bastard_robo wrote:ALICE IN CHAINS IS BACK!
They've defied the laws of UNIVERSE its self and have reclaimed their glory once again!
Hermanator X wrote:bastard_robo wrote:ALICE IN CHAINS IS BACK!
They've defied the laws of UNIVERSE its self and have reclaimed their glory once again!
WITH ELTON JOHN ON GUEST VOCALS AND PIANA!!
haha. Sorry, im just not a fan of the Chain's while my brother loves em. Sent him a link about the EJ duet laughing my head off.
It may turn out a cool song, (havent heard it yet) but the scenario does sound kinda funny.
TonyWilson wrote:Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another.
Alright guys this 100 percent the best rock album of the entire year, it's possibly even in the top ten of the past 5 years. That's zero hyperbole.
You may know the lead singer as being from the brilliant and crazy McClusky but this is something greater altogether. A mixture of melodic post-hardcore, bitingly satirical or free associative lyrics full of morbid wit, keyboards that would impress even Add N To X and a pitch perfect production that's as raw as your balls on a razorblade when it needs to be and suprisingly, wonderfully epic throughout. With track names like "You Needs Satan More Than He Needs You" about the practicality of being a Satanist, sample lyric "What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?", songs about the kind of girl who likes a violent man, in your face but funny rants about Nike and weirdly nostalgic images of ASBO type kids on railway lines there's an undeniable political edge to the album but it's more part of the background, foregrounded are awesomely evil riffs, psychotic drumming and the already mentioned fantastic lyrics.
Standout tracks include "You Need Satan...", "Throwing Bricks At Trains" and here's the video for "The Hope That House Built"
TonyWilson wrote:Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another.
Alright guys this 100 percent the best rock album of the entire year, it's possibly even in the top ten of the past 5 years. That's zero hyperbole.
You may know the lead singer as being from the brilliant and crazy McClusky but this is something greater altogether. A mixture of melodic post-hardcore, bitingly satirical or free associative lyrics full of morbid wit, keyboards that would impress even Add N To X and a pitch perfect production that's as raw as your balls on a razorblade when it needs to be and suprisingly, wonderfully epic throughout. With track names like "You Needs Satan More Than He Needs You" about the practicality of being a Satanist, sample lyric "What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?", songs about the kind of girl who likes a violent man, in your face but funny rants about Nike and weirdly nostalgic images of ASBO type kids on railway lines there's an undeniable political edge to the album but it's more part of the background, foregrounded are awesomely evil riffs, psychotic drumming and the already mentioned fantastic lyrics.
Standout tracks include "You Need Satan...", "Throwing Bricks At Trains" and here's the video for "The Hope That House Built"
bastard_robo wrote:ALICE IN CHAINS IS BACK!
Ribbons wrote:The Passion Pit - "The Reeling"
TonyWilson wrote:Yeah Neon Indian were the soundtrack to my summer this year, Psychic Chasms is one hell of a lush EP, Beach Boys filtered through disco and New Wave. I like The Reeling as a track but not hugely into the album as a whole, maybe it needs a few more listens.
TonyWilson wrote:I got Feel It All Around which is a cool track, I'll hunt down some others. Have you heard Toro Y Moi? They're doing some cool blissed out heavily filtered dance music too.
TonyWilson wrote:Hah, sorry, weird.![]()
That's an ace link, dude. I'll try and pay you back with these guys cus I'm sure you didn't mention Rainbow Bridge who are rockier but still got the surf influence thing going on, I bet you have actually heard them already though.
TonyWilson wrote:Hah, yes mate, GvsB is absolutely brilliant for new music. Agreed about the stuff like Wavves, I think Woods has a bit of it too, maybe more of country feel to it though as well but like alt-psych-country.
I'm getting Seek Magic from roughtrade as we speak.
TonyWilson wrote:What do people think of the new Fuck Buttons album Tarot Sport? I'm really quite ambivalent, on the one hand it's epic textural bliss, on the other, despite what many reviews have said, it's stunningly unoriginal.
TonyWilson wrote:What do people think of the new Fuck Buttons album Tarot Sport? I'm really quite ambivalent, on the one hand it's epic textural bliss, on the other, despite what many reviews have said, it's stunningly unoriginal.
Animal Collective, Wilco lead '09 best rock albums
By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer – Fri Dec 11, 4:23 pm ET
As a medium, the rock album is so under siege that even Radiohead made noise in 2009 about giving it up for downloadable singles and EPs.
The album can't help but increasingly feel like an afterthought in a year where the big thing in rock seemed to be landing on the soundtrack of "New Moon." But even though 2009 may not have produced a wealth of classic discs, there was still great stuff to be heard. One writer's top 10 of the year:
1. Animal Collective, "Merriweather Post Pavilion": It's a trip, to be sure. The strength of Animal Collective has never been in the lyrics or even in songcraft. But with buzzing, pulsating electronics, they create primal jams for the 21st century. Best here are the songs by Panda Bear, one of the group's two songwriters along with Avey Tare. On songs such as "My Girls" and "Daily Routine," Panda Bear (whose real name is the less silly Noah Lennox) sings simply about young fatherhood while fracturing dazzling, sunny Beach Boys-esque melodies. "Merriweather" is a claustrophobic, dizzying maze that only releases in the final, sky-parting minutes of the album closer, "Brother Sport."
2. Franco, "Francophonic, Vol. 2": 2009 has in many ways been the year of African music. Fela Kuti's music is blaring on Broadway. The Dirty Projects — along with such bands as Vampire Weekend and Fool's Gold — found popularity in adapting Afropop to indie rock. But curious fans should go to the source: the Congo legend Franco Luambo, whose soukous style rumbas earned him the title of James Brown of Africa, a grand label that still underestimates him. Dance to the golden rumbas of this collection and its earlier volume and fall into the musical world of greats like Tabu Ley Rochereau and contemporaries such as Amadou & Mariam, whose "Welcome to Mali" was also one of the year's best.
3. Wilco, "Wilco (The Album)": Having apparently rid himself of his demons, Jeff Tweedy upends the rock 'n' roll convention of the drugged-out, troubled poet: He's better with those days behind him. Darkness (as on spooky "Bull Black Nova") still lingers, but good spirit and Tweedy's top notch songwriting feel utterly unencumbered.
4. The Decemberists, "The Hazards of Love": Pay less attention to the narrative of this "folk opera" than to the excellent drumming and the rousing cameos from My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden and Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark. Both just about steal the show — and it's quite a show.
5. A.C. Newman, "Get Guilty": One of the most underrated albums of the year is A.C. Newman's second solo album. Newman, whose real name is Carl Newman, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the New Pornographers. Without his larger band, Newman's hooks (seemingly in unending supply) are stripped down to their bombastic essence. "We used to throw thunderbolts," Newman reminisces, but he still hurls them.
6. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, "Dark Night of the Soul": If this album is unfamiliar, it may be because it doesn't quite exist. When it was released, it included only a photo book by filmmaker David Lynch and a blank CD. Legal troubles held it up, but with a wink-wink, the musicians suggested it be downloaded illegally. "Dark Night of the Soul" has a mysterious quality and not just because of its find-it-somewhere-online release. These two ridiculously named pseudonyms team up to play backing band to a host of guest singers, from Iggy Pop to James Mercer of the Shins.
7. Grizzly Bear, "Veckatimest": Delicate and light, Grizzly Bear's third and finest album has a purity to it. It's filled with sonorous, singsongy melodies that seem to float. It's been a galvanizing force in the indie world, which is increasingly turning to dreamy, catchy tunes sometimes labeled "glo-fi." Though the glo-fi movement is slight and edgeless, Grizzly Bear is more substantive, as in the haunting "Ready, Able."
8. Flaming Lips, "Embryonic": It's inspiring to see a band more than 25 years on make such an experimental, unpredictable album such as the two-disc "Embryonic." The Flaming Lips weren't alone, either in proving their great longevity; Built to Spill and Yo La Tengo — similarly classic acts forged primarily in the 1990s — also released impressively lively albums. High points include the Lips' epic, throbbing "Watching the Planets" and Built to Spill's "Life's a Dream," where they perfectly marry their trademark swirling guitars with horns.
9. Allen Toussaint, "The Bright Mississippi": No, it doesn't rock, but it swings. Always one of the more elegant of the Crescent City's great R&B men, Toussaint tiptoes cleanly and with panache through jazz, with standards by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt. Produced by Joe Henry, the pianist plays with an excellent band of Marc Ribot, Nicholas Payton and Don Byron.
10. Regina Spektor, "Far": There's a danger of underrating Spektor because she makes it seem so easy. The Russian-born, classically trained pianist plays bouncy, infectious pop songs that abruptly turn and soar. Resistance is futile.
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Honorable Mentions: Dan Auerbach, "Keep It Hid"; White Denim, "Fits"; Kid Cudi, "Man on the Moon: The End of Day"; Tom Waits, "Glitter and Doom Live"; Sunset Rubdown, "Dragonslayer"; Leonard Cohen, "Live in London"; The Antlers, "Hospice"
9. Allen Toussaint, "The Bright Mississippi": No, it doesn't rock, but it swings. Always one of the more elegant of the Crescent City's great R&B men, Toussaint tiptoes cleanly and with panache through jazz, with standards by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt. Produced by Joe Henry, the pianist plays with an excellent band of Marc Ribot, Nicholas Payton and Don Byron.
Seppuku wrote:Stereos hinted to me he's gonna whittle down his Top 100 to a Top 10 or so by the way, just in case that list is as daunting to you as it is to me.
Ribbons wrote:How do you guys feel about Miike Snow? I just heard this song and thought it was pretty cool:
Seppuku wrote:Any other Janelle Monae fans on the Zone? I think she's pretty awesome, personally. She takes elements of Stevie Wonder, Outkast, D'Angelo and maybe even a couple of prog bands and merges them into her own art pop masterpieces. Her hair does scare me, though. Other albums from this year getting regular plays are Gonjasufi's A Sufi & A Killer, Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma, quite a bit of UK grime and dubstep and Big Boi's new album. The black man is back, man.
Seppuku wrote:MGMT have their new album available to stream on their website here and it's a real beaut. It sounds nothing like their early work, and it's all the better for it if you ask me. Kinda like Syd Barrett-era Floyd crossed with the Animal Collective, with a little bit of Brian Eno's rock albums thrown in (they even named a track after him). Apparently the fans are all in an uproar because it's not the MGMT they know and love. "Help, if I don't dance sometime in the next 50 seconds my legs will start to atrophy and I'll never be able to walk again!!!" Guess the hipsters aren't ready to incorporate Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy into their list of acceptable influences yet. Fuck 'em.
Ribbons wrote:Seppuku wrote:MGMT have their new album available to stream on their website here and it's a real beaut. It sounds nothing like their early work, and it's all the better for it if you ask me. Kinda like Syd Barrett-era Floyd crossed with the Animal Collective, with a little bit of Brian Eno's rock albums thrown in (they even named a track after him). Apparently the fans are all in an uproar because it's not the MGMT they know and love. "Help, if I don't dance sometime in the next 50 seconds my legs will start to atrophy and I'll never be able to walk again!!!" Guess the hipsters aren't ready to incorporate Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy into their list of acceptable influences yet. Fuck 'em.
I do like how MGMT went in a completely different direction for their second album instead of just trying to make a bigger version of the first, especially since they often express fears of 'selling out.' Unfortunately their record label doesn't seem to feel the same way:
http://www.spin.com/articles/mgmt-well-have-less-freedom-third-album
Guess this time around the suits are going to make sure they swallow the handshake and keep it down...
Seppuku wrote:Le Noise, Neil Young's new album with Daniel Lanois has been uploaded to Youtube with video (a Shakey film production) here:
I've only heard the first track so far, but I'm digging the dusty Noise Rock vibe. Hopefully the album's as spare and stripped-back as those performances.
EDIT: Apparently that is the actual album. Cool.
Ribbons wrote:Whoa! I don't think I've even listened to 100 albums this year, let alone ranked them in order of preference. You sir are a beast. Ironically(...? Is that word appropriate in this situation?) the only one of those I've even heard is your #1 pick, Teen Dream by Beach House, which is pretty boffo. Although I do have an unopened copy of Plastic Beach lying around somewhere.
justcheckin wrote:New to me but I think the most recent studio album came out in 2009... I am digging some Florence + The Machine
stereosforgeeks wrote:justcheckin wrote:New to me but I think the most recent studio album came out in 2009... I am digging some Florence + The Machine
The XX remix of the Florence and the Machine song is great.
justcheckin wrote:stereosforgeeks wrote:justcheckin wrote:New to me but I think the most recent studio album came out in 2009... I am digging some Florence + The Machine
The XX remix of the Florence and the Machine song is great.
cool... gonna check it out. thx
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