Favorite Albums 2009

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:39 pm

It's June
lets talk about all your favorite metal albums, while I post about shit I've enjoyed to no response.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion -- It hasn't stopped being incredible. Right now I'm loving "Bluish."

Thee Oh Sees - Help -- at first I thought this was just OK, the more I listen, the more it opens up and I love it.

Pomegranates - Everybody, Come Outside! -- dope indie rock band from Cincinnati. Kind of a dated sound that no one has done since 07, but it works.

Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health -- this band should have released this album 2 years ago when there was a lot of hype around them. I feel bad because it will probably go largely overlooked when its a good record.

Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care -- I'm never in the mood for this record, but each time I force myself to listen to it I love every second of it. It's the record I want all my friends to love, so maybe I will go to their place and it will be on and I can appreciate it.

Magic Markers - Barf Quary -- I get high and read or write with a disposition to this album. They are 2 for 2.

Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World -- This is how soul music should sound for forever. So glad someone was finally able to do it again.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest - I didn't hear Yellow House until this year. Luckily a friend in the Bay played it for me. A week later this album leaked and I was all over it for a couple weeks. Hadn't listened since because I'm on a surf rock kick still, but it came on in a coffee shop the other day and I am about to binge again.

Wavves - Wavvves -- Through all the hype, the festival breakdowns, the pitchfork stalking, obsessive blogging, I still enjoy this record.

Shout Out Out Out Out - Regeneration Time -- Best dance record I've hear so far, but I rarely ever listen to dance music anymore.

duds:
Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan -- I just don't care anymore. It all sounds the same and hasn't been as good as Bang Bang Rock n Roll.

Passion Pit - Manners -- I'd just rather listen to Junior Boys

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart -- just not doing it for me. I only listened to "Young Adult Fiction"

Haven't Heard:
Dan Deacon - Bromst
The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit Are the Very Best
although i think that one was 2008?
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Phoenix - Wolgang Amadeus Phoenix -- a friend of mine sent me one song I was digging. She said the whole album was great, but once again... I am ambivalent to dance music.

b0mbs_of_death · Post by **b0mbs_of_death** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:46 pm

Mastodon- Crack the Skye
Kylesa- Static Tensions
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocolypse
16- Bridges to Burn
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship

Came out last year but I found out this : Tweak Bird - Reservations

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:45 am

Animal Collective sucks.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:15 am

GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World -- This is how soul music should sound for forever. So glad someone was finally able to do it again.

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i can easily see this being my favorite album for the year

blackaspirin · Post by **blackaspirin** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:29 pm

isis - wavering radiant

Masked Terror #1 · Post by **Masked Terror #1** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:35 pm

I spend a lot of time on here talking about the metal albums I dig.

One non-metal release this year that I'm really feeling is Au Revoir Simone's Still Light Still Night. There's something awesome about these girls' dreamy, synthy melodies and sparse beats that hooks me every time.

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:26 pm

maudlin of the Well - second the part
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Ulcerate - Everything is Fire
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Sunn0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

no non-metal stuff is coming to mind, and I'm pretty psyched about not having heard anything mentioned in the first post.

have been spinning the new mars volta over the last two days and it is really great.

Omar now has an outlet with all the solo albums he's putting out so there is no need for him to throw in solos of 7-minute white noise on mars volta albums now I guess.

the songs are all fairly calm and the intricate time signatures and stuff are a lot more subtle. The songwriting is very strong and I think I'm really going to like the album once I get into it more.

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:24 pm

enjoyed the new tortoise as well, forgot about that.

deepfriedjellol · Post by **deepfriedjellol** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:02 pm

new tortoise
new mastodon
lee fields
new mars volta is indeed a great release

this is one of those years where im finding out about a lot of shit i ve never paid attention to before

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:11 pm

animal collective

Masked Terror #1 · Post by **Masked Terror #1** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:21 am

More non-metal shit I've liked this year-

Cage The Elephant- Good, boisterous, Southern fried rock with some funk to it.

Men Without Pants- Electro accented garage rock from Automator and Russell Simins.

elohim · Post by **elohim** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:27 pm

grizzly bear's veckatimest is my favorite by far.

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Mercuthio · Post by **Mercuthio** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:57 pm

Into The Moat - "The Campaign"
Isis - "Wavering Radiant"
Gory Blister - "Graveyard of Angels"
Obscura - "Cosmogenesis"
The Red Shore - "Lost Verses"
Ephel Duath - "Through My Dog's Eyes"
The Beneath - "City of Light"
Hiroshima Will Burn - "To The Weight of All Things"
Degradead - "Out Of Body Experience"

yeah, i think that's it so far. lemme know if anyone wants uploads.

Still need to check:
Ulcerate, Viraemia, Necrophobic and a bunch of other stuff...

Masked Terror #1 · Post by **Masked Terror #1** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:06 pm

For you metal folks, I can't emphasize enough how great the Lord Mantis album is.

Mercuthio · Post by **Mercuthio** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:24 pm

oh right. Need to check that too, and also the Dark Castle - Spirited Migration. Haven't heard that either...

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:30 pm

of that list Gory Blister and Ephel Duath were huge disapointments for me.

Gory Blister will never top "art bleeds" which is perfect later-era Death worship and this Ephel album was a big let down after A Painter's Palette which was genius.

I don't enjoy the new singer at all.

Choke · Post by **Choke** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:17 pm

ackbar wrote:animal collective

Mercuthio · Post by **Mercuthio** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:25 pm

haven't heard "Art Bleeds" actually, which is a huge mistake on my part I realize.

I discovered Ephel Duath fairly recently, so "Through My Dog's Eyes" was the first record of theirs I heard. Have since heard "Pain Necessary To Know" and "The Painter's Palette," so right now I'm just sort of enjoying all three...

jaao · Post by **jaao** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:09 pm

Veckatimest is good. The highlights are really high. But it doesn't quite live up to Yellow House.

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:02 pm

Ammunition & Blackdown Present: The Root of El-B.

ric · Post by **ric** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:15 am

drizzle wrote:
GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World -- This is how soul music should sound for forever. So glad someone was finally able to do it again.

.
i can easily see this being my favorite album for the year

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:02 am

ric wrote:
drizzle wrote:
GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World -- This is how soul music should sound for forever. So glad someone was finally able to do it again.

.
i can easily see this being my favorite album for the year

http://www.philaflava.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110284

haven't stopped listening to this thing for a week straight

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:05 am

Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds-Dracula Boots

This one reminds me of the Make Up x Kid Creole x James Brown x Blacula.

got the wax.

Henny The Dry · Post by **Henny The Dry** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:06 am

1. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is a GREAT record.

2. Post-Nothing by Japandroids is almost as wonderful. On some days even better.

3. Phoenix does not make "dance music".

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:27 am

elohim wrote:grizzly bear's veckatimest is my favorite by far.

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wtf is this shit? I haven't liked any new music for a long time.

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:47 am

I'm pretty sure I want to beat the shit out of every dude in grizzly bear after watching that clip.

this Lee Fields & The Expressions album is spectacular, can't believe this went under my radar completely.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:29 pm

DLG wrote:I'm pretty sure I want to beat the shit out of every dude in grizzly bear after watching that clip.

this Lee Fields & The Expressions album is spectacular, can't believe this went under my radar completely.

don't trip. that lee fields album came out last week.
but its a record that is four years in the making, so trip a little.

Money Gripp · Post by **Money Gripp** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:32 pm

Choke wrote:
ackbar wrote:animal collective

Anything else out there that is borderline great?

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:44 pm

GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
DLG wrote:I'm pretty sure I want to beat the shit out of every dude in grizzly bear after watching that clip.

this Lee Fields & The Expressions album is spectacular, can't believe this went under my radar completely.
don't trip. that lee fields album came out last week.
but its a record that is four years in the making, so trip a little.

longer than that kinda. the first version of honey dove was on his soul fire album from 2002

Radio Raheem · Post by **Radio Raheem** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:15 pm

Kurt Vile- God is Saying This To You
Info:
http://www.hippiesaredead.com/2009/03/k ... o-you.html

Other Non Hip Hop
Animal Collective
Lee Fields & The Expressions
actually just a bunch of shit that was already mentioned here

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