Best post-2012 finds

jsh · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:38 am

Not sure if this thread exists elsewhere, but curious to know what 2012 releases you've picked up on since the end of the year.

Daughn Gibson All Hell

Found this descriptor on the label page, and think it's pretty apt:

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Imagine if Nicolas Jaar edited together a cocaine-country album, with a crooner somewhere between Lee Hazelwood and Roy Orbison on the mic. You know how James Blake brought R&B into the post-techno age? That's what Daughn is fitting to do with country, no matter who likes it. Shades of Arthur Russell, Scott Walker, Magnetic Fields and Matthew Dear might pop up here or there, but this is a work unlike any other.

Also that Lord Huron record, and The Growlers are strong misses for me on the year.

You?

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:44 am

I like that Daughn Gibson album a lot so I'd probably say that as well.

but:

jsh Wrote:

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You know how James Blake brought R&B into the post-techno age?

= puke

jsh · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:31 pm

Drinky Wrote:

I like that Daughn Gibson album a lot so I'd probably say that as well.

but:

jsh Wrote:

Quote:

You know how James Blake brought R&B into the post-techno age?

= puke

Oh yeah, true. That new James Blake is unlistenable.

harry · **Posted:** Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:46 am

I don't know how I missed the Alt-J but I like that a lot. Also didn't get to Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Manzanita until this month. Psychedelic bliss.

jsh · **Posted:** Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:39 am

harry Wrote:

Also didn't get to Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Manzanita until this month. Psychedelic bliss.

Sounds like it may be my speed, and I've set the stage for it with Spiritualized "Lazer Guided Melodies".

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

goat, i think i was rebelling from all the hype, but the album is very very good.

seafoam · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:36 am

That Games - st Rads mentioned is good
The Dig - Midnight Flowers has some good tracks I went back to every now and then
Sad Souls - Apeiron, drowsy ambient

Lrr · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:50 am

I probably should have listened more to both last year, but I'm digging on Lucero and Black Moth Super Rainbow lately.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:12 am

harry Wrote:

I don't know how I missed the Alt-J but I like that a lot.

Same here - I waited until February to buy it but hate that I slept on it. Was definitely aware, but I think "Fitzpleasure" threw me off since I wasn't digging on it.

bort · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:00 am

Love that Django Django album that someone had on their top list.

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:59 pm

Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion

checked 'em out after i learned they were opening for Jim James this spring. wonderful surprise...i'm really digging the album.

"Hector"

"Blank Maps"

"Holland"

discostu · **Posted:** Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:28 pm

jsh Wrote:

harry Wrote:

Also didn't get to Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Manzanita until this month. Psychedelic bliss.

Sounds like it may be my speed, and I've set the stage for it with Spiritualized "Lazer Guided Melodies".

This record is fucking great, but nothing like Lazer Guided Melodies. More like a modern psychedelic Traffic or Blind Faith (their singer sounds like Winwood at times).

jsh · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:30 am

discostu Wrote:

jsh Wrote:

harry Wrote:

Also didn't get to Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Manzanita until this month. Psychedelic bliss.

Sounds like it may be my speed, and I've set the stage for it with Spiritualized "Lazer Guided Melodies".

This record is fucking great, but nothing like Lazer Guided Melodies. More like a modern psychedelic Traffic or Blind Faith (their singer sounds like Winwood at times).

yeah, it didn't sequence too well with lazer guided melodies. i'll need to return to this record, then, because i wasn't really feeling it on first listen. like recent howlin rain records, for instance, it's kind of left me wanting for comets on fire.

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