charliepanayi

Must be a big Pitchfork-led conspiracy against Banhart huh

I keep thinking of Nicky Wire recently sneering at Ed O'Brien being from a boarding school or something (which in Wire's eyes disqualified Ed O'Brien from taking a position on downloading). It seems to be depressingly the case that snobbery works in all directions in music.

Great band.

And Distortion was underrated.

you're not a fan of The Avlanches or The La's then?

A shame there's no Annie though

I like both bands.

Really don't understand the shit reception it got on here

and Two is one of the best songs of the year

until the last third of that post

Rooty and Kish Kash are both still fantastic records though.

3 shows in London and nowhere else on the other hand...

First record was great.

I mean bands like Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys (with their latest album) - everyone hates them on DiS. And we all love Pete Doherty!

I agree that some people are a little harsh on Muse here, I wasn't crazy about the last album, but there was enough good stuff in the first half of it. But it's obvious that the direction they've headed in was always going to be somewhat polarising.

or It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water as a starting point.

But who knows, maybe they actually think that.

Anyway, new album is very good.

who do a below par album don't you. God forbid they might ever do...another (better) album!

Anyway the reviews for this that I've seen (and what people have said on DiS) doen't seem to encourage me for this new album. A shame really as I loved Visiter. Though the NME review seemed to be slagging off the band rather than the album.

That one with the lyrics about Jah was pretty cringeworthy though yeah

and there's the concept that said reviewers might have different opinions on either album to you.

That was basically the reviewer ranting how much he hated the last two Interpol albums the whole way through.

You've seen the Pitchfork review of Get Born by Jet right?

your comment is a ringing endorsement

was much better than Cassadaga I felt

Camera Obscura and Malcolm Middleton are also great off that list anyway.

also Antony and the Johnsons, The Crying Light is terrific. But I guess it's like this every year, we all have a list of omissions.

Bat for Lashes to win anyway.

The only odd thing I'd say there is they give it a 5 but the review reads like they're giving it a far worse score.

What I've heard sounds good, though Laughing With is a bit patronising in its subject matter.

Kind of negates the point when you tell people to lay off one guy then have a go at another person for also having mental issues to sort out.

"I could also say for all practical purposes Jeff killed Jay by kicking him out of the band. I wonder if now that Jay is dead if Jeff has any remorse at all for what he did."

Is this supposed to be serious?

It has over 80 on Metacritic too.

Good album anyway.

May not be quite as good as some people said at the time but both are pretty good albums, and Modern Times wasn't bad either. 'Boring and impotent for years?' - he's been far better since 1997 than he was in the 20 years or so beforehand.

"there are barely any good women in indie rock", I'll take your views with a pinch of salt

when it was Pete Fowler doing it, it's since they got the Japanese guy in it's become so godawful.

And will be summarily ignored.

Instrumental tracks (and it's about 47 minutes in total so it's like having a bonus album with the main one), pretty good overall.

Just to say

Hey Venus was plenty fast enough. Either way, it's new SFA and I can't wait.

Loved all their albums to date

I got this on the back of Pitchfork's 10.0 review, and it's great. Love it, especially the sampling.

Great article. I love Low, brilliant band.

Canada is one of my favourite songs of theirs though.

If wrightylew hates it, chances are I'll like it (and vice versa) - and so it has proved here!

looking forward to the debut album

Definitely in my top 10 of the year.

Now I need to listen to her debut...

You Are Free is fantastic

Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head - aceness

I think it's his best album.

If anything the second album is underrated, though it gets sloppy in the latter half (bar the great title track and Fade Together).

It's been a while though, so will have to see. And Franz Ferdinand is for posing to rather than having fun to? Rubbish. And I love how people always sneer at music when they say it's not 'fun' - there's music you like and music you don't. If you like it it's fun on at least some level anyway.

Crap, dull band? - no bloody way.

No Cities Left is brilliant. Really, really great album.

8/10 seems to be the average score I've been seeing for this album - surely they're all being overly generous then.

Looking forward to this.

someone agrees with me.

Until you see the Of Montreal one.