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.
3. "My 10 is all over the place..." In response to Reply # 0
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?!?!?)
4. "as in "Ten Albums I'm Currently Listening To"... " In response to Reply # 0
"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
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
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13. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0 Tue Mar-06-12 12:56 PM by Nodima
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.
16. "Albums/EPs include:" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Apr-27-12 04:37 PM by stylez dainty
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.
---- I check for: Serengeti, Zeroh, Open Mike Eagle, Jeremiah Jae, Moka Only.
18. "Not as much rap as usual" In response to Reply # 0
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.
19. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0
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
21. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0 Fri Apr-27-12 07:49 PM by Deacon Blues
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
22. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 21
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
25. "Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror" In response to Reply # 0
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
26. "4/28 update" In response to Reply # 0 Sat Apr-28-12 03:40 AM by Madvillain 626
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.
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27. "currently in rotation" In response to Reply # 0
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)
28. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0 Sat Apr-28-12 04:10 AM by akahige
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
29. "i really dig that andrew bird" In response to Reply # 0 Sat Apr-28-12 08:59 AM by thebigfunk
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)...
35. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0
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
36. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0
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"
37. "lets see, at the moment" In response to Reply # 0 Tue May-01-12 05:53 PM by Crash Bandacoot
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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38. "RE: Stretching the rules a bit. . ." In response to Reply # 0
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).
~Austin
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40. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0
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.
41. "RE: your favorite ten albums of right now." In response to Reply # 0
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
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