20 Ish from 2014

jsh · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:09 pm

Honestly, kind of a shit year for music, or at least for my list-making. I think I was too busy. The top three are killer records, and if you haven't heard them, I implore you to. Looking forward to making time to explore your lists.

1 - Timber Timbre Hot Dreams
2 - Absolutely Free Absolutely Free.
3 - Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun
4 - Earth Primitive And Deadly
5 - Ought More Than Any Other Day
6 - Aphex Twin Syro
7 - DOOMSQUAD Kalaboogie
8 - Fucked Up Glass Boys
9 - The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream
10 - The Bug Angels & Demons
11 - Goat Commune
12 - Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty
13 - Leonard Cohen Popular Problems
14 - Swans To Be Kind
15 - Scott Walker + Sunn O))) Soused
16 - Bill Callahan Have Fun With God

two guns holla · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:39 am

I saw Absolutely Free open for Alvvays a few months back liked them a lot. Listened a few times to that album but need to listen more. Really good stuff.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:15 pm

Absolutely Free has been on my list of stuff that I hope to get around to in the next week or so. There's another maybe similar (or maybe not) band called Horse Lords (who did a split with Lower Dens a while back) whose album I also want to check out.

I may just have to check out that Timber Timbre after all with both you and stu putting it at #1.

DOOMSQUAD sounds pretty cool.

I keep forgetting that Fucked Up and Goat both put out albums last year, and I've completely ignored that Bill Callahan dub album for some reason.

Shabazz Palaces, Ought, and Aphex Twin are great. I'm kinda getting bored with this iteration of Swans now, but "Oxygen" is a cool song. I don't really like the Scott Walker + Sunn O))) thing.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

jsh Wrote:

13 - Leonard Cohen Popular Problems

I'm curious how much you like this album. I'm a big fan of his but only gave it a few listens on spotify when it first came out and then almost forgot that it even existed. I always meant to go back and give it a few more listens but my initial impression was that it might be his worst (or maybe better put least great) album or if not probably near the bottom of his catalog. That's not to say that it might not be a fine album on its own merits that most artists would/should be proud of but with such a deep catalog, how many listens would this get after any novelty of it being new wears off? I'm often more critical of the artists that I love the most in this regard which makes me feel like a bad fan but I'm always hesitant to buy anything that I'm pretty sure I won't be listening to a year from now.

Thanks for posting the list.

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:33 pm

Drinky Wrote:

Absolutely Free has been on my list of stuff that I hope to get around to in the next week or so. There's another maybe similar (or maybe not) band called Horse Lords (who did a split with Lower Dens a while back) whose album I also want to check out.

I may just have to check out that Timber Timbre after all with both you and stu putting it at #1.

DOOMSQUAD sounds pretty cool.

Dude, you HAVE TO hear the Timber Timbre record. Also, Absolutely Free. Additionally, DOOMSQUAD.

I did this:

http://arts-crafts.ca/e4d/timber-timbre-hot-dreams.html

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:34 pm

billy g Wrote:

jsh Wrote:

13 - Leonard Cohen Popular Problems

I'm curious how much you like this album. I'm a big fan of his but only gave it a few listens on spotify when it first came out and then almost forgot that it even existed. I always meant to go back and give it a few more listens but my initial impression was that it might be his worst (or maybe better put least great) album or if not probably near the bottom of his catalog. That's not to say that it might not be a fine album on its own merits that most artists would/should be proud of but with such a deep catalog, how many listens would this get after any novelty of it being new wears off? I'm often more critical of the artists that I love the most in this regard which makes me feel like a bad fan but I'm always hesitant to buy anything that I'm pretty sure I won't be listening to a year from now.

Thanks for posting the list.

It's not great, actually. Some great moments, but less consistent than "Old Ideas", which I really liked.

k · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:11 pm

That Earth record was pretty good. Quite a few on here I have never heard (of) that I will have to check out based on my general faith in your recommendations dude.

jsh · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:12 am

k Wrote:

Quite a few on here I have never heard (of) that I will have to check out based on my general faith in your recommendations dude.

Would love to hear what you think, k.

k · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:51 pm

Gave a few of these a listen. That Ought is pretty great, wish I would have listened to it sooner. About half of that Timbre Timber I really liked as well. Thanks for those dude.

jsh · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:30 am

Cool, dig into the Absolutely Free, if you haven't.

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:04 pm

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:12 pm

I'm liking that Absolutely Free album.

That's a good performance. They're pretty tight.

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:13 pm

Nice!! Yeah, I'm glad you like it. It is excellent. Start to finish. Release show this evening in Toronto!!

bort · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:26 am

I dig that Absolutely Free track. Sounds like something I would have played on my Moog Power show back in the day.

jsh · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:59 pm

of course i forgot the ariel pink record. that would be around 4-6 for me.

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