Recent "Classic Albums"

What recent albums (let's say from 2005 onwards) do you think will go on to become classics?

by "classics" I mean albums that will stand above the rest and have cult followings years after their release.

I am curious because its hard to compare a modern album to the giants of old, but great albums started out like any other and it seems their true legacy is recognised in retrospect.

Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (2009)

Why? - Alopecia (2008)

Black Mountain - In the Future (2008)

Kelpe - Ex-Aquarium (2008)

PlatEAU - Kushbush (2007)

Melvins - (A) Senile Animal (2006)

Clark - Body Riddle (2006)

The Knife - Silent Shout (2006)

Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites (2005)

Karsten Pflum - Flugten fra år 2000 (2005)

One Self - Children of Possibility (2005)

Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született (2005)

Wax Tailor - Tales of the Forgotten Melodies (2005)

burial's albums

Joanna newsom - ys.

Hard to say, but I guess that the release need to be hyped in some way, that the music is good and that it will be regarded as "the sound of that time".

Candidates that may be future classics (although I do not appreciate all of them):

LCD Soundsystem : s/t

The National : Boxer

Sufjan Stevens : Illinois

Joanna Newsom : Ys

Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

Burial: Untrue

Perhaps some harmony-indie-album with the Grizzly Bear/Fleet Foxes-sound as well.

  On 10/7/2010 at 12:55 PM, MortstoX said:

Hard to say, but I guess that the release need to be hyped in some way, that the music is good and that it will be regarded as "the sound of that time".

what? no way! I'd almost say the opposite.

hyped stuff can be a disappointment, and will have an immediate audience rather than a cult one.

also, rather than "the sound of that time" I'd say stuff that came out of nowhere and defined a whole heap of stuff after it would more be reguarded as classics.

The only album I can think of that I think wil be considered a classic (and its already been mentioned) is

It's one of the few album that I don't hesitate to call a masterpeice, and its already influencing a new wave.

  On 10/7/2010 at 10:51 AM, Greg Reason said:

 

 

hehehe. you meant oversteps, right?

i will definitely second/third/nth the knife - silent shout.

i dont know what else WILL be considered classic but albums i HOPE will be considered classic include

caribou - andorra (or swim, either way im satisfied!)

broadcast and the focus group investigate witch cults of the radio age

m83 - saturdays=youth

anything by owen pallett

bochum welt - ROB

anything by john maus

doubt any of that will happen.

Rushup Edge you bunch of fucking hipsters.

  On 10/7/2010 at 2:49 PM, sneaksta303 said:

Rushup Edge you bunch of fucking hipsters.

you still listen to IDM?!

next you'll be telling me your glasses are perscription...

  On 10/7/2010 at 1:35 PM, Backson said:

  On 10/7/2010 at 12:55 PM, MortstoX said:

Hard to say, but I guess that the release need to be hyped in some way, that the music is good and that it will be regarded as "the sound of that time".

what? no way! I'd almost say the opposite.

 

hyped stuff can be a disappointment, and will have an immediate audience rather than a cult one.

 

Well, I may have put it wrong, but when I say hype and good music, I mean that I think that there have to be kind of a well-deserved hype. I think there is a difference between cult albums and classic albums. Not that the albums have to reach the top of the chart or something, but at least I think it have to hit the "masses" of people who are genuinely interested in music, like through a Pitchfork hype or something. "Silent Shout" is a good example, and a candidate I was considering myself; the album is very good, I think it has a kind of "contemporary sound" but still will not sound old in ten years, and has had some kind of hype the "right places" (8.6 on pitchfork and good reviews from credible reviewers). And I don't think that hyped stuff only will have an immediate audience. If you check the charts over at Rateyourmusic, the highest rated albums are all classics; albums from The Beatles, Miles Davis, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, etc. Those were all albums/artists that generated a certain hype back in the days I think.

  On 10/7/2010 at 2:58 PM, Backson said:

  On 10/7/2010 at 2:49 PM, sneaksta303 said:

Rushup Edge you bunch of fucking hipsters.

you still listen to IDM?!

 

next you'll be telling me your glasses are perscription...

I'm not even gunna bite.

Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees

Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Solar Gambling

Jaga Jazzist - What We Must

Clark - Turning Dragon

Another vote for Silent Shout

  On 10/7/2010 at 3:04 PM, MortstoX said:

If you check the charts over at Rateyourmusic, the highest rated albums are all classics; albums from The Beatles, Miles Davis, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, etc. Those were all albums/artists that generated a certain hype back in the days I think.

Also consider The Zombies, Love, etc.

body riddle definitely

Black Noise is pretty cute. Proberbly a few others but not going to go sifting at this ungodly hour.