2008

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Have any good albums come out/leaked this year? (Yes, I know some have, I could make a list myself, but I want your picks so I can play catch-up).

And what's coming up that might be good?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

quelle coincidence - I was actually planning to post on my own lj my top albums of the half-year...will get back to you on this.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

2CD Darren Styles best of? :)

I'd be interested to see what percentage (if any) of the Ne-Yo album is not drippy ballads. 'Closer' is growing on me v slowly and I would like this boshier direction to continue.

I doubt the new Dr Dre will be any good but it might be worth a punt.

Popjustice said (http://popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2624&Itemid=206) Sophie E-B was about to release a new album instead of doing a greatest hits, but I think they'll probably make it a 2CD instead (er, like Scooter).

Hold everything!!!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Fightstar B-sides and rarities compilation (http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=220;1;-1;-1&sku=814937)!

RUSH ME ONE IMMEDIATELY etc etc

Other stuff on the release schedule

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

new Missy Elliott
new CSS (they've got indier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJaI2C1rS4)!)
Jonas Brothers (!)
Robin Thicke

Blimey, Tricky (http://www.knowlewestboy.com/index.html)'s got a new one out that sounds almost as bleak as Portishead on the first listen. Yikes.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OK here we go - this year's worthwhile albums and mixes in a rough order. Bear in mind that the rolling spreadsheet (!) I am keeping tells me I have managed to listen to 79 (!) albums this year, not including mixes or compilations (and all but about 10-15 are basically Any Good At All!).

Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Mariah Carey, E=MC²
Lil' Wayne, Tha Carter III
Ellen Allien, Boogybytes Vol 4
Ashlee Simpson, Little Miss Obsessive
Robert Hood, Fabric 39
The Bug, London Zoo
Lil' Mama, VYP: Voice Of The Young People
Appleblim, Dubstep Allstars Vol 6
Akiko Kiyama, 7 Years
Estelle, Shine
Bun B, II Trill
Trus'me, Working Nights
Booka Shade, The Sun & The Neon Light
The-Dream, Love/Hate
Roland Appel, Talk To Your Angel
The Mole, As High As The Sky
Junior Boys, Body Language Vol 6
Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia, Pain Disappears
Benga, Diary Of An Afro Warrior
Diskjokke, Staying In
Danity Kane, Welcome To The Dollhouse
Kuniyuki Takahashi, All These Things
Guilty Simpson, Ode To The Ghetto
Sébastien Tellier, Sexuality
Leila, Blood, Looms & Blooms
Laura Marling, Alas I Cannot Swim
Bruno Pronsato, Why Can't We Be Like Us?
Portishead, Third

a fair few albums which don't hold up all the way through but have some AMAZING songs on them which would put them right at the top had the standard been maintained - never quite sure how to judge these albums:

Santogold, Santogold
Trina, Still Da Baddest
Janet Jackson, Discipline
Tiffany Evans, Tiffany Evans
Miss Kittin, Batbox
Hercules And Love Affair, Hercules And Love Affair
Kelley Polar, I need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling

Re: Other stuff on the release schedule

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Tricky's new album is dire apart from one or two tracks.

The new Missy tracks I've heard don't bode particularly well either.

Re: Other stuff on the release schedule

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(more here (http://www.cdalbumworld.com/newukalbumreleases.htm))

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No Carl Craig?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - I'm kind of counting that as a reissue (cuz it's basically a mixed compilation of old stuff) so it wasn't in the section I c/ped. It is amazing! Though I would possibly rather have it unmixed.

My top 3 albums of 2008 so far are all compilations!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Sound Of Bassline (omg so awesome)
Step Up 2: The Streets
Carl Craig Sessions

Oh ok, let's add in 50% of the Santogold, 50% of the Estelle and the bonus remix CD off the Booka Shade album, which has none of the f4nnyd4ngle and but keeps all of the good bits. This is still a pretty poor showing though, I need another MIA or Britney :( However I haven't actually heard the Mariah, Ellen or Lil'Mama yet so there's still hope!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

my knowledge of new albums is largely confined to the ones you review on p4k!!

All the LPs I've bought this year

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Recommended:
Lil Mama – VYP: Voice of the Young People
V/A - Boogy Bytes Vol.4 mixed by Ellen Allien
Estelle - Shine
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
Matmos - Supreme Balloon (+ saw them play live last night: awesome!)
Monade - Monstre Cosmic
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement

Good, but some reservations about:
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Booka Shade - The Sun & The Neon Light

A few grebt tracks but otherwise botherd:
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Scooter - Jumping All Over The World
Was (Not Was) - Boo!

Bought but not yet arrived / listened to (expect to be good):
V/A - Step Up 2 OST
Portishead - Third
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

Came out in 2007, but heard this year, pretty good:
Alizée - Psychédélices

Re: Booka Shade

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

heh, I got the version of teh Booka with the bonus mix CD but haven't listened to it yet. I figured it might be superior to the 'proper' alBUM though.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

So far I like: Portishead, Robert Forster, Scooter, Etran Finatwa - Desert Crossroads (recommended by Matos on emusic - don't know much about this style, but I like what i hear here);

Top reissue = expanded (!) version of Triffids - Black Swan. This is still ace, and now my favourite B-sides are part of the album.

also on my itunes I have:

Hold Steady; Santogold; The Breeders; Vampire Weekend; Ashlee Simpson; The Fall; Matmos; Mariah Carey; Kelly Polar; Erykah Badu; Dolly Parton; Fuckbuttons; Noze;

All of which are OK but I haven't listened to for long enough to judge (OK the Breeders is a bit rub).

Catherine bought the Goldfrapp album, which is ok

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

and I got her Hot Chip for her birthday, which is ok I suppose.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OH AND MARY J BLIGE DUH!

HOW COULD WE FORGET!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

New Zutons! :-0

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is what I put on the P4K board thread which got me thinking about this:

Ja Bitte: Vampire Weekend, Santogold, Fleet Foxes, Lykke Li, Mariah Carey, Danity Kane, Fuck Buttons, Herc & LA.

Nein Danke: Alphabeat, Quiet Village, Madonna, Foals, Magnetic Fields

Undecided/Need More Listens: Wiley, Lil Mama, Ashlee Simpson, Goldfrapp, The Dream, Cut Copy, Booka Shade, Scooter, Dolly Parton, Portishead, anything else I might have heard.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

And Wiley's Grime Wave which should be near the top. God too much good stuff.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I only really know about work albums this year! So Vampire Weekend, Mountain Goats and Be Your Own Pet have all done pretty decent albums, and I also like 'Rook' by Shearwater which is a bit like Radiohead/Talk Talk but doesn't make me want to die. There is one coming up by El Guincho which sounds like a cross between the Avalanches and an ice cream van - I think it's great and everyone else I know thinks it's the most irritating thing they've ever heard...

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I couldn't make it more than three songs into the Fleet Foxes record, is it worth another go?

Pretty much everything I've liked has been mentioned on this thread. The Raconteurs album is surprisingly great as well, nice and spiky, probably my favourite Jack White related release.

Also

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Camille - Music Hole, sort of French acapella pop. I absolutely love about 2/3rds of this, you'll either like it or it will annoy the hell out of you.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like it but more as a background soft rock listen - things start to jump out and irritate me if I pay too much attention.

Re: Also also

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

The Zeigeist album is fucking great and I've been banging on about it for ages. It all sounds exactly how you expect it to but it is very enjoyable indeed nonetheless.

Re: Also

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah I like this - haven't listened it enough to actually remember any of it hence non-appearance in list above.