Waiting around for an alBUM like you

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I am in my yearly "jesus i'd better catch up on some albums then" conscience fit. It is like the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, the ant works hard listening to albums all year and has a proper year end list that they've thought about and all, whereas the poptimist grasshopper swans about listening to McFly and has no resources when winter comes in.

But now grasshoppers have the interweb so in yr face ant.

I have albums by Enrique, Infernal, Radiohead, Siobhan Donaghy, Field, Fall Out Boy, Roisin Murphy and Studio to listen to. I NEED MOAR. What albums have you heard so far this year that you would urge me to listen to?

(I know I talked to some of you about this yesterday.)

Comments

[genie22.livejournal.com]

Dizzee Rascal, MIA and Groove Armada.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The MIA (and the Britney) are the two albums I definitely know will be on my yr-end list (probably as #1 and #2). Dizzee and a few others (Rihanna, Amerie, Klaxons) I have heard too. Aly and AJ I also have waiting to listen to on my hard drive.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

BritneyBritneyBritneyBritneyBritney

Er, um? I'm listening to the new Underworld album right now, will report back asap.

My list from yesterday:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

MIA - Kala
Infernal - Paris to Berlin
Ellen Allien - Fabric 34
Enrique - Insomniac
Sophie Ellis Bextor - Trip The Light Fantastic

This was before I'd heard Blackout, though.

Underworld is proving insufficiently boshing :(

[cocainepeaches.livejournal.com]

Cobra Starship. Seriously.

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

Feist, BSS/Kevin Drew, Stars - anything on A&C.

Tom got this list yesterday but for the benefit of OTHERS

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

in a rough order these are all sterlingly great albums:

Britney Spears, Blackout
Henrik Schwarz, Henrik Schwarz Live
Ciara, The Evolution
Durrty Goodz, Axiom EP
Róisín Murphy, Overpowered
Chloé, The Waiting Room
Studio, West Coast
Amerie, Because I Love It
Ny, Split Endz Vol 2
Ricardo Villalobos, Fabric 36
Lil' Wayne, Da Drought 3
MIA, Kala
Dizzee Rascal, Maths & English
Tori Amos, American Doll Posse
Kelly Rowland, Ms Kelly
MIA, Bittersüss
PJ Harvey, White Chalk
Aly & AJ, Insomniatic
Hilary Duff, Dignity
Kanye West, Graduation

Tinchy Stryder, Star In The Hood
Pantha Du Prince, This Bliss
Cobblestone Jazz, 23 Seconds
Sugababes, Change

There are a few I still want to hear: Burial, Skepta, Girls Aloud, Alicia Keys chief among them.

Re: Tom got this list yesterday but for the benefit of OTHERS

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The only ones I'd recommend to you Tom (ie that I think there is a good-to-strong chance you will like) that you haven't already or aren't intending to hear (afaik) are Goodz, Amos and Rowland. Maaaaaybe Ny.

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

This whole year? My favourites have been Trentemoller and Panda Bear as well as The Field and High Contrast's new one, though I've not given that a proper enough listen to fully endorse it. Feist is nice as well. Also I've liked Helios's new album, even though it has vocals, and the new the Album Leaf one, and Stars of the Lid's one (possibly that's quite far from being pop at all, though). And I liked the Johnny Boy album because it was really strange and full and somehow sounded like it should have come out years ago, which I guess it should. Also, reminded from elsewhere on lj today I'd recommend the K'naan album, though I'm not sure it's from this year. And Akira the Don's album, 'When We Were Young' which some people love and others hate very strongly.

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and Burial, because it's such an albumy album and so singular (heh). Though it's not really a listen often thing - for that I preferred Skream and Digital Mystikz.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Teenpop & Country faves:

Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Blake Shelton - Pure BS
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
Aly & AJ
Hilary Duff
Jordan Pruitt - No Ordinary Girl
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus was OK, but has some great songs. You at least need to hear "See You Again"
Ashley Tisdale - Headstrong
Toby Keith - Big Dog Daddy

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Bonde Do Role
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Underworld

So Far

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Studio - Really enjoyed this though may be more background than immersive. Want to hear again ASAP though.

Radiohead - Some really beautiful and inventive music but several songs just trail off into hand-wringy impotence, or maybe the whole album does. Worth some level of the hype tho. Still don't like his voice sonically but grudgingly admit nobody else wd do these songs as well.

Fall Out Boy - First 3 tracks on this are TERRIFIC, "This Aint A Scene" works 80 times better in context, or maybe it just grew on me.

Re: So Far

[fathands.livejournal.com]

Who are Studio, they are the only ones I have no heard of in yr list.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer, if that came out this year. I R SERIOUS!!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

(this year's indie shame, but I AM NOT ASHAMED!!)

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Not much to add but I echo the Feist and Panda Bear suggestions, possibly only the first one is Poptimist material though.

This year's been a bit disappointing for me so far but I tend to work a year behind - a lot of my favourite stuff at the moment is from mid to late 2006.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I have come back here to add that I downloaded that album from The Field after seeing it mentioned on here a couple of times, investigating, and liking the sound of it - and it is properly bloody lovely! The first record from this year that I've really felt like bullying my friends into buying.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i DON'T echo the inexplicably unanimous Feist love - it is SO UNBELIEVABLY INFERIOR to her first album. real disappointment for me.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

You've got the new Kanye in your list and I'd have said the same about that! Though to be fair the first Feist is better.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

That haven't been metioned already:

The New Pornographers - Challengers
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

But they are all a bit indie. Nindie, even.

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

Oooh, is the new Jens good? I like him a lot.

[datura800.livejournal.com]

In Our Bedroom After The War - Stars
Songs Of Mass Destruction - Annie Lennox
Scottish Fiction - Idlewild (a best of)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Of the list I posted yesterday, I would urge you to listen to the Jordan Pruitt album (as also mentioned by justfanoe above) and The Bird and The Bee (as will probably be mentioned by stevem78 in a minute).

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

WHAT ARE THESE alBUMS OF WHICH YOU SPEAK????

as i said yesterday:

albums i have bought this year that have come out this year:
art brut and i don't even rate it much

albums i have bought this year that have come out THIS CENTURY:
css
seth lakeman

that's it.

Off topic BUT

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I've just gone and listened to a Magnetic Fields song for the first time ever. I've never been into twee indie even when I was an enormous indie kid, but seriously dudes? Am I missing something here? What's the big fuss?

Re: Off topic BUT

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

THAT WOULD BE A SEPARATE POST MATTER (I reckons)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

as mentioned elsewhere, if i was to do my own top 10 it would look like this:

Feist - The Reminder
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Sustain Decay Release
The Bird And The Bee - The Bird And The Bee
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Justice - Cross
MIA - Kala
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Hot Chip - DJ Kicks (may not count)
Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold

with Battles, Rihanna, LCD Soundsystem, Rufige Kru, Commix, Dragonette just outside - plus one or two others I've forgotten (Arcade Fire has grown on me a lot)

Kylie, Britney and Amerie unheard/pending

Dizzee album quiet disappointing for me in the end - I only really like a couple of tracks

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I recommend:

Helloween - Gambling with the Devil
Coheed and Cambria - No World for Tomorrow
Enisferum - Victory Songs
Bowling for Soup - The Great Burrito Extortion Case
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Megadeth - United Abominations
Turisas - The Varangian Way

Turisas are releasing a cover of Boney M's "Rasputin". It's on youtube and stuff. Christmas number one, I reckon.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Here is the Turisas version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtugjY4nPY

Features scantily clad dancing girls and vikings.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OMG! Brilliant!

Old Fools at Play

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

Remains - Religious Knives (drone-devotional Double Leopards related ritual)
Spooked Summer - Hototogisu (Bassett and Bower's sweet bliss noise thing, never bettered)
Trees Outside the Academy - Thurston Moore (surprisingly pretty boy-girl folk insiderdom)
Das Zerstoren, Zum Gerbaren - The New Blockaders (live noise-pain sesh from last year's ATP - it's got a German title, it must be HEAVY)
Presents the Paisley Reich - Times New Viking (faux-shit on siltbreeze)
Future Artists - The Dead C ("the AMM of punk rock")
Beyond - Dinosaur Jr (nothing changes)
Electric Dress - Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O'Rourke (halfway to a headache)
Early Works - C.C.C.C. (essential archival set of japache)
Mortise and Tenon - Sapat (best hippy dippy dribble jam blat of 07)

You would like all the discs, Tom, I know you wld

Biggest let-down: the Animal Collective alb. Just horrible, and not in a good way.

Re: Old Fools at Play

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

I really need some of that noize agane! Totally forgot Siltbreeze re-started (didn't they stop or whatever, can't even remember anymore)

Been blasting some Shadow Ring lately..

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Christopher Redgate - Oboe: Berio + Beyond

You would like it, Tom, I know you wld ;-)

http://www.oboeclassics.com/catalogue.htm

[martinv.livejournal.com]

My top five currently features:

The Fiery Furnaces
Justice
Bat For Lashes
Jamie T
Battles

I also need to do a catchup, haven't heard nearly enough this year.

stream of consciousness

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Battles- Mirrored, Ulrich Schnauss- Goodbye (which is not what I expected at all from 'Medusa' but is a lovely dreampop album,) Malajube- Trompe l'Oeil, Maps- We Can Create, TEGAN AND SARA- THE CON OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG AMAZING, Booty Luv is worth a spin or two, although bits of it are very 'meh,' Maz Manson is worth downloading but the tracks could all do with being about a minute shorter, which is also sort of true of Nine Inch Nails, Les Savy Fav is ace as far as I've ascertained from listening to it in Jamie's room, if you haven't heard 'Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?' by Of Montreal then it's almost monstrously brilliant UNLIKE THIS RUBBISH REMIX I AM LISTENING TO, GOOD GOD, other people have mentioned 'In Our Bedroom After The War' by Stars, which is pretty wonderful except for 'Take Me To The Riot' in which Man From Stars decides to try and sound more like Morrissey than usual and ruins a decent tune, Electrelane is nice, Klaxons is better than it has any genuine right to be, the new Rush album is good if you like that kind of thing, which conveniently I happen to and Jamie T is absolutely brilliant, although if I remember correctly you don't like his voice.

Re: stream of consciousness

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I would like to hear all of these! (except Maps, possibly)

the new Rush album is good if you like that kind of thing, which conveniently I happen to
oh, this is the one I do own already. As you infer, it's a lot like their other albums (most of which I also own). It has a couple of stellar moments, mostly in the second half. But I didn't quite have the gall to include it in my shortlist on Tom's other thread. A potential Top 25er though.

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

lcd soundsystem!!! must i say this every single time!!!!!!