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1 each - Cold War Kids, Little Dragon, Sufjan Stevens, and Ulver
Edit: I've been using a 32" TV I borrowed from the spare bedroom as a computer monitor, ever since the one I been using for 15 years stopped working. So seeing the Arca album cover at nearly two feet wide is creepy as fuck, like even more than it already is.
Edit 2: It is 21 inches across
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5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
My top ten is coming out this afternoon. But what a day of new music! Mac DeMarco, new Grizzly Bear single, two new LCD Soundsystem tracks on Spotify, the Animal Collective (minus Panda Bear I think) EP from Record Store Day, At the Drive-In's new album...
Tough choice for my top pick but this beats DAMN. by a hair.
HMs- Kendrick Lamar "DAMN.", Future Islands "The Far Field", FJM "Pure Comedy", Gorillaz "Humanz", Joey Bada$$ "ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$"
Such a good month. I voted for Feist, could have voted for Kendrick, FJM, Sylvan Esso, Overcoats, Future Islands. Plus Gorillaz, Little Dragon and Black Angels are also good.
the physics house band - for anyone who likes Mars Volta when they aren't being too self-indulgent, check these guys out. (Rothric )
Thanks for this rec, listened to it several times already and really enjoy it. Can definitely feel the Volta influence in it. It's instrumental, but I can imagine Cedric wailing over a few of the songs.
Yeah I queued up Abraxical Solapse, forgot I had done it, and when it came on immediately thought "is this Volta", that first 10-15 seconds is just so that. Definitely going to have to explore these guys more.
My April winner: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy Favorite tracks: "In Twenty Years or So" - "Pure Comedy" - "Ballad of the Dying Man" - "Birdie" - "Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution" - basically every song other than "Leaving L.A." because it's just too damn long
Kendrick's album is amazing. It's much more radio-friendly and easily accessible than his past work (even though I think it's my third favorite of his). It's an album where I can request at least half the songs at the bar and everyone is still getting down. But Father John Misty's album is just the winner for me. These two albums are basically 1A and 1B for me, but I think Pure Comedy will potentially be my album of the year. Through four months, these two are my #1 and #2 for 2017. Josh Tillman's voice has never sounded better and the production is absolutely incredible. The arrangements and melodies and song-writing are all amazing. And his lyrics are in top form, as well. He completely captures what it feels like to be someone in our modern age who feels so insane watching the absurdities of the world around us that you can't help but laugh about it. And after over an hour of the same theme (admittedly a little long-winded at times) pushingn the idea that the world is ending and we are all doomed, you get my song of the year so far with "In Twenty Years or So." It is the perfect, beautiful, optimistic ending to an otherwise slightly depressing album. No matter how awfully chaotic the world gets around us, we are completely surrounded by beauty and life and love. We just have to be open to accepting it along with the rest of the bad.
2. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. - "DNA." - "HUMBLE." - "LOYALTY. FEAT. RIHANNA" - "XXX. FEAT. U2" - "PRIDE." - "FEAR." 3. Feist - Pleasure - "Get Not High, Get Not Low" - "Pleasure" - "Lost Dreams" 4. The Physics House Band - Mercury Fountain - "Surrogate Head" - "Obidant" - "The Astral Wave" 5. Surfjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live - "Should Have Known Better" - "All of Me Wants All of You" - "Fourth of July" 6. Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ - "DEVASTATED" - "ROCKABYE BABY (feat. ScHoolboy Q)" 7. Sylvan Esso - What Now - "Radio" - "Signal" 8. Arca - Arca - "Piel" - "Anoche" 9. Happyness - Write In - "Uptrend/Style Raids" - "The Reel Start Again (Man as Ostrich)" 10. Wilsen - I Go Missing in My Sleep - "Centipede"
Tons of stuff I didn't get a chance to listen to this month (still have to get around to that Ulver), but this is my favorite of what I've listened to.
If you think you'd like an instrumental version of The Mars Volta, definitely give this a listen.
Sylvan Esso - What Now This is my vote, if you'll accept it. I was working the Pixies show at the Ryman last night and I completely forgot to put in a vote.
Sylvan Esso managed to take the sound I've come to love and make a remarkably similar album that holds up and can easily exist on it's own as a separate entity. If I hadn't been purely won over by their sound, this album deserves that merit alone, quality aside.
Gorillaz was disappointing, but I'll sit on it for awhile and see what happens. Violents & Monica Martin is really interesting. Nothing mind-blowing, but her voice is always intoxicating and the production is airy and sometimes dancier than you'd expect. Feist was just as lovely as always. I look forward to listening to it again. Overcoats take on Lorde and MØ is as entertaining as it is depressing. Woods: Never stop doing your thing. Kendrick's album is understandably hyped, it's just not my cup of hip-hop at all. My thoughts on this are small, but well documented. Joey Bada$$ made the better of these two hip hop records and is far more interesting for me to listen to. Diet Cig is solid. Future Islands is also solid, but my lady hates this band so I don't often have a chance to listen. I loved how in-motion it is. New Pornos gonna New Porno Father John Misty is, as I've said before, almost aggressively boring.
HM: Kenny, Future Islands, Arca. And of course Sufjan Live album, but I recall there being a rule about voting for those? As in, we aren't supposed to - or is that false?
Haven't yet gotten around to listening to all the stuff people seemed to like this month; it was quite a full month of releases.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
If you think you'd like an instrumental version of The Mars Volta, definitely give this a listen.
I love this album and I agree with your comparison. At times, I think the Mars Volta would have enough grounds for straight up accusing them of plagiarism.
If you think you'd like an instrumental version of The Mars Volta, definitely give this a listen.
I love this album and I agree with your comparison. At times, I think the Mars Volta would have enough grounds for straight up accusing them of plagiarism.
PHB has toured with Omar before, learned that this AM.
So far Slowdive is better than Mac DeMarco, but its pretty close.
Mac Demarco as a whole just clicked with me, so I've been giving the new album lots of attention.
I've been taking lots of walks and listening to music. Temperatures are getting hotter down south, something about walking around the neighborhood, feeling the sun and the sweat, and listening to "2" and "Salad Days" made me go "ahhhh okey dokey I think I like this Mac Demarco guy".