Just added Curiosity Door by Cloth. An intimate but spacious, special thing that sounds like it could gain its makers a wider audience if placed in the right movie or TV perfume ad. Closest analog I can think of is The XX but maybe you can do better? Their very fine debut album is out today but I've had it a week having heard them on Spotify and pre-ordered it ages ago. Perfect winter listening.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Friday, 15 November 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
Chanctonbury Rings by Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus w/The Belbury Poly
One of the more original and successful Ghost Box releases in recent years. Features spoken word recollections of a heath with particular supernatural resonances set to music by Kraus and Belbury Poly. It does an excellent job of realizing the full potential of the Ghost Box project. If you are looking for that Wicker Man experience, check this out.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
By the time we roll out albums poll I'm hoping this list will be 3x as long
3776 - Saijiki75 Dollar Bill - I Was HereAcid Mothers Temple - Hallelujah Mystic Garden pt 2Big Red Panda - Voyage Big Thief - U.F.O.F.Budos Band - VThe Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep MysteryCosmic Dead - Scottish Space RaceCuzcos - RupturaDawn Richard - New BreedDe Lorians - De LoriansDerby Motoreta's Burrito Kachimba - Derby Motoreta's Burrito KachimbaDexter Story - BahirDuke - Uingizaji HewaFat White Family - Serf's UpFly Pan Am - C'est CaThe Gluts - Dengue Fever Hypnotic TripHere Lies Man - No Ground to Walk UponHibushibire - Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out!Ikebe Shakedown - Kings Left BehindJabru - Ill ConceivedJay Mitta - Tatizo PesaJPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are CornballsKhana Bierbood - Strangers from the Far EastKogumaza - FuguesLastryko - Tetno PulsuMdou Moctar - Ilana: The CreatorNik Turner - The Final Frontier Paisiel - PaisielPixies - Beneath the EyriePinkish Black - Concept UnificationPurple Pilgrims - Perfumed EarthRoy Montgomery & Emma Johnston - After NietzscheRoyal Trux - White StuffSaba Alizadeh - Scattered MemoriesSault - 5Sault - 7Sisso - MatesoSlauson Malone - A Quiet Farewell, 2016-2018Spellling - Mazy FlySunwatchers - Illegal MovesThe Telescopes - Exploding Head SyndromeTeeth of the Sea - WraithTerminal Cheesecake - Le Sacre du lièvreThese New Puritans - Under the RoseThurston Moore - Spirit CounselTropical Fuck Storm - BraindropsWędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Marynistyka suchego ląduWeyes Blood - Titanic RisingWhite Denim - Side Effects
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
I like this list. A bunch of these are already on the spotify list, but you should add more.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
Bibio's "Lover's Carvings" (WXAXRXP Session Mix) is super sweet folk pop and i've been playing it on repeat for a month or two.this is a track i'd like to push for the ILM singles poll and i'd appreciate it if you give it a listen. becomes a variant on itself at 1.40. lotsa cowbell!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG8weLOZ8kUhttps://open.spotify.com/track/4BLykUDLpJbhlJwjWBD7aV?si=rAee3pP8Tt29OO21SDAx9whttps://music.apple.com/us/album/wxaxrxp-session-ep/1478291421https://store.tidal.com/us/album/122531244https://www.amazon.com/Lovers-Carvings-WXAXRXP-Session/dp/B07Y2FSWNW
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
I love Lover's Carvings, and that is a very good version.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
i don't see any posts mentioning the Blick Bassy or Helado Negro albums
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
the helado negro album is special, very warm and heartfelt and a great headphones listen.
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Yes to Helado Negro. Also Lady Donli, and Burna Boy, and Jimmy Duck Holmes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 November 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
add me to the list of twen fans. also really enjoyed the shinichiro yokota record. thanks for sharing !
put tracks by EXEK, william hooker, koma saxo, upperground orchestra, and CZ wang on the shared playlist. oh, and loren connors / daniel carter just now (didn't figure it was on spotify).
not on spotify are two john zorn recordings, from the "hermetic organ" series, vols. 6 and 8 (the latter being very high on my list).
lastly, and sorry to be a bummer, but i haven't seen anybody mention the new jimmy "duck" holmes record yet, so allow me to briefly register my deep dissatisfaction with dan auerbach's production work.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
want to co-sign this ... o.nate's the only other person I've seen mention it anywhere ... i love it:
R.M.F.C. - Hive Vols 1 and 2 - "The Clue" - Devo gets mentioned as a touchstone - not the later "Beautiful World" type stuff but the early "Mongoloid" robotic nasal vocal stuff - but there's also plenty of good old-fashioned gut-bucket fuzz of the proto-punk garage rock variety I associate with bands like The Saints.
Streaming here: https://erstetheketontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/ett-067-r-m-f-c-hive-volumes-1-2-lp
― alpine static, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
there are actually a lot of really good lo-fi hardcore bands from the last decade that have kind of an early devo sound to them... CCTV, the Coneheads, probably also some bands that aren't out of gary
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 December 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
then again DEVO was from Akron so maybe you have to be stuck in that sort of town to make that kind of music
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 December 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
can't hurt
― alpine static, Sunday, 1 December 2019 08:23 (four years ago) link
This Moon Duo record is the only Moon Duo record I actually like.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
Is it wrong of me to like Devil Master's "Satan Spits on Children of Light" as much as I do?
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 05:14 (four years ago) link
Wow, the Moon Duo as album I'd great! Reminds me of Flow Motion era CAN. I particularly enjoy the synth sequences on "Lost Heads".
Is there anything else from this year I should check out if I like this?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 December 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
Lol, my phone is wacky. Should say "the Moon Duo album is great"
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 December 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
A late entry for my album of the year, discovered through a brief mention on the ILM jazz thread, is Hütte & guests play the music of Robert Wyatt by Max Andrzejewski´s HÜTTE. The Turkish singer Cansu Tanrıkulu has a wonderful voice, the whole set is fantastic.
― fetter, Friday, 27 December 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
To respond to my own question about an album that might please fans of Aviary: Pies sobre la tierra by Mabe Fratti (from Guatemala) is a very nice 30 minutes ambient pop album with some ethereal vocals, modern classical and traditional music touches, in case that's attractive to you.
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 December 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
The real thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzeqXKAXdQ
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 December 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
This ended up being my end of year compilation:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mkWcqt5wQM6yNKnomWqco
― djh, Friday, 27 December 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Nonsensically-timed as ever, here are 161 of the best albums of 2019
10 000 Russos - Kompromat3776 - Saijiki75 Dollar Bill - I Was HereAbronia - The Whole of Each EyeAcid Mothers Temple - Hallelujah Mystic Garden pt 2Alameda 5 - EurodromeAriana Grande - Thank U, NextAshinoa - Sinie SinieAusmuteants - Ausmuteants Present: The World in HandcuffsBig Brave - A Gaze Among ThemBig Red Panda - VoyageBlack Flower - Future FloraBlackwater Holylight - Veils of WinterBlanck Mass - Animated Violence MildBoris - LΦVE & EVΦLBotanist - EcosystemBudos Band - VCalacorm - Calacormic Visions DemoCentrum - För meditationCherubs - Immaculada HighChris Forsyth - All Time PresentClinic - Wheeltappers and Shuntersclipping. - There Existed an Addiction to BloodCollider - -><-The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep MysteryCosmic Dead - Scottish Space RaceCuzcos - RupturaDawn Richard - New BreedDe Lorians - De LoriansDemon Head - Hellfire Ocean VoidDesert Sessions Volumes 11 & 12Dexter Story - BahirDhidalah - ThresholdThe Dream Syndicate - These TimesDreamtime - Tidal MindDrugdealer - Raw HoneyDuke - Uingizaji HewaDvanov - ПодпольяElder - The Gold & Silver SessionsElizabeth Colour Wheel - NoceboFat White Family - Serf's UpFet.Nat - Le malFlaural - PostponementFly Pan Am - C'est CaFollakzoid - IFree Ride - Free RideFuerza Nueva - Fuerza NuevaThe Galileo 7 - There Is Only NowGlenn Branca - The Third AscensionThe Gluts - Dengue Fever Hypnotic TripGnoomes - Mu!工工工 [Gong Gong Gong] - Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏Grace Ives - 2ndHave a Nice Life - Sea of WorryHawkeyes - Last Light of Future FailureHere Lies Man - No Ground to Walk UponHerxheim - Cultuvating Throne of Fur demoHibushibire - Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out!The Honey Pot - Bewildered JaneHyperculte - Massif OccidentalIconili - QuintaisIkebe Shakedown - Kings Left BehindImperial Wax - Gaswerks SaboteursInnercity Ensemble - IVJabru - Ill ConceivedJay Mitta - Tatizo PesaJim Jones and the Rughteous Mind - CollectIVJorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002Jorge Elbrecht - Gloss Coma - 002Julie's Haircut - In the Silence ElectricJute Gyte - BirefringenceKaleidobolt - BitterKhana Bierbood - Strangers from the Far EastKim Gordon - No Home RecordKogumaza - FuguesKooba Tercu - KharrübKostnatění - Hrůza zvítězíL' Épée - DiaboliqueL7 - Scatter the RatsLaBrecque/Barakat - Terminal DesertLankum - The Livelong DayLastryko - Tetno PulsuLee Scratch Perry - Heavy RainLightning Bolt - Sonic CitadelLingua Ignota - CaligulaLiturgy - H.A.Q.Q.Live Skull - Saturday Night MassacreLorelle Meets the Obsolete - de FactoMajor Stars - Roots of Confusion Seeds of JoyMammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I AnnwnMdou Moctar - Ilana: The CreatorMichael Kiwanuka - KiwanukaModern Nature - How to LiveMoon Duo - Stars Are the LightMoon Tooth - CruxMotorpsycho - The CrucibleMultishiva - SavupäiväNebula - Holy ShitNervous Curtains - I Tried to Fight It But I Was Inside ItNik Turner - The Final FrontierOh Sees - Face StabberOOIOO - nijimusip.rosa - BioconcretePH - Osiris HaydenPharaoh Overlord - 5Pixies - Beneath the EyriePinkish Black - Concept UnificationPlastic Crimewave Syndicate - Massacre of the CelestialsPony Bravo - GuruPsychedelic Speed Freaks - Psychedelic Speed FreaksPUP - Morbid StuffPurple Pilgrims - Perfumed EarthPurple Mountains - Purple MountainsQuantum Fantay - Yemaya OrishaRakta - Falha comumReptile Tile - Reptile Tile vs. Human ManReveal - ScissorgodRichard Dawson - 2020Roy Montgomery & Emma Johnston - After NietzscheRoyal Trux - White StuffRustin Man - Drift CodeSaba Alizadeh - Scattered MemoriesSatanique Samba Trio - Mais BadSault - 5Sault - 7Sisso - MatesoSkaphe & Wormlust - Kosmískur HryllingurSlauson Malone - A Quiet Farewell, 2016-2018Slipknot - We Are Not Your KindSnapped Ankles - Stunning LuxurySordide - Hier Déjà MortSouth Penguin - YSpellling - Mazy FlyStephen Mallinder - Um DadaSun Drug - JoyfreakerSunn O))) - Life MetalSunwatchers - Illegal MovesTaras Bulba - OneThe Telescopes - Exploding Head SyndromeTeeth of the Sea - WraithTerceiro Olho de Marte - Herbarium parabolicae ou língua secreta das sementesTerminal Cheesecake - Le Sacre du lièvreTheon Cross - FyahThese New Puritans - Under the RoseThurston Moore - Spirit CounselTomb Mold - Planetary ClairvoyanceTOY - Happy in the HollowTrey Anastasio - Ghosts of the ForestTropical Fuck Storm - BraindropsVanishing Twin - The Age of ImmunologyWand - Laughing MatterWaste of Space Orchestra - SyntheosisWędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Marynistyka suchego ląduWeyes Blood - Titanic RisingWhite Denim - Side EffectsWhite Ward - Love Exchange FailureWrithing Squares - Out of the EtherWyrmwoods - Spirit & TeethXoth - Interdimensional InvocationsYawning Man - Macedonian LinesZu - Terminalia Amazonia
― weekly shopper helper (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 June 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
Nice list. I think my favorite of the year actually ended up being the Murlocs' Manic Candid Episode which I don't think I've seen on any other list. Great soulful country-inflected garage-psych. The Tourist Activities' EP was another release that snuck up on me at the end of the year, kind of jangly Smiths-influenced female-fronted mope-indie with a bit of surf-rock in the guitar tone at times.
― o. nate, Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
simpler times.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 28 June 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah for real
― weekly shopper helper (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 June 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link