Posted July 17, 201015 yr well then my indiebabydarlings, we're like halfway through the year now, what have been some of the most impressionable releases of the year so far? know there's literally SO much out there right now that's a little hard to digest everything, but thus far i'd have to say these are my favorite albums: 01 JOANNA NEWSOM :: have one on me 02 BATHS :: cerulean 03 FUTURE ISLANDS :: in evening air 04 ZOLA JESUS :: stridulum 05 BEACH HOUSE :: teen dream 06 HOW TO DRESS WELL :: can't see my own face: the eternal love 2 07 ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI :: before today 08 TWIN SISTER :: color your life 09 LINDSTROM & CHRISTABELLE :: real life is no cool 10 TORO Y MOI :: causers of this 11 HIGH PLACES :: high places vs. mankind 12 ACTIVE CHILD :: curtis lane 13 MOUNTAIN MAN :: made the harbor 14 COMA CINEMA :: stoned alone 15 KISSES :: the heart of the nightlife 16 HARLEM :: hippies 17 ROBYN :: body talk pt. 1 18 FOUR TET :: there is love in you 19 FRIENDO :: cold toads 20 CRYSTAL CASTLES :: crystal castles 21 WOODS :: at echo lake 22 MEMORYHOUSE :: the years e.p. 23 GROUPER / ROY MONTGOMERY :: split 24 LOWER DENS :: twin-hand movement 25 BIG BOI :: sir lucious left foot: the son of chico dust 26 KURT VILE :: square shells 27 ELITE GYMNASTICS :: real friends 28 XIU XIU :: dear god, i hate myself 29 SECRET MOUNTAINS :: kaddish 30 COCOROSIE :: grey oceans 31 COM TRUISE :: cyanide sisters 32 DOUBLE DAGGER :: masks 33 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH :: the wild hunt 34 SLEIGH BELLS :: treats 35 CLASS ACTRESS :: journal of ardency 36 DOM :: sun bronzed greek gods 37 DUSTIN WONG :: let it go 38 COYOTE CLEAN UP :: double trouble 39 BONOBO :: black sands 40 OWEN PALLETT :: heartland 41 JONSI :: go 42 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS :: together 43 MOSS OF AURA :: march 44 INDIAN JEWELRY :: totaled 45 THE SAMPS :: the samps 46 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER :: returnal 47 GRIMES :: geidi primes 48 THE BOOKS :: the way out 49 THE SANDWITCHES :: duck duck goose! 50 PERFUME GENIUS :: learning 51 M.I.A. :: /\/\ /\ Y /\ 52 COOLRUNNINGS :: babes forever 53 LOCAL NATIVES :: gorilla manor 54 MALE BONDING :: nothing hurts 55 BLUE HAWAII :: blooming summer 56 LAKE RADIO :: the weather 57 TAME IMPALA :: innerspeaker 58 HANOI JANES :: year of panic 59 BABE RAINBOW :: shaved 60 PRINCE RAMA :: shadow temple 61 SHEARWATER :: the golden archipelago 62 BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD :: summer heart 63 TY SEAGALL :: melted 64 MICKEY MICKEY ROURKE :: m m r 65 BLITHE FIELD :: beautiful wave '74 66 WHITE FENCE :: white fence 67 SCISSOR SISTERS :: night work 68 GREEN GERRY :: odd tymes 69 CHANGE LEOPARDON :: juchitan 70 WOMEN :: public strain and i don't want to even think of how i'm going to narrow down singles, i made a list of 20 that are probably my "FAVORITE" but they're in now specific order really ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI :: round and round BATHS :: you're my excuse to travel BIG BOI :: shutterbugg (ft. cutty) CAPTAIN AHAB :: acting hard CLIVE TANAKA Y SU ORQUESTRA :: neu chicago COOLRUNNINGS :: i am you ELITE GYMNASTICS :: is this on me? FRIENDO :: callers FUTURE ISLANDS :: in the fall (ft. katrina ford) GOBBLE GOBBLE :: lawn knives HARD MIX :: memories HEALTH :: usa boys HOW TO DRESS WELL :: ready for the world INDIAN JEWELRY :: excessive moonlight JOANNA NEWSOM ::a baby birch LOWER DENS :: two cocks LUDACRIS :: my chick bad (ft. nicki minaj) THE SANDWITCHES :: stardust SLOW ANIMAL :: saturday mourning TWIN SISTER :: lady daydream WOODS :: death rattles
July 17, 201015 yr i cba to make a proper list but here are a few: 1. How To Destroy Angels - How To Destroy Angels EP 2. Streetlight Manifesto - 99 Songs of Revolution vol 1 3. Foals - Total Life Forever 4. The Futureheads - This Is Not The World 5. Deftones - Diamond Eyes 6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 7. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway 8. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction 9. Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle 10. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
July 17, 201015 yr Author foals continues to grow on me, blue blood is an amazing track <3 as well as miami. i'd like it SO much more if they cut the album off at after glow though.
July 18, 201015 yr Oh dear this is hard...Just can imagine how hard it will be in December Some favourites Caribou: Swim Massive Attack: Heligoland The Divine Comedy: Bang Goes the Knighthood Pet Shop Boys: Pandemonium (Live) The National: High Violet Scissor Sisters: Night Work Hot Chip: One Life Stand Spoon: Transference Olavi Uusivirta: Preeria (FI) Gorillaz: Plastic Beach Have listened to older albums more (mainly 90s, Belle and Sebastian and Jacksons) Singles Caribou: Odessa Lady Antebellum: Need You Now Robyn: Dancing on My Own Massive Attack: Paradise Circus Hot Chip: I Feel Better Broken Bells: Vaporize B.o.B ft Bruno Mars: Nothin' on You Yeasayer: O.N.E. Memory Tapes: Bicycle Katy Perry ft Snoop Dogg: California Gurls Scissor Sisters: Fire with Fire Edited July 18, 201015 yr by SKOB
July 18, 201015 yr A shortlist of albums... Beach House - Teen Dream Caribou - Swim Vampire Weekend - Contra Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles Delphic - Acolyte Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be Four Tet - There Is Love In You Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me Jonsi - Go Marina & The Diamonds - Family Jewels Olafur Arnalds - ... and they escaped the weight of darkness Owen Pallett - Heartland Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise Robyn - Body Talk Pt. I Stoffer Og Maskinen - Stoffer Og Maskinen The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself baths - Cerulean Foals - Total Life Forever Holbek - Frit Løb Hej Matematik - Alt Går Op I 6 Katie Melua - The House Kele - The Boxer Sleigh Bells - Treats We Are The Fallen - Tear The World Down Drake - Thank Me Later M.I.A. - /\/\ /\ Y /\ Midlake - The Courage Of Others Nephew - DenmarkDanmark Buffetlibre & Amnesty - PEACE Rasmus Seebach - Rasmus Seebach Sia - We Are Born Johnny Flynn - Been Listening Cherry Ghost - Beneath This Burning Shoreline Edited July 18, 201015 yr by Ljósið
July 18, 201015 yr Ben, you don't have LCD Soundsystem in a top 70?! :o In no particular order, albums and singles I've loved this year. I've bolded what would probably be my top 5 of each. Beach House 'Teen Dream' BRMC 'Beat The Devil's Tattoo' Bombay Bicycle Club 'Flaws' Broken Bells 'Broken Bells' Caribou 'Swim' Chemical Brothers 'Further' Codeine Velvet Club 'Codeine Velvet Club' Crystal Castles 'Crystal Castles' The Courteeners 'Falcon' Dangermouse & Sparklehorse ''Dark Night of the Soul' Delorean 'Subiza' Delphic 'Acolyte' The Drums 'The Drums' Ellie Goulding 'Lights' Foals 'Total Lights Forever' The Futureheads 'The Chaos' The Golden Filter 'Voluspa' Gorillaz 'Plastic Beach' The Hold Steady 'Heaven Is Whenever' Janelle Monae 'The ArchAndroid' JJ 'JJ no.3' LCD Soundsystem 'This Is Happening' Male Bonding 'Nothing Hurts' MGMT 'Conratulations' The National 'High Violet' Robyn 'Body Talk Pt. 1' Shout Out Louds 'Work' Sleigh Bells 'Treats' These New Puritans 'Hidden' Two Door Cinema Club 'Tourist History' Vampire Weekend 'Contra' Yeasayer 'Odd Blood' Singles there are too many to think about at the moment.... But here are 10. I Blame Coco & Robyn 'Caesar' Big Pink 'Velvet' Mumford & Sons 'The Cave' Fang Island 'Daisy' Lady GaGa 'Telephone' Vampire Weekend 'Giving Up the Gun' National 'Bloodbuzz Ohio' Golden Filter 'Hide Me' Robyn 'Dancing On My Own' Pains of Being Pure at Heart 'Say No To Love'
July 18, 201015 yr I need to refamiliarise myself with modern indie stuff, I'm so out of touch :/ I run a record shop so I'm always surrounded by vinyl but not a lot of what I buy in is post 80's/90's :lol: I would like to stock new vinyl releases eventually though. The best new thing I've heard all year is probably Memory Tapes, I've also liked Joy Orbison (a lot) and Fenech-Soler. And lots of one-off bits on Xfm/6 Music - Dinosaur Pile-Up, Dum Dum Girls etc.
July 18, 201015 yr Author Ben, you don't have LCD Soundsystem in a top 70?! :o Nope. :o I dunno, the more I've listened to it the more I really just...feel eh about it? Like Dance Yrself Clean and I Can Change are choonage but overall I'm sort of starting to tire of the culture around LCD, like he's this supreme authority on making music about irony / hipsters / the 'indie scene' / aging masculinity / whatever. Like I almost feel like Drunk Girls is a relatively painful song lawlz. Which is why I Can Change is kind of a nice change, but the rest of the album is just kind of more of the same. It's a bit like The National's new album, good, solid, but more of the same so it's wearing a bit thin. The National come close to self parody on a few songs. Though to be fair it probably is worthy of Top 70. I just sort of left it off to decide on l8errr.
July 18, 201015 yr Maybe because my hopes for LCD were built soooo high by the amazingness of Sound of Silver, This is Happening just leaves me going meh. On par with Goldfrapp for most disappointing of the year so far.
July 18, 201015 yr I adore 'This Is Happening'. Probably not quite up there with 'Sound of Silver' but still great. 'Drunk Girls' is pretty poor and 'Somebody's Calling Me' and 'Pow Pow' are just good but I love the rest. Same with The National; 'Lemonworld', 'Terrible Love', 'England', 'Bloodbuzz Ohio'. :wub: And I think 'Converstaion 16' is my favourite song of the year.
July 19, 201015 yr I'm including pre-2010 albums that i've listened to for the first time this year coz if i hadn't heard them before then they're still 2010 albums in my heart (AWW). 10/10 1. Former Ghosts - Fleurs - 2009 2. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers - 2009 9/10 3. High Places - High Places vs. Mankind 4. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles [2] 5. Baths - Cerulean 6. Beach House - Teen Dream 7. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid 8/10 8. Vampire Weekend - Contra 9. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring 10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest - 2009 11. Owen Pallett - Heartland 12. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms - 2009 13. jj - jj no.3 14. Caribou - Swim 7/10 15. Yeasayer - Odd Blood 16. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - 2006 17. Caribou - Andorra - 2007 18. Former Ghosts - Freddy Rupert's Rare Trax - 2009 6/10 19. Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements - 2008 20. Streetlight Manifesto - 99 Songs Of Revolution: Volume One 21. Placebo - Battle For The Sun - 2009 22. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 23. Major Lazer vs. La Roux - Lazerproof 24. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor - 2009 25. Wild Nothing - Gemini 26. Wavves - King Of The Beach 27. Bloc Party - Intimacy - 2008 28. Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself 29. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History 30. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast 31. HEALTH - Get Color - 2009 32. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City - 2007 33. Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby - 2004 34. Foals - Total Life Forever 35. The Drums - The Drums 36. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor 37. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War - 2007 38. Delorean - Subiza 5/10 39. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones - 2006 40. The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa - 2009 41. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar - 2009 42. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis 4/10 43. We Have Band - WHB 44. Solange - Sol-Angel And The Hadley City Dreams - 2008 3/10 45. Beach House - Beach House - 2006 46. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals - 2007 2/10 47. Parenthetical Girls - (((GRRRLS))) - 2004 1/10 48. Chew Lips - Unicorn Every album that i've listened to whilst actually concentrating ^. I am quite harsh with my ratings though, anything above #42 is still good/worth listening to, anything above #18 is fantastic, and there certainly hasn't been a shortage of fantastic albums. Tracks i'll just use last.fm for because they're just ridiculously hard to order otherwise. One track per album / only new tracks though: 1. Crystal Castles - Baptism 2. Johnny Foreigner - With Who, Who And What I've Got 3. Baths - Hall 4. Stars - Fixed 5. Yeasayer - O.N.E. 6. Caribou - Jamelia 7. Wavves - Mickey Mouse - 2009 8. The Drums - Let's Go Surfing (The Raveonettes remix) 9. High Places - On Giving Up 10. Lo-Fi-Fnk - Marchin' In 11. YACHT - Psychic City - 2009 12. Neon Indian - Laughing Gas - 2009 13. Stromae - Alors On Danse 14. Streetlight Manifesto - Hell 15. Wild Beasts - All The Kings Men - 2009 16. High Places - Late Bloomer - 2009 17. High Places - From Stardust To Sentience - 2008 18. Fang Island - Daisy 19. High Places - Can't Feel Nothing (High Places remix) 20. Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday 21. Washed Out - Feel It All Around - 2009 22. Tonstartssbandht - Black Country - 2009 23. Vampire Weekend - California English 24. Gauntlet Hair - I Was Thinking... 25. Delorean - Stay Close 26. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War - 2007 27. Parenthetical Girls - Flowers For Albion - 2009 28. Sigur Rós - Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása - 1999 29. Girls - Lust For Life - 2009 30. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened - 2006 31. The Naked And Famous - Young Blood 32. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home - 2009 33. Efterklang - Modern Drift 34. Joanna Newsom - '81 35. Xiu Xiu - I Luv The Valley OH! - 2004 36. Local Natives - Airplanes - 2009 37. Beach House - Real Love 38. (Bye Bye) Blackbird Blackbird - Happy High 39. Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em 40. Animal Collective - Alvin Row - 2000 god typing lists out is way more satisfying than it should be :/ Edited July 19, 201015 yr by Harve
July 19, 201015 yr Author 3/10 45. Beach House - Beach House - 2006 46. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals - 2007 2/10 47. Parenthetical Girls - (((GRRRLS))) - 2004 w h a t beach house's debut is nothing short of incredible and you are a crazy man, master of none is one of my favs by them also not sure how jj's recent crappy output is higher than like 30 other amazing albums BUT many many many good albums on that list <3
July 19, 201015 yr Difficult to put these in any order but they are all decent, bold ones are great while the red ones are favourites. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 'Before Today' Baths 'Cerulean' Beach House 'Teen Dream' Bonobo 'Black Sands' Broken Social Scene 'Forgiveness Rock Record' Caribou 'Swim' The Chemical Brothers 'Further' Class Actress 'Journal Of Ardency' Crystal Castles 'Crystal Castles II' Deastro 'Mind Altar' Delorean 'Subiza' Delphic 'Acolyte' The Drums 'The Drums' Erykah Badu 'New Amerykah Part II: Return Of The Ankh' Fang Island 'Fang Island' Field Music 'Measure' Flying Lotus 'Cosmogramm' Four Tet 'There Is Love In You' Future Islands 'In Evening Air' Gorillaz 'Plastic Beach' Groove Armada 'Black Light' Holly Miranda 'The Magician's Private Library' Hot Chip 'One Life Stand' Husky Rescue 'Ship Of Light' Janelle Monáe 'The ArchAndroid' Joanna Newsom 'Have One On Me' Jónsi 'Go' Kelis 'Fleshtone' The Knife 'Tomorrow, In A Year' Laura Marling 'I Speak Because I Can' Laura Veirs 'July Flame' LCD Soundsystem 'This Is Happening' Lindstrøm & Christabelle 'Real Life Is No Cool' Los Campesinos! 'Romance Is Boring' Marina & The Diamonds 'The Family Jewels' Massive Attack 'Heligoland' M.I.A. '/\/\ /\ Y /\' Music Go Music 'Expressions' The National 'High Velvet' Owen Pallett 'Heartland' Pantha Du Prince 'Black Noise' The Radio Dept 'Clinging To A Scheme' Ratatat 'LP4' Robyn 'Body Talk Pt 1' Scissor Sisters 'Night Work' Shearwater 'The Golden Archipelago' Sleigh Bells 'Treats' Spoon 'Transference' Tanlines 'Settings' These New Puritans 'Hidden' Trentemøller 'Into The Great Wide Yonder' Tunng '...And Then We Saw Land' Uffie 'Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans' Vampire Weekend 'Contra' Walls 'Walls' Wolf Parade 'Expo 86' Yeasayer 'Odd Blood' I've probably forgotten some things but they will do... Edited July 19, 201015 yr by Dandy*
July 20, 201015 yr 3/10 45. Beach House - Beach House - 2006 46. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals - 2007 2/10 47. Parenthetical Girls - (((GRRRLS))) - 2004 w h a t beach house's debut is nothing short of incredible and you are a crazy man, master of none is one of my favs by them also not sure how jj's recent crappy output is higher than like 30 other amazing albums BUT many many many good albums on that list <3 I'll backtrack myself and say that maybe i'd like it more if i didnt have it in $h!tty quality. Even so, i was expecting more dream pop like Teen Dream and to me it just sounded "eh". i realise i have no words (n). However even though jj are terrible, and their lyrics could've been written by a 4 year old i still can't stop listening to them :( only 6/10 for streetlight and 5/10 for DEP? your a mess Harvey Herridge. 6/10 is GOOD. and its only a covers album, but a very good one at that. DEP are nice whenever i want to listen to heavy music, which isn't that often. i'm not a mess Christopher Fishlock </3
July 23, 201014 yr Need to do a bit of reboot of this as I need to listen again to a lot of them. But Beach House and Sleigh Bells would be top two.
July 27, 201014 yr These are my albums of the year. A mix of albums, some that belong in this forum and some that don't, and some that came out this year and some from ages ago. This is just what's dominated my year. #01 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles [2010] #02 Uffie - Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans #03 Kelis - Flesh Tone #04 Basement Jaxx - Scars #05 Rihanna - Rated R #06 Trentemoller - Into The Great Wide Yonder #07 Sleigh Bells - Treats #08 Crookers - Tons Of Friends #09 Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster #10 Massive Attack - Heligoland #11 Bjork - Greatest Hits #12 The Golden Filter - Voluspa #13 M.I.A - /\/\ /\ Y /\ #14 Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels #15 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (2008?!) #16 Rusko - O.M.G #17 No Doubt - The Singles: 1992-2003 #18 Groove Armada - Black Light #19 Hot Chip - One Life Stand #20 Janelle Monaé - The ArchAndroid I was hoping that Autechre would be in this list but they're just difficult to listen to these days, the rhythms throw me off immensely. Time for new Aphex Twin pls~ I would do singles but it would just be chart stuff really.
July 27, 201014 yr I'm really $h!t with albums, I only ever like two tracks off it usually or I get bored easily so yeah it's hard enough for me to make a Top 20.
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