January highlights
Hello,
So, every month this year, I'm going to attempt to do a digest on the site of the best bits that month in music had to offer. Half of it will be stuff I love. Half of it will be approximately what you lot are loving, singling out some individual picks and shit like that...kinda a digest of this thread. And I'll also share the most read threads, most read editorial and maybe some other picks and that. Suggestions of anything else you'd like to see in this article each month are very much welcomed.
We've got limited resources, so something's gotta give and this is gonna be a replacement for the weekly Spotifriday... there will be a monthly spotify playlist as well as embeds and that, as the weekly Spotify thing seems - from your feedback - a bit much, and because lots of you said you wanted to just know what the best stuff was each month. I might even attempt to pick an album of the month, each month. Maybe a top 5, and let you lot vote for number 1?
Anyway, the next few replies in this thread will be a few of my picks thus far, feel free to react calling me 'tard and post your own picks (I'll try to listen to all of them - unless Jimi posts like 400 hrs of dubstep mixes, then I might not make it through them all) and yeah, let's see how this makingitupasigoalongapproach goes and refine it, as and when...
- Relevant artist taggings:
- The Shins »[x]
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January as a playlist
I have been doing one of these a month for the past two years for Spotify's blog, and often post them here. Basically it's my picks of stuff 'out' this month, and a few things gazing forward (like, Bear in Heaven have an album on the horizon, so I popped on that ridiculous Antlers 'remix') and yeah, it's vaguely January2012-related.
Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
The Shins – Simple Song
Errors – Magna Encarta
School Of Seven Bells – Half Asleep - Lusine Remix
Chairlift – Met Before
The Maccabees – Pelican
FOE – Deep Water Heartbreaker
††† (Crosses) – †his Is A †rick
The Twilight Sad – Sick
The Internet – Web Of Me
Air – Seven Stars
Memoryhouse – Lately
Perfume Genius – All Waters
Sharon Van Etten – Serpents
The Antlers – Parentheses
Porcelain Raft – Gone Blind
The Big Pink – Stay Gold
Twin Shadow – Changes
Friends – I'm His Girl
http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/0yRtEJW2S5TRVQ8iqL0A2f
http://dir.playlistify.org/10755/Drowned-in-January-2012.html (press play all and the youtubes will begin!)Any requests?
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lol
I've only got two mixes I'm really into so far.
Peverelist: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2012/01/sr-mix-114-peverelist-punch-drunklivity-sound/
Fade To Mind: http://www.thefader.com/2012/01/06/download-fade-to-minds-fader-mix/
Four albums I'm into so far as well:
Yöt – Bitch Bender [Raha & Tunteet]
Non Person – Things With Consequences, Part 1 [1 - 0 - 8]
Starlito – For My Foes [Grind Hard]
Agali Ag Amoumine – Takamba [Sahelsounds]Singles:
Ekoplekz - Westerleigh Works EP [Perc]
Dro Carey - Journey With The Heavy [Ramp]
Locked Groove - Rooted [Hotflush]
Boddika & Joy Orbison - Swims [Swamp 81]
Photonz - Weo / Chunk Hiss [Principle]
DJ Marafox - Eu Seiquem EP [Principle]
Dusk Vs. Kowton - EP [Keysound]
Beneath - NOSY 001 [No Symbols];)
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Memoryhouse covering The Zombies
This'll be their year. Thought last year might have been but the album took a while to get ready. They're a Canadian duo but live they play with a few more members, making for a swoopy Jeniferever-ish post-rockness that blew me away when I saw them in LA 18months ago. Debut album is due out in Sub Pop in February.
http://drownedinsoundcloud.com/post/15134851372/memoryhouse-in-light-of-the-new-year-evan-and -
SBTRKT on Rinse
He's been doing a few things. Not heard the Radio1 live lounge stuff yet but this mix is tip-top http://soundcloud.com/sbtrkt/sbtrkt-rinse-jan-3rd
MIDDLEMAN this'd this -
Youth Lagoon - July
Track from the LP gets a video... The album is sweet. Super sweet. So sweet in fact that it gets a bit like stuffing fists full of fruit pastilles in your gob and the more and more you gorge, the more the gorgeousity makes you a little sickly. Not too sickly. Not so sickly you'll stop. Unlike Beach House, whom he sounds a fair bit like, this record has me fly plunging into the hot lamp again and again and again, I just wish I could do it in small doses.
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Soap&Skin - The Boat Turns Toward the Port
I adored her last album, and this first taste of the newie had me a little bit gooey (although I think that might be a mixture of fear and awe). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fh4izS5wo0
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know there are quite a few S&S fans out there so here's the press release
New mini-album “Narrow” out March 19th 2012
Tour dates announced April 2012
Taster visual here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fh4izS5wo0The expression ‘an old soul in a young body’ has been attached to Anja Plaschg, aka Soap&Skin, more than once and as she releases her new mini-album, Narrow, entirely self-played and produced, she again sounds wise beyond her years. The teenage wunderkind whose 2009 debut album Lovetune for Vacuum charted across Europe attempted to look twice her age in the cover portrait, and if she didn’t quite pull it off she certainly made a convincing widow in weeds.
But since her initial success Plaschg has come to know real sadness, not just its verisimilitude. Her father died suddenly of a stroke in July 2009 and her response, the traumatic, cathartic wail ‘Vater’, is as openly emotional and intense as pop music gets, an outpouring of genuine pain in the face of death. The vocals are unsettling and eerie, while the piano-led arrangement, owing more to modern classical than run of the mill singer-songwriters, slips into appropriately dissonant and discomfiting areas. Though sung in German the emotions expressed are identifiably beyond language. Yet even this harrowing love song to a dead parent concludes with a moment of levity, a clipped note that echoes and mocks the ‘everlasting chord’ that concluded the Beatles’ ‘A Day In The Life’. It’s strangely intimate, like a little window into their relationship.
A touching and rigorously purified cover of "Voyage Voyage", a global Europop smash back in the eighties for the curiously named (and coiffed) chanteuse Desireless, follows. Soap&Skin takes what was once a melancholic example of French disko and turns it eastward, its wistfulness now turned into mittel-European gloom. Though it was a hit here untranslated, British audiences are largely unaware of just how familiar the song is in Europe, the stuff of drunken singalongs at chucking out time. Plaschg’s version makes Susanna and the Magic Orchestra’s stark reworkings of hard rock classics sound like hard rock, so bleak is it. It suits her.
‘Deathmental’, with its crashing programmed stabs and gothic lyrical imagery, offers a few minutes of genuine sonic violence. The deceptively slight lullaby "Cradlesong" might lure the listener in with its wonderfully lulling melody, yet its lyrics proffer a distressingly sleepless night. The first single ‘Wonder’ is an easier way into Plaschg’s world, a stark ballad carried by unearthly multi-tracked harmonies and a beautiful string arrangement. Next to it the gentle, brief ‘Lost’ suffers stoically while the stately, elegant ‘Boat Turns Toward The Port’, built round a loop of what sounds like an old typewriter (or perhaps a shop till), is over before a listener can decode it, otherworldly and tantalizingly out of reach. The orchestral force of the harried farewell aria ‘Big Hand Nails Down’, both intimate and expansive, cries out for a widescreen grand finale, a close-up twenty feet wide.
Still only twenty one, Plaschg still retains the fearlessness of youth, and if Narrow is more vulnerable than her debut then it’s proof that self-doubt comes with experience. The young Austrian remains a talent to be mentioned alongside Kate Bush and fellow farm girl Polly Jean Harvey.
Tracklisting:
1. Vater
2. Voyage Voyage
3. Deathmental
4. Cradlesong
5. Wonder
6. Lost
7. Boat Turns Toward The Port
8. Big Hand Nails DownTour dates now announced and on sale:
Feb 10 Vienna Arena (www.arena.co.at)
Feb 12 Berlin Volksbühne (www.volksbuehne-berlin.de)
Feb 15 Linz Posthof (www.posthof.at)
Feb 16 Graz Orpheum (www.spielstaetten.at)
Feb 19 Saint Malo La Route Du Rock Chapelle St.Sauveur (www.laroutedurock.com)
Feb 27 Munich Freiheiz (www.freiheiz.com)
Feb 28 Luxemburg Kulturfabrik (www.kulturfabrik.lu)Apr 11 London Scala (www.scala-london.co.uk)
Apr 17 Paris Le Trabendo (www.trabendo.fr)
Apr 18 Brussels Ancienne Belgique (www.abconcerts.be)
Apr 20 Rotterdam Motel Mozaique Schouwburg (www.motelmozaique.nl)
Apr 21 Hamburg Kampnagel (www.kampnagel.de)
May 4 Dornbirn Spielboden (www.spielboden.at)Listen to “Boat Turns Toward The Port” now on YouTube
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Glass Candy
...are meant to have a new album this year. In the meantime, they slipped out this Imaginary Film Soundtrack http://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/symmetry-themes-for-an
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Efterklang x Daytrotter
Daytrotter started the year with a session from the DiS-adored Efterklang http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/efterklang/20054471-111899
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Chino Moreno's Crosses
Probably the album I'm most looking forward to hearing this year. They've slipped out some stems if any of you fancy your hand at remixing them? Would love to hear what you come up with http://soundcloud.com/crosses
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the xx - open eyes (demo)
This went up over the xmas break and only just heard it. Not sure what I think of it but kinda makes sense having heard Romy dj at a recent Chairlift show and she opened with White Hinterland
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Blondes
Debut lp is finally out in February and it comes with a remix CD too, which includes this Teengirl Fantasy remix http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/blondes-wine-teengirl-fantasy
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it's the 12th
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this is an ongoing catch-all thread
something to think about, and to add to, as stuff comes in.
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Maccabees lp
Always been a fan. Quite liking what I've heard of it and surprised by the reaction (although it is pretty much the only release of note out so far this year). Seems to have had a lot of decent reviews: http://www.metacritic.com/music/given-to-the-wild/critic-reviews
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FOE debut album
This woulda gone in the recommended section over there ---> if she wasn't quite so divisive. I really love the album, in the same way I love The Kills and Uffie, but I can imagine not all of you would adore it. Curious if any of you have checked it out...?
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SHINS FAN LOVES NEW SHINS SONG SHOCKER
And it sounds a little bit like 'Time After Time' http://simplesong.theshins.com/
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I love Soap&Skin
and loved the song she sung on Apparat's album last year, as it basically just sounded like an S&S song.
Wasn't she going to release an ep before the album as well? & only 8 songs on the album? Anyway, I can't wait. Lovetunes was my favourite album of 2009, looking forward to more! -
Laura Gibson's new album
is streaming on the NPR site:
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/08/144623414/first-listen-laura-gibson-la-grande?ps=mh_fl
I was quite pleased with my first listen, but it just got better and better with each further listen. Looking forward to her and Dear Reader on Monday!
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Almost halfway through January, and little to excite me so far...
2012 IS A WRITE-OFF EVERYONE
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ok. I'm mostly excited for the Islet and Wiley albums coming out on Monday
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Halls EP 'Fragile'
Which I fell in love with a little: http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16734/reviews/4144322
Also just "discovered" (thanks to Abeano) that three of The Sian Alice Group are back doing good things:
http://soundcloud.com/eauxeauxAnd there's already been a thread on it but I can't recommend enough for people to download Everyone To The Anderson's LP released summer which, for the next 36 hours or so, is completely free
http://everyonetotheandersonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-born-from-inside-of-a-horse-2011 -
I like the Gotye song
Has he got an album on the way?
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Liking the Shins track
and the new Justin Townes Earle
http://soundcloud.com/justintownesearle/nothings-gonna-change-the-way
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i think technically this is an EP
but maybe she's doing a series of EPs or something? i'll try and find out from the PR...
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Thanks
Her website had previously mentioned an ep at the start of the year, and then an album, but can't see any mention of it now.
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Youth Lagoon's album is so good
It'll sound heartbreakingly beautiful when it finally snows
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Is there really
a band called The Internet with a song called Web Of Me?
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eauxeaux
liking this. ta for sharing.
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January has "historically" been a great month for new music
Destroyer's Kaputt, These New Puritans' Hidden, Animal Collective's MMP, the last 3 years.
I like the new Shins' song. But for LPs...? Don't see that killer record above. 'Course, I haven't heard much of what's listed. Hmm. Will investigate and get back.
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ISLET ON MONDAY
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It's from Making Mirrors that was released mid last year.
Well it was at least released in Australia and the US so I'm assuming it's out in the UK as well.
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You know when I said I had only two mixes...
well some days happened and some mixes happened:
Kuedo’s Sinking in the Datatank Mix
http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?p=20005Mike Paradinas Da Mind of Traxman Mix
http://www.mixcloud.com/mikep/mike-paradinas-da-mind-of-traxman/Helix Rapid Mixtape for LuckyMe #100
http://thisisluckyme.com/mixtapes/100-helix-rapid-mixtape/Dro Carey also put a free album up for DL called Tussin Underwater
http://drocar.tumblr.com/post/15877157287/here-is-a-9-track-mini-album-to-download-called
More singles too:
DJ Sotofett - Pulehouse [Wania]
Actress Meets Shangaan Electro [Honest Jon's] -
Portico Quartet S/T coming out
end of this month, 30th I think.
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I bought Voyage Voyage on 7" when it came out
but I was about 14
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Blondes mix for FACT
Album is due out next month and tis superb.
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John Talabot : Fin
debut long player out end of the month should be pretty good if this taster is anything to go by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuJg4WcIO7Q
and Peaking Lights 936 remixes on 100% silk well worth checking out
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Perfume Genius' new video
Can't decide if it is visual trolling or not? http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=170138549756965&id=19343183144
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Porcelain Raft
What's everyone making of this album? I sort of like it. He's touring with m83, curious to see what the live show is like. 7/10'd by Simon Jay Caitling today: http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16755/reviews/4144353
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Chairlift
New album is def one of my album picks of the month. Stream the whole thing over at KCRW http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/ap/ap120116chairlift_something
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POP
In terms of editorial, this is def one of my picks http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4144336-dis-does-pop-4--how-not-to-be-a-popstar-in-2012
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Escort
Discotastic
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yeah, the LP is out in Feb 13th. Here's the press blurb I got sent
Gotye's forthcoming single 'Somebody That I Used To Know' is now on the B List at Radio 1, Radio 2, Capital Radio and Absolute ahead of it's official release on 6th February. Since it was made available on iTunes last week it is now at No.36 in the Official Singles Chart.
The video has had nearly 43 million hits and counting - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGYArtist: Gotye
Single: Somebody That I Used To Know released on 6th February
Album: Making Mirrors released on 13th February
Label: Communion / Island Records
Live: Wiltons Music Hall - 13th February - SOLD OUT
Shepherd's Bush Empire - 29th February
Ritz, Manchester - 2nd March
Oran Mor, Glasgow - 4th March
Website: www.gotye.com / http://soundcloud.com/gotye'In his native Australia, Gotye is an award-winning, chart-topping star. By early next year he could be just as big in Britain.' – The Times
Praise for Somebody That I Used To Know:
‘Great video, powerful lyrics and a stunning voice.’ - Q
'a beautiful duet with an impressive stop-motion animation video' - NME
‘this breathtaking tale of heartache is now starting to turn heads internationally.’ – Music Week
‘Somebody That I Used To Know is an impassioned piece of songwriting… could well be the song that finally helps Gotye receive the international acclaim he deserves.’ – Record of the Day
'Gotye's exemplary pop sense may be the big revelation of Making Mirrors, yet it's his arty restlessness that will continue to keep him interesting' - Pitchfork
Having already topped the charts in 5 countries and with an excess of 42 million hits and counting on YouTube, Gotye will release the much anticipated single ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ in the UK on 6th February, a week before the album 'Making Mirrors', which is released on the 13th February both via Communion / Island Records.
2012 looks set to be a very exciting year for hotly tipped Belgium born Melbourne based multi-instrumentalist and producer, Gotye. Following two sold out London shows in October, his album launch show at Wiltons Music Hall has sold out and his newly announced show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire looks set to do the same, proving that the current swell of worldwide support has its sights set firmly on the UK.
Upon its online release in June the video for the stunning track Somebody That I Used To Know triggered an overwhelming worldwide response. Just three weeks after Gotye posted it on YouTube the song had received nearly four million hits (this number has now exceeded 42 million, currently averaging a million hits a day), topped the charts in 5 countries (Germany, Australia, Holland, Belgium and New Zealand) and made it to No.1 on the Hype Machine Twitter chart. Hear it once and you’ll be haunted by it for weeks. It will be released in the UK on 6th February, a week ahead of the album Making Mirrors.
Ask Gotye about Making Mirrors and he’ll speak not of songs, but of sounds. He’ll describe the various valves through which strings and choirs cycle on his Lowrey Cotillion, a vintage organ bought for 100 bucks in a second-hand shop that features on the record. Or how he constructed a bassline by sampling the Winton Musical Fence, an unlikely instrument he discovered in the outback of Queensland, Australia, comprised of five large metal strings attached to wooden fence posts and a resonant chamber.
Listen to Making Mirrors and you’ll be drawn in by the details, transported to a world where every moment matters. This is pop at its most precise, but also electronic music at its most emotional. The record delves into dub, Detroit-era Motown soul, stadium-size politipop, synth-folk and world music on glorious, sprawling, huge-hearted songs.
Gotye launched Making Mirrors in Australia – where he recently picked up 6 ARIA Awards - in August with two visually explosive gigs at Sydney Opera House and a full Australian tour - all of which were sold out. He will return to the UK for an intimate album launch show at Wiltons Music Hall on 13th February 2012.
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Becoming Real
Finally heard this new track. It's out at the end of February but it's too good to wait to listen to it. Stream it now: http://soundcloud.com/becoming-real/paramnesia-becoming-real
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My fav albums so far this year in no real order...
Yöt – Bitch Bender [Raha & Tunteet]
Non Person – Things With Consequences, Part 1 [1-0-8]
Starlito – For My Foes [Grind Hard]
DVA – Pretty Ugly [Hyperdub]
Henny Moan – The Coming Thaw [CDR]
Agali Ag Amoumine – Takamba [Sahelsounds]
Dro Carey – Tussin Underwater [Brain---So---Soft]
Ghosting Season – The Very Last Of The Saints [Unknown]
Blue Sky Black Death & Nacho Picasso – Lord of the Fly [Self Released]
Future – Astronaut Status [Self Released]
ScHoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions [TDE]
Johnny Jewel – Symmetry: Themes For An Imaginary Film [Italians Do It Better] -
New Warp stuff
'Com Touch' new track from Clark available for free download: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nq4M7QBxt4&feature=related
Also the first Kwes track he's put out under Warp available for free download: http://www.kwes.info/
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Haven't heard a single January album yet
but today is a good day for releases, new Leila, Gonjasufi and Islet albums all out, looking forward to hearing all three.
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Islet's debut
is brilliant, just what I hoped it would be.
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Will start a thread about this
would appeal to so many people :)
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What about having a page on the site
that gets updated when an album is released? Maybe with the review score only just so people (like myself) can keep on top of what's come out?
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Two tracks from forthcoming Robot Elephant/Tundra Drubs split 12"
Italian industrial types Husband and Ohio's Funerals
http://www.robotelephant.co.uk/post/16347064998/free-download-husband-flowers-and-funerals?ref=nf
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ERRORS
I've said it once and I'll say it again, their new album is terrific. Stream it in full NOW http://drownedinsound.com/news/4144367-album-stream--errors-have-some-faith-in-magic
jarock87 this'd this -
I like this idea
Especially as it would be a good place for users to mass-rate releases out of 10 (one of the things we want to make much more of with the new site!)
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new band - meandmydrummer
really enjoying the single
recommended if you like wildbirds & peacedrums, soap & skin, little dragon, the knife,
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anyone heard anything this week they'd like to add to this thread?
be compiling a digest of it for the site next week
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Get on the new John Talabot album you mad mad people
its dead good
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Things that i've enjoyed this month
Dean Blunt - The Narcissist (Self Released CDr)
Henny Moan - The Coming Thaw (Self Released CDr)
Madteo - Buglar Gold Pt 1 (Hinge Finger)
Actress - Meets Shangaan Electro(Honest Jons)
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics (Type)
Unit Moebius Anonymous - Perambulator One (Chans)
Demdike Stare - Elements III/IV (Modern Love)
Knowone - LP002 (Knowone)
Pinch - Fabriclive 61 (Fabric)Somehow getting my hands on a copy of Sound of Mind - Direct Drive. Amazing amazing electro
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Available via iTunes as of midnight last night
it's been kept heavily guarded but is well worth the wait
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Ace
Think i'll wait for it on wax, it looks to be a gorgeous package
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I really like
the Clock Opera 'Once In A Lifetime' vid - already a contender for video of the year purely because it's absolutely heartbreaking.
Am also - at the risk of sounding like a broken record because I keep banging on about it - really liking Pony Pony Run Run's 'Just A Song'. The video's pretty cool as well, although a 'boobies klaxon' is required for that.
And yeah, the LDR album is, if nothing else, worth a listen...
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OH YES
and The Shins - Simple Song. Obviously.
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Sorry
I should have posted my playlist here instead of starting a new thread! By bad.
http://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltenderness/playlist/4QwdDOwOqGo517WIws0xNn
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The new Cloud Nothings album is good.
Streaming here - http://soundcloud.com/wichita-recordings/sets/cloud-nothings-attack-on-1/s-GyxaO
Not sure if it's out this month or next.
John_Ho this'd this -
The Boats - Ballads of the Research Department
Very clever album, perhaps like a more ambient/neo-classical Four Tet? Has saved this month from being poorer than any for years.
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Jordan_229
would like this
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I’ve been really lucky in being sent loads of stuff coming out soon, because of writing and stuff.
So yeah, these are my picks of January and the coming months:
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/music-cloud-nothings.html
The Shins - Port of Morrow
http://simplesong.theshins.com/
The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
http://soundcloud.com/tlobf/the-twilight-sad-another-bed
Shearwater - Animal Joy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TSEpH5NHSo
of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks (took about two weeks to sink in, this one, but now I love it)
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/music-of-montreal.html
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE
http://www.thefader.com/2012/01/19/stream-gonjasufis-album-mu-zz-le/
Breton - Other People’s Problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_tFjQIC63Q
Islet - Illuminated People
http://www.nme.com/news/islet/61465
Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect
http://www.loudandquiet.com/2011/12/stream-memoryhouse-the-kids-were-wrong/
All these things, I have enjoyed, they are massively brills.
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Woah!
As said in the subject line, I have heard them, they are good.
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Just listening to it for the first time ..
.. hooooo, I like how he goes heavy at the end of the first track.
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Second track ..
I've been waiting a long time for this kind of album to fall from the sky ... woot! 6th February is my birthday too.
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Three records I've been 'busting' a lot recently
(until my ipod got stolen this weekend :'( )
Ital - Hive Mind
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 2
Lindstrom - Six Cups of RebelI'm usually a month or two behind the 'continuum', so y'know, this is groundbreaking stuff for me, hearing records that have only just/are yet to come out.
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The new Earth record is great
Think you'd also dig Land Lines by Starving Weirdos and the Lilacs and Champagne record.
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I need to listen to this
their untitled curations recently have been just lovely
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You've heard Port of Morrow?
press copy releases must be getting earlier
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Was recently voted no1 in the triple j annual listeners' poll
Nobody was surprised.
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last day of the month...
Interesting to see what's been getting good reviews
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/6-highest-rated/2012/1
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i like it
a real warm, lush feel to it.
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I don't know :/
internet wouldn't tell me either. I knew the boats from their home normal release, could that be a possible link?
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Stumbled upon this today
A husband/wife duo from Brooklyn called Ekra.
11 glorious minutes of experimental, woozy epicyness with hazy guitars and vocals, ace percussion etc...
Hard to describe as loads going on but I'm obesessed already.
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top 10 January 2012 tracks?
Hows aboot using this Top10 app thingy in Spotify? http://top10.com/t/wmu/s/t/sbt
just a thought like.
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Revised playlist
Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
The Shins – Simple Song
Chairlift – Amanaemonesia
School Of Seven Bells – Lafaye
Errors – Pleasure Palaces
FOE – Deep Water Heartbreaker
The Maccabees – Pelican
The Twilight Sad – Sick
The Internet – Web Of Me
Stay+ – Fever - Fever
Air – Seven Stars
††† (Crosses) – Prurien†
Sharon Van Etten – Serpents
First Aid Kit – Emmylou
Porcelain Raft – Gone Blind
Matthew Dear – In The Middle (I Met You There) [feat. Jonny Pierce]
The Big Pink – Stay Gold
Friends – I'm His Girl
Django Django – Default
Leonard Cohen – Going Home
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My January in a playlist.
The Shins - Simple Song
Friends - I'm His Girl
Sbtrkt - Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon)
I Break Horses - Load Your Eyes
The Twilight Sad - Sick
Bat For Lashes - A Forest (For Invisible Children)
The Magnetic Fields - The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Efterklang - Polygyne
The Weather Station - Traveller
Talons' - Sailboat
William Tyler - The Green Pastures
Chairlift - Bruises
Yazoo - Goodbye '70s
ABC - Poison Arrow
School Of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
alt-J (?) - Matilda
Look, Stranger! - To the River
Baxter Dury - Isabel
Hip Hop Classics - The Real Roxanne
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Les Plus Beaux
Lanterns on the Lake - A Kingdom
School Of Seven Bells - Lafaye
Japan - Ghosts (Single Version)
Steve Hauschildt - Overnight Venusian
Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
David Bowie - Growin' Up
Jonathan Wilson - Desert Raven
Ani Difranco - Which Side Are You On?
Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care Of Our Own
Jack White - Love Interruption
Leonard Cohen - Amen
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Ellen And The Escapades - Coming Back Home
Field Music - A New Town
The Magnetic Fields - Andrew In Drag
Laura J Martin - Salamander
Frank Turner - Wessex BoyA mixed bag of old and new. A couple of tracks missing off spotify and...
Spotify have taken off the First Aid Kit album for some reason...
http://open.spotify.com/user/pale-eyedbadger/playlist/2ouZEb1K09zrDN5rvlLcAX
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The Shins
new kayo dot album
they've really hit the nail on the head with this one. didn't get into the last one but i'd say this is the best toby driver stuff since maudlin of the well.