wire magazine top 50

1. broadcast & the focus group - Investigate Witch Cults Of the Radio Age

2. Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts

3. Bill Orcutt - A new way to pay old debts

4. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils

5. Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

6. David Sylvian - Manafon

7. Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam

8. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor

9. Ben Frost - By The Throat

10. King Midas Sound - Waiting for you

11. Harappian Night Recordings - the glorios gongs of hainuwele

12. Dirty Projectors - Bitee Orca

13. Shackleton - 3EPs

14. Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The age of love

15. Atom TM - liedgut

16. Mordant Msuic - SyMptoMe

17. Masayuki Takayanagi - Archive 1

18. Matias Aguayo -Ay Ay Ay

19. Hecker -Acid in the styleof david tudor

20. William Basinski - 92982

21. The xx - xx

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25. Leyland kirby -

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30. Animal Collective - MPP

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gah i'll try the rest when i can be arsed.

reaction:

- the xx? aren't they an nme band? odd.

- king midas still sounds crap to me

- ben frost, i keep seeing his name everywhere

please buy the wire. monolake article this month too/

I glanced at an interview with The XX and got the impression that they were some faggy emo band. Appearantly not, few friends with good taste said they really enjoyed the album.

that album is pretty good. basically they're a young marble giants tribute band, but their sound is a bit darker. they just look like an emo band.

I need to pick that issue up, it has a review for the Aidan Baker CD we released at Install in it. I heard they liked it...can you confirm this?

The XX album is apparently very good indeed - I'll probably download it later on today.

Still yet to get the new David Sylvian...

  On 12/20/2009 at 5:25 AM, Mellow U said:

I need to pick that issue up, it has a review for the Aidan Baker CD we released at Install in it. I heard they liked it...can you confirm this?

confirmed.

"..establishing its author as a stylist with an individual voice."

  On 12/20/2009 at 7:18 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 12/20/2009 at 5:25 AM, Mellow U said:

I need to pick that issue up, it has a review for the Aidan Baker CD we released at Install in it. I heard they liked it...can you confirm this?

 

confirmed.

 

"..establishing its author as a stylist with an individual voice."

Quite nice! Cheers man. Hoping they dig on my first 12" we sent their way too.

lol i think they listed my girls as one of the top ten songs of the decade

Man I can't stand the Leyland Kirby album. It sounds like General MIDI wind chimes. I know all you guys like it, I just had to get that off my chest.

  On 12/20/2009 at 4:25 AM, zaphod said:

that album is pretty good. basically they're a young marble giants tribute band, but their sound is a bit darker. they just look like an emo band.

The half where they sound like young marble giants doing rnb covers is good. the half where they sound like the hipster band you saw at the local indie dive last weekend is not so good

im listening to that ben frost album right now and its really fucking good. great atmosphere. i love the cover art too

I've got to admit I'm surprised at the Oneohtrix Point Never rating up there. I was going to buy Rifts after I downloaded one of the LPs that makes it up, as I like the little synth squiggles, but I didn't think it would have much broad appeal.

  On 12/21/2009 at 3:32 PM, solarion said:

I've got to admit I'm surprised at the Oneohtrix Point Never rating up there. I was going to buy Rifts after I downloaded one of the LPs that makes it up, as I like the little synth squiggles, but I didn't think it would have much broad appeal.

lol this is the wire. readership 50 nerds

That XX album was a pleasant surprise for me. Totally overlooked it because it looked like another hipster flash in the pan but the album is actually pretty good.

Also, awesome that Broadcast is number 1, my fav album of the year as well.

  On 12/21/2009 at 5:19 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 12/21/2009 at 3:32 PM, solarion said:

I've got to admit I'm surprised at the Oneohtrix Point Never rating up there. I was going to buy Rifts after I downloaded one of the LPs that makes it up, as I like the little synth squiggles, but I didn't think it would have much broad appeal.

 

lol this is the wire. readership 50 nerds

In the world of weird noise music that is broad appeal.

  On 12/21/2009 at 7:31 AM, Z_B_Z said:

im listening to that ben frost album right now and its really fucking good. great atmosphere. i love the cover art too

 

Yeah, this is the dog's nuts. Nice to see Sunn O))), Shackleton and Hecker that high up, really enjoyed those releases.

the xx isn't just an nme band!

and wtf, that broadcast album is crap; i guess because it was dissonant and 'experimental' ... wire magazine just laps that shit up

i still have yet to hear a broadcast or focus group album or . there is so much hype built around it that at this point im thinking it might be better if i just imagine their music rather than hearing it.

yeah that new broadcast is weak sauce in my ears. maybe i was listening all wrong

the broadcast + focus group album is good, the broadcast ep didn't do much for me.

I like the Broadcast + Focus Group album a lot, but it's as much or more of a Focus Group album as it is a Broadcast one, kind of like Julian House remixing Broadcast. I can see how someone that doesn't care for his fragmented, scattershot sampling style wouldn't like this though.

Listened to the King Midas thing but I wasn't feeling the vocals too much...

  On 12/23/2009 at 3:45 AM, pigster said:

the broadcast + focus group album is good, the broadcast ep didn't do much for me.

AH thats where i went wrong. i heard the ep. it was unfocused

  On 12/23/2009 at 3:57 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

 

Listened to the King Midas thing but I wasn't feeling the vocals too much...

maybe it needs a few listens to permeate. i didnt like the vocals or the beats

ALL THIS NEW MUSIC IS SO PSYCHEDELIC!? DOES THAT MEAN THAT THESE ARTISTS WANT TO HANG OUT WITH ME!?? DO THEY WANT TO PRETEND TO BE PUPPIES WITH ME? I REALLY JUST CAN'T TELL. I MEAN THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (HA I UNDERSTAND NOW BECAUSE I WAS AN ANIMAL THAT ONE TIME AND I FELT LIKE I WAS IN A COLLECTIVE) ARE THEY ACTUALLY COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY TO ME THE SAME PRINCIPALS THAT I WAS TRYING TO ESTABLISH!? I MEAN LOOK HERE IN THE REVIEW OF MERRIWHEATEHR POST WHATEVER: "the desire for familial domesticity never sounded as ecstatic as it does on 'my girls' " THE THING IS, IT HAS, OUT OF MY GODDAMN MOUTH!!!! THEY UNDERSTAND!! ALL THE OTHER ARTISTS ON THE LIST HAVE A SIMILAR VIBE GOING DOWN (cept for David Sylvian, always classy, what a cool guy) THESE PEOPLE ON THE LIST, THEY PROBABLY ARE ON THE SAME VIBRATIONS AS I AM!! OMG ITS HAPPENING!

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  On 12/24/2009 at 12:37 AM, Salvatorin said:

ALL THIS NEW MUSIC IS SO PSYCHEDELIC!? DOES THAT MEAN THAT THESE ARTISTS WANT TO HANG OUT WITH ME!?? DO THEY WANT TO PRETEND TO BE PUPPIES WITH ME? I REALLY JUST CAN'T TELL. I MEAN THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (HA I UNDERSTAND NOW BECAUSE I WAS AN ANIMAL THAT ONE TIME AND I FELT LIKE I WAS IN A COLLECTIVE) ARE THEY ACTUALLY COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY TO ME THE SAME PRINCIPALS THAT I WAS TRYING TO ESTABLISH!? I MEAN LOOK HERE IN THE REVIEW OF MERRIWHEATEHR POST WHATEVER: "the desire for familial domesticity never sounded as ecstatic as it does on 'my girls' " THE THING IS, IT HAS, OUT OF MY GODDAMN MOUTH!!!! THEY UNDERSTAND!! ALL THE OTHER ARTISTS ON THE LIST HAVE A SIMILAR VIBE GOING DOWN (cept for David Sylvian, always classy, what a cool guy) THESE PEOPLE ON THE LIST, THEY PROBABLY ARE ON THE SAME VIBRATIONS AS I AM!! OMG ITS HAPPENING!

heh, you're funny mister