The Gang Gang Dance record is the best this year, confirmed last night when I purchased it. My current top 10:

1. Gang Gang Dance "Eye Contact"
2. Timber Timbre "Creep On Creepin' On"
3. Fleet Foxes "Helplessness Blues"
4. Panda Bear "Tomboy"
5. Cass Mccombs "Wit's End"
6. Ponytail "Do Whatever You Want All The Time"
7. Miracle Fortress "Was I The Wave?"
8. Low "C'mon"
9. Six Organs of Admittance "Asleep on the Floodplain"
10. Nicolas Jaar "Space is Only Noise"

Wish I had enough room in the top 10 for Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, James Blake (but falling), Bill Callahan.

Probably taking a trip to the record store today to pick up GGD.

Also enjoying that Timber Timbre.

Glad!!

... still waiting for Arts & Crafts to replace my defective LP ...

In alphabetical order:

Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Destroyer - Kaputt
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
Tyler, the Creator - Goblin
Yuck - Yuck

So far...

Latest:


1) Ernest Dawkins - The Prairie Prophet
2) Apache Dropout - S/t
3) UV Race - Homo
4) Fred Hersch - Alone At The Vanguard
5) Tape - Revelationes
6) The Great Society Mind Destroyers - Spirit Smoke
7) Psychic Paramount - II
8) Slug Guts - Howlin' Gang
9) Peaking Lights - 936
10) Magnus Öström - Thread of Life
11) GG King - Esoteric Lore
12) Predator - S/t

none of those are real musicians

Good to see Psychic Paramount on there.


...also the only thing on your list I've actually heard of.

Oh yeah I looked at it again and I have heard 4 of them (Slug Guts, Psychic Paramount, Tape and Peaking Lights) but I didn't keep them. And that my friend is why you're my favorite boarder, however.

ignorant.

I haven't updated in a while. Been a bit of a lull lately. Vaccines is my # 1, Low is probably # 2.

Lemuria - Pebble
Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off
Jonny - S/T
Akron Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
Phil Manley - Life Coach
Low - C'mon
Lola Kite - Lights
Yep - Once
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
Treefight - Treefight For Sunlight
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Craft Spells - Idle Labor
The Papercuts - Fading Parade
Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck

Some good stuff here for sure. I do disagree on that Peaking Lights though--"All the Sun That Shines" is a great single, but just don't think the album as a whole delivered.

Good call on the Slug Guts, Apache Dropout, and Tape records--all probably top 20 for me.

Yeah, so far nothing has really come that close to this for me. Stellar record--can't wait to see them in July. I think it was in the other thread you asked if it was better than Saint Dymphna and I cast my vote for absolutely. There is a nice consistency here/flow of sorts while still exploring a lot of different textures/grooves/influences that I don't think they quite nailed on Saint Dymphna. Plus "Chinese High" is probably my favorite track of the year.

same here, and have to agree, one of the best records this year so far.

1. Interpol
2. John Vanderslice
3. Trail of Dead
4. The Stroke


100. A good band that I learned off of this worthless messageboard.

no question!

i can't get over how smooth that track is, despite the multiple psychouts and rhythm modulations in the first minute alone.

k, i agree it definitely shows major growth from st. dymphna, like from god's money before it. but i wonder if it's yet a "career" record. not to draw an obvious comparison, but their trajectory follows that of animal collective, in that they become experimental with more confidence on each record by working within smaller pop conventions.

Albums

01. The Psychic Paramount – II: 8.5/10
02. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact: 8.5/10
03. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972: 8.5/10
04. Bill Callahan – Apocalypse: 8/10
05. Mike Watt – Hyphenated-Man: 8/10
06. Panda Bear – Tomboy: 8/10
07. Ponytail – Do Whatever You Want All the Time: 8/10
08. Low – C’mon: 8/10
09. Times New Viking – Dancer Equired: 8/10
10. Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil: 8/10

11. Snowman – Absence: 7.5/10
12. Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde: 7.5/10
13. Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On: 7.5/10
14. Destroyer – Kaputt: 7.5/10
15. Grouper – A I A: Alien Observer: 7.5/10
16. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges: 7.5/10
17. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake: 7.5/10
18. The Dodos – No Color: 7.5/10
19. Dirty Beaches – Badlands: 7.5/10
20. EMA – Past Life of Martyred Saints: 7.5/10

21. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues: 7.5/10
22. Yuck – s/t: 7.5/10
23. Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT: 7.5/10
24. Radiohead – The King of Limbs: 7/10
25. Crystal Stilts – In Love with Oblivion: 7/10
26. Grouper – A I A: Dream Loss: 7/10
27. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise: 7/10
28. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo: 7/10
29. Braids – Native Speaker: 7/10
30. Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place: 7/10
31. James Blake – s/t: 6.5/10
32. Sic Alps – Napa Asylum: 6/10


EPs, Singles, Splits, etc
01. Echo Lake – Young Silence: 7.5/10
02. The Fresh & Onlys – Secret Walls: 7.5/10
03. Deerhunter – iTunes Live from Soho: 7.5/10
04. Women/Cold Pumas/Fair Ohs/Friendo – Split 7”: 7.5/10


Not quite ready to put GGD at #1, but it has a shot. Right now I feel like it dies off a little at the end, but we'll see. The last couple of tracks may grow on me. Agree that "Chinese High" is awesome.

Enjoying this. Thanks for the heads up.

seriously fuck off. you can say that about a lot of people, but I am definitely not one of them, even when it comes to you or anyone else on this board.

That La Sera disc is probably my favorite so far.

What's up, dude?

Yeah I dig it more with every listen.

Dude, have been packing up boxes for the past week prepping for the move out East and this has been playing almost nonstop. Thanks for the heads up on this, took a minute to click for me, but I am really liking this.

This is my current number one. That all of this is accomplished with a bass sax blows my mind. Pretty incredible record.