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.)

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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

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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..

Re: Old Fools at Play

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

siltbreeze did stop for a while when their deal w/ Matador went a pear-shaped - tom lax is STILL selling off 'warehouse finds' of Trapdoor Fucking Exit on E Bay - but they're back back back

man I love that last Shadow Ring alb - so creepy and worn-down - i wish more of their stuff was available on CD

think you wld def. dig that C.C.C.C. box, Julio - No Fun, Giffoni's label, has probably been THE boutique noise imprint of choice this year - Hospital, Dominic (Prurient) Fernow's label, has also issued some choice sick shit, and Hanson/American Tapes have been reliably gnarly as per - there's a brutal Wolf Eyes/John Wiese team-up disc on Hanson that always hits the spot round these parts

MORE NOIZE ON POPTIMISM!