I've been listening to White Denim (new album out next month), Fleet Foxes and the Black Lip's latest. I bought the Dove's Kingdom of Rust but it's not appealing so far. Maybe a grower? Anybody bought the Grizzly Bears album? Worth a purchase?
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I've been listening to White Denim (new album out next month), Fleet Foxes and the Black Lip's latest. I bought the Dove's Kingdom of Rust but it's not appealing so far. Maybe a grower? Anybody bought the Grizzly Bears album? Worth a purchase?
Yup, and its fantastic, try the Decemberists latest and another excellent album is the newest by The Low Anthem.....3 quality listens, have virtually ignored everything else on my iPod since I got theseQuote:
Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
Looking forward to the new White Denim album too, not usually the kind of stuff I listen to but its infectious!
2 new monstrosities from the edge of the oncoming apocalypse on rotation herewise:
sunn o))) - "monoliths and dimensions" (as imposing and doomed as it sounds)
current 93 - "aleph at hallucinatory mountain" (ditto)
great great rock music
Kasabian - West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Insane title for an album. Fire is a real grower, and apart from a few fillers, it's pretty good. Underdog is a class track.
Listening to Placebo, Battle for the Sun, was expecting to be disappointed but it's surprisingly good, up there with their best.
Have been giving Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear a whirl over the last few days.
Very good, not sure yet if it's quite as good as people are saying it is, but am liking it muchly.
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are up next, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new one, so well shod for the next while. :)
I've just discovered Fleet Foxes and am pleasantly surprised.
Anyone else picked up The Animal Collective's latest - Merriweather Post Pavillion...its frickin brilliant, not sure I've heard anything as good this year
Got it a while back on Ken Foree's recommendation, pretty damn good alright. :cool:
Not quite as good as The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, but that's just nostalgia winning out.
An album full of Ecstasy & Wine-era MBV, with a pinch of the Mary Chain, The Sundays and The Pastels thrown in is always going to win there. :)
Revisiting Blur's back catalog, and Blur & 13 have aged really well, Modern Life Is Rubbish is still relevant. But still disliking The Great Escape and cant see myself ever liking it...
As a result of another thread on here I have pulled out a number of albums from the late eighties and early nineties mainly Irish and gave them a twirl.....
The stars of Heaven , golden horde, cactus world news the blades, Waterboys ( big mention to their song 'Gala'..wonderful piece of work)
brought back great memories and I found it a welcome diversion from the current crop...not better neccessarily but more meaningful to me as they were my formative years and probably more poignant now as we move into recessionary times again
Some great stuff there, i got the Blades double re-issued CD a few years back & it still sounds great, I had Something Happens & A House on in the car last week going back to your youth is very refreshing sometimesQuote:
Originally Posted by Ozymandias
haaa good stuff wangball and stann, glad youse like the AC album. been listening to them for a while, you might want to check "sung tongs" or their vocalist panda bear's solo record "person pitch" - both have similar qualities to merriweather p.p., the former more folk driven, the latter more beach boys, 70s, sunny, and E.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
not sure myself stann (think it was you?) about this grizzly bear phenomenon. "veckatimest" seems a bit too... refined or safe. as if every note and backing vocal has been exactly and minutely arranged in place. and their (sometimes cool, sometimes baffling) left-turns come across as a little too self-consciously oblique, if that makes any sense? once i've pigeon-holed them into sounding like robert wyatt or brian wilson they stick a melodic change in to keep things off-kilter. no bad thing, they are a progressive band and seem talented but i think they're holding something back and would love to see them get a little more noisy, loose and unhinged (they probably do live, but anyway).
Stars of Heaven are the best Irish band there's ever been, in my humble opinion. Even 20 odd years later their stuff still stands up. Genuinely great, great music.The Blades were great too. Cactus World News on the other hand, well just take the first 3 letters of their name and it sums them up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozymandias
I agree..just had all of them together because of the era........but whether good are bad the memories they were part of a music scene that brings a smile back to meQuote:
Originally Posted by TonyD
Duckworth Lewis Method, the conceptual album by Neil Hannon of Divine Comedy fame and Michael Walsh (Pugwash) which is all about....cricket.
As a concept album its really outstanding stuff.
Paradise Lost's self-titled effort. Never really gave it much time compared to its successor 'In Requiem', but I've been listening to it over and over the past few night shifts. Amazing songwriting.
Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous
Unreal. It's so bloody good.
This week it's been all Hombre Lobo, the new Eels one, wonderful, wonderful record, even by their insanely high standards. Yeah I like 'em. :D
Opening track, and my new favourite song of all time, Prizefighter
Arctic Monkey's new album, Humbug, is bloody excellent. You can tell a mile off Josh Homme has produced the album. Really good effort, some great lyrics too.