i might even like revival more than helicopter not sure

'Desire Lines' and 'He Would Have Laughed' are my favs, pretty much all of it rules though. i listened to and liked microcastle/weird era but never gave it many listens, it just never clicked. really enjoyed the new one though, and will probably listen to their older stuff more now.

yeah microcastle was good but i think it was overhyped because i felt like nothing ever happened just overshadowed everything else. the first three songs or whatever were good agoraphobia, little kids, never stops but it had so much filler. i love that this one is more upbeat, cox's vocal melodies are fantastic, im glad he doesnt rely on that constipated moan so much anymore. songwriting is just so tight. desire lines is fantastic too

the filler and experimental stuff is the only problem with cryptograms, if there wasnt an ambient track between each song itd be my favourite album. cryptograms is such an awesome song. i havent given halcyon digest much of a listening to really, but i do love microcastle as well

yeah i felt exactly the same way as i did about cryptograms as i did microcastle. there were a few songs that were far better than the rest. this seems like the first full album of great shit

Crystal Castles
Joy Orbison
Teengirl Fantasy
Warpaint
No Age

[quote=cbmartinez;18334073]yeah i felt exactly the same way as i did about cryptograms as i did microcastle. there were a few songs that were far better than the rest. this seems like the first full album of great shit[/quote]
i never got the filler claims with microcastle. what doesn't work about the tracks between little kids and nothing ever happened? they [i]make[/i] nothing ever happened

theres like that four song run in the middle where its just cox self-indulging on halfassed ideas, some are better than others but the whole middle of the album drags and prevents it from being so good

Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?

@sweboy: yeahhh. awesome.

currently digging the s/t compilation by cLOUDDEAD. pretentious and ridiculous and all that but i love it so much. can't believe i hadn't heard it before.

on thread's note, halcyon is great, although a few songs i sort of tune out during (some of the more 'bland' (this is harsh; none of them are bad) pop songs like 'don't cry') a full listen. however some of them just blow me away. 'helicopter', 'earthquake', 'coronado', 'desire lines'; all amazing.

i liked microcastle and knew it would grow on me; it did. last summer i thought of it as one of the best albums of the decade, maybe ever. i found it had this really engrossing and almost sort of frightening 'narrative' to it and the songs you mentioned were totally essential to that (although the self-titled track was always my favorite bar maybe 'nothing ever happened'; how could you hate that one 8(? beautiful)--especially the three "short" songs that some consider filler. they gave me the impression of cox losing his mind and going deeper and deeper into his own hole (and then 'nothing ever happened' was acceptance (denial?) or something, idk). something that i got from pink floyd's 'the wall' when i was like 10 or whatever and fell in love with that record. i don't really get that from microcastle anymore but still consider it a great record.

cryptograms is awesome too and i love the experimental shit. how can you not love 'white ink'? still blows my mind. those ones perfectly offset the more poppy shit.

i dig white ink a lot actually, more than any of the filler on micro

Halcyon might be my favorite Deerhunter album so far...it's fucking awesome in every way.

Matthew Dear - Black City
The Books - The Way Out
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face of My God
Luke Abbott - Holkam Drones

since that black ops commercial came out last mont - I've been listening to a lot of rolling stones lately...

Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

this is better than a lot of the similar p4k type stuff constantly coming out

antony and the johnsons - swanlights

red medicine

why are target and bed for the scraping the best songs ever?! aaaa

i don't know what you're talking about but i DID see a target commercial that had a black angels song in it the other day

kinda weird but yeah. ive been listening to their newer album a bit. and the national - high violet.

also the flaming lips song on the good luck chuck soundtrack is SICK. that movie had a good soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9pSmyoJmEU

thats the song im talking bout

infinite body - carve the face out of my god

that album is okay

i really like it

though it's brief and, you know, one sample i really like the second track. all of it is pretty great though

it's similar to like the mark mcguire, emeralds, oneohtrix stuff, i think i just prefer that

the radio dept.- [I]clinging to a scheme[/I]
maximum balloon- [I]maximum balloon[/I]
the books- [I]the way out[/I]
gorillaz- [I]plastic beach[/I]

is that radio dept. album any good? 'heaven's on fire', imo, is crazy good but i've heard middling things about the actual album from a lot of people. books and gorillaz albums are both great--[i]the lemon of pink[/i] might be slightly better than [i]the way out[/i] but both are great.

also, are mark mcguire albums good? i really liked the last two emeralds albums.

lately:
deerhunter - halcyon digest (really good and has only been growing. i could listen to 'coronado' on repeat all day.)
clouddead - clouddead
tim hecker - harmony in ultraviolet (reaaaaallly fucking good. i go to this really often.)
drake - thank me later (really addicting idk)

I recently heard two guys from LA called YOYA.

Very interesting music they call "folktronic". Some really good mash-ups between Radiohead and Gary Jules, Elton John & David Bowie and few others.

http://www.youtube.com/yoyamusic#p/u/1/P_lSf0TurHA
http://www.youtube.com/yoyamusic#p/u/0/VtPHmb-Rx-Y

Curren$y - Pilot Talk
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works

"my bud covered by fuzz, but not the police"

i finally checked this out after liking Pilot Talk II for a while. these beats and curren$y's wit make this album for me. really great stuff.

j cole - friday night lights

farewell is soo good

curren$y, j cole and mark mcguire all rule

I've been listening to a lot of [I]oOoOO - No Summr4u[/I], Kangding Ray - Stabil, [I]The Black Heart Procession - 2[/I] and [I]Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55[/I].

Oh, and Showbiz & A.G.

[QUOTE=robertsona;18343571]is that radio dept. album any good? 'heaven's on fire', imo, is crazy good but i've heard middling things about the actual album from a lot of people. books and gorillaz albums are both great--[i]the lemon of pink[/i] might be slightly better than [i]the way out[/i] but both are great.

also, are mark mcguire albums good? i really liked the last two emeralds albums.

lately:
deerhunter - halcyon digest (really good and has only been growing. i could listen to 'coronado' on repeat all day.)
clouddead - clouddead
tim hecker - harmony in ultraviolet (reaaaaallly fucking good. i go to this really often.)
drake - thank me later (really addicting idk)[/QUOTE]

it's pretty typical swedish stuff, a few great tracks, nice mix of styles. i just have one mark mcguire song from his lp this year, it's good. harmony in ultraviolet is incredible

i was randomly listening to my ipod late last night and scrolled around artists and found Bjork and was like "oh yeah, her"

started listening to homogenic and vespertine and i swear i had a fucking epiphany ("all is full of love," "hidden place," "an echo, a stain," and "hunter")

so yeah, her

homogenic is really good. i really like medulla too. those are my two favorites of hers. and obviously the first two albums are pretty good too

liars - they threw us all in a trench

homogenic and post are cute. need to get into vespertine more.

Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
The Microphones - The Glow, pt.2
Radiohead - In Rainbows

dictators
39 clocks

Straight Arrows - [I]It's Happening[/I]
Flying Lotus - [I]Los Angeles[/I]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aeagbZBRs


8)

ras g

gonjasufi - a sufi and a killer

ugh

dislike that album :X'

bjork - vespertine