2013 Musical Recordings

The dick in my ass is making it hard to enjoy this track, dog.

hey you two, no need to fight over where each of you sit on the short bus

I'll be sitting on your face, douche.

jasperness wrote:

yancy wrote:It took James Murphy and a dash of David Bowie, but Arcade Fire finally recorded a post-Funeral song I would choose to hear a second time.

disco makes everything right

my least favorite thing about this song is potentially having to explain to people that i actually just love this song and don't care to endlessly debate the "Arcade Fire" name attached to it.

I just read a description of the new Mark Lanegan album as a "pipe-and-slippers album." Seeing as how I'm now an adult in my 30s, I feel like I should get on that just out of principal.

jasperness wrote:my least favorite thing about this song is potentially having to explain to people that i actually just love this song and don't care to endlessly debate the "Arcade Fire" name attached to it.

I'd probably like this band if they took themselves a lot less seriously.

this album is going to take a few listens to figure out

Gunnar Haslam - Mimesiak is slaying me right now. L.I.E.S. can do no wrong.

yeah mimesiak is top 5 of the year for me. the new ep he's done on argot is really good too.

can't find a 'proper' link, but this is the stream of one of my other favourite albums this year, which just turned up in the mail today:

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/17182/1/stream-of-the-week-huerco-s-colonial-patterns

riyl: actress, wastelands, broken-down techno, ambience

word, I've been impressed by the gunnar haslam lp. only given it like 2 full spins but it's weird and eerie and impressively groovy at the same time.

huerco s. I was less impressed with, but only have given that one shot yet. just makes me want ghettoville even more, really

official announcement of the new Sun Kil Moon LP, called Benji, to be released February 2014

weird-ass first song, as well: http://pitchfork.com/news/52419-sun-kil-moon-announces-new-album-benji-shares-richard-ramirez-died-today-of-natural-causes/

both the gunnar and the huerco are absolutely great - gunnar because it's like driving on mars, and huerco because it's like an opium fueled dream in a train

listening to the marcel fengler album for the first time and it's def great - the softer moments moreso than the typical berghain sound bangers

also i think i'm falling in luv with the electric lady, time will tell

really into the rhye album



new john legend is pretty good too

I am finding it hard to dislike this Chvrches album.

You misspelled "Churches," bro.

So did they!

Is it still 'churches' if you're saying it out loud.

I've liked everything I've heard, but I haven't been able to sit down and listen to an album or even songs of my choice for a month at this point.

This girl I was seeing wanted to go to a Chrvches show with me this summer. I stopped seeing her after that suggestion.

Dream River. Sort of unknowable and completely intriguing to me right now. Apocalypse was an easy album to like, but I can't so easily cotton to DR. I don't think I really get it - the songs seem shrouded, still amorphous when I'm listening to and recalling them - but it's pretty much all I'm listening to. Excellent opener/closer combo - I know that much - but I couldn't really tell you anything else about the album. Doesn't feel that different from how I first felt listening to things like Mark Hollis & The 5 EPs.

The Chvrches album is better than I was expecting, but with HAIM's album coming out at the same time I haven't had all that much time for it.

Michael K.'s post on the new callahan is OTM - not as easy to penetrate as apocalypse but it's rewarding me more and more with each play.

i like the chvurches album and the haim album a whole bunch

between those two and the annie ep, i'm having all my pop boxes ticked at the moment

ash dropped a chvrches song in his mix and i fucking loved it, so yeah should probz check it out

the pop-ish album i'm infatuated with atm is janelle monae though

Michael K. wrote:Dream River. Sort of unknowable and completely intriguing to me right now. Apocalypse was an easy album to like, but I can't so easily cotton to DR. I don't think I really get it - the songs seem shrouded, still amorphous when I'm listening to and recalling them - but it's pretty much all I'm listening to. Excellent opener/closer combo - I know that much - but I couldn't really tell you anything else about the album. Doesn't feel that different from how I first felt listening to things like Mark Hollis & The 5 EPs.

those are some rather lofty comparisons that I don't much agree with, but I hear what you're saying in general about Dream River. it seems a bit of a tough nut to crack.

"Summer Painter" is one for the ages though, I do know that.

Winter Road & One Fine Morning are basically 2 album closers that bring me to the brink of tears each time I hear them.

m b v is in a category of its own as far as I'm concerned but if you remove that from the equation Dream River is my AOTY.

Tiny Mix Tapes has a big boner for this Oneohtrix Point Never album. I can't understand why because it just sounds like Brian Eno rip off.