Boris - New Album - 2011

dumpjack, you magnificent bastard, you did it!

so 'psyched' to hear this, the best titled album of all time:

Ponytail Do Whatever You Want All The Time





also enjoying the christina carter record at the moment...

Didn't even know she had a new one out. Really enjoyed Original Darkness.

Don't even think I knew that one existed. "Texas Working Blues" is up on Magiska. She and Charalambides release sooo many records every year. Some are unlistenable. Sometimes the very same ones time perfectly with a mood...

The Tune-Yards record is also pretty good!

jsh, tell me about that Ponytail.

Been diggin' on this quite a bit guys.

Crystal Stilts – In Love With Oblivion (2011)





Crystal Stilts will bring their own brand of noisy, jangly and fuzzy indie pop to a new release this Spring with the release of a new full length album on Apr 12 titled In Love With Oblivion. It will be the follow up to their Alight of Night release in 2008. By all accounts so far, the band should continue their trademarked sound on In Love With Oblivion.

The press release has this to say about the album: “This follow-up to their much loved and critically acclaimed debut Alight Of Night continues their foray into spooky 60s psych and 80s dream pop but this time with more flourishes of melody and a bigger, more expansive sound. In Love With Oblivion sets the bar even higher as they reach dizzying, fuzzy heights as first class purveyors of haunting, atmospheric post-punk pop.” Crystal Stilts are back!
-spacelabmagazine.typepad.com

I have always been hit and miss with Christina on her own but have loved just about everyhting she has been a part of with someone else. Tom on the other hand can do wrong in my book.

Agreed on the Tune-Yards. I am surprised I like it as much as I do, but for a record that should have a pretty broad appeal, there are some very cool things going on with that album.

Also big thanks on the Ponytail, am very excited to hear that one. You're good people for coming through with that record.

Tune-Yards is pretty much the worst shit I've ever heard. I went downstairs and just drank when they played with Xiu-Xiu and Zola Jesus at the Bowery last year.

My ninja.

I'm quite gay for those hermaphros.

just snagged this myself...
last record was my #1 of 2008 or was it 2009?

So, I am reporting back on this:

(I know that I like to hear what folks think of the music that I run by them. So here it is.)

A couple of the tunes on here really grabbed me. I was listening in the car, so I couldn't grab a song title, but they were both towards the beginning. Overall, I really enjoyed it and I think that if I had one or two songs from this interspersed among other tunes in a mix, I think that I would enjoy them more. As it is, the sound just got kinda same-y for 19 tunes in a row of this style. Pleasant, to be sure, but aside from those couple of songs that I mentioned, nothing really grabbed me. I will be listening to this some more, and I will be putting it on my iTouch occasionally, so that those songs do come up in a shuffle.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Dalen, not much I can say about the Ponytail - it squeals for itself. Really high energy jams, dense but not heavy, they've got chops but pull it off playfully, a lot of colour to match the cover art. I'd say on first listen I was just slightly less impressed than by their last one, as it seems a little dialed back on energy in exchange for a bit more of a tropical and funk vibe than before. Still really good.

The Tune-Yards is much better than her first record, I think. Weird and eccentric, but in a pop context – which can make her eccentricities unpalatable sometimes – but I actually think she does a really good job with proper technology making this record.

absolute best analysis for sophomore suckery I have ever read

it was actually a bit better than i expected after a full album listen, but yeah i do miss the 60s pop influences this time around. it's like a simple and slightly dull modern rock record, sprinkled with shimmery glasvegas-ness

this is why, to me, the third album is the real make-or-break-it. a band can play it 'safe' twice with success, with a good formula, or they can fluke into something original twice, but it's the third record that determines how qual or how fluky they really are.

Thanks for that Raveonettes. One of those bands I've always followed, but don't think I've actually "bought" anything since that killer debut EP.

Here are some new BURIAL tracks:
http://pitchfork.com/news/41989-listen- ... al-tracks/

agreed, though i think perhaps the single greatest contributing factor is having years and years to collect and refine the best material for a debut album, then having to pull another album's worth of material out of your ass in a much shorter time span for the sophomore release

I take it back, this Ponytail is rad to the max. But apparently they've broken up!?

2009, I think and yeah, it instantly grabbed me. They're playing here on April 18th, so I'm going to wait and pick up the new one at the show. Have you listened to it yet?

Everyone hear the Raveonettes cover of "I Wanna Be Adored" from last year? Ish is awesome.

This is someone's idea of a joke right?

that link was pulled 5 minutes after it was up the other day