Be a man and come out and say something directly, you giant pussy.

Weird, I know these guys. Local folks. Good on them. Glad they are getting exposure.

i can and will be bothered to rank my albums! just not right now.

Still a ton of stuff to get through (should have a box from Utech coming this week which is sure to change things) and really the top 5 are pretty interchangeable depending on the day. Regardless, a lot of really good stuff so far this year.

1. Sean McCann - The Capital/The Sky Is Filled With Incredible Wishes
2. Colin Stetson - A New History Warfare Vol. 2
3. Jasper TX - Black Sun Transmissions
4. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
5. Psychic Paramount - II
6. Evan Caminiti - When California Falls into the Sea
7. The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
8. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972
9. William Fowler Collins / Gog – Malpais
10. Mist – House
11. Yui Onodera + Celer - Generic City
12. Ous Mal - Riioraa/Viime Talvi
13. Tom Carter - All Ahead Now
14. Wooden Shjips – West
15. Leyland Kirby – Eager to Tear Apart the Stars
16. Chora - The Wax Heel
17. Concern – Cæsarean
18. Stephen Molyneux - Cambodian Field Recordings
19. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – s/t
20. Nick Jonah Davis - Of Time and Tides
21. Amen Dunes – Through Donkey Jaw
22. Times New Viking – Dancer Equired
23. Stare Case - Vague Terms
24. Eternal Dreamer - Splintered Sunlight
25. Ken Seeno - Invisible Surfer On An Invisible Wave
26. John Luther Adams - Four Thousand Holes
27. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
28. Mark McGuire – A Young Persons Guide To Mark McGuire
29. Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Mort Aux Vaches
30. Cass McCombs – Wits End
31. Panda Bear – Tomboy
32. James Blackshaw - Holly
33. Grouper – A I A
34. David Andree - In Streams
35. Fourcolor - As Pleat
36. Eternal Tapestry - Beyond the 4th Door
37. Belong - Common Era
38. Woods – Sun and Shade
39. Ninni Morgia & Marcello Mgliocchi - Sound Gates
40. Imaginary Softwoods - The Path of Spectrolite
41. Eric Copeland – Waco Taco Combo
42. Ellen Fullman - Through Glass Panes
43. Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
44. Derek Rogers - Informal Meditation
45. FRKSE - s/t
46. Ponytail – Do Whatever You Want All The Time
47. Marissa Nadler – s/t
48. Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos
49. Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
50. Battles – Gloss Drop

The world isn't ready for that meeting yet.

k, have you heard the Cut Hands album? Might be something you'd like.

I haven't yet. I have heard a couple of remixes of "Welcome to the Feast of Trumpets" and I think one of "Bia Mintatu" but haven't heard the source material. I will make sure to check it out.

Similarly, if you haven't heard that Ken Seeno (guitarist for Ponytail) I am more than happy to send it your way, something I think you would probably like a bit. A lot different than his work with them, but still pretty great. One of my biggest surprises of the year for sure.

No, I haven't heard it, and I'd definitely like to.

I don't have Cut Hands on me, or I'd upload it as well. I'll try to remember to do that in the next few days.

Nice to see this on your list, I haven't had a chance to check it out yet but it's on my wish list.

I can't keep up with McCann but I'd like to hear his last few releases at some point. Interesting list.
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Not too much change for me. Finally connected with the Earth record, serious slow grower.

My top tier:

Tape - Revelationes
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Prophet
David S. Ware, Cooper-Moore, William Parker, Muhammad Ali - Planetary Unknown
Burning Sensation - S/t
Neil Young - A Treasure
Causa Sui - Pewt'r Session 1
Sungrazer - Mirador
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
Apache Dropout - S/t
Night Beats - S/t

I can't be bothered to list the rest.

I completely forgot that Apache Dropout and still haven't given that Earth a listen. Nice list though. Look forward to your year end here in a couple of months.

That Stare Case is nice. I guess they have put out a few this year but that is the only one I have been able to track down so far. A big departure from Wolf Eyes, which is kind of nice at this point.

As for McCann, that dude has had a ridiculous year. Like you said I can't keep up with him. It's like what Justin Wright was doing a couple of years ago where there is a tape or CDR coming out every couple of weeks it seems and none of them are misses. I think he has always shown a lot of promise and has had a really diverse sonic palette for a long time, but something has happened this year that has just elevated his work to a really special level, in my opinion anyways.

I'm just now hearing this for the first time, and I must concur. Really good stuff. They've developed beyond being a mere Spoon copy-paste (though they still resemble them on a song or two here).

love:

The War on Drugs "Slave Ambient"
Fucked Up "David Comes to Life"
Gang Gang Dance "Eye Contact"
Timber Timbre "Creep On Creepin' On"
Cass Mccombs "Wit's End"
Fleet Foxes "Helplessness Blues"

like lots:

Low "C'mon"
Miracle Fortress "Was I The Wave?"
Bill Callahan "Apocalypse"
Ha Ha Tonka "Death of A Decade"
Panda Bear "Tomboy"
Six Organs of Admittance "Asleep on the Floodplain"
Ponytail "Do Whatever You Want All The Time"
Nicolas Jaar "Space is Only Noise"
Shabazz Palaces "Black Up"
The Field "Looping State of Mind"
Dntel "Enya Mixes"
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers "Teenage & Torture"
James Blake "James Blake"
Kurt Vile "Smoke Ring for My Halo"
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter "Marble Son"
Julia Holter "Tragedy"
Paul Simon "So Beautiful So What"
Idaho "You Were A Dick"
Esmerine "La Lechuza"
Tune-Yards "W H O K I L L"
Braids "Native Speaker"
Beirut "The Rip Tide"
Dope Body "Nupping"
The Vaccines "What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?"
Ducktails "Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics"
John Maus "We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves"
Akron/Family "S/T The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT"
True Widow "As High as the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth"
Neil Young "A Treasure"
Daedelus "Bespoke"
Bardo Pond "Bardo Pond"
Autechre "Eps 1991-2002"
Anna Calvi "Anna Calvi"
Destroyer "Kaputt!"
Hauschka "Salon des amateurs"

... followed by a ton of shit that's worth repeated listens, too many to list.

Saw these guys last night. They put on a good show, but damn I needed earplugs at times. I usually don't forget to bring them.

Purling Hiss opened and I actually enjoyed them a little more.

Somewhere on my list:
The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
The Weeknd - House of Balloons
The Drums - Portamento
Das Racist - Relax
Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
Washed Out - Within and Without
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Hooray for Earth - True Loves
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Gauntler Hair - Gauntlet Hair
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Need to hear more/at all:
Real Estate - Days
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

I wanna marry em.

haha

Fuck you.



1) Psandwich - Northren Psych
2) Tape - Revelationes
3) Ernest Dawkins Ensemble - The Prairie Prophet
4) Sonny Rollins - Road Shows: Vol. 2
5) Enrico Rava - Tribe
6) Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake - Period
7) David S. Ware + - Planetary Unknown
8) Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
9) Causa Sui - Pewt'r Sessions 1
10) The Beets - Let The Poison Out
11) Neil Young - A Treasure
12) Burning Sensation - Self-Titled
13) Melvins - Endless Residency
14) True Sons Of Thunder - Spoonful Of Seedy Dudes
15) Apache Dropout - Self-Titled
16) Fred Hersch - Alone At The Vanguard
17) Wounded Lion - IVXLCDM
18) Kitchen's Floor - Look Forward To Nothing
19) Video - Leather Leather
20) Avishai Cohen - Seven Seas
21) Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
22) Sungrazer - Mirador
23) Night Beats - Self-Titled
24) Causa Sui - Pewt'r Sessions 2
25) Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn - Wo!man
26) Human Eye - They Came From The Sky
27) Sex Church - Growing Over
28) The Wax Museums - Eye Times
29) DM Bob & the Deficits - They Called Us Country
30) King Louie's Missing Monuments - Painted White
31) Cop City/Chill Pillars - Held Hostage on Planet Chill
32) Balaclavas - Snake People
33) The UV Race - Homo
34) GG King - Esoteric Lore
35) Useless Eaters - Daily Commute
36) Folded Shirt - Self-Titled
37) Skoal Kodiak - Kryptonym Bodliak
38) The Psychic Paramount - II
39) Pink Reason - Shit In The Garden
40) John Wesley Coleman - Little Miss Keith Richards

Flying Rabbit, didn't know you played in this band!