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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Edited Dec 18, 2014, 23:07
Dec 18, 2014, 23:04
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A really great year for music. My top three would be English Heretic, Seven That Spells and The Budos Band, but here’s my full top 20 in alphabetical order: The Advisory Circle – From Out Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6EXaLFtmPY Matt Berry – Music for Insomniacs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNiYOcA6xpY The Budos Band – Burnt Offering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAN3WFnYG-o Bushman’s Revenge – Thou Shalt Boogie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-S4Bnee0k Cakewalk – Transfixed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3-3-EaaVE Dans Dans – 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYP0gMUoxY Electric Moon – Mind Explosion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U4cqEFR5bo English Heretic – The Underworld Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T3QXDLxA_g Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band – Intensity Ghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JDq103mu4 Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band – s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRe2l2STyoo Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Enfant Terrible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7BPxKR3nvE Motorpsycho – Behind the Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bQcfi-Dww Paus – Clarão https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX7pgkAfkN0 Rhyton – Kykeon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWErkpGaICw Ty Segall – Manipulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awMTT5dkkxs Seven That Spells – The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqrM3EtN6xk Silo – Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hegegYxRCb0 Smoke Fairies – s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZaHXiNWKGM Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6nFIe0QG0 Stian Westerhus & Pale Horses – Maelstrom https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/stian-westerhus-pale-horses Also worth a listen: EMA – The Future’s Void https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvV1eYRKRNY Goat – Commune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jptSHuThLE Ides of Gemini – Old World New Wave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FjkqWH3sjQ Last Ex – s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1tnUrss7I Nope – Walker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdhGKCC7Dvo Raagnagrok – Man Woman Birth Death Infinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVsC0g16hKo The Skull Defekts – Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBVFMtbcP5A Stars in Battledress – In Droplet Form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24AkYRuv5kE Trans Am – Volume X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTflg8fucvg Re-issues/archive niceness: Cardiacs – Sing To God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebDdbUacEao Fripp & Eno – Live in Paris 1975 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8RVIjZWqo Jethro Tull – A Passion Play (Steven Wilson mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNUD3v4yQC0 Pye Corner Audio – Black Mill Tapes vol 1-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEoERbW0lF0 Jordan de la Sierra – Gymnosphere: Song of the Rose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGjmGBtYZl8 VA – Warfaring Strangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNSXY3jWpw Disappointing overall, but some good tracks: Liars – Mess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrNt-dMDsY School of Language – Old Fears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYd8qQUKIaY And my caveat with all this stuff as ever is that, while I’ve heard more music this year than I have for a long time (in fact, perhaps ever), this is still just based upon whatever happened to float into my orbit (or I proactively sought out), so of course, far from definitive.
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riverman 845 posts |
Dec 21, 2014, 15:21
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Here's 10 albums I've particularly enjoyed: Ambarchi-O'Malley-Dunn - Shade Themes from Kairos. Best looking record of the year - great gatefold with 5 fantastic pieces of artwork and studio photos. Anthroprophh - Outside the Circle. Weird psych ramblings from the Heads guitarist. Inventive and pretty good fun. Bong - Stoner Rock. Actually the double vinyl gatefold is another thing of beauty! Two guitarists this time but fewer chords. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important. Adolescent reminisces to a weird Beefheartian eastern tinged blues/folk. Datashock - Keine Oase in Sicht. Another excellent double album of telepathic improv from this German collective. Earth - Primitive and Deadly. I'm not a massive Earth fan but glad I took a punt on this as it's fantastic -great guitar textures and riffs, and pacing is spot on. Kikagaku Moyo - Mammatus Clouds (Forest of Lost Children also excellent). Live, unedited improv - beautiful. New Bums - Voices in a Rented Room. Acoustic guitar and voice duo, Ben Chasny and a mate of his - short songs but has a meditational quality to it with the almost whispered vocals. Their American tour sounded great too - they relied on hospitality of mates and strangers on an epic few months long trek across the US Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya - Welcome in the Void (the Pinhas and Ambarchi collaboration is also good). Guitar and drums improv. Yair Elazar Glotman - Northern Gulf. My favourite of numerous beautiful electronic soundscapes pertaining to frozen landscapes. See also Machinefabriek (Stillness Soundtracks) and Thomas Koner (Tiento de las Nieves).
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Dec 21, 2014, 15:31
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caught the new bums in Launceston in June of this year. I've got a recording if you're interested?
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Dec 21, 2014, 20:41
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Off the top of me head as I'm not in my pod... Loved sounds of 2014 in no particular order Deamon's Child - st Ziguri - st Opeth - Pale Communion Mastodon - Once 'Round the Sun Lay Llamas - Ostro Smoke Faries st Smoke Faries - Wild Winter The Phantom Band - Strange Friend Honeyblood - st Provincials - Muhzik (will have to add more in a bit...)
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1001realapes 2387 posts |
Dec 21, 2014, 21:58
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Several more i need to spend time with standouts so far : Opeth - Pale Communion The White Buffalo & the Forest Rangers - Come Join the Murder (track)
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bauheed 895 posts |
Dec 23, 2014, 14:07
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Albums: Al Doum and the Faryds - Cosmic Love Aphex Twin - Syro Haikai No Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality Bong - Stoner ROck The Bug - Angels and Devils Burzum - Ways of Yore Dylan Carlson - Gold Earth - Primitive and Deadly Earthling Society - England Have My Bones Electric Wizard - Time to Die Thurston Moore - The Best Day Goat - Commune Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire Luke Haines - New York in the 70's Holy Mountain - Ancient Astronauts Scott Walker and Sunn O)) - Soused Sunn O)) and Ulver - Terrestrials Wolves in the Throne Room -Celestite Singles: The Bug vs. Earth - Boa / Cold Sleep - The Clarity The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust Tunnel Channel Vol. 1: Guardian Alien & The Cosmic Dead (Split) Mugstar / Cosmic Dead (Split) David Bowie - Sue (or A Season in Crime) Godflesh - Decline and Fall Reissues: The Auteurs - New Wave / Now I'm A Cowboy / After Murder Park Baader Meinhof Bob Dylan and The Band - The Complete Basement Tapes
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Markoid 1621 posts |
Edited Dec 23, 2014, 14:46
Dec 23, 2014, 14:37
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Only one to be honest. Goat - Commune. As festive seasonal gift.....Brill. Gifted by another. I've probably seen about two and a half thousand gigs. The Roundhouse Goat gig was something else. Go see them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaR0GZMWbr0
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Dec 23, 2014, 19:46
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Swans - To be Kind Sunn o))) & Scott Walker - Soused Aphex Twin - Syro Matt Berry - Music for Insomniacs GoGo Penguin - v2.0 Smoke Fairies - S/T Kikagaku Moyo - Forest of Lost Children Sunn o))) & Ulver - Terrestrials The Daniel Rosenboom Quintet - Firekeeper Black Submarine - New Shores The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation Datashock - Keine Oase in Sicht Les Big Byrd - They Worshipped Cats The Phantom Band - Strange Friend The Souljazz Orchestra - Inner fire
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Lawrence 9547 posts |
Dec 23, 2014, 20:08
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Frankly I'm not much into making lists these days but I've bought more music from new or newish bands this year than since I was a bitter punk teenager/young adult, and that says something.
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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Edited Dec 23, 2014, 22:05
Dec 23, 2014, 22:02
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Yeah, me too. Think it has been an amazing year for new music, as well as old stuff that's new to me. Seems one fed the other and vice versa. Here's hoping 2015 is crap, cos' I've sworn off buying any new music next year, as really, I own far too much to really pay attention to on any meaningful level. Maybe a clearout is in order of less 'loved' stuff. Seem to be buying a lot of 'similar' sounding stuff (that's mostly great, but still, a lot sounds very samey). I'm gonna spend the cash I'd spend music, on musical equipment and have a go myself (see how well that turns out....not! :) Doesn't mean I can't stream stuff though.
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