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Is this the only place on the forums to talk about the new Animal Collective album?? I'm really surprised there isn't a dedicated thread for the new album.
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david mammoth posted:I might have missed talk about this already, but what's everyone think of the new War on Drugs album? I've only listened to it a few times through since picking it up yesterday but I'm ridiculously impressed so far, to the point where I don't really see anything topping this for best album of the year. It's really incredible. I think it would be slightly stronger with one of the more samey tracks cut - maybe Suffering? - but otherwise I think it'll be my album of the year too. They're incredible live too - their live set on KEXP sounds better than the album sometimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbzV2Y06G-E
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Is the thread where I can post about the new album of The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream and how awesome it is? This is probably going to be my album of the year by far. And this is coming from a guy that usually wants to immediately turn off any album that chases the 80s aesthetic. The War On Drugs is one of the few bands that has gotten significantly better with each release and I'm really excited to see what they do in the future.
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Aug 8, 2014 15:15
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I think El Pintor is better than Self-Titled, but that's not saying much at all. They really need to try something different but I don't think they have the momentum, they all seem pretty tired by this point. If their next album was very dancey and upbeat, like the more energetic tracks from Antics, that could be cool... Or if they switched up the instrumentation... Or if the album centered around a few epic 10+ minute tracks... whatever. I think they've explored every possible facet of "the Interpol sound" and now it's boring as hell.
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I don't know if anyone here knows GOAT but their second album is streaming on NPR: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=347635089&m=347757661 They're a Swedish psych rock band with a kind of afropunkish vibe that claim to be a voodoo cult. They'll definitely be touring for their new album so watch the schedule - these guys are really, really amazing live. Just jump to any point in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crLda0HDhfw
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Sep 18, 2014 22:07
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Yeah he still is capable of producing a great "sound" but the actual songwriting quality feels like it hasn't been there since In Rainbows. Then again I've only listened to the free track so far.
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Sep 26, 2014 19:47
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kidcoelacanth posted:Two more songs off The Go! Team's new album have dropped: Both of these, but especially Blowtorch, sound dramatically worse than anything else in their catalogue... kind of a shame... I always hoped they'd explore "weirder" stuff but they've gone in the opposite direction.
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Feb 26, 2015 17:41
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I think the new Sufjan album is one of his best, if not his best. With his recent work's focus on theming and complex, large-scale compositions, it's easy to forget that this guy is also a master at writing vocal melodies. His melodies here are as good as they've ever been, and the whole thing is much more impactful because rather than writing songs about seemingly arbitrary, external things (old stories, cities in illinois, places in michigan, the brooklyn queens expressway, etc), he's writing about deeply personal experiences and you can feel the result.
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Mar 23, 2015 17:39
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If you search for Joanna Newsom on Spotify, you get exactly one track - The Muppet Show Theme. I wonder if this is a bug or working as intended.
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May 19, 2015 15:29
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OhSnapGangsta posted:If you watch videos of her performing, she definitely is contorting her face into unnatural positions to make the sounds. Is this true? Can anyone confirm this?? Not sure if I can enjoy her music, now that I know that she possibly made a Face while singing it...
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May 20, 2015 17:26
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This article made me laugh and feels appropriate for this thread. http://www.clickhole.com/article/disgusting-isis-just-released-2-star-review-aeropl-2620
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NPR is streaming the new Beach House album, the new Destroyer album, and the new Yo La Tengo album starting today. I love how NPR has evolved over the years and is now this weird indie music powerhouse with amazing access to new music. Listening to the Destroyer album first... wowee kazowee, track three or whatever rules!! I didn't like KAPUTT at all, this sounds a lot better to me already. http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen hope and vaseline posted:Hi I don't venture in here much but is anyone talking at all about Joanna Newsom's new track? I doubt it's gonna sway any new listeners but it's a hell of a song with the kind of lyrical complexity you expect from her more long-form songs packed into a sweet little ditty. Her voice is a little less thin than in the last album also, liking how it's changing for the better. Also, that climax at the end, my goodness I like this a little less than the tracks I like off her previous albums, but it's still really good. For some reason this "feels long" to me. When I listen to Emily, which is like 9 minutes, it goes by in no time at all. This is only 5 minutes but feels longer... not sure why. edit: This video is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson?? Whoa! Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Aug 20, 2015 |
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Real Name Grover posted:I think he's referring to "Forces from Above." Seriously goons, listen to Poison Season. I'm a fan and all, but this one exceeded my expectations Yeah, that's the one, I forgot that you could see an individual tracklist on NPR music's player. Destroyer is one of my favorite bands of all time and it bugs me that so many people seem to have listened to Kaputt and nothing else by him. Kaputt came out at a time where tone trumped all else and anything with a lush, 80s aesthetic got rave reviews. It's really one of his weakest albums. If anywhere here likes Destroyer at all and hasn't listened to Destroyer's Rubies, Streethawk: A Seduction, This Night, Thief, Trouble in Dreams, and Your Blues (yes! even Your Blues!), then for god's sake, launch spotify and hit it all up.
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Real Name Grover posted:Probably worth noting that "Archer on the Beach" is on Poison Season and has been kicking around for a few years too. The Archer on Poison Season is a completely new arrangement (I didn't recognize it at all), and it's WAY better than the take from the original EP. Which is great!! For comparison, the Bay of Pigs on the end of Kaputt was just basically identical, except for chopping off 3 minutes and adding another vocal track.
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Aug 20, 2015 15:45
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Ys is insanely good. If you don't like Ys you probably won't like anything by Joanna Newsom, and that's actually ok! You can calm down!
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I'm seeing them in the middle of October, but I wasn't really thrilled by the new album. Granted, I only listened to it all the way through once. I mean, it was fine, but none of the songs really leapt out at me. The big problem is that the songs are too drat short!! They introduce a loop, immediately jump into full orchestration, and then end the track right as you start to feel it. When you primarily work with loops you need to give your music time to breathe. All of the best Battles tracks are the ones that are like 7+ minutes long, and here almost everything is between 3 and 5.
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abraham linksys posted:I'm seeing The War on Drugs at Radio City Music Hall and that seems like a good band to see seated. Let me know how Radio City is for shows. One of the worst shows I ever saw was at a seated venue because everyone stood up anyways... so it's just like a normal concert except you can't move from your spot. Tall people were in front of us so we couldn't see poo poo or do anything about it!
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abraham linksys posted:one of my friends has been trying to sell me on Josh Ritter for the last like two years and for some reason I never really gave him a proper shot This happens to me all of the time. Went to pitchfork fest, skipped Sharon Van Etten and Deafheaven because I hadn't really listened to them, and then two months later I'm like what have I done 
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I generally try to make two playlists a year - one "best of" that's 20-30 tracks, and another "runners up" that I don't place a limit on. Anyways, here's a 2015 ten-track playlist that draws from both. I purposely took out the stuff that people in this thread are guaranteed to already have heard - A real "best of" list would have something from the Tame Impala album, a Sufjan track, a Kendrick track, more pop, Hotline Bling, etc, but you've probably already heard those a thousand times. And if you haven't, whaa?? Stop and listen to those first!! https://open.spotify.com/user/djvecchitto/playlist/3PlsHg9cpIZjBBVNGfMTpu Notes: • It's really hard picking one track from Junun - if you like that track, check out the whole album - except for a slump in the middle it's pretty excellent. If you don't start tapping your foot or nodding your head at 2:02, you might not be human • Ought's Sun Coming Down is a truly excellent album that I feel everyone overlooked • Frog Eyes's "Joe With The Jam" is the definition of a grower... I actively disliked it the first time I heard it, but now it's one of my favorite tracks of the year.
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resident posted:Is it overall less overtly "anti-establishment/capitalism" than Beautiful Blue Sky? I thought the theme of that song was heavy handed and the pacing was super awkward so I never bothered checking out the rest of the album. Beautiful Blue Sky definitely has the most overt lyrics – although I bet the feeling heavy handedness comes at least partially from his vocal delivery, as every single word is enunciated so clearly that each word slams into your ear. This track rules too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkCHR-aSalU The whole album rules - just listen to it!
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the new DIIV album is streaming on Soundcloud... i'm totally burnt out on beachy, twangy, echoey guitar rock but actually sounds pretty drat good on first listen! http://pitchfork.com/news/63233-stream-diivs-new-album-is-the-is-are/
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Teen's "Love Yes" is a bit uneven, but when it works it works really well - The immediate impression is insane glitz and poppiness, but there's a little bit of weirdness underneath the surface that really appeals to me. If you've ever secretly nodded your head to ABBAs greatest hits then i highly recommend this https://soundcloud.com/carparkrecords/teen-tokyo https://soundcloud.com/carparkrecords/teen-all-about-us knows a black guy posted:Anyone liking the new Animal Collective? I gotta say most of it doesn't really grab me but I cannot stop listening to Golden Gal. They make me sad. It feels like they're just making sounds and not saying anything anymore. And the sounds they're making aren't even very pleasant - both Centipede and Painting With have replaced the warmth wth a slappy, metallic, hollow sound that grates RedneckwithGuns posted:So apparently Prince Rama is a thing and I like them wow, wtf, these guys have changed - I used to listen to their 2010 debut a lot, and you'd never think it was the same band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTehV7N3k0 Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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John Dieterich, criminally underrated guitarist from Deerhoof, and Jeremy Barnes, accordionist and noisemaker from Neutral Milk Hotel, are collaborating on an album that sounds pretty neat so far. This track gives me Battles vibes, but I like it a lot more than anything Battles has relesed since Mirrored: https://soundcloud.com/kinsmanandmeng/dieterich-barnes-what This one has a much more Deerhoofy vibe: https://soundcloud.com/kinsmanandmeng/dieterich-barnes-out-and-about
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Mar 22, 2016 18:42
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New Charles Bradley album streaming on NPR music! If you don't like Charles Bradley, gently caress you - you are a real Piece of poo poo! So far I don't like it quite as much as No Time For Dreaming, but it's more imaginative than Victim of Love. http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=471312866&m=471326893 If you don't know who Charles Bradley is, this video is like years of Charles Bradley Education condensed into four minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnQYvzRDiQ
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New Destroyer track dropped this morning! It's good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2G_sNJbfZA edit to add spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/6RJyK0qhNP76tIjykkSTIr Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Apr 1, 2016 |
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Sometimes it feels like every music journalist on earth is trying as hard as possible to make me care about Parquet Courts, but I just can't for the life of me!!!
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Apr 8, 2016 14:51
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This Deakin album is pretty loving meager - ambient noise tracks aside, it's like 25 minutes and 4 tracks long - that being said, I've listened to "Just Am" about 3.000 times today. What a track!
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Apr 11, 2016 21:50
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Destroyer put a new track on Spotify and it's excellent - better than anything on Poison Season: https://open.spotify.com/track/4M2CIWAaWaKIaQdpHqru5J
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For the moment we're all pretending that doesn't exist and hoping it makes sense in the context of the album.
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Deerhoof's new album is streaming in full on npr music here: http://www.npr.org/2016/06/03/480602873/first-listen-deerhoof-the-magic I'm not all the way through it yet but it sounds pretty good so far. I used to be a huge deerhoof fan but have been generally disappointed with their last 3 or 4 albums. Everyone in the band is an incredible musician but they've been focusing too hard on tone, and the strength of the performances themselves have been getting lost. With this album, they apparently spent a week in a shed in the desert with no material planned, and emerged with the album. I think this has had a positive effect because the strength of the music in this album comes from energetic performances, much like their old material, as opposed to tinkering with sounds in the studio. Edit: okay I've listened to it a few times now and have revised my opinion. It's just like their last few albums - mostly average - a few great tracks but a lot of stuff that doesn't deserve to be released to the public. I really want these guys to take a 5-year hiatus or something Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jun 18, 2016 |
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Preoccupations (formerly known as Viet Cong) album is out on Spotify. I really love their new sound, especially the way they treat the vocal tracks. I don't think it's as good as their previous album but it's a great listen! https://open.spotify.com/album/1BedrXdH4el7fWWIYMC99N Silver Apples also have a new album on Spotify today that's about 100 times better than I was expecting. I love this dude! If you don't know Silver Apples, stop whatever you're doing and listen to their self-titled debut https://open.spotify.com/album/3VZpIoEv5y68viqapa3ZJV edit: oh god i love silver apples Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Dirty Projectors are really amazing — Swing Lo Magellan is sooooo underrated, just as good as Bitte Orca in my opinion — but I'm not in love with this new track. Not sure what the pitch shifting "adds" to the track. I'm super interested in hearing a sped-up version and seeing how it contrasts. edit: someone already did it: digesting now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzgxiG1kB8A Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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Sep 23, 2016 18:38
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GOAT has a new album called Requiem and it's super good. They are a swedish psych rock jam band with world music / afropunk influence. Here are two sample tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQvD1B0U0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDRB19_3DRk If you like this, I have great news for you!: They have two older albums that are just as good! They're also amazing live! And the spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZgJAo3ZhHu1SyxP5LDHn8 Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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If you're a fan of minimal, weird electronic stuff like Actress, Debruit, etc, you should definitely check out "All Kind Music," the new album by Georgia. It's on Spotify. I think this will end up on my top 10 list for 2016. The only public thingie I can find is this preview video that plays 20 seconds or so of each track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp9Ly3rOUGE https://open.spotify.com/album/1OpaGIkxgWfJ366ITbIJkv
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bows1 posted:Listening to Carrie & Lowell for the first time this is great carrie and lowell weather
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FactsAreUseless posted:I wound up downloading a bunch of Destroyer. I love Bejar's stuff with Swan Lake and New Pornographers, I don't know why it took me so long to give Destroyer more of a chance. Apple Music is really freeing in terms of my ability to try new stuff. Destroyer is incredible. The best Destroyer album by a mile is secretly This Night so make sure you don't skip that one.
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this makes me happy as 99% of people i know who like Destroyer have basically only listened to Kaputt, which is merely "fine"
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Dec 6, 2016 20:05
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As someone who liked Kevin Morby's Singing Saw but didn't love it, I think the title track from his new EP Beautiful Strangers is kind of like a perfect song. It's really good — almost too good, because I'd rather listen to this 9 times in a row than listen to anything from Singing Saw. Highly recommended! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OedxVySrU7Q https://open.spotify.com/album/6lS79EuYCe7HMnueUNrrAq
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Here's mine. I feel like 2016 was somewhat of a bad year for music, but my perception could be colored because it was a horrible year overall. I'm not the first to say this but it feels like there weren't that many killer albums even though there were lots of great songs. That being said it's probably mostly my fault as I spent a LOT of this year specifically digging through the discographies of David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Marvin Gaye. https://open.spotify.com/user/djvecchitto/playlist/2q3MKnnE7i5ERWL15ldKy4
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Cyril Sneer posted:Have you Destroyer fans heard this? Yah I like it more than anything on Poison Season - there's an EP on Spotify with the original non-remix version too
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