the men - open your heart

furious garage punk rock

bear in heaven - i love you, it's cool

killer indie synth-pop/psychedelica

trailer trash tracys

60s girl band with a hip-hop/electronic twist

robert glasper experiment - black radio

far more than the standard guest-laden fare, robert glasper has a cohesive sound that binds these tracks together. the musicianship on this is just so tight. chris 'daddy' dave just kills it.

school of seven bells - Ghostory

one of the best DSM* albums of recent times.

*drive soundtrack music

andrew bird - break it yourself

chamber pop. fantastic.

beth jeans and the hooves of destiny - atlas

fucked up americana? brilliantly eccentric.

thee spivs - black and white memories

the sound of 1977. buzzcocks. wire. pistols. all figure heavily on this debut.

django django - django django

somewhere between the beta band and devo. awesome, then.

cloud nothings - attack on memory

pop-punk meets krautrock. steve albini produced and obviously so.

that should keep you going.

so i've just been playing a lot of my favorite 2011 albums and a few from 2012

grouper - a i a

tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 (really grew on me after a few listens)

kaela kimira - 8eight8

gimes - visions

dustin wong - dreams say... (can feel a little repetitive at times, but it's overall just really solid)

perfume - jpn

john talabot - fin

tokyo jihen - tokyo collection

sharon van etten - tramp

kim jung mi - 1973 (korean psychedelic pop/rock/folk)

this heat - deceit

el-p - cancer for cure

danny brown - xxx

yuki - powers of ten

death grips - the money store

beach house - bloom

wire - chairs missing

actress - r.i.p.

kaela kimura - 5years

sakamichi no apollon OST

do or die

No order...

Sleigh Bells-Reign Of Terror
Robert Glasper-Black Radio
Miles Davis-Agartha
McKenzie Eddy-Young Platinum
The Internet-Purple Naked Ladies
Faith Evans-Faith
Iggy Azaelia-Ignorant Art
Schoolboy Q-Habits & Contradictions
Idle Warship-Habits Of The Heart
Guilty Simpson & Eric Lau-The Mission EP (WHY ISNT THIS BEING PROMOTED?!?!?)

not sure how i feel about the sleigh bells. it kinda feels like just more of the same but then that's no necessarily a bad thing.

"Forgotten Art" - Glenn Underground
"Post" - Bjork
"Animal Magic" - Bonobo
"Best of" Marcos Valle
"Two" - Silhouette Brown
"A Wha' Him Deh Pon?" - Dego
"Aquarius" -Joyce & Donato
"Perfumed Silence" - P'Taah
"Aja"- Steely Dan
"Year of The Rebel" - Anthony Nicholson

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Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Flumina
hectic zeniths - hectic zeniths
Lego Feet - Lego Feet
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Meredith Monk - Songs Of Ascension
Rachel's - Systems/Layers
The Roots - Undun
Soap&Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (2CD remastered)
Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk

and lego feet has me curious by the name alone.

pretty close to what you'd expect if you're familiar with them individually or heard their previous collaboration


>and lego feet has me curious by the name alone.

it's autechre's 1991 first release with an equal amount of previously unreleased material

an ex was on them sumthin tuff

no new group album for some reason

http://www.rachelsband.com/newprojects.html

stuff you're listening to right now.

i omitted

islands - a sleep and a forgetting

piano-led pop. killer song-writing.

first aid kit - the lion's roar AND to all my friends - ride with me

both swedish girl group doing americana. lovely harmonies and gorgeous songs.

terry malts - killing time

more garage rock, more fun.

prinzhorn dance class - clay class

male/female duo reminiscent of the xx.

white denim - last day of summer

fast becoming one of the best bands around, great mix of classic rock, soul and country. brilliant musicianship.

hospitality - hospitality

fantastic girl band pop

chairlift - chairlift

killer 80s pop

meshell ndegeocello - weather

joe henry and meshell made a great team for this record. possibly my favorite meshell album since bitter.

diagrams - diagrams

kind of like elbow if elbow were a lot more interesting.

that's way more than ten. i suck at lists, but think of this as more of a post of recommendations.

<shrug>

Lil ugly mane - mista thug isolation
Schoolboy q - habits and contradictions
Sharon van etten - tramp
John talabot - fin
Burial - street halo/kindred
Shlohmo - vacation
Grimes - visions
Big krit - 4eva and a day
Moacir santos - coisas (bomb samba jazz from the 60s)
Pantha du prince - this bliss

Knxwledge - "komfi.EP"


Sir Froderick and Knxwledge - "AfricanDivas"


Sir Froderick - (as Ciao Bella)"LateNiteThinkinEP"
- "Qualm Monk EP"
- "shesbeautiful EP"


Sir Froderick and Ohbliv - "Wholly Rollers"


Ohbliv - "Freekbeat"
- "New Black Renaissance (Side B)"



But it's not all beats with me, I still like rap!!!:

Hodgy Beats "Untitled EP"
Alchemist and Oh No "Vodka & Ayahuasca"
Action Bronson "Well Done"
Exile "4-Track Mind"


Plus some older stuff:

Kool G. Rap "4,5,6"
Def Squad "El Nino"
Gang Starr "Moment of Truth"


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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

Nice taste.

1. big k.r.i.t. - 4EvaNaDay: 8.26
2. schoolboy q - habits & contradictions: 8.18
3. young buck - live loyal, die rich: 7.21
4. alley boy - nigganati: 7.20
5. g-side - island: 8.16
6. grimes - visions n/a
7. nite jewel - one second of love: 6.74
8. saigon - warning shots 3: 6.90
9. hectic zeniths - hectic zeniths: n/a (3.5/5)

kind of a struggle to find another two/three/four, I haven't had stuff on repeat much unless I've had to review it. Cloud Nothings would probably be on here if there just weren't so much other music to try out, only given it one listen but I was pretty damn surprised because I thought they were some sort of indie/folk/psychedelic/pop band, lol.


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I'll have to go through what I've been listening, to see what's from this year.

Wasted Days has been on repeat today

Death Grips - The Money Store
Black Dice - Mr. Impossible
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Willis Earl Beal - Acousmatic Sorcery
Serengeti - Kenny Dennis EP
Mo Kolours - EP2
Homeboy Sandman - Chimera
Daughn Gibson - All Hell ****This is the one I'd say check out. It's Lee Hazelwood like crooning over country samples, but the way it comes together is really great. Another reminder of how much I enjoy novel sampling.

Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Action Bronson - Blue Chips
Curren$y & Styles P - #The1st28 (I really feel like this one was overlooked when it dropped)
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Howler - America Give Up
Lee Fields - Faithful Man
Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is an Animal
To All My Friends - Ride With Me
Toki Wright - Faders
Trampled By Turtles - Stars and Satellites

And it's not from this year but I'm still bumping Doomtree's No Kings pretty hard.

lower dens - nootropics
spiritualized - sweet heart sweet light
breton - other people's problems
daniel rossen - silent hour/golden mile
blondes - blondes
big pink - future this
sharon van etten - tramp
dr jon - locked down
young magic - melt
matthew dear - headcage EP

i'm way to jazzy okayplayery but fuck it its what i like

the roots - undun
robert glasper - black radio
esperanza spalding - radio music society
gregory porter - be good
thundercat - golden age of the apocalypse
meshell ndegeocello - weather
gary clark jr - the bright lights ep
rahsaan roland kirk - introducing roland kirk
johnnie taylor - chronicle 20 greatest hits
goodie mob - soul food
herbie hancock - mr hands
getz/gilberto

in no particular order

1. Danny Brown - The Hybrid
2. Blondes - Touched
3. Games - That We Play
4. TRUST - TRST
5. Lapalux - Many Faces Out Of Focus
6. Niki & the Dove - The Drummer
7. Depeche Mode - Ultra
8. Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth
9. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
10. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

can't even see any album topping that for my favorite of this year.

After that?

Grynch - Perspective
Chairlift - Something
Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside
Cults - S/T
Miguel - Art Dealer Chic vols. 1-3
Neon Indian - Era Extrana
Catcall - The Warmest Place
ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveASAP

Lil B - God's Father
Beach House - Bloom
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Mondre M.A.N. - MC Illin
Actress - R.I.P.
Mars Volta - Noctourniquet (Really surprised by how good this is, I was done with em after Bedlam)
Big Krit - 4eva and a Day
El-P - Cancer for Cure
Machinedrum - Room(s) (Deluxe edition just dropped, this is top 3 of 2011 for me. Shit GOES)
LA Lakers - Silk Lettuce Whitney Houston

EDIT: Burial's Kindred is still my favorite release of 2012, easily. It's an EP, tho.

rick ross - rich forever (rap)
chromatics - kill for love (electro/80s)
beach house - bloom (indie pop)
french montana - cokeboys 3 (rap)
marina & the diamonds - electra heart (pop)
santigold - master of my makebelieve (indie pop)
chief keef - back from the dead (rap)
miike snow - happy to you (indie pop)
future - pluto (rap)

Saw a couple i would of added but did not want to duplicate, inc: All Hell- Daughn Gibson, Money Store- Deathgrips, and Ghostory- School of Seven Bells. All highly recommended..

My list:

Black up- Shabazz Palaces
Apokalypsis- Chelsea Wolfe
Shangri-La- Yacht
Afronoise I- cut hands
Father Creeper- Spoek Mathambo
Transverse- Carter Tutti Void
Conatus- Zola Jesus
Union of Irreconcilables- Menace Ruine
New Brigade- Ice Age
Here is where we used to sing- Fovea Hex

Soon to knock three out of this list:
Santigold:Master of my Make believe
Mothlite: The Dark Age
EL-P: Cure for Cancer

I really don't know his stuff very well, it's never grabbed me but I've always meant to spend a bit more time listening.

I've listened through the new one several times and will probably just go ahead and buy the damn thing - relentlessly good. Which will give me a good reason to ahead and listen to all the stuff I've missed from him.

Also, folks should be listening to that new Damien Jurado - if you're already a fan you'll dig it, if you've never heard him before it's a great (if perhaps misleading) entry point. I swear, several songs sound so perfect I thought they were covers... stuff you feel like you've been listening to forever (even though it's all brand new)...

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

i'm feeling this a lot.

1. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
2. The Men - Open Your Heart
3. Screaming Females - Ugly
4. Dr. John - Locked Down
5. The Shins - Port of Morrow

Need to hear more:
Beach House - Bloom
Burial - Kindred EP
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls

DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles "KoleXXXion"
Actual Proof "Black Boy Radio"
The Roots "undun"
Common "The Dreamer, The Believer"
Robert Glasper Experiment "Black Radio"
The Syncronauts "Syncronauticus"
Big K.R.I.T. "4eva N A Day"
DJ Quik "The Book Of David"
Phonte "Charity Starts At Home"
Focus... "Music Of The Misinterpreted"

madlib - advanced jazz
miles davis - the complete on the corner sessions
miles davis - the complete jack johnson sessions
herbie hancock - v.s.o.p. quintet
jeru the damaja - the sun rises in the east
gza/rza - liquid swords
janelle monae - the archandroid
funkadelic - maggot brain
van hunt - what were you hoping for?
outkast - stankonia/aquemini

tony williams lifetime - montreaux jazz festival 1971



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"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"

My ten favorite music makers right now (in no order, just folks I'm listening to and thinking about a lot):

Andrew Bird
It's really coming into focus with him lately. Seeing him live and finally digesting his entire catalogue just cements his growing stature with me in the last few years. Favorite album right now: Break it Yourself.

The Durutti Column
Been getting back heavily into Vini, in anticipation of (hopefully) new material sometime this year. His one man band virtuosity is definitely in the same vein of Andrew Bird's eccentricities. Favorite album right now: Vini Reilly from 1988 (recorded during downtime while Vini was working on Morrissey's first album) — though Idiot Savants (from 2007) and A Paean to Wilson (from 2010) still remain his later day masterpieces.

Simple Minds
On the strength of the recent x5 box set. Seriously different band on that early stuff than their later pop hits. Favorite album right now: Sister Feelings Call (1981).

Poor Moon
Really clamoring for anything by these guys right now. Great as the Illusion EP is, it's danged short! And, after seeing them play a fourty minute live set in which they only played one song from the EP, I know they've got a bunch of other material in the can.

Leo Kottke
I love how he doesn't seem to take himself seriously at all, but he can play; MAN, can he play! Besides the dizzying technicality, there's a real knack for catchy tunes in his playing. Favorite album right now: Greenhouse (1972).

William Ackerman
Really love the tunes and emotions this guy can conjure with just six strings and two hands. I finally gave up trying to lump him in with any genre. His music's too emotive and ethereal to be folk, but too twangy to be new age. Favorite album right now: It Takes a Year (1978).

John Lennon
I can't over just how much of himself he laid bare in his initial solo output. That's really admirable. Fantastic tunes don't hurt either. Favorite album right now: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1971)

Yes
I just love how spastic and ridiculous Yes gets at times, then their tunes will break down into this absolutely beautiful, lush, harmony-laden creations. Favorite album right now: the otherwise underrated Time and A Word (1969).

Genesis
Early stuff, mind you. It's mainly an interest in the musical backings. Genesis was probably the least technical of all the big prog bands, so the music relies on the pictures that Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford can paint and they pull from melodramatic palette of sounds that is unpredictable and sometimes even catchy. Favorite album right now: Trespass (1970).

Fleet Foxes
Just because. Favorite album right now: Helplessness Blues (2011).

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Black Radio - Robert Glasper

Master of My Make Believe - Santi

Crazy Itch Radio - Bassment Jaxx (I've been revisiting it)

Look Around The Corner - Quantic & Alice Russell

Some Recent..some old

1. Hawthorne Headhunters - Myriad of Now LP
2. Black Milk - Lofi Are & Bees
3. Dego - A Wha' Him Deh Pon?
4. Andres - II, III
5. Radio Galaxy - We Come in Peace
6. Kaidi Tatham - 5ive /Shokazulu
7. Kankick - Rummage to Royalty


there's probably more...thats all that comes to mind right now.

Apollo Brown & O.C. - Trophies
Goapele - Break of Dawn
Plugs 1 & 2 - First Serve
Sean Born - Behind the Scale
Willis Earl Beal - Acousmatic Sorcery
Bilal - Airtight's Revenge
Real Estate - Days
Khari Cabral - Clementine Sun
Thundercat - The Golden Age of the Apocalypse
Sene - Brooklyknight