Fitter Stoke
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 27, 2011, 16:44
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Well, so far it's a tie between Gruff Rhys' 'Hotel Shampoo' and Van der Graaf Generator's 'A Grounding In Numbers', both near-perfect career highs by the artists in question in my humble opinion. I'll make a definitive choice at the end of the year.
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FifePsy
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 27, 2011, 17:49
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Not a 2011 release, but the best thing I've listened to this year is Miles Davis's Complete On the Corner Sessions.
These would all be on the list so far:
Hayvanlar Alemi - Guarana Superpower
Tim Hecker - Deathrave 1972
Asva - Presences of Absences
Wire - Red Barked Tree
Matt Berry - Witchazel
Aethenor - En Form For Bla
Hyphenated Man - Mike Watt
Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older
Black Tempest - Secret Astronomies
Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
Nels Cline/Tim Berne/Jim Black - The Veil
Corrupted -Garten der Unbewusstheit
Loren Connors - Red Mars
Julia Holter - Tragedy
Jenny Hval - Viscera
Evangelista - Animal Tongue
Best re-releases:
Eliane Radigue - Geelriandre and Arthesis
Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of JB Stanislas
Best 'new discovery' of an old band: Circle X - s/t, Prehistory and Celestial.
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 27, 2011, 18:45
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hah!
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 27, 2011, 19:18
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FifePsy wrote: Andreas Brandhal has been busy!
Indeed - his release schedule would have rivalled that of the late Conrd Schnitzler.
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Dog 3000
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Edited Oct 27, 2011, 23:18
Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 27, 2011, 23:11
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In alphabetical order by grouping (and subject to change) -- I keep a nerdy list every year!
Top Rank Favorites So Far:
Daughters Of The Sun "Ghost With Chains"
Eleanor Friedberger "Last Summer"
Lunar Dunes "Galaxsea"
MV & EE "Country Stash""
Moon Duo "Mazes"
Peaking Lights "936"
Sonic Youth "Simon Werner A Disparu"
Sun Araw "Ancient Romans"
Mike Watt "Hyphenated-Man"
White Fence "Is Growing Faith"
Next Rank:
Akron/Family "S/T II: Cosmic Blah Blah Blah"
Battles "Gloss Drop"
Black Lips "Arabia Mountain"
Cranium Pie "Mechanisms Pt. 1"
Dirty Beaches "Badlands"
Grails "Deep Politics"
Graveyard "Hisingen Blues"
Hanna Barbarians "Syzygy"
Lumerians "Transmalinnia"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks "Mirror Traffic"
Thurston Moore "Demolished Thoughts"
Guzzo Pinc & The Longsleeves "The Clap"
Radio Moscow "Great Escape Of Leslie Magnafuzz"
Van Der Graaf Generator "A Grounding In Numbers"
White Hills "H-P1"
Wire "Red Barked Tree"
Also Liking (At Least Parts Of):
Baby Woodrose "Love Comes Down"
Black Tempest "Secret Astronomies"
Blood Ceremony "Living With The Ancients"
Chain & The Gang "Music's Not For Everyone"
Cheer-Accident "No Ifs Ands Or Dogs"
Cornershop "And The Double-O Groove Of"
Cymbals Eat Guitars "Lenses Alien"
Cynics "Spinning Wheel Motel"
Deerhoof "Deerhoof Vs. Evil"
Earth "Angels Of Dark, Demons Of Light I"
Earthling Society "Stations Of The Ghost" (only here cuz haven't heard the whole thing yet!!)
Feelies "Here Before"
Gang Of Four "Content"
Honey Slides "Honey Slides" EP
Joan Of Arc "Life Like"
Luck Of Eden Hall "Butterfly Revolutions Vol 1"
Master Musicians Of Bukkake "Totem III"
Meat Puppets "Lollipop"
Mogwai "Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will"
Paris Suit Yourself "My Main Shitstain"
Premonition 13 "13"
Psychedelic Horseshit "Laced"
Ringo Deathstarr "Colour Trip"
Rocket From The Tombs "Barfly"
Six Organs Of Admittance "Asleep On The Floodplain"
Smoke Fairies "Through Low Light And Trees" (2010 UK release, but 2011 in USA IIRC)
Wagon Christ "Toomorrow"
Wild Flag "Wild Flag"
Yuck "Yuck"
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Kosmischeboy
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 27, 2011, 23:32
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And cheers from us Quiddity bods too. Glad folk are still enjoying the album! More stuff will follow at some point. Me and gribbles have both been a bit sidetracked with that pesky thing called real life recently, but we will be back!
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bauheed
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 28, 2011, 09:43
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maybe I need to re-visit it!
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IanB
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Edited Oct 28, 2011, 13:31
Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 28, 2011, 13:30
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Squid Tempest wrote: IanB wrote: Secret Astronomies - Black Tempest
Live At The Fillmore (six shows) - Black Crowes
#1 If It Fights The Hammer It Will Fight The Knife - Red Bus No Face
Here is where we used to sing - Fovea Hex
This Unknown Science - Joy Kills Sorrow
Director's Cut - Kate Bush
A Scarcity of Miracles - A King Crimson ProjeKct
Heritage - Opeth
in the soundtrack department
Tinker Tailor - Alberto Iglesias
Hanna - Chemical Bros
Tron Legacy - Daft Punk
and with no small sense of surprise on my part ....
King Of Limbs - Radiohead
Back Catalogue purchase of the year?
John Barleycorn Must Die (Deluxe Edition) - Traffic
Blimey, thanks Ian. Plus I'm really going to have to get A Scarcity of Miracles soon.
It hasn't impressed me over time as much it did when I first played it. In terms of the songwriting it's a bit more early 80s then I usually like.
As for your record totally deserves a place in the year's favourites. You know when Lou Reed was in one of his more peculiar phaseas he used to say that there are bits of classical music deliberately buried in Metal Machine Music? Well, Secret Astronomies kind of reminds me of that. I keep thinking that I can hear little bits of classic 60s and 70s electronic rock music that aren't there. That's a good thing btw!
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Moon Cat
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 28, 2011, 17:37
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riverman wrote:
Still 2 months to go yet tho but - looking forward to Solus 3 and the new Cope (assuming it sees a release in the next 2 months that is... wasn't it meant to be available on the tour?)
On the Radcliffe & Maconie show Cope seemed to imply it was very much a case of it "might" be available for the tour. As we know, in Cope time, that can mean weeks, months, years....
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bubblehead2
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Edited Oct 28, 2011, 22:56
Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Oct 28, 2011, 21:02
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Lots of great music released so far this year, faves include...
Grails - Deep Politics
Lunar Dunes - Galaxsea
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw - Night Gallery
Eternal Tapestry - Beyond the 4th Door
Barn Owl - Lost In The Glare
Cave - Neverendless
Wooden Shjips - West
Moon Duo - Mazes
Jane Weaver et al - The Watchbird Alluminate
J-C Vannier - Roses Rouge Sang
Low - C'mon
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Gillian Welch - The Harrow & the Harvest
The Field - Looping State Of Mind
Earthling Society - Stations Of The Ghost
...but best of all maybe( although these two vinyl only releases could have been custom made for my ears ).
Causa Sui - Pewt'r Sessions 1 and 2
Download links below if anyone fancies a listen...
http://psych-rock.blogspot.com/2011/05/causa-sui-pewtr-sessions-1-2011.html
http://psych-rock.blogspot.com/2011/08/causa-sui-pewtr-sessions-2-2011.html
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