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Unless it doesn't.

I'm not sure anyone really cares that much about the presence of guitars in the forefront do they? If they do their opinion doesn't count.

Can we not do a Best Piano Album thread?

people are holding up Parquet Courts as one of the bands of the year

Has there been an indie 'hit' in recent years? This probably says more about where I go on nights out, but the only jump-up-and-down indie songs are from almost 10 years ago (well, 6 or 7 at least). Can't remember a gap this long. Is it all Animal Collective style bollocks or have I missed some *proper* tunes?

Suede, Superchunk, MBV among the top for me.

Newer bands? Sleigh Bells, Parquet Courts, No Age, Connections, The Thermals all put out fine records

is much, much better than most music
but not better than every music
http://herparents.bandcamp.com/album/happy-birthday
just most music

are all excellent.

snot nosed punks from Orange County.
good LP

and the Phoenix album had guitars and was good imo
does waxahatchee count?

---expected reply--- Can you shut up about Paramore/can you people stop pretending to like Paramore now

Guitar music ain't dead!

Tera Melos - X'ed Out
Humanfly - Awesome Science
Dead In The Dirt - The Blind Hole
Deafheaven - Sunbather

Never been a case of 'the death of guitar music' its always been there if you wanted it. it all depends on what you want to find in new music, there's going to be a style of music you'll never have a love for (reggae for me).

get many mentions come the end of year

is the gift that keeps on giving. Best album from them in a while and and as usual it makes you wonder what most other guitar bands think they're playing at.

sugary stuff that's not shit but still smart and ting? Anything like Wild Beasts or The Antlers I may have missed?

Aside from the human voice, the guitar is the most diverse musical instrument that exists. But I think that the sections of the music press who view guitar music as existing in a kind of binary opposition to non-guitar music are talking bollocks.

I don’t want the future of British music to consist of a repeated cycle of five years of lumpen lad-rock followed by five years of spangly X-Factor pop. I hate the fact that modern pop music seems to be run with the mindset of a senior buyer at Topshop, i.e.; “drop all your guitar bands, electronic beats are back in”. Just give us good music, dickheads.

http://blackoutbeach.bandcamp.com/album/blues-trip

dont let the word blues put you off. Its got that twin peaksy not quite rockabilly not quite surf sinister tremoloey guitar sound. It is actually a re-recording of the songs off 'fuck death' also great but less guitary.

im sure this sentence appeals to others as much as it did me " played Dante's old Jazzmaster, into a tape echo, and then into a tube record player, hooked up to a 60's 15 inch alnico speaker".

I think this is the best album he has ever done, even more than frog eyes, which is weird seeings as it was a quick rerecord of old songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO-UyFL5cxY

basically if you like The Cure you'll probably be into this

the last one I can think of was that first Mazes LP.

but people always try and claim that dull indie rock is power pop, sure someone said that Mikal Cronin was power pop... nah. I want sugar sweet melodies and a heavy dose of irony.

not really on topic but still.

others I think worthy of a mention

The world is a beautiful place and I'm no longer afraid to die / And so i watch you from afar / Appleseed Cast / Enemies / Overseas / Foxing / H-burns / Radar Bros / Crash of Rhinos / Holograms / Dismemberment Plan / Hospital Ships / This is Your Captain Speaking / Houses / Team Ghost.

I think there's little revivals in emo and math rock whereas other scenes are definitely on the quiet. I definitely find it harder to find guitar albums I like, I think it's perhaps 30% decline in amount of solid guitar bands 70% me tastes being more picky.

best album i've heard in years. i expected it to be good but it's bloody amazing

Guitar music, you say?

Desert Heat and their Cat Mask at Huggie Temple 12" is all you need,
https://soundcloud.com/miemusic/sets/desert-heat-cat-mask-at-huggie

Hands down the best guitar record of the year imo.

Yep. And with this thread, you're in danger of fucking ruining it. It's such a stupid question.

Is the 3/4 time signature dead?

Is 'singing' the new chillwave?

Is music with drums in making a come back in 2014?

Arcade Fire announce new album will see a return to using verses.

Is my favourite album with a guitar in it by some way this year. But I also liked Dirty Beaches, These New Puritans and Hookworms, Deerhunter was a bit disapointing but I think I need to revisit it, same with MBV prob. Dose the Dean Blunt album have real life guitar in it? So like four albums in a year with guitars in that I like is a pretty big step up from the last few years yeah maybe it isn't dead. Forest Swords and Dirty Beaches are the ones for me out of the lot, any more recomendations on that tip from you guitar goons?

There have been some great guitar albums this year, probably more than last year. But most of my favourite releases have come from older groups. I do struggle to find new 'guitar' bands that really interest me because a lot of the time they just sound like a pastiche. Look at shoegaze for example, despite remaining a popular a lot of the contemporary bands just sound derivative of older bands. The sound in general has regressed to sounding like My Bloody Valentine circa 1988. This is not to say there aren't bands doing interesting things within the genre, there are group from Portland called The Slaves who combine the ethereal guitar of MBV with the amplifier worship of Sunn. It's not totally original but at least it is something a little different.

Anyway guitar releases I have enjoyed
Dead C - Armed Courage
Brainbombs - Disposal of A Dead Body
Body/Head - Coming Apart
Dirty Beaches - Drifters
Grouper - The Man Who Died
Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi - Now While It's Still Warm
Desert Heat - Cat Mask
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies
Mainliner - Revelation Space
MV & EE - Fuzzweed
Magik Markers - Surrender to Fantasy
Thought Forms - Ghost Mountain
Cuntz - Aloha

Destruction Unit - Deep Trip

psychedelic rock that moves beyond the otherwise enjoyable, but fairly cliche 60s (or 60s-as-seen-by-Spacemen 3) worship and inject a more punk rock flavoring into their Psych-Rock. It's somewhat samey, but always enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVvHyvW9ZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHYDsQFlPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI6Xdqs9IUU

been a glut of great American primitive-influenced records which are built around guitars.

Cian Nugent & the Cosmos - Born with the Caul (bit Irish-folk at times though so don't listen in front of e.g. chicks you're trying to impress)
Daniel Bachman - Jesus I'm a Sinner ('purer' than his last couple - mostly very spacious and relaxed)
Marisa Anderson - Mercury
Chrisy Forsyth - Solar Motel (mentioned somewhere else that this is more Glenn Branca-esque guitar escursions than AP but seems to get lumped in with this stuff)
Desert Heat - Cat Mask at Huggie Temple (feat. the aforementioned Cian Nugent)
Bill Orcutt - A History of Every One (batshit)
William Tyler - Impossible Truth
Glenn Jones - My Garden State (very stereotypical but beautiful AP)
Danny Paul Grody - Between Two World (more in the vein of James Blackshaw)

In other areas there've been a bunch of good BM records
Deafheaven, obviously
Goatmeat's mentioned Fauna who're awesome
Stara Rzeka
just a shitload of great stuff.

Not sure why I bothered replying to this thread 'cause it's kind of a tired topic but it was a nice distraction thinking about all those records.

and make them something other than utterly stupid

"Guitar music's dead" is the "PC gone mad" or "country's gone to the dogs" for insecure trendy people who can't look beyond white, middle-class music.

People really lay into it when it's actually a pretty cool instrument.

Ableton / Logic presets are a much bigger contemporary crime.

'I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams' is probably my favourite record this year so far, guitars or no guitars (but yes, it has lots of guitars).

It's got guitars an that.

that's a pretty rad gtr record

bitches