top albums of the year?

  On 12/16/2009 at 7:48 PM, sidewinder said:

  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?

the members of the band are all pretentious fucks, most of their music is shit, but this one album is very good

You know I really think Stephen Wilkinson (Bibio) with Ambivalence Avenue deserves album of the year. Its brilliant flow and blending of many different styles.... while also keeping a consistent quality (most songs could work as singles) is pretty astounding. Steven has captured something that reminds me what good pop music is, which is a style/genre I am finding more and more tiring. To breathe such fresh air into a room full of smug bullshit reminds me of what the Beatles accomplished with Sgt.Pepper.

I still need to check out that album.

1. Fever Ray - Fever Ray

2. Clark - Body Riddle

3. Keaver & Brause - The Middle Way

4. Ben Klock - One

5. The Field - Yesterday & Today

6. Tristeza - Fate Unfolds

7. Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence

8. Martyn - Great Lengths

9. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship

10. The Black Dog - Further Vexations

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/grizzled/2009_for_me_thus_far__practically_complete_

Check out my top list right here: http://mmmlele.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/inaudibles-best-of-2009/

  On 12/19/2009 at 9:41 PM, mmmlele said:

Check out my top list right here: http://mmmlele.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/inaudibles-best-of-2009/

i am glad i heard none of these albums

Why does everyone seem to be shitting their pants over Passion Pit, whats the big deal?

tops;

antoni maiovvi,shadow of the bloodstained kiss ; as1,identity singularity ; belbury poly,from an ancient star ; black moth super rainbow,eating us ; brian mordant,discrete head ; cylob,ambient news ; dimdike stare,symbiosis ; eleh,retreat/return ; emeralds,s/t & what happened ; jonny trunk,scrapbook ; klimek,movies is magic ; lichens,tanith ; luke vibert,we hear you ; mapstation, african chamber ; mountains,choral ; nudge,as good as gone ; oneohtrix point never,rifts ; outerspace,gemini half ; porn sword tobacco,everything is music to the ear ; pulse emitter,oppressive nature ; radian,chimeric ; seeland,tomorrow today ; september collective,always breathing monster ; silk flowers,s/t ; taiga remains,wax canopy ; transactional dharma of roj ; white rainbow,new clouds ; wooden shjips,dos ..

year 8/10

Clubroot - S/T

Clark - Totems Flare

2652 - Unbalance

Moderat - Moderat

Martyn - Great Lengths

Wisp - Shimmering Hour

Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue

King Midas Sound - Waiting For You

Boxcutter - Arecibo Message

Squarepusher - Numbers Lucent

  On 12/19/2009 at 9:41 PM, mmmlele said:

Check out my top list right here: http://mmmlele.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/inaudibles-best-of-2009/

I've checked out some of these releases on spotify, and discovered a lot of new music. Thanks a million!

  On 12/19/2009 at 9:41 PM, mmmlele said:

Check out my top list right here: http://mmmlele.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/inaudibles-best-of-2009/

POLVO ARE BACK!!!?!?!?!?!

did eskimo snow come out this year?

my top ten would include

- eskimo snow

- the field

- mpp

and some others

wisp - the shimmering hour

grizzly bear - veckatimest

clark - totems flare

animal collective - merriweather post pavilion

bibio - ambivalence avenue (+ everything else he released this year)

the flaming lips - embryonic

jónsi & alex - riceboy sleeps

black moth super rainbow - eating us

tim exile - family galaxy

ochre - like dust of the balance

soisong - xAj3z

if wax stag's album was 2009 than that's going in as well!

also really digging this polvo album but don't wanna include it on only one listen. + Broadcast & The Focus Group:)

  On 12/20/2009 at 8:32 PM, Dropp said:

Clubroot - S/T

Clark - Totems Flare

2652 - Unbalance

Moderat - Moderat

Martyn - Great Lengths

Wisp - Shimmering Hour

Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue

King Midas Sound - Waiting For You

Boxcutter - Arecibo Message

Squarepusher - Numbers Lucent

+1

Wisp 'We Miss You'

  On 12/24/2009 at 8:37 PM, troon said:

Wisp 'We Miss You'

YES!!!

  On 12/24/2009 at 8:37 PM, troon said:

Wisp 'We Miss You'

  On 12/24/2009 at 8:43 PM, placidburp said:

  On 12/24/2009 at 8:37 PM, troon said:

Wisp 'We Miss You'

 

YES!!!

burp

i almost like 'we miss you' better then 'the shimmering hour' (maybe, almost)

i've listened to it 3 or 4 times now and i just bought it last night! wow.

haha, rephlex just nipped in there. or does this stuff count as 2010. it is still 2009

dmx krew "wave funk"

  On 10/18/2009 at 3:16 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Lady Gaga - I Shoved a Microhphone Up My Ass and Recorded It, Now I'm Rich

yeah she bowns those mikraphones

no mention of 'reals and dreamity' by rooftop access? for shame, watmm. haha!

anyway, so far wave funk is kicking the ass of most other electronic releases from this year. and i'm only 6 tracks in!

here is my top 10

01 kings of convenience - declaration of dependence

02 the field - yesterday & today

03 meg - beautiful

04 william basinski - vivian & ondine

05 annie - don't stop

06 tape loop orchestra - 1953 culture festival

07 perfume - triangle

08 william basinski - 92982

09 kenichi fumoto - あるいはその夏は

10 the flaming lips - embryonic

wave funk was already the best record of the year when it was only an ep

  On 12/14/2009 at 9:20 AM, Brandi_B said:

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.

I second hat , my son .

Yeah , I don't own the album ( I will own it either this week or next ) But from what I heard...it sounds really , really good .

Man I don't know how so many of you guys can spit out lists of 10, 20+... by my library db I only listened to 47 releases from 09, which I still think is a lot... between listening to my already favorite artists/albums, discovering "old" stuff, and trying to keep tabs on new releases from artists I already like... there aren't enough hours in the day!

That said, stuff I can say I genuinely thought was "great" from the past year

Sa-Ra - Nuclear Evolution

Mos Def - The Ecstatic (easily his best since black on both sides)

Bibio - Ambivalence Ave

Broadcast + Focus Group

Pépé Bradock - Confiote De Bits (remix comp)

These threads are also cool in that they inspire me to go out and explore some musics that are outside my boxxy box or that I've otherwise slept on... so cheers to the lot of ya :cisfor: