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pinch and shackleton, self titled & nicolas jaar "space is only noice". the two with the most play this year probably.
although maceo plex was good for summer.
nicolas jaar is kind of like nick cave for the house generation.
Mastodon - The Hunter
Black Dub - Black Dub
Would also recommend Beastie Boys and PJ Harvey.
Though Wire Red Barked Tree grows on you on each listen, and were excellent live.
And for next year i nominate Paul Weller's Sonik Kicks.
Baxter Dury - Happy Soup
Fever Ray."Fever Ray"
Metronomy - The English Riviera
The Drums - Portamento
The Horrors - Skying
........in that order!
Opeth - Heritage
Has to be the Naked & Famous - Passive Me Aggressive You. I've listened to 1000s of tracks, but that's the only album I've listened to regularly.
My best of tracks are on Mixcloud if you fancy a listen
http://i.mixcloud.com/CyAeF & http://i.mixcloud.com/CyAfD
Dez, that 2nd link is excellent. Got any others of similar ilk?
Bon over and Joy Formidable for me
Cheers fenred. And er, no! Not as yet 🙂
Shadow was pretty good, still growing on me. Good thread lots of new music to look into.
For me it was: Unquote - Reverberation Box
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I have struggled to get into much new stuff this year.
Yuck is a great album, but isn't in 2010?
I thought the Horrors album was OK, but it bores now,
I thought the Beastie Boys was very poor indeed, almost an album by numbers for them, same old stuff.
I liked the John Grant album, but I think thats 2010
So yeah, I think one of my resolutions is to get back into music, I worked in an indie record store for 5 years in my 20s and loved all sorts of music, have slowly lost interest since then...
EDIT: I've enjoyed listening to the history of Hip Hop mixes on the rub website, bought back many happy memories of growing up in the late 80s...
Like shadow a lot as per many others but others on my list that I keep returning to are, cant really pick out a favorite though.
Death in Vegas - Trans Love Energies
Danielle Luppi/Dangermouse - Rome
Metronomy - English Riviera
****ed Up - David Comes to Life
The Duke Spirit - Bruiser
Statik Seleckta and Frank the Butcher - Concepts Mixtape
Bjork - Biophillia
Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces
Also enjoyed The Weeknd too, currently listening to the latest, Echoes of Silence at the moment.
I'm really struggling to think of a stand out album from this year.
Enjoyed some stuff but nothing really wowed.
Oh, these are this year!
Young Knives, Crystal Fighters and The Vaccines
emsz - Member
Bon over and Joy Formidable for me
Glad to hear someone else is loving the Joy Formidable album!
Probably listened to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake the most.
Possibly my favourite download of the year.
Warton - Yuck may have been 2010 - I just trusted my local media player so I could have been wrong - I do love that album though.
It's hard to nail it down to one, so I'll say....
Washed Out - Within and Without
Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
Com Truise - Galactic Melt
Alex Cortex - Kihon
Chill Carrier - Orbital Nights
I can't narrow it down, lots of good stuff, Intsra Mental , Joakim, College.....
Puscifer-conditions of my parole
foetus-hide
John foxx-interplay[b]
Another vote for PJ Harvey here
And another for Metronomy
In interest of adding something new to the mix, Pete and the Pirates
That'll do for now, back to listening to The Rub old hip hop stuff that I found about on here...
Wilco The Whole Love
But listened to loads from links on here. Thanks for that.
3 way tie in order of most likely to win:
WHY? - Alopecia
Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Half man half biscuit were in good form this year - their best album for ages.
Last track had the best title of the year, maybe ever:
Rock n roll is full of bad wools
Mastodon - The Hunter
What he said.
+ 2 for Fuc*ed Up 'David Comes To Life'
A hardcore punk band from Canada writing a rock opera set in a fictional Northern English town...and it's AMAZING!
Mastodon - the Hunter
The Atlas Moth - An Ache for a Distance
Primordial - Redemption at the Puritans's Hand
Opeth - Heritage
So far ...
Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
Wire - Red Barked Tree very good and their gig at Fleece & Firkin Bristol was stunning
Another vote for mastodon here.
Great album
Elbow's Build A Rocket Boys - absolutely superb album
Ghostpoet - Peanut butter blues and melancholy jam
Metronomy - English Riviera
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind Of Fix
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
flyingmonkeycorps - Member
emsz - Member
Bon over and Joy Formidable for me
Glad to hear someone else is loving the Joy Formidable album!
ARGH! Forgot The Joy Formidable when I posted previously! The full length version of Whirring is astonishing (live from a bike shop below).
Revising my choice to have a joint top album.
Scroobius Pip & The Joy Formidable FTW. Would be a pretty cool collaboration (coolaboration?) actually.
slainte ➡ rob
Revelator by the Tedeschi Trucks Band
Lots of stuff to go and get over the weekend.
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New Model Army. Thunder and Consolation. Rediscovered after 20 ish years
I guess I've got to go for Elbow - [i]Build A Rocket Boys[/i], Laura Marling - [i]A Creature I Do Not Know[/i], Mechanical Bride - [i]Living With Ants[/i], Howling Bells - [i]The Loudest Engine[/i] and Gemma Hayes - [i]Let It Break[/i]
Oh, and, of course The Joy Formidable - [i]The Big Roar[/i]
Elbow's O2 gig was outstanding, and after something like four/five years of waiting, Mechanical Bride's album was a joy to listen to, and I managed to see her twice, and chat after the gigs, too.
Listening to Hybrid's album at the mo', after someone recommended it, and I'm rather enjoying that album, too.
I was going to say Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but apparently that was late November last year. And I think I said it this time last year. That's an astonishing album though.
This year:
Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee
Kanye West/Jay-Z - Watch The Throne
Some very good free stuff too - Pusha T's Fear Of God, Friend of the People by Lupe Fiasco, and especially Cookies or Comas by Jean Grae. Asher Roth's Pabst and Jazz came out yesterday, first listen sounds great.
I'm under strict instructions to add Foster the People's "Torches" to the list 🙂
Lots of good calls but Hadge and count zero have got it right - Build A Rocket Boys, the most "growy" album I've heard in years really disappointed in it on first listen but now OMG it's Legend...
Saw lots of live stuff this year too but there as well Mr Garvey and friends win hands down saw them in Liverpool and Brighton both astonishing nights. If anyone doubts it try to find the radio 2 gig they broadcast from Manchester Cathedral stunning absolutely stunning
Runners up probably the vaccines or my morning jacket both even better live if you get the chance, was gutted I couldn't get tickets for Bjork that looked like it would have been amazing too.
My album of the year will definately keep you awake!
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Awesome!!!
Foo Fighters got me interested when they released White Limo, but unfortunately I thought the rest of the album sounded like their usual sound that they've done a load of times before.
For me they've become a bit like RHCP in that they've found a specific sound/style and just keep reproducing it over and over again. I do like them a lot, but I really want them to do something slightly different for a change.
I really Like The Civil Wars album Barton Hollow