3 months down 3 more rounds to go - Here are my Top 5 releases of Q1 of this mess called 2011. If anything, it's been a good start for music.

1. James Blake James Blake
2. Nicolas Jaar Space is Only Noise
3. Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin' On
4. Ponytail Do Whatever You Want All The Time
5. Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers Teenage & Torture

Yers?

Hmmm, in no order....

Deafheaven
Times of Grace
We Made God
Architects UK
Twilight Singers
and Fen.

eh...these all change depending on mood, but here's five in no order

Charles Bradley: No Time for Dreaming
The Kills: Blood Pressures
Middle Brother: Middle Brother
Nicholas Jaar: Space is Only Noise
Roy Ellis: The Boss is Back

Also really liking the new Raveonettes, Ducktails, Davilla 666, Boris w/ Merzbow, Exene Cervenka, Fugiya and Miyagi, Hunx & His Punx, Messur Chups, Teenage Panzercorps, Mind Spiders, James Blake.

Already liking a lot this year. Really glad I have sworn off lists...this pathetic attempt at singling out five has provent list making not my forte.

It's changed since saturday!


1 - Slug Guts - Howlin' Gang
2 - UV Race - Homo (LP)
3 - Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Project
4 - Peaking Lights - 936
5 - Tape - Revelationes

Cool. I'm planning on picking this up next week. Also a coworker was telling me about Timbre Timbre yesterday, and I guess I'll be checking them out soon.

Mine:

01. The Psychic Paramount – II
02. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
03. Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil
04. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
05. Destroyer – Kaputt

Probably subject to change very soon due to all of the spring releases. I just downloaded the new Bill Callahan, and I'm guessing it has a very good shot at my #3 spot right now. Also sampled some of that Mike Watt album, and I'm about to grab that as well. Then next week is Ponytail, Vivian Girls (not sure what to expect there), Low, Panda Bear, Crystal Stilts, and The Feelies.

You should definitely check out Timber Timbre. Real kind of low, sparse, plodding, woodsy, North Ontarian songs. The new one incorporates a distinct kind of Motown horror vibe, with some semi-necessary Varese-like compositional sound blocks in interludes. I'm well into it, and hope to see him in a church here on Friday.

hmmm...in no particular order i guess:

fleet foxes
iron & wine
yuck
wye oak
kurt vile and pj harvey fighting it out for the last spot?

strong year so far....

01. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
02. Low - C'mon
03. Jonny - S/T
04. Lemuria - Pebble
05. Akron Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT

http://paladisiac.livejournal.com/137214.html

mountain goats, radiohead, cut copy, decemberists and... bright eyes (but i'm only solid on the top 4)

This pulled me out of a major rut today. Glad to have this album.

still want to hear these. saw Wye Oak live but havent heard the album, strangely.

1. Craft Spells - Idle Labor
2. Craft Spells - Idle Labor
3. Craft Spells - Idle Labor
4. Craft Spells - Idle Labor
5. Craft Spells - Idle Labor

1. The Sheepdogs Learn and Burn
2. The Strokes Angles
3. Shotgun Jimmie Transistor Sister
4. Braids Native Speaker
5. Radiohead King of Limbs

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.

gil scott-heron - we're new here
jamaica - no problem
teenage panzerkorps - german reggae
deaf center - owl splinters

and



i can't help it


i'm really digging...


glasvegas - EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\

(not as much as the first, but enough to make top 5 for Q1)

1.jessica lea mayfield - tell me
2.yuck - yuck
3.the mountain goats - all eternals deck
4.the low anthem - smart flesh
5. TIE the joy fomidable - the big roar
5. TIE the builders and the butchers - dead reckoning

No order but these would win the first quarter "most plays" contest

Middle Brother - Middle Brother
Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking
Destroyer - Kaputt
Jason Isbell - Here We Rest
The Band of Heathens - Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster's Son

The Sheepdogs, TVOTR and Charles Bradley are gaining a lot of traction.

1. Nicolas Jaar - Space is only Noise
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
4. Bill Frisell & Vinicius Cantuaria - Lagrimas Mexicanas
5. The Wailin' Jennys - Bright Morning Stars

4 and 5 are a bit arbitrary. The Fleet Foxes is a huge surprise and I really love the hell out of it. I've spent most of 2011 listening to DJ mixes and even mixes released this year and I don't count those on my LP lists and I can't really decide between a handful of really decent house LPs so I didn't include any of them.

I also think the Timbre Timbre record is pretty special and I hated that guy prior.

In no order:

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking
The Insomniacs - Just Enjoy It
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Tennis -Cape Dory

Need to listen to TOTR more. And I'm curious about this Sheepdog album now.

Can you tell me about Apex Manor and Sheepdogs? And I can't remember if I heard the Isbell or not but is it sappy stuff or is he being decent again? And could someone just upload all of these please

Apex Manor is the lead singer/songwriter from the Broken West. If you liked them, you'll like Apex Manor. I put a link to Apex Manor in the TWENTYONEONE thread a while back.

Hmm, is it already that time of year. In no order:

Sims - Bad Time Zoo
Mind Spiders - s/t
High Tension Wires
Underground Railroad to Candyland
maybe Lucinda Williams

Man, Sheepdogs is all over the map. Comes out of the box sounding a little Beatls-esque, mostly hangs out in late-60's rock territory. It somehow manages to sound like something I've definitely heard before on old scratchy records without being derivative. Or something.



I don't think Isbell is too sappy. I mean, there's no "Decoration Day" here but there are some pretty strong songs. I made fun of his last record for being "Kenny Wayne Isbell"; he struck this thing of like late 80's/early 90's Southern-ish rock that I used to hear on the radio and it did nothing for me. Here, he is still in that territory in a lot of places but for whatever reason, it works better for me. I think "Heart On A String" is the best example of what I'm talking about. I dunno, the songs are shorter, written better, the instrumentation a little more fresh, chick backup singers, etc.

Andy, I don't have a link for Band of Heathens handy but I'll get you one, dude.