Don't tell me you don't like this. C'mon Yail, wtf.

I haven't checked it out yet...less a comment on the music and more on the "album of the year" comment.

i know. what'll it be next month?

Kinda of the sticking point of this album. Ima gonna let it steep for awhile and see what's on the other side. No proclamations yet.

Yeah, I'm not feeling this at all.

I've heard a song from it on the local NPR station, and really like it a lot. Anybody gonna ever up a rip of this mother???

definitely not any of the throwaway nonsense you dig.

i am too. kind of throwback indie feel. i'm reminded of a band called spent from the 90s. thanks.

So that I'm following... Tame Impala has taken over Surfer Blood - Astro Coast and The National - High Violet as ALBUM OF THE YEAR (week)!!!!!!

oh you mean sleigh bells? look who came around on that.

seeing that Dungen was my album of the year 2 years ago, Tame Impala has a damn good chance.

i love Dale's enthusiasm. i go back and forth on my album of the year constantly.

at 1:55 onward, it's pretty much better than anything else that's been released so far this year, and i've heard plenty.

You know what, I've been avoiding this Tame Impala for a couple days just because of dale's hysteria over it. But I finally caved in tonight, and damn if it isn't really fuckin' good. I only watched the two videos you posted, but I can't wait to hear more.

dang. link died.

here's a new link...

http://www.mediafire.com/?3dkzbjwomot

here's a new link...

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It didn't quite jump out on me as Album of the Year but that tube clip got me at least interested to check out more. Downloading.

lemme know what u think DJ.

still looking for an avi buffalo link kthxbai

As anyone who has experienced them live or on the seminal Congotronics LP will testify, Konono No.1 are truly one of the most exceptional, visceral bands in the world. With a distorted, hypnotic and utterly beguiling sound they’ve electrified traditional Congolese Bazombo trance music with a backline array of speakers salvaged from the Belgian colonnial era and amplifiers constructed from scrapped magnets and discarded electronics. In their home of Kinshasa, DR Congo, Konono are an in-demand ensemble, playing to weddings and wakes alike, upholding a folk tradition descended from septuagenarian band leader Mawangu Mingiedi’s roots in the Zombo tribe based in the hills on the Angolan border. However, their commercial and critical success outside their homeland far outweighs their reputation there. For ‘Assume Crash Position’, their second official album, they’ve worked with Belgian producer Vincent Kenis again to create an entrancing set of eight songs, some stretching out on a 12 minute locked groove, some sticking to an unusually brief slot. At the core of each track are the three likembes; modified and amplified thumb pianos set just slightly out of tune to each other plus relentlessly hypnotic percussion, and with this album an expanded line up of neighbourhood musicians from a young Konono covers band, members of Kasai Allstars, guitarist Manuaku Pepe Felly and guest vocalists. With Kenis’s production treatments, they’ve applied a subtle layer of gloss to the sound, which may detract from the rawness of earlier records, but we can assure you that the effect is still as bewitching and energetic as ever. From the serendipitous thrill of hearing a wall collapse in the background on ‘Makembe’ to the undeniable thrust of ‘Konono Wa Wa Wa’ the group play with insistent, innate and commanding power. Just so so good.~

Awesome.

Untested, so don't blame me if it's dead

Hope so.

I just don't really see how they can go wrong, but yeah, I guess we'll see.

True. I think it's that I've been less enamored by subsequent Congotronics releases – loved 2, less so 3 – but you're probably unquestionably right.