First Quarterly Top 5

hey look · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:53 pm

sweet thanks. Like I said, I can't rmemeber if I even heard the Isbell before or not and the Sheepdogs sounds pretty cool.

I liked the Broken West well enough, but I'll check out this new project

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:59 pm

I can chalk at least 50% of liking the new Isbell up to A. an early spring this year in Georgia and B. following the guy on Facebook & Twitter I feel like I've become personally invested in his career

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:12 am

Haha.

Also don't worry about Band of Heathens, I heard that back when it leaked. Was decent

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:20 am

Apparently that Sheepdogs came out in February of 2010. But it's pretty good regardless

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:40 am

contradiction Wrote:

Apparently that Sheepdogs came out in February of 2010. But it's pretty good regardless

It's a re-release, I think. The date I have is Mar22, 2011. I'm still counting it.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:17 am

DumpJack Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

Interesting that you like Braids. You don't like Animal Collective, do you?

Not really, I've tried listening to them a few times but I just don't connect. I just heard Braids on CBC3 awhile ago, dug up the album and liked it. I did notice that there does seem to be comparisons to AC and some band named Gang Gang Dance that I've never heard of.

Musically they are pretty similar to recent Animal Collective, but the vocals are pretty different, obviously. I think the Gang Gang Dance comparison comes from the vocals more than the music, but they're kind of in a similar vein.

I've seen Braids derided as lesser followers of Animal Collective, but I do think they have their own thing going on, most of which comes from the singer.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:49 am

contradiction Wrote:

Apparently that Sheepdogs came out in February of 2010. But it's pretty good regardless

You've gotta be a some kinda major '60s fetishist to go all in on the Sheepdogs. Makes Moondoggies sound like they come from the future.

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:25 am

YOU GOTTA BE

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:26 am

jamaica no problem
smith westerns dye it blonde
anna calvi s/t
the death set michel poiccard
cut copy zonoscope

pretty disappointing year so far for music. moreso for releases from bands/albums that i expected to like (radiohead, obits, rainbow arabia).

FT · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:39 am

1. the phoenix foundation - buffalo
2. hayes carll - KMAG YOYO
3. middle brother - middle brother
4. raphael saadiq - stone rollin'
5. the insomniacs - just enjoy it

if that phoenix foundation album turns out to actually have been an 2010 release, as some are saying, then...

1. hayes carll - KMAG YOYO
2. middle brother - middle brother
3. raphael saadiq - stone rollin'
4. the insomniacs - just enjoy it
5. apex manor - the year of magical drinking

mcaputo · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:02 pm

FT Wrote:

1. the phoenix foundation - buffalo
if that phoenix foundation album turns out to actually have been an 2010 release, as some are saying, then...

Import - April '10
Domestic - Feb '11

mojo · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:21 pm

Nicole Atkins - Mondo Amore
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yoyo
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
Bobby Long - A Winter's Tale

J Mascis & Kurt Vile feel like mirror images of themselves

FT · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:05 pm

mcaputo Wrote:

FT Wrote:

1. the phoenix foundation - buffalo
if that phoenix foundation album turns out to actually have been an 2010 release, as some are saying, then...

Import - April '10
Domestic - Feb '11

what's the official obner ruling?

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:23 pm

The way I feel about stuff like that now is that if you can make a case for it, it counts.

I mean, people were voting for In Rainbows for the our 2008 poll even though I think it finished in the top 10 of our 2007 poll so what the hell. The justification there just being that it wasn't released on CD until 2008, even though in 2007 it had been made available to everyone digitally for whatever price they wanted to pay.

k · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:13 pm

Belong-Common Era
Tim Hecker-Ravedeath 1972
Nick Kuepfer-Rural Route Number 7 (this entire Rural Route series has been outstanding)
Deaf Center-Owl Splinters
V/A-Pakistan Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:11 pm

FT Wrote:

mcaputo Wrote:

FT Wrote:

1. the phoenix foundation - buffalo
if that phoenix foundation album turns out to actually have been an 2010 release, as some are saying, then...

Import - April '10
Domestic - Feb '11

what's the official obner ruling?

I'm finding release dates for both '10 and '11. I'm ranking it this year. One of my favorites, too.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:28 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I can chalk at least 50% of liking the new Isbell up to A. an early spring this year in Georgia and B. following the guy on Facebook & Twitter I feel like I've become personally invested in his career

And then you and a GQ blurb got me to give it a real listen. There are 4 good to great songs, and 6 KWIsbell songs, but it is what it is. He should come out of this period with a heckuva JJCale or Kristoferson or Shaver or Jerry Jeff esque Greatest Hits written by a dude the general public is largely oblivious to album. I can't believe someone like Jimmy Buffett or even Tim McGraw hasn't trotted out a gussied up Dress Blues. You know, Fer The Troops!

That Sheepdogs is interesting. It's basically Canadian Drug Rock - Charlie Canadian, not Andrew Canadian. Its like they gave some hippies stuck in the Poland 1978 of Charlie's pictures a bunch of 60 albums, and let them watch Dazed and Confused and Almost Famous too many times. It's music from Texlahoma if you will. So of course, I really like it.

I need to hear anal major or whatever you guys are declaring this year's randim debut Paste Rock album we'll forget about.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

I've only heard 10 albums from 2011, with maybe another 5 or so kicking about that I haven't had time to listen to yet.

So far

1. P J Harvey
2. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

are the only ones I really like

3. Kurt Vile
4. Wanda Jackson

are decent enough

the rest haven't impressed.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:42 am

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

anal major

*chortle*

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:17 am

b callahan - apocalypse
most rotations this year - best since a river
ofwgkta - radical
2010 release but i'm a latecomer & new believer. highly anticipating tyler/creator - goblin
panda bear - tomboy
not nearly the immediate impact of debut but appreciate the direction & progression
siriusmo - mosaik
great workout soundtrack from modeselektor collaborator. some cheeze to wade through
black joe lewis + honeybears - scandalous
not at all my bag but fun blues-y austin band channeling howlin wolf discovered on radio

Ramenamen · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:49 am

As of right now:

Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
Childish Gambino - EP
Burial - Street Halo
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?

Still need to hear Panda Bear, TVOTR and anything else that leaked recently I'm not aware of.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:25 pm

No order:

Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Yuck - Yuck
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

TVOTR, Tennis and Kurt Vile all just miss, and I need to hear Tomboy.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:26 pm

shaMoxie Wrote:

b callahan - apocalypse
most rotations this year - best since a river

Two listens so far, and yeah, this is great.

huskerpunk · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:45 pm

Top 6 in no order...

James Blake - "James Blake"
Blueprint - "Adventures in Counter-Culture"
Destroyer - "Kaputt"
PJ Harvey - "Let England Shake"
Lykke Li - "Wounded Rhymes"
Yuck - "Yuck"

and not officially counting it, since it's not a music album... but:

Louis C.K. - "Hilarious"

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:07 pm

huskerpunk Wrote:

Louis C.K. - "Hilarious"

Do you have an mp3 of this laying around?

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