top albums of the year?

the antlers - hospice

Remano Eszildn - R-Tracks

Xeno & Oaklander - Sentinelle

clark

broadcast/focus group

dos mas - mentiroso

jim oRourke

SND - altavism

legowelt amiga railroad

cowley/socarras- catholic

and some other shit...

hi guys

Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio

Vignetting The Compost - Bibio

Blind Slime - Blind Slime

Born Like This - MF Doom

R-Tracks - Remano Eszildn

Second Land - Second Land

Hospice - The Antlers

the 7x7 beat comp was also pretty dank

i am very well, had a great year and expecting to have an even better one in 2010. i think i'm going to continue not posting because it's a distraction...but album is coming along very well. just want to say hello and happy holidays, and to share my albums this year because none of my real friends could give a fuck.

i'm going to have to check out the tim exile.

Someone should compile everyone's top tens then there should be a watmm wide vote/poll. Admin?

Wisp

editors

stellastarr

franz ferd

passion pit

decemberists

yacht

nosaj thing

pet shop boys

Juan Maclean

Clark

moderat

harmonic 313

  On 10/18/2009 at 2:31 PM, dese manz hatin said:

power (boys noize)

golden traxe (shadowbreaker)

golden traxe is really sick, (its shadowdancer btw not breaker)

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamotob - UTP

  On 12/11/2009 at 5:31 PM, Squee said:

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamotob - UTP

Good call- lush album + dvd

  On 10/18/2009 at 1:40 AM, LUDD said:

rushup edge

yes, still nothing comes close.

anyway this year i don't think i heard much new stuff. I liked the animal collective one and i enjoy the fuck buttons one too and i guess that's it.

Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue

I bought it on the strength of how many people here were loving it, never previewed any of it. It's nice to buy something that's a total surprise for a change, had no idea what kind of music I was about to get. And it turned out to be fucking awesome. So thank you watmms.

Shiiiiiit they amount of people that said Totems Flare, my mate burned me a copy now where the hell did I put it.

My picks, not very original

The Shimmering Hour

Merriweather Post Pavillion

Embryonic

That Fuck Buttons album is pretty good too.

I'm going to add Monolake's 'Silence', 'Ylajali' by Syntaks, and Nuearz ('Saturation Point').

  On 10/18/2009 at 9:39 PM, Glass Plate said:

Hudson Mohawke - Butter

Clark - Totems Flare

Roj - The Transactional Dharma of Roj

Paul White - The Strange Dreams of Paul White

Tiga - Ciao!

Lithops - Ye Viols!

Team Doyobi - Orch V.

Madlib - Beat Kondukta Vol. 5-6

Keaver & Brause - The Middle Way

Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020

Asuna - Flowers

Bullion - Young Heartache

Nosaj Thing - Drift

Ras G - Brotha from anotha planet

Belbury Poly - From an Ancient Star

Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touches Turned Ampexian

Dr. Who Dat? - Beyond 2morrow

Daedelus and Jogger - Friends of Friends Vol. 1

Tenniscoats - Temporacha

DOOM - Born Like This

Remano Eszildn - R-tracks

Nero's Day at Disney Land - From Rotting Fantasy Lands

Terminal 11 - Kaleidoscope Eyes

Wisp - The Shimmering Hour

J.K. - I.S.C.

Thee Oh Sees - Dog Poison

Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio

Zomby - One Foot Ahead Of The Other EP

Hecker - Acid In The Style Of David Tudor

 

but the year isn't over, and I'm not done listening to it's fruits.

shit! i had no idea there was a new Lithops album *runs*

no one liked the Syntheme lp?

no

lol, ya minger.

I'm surprised to not see Luke Vibert's "we hear you" much (or at all)! Certainly not his most amazing album, but it is one of my favs of the year.

Wuuuuuht, Vibert has a new album.

*Jizz*

1. Tim Hecker-An Imaginary Country

2. Alva Noto-Xerrox Vol 2

3. Son Volt-American Central Dust

4. Dinosaur Jr-Farm

5. Tortoise-Beacons of Ancestorship

6. The Black Dog-Further Vexations

7. Grizzly Bear-Veckatimest

8. Fever Ray -s/t

9. Great Lake Swimmers-Lost Channels

10. Ochre- Like Dust of the Balance

Also good shit: Nuearz, Clark, Alberta Cross, Motorpsycho, Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, Wilco, VHS Head-ep

These are my favourites up till now :

ASC - The Astral Traveller (Covert Operations)

Alaska & Paradox - Isolationist (Paradox Music)

Fanu - Homefree (Lightless)

Naphta - Democracy.Now (D1)

2562 - Unbalance (Tectonic)

Kryptic Minds - One Of Us (Swarm 81)

Aquatec - Places (Hydrographic)

TVO - The Dark Is Rising (Stuff)

just flicking through some clips of this at the moment too, sounds decent

Elemental - Messages From The Void (Runtime) - 1 CD of new track and the 2nd has alot of back-catalogue.

Need to check the Monolake album !

1 the field - yesterday and today

2 animal collective - merriweather post pavillion

3 atlas sound - logos

4 dirty projectors - bitte orca

5 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!

6 telepathe - dance mother

7 girls - album

8 times new viking - born again revisited

9 claro intelecto - warehouse sessions

10 fuck buttons - tarot sport

11 rameses iii - i could not love you more

12 speck mountain - some sweet relief

13 st vincent - actor

14 flaming lips - embryonic

15 william fowler collins - perdition hill radio

16 the xx - xx

17 intrusion - seduction of silence

18 fever ray - fever ray

19 basinski - 92982

20 ducktails - ducktails

21 tyondai braxton - central market

22 jon hopkins - insides

23 moderat - moderat

24 mungolian jet set - gave it all away

25 robert logan - inscape

26 subway - subway ii

27 demdike stare - symbiosis

28 tim hecker - an imaginary country

29 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix

30 big pink - brief history of love

31 sinner dc - crystallized

32 japandroids - postnothing

33 porn sword tobacco - everything is music to the ear

34 julian casablancas - phrazes for the young

35 monolake - silence

36 sonic youth - eternal

37 discovery - lp

38 kona triangle - sing a new sapling

39 jj - jj no.2

40 bad lieutenant - never cry another tear

41 karen o and the kids - wtwta ost

42 la roux - la roux

43 bibio - ambivalence ave

44 health - get color

45 howling blls - radio wars

46 vivian girls - everything goes wrong

47 city center - city center

48 lone - ecstasy and friends

49 yacht - see mystery lights

50 v/a - when i was ten

  On 12/15/2009 at 6:15 PM, playbynumbers said:

1 the field - yesterday and today

2 animal collective - merriweather post pavillion

3 atlas sound - logos

4 dirty projectors - bitte orca

5 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!

6 telepathe - dance mother

7 girls - album

8 times new viking - born again revisited

9 claro intelecto - warehouse sessions

10 fuck buttons - tarot sport

11 rameses iii - i could not love you more

12 speck mountain - some sweet relief

13 st vincent - actor

14 flaming lips - embryonic

15 william fowler collins - perdition hill radio

16 the xx - xx

17 intrusion - seduction of silence

18 fever ray - fever ray

19 basinski - 92982

20 ducktails - ducktails

21 tyondai braxton - central market

22 jon hopkins - insides

23 moderat - moderat

24 mungolian jet set - gave it all away

25 robert logan - inscape

26 subway - subway ii

27 demdike stare - symbiosis

28 tim hecker - an imaginary country

29 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix

30 big pink - brief history of love

31 sinner dc - crystallized

32 japandroids - postnothing

33 porn sword tobacco - everything is music to the ear

34 julian casablancas - phrazes for the young

35 monolake - silence

36 sonic youth - eternal

37 discovery - lp

38 kona triangle - sing a new sapling

39 jj - jj no.2

40 bad lieutenant - never cry another tear

41 karen o and the kids - wtwta ost

42 la roux - la roux

43 bibio - ambivalence ave

44 health - get color

45 howling blls - radio wars

46 vivian girls - everything goes wrong

47 city center - city center

48 lone - ecstasy and friends

49 yacht - see mystery lights

50 v/a - when i was ten

how the hell do you have time to listen to enough albums in a year that fifty of them stand out?

or are these just all the albums you heard this year, ranked in order?

also, dirty projectors?

'bitte orca' took roughly a year to grow on me; trust me, i hate dirty projectors too (especially their videos), but what do you do, the music is great

edit: crossposted from the other thread

yeah ... well, as i said in the other thread, out of my top 50 list i'm only really into the top 25. i probably only LIKE about 60-70 albums i hear in a given year, so. in my case, i made the list for a site that onecaseman set up, so the idea is to recommend things to people that maybe they'll like more than i did (i.e., my #47 album or something, i heard a few times, liked it, and figure someone else might be especially into that genre etc). but yeah, only the top 25 really got anything over 10-15 listens. it also helps that i listen to music a lot; and i tend to get bored with huge swaths of my mp3 collection, given that i listen to music so much, and hence i like new things.

i'd say the main reason i listen to so much music is to find something that i REALLY like, so it's not exactly some 'obesity'/'otaku' thing, but just more that i find a bunch of albums i somewhat like, while i'm discovering really good albums. and then, why not toss those in a top 50 list if someone else can enjoy it. also there are plenty of great individual tracks from mediocre albums.

but also, to an extent, i could probably spend more time listening to fewer albums instead of spending so much time looking for new music.

  On 12/16/2009 at 5:50 PM, playbynumbers said:

'bitte orca' took roughly a year to grow on me; trust me, i hate dirty projectors too (especially their videos), but what do you do, the music is great

Wat?