what are you listening to in 2014?

previous year's thread: what are you listening to 2013

deltron
glass hammer
alcest
kurt vile
the hidden masters
the spacious mind
trettioåriga kriget
cate le bon
stephen malkmus
autumn
third ear band
alexander tucker
psychic ills

Max Roach
Neu!

(specifically, the Max Roach + 4 1956-1959 recordings)

Night of the Living Baseheads

Crucis Argentinian Prog stuff from 1976

Leon Thomas The Creator Anthology of his work that came out last year, got some really great stuff on it from him yodelling over shortish jazzy stuff to pretty tough r'n'b. Good set, now to9 get the individual lps.

Slade Slayed Thumping Glam stomping stuff. I think this does stand the test of time quite well as does the preceding live lp Alive. Not sure what else by them is necessary.

Whatever the Bad Seeds selected Mojo covermounted cd is, has some pretty great stuff on it from Karen Dalton to Betty Davis via Martin Rev solo and Alan Vega collaborating with Alex Chilton. Hangs together pretty well and has me wanting to check out a couple of the people on it.

Allmen Joy live set from 1967 that turned up on Dime over Xmas. Pretty heavy jammed out stuff including a 10 minute take on 13FE's You're Gonna Miss Me which must be one of the first covers of them. Nice Doorsy organ and somewhat Blue Cheer=y guitars throughout. Interesting stuff and worth checking out if you haven't already.

That Slade album is great! I got into it last year, which reminds me, I need to listen to more Slade...

I'm just now getting over David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name", which I was obsessed with for a few days right after the New Year. Currently listening to Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard a True Star" and "Something/Anything". I'm pretty sure I inherited a few Rundgren records from my mom but they are probably in a pile of 500 or so records in storage.

Next time I'm there I plan on digging out some things I've never listened to. I've resisted listening to "Blows Against the Empire" and a bunch of old Deadhead stuff for a long time, I may as well try it out.

Pete Wareham compelled me to torrent the Ali Hassan Kuban discography. Melt Yourself Down is a tribute act, I think.

Playing GTA V recently as inspired me into finally checking out Tangerine Dream's catalog. I bought that recently-released compilation Tangerine Dream - The Virgin Years 1974-1978.

Mostly stuff that I found out about from best of 2013 lists - Wolf Eyes, Rashad Becker, Ensemble Economique

I am still listening to my Favorites of 2013 playlist because everything I've heard so far that's been a 2014 release has been hot garbage

YEah normally the first two months of a new year is me catching up with 2014 stuff and going back to old favourites. Just ordered the East India Youth album though so looking forward to that.

new malkmus
the rashad becker from 2013
the sublime frequencies guitars from agadez stuff
konrad sprenger - versprochen
thomas ankersmit - live in utrecht

I am still listening to my Favorites of 2013 playlist because everything I've heard so far that's been a 2014 release has been hot garbage

Can we now safely say 2014 sucks for music?

it's gonna be difficult for 2014 to suck more than 2013. in 2013 even my once fave band yo la tengo succeeded in releasing the crappiest and most boring album of their entire career. they have become shittier with each release after "summer sun". without mbv, kurt vile, israel nash gripka and nick cave 2013 would have been a total wasteland.

grow little seedling grow

has somebody already listened to the new neneh cherry album blank factor? the song even got nominated in the 2013 tracks poll but i can't find it online. i have high hopes as always with neneh. usually i am disappointed though.

https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry/blank-project

Just today:
Duran Duran - Duran Duran / Rio (inspired by a thread or comment on this board)
Prefects - Amateur Wankers (because I picked up The Nightingales "What A Scream" odds and sods comp)
Nips 'n' Nipple Erectors - Bops Babes Booze & Bovver (because I picked up a mess o' Pogues CDs)
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (like I said)
Rosanne Cash - Essential (inspired by an NPR interview I heard this morning)

Tomorrow I've got the first two 10cc albums, Billy Bragg - Fight Songs, Altered Images best of, Bill Nelson 21st century comp and the Pogues box set.

holy shit, have you guys heard this? https://soundcloud.com/rc428/side-1-x-100

it's that one dude who collects all of the original numbered copies of the White Album. he made a recording of side A of 100 of them playing at the same time. it quickly becomes beatles ambient music. awesome.

it's one of those rare moments where i feel like the beatles would probably approve

woah

yeah. i'd love to hear side 2. and i guess i eventually will (if i can afford it) because apparently the guy's white album exhibition is supposed to conclude with a pressing of the white album with hundreds of copies playing at once

yeah. i'd love to hear side 2.

and 3 and 4, come to think of it! heh

it's gonna be difficult for 2014 to suck more than 2013.

lol come on now

thanks number one!

man I wish I had heard Youth Code in time for the 2013 poll nominations. I don't keep up with EBM normally but this is right in my zone, especially Sick Skinned which sounds like early Ministry or something.

So far I've been going through the 2013 ILM tracks nominations so mostly that. It's led to me discovering Bilal (prefer his other two albums really) and the genius of the Charli XCX album. Totally unrelated to that I've listened to a bunch of Sleater-Kinney albums for the first time and have become a bit obsessed with them.

https://soundcloud.com/zartan-drednaught-cobra/sets/iller-than-most-lp
Roedelius - Orgel Solo 2001
Popul Vuh - everything
Voices: A Compilation of the World's Greatest Choirs
Yasuaki Shimizu - IQ 179
Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo Vol. 2 - http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=8231 (segues on this mix are very clever)
The Bad Tempered Consort - A Imagem da Melancolia (Portugese polyphony from the 17th century)
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I

Samantha Crain - Kid Face (she may need her own thread soon...I didn't see one)

XP - Thanks for alerting me to the second edition of Fairlights, Mallets... amazing!

yeah it's fantastic. i hadn't heard most of the tracks he uses.

Not sure about this MAlkmus record yet...

It's ok, you have exactly 12 months to decide.

not really, i'm supposed to be reviewing it... and it's LATE!!!! :-O

Maybe that can be my review. "Not sure about this MAlkmus record yet..."

I can't seem to type the name MAlkmus without capitalising the second letter.

Pet Shop Boys - Alternative
Rip Slyme - Golden Time
lots of assorted Hariharan albums
some Split Enz
more Popol Vuh (of course)
lots of Mike Oldfield (but mostly Ommadawn over and over again)
Koenjihyakkei - II

now that I've voted in the ILM best of 2013 poll, I'm listening to the Spotify playlist of nominated tracks

there are some great things from last year that I missed, like the Stanton Warriors and Meek Mill

I heard nothing about this in 2013. The conjunction of "Hamid Drake" and "Balochistan" would have definitely gotten my attention.

Sounds good so far. A little more sedate than expected.

childbirth's it's a girl!. on a loop, for a few days now.

today:

Felt- Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Nick Cave- Your Funeral...My Trial
Eazy-E- It's On
Ultramagnetic MCs- The Four Horsemen
Scarface- The World is Yours
David Sylvian- Gone to Earth

The title track to that nick cave song feels like it's been with me for my entire life, even though I think I first heard it (I think) a few months ago. Seriously it feels like I've always known the song. Such a beautiful melody

Love the Four Horseman!

2 brothers with checks and the Caddy is fly...San Francisco, Harvey

aside from Roxy Music and relations catalog:
Balqees - Manjoun
Balqees is Yemeni from birth. sonically i guess i'd call it pan - Arabic, produced but not at all slick; sometimes puts me in the mind of Taha when it gets to rockin'; one bit put me in the mind of (Holger's) "Persian Love"
loving this on first listen

no new york, are we not men we are devo, buncha random disco singles, killed by deathrock vol 1, cass mccombs "county line," young thug "danny glover"

anthology of american folk
spiritualized
the radiators
too short
e-40
gnr
ugk
george jones
uncle tupelo

and death metal

Bailter Space - Vortura
Philip John Lewin - Diamond Love And Other Realities
Tumbélé! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds - French Caribbean 1963-73
The Orchids - Epicurean - A Soundtrack
Michael O'Gara - Michael O'Gara
This Scarlet Train -Fimbria
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
Bert Keely - Take Me Home
Velocity Girl - ¡Simpatico!
The Prima Donnas - Live On KVRX
Kauffman & Caboor -Songs from Suicide Bridge

Shackleton

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ yessss

This is my current playlist...
Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother
Hellacopters- Super Shitty to the Max
Catherine Wheel- Like Cats and Dogs
Dust- Hard Attack/Dust
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Flamin’ Groovies- Teenage Head
Gallagher- Rory- Blueprint
Leaf Hound- Grower of Mushroom
Afghan Whigs- Gentleman
Mercyful Fate- Don’t Break the Oath
Savage- Loose N Lethal
Diamond Head- Lightning to the Nations
Celtic Frost- Into the Pandemonium

lee gamble -- KOCH / dutch tvashar plumes
stravinsky -- piano music (lin) / firebird transcription (biret)
regis -- in a syrian tongue
conrad schnitzler -- rot
chapterhouse -- rownderbout
shellac -- dude incredible
franck -- violin sonata (perlman/argerich)
jessica bailiff -- at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky
talking heads -- remain in light
schoenberg -- piano concerto (uchida)
the black dog -- werk and play
kevin drumm -- live 2000

http://oliviablock1.bandcamp.com/album/heave-to

Jennifer Castle - Pink City
Daniel Jacques - Livet Efter Detta
Tonstartsbandht - Overseas
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Ali & Toumani
The United States Of America - s/t
Schubert/String Quartet no. 14 - Brodsky Quartet
A massive archive of Alistair Cooke letters from america mp3's from the 2000's
Angel - Terra Null
Gal Costa - s/t
Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi - s/t

sebadoh- smash your head on the punk rock
dead confederate- wrecking ball
maureeny wishful- the maureeny wishful album
paul hindemith- composers in person, vol. 1
wray- s/t
meta meta- metal metal
nuggets of the golden age of gospel, 1945-1958
voivod- dimension hatross
jute gyte- vast chains
the hilliard ensemble- orlando di lasso: prophetiae sibyllarum
titan- elevator
wizz jones- the legendary me

usw.

I just got a box of metal CDs out of storage so: Human Remains, Nokturnal Mortum, Demoncy, Human Remains, Messiah, Cloven Hoof, etc.

Also
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Electric Citizen - Sateen
V/A Nigeria Afrobeat Special
V/A Ghana Special
Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane
Nurt - s/t
Sonny Forriest - Tuff Pickin'
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
V/A - Glam-O-Rama Vol 1 & 2
Pypy - Pagan Day
Public Nuisance - Gotta Survive
Marco Shuttle - Fanfara 12"
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
a lot of early Bowie
Crime - Murder By Guitar
Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey

I have become pretty well accustomed to that last Dirtbombs album because my son is persistently blasting it out on his ipod. I wasn't keen on it last year but it has grown on me recently.

It didn't really appeal to me at first, but I've used it as background music at work and it's slowly crept into my brain.

demdike stare tesptressings 04/05/06 ✓✓✓✓✓
sensate focus eps ✓✓
syro ✓✓✓✓
quaristice ✓✓✓
confield ✓✓✓✓✓
ueno masaaki ✓✓✓✓
florent schmitt ombres/mirages/tragedie de salome (larderet pf) ✓✓✓✓
liszt opera transcriptions (lortie) ✓✓✓✓
hs 'verdigris reader' ✓
bach english suites (tureck) ✓✓✓✓

RA gave Syro a 5/5, that puts it in the same esteemed class as Biokinetics, Routes Not Roots and Voices From The Lake and lots of so so stuff as well that never fails to send their comments section into meltdown. As an old git a new AT album makes me think of it in a timescale against older ageing artists; back in my youth in the 90's I recall condescending a 40-ish tech-college tutor who (hip-barber mode)is telling me how nerve net is Eno's best album for years in the pub at lunchtime!

The five tick rating system is a welcome innovation to this thread, I al;ways dig ticks and stars more than folk talking bollocks.

idk how many ✓s it could potentially go up to because i haven't listened to all of the pc music releases yet
✓ is 'just about worthwhile' rather than crap though

chavez - ride the fader -- 32 out of 35 peeled & washed carrots
superchunk - come pick me up -- 14/14 days out of two weeks
olivia block - heave to -- fuck yeah
aphex twin - syro -- *phew*

Pure Reality, the debut from Dark Blue, comes out in a couple weeks on the Jade Tree label; it's streaming in full here:

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/228746/premiere-dark-blue-stream-debut-album-pure-reality-in-full/

Dark Blue is made up of Philly indie rock veterans John Sharkey III (Clockcleaner, Puerto Rico Flowers) Andrew Mackie Nelson (Ceremony, Paint it Black, Puerto Rico Flowers) and Michael Sneeringer (Strand of Oaks, formerly from Purling Hiss, Puerto Rico Flowers).

The debut "Pure Reality" could be the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie provided that Ian Curtis wrote it. It and it reminds me of when I was a teenager in the '80s and I would turn to a then-nascent WHFS. The album is more catchy than twitchy which is fine, and I especially love the darkness that permeates the proceedings, punctuated with slashing guitars and stately baritone vocals.

Missed opportunity to call it Sharkey's Machine.

old Caetano Veloso album-Bicho

I'm on some spirit of '76 today:

Magma- Udu Wudu
Novalis- Sommerabend
JJ Cale- Troubadour
Picchio dal Pozzo (this is great btw)
Sweet- Give Us a Wink
Angel- Helluva Band
Earth, Wind & Fire- Spirit

Magma- Udu Wudu

Referenced in Children of Men IIRC

ligeti -- lontano atmosphere sf polyphony
vatican shadow & function -- games have rules
sean booth kouhei matsunaga mika vainio -- 3 telepathics meh in-sect connection
klara lewis -- ett
katie gately -- s/t
nhk -- dance classic vol3
perc -- the power and the glory
aphex twin -- come to daddy ep
brahms -- theme with variations op18
les vampyrettes -- s/t
swans -- to be kind

magma - udu wudu (mostly just "de futura" over and over)
aphex twin - syro
neneh cherry - raw like sushi
eliane radigue - trio de la morte
wagner - tristan und isolde (bohm/bayreuth 1966)
liszt - transcendental preludes (bolet)
demdike stare - testpressings
conrad schnitzler - auf dem schwarz kanal

(mostly just "de futura" over and over)

I've been there! If you ever need to switch it up, Jannick Top's solo album "Soleil d'Ork" has a demo version with Richard Pinhas playing guitar on it.

aphex twin - syro
autechre - move of ten
bardo pond - refulgo
bob dylan - tell tale signs
cecil taylor - winged serpent (sliding quadrants)
death - leprosy
dj dodger stadium - friend of mine
dj rashad - double cup
electric wizard - time to die
gorguts - obscura
john lee hooker - it serve you right to suffer
jordi savall - j.s. bach - musical offering
lee 'scratch' perry - upsetters 14 dub blackboard jungle
michael pisaro - tombstones
midnight - no mercy for mayhem
origin - omnipresent
pallbearer - foundations of burden
panopticon - roads to the north
the royals - pick up the pieces
the xx - the xx
vince staples - shyne coldchain vol. 2
witch mountain - mobile of angels
wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang clan (36 chambers)
yes - fragile

Loving this new M Sage record a great deal

http://msage.bandcamp.com/album/a-singular-continent

troy ramey and the soul searchers - try being born again (1977 nashboro gospel = guaranteed to be good)
brazil 2/o samba (1989 luaka bop comp)
ramses III - i could not love you more (on type. still one of my favorite ambient records ever. i was really happy to find a used copy in the store today)
stereolab - the groop played space age batchelor pad music

Kraftwerk - Computer World
King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Swans - To Be Kind

Actually, though, everything is terrible except for Babymetal.

70s hard rock/prog, 80s metal & Khun Narin.

PiL

The Fall

New Alt-J so thin keep wanting 2 brush it away. Look fwd 2 Spotify commercials. Actual bests: Weeny "Left Hand Free," daycare cover art.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart's's Days of Abandon Deluxe Edition adds five keepers, esp. "Poison Touch," ft. lithe beats & A Sunny Day In Glasgow's Jen Goma, as do all the best tracks, though The Pains' own vocals have grown on me okay (still not great, but they do their bit). Nerf layers accumulate on the three duds, but mostly, this dream pop earns its tag and actually rocks a bit (most of the distinctive instrumental turns come from the rhythm section).

Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream
Marc Ribot - The Prosthetic Cubans
Roman Flugel - Happiness is Happening
NTS radio
Yong Marco - Beats in Space mix
Ersen (Finders Keepers)

mostly Beethoven and Cecil Taylor

✓

Addicted to the brilliant Lorenzo Senni 'Superimpositions' album right now, really incredible stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0r8U6BiYk

masque premiere

Prince: Art etc. so far not in one ear out other, but plectrumelectrum sufficiently rocking and thoughtfully support's Thirdeyegirl's blue sunshine.
Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 (Light In The Attic) Singles and prev. unreleased, cohesive variety of versions and line-ups; I'm partial to the uncanny funktronic instrumentals--keys, rhythm machine, bass---and "Life & Death in G & A": "If it feeeeeels good, it's al-right!" telling himself and us, urgent but not 2 loud (Must get those Rhino etc sides from '67-? too, and some amazing ones on that '13 box)

"Not" should not be in that first note, really is in one ear out other

also sorry for apostrophe: *supports* not "support's." Dam!

Oh re Prince's Art etc as ho-hum, at least one exception: "Time" is tight.

see, I'd argue for U Know... and Breakfast Can Wait was last year but still.

Still loving skronk-funkateers Guerilla Toss 2013 debut album Gay Disco, and they've got a couple '14 EPs streaming: Smack The Brick, out later this month: https://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/01-smack-the-brick?in=nnatapes/sets/guerilla-toss-smack-the-brick-cassette Current fave: "Billy Blood Idol."
Even better maybe (a little faster, more momentum overall, though they've spoiled me): last summer's 367 Equalizer, ltd. ed., maybe OOP, but still here for now:
https://soundcloud.com/infinity-cat/cookie-guerilla-toss?in=infinity-cat/sets/infinity-cat-cassette-series-guerilla-toss Can't pick one!
Both sets are 4 tracks each, but those are enough to keep the homefries burning while waiting for next alb (get the first)

Also, as mentioned at some length on Robert Wyatt thread, letting the 2-disc comp w same title as new bio, Different Every Time carry meee away. As mentioned at some length on Richard Thompson thread, big news for me re The Thompson Family Album is how good Linda sounds, despite long-reported vocal problems, she's the one on here projecting charisma. RT and others contribute some good songs and playing: no masterpieces, but at least half are keepers, whole thing might be a sleeper.
Both albums still streaming on npr 'til their 11-18 release(better get started on the Wyatt):
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384516/first-listen-robert-wyatt-different-every-time
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384683/first-listen-thompson-family

Anybody heard this? Cover makes me woh-woh-wonder:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2XPWhfCMAAUOEY.jpg

dennis johnson's November was composed earlier than almost all minimalist music and is completely perfect, yet it is unknown

this is bullshit

why did i revive the 2014 thread to say that

why

it's not just a historical curiosity, being written years before in C. it's actually perfect. put it on and listen to it throughout a quiet afternoon. i've always appreciated In C as a historical document and as an idea. November explores the ramifications of In C before it was even written

in time and space

but fart fart i have other things to do fart

he was 21 when he wrote this

can you pull me back to 2014 through the time tunnel pls

It’s kind of a Being John Malkovich situation in there. Pretty embarrassed about my solo drunkness on a Wednesday night, slight less embarrassed about my apparent passion for November, which still rules in the sober light of this field, where I am a Cusack

passion for November when

Possible I’m still a bit drunk, jesus