Remixes
Dntel - Dumb Luck
Chuck Ragan - Los Feliz
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
Grinderman - Grinderman
Self-Evident - Self-Evident
People Press Play - People Press Play
The String Quartet - Tribute To Dream Theater
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Y.A.C.H.T. - I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real.
Viva Voce - Loves You
The Storyboards - Stagger and Sway
The Oh Sees - Sucks Blood
The Morning Kennedy Was Shot - Pictures Of Things Worth Looking At
The Focus Group - We Are All Pans People
Seven Storey Mountain - At The Poles
Red Robot - Nemesis
Polly Paulusma - Fingers And Thumbs
No River City - Wolves and Fishes
Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom And The Ys Street Band
Jefrey Leighton Brown - Change Has Got To Come
Hemmingway - Dead Accents
Christopher O'Riley - Second Grace The Music Of Nick Drake
David Thomas Broughton - It's In There Somewhere...
Prodigy - Return of the Mac
Birdpaula - Birdpaula
God Is An Astronaut - Far From Refuge
Wolfgang - The Wicked Truth About Loving A Man
The Hold Steady - Live At Fingerprints
Oi Va Voi - Oi Va Voi
The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me
Souvenirs Young America - September Songs
The Haddocks - The Year Before the Year of Sekiuah
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Strength And Loyalty
Hallelujah the Hills - Collective Psychosis Begone
J Tillman - Cancer and Delirium
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte No Bufalo
Something in Portuguese - The Algo
Hot Chip - DJ Kicks
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Except After Sea - What Buildings Are Made Of
Sayag Jazz Machine - No Me Digas
Silver Daggers - New High and Ord
The Bad Plus - Prog
The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Akrobatik - Essential Akrobatik V.1
Alias - Collected Remixes
Elliott Smith - New Moon
Two Gallants - The Scenery Of Farewell
The Pirateship Quintet - The Pirateship Quintet
Mixtapes and Cellmates - Mixtapes and Cellmates

May:
Ben & Vesper - All This Could Kill You
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Calvin Johnson and The Sons Of The Soil - Calvin Johnson and The Sons Of The Soil
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
Ghoust House - Departures
Love Dance - Result
Low - Black Session at France Inter FM 04-23
Midnight Movies - Lion The Girl
Robert Gomez - Brand New Towns
Seymore Saves The World - Seymore Saves The World
Alex Delivery - Star Destroyer
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
Fursaxa - ALone In The Dark Wood
Ladybug Transistor - Can't Wait Another Day
Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love
Mother Hips - Kiss The Crystal Flake
Page France - ... And The Family Telephone
Paul Duncan - Above The Trees
Sea Wolf - Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low
Simian Mobile Disco - Bugged Out: Suck My Deck
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Casey James Prestwood - The Hurtin' Kind
Two Cow Garage - Three
The Saturday Knights - The Saturday Knights
The Roadside Graves - No One Will Know Where You've Been
Slaraffenland - Private Cinema
Ladyhawk - Fight For Anarchy
Jana Hunter - There's No Home
Fields - Everything Last Winter
Fields - Frozen Wire Sessions
Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races
Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You
Lodger - How Vulgar
Sakert - Sakert
Shannon Wright - Let In The Light
Urlich Schnauss - Quicksand Memory
Amiina - Kurr
Coltrane Motion - Songs About Music
Gang Gang Dance - Retina Riddim
Golden Bug - Barbie's Back
Handsome Furs - Plague Park
Horse The Band - A Natural Death
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Narrator - All That to the Wall
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
North - Ruins
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
Pizhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up!
Pterodactyl - Pterodactyl
San Serac - Professional
Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip The Light Fantastic
Alessandro Stefana - Poste E Telegraf
Meg Baird - Dear Companion
Vapnet - Något Dåligt Nytt Har Hänt
Architecture In Helsinki - Places Like This
Apparat - Walls
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound

June:
Matt Pond PA - If You Want Blood
Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
Ratatat - Lex
Ratatat - Loud Pipes
Rocky Votolato - The Brag And Cuss
Amandine - Solance In Sore Hands
Eluvium - Copia
White Rabbits - Fort Nightly
The Only Children - Keeper Of Youth
Promoe - Standard Bearer
Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
Nurses - Hangin' Nothin' But Our Hands Down
Neon Horse - Neon Horse
National Product - Luna
Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
Illinois - What the Hell Do I know?
Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Alsace Lorraine - Dark One
Fog - Ditherer
Get Him Eat Him - Arms Down
Justice - †
Lewis & Clarke - Blasts of Holy Birth
Maps - We Can Create
No Age - Weirdo Rippers
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Shapes and Sizes - Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner
The Race - Ice Station
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start - Worst Band Name Ever
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Dizzee Rascal - Maths and English
Lifesavas - Gutterfly
Kelly Clarkson - My December
Fridge - The Sun
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated
Jennifer Gentle - A New Astronomy
Jennifer Gentle - The Midnight Room
The Brunettes - Structure and Cosmetics
New Pornographers - Challengers
Norah Jones - Not Too Late
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Erik Mongrain - Fates
Talib Kweli - Ear Drum
Hieroglyphics - Over Time
Thomas Fehlmann - Honigpumpe
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Scared Famous
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Minus Story - My Ion Truss
Detroit Cobras - Tied and True
Taken By Trees - Open Field
Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Fast Computers - Heart Geometry
James Blackshaw - the cloud of unknowing
John Vanderslice - emerald city
The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth
Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin

July:
King Khan & The Shrines - What Is
Imperial Teen - The Air The TV The Baby
Fourth Of July - Fourth Of July On The Plains
The Moths - Games-Wild Birds-Valentine 7"
The Special Pillow - Sleeping Beauty
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Arizona - Fameseeker and the Mono
Thrushes - Sun Come Undone
Bishop Allen - The Broken String
Boom Bip - Sacrilege
Golden Smog - Blood on the Slacks
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers - No More Beautiful World
Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
The For Carnation - Promised Works
Arthur & Yu - In Camera
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
The Minor Canon - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Tiny Vipers - Hands Across The Void
Sissy Wish - Beauties Never Die
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Josh Small - Tall
Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch
B.C. Camplight - Blink Of A Nihilist
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Caribou - Andorra
Caribou - Melody Day
Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House
Dalek - Abandoned Language
Efdemin - Efdemin
Josh Rouse & Paz Suay - She's Spanish, I'm American
Los Campesinos - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
Shining - Grindstone
The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
Tokyo Police Club - Your English is Good
Victor Bermon - Arriving At Night
World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med
Editors - An End Has A Start
Kanye West - Stronger
Skeletons & The Kings Of All Cities - Lucas
Calexico - Tool Box
Common - Finding Forever
Kevin Drew - Spirit If...
Morcheeba - Dive Deep
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
MV & EE - Wharf Ra
MV & EE - goodbye moonface
MV & EE - Mars Delta
September Collective - All The Birds Were Anarchists
Shitdisco - Kingdom Of Fear
VHS Or Beta - Bring On The Comets
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Summer
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
The Go! Team - Proof of Youth

August:
Candie Payne - I Wish I Could Have Loved You More
Art in Manila - Set the Woods on Fire
Figurines - When the Deer Wore Blue
High Places - High Places EP
Mono - Gone
Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
Ratatat - Remixes Vol. 2
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP
Xiu Xiu Larsen - Spicchiology Sources
Videohippos - Unbeast The Leash
UNKLE - War Stories
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - La Mer / Stupid As Wood
The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk Dear
The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel
The Gourds - Noble Creatures
Robbers On High Street - Grand Animals
Ra Ra Riot - Ra Ra Riot
Ra Ra Riot - Pretty Good
Oh No - Dr. Nos Oxperiment
Monomen - Monomen
Mirah and Spectratone International - Share This Place (Stories and Observations By...)
Michael Garrick Trio - Moonscape
Mary Timony Band - The Shapes We Make
Marissa Nadler - Songs III, Bird on the Water
Magnolia Electric Co - Sojourner
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Reinterpretations
Lindstrom - Late Night Tales
Kenge Kenge - Introducing Kenge Kenge
Junius - The Fires Of Antediluvia
Jakob Olaudson - Moonlight Farm
Immaculate Machine - Immaculate Machine's Fables
Gudrun Gut - I put a record on
Daniel Higgs - Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot
Crowded House - Time On Earth
Crowded House - Don't Stop Now
Bodies Of Water - ears will pop & eyes will blink
Bjorn Torske - Feil Knapp
Benzos - Branches
Athlete - beyond the neighborhood
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - What Is Free To A Good Home?
Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
M.I.A. - Kala
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Gore Gore Girls - Get the Gore
Nick Lowe - At My Age
Son Volt - The Search
Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite
Grace Potter And The Nocturnals - This Is Somewhere
Life Without Buildings - Live at the Annandale Hotel
Nina Nastasia And Jim White - You Follow Me
Prints - Prints
The Alarmists - The Ghost And The Hired Gun
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Budos Band - Budos Band II
Aesop Rock - Coffee
Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
Songs Of Green Pheasant - Gyllyng Street
Wingtip Sloat - Add This To Rhetoric
Uffie - Suited and Looted
Travis Morrison Hellfighters - All Y' All
Pseudosix - Pseudosix
Luke Temple - Snowbeast
Jeremy Enigk - The Missing Link
Illuminea - Out Of Our Mouths
José González - In Our Nature
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Bald Eagle - Hot Shoulders
My Brightest Diamond - Disappear EP
My Brightest Diamond - Tear It Down
The Morning Benders - Boarded Doors
Amerie - Because I Love It
Blockhead - Uncle Tony's Coloring Book
Bumblebeez - Printz Umberto and the Sister of Ill
Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future
Galactic - From The Corner To The Block
Prinzhorn Dance School - Prinzhorn Dance School
Prefuse 73 - Preparations
Kanye West - Graduation
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Linda Thompson - Versatile Heart
Oakley Hall - I'll Follow You

September:
Beirut - the flying club cup
Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
Le Loup - The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly
O'Death - Headed Home
Louis Philippe - an unknown spring
Celebration - The Modern Tribe
Bella - No One Will Know
Sarah Shannon - City Morning Song
A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd
Matt Pond PA - Last Light
The New Amsterdams - Killed Or Cured
The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights
Adrian Orange and Her Band - Adrian Orange and Her Band
Future Of The Left - Curses
Georgie James - Places
Mobius Band - Heaven
Thanksgiving - welcome nowhere & extras
The Watery Graves of Portland - Portland
Brighton, MA - Brighton, MA
Film School - Hideout
Junior Senior - Say Hello Wave Goodbye
aussitot mort - 6 songs
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Mira Calix - eyes set against the sun
Milenasong - Seven Sisters
Les Joyaux De La Princesse - Aux Volontaires Croix De Sang
Hotel Alexis - Goliath, I'm On Your Side
Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck (ep)
Ghastly City Sleep - Ghastly City Sleep
Deer Tick - War Elephant
Tujiko Noriko - Solo
Pelle Carlberg - In A Nutshell
Johnathan Richman - Revolution Summer
Enon - Grass Geysers Carbon Clouds
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
CunninLynguists - Dirty Acres
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Brother Reade - Rap Music
Islaja - Ulual Yyy
New Buffalo - Somewhere Anywhere
Port O'Brien - The Wind And The Swell
Phosphorescent - Pride
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!
M83 - Digital Shades Vol. 1
Baroness - Red Album
Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
Library Tapes - Hostluft
Magnet - The Simple Life
Oh No! Oh My! - Between The Devil And The Sea
The Shocking Pinks - The Shocking Pinks
Two Gallants - Two Gallants
Edwyn Collins - Home Again
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus

October:
Babyshambles - Shotters Nation
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Bettye LaVette - The Scene Of The Crime
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Castanets - In The Vines
Dashboard Confessional - The Shape Of Poison Trees
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade
Muscles - Hyperpop!
Scott Walker - And Who Shall Go To The Ball And What Shall Go To The Ball
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
Vanessa Carlton - Heroes And Thieves
Holy Fuck - LP
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Chromatics - IV
Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
Janelle Monae - Metropolis: Suite 1 The Chase
Jesu - Lifeline
Kemialliset Ystavat - Kemialliset Ystavat
Kemialliset Ystavat - alkuharka
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Fill Up The Room
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Green Mansions
Maritime - Heresy and the Hotel Choir
Car Stereo (Wars) - The Bandit
Tullycraft - Every Scene Needs A Center
Gellers - Gellers
Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two - No World for Tomorrow
Copeland - Dressed Up And In Line
Saves The Day - Under The Boards
Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
Subtle - Yell&Ice
Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Ahleuchatistas - Even In The Midst...
Black Dice - Load Blown
Prefuse 73 - Interregnums
The Octopus Project - Hello Avalanche
Yeasayer - all hour cymbols
Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir

November:
White Williams - Smoke
Battles - Tonto
Grizzly Bear - Friend
Sigur Ros - Hvarf - Heim
Health - Health
Buck 65 - Situation
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of NiggyTardust
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
CunninLynguists - Dirty Acres
Bear In Heaven - Red Bloom Of The Boom
black kids - wizard of ahhhs
Bonnie Prince Billy - Strange Form Of Life
Bonnie Prince Billy - Ask Forgiveness
The Heliocentrics - Out There
Ungdomskulen - Cry Baby
Why? - The Hallows
A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag
A Mountain Of One - Collected Works
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Burial - Untrue
Dr Dog - We All Belong
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
Glass Candy - Beat Box (Tour CD)
Gravenhurst - The Western Lands
Robin Allender - The Bird And The Word
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Supersilent - 8
The Cool Kids - Totally Flossed Out
Vampire Weekend - EP
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Rivers Cuomo - Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo
Wu Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Jay-Z - American Gangster
Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

December:
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.1
Deepchord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season
Machinefabriek - Weleer
Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights
Rolan Vega - Documentary
Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away
The Shape Of Broad Minds - Craft Of The Lost Art
To Rococo Rot-ABC123

[tapehead]

edit: I suck at this, and will try to do better in the future

[TonyWilson]

So how's busdriver? I'm about to "purchase" it, but I'd like a little bit of an idea how it is.

[stereosforgeeks]

So how's busdriver? I'm about to "purchase" it, but I'd like a little bit of an idea how it is.

I really like it. Dude can spit something fierce.

[Vegeta]

So far...

January

Silversun Pickups "Carnavas"
The Shins "Wincing the night away"
Rocky Deluca and the Burden "I Trust you to Kill Me"
The Prize Fight Inferno "My Brother's Blood Machine"
Aimee Mann "Another Drifter in the Snow"

[mistertim]

How about we put live music (gigs, festival appearances, concerts) in here too... or shall i start another thread?

[Brocktune]

well, we already have this thread regarding gigs.

[mistertim]

so we have! sorry, and thanks.

[stereosforgeeks]

Updated to finish up January's 2007 listens.

[stereosforgeeks]

Ive been constantly updating new music Ive heard, but we need some way to keep this thread more lively.

Any ideas?

[Keepcoolbutcare]

Ive been constantly updating new music Ive heard, but we need some way to keep this thread more lively.

Any ideas?

commenting on what others have listened to, like thus...

O.S.T. - "Beat Street"
Slick Rick - "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded"

Old. School! I'm shocked, and kinda glad, that you're so forthcoming in listing albums that someone like me can point and laugh at you for not ever having to listened to before!

What say you to my oft-said line that Eminem was nothing more than a white version of Slick Rick?

El-P - "Collecting the Kid"

do you dig El-Producto's beats? 'Cuz I'm thinking of sending you Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein if you haven't heard it before...

Kleenex/Liliput - "Liliput"

whadja think? Post-punky goodness or non-musician hackitude?

MagicMonkey, you listen to anything new in February?!?

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Of Montreal - Icons, Abstract Thee

"hey Kevin Barnes, they said you 'wuz hung!"

KB - "And they were right!"

NSFW!!!

[Keepcoolbutcare]

holy mother of your god!

if, like me, you plum almost didn't realize that your emusic plan was going to restart tomorrow, you can do loads worse than the 20minute freakout that is the Boredoms "7(Boriginal)", off Super Roots 7 (natch).

using beloved, commercially forgotten but critical darlings The Mekons "Where Were You?" guitar riff as a starting point, building 'n building swirling tribal drums until at about the 12minute mark the track just blows the fuck up and careens into the stratosphere.

also picked up Hex Enduction Hour by post-punk stalwarts and massive Pavement influencer's The Fall. I've picked up Fall comps before, never really knowing where to begin with a band whose catalog spans nearly 30 years (and still growing) worth of material...couple that with the fact Mark E. Smith jettisons band members with every new album and a neophyte is left with no choice but to go the comp route.

but mad dog god dam (spot that reference, win a no-prize!), THIS is where you start with them!

[Brocktune]

O.S.T. - "Beat Street"
Slick Rick - "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded"

Old. School! I'm shocked, and kinda glad, that you're so forthcoming in listing albums that someone like me can point and laugh at you for not ever having to listened to before!

What say you to my oft-said line that Eminem was nothing more than a white version of Slick Rick?

hahaha. point away, and laugh your heart out. when i was a youth, they didnt have crazy things like this newfangled interweb. consequently, i actually had to pay for my records. so as im sure you can imagine, my records were sparse in number, but well worn. those three records definitely took a lot longer to get around to than they should have. but in my defense, when i should have been listening to those, i was listening to other mc's. n.w.a, eazy-e, ice-t, dana dane (you heard right, go ahead and keep laughing), run dmc, P.E., etc., etc. its probably a good thing though, as i really couldnt get into BDP. i mean, jack of spades was a cool song. but i find their beats frustratingly sparse, and i just cant connect with krs-one. i dont know what it is, but i was left feeling let down by what is pretty much universally hailed as one of, if not the, most important rap record of all times.

and as far as eminem being nothing more than a broke-ass slick rick, all i can say is he wishes. he could never EVER be that cool. although, to be fair, eminem is a more cunning linguist, but he is also a lot more boring. i mean i like songs about beating the shit out of your girlfriend as much as the next guy. but a whole album? come on. and like i said, the ruler has cool in fucking spades. the kind of cool that marshall could only dream of possessing.

El-P - "Collecting the Kid"

do you dig El-Producto's beats? 'Cuz I'm thinking of sending you Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein if you haven't heard it before...

no, i havent. to be honest, at first, i wasnt too into it. but then i did some research, and it turns out that collecting the kid is a bit of an outtakes album, and probably not the best place to start off. and to be fair, there were at least a couple of tracks that piqued my interest. i would definitely be down to hear some more. hopefully his other singles/comps have more of the stuff that sounded good.

Kleenex/Liliput - "Liliput"

whadja think? Post-punky goodness or non-musician hackitude?

loved it.
it kind of suffers from a bit of a run-on feeling. but that could also be a result of the fact that the disc (or discs) is pretty much a complete compendium. like im sure i wouldnt get that feeling as much if i put one of the original vinyls on, you know. but yeah, the record is kick ass in all kinds of ways. i like it quite a bit.

oh yeah, and nice mention of the mekons. i have 2 or 3 of their albums that have been waiting for a listen for quite some time. i would just bring them into work, but my boss (who i have had to spend a lot more time with recently) cant really handle too much that is out of the ordinary. and i would rather listen to my beatles records all day for the ten million-billionth time, than put myself in a position to have the mekons taken off only to have it replaced with elton john or some shit, you know?

[St. Alphonzo]

JANUARY
Andrew Bird - "The Mysterious Production of Eggs"

Que? You turned me on to this one over a year ago! You've only just heard the whole thing?

By the way, new Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha releases in March. Also, I was shocked to see him on one of my kid's favorite shows "Jack's Big Music Show" on Noggin. No acting skills whatsover, but fun to see him nonetheless.

I'll have to work on my list!

[Brocktune]

JANUARY
Andrew Bird - "The Mysterious Production of Eggs"

Que? You turned me on to this one over a year ago! You've only just heard the whole thing?

yeah. that was one of those "i have to get this the day it comes out" records, that i didnt end up having the money for. i know, its both deplorable, and detestable of me. but, i knew how good it would be, so there was no shame in recommending it. at least thats how i felt at the time

By the way, new Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha releases in March.

i know! man, i have got to get that record the day it comes out!

Also, I was shocked to see him on one of my kid's favorite shows "Jack's Big Music Show" on Noggin. No acting skills whatsover, but fun to see him nonetheless.

he was on a show? man that is awesome. did he play? although its no surprise that he cant act. seriously. meeting him in person, he seemed a little cold and wooden, so i can only imagine how he would be in front of the camera. the first time i met him, he was like all cold and stoic. but the rest of the guys in the BoF were stoked to talk to me, and super happy to sign my shit. so dark, so brooding, so obtusely intellectual. oh, mr. bird, the fact that i know you would loathe me makes me love you even more. man, thanks for the heads up Alphonzo. i gotta check youtube for that shit!

[St. Alphonzo]

Also, I was shocked to see him on one of my kid's favorite shows "Jack's Big Music Show" on Noggin. No acting skills whatsover, but fun to see him nonetheless.

he was on a show? man that is awesome. did he play? although its no surprise that he cant act. seriously. meeting him in person, he seemed a little cold and wooden, so i can only imagine how he would be in front of the camera. the first time i met him, he was like all cold and stoic. but the rest of the guys in the BoF were stoked to talk to me, and super happy to sign my shit. so dark, so brooding, so obtusely intellectual. oh, mr. bird, the fact that i know you would loathe me makes me love you even more. man, thanks for the heads up Alphonzo. i gotta check youtube for that shit!

Andrew "too cool for the likes of you" Bird played a magical stringed-instrument repairman named "Dr. Stringz". He sang a silly song, played a violin and a mandolin, and that was that. It looks like the only youtube video of it has been pulled due to a rights violation. Fuckin' Google. Anyway, here's an mp3 that takes, like, five years to upload:Dr Stringz mp3

[Brocktune]

i thank you good sir.

as soon as i am free from the confines of my confounded web admins, i shall "get my download on" forthwith.

[stereosforgeeks]

February's listens are now complete.

[Keepcoolbutcare]

February's listens are now complete.

for a short month, that's a long list...

out of all of 'em, I gotta ask about Omar and Damo Suzuki?!? - Please Heat This Eventually, and Bill Callahan (Smog? Fucking Joanna Newsom?) - Woke on A Whaleheart.

oh yeah, which albums do you like/recommend?

[stereosforgeeks]

February's listens are now complete.

for a short month, that's a long list...

out of all of 'em, I gotta ask about Omar and Damo Suzuki?!? - Please Heat This Eventually, and Bill Callahan (Smog? Fucking Joanna Newsom?) - Woke on A Whaleheart.

oh yeah, which albums do you like/recommend?

I was listening to the Bill Callahan on the way into work today but haven't really formed an oppinion yet.

The Omar and Damo is basic guitar masterbtion just like most of his post ATDI stuff.

I will formulate some concrete recs later.

[stereosforgeeks]

February recs:

Jesu
LSD and the Search for God
Aa
Panda Bear
Rosie Thomas
Bear Colony
Low

Those are the more obscure albums I keep on returning to from Feb.

Also, the new Pelican \mm/ rocks.

[stereosforgeeks]

Anybody listen to my suggestions?

[doglips]

i will when I am able to download again next week - any of these on e-music?

[stereosforgeeks]

Im sure most of them are.

I just got a bunch of other new good stuff too...

I will probably put up some in the best new music 2007 thread.

[stereosforgeeks]

Have people been keeping up with this?

[Brocktune]

i havent updated mine in a week or two. i gotta remind myself to do that soon.

[stereosforgeeks]

I am very curious what people have been listening to lately.

Ive been updating mine when I get new music.

[Brocktune]

i try to do the same thing. but then every couple of weeks, i just get real apathetic about everything, and i stop caring. then like the next week, i will go back and fix it. im so ALF.

[stereosforgeeks]

I hear that the movie blog thing im bad at but the music im good at keeping up on.

[Keepcoolbutcare]

Have people been keeping up with this?

i have!

of course, I don't listen to nearly as much music as you and Brock.

'bout time you got into the Blow, stereo. YACHT's gonna blow up.

[St. Alphonzo]

February recs:
Panda Bear

Is this the same sort of feel as the rest of the Animal Collective stuff? I've been considering picking it up on e-music, 'cause of the acclaim I've been hearing... but I'll be damned if I can get into the Animal Collective sound.

[stereosforgeeks]

Have people been keeping up with this?

i have!

of course, I don't listen to nearly as much music as you and Brock.

'bout time you got into the Blow, stereo. YACHT's gonna blow up.

Ive had some of the Blow stuff for awhile. This was a nice reissue with some cool remixes so thats nice.

[stereosforgeeks]

February recs:
Panda Bear

Is this the same sort of feel as the rest of the Animal Collective stuff? I've been considering picking it up on e-music, 'cause of the acclaim I've been hearing... but I'll be damned if I can get into the Animal Collective sound.

Not really like the Animal collective stuff more like experimental Brian Wilson/Beach Boys stuff. The songs are long and can change quite a bit over their runtime.

[Flumm]

I was just going to say, that this thread is so delisciously hispterly that it makes me want to give up right now and retire to a life of slippers, armchairs and vitimin flavoured, bran supllimented baked goods.

Possibly flapjacks.


Anyhow...

Have people been keeping up with this?

i have!

of course, I don't listen to nearly as much music as you and Brock.

man, i cant download shit at work.

fuckin gentlemen!

With resources allowing, I can't manage more than a few albums and a generous scattering of this or that a week, at peak rate.

(although part of that I suspect, is that you guys are dl & spinnng whole albums at a time, as apposed to my more random escapades)

KC, Brock, Tony, SFG, Sepp, Dog, Phonz, - your appetites, (and your frickin' aquisitional abilities), for musicality, gone done gives me hipster-pangs all in my loinal areas.



You're efforts, in recording opinions of, linking to, and/or uoloading anything in teh ways of sounds and such, is always appreciated.


I'm not sure if it's needed or not, but a vitimin-enriched, bran supplimented, IHateYou/IHateMe/Cheers anyway.

[stereosforgeeks]

I was just going to say, that this thread is so delisciously hispterly that it makes me want to give up right now and retire to a life of slippers, armchairs and vitimin flavoured, bran supllimented baked goods.

Possibly flapjacks.


Anyhow...

Have people been keeping up with this?

i have!

of course, I don't listen to nearly as much music as you and Brock.

man, i cant download shit at work.

fuckin gentlemen!

With resources allowing, I can't manage more than a few albums and a generous scattering of this or that a week, at peak rate.

(although part of that I suspect, is that you guys are dl & spinnng whole albums at a time, as apposed to my more random escapades)

KC, Brock, Tony, SFG, Sepp, Dog, Phonz, - your appetites, (and your frickin' aquisitional abilities), for musicality, gone done gives me hipster-pangs all in my loinal areas.



You're efforts, in recording opinions of, linking to, and/or uoloading anything in teh ways of sounds and such, is always appreciated.


I'm not sure if it's needed or not, but a vitimin-enriched, bran supplimented, IHateYou/IHateMe/Cheers anyway.

I get to listen to a lot of stuff at work as my job is very independent. Right now I am listening to The F*cking Champs - VI as I do my work and read various sites.

[Keepcoolbutcare]

Is this the same sort of feel as the rest of the Animal Collective stuff? I've been considering picking it up on e-music, 'cause of the acclaim I've been hearing... but I'll be damned if I can get into the Animal Collective sound.

you know I didn't go for Animal Collective either, Phonz, but even I got to admit that Panda Bear is pretty darn good.

the longer jams are the ones I'm especially keen on. It does sorta come across like a hippie-dippie jam session at times, but there's a nice sense of melody and rhythm throughout.

doesn't deserve the 9.4 that P4K gave it, but so little does...

[St. Alphonzo]

Is this the same sort of feel as the rest of the Animal Collective stuff? I've been considering picking it up on e-music, 'cause of the acclaim I've been hearing... but I'll be damned if I can get into the Animal Collective sound.

you know I didn't go for Animal Collective either, Phonz, but even I got to admit that Panda Bear is pretty darn good.

the longer jams are the ones I'm especially keen on. It does sorta come across like a hippie-dippie jam session at times, but there's a nice sense of melody and rhythm throughout.

doesn't deserve the 9.4 that P4K gave it, but so little does...

That's exactly what I needed to hear. My downloads at e-music refresh on Monday, and it will be mine! Thanks KCBC & SFG!

[stereosforgeeks]

Is this the same sort of feel as the rest of the Animal Collective stuff? I've been considering picking it up on e-music, 'cause of the acclaim I've been hearing... but I'll be damned if I can get into the Animal Collective sound.

you know I didn't go for Animal Collective either, Phonz, but even I got to admit that Panda Bear is pretty darn good.

the longer jams are the ones I'm especially keen on. It does sorta come across like a hippie-dippie jam session at times, but there's a nice sense of melody and rhythm throughout.

doesn't deserve the 9.4 that P4K gave it, but so little does...

That's exactly what I needed to hear. My downloads at e-music refresh on Monday, and it will be mine! Thanks KCBC & SFG!

Hope you dig it!

[Brocktune]

KC, Brock, Tony, SFG, Sepp, Dog, Phonz, - your appetites, (and your frickin' aquisitional abilities), for musicality, gone done gives me hipster-pangs all in my loinal areas.



You're efforts, in recording opinions of, linking to, and/or uoloading anything in teh ways of sounds and such, is always appreciated.


I'm not sure if it's needed or not, but a vitimin-enriched, bran supplimented, IHateYou/IHateMe/Cheers anyway.

hahahaha

well, i cant speak for anyone but myself on this one, but i suppose the upshot of being a complete loser is that at least i get to listen to records all day.

and any day you would like a little assistance in the art of "acquiring" new sounds, you know im always just a pm away bro.