a few favs so far this year...

Scuba - Personality
Lower Dens - Nootropics
Fort Romeau - Kingdoms
Panabrite - Sub-aquatic Meditations
Jon Talabot - Fin
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Design - Hangin'
Phedre - Phedre
Orbital - Wonky
Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
Young Magic - Melt
Cuticle - Mother Rhythm Earth Memory
Ceremony - Zoo
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
Chromatics - Kill for Love

"glorious" like Antony or Joanna Newsom?

Shiv - there are a couple of songs on this blog: http://drownedinsoundcloud.com/post/186 ... r-ekstasis

i guess it's a bit like newsom's in that it can be bizarre and affected, but it's generally sweeter and less sharp than joanna's. this really has more so to do with julia holter committing herself to experimenting with sound and structure, within this release, between it and the rest of her output. it's refreshing especially played against grimes or nite jewel, which i also like. but nothing from this year comes close to touching "ekstasis" for me. i love it, think it's a great accomplishment, and that she has plenty more to come. Listen to it.

Julia Holter's voice isn't weird at all, and the music is way less folky than Newsom. I would never think of comparing the two. It's almost like a slightly weirder, more lo-fi Beach House, maybe.

Dirty Ghosts Metal Moon
Bahamas Barchords
Sun Wizard Positively 4th Avenue
Jay Gonzalez Mess of Happiness
Sonic Avenues Television Youth
Bidiniband In the Rock Hall
Yukon Blonde Tiger Talk
Tommy Womack Now What?
Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth

gentleman jesse leaving atlanta
oberhofer time capsules II
sharon van etten tramp
willis earl beal acousmatic sorcery
perfume genius put your back N 2 it
action bronson blue chips
cloud nothings attack on memory
tanlines mixed emotions
the men open your heart
terry malts killing time
corrosion of conformity corrosion of conformity
ital hive mind
pop. 1280 the horror
chromatics kill for love

thanks stu. i already had d/l'ed the album though.

i listened today and wasn't into it. i don't hear anything in this that would make it album of the year but i don't usually go for this type of music (beach house, joanna newsom, nite jewel, etc).

Can somebody hook me up with that Jay Gonzalez?

It's in the box.

Just gave this some love in the TWENTYTWELVE thread.

some friends played it for me last night during a small house party and I couldn't tune it out

Yeah man, that album crept up on me.

M. Ward + Jack Johnson. You sure you guys are old enough for retirement?

Van Halen is keeping me young.

That La Sera - See the Light, pretty damn good for a follow up to a pretty damn good debut.

Oberhofer
Tanlines
Frankie Rose - Interstellar [nothing like I thought it would be]
First Aid Kit
C.Prophet
Porcelain Raft
Bad Weather California
Fly Golden Eagle

spiritualized "sweet heart sweet light" making a run for the top

no rankings yet, but still listening to these quite a bit:

Crusaders of Love - Take it easy... But take it
Mount Carmel - Real Women
Zammuto - Zammuto

Better than Radish?

(I would think your Texas chauvinism* would have you touting Restraining Bolt as better than Nirvana, Bush, & Silverchair, combined.)

*All Texans, regardless party affiliation, church membership, football rooting interest, are chauvinists. Highland Park is just the country club & guns flipside of Austin's vegan, gluten-free burritos & noise rock.

i listened to go fly a kite again yesterday, and while it's still enjoyable, i may have been overselling it just a bit upon further review

gentleman jesse leaving atlanta
oberhofer time capsules II
sharon van etten tramp
willis earl beal acousmatic sorcery
perfume genius put your back N 2 it
action bronson blue chips
cloud nothings attack on memory
tanlines mixed emotions
the men open your heart
terry malts killing time
corrosion of conformity corrosion of conformity
ital hive mind
pop. 1280 the horror
chromatics kill for love
el-p cancer for cure
death grips the money store
daughn gibson all hell

i like the new jack white

what i've heard so far from that new brendan benson ain't bad, neither

the spiritualized record is incredibly good, and having seen em play this weekend, i am completely floored.

This'll probably change in a couple of weeks as I've recently gotten a bunch of stuff and will be getting several more things later this month.

01. Keiji Hano/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi – Imikuzushi
02. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
--. Daniel Rossen – Silent Hour/Golden Mile EP
03. Grimes – Visions
04. Mouse on Mars – Parastrophics
05. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance

Yeah. Good year so far.

Almost half way through the year, top ten roughly in order

Dean Owens
The Iguanas
Spain
Matt Keating
Darrell Scott
Peter Bruntnell
Marisa Monte
Leonard Cohen
New Multitudes
LWII

Lots that I need to still hear and/or spend more time with

My top albums of the year, to date (I haven't heard nearly as many as most of you):

1. Barry Adamson - I Will Set You Free
2. Fun. - Some Nights
3. Kelly Hogan - I Like to Keep Myself In Pain
4. Cate Le Bon - Cyrk
5. Dr. John - Locked Down
6. OFF! - OFF!
7. Justin Townes Earle - Nothing's Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
8. Martin Newell - Stopping Train
9. Joe Pug - The Great Despiser

REISSUES:
Cleaners From Venus - Cleaners From Venus, Vol. 1 (Box Set)
Alex Chilton - Free Again: The 1970 Sessions


And, I know that there were one or two hip-hop albums that I liked this year, but I can't remember offhand.