half yearly best of lists creeping out now... (1 Viewer)

[travispickle]

Indeed,when did half yearly lists become the norm ?

In the middle of last year

 

[Jill Hives]

I'd only have three so far:

Biggles Flys Again -- Remember Saturday
Wild Nothing -- Empty Estate
John Grant -- Pale Green Ghosts

ETA: I should get that Vampire Weekend record because I still haven't listened to it. Oh also Johnny Marr. That might make it five.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

So far

Ducktails - The Flower Lane
Widowspeak - Almanac
Phoenix - Bankrupt
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
Solar Bears - Supermigration
Umberto - Confrontations

 

[rettucs]

that beaches song is deadly

 

[rettucs]

ETA: I should get that Vampire Weekend record because I still haven't listened to it. Oh also Johnny Marr. That might make it five.

I have both those. Varying levels of meh for each.

But they're grand. Inoffensive.

 

[ann post]

we should make a list of albums we half like.

 

[NoNo]

For me
Marnie Stern - the chronicles of Marnia
Steve Mason - monkey minds in the devils time
mogwai - Les revenants
low - the invisible way
besnard lakes -until in excess, imperceptible UFO.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Okay so in all honesty albums I have liked a lot this year so far:

Born Ruffians - Birthmarks
Hospital Ships - Destruction in Yr Soul
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires in the City

and that's it I think?

Still listening and catching up with a lot of 2012 stuff though and sure the next Ginnels album is only a few days away!

we should make a list of albums we half like.

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Cayucas, Kanye, Adam Ant

oh and the Kate Nash album is a bit of a laugh

 

[george mcfly]

James Blake - Overgrown
Disclosure - Settle
Zomby - With Love
Rob - Maniac OST
I Am The Cosmos - Monocrome
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Solar Bears - Supermigration
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
The Savages - Silence Yourself

 

[Stan Bowles]

Mikal Cronin - MCII
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
MBV - mbv
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Deerhunter - Monomania
The Asphodells - Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Love

 

[george mcfly]

Mikal Cronin - MCII
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
MBV - mbv
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Deerhunter - Monomania
The Asphodells - Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Love

Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin

good choices

 

[washingcattle]

James Blake - Overgrown

The Savages - Silence Yourself

Is that actually any use ? BBC seem to be shitting themselves over it, I heard a song or two that were okay but they seem so seriously fucking miserable.

 

[washingcattle]

Is that actually any use ? BBC seem to be shitting themselves over it, I heard a song or two that were okay but they seem so seriously fucking miserable.

Listening to it now sounds a bit like Logikparty.

If they loved Joy Division a bit more.

 

[Anthony]

Marillion - Radiation (2013 remix)
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Kinski - Cosy Moments

 

[washingcattle]

Their singer even looks like Ian Curtis, well like Sam Riley in Control anyway.

look at them there now, sure they'd make a lovely couple.

Edit: For some reason I find it very hard to trust anyone with a lot of jewellery. Unless they're into hip hop and make a point of banging on about their jewellery.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Listening to it now sounds a bit like Logikparty.

If they loved Joy Division a bit more.

Collapseboard hated it. It's a good read and comes complete with bitchy comments at the end about how this is a badly written review; it's like the entire internet all at once.


http://www.collapseboard.com/reviews/albums-reviews/savages-silence-yourself-pop-noirematador/

 

[Anthony]

Holy shit I thought that review was finished at the first video. No fucking way am I reading that. Never heard the band, probable never will but holy fuck that's some chip on his shoulder.
"we criticise because we care" - the site actually uses that tagline.

 

[hydromancer]

lux interna ‎- there is light in the body, there is blood in the sun
Was relased a month or two ago on my list of things to get.

http://luxinterna.bandcamp.com/

 

[GO]

Holy shit I thought that review was finished at the first video. No fucking way am I reading that. Never heard the band, probable never will but holy fuck that's some chip on his shoulder.
"we criticise because we care" - the site actually uses that tagline.

Yermans a savage for the auld writing by the looks of it

 

[washingcattle]

I'm nearly all the way through Savages, I can only say that as a huge fan of post punk / goth between the years 1979-1985 it's an album I "should" like. It's perfectly acceptable Googlerock. Sounds like something you "should" like and will come up in your "suggestions" when you play stuff from 30 years ago without sounding out of place.

Yeah, I said it I've coined it Googlerock.

I think I wrote a long (very long) diatribe about Yuck which was along the same lines of what this lad is saying about Savages.

To be fair Savages sound like they are no craic whatsoever though.