2011 isn't even close to being over, and there are already tons of releases I'm still digesting.

I don't know what that thing you mentioned is, but the new Panda Bear is great, the new This Will Destroy You seems promising, the new Mogwai is ok, and the new ...And Stars Collide EP from their yet-to-be-released album is pretty decent, to my tastes.

I think you're making a pretty bold statement, son.

The new TWDY is much more Ambient than Post-rock.
And So I Watch You From Afar's new album is quite good. Final Days Society one is really great !
I didn't listen to all new post-rock stuff, but there are quite other good bands like : Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud or Orders of The British Empire that you should listen to.

yea I have that And So I Watch You From Afar shit, but haven't listened yet. along those lines, there's a new Explosions in the Sky and a new Maybeshewill as well. but I'm not listening to those much.

What is a good panda bear release?

All I have heard is his vocals on top of the new Zomby track and it didn't impress me at all.

Person Pitch is practically the best album of 2007..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H60VfN5rB4

have a listen

Very nice, thanks for the reco - shall be acquiring this stuff :p

Anymore recent stuff? Similar stuff? This may sound way off base to you but I really like the rolling sound that that song has (something I find full expression of in Shackleton's music - albiet much darker)

I assume you mean the kind of jungly sound or whatever. the new Panda Bear sounds somewhat like Person Pitch, but it's a bit more simple and relaxed overall. and being that Panda Bear is from Animal Collective, some of their stuff, as well as Avey Tare's solo stuff, has some similar sounds to Panda Bear at times, but overall they're fairly different.

hrm. I think something like Toro Y Moi - Causers of This or maybe The American Analog Set or even Atlas Sound are kind of similar to that album. nothing really sticks out in my mind as being the exact same kind of sound, though, and I'm not too good with that stuff, but I guess I could just list off some of my favorite other bands in the same rough kind of space.. stuff like Islands, Feist, of Montreal (the earlier stuff), MGMT, or The Fiery Furnaces. maybe someone who knows more about music can make more relevant recommendations or something.

El Guincho and early Animal Collective

ty ty

i didnt like it..

Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972.

With endless summer and beyond we saw expressed a longing later given to evolution in rememberance; decay in missing a past not present in a future; yellow-brown half-burned memories as the first naive expression. While first given to absentia, it was later claimed by climax as the sole beauty of destruction. In eulogies we turn to regret and the morning after, and we came full-circle to the seagulls by the sunrise at dawn with flimsy sparkles conveying the transitory experience of this contingent point in time. Though some have taken other aspects to sum up, Hecker has provided a consistent sound that includes the most abstract spectre of decay in conflict with harmony. In Hecker even the most recent reflections turning to fragmented reality are subtly attained by blips of dissection under cold light. Including plenty without imposing a finaly totality (like despair) it keeps going and gives itself over to the recognition it wants to establish. The resulting emotion will put you in a blank chaos of serious brooding; but while there it will force you to digest and chew through the fog it reveals and you'll come out remarkably clearheaded.

nice read, but it doesn't give me anything new since 2001. have you tried machinefabriek? like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLsovZvfBk&feature=related

also there is some great stuff by asher, christopher mcfall and related.
like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI1PAzEK3Y8

Yes, I agree, it's rather the perfection of this groping for years and years since 2001 instead of something new. It seems notoriously difficult to get past that point, and my usual attitude is to dismiss things that do not try.

This may sound weird but the only real outstanding attempt i've seen is [the movie] Inland Empire with its flow that goes perpendicular to the normal bounderies of emotionscaping.. I mean there's a primitive attempt in The Fountain, and a more perfected, explicit one in 2046, but none of them made the z-transition as *real* and direct as Inland empire.

I'd certainly like to see a rise in a kind of polyambient/counterpoint, where different ambient structures co-exist with different emotions. I see myself on the verge of saying "let worlds collide," but of course there are a million interpretations of that done already, so in the abstact i'm not sure exactly what it is i'm after.

In the first you linked it certainly seems that there is one mood on top of the other. In the second it's more of a transition from one to the other at 8-9min. hm!

I'll have to check out more of these guys.. see what they are on about.. Perhaps you could suggest a couple of albums, and *cough* where to get them (if they are obscure). :D

loved inland empire. i also noticed that there are more and more mainstreamish movies outthere, which are weird and successful. that's actually a great thing to happen.

there are still musicians around who do not feel "empowered" enough by the stuff that is produced and will try to reach and pass boundries that are known. that's the point that of the "experimental" scene out there. a lot of milestones but the road doesn't end at all.

there are small projects which are still unpopular enough to be like my little secret. critics,oppinions and success do often kill the magic for me.

i do not like giving recommendations :p, but a good point to start is to check the discogs releases and to get through the jungle of labels and collabs. also soulseek is still pretty useful, blogs like deletedscenesforgottendreams and newsletters like vitalweekly

a jungle for sure. so many blind alleys :c

EVERYTHING will be explored! Rawhgrrr :P Well. Maybe i'll start with the good old soulseek and take it from there (:

Goddamn, sure that seems all smart and whatnot but is there really no better way to apply your intelligence :|

I'm not one for the whole pseudo emo metaphysical mumbo jumbo

Yeah, why don't you talk your heart out and be non-metaphysical about it. How about you tell us all about love and we'll judge you by the intelligence of it. By the intelligibility of it. Sounds about right, no?

I can see your point , love as a chemical reaction just does not have the same ring to it.

But it just seems like a waste to me in a way , all that talent applied in a direction that will never ever lead to concrete results

are you talking about creating or searching for this? or are you talking about clains thoughts?

I'm not even sure what u mean by "this", if it's love i dont need to create or search for it it exists all around us, including me and my gf

I can see the tie-in between music and emotions or even film and emotions and i'm sure there"s an unexplored space there. By 2001 i assumed u mean the kubrick movie, it's cute but has little real worth in my eyes. I'd consider the recent "moon" to be the superior picture.

But yeah i was talking about his thoughs,

with 2001 i meant hecker, which released his first album in that year. but both 2001 and moon are pretty godo films :p

for me, it's more of a waste to close your eyes or stay focused on the result (ie of a life) and ride on the trails/rails till the end which you can't see but surely expect.
i know there are a lot of people that dumped their child abilities to explore, to take a risk, to look 360°, to experiment and whatnot to actually get crippled and prepared for the wantobe concrete senses which at best need intelligence.

i guess since you're with your gf you know the abilities of the "metaphysics" and you wouldnt leave her if you get a child (as the result).

but there many thoughts on this, so.. but i understand your point

You say u get my point, i'm not even sure i do. I'm not one of the pseudo intellectuals on esr who thinks they know it all..


Truth is i'm far from an expert in these kinda discussions, i can outreason people in fields i know but fuck me if i know anything about this particular area of knowledge

it's just a territory where you can't be sure about anything and everything looks kinda pseudo. i bet there are 100 oppinions which could change my mind. all you have to accept is the fact that there is no safety at all. don't know if i really understand you either, but you packed your thoughts into words and i was kinda trying to discuss like it could actually affect atleast myself :p

Typically, things said with this kind of poetic ring to it are not things hard won by conscious, intelligent and intentional action. They are insights or visions or feelings or experiences that hit home so directly that they echo out into years hence even in spite of the person having them.

Love is the spiritual denominator most can relate to. A few have religion. There are many other things.

For some, life stands or falls with these things. The complex sciences are crude. Especially psychology. Of all the people I know, i'm the most interested in psychology.

My older brother is more like you. We talk often. We have younger brother as well. Our younger brother lives in Portugal. He loves his home team above anything else and so on.

Both my older brother and I want to lift him out of this cultural trap. We are all 3 equally intelligent.

My older brother and me, in discussing ways to "get him out," have come to realize that the greatest obstacle is his concrete mindset.

I the most spiritual one, was the first to opt out of religion; my older brother, more concrete, took longer to see the problem of his contingent upbringing.

Apart from the love example, I guess that's the only thing i've got so far that easily translates into "actual" lifechanging differences. In the chronology of this story I usually insist to my older brother after the last part that we're still trapped. ;D

In any case, we are both old enough, you and I, that we slowly start giving up on changing people anyway :)

It's amazing to me u can produce those kinda "stories", hence why i think it's a talent which is unutilized.

In all my proven iq i'm only any good at pure science, i can understand concepts and formulas more quickly than most people

One could probably extend my gift to languages or so but still it's obviously limited.

I dont have those "thinking about stuff " skills, for me everything is logical, i wish i could think about things another way

To think differently develop a sensitivity for the symbolic in the everyday. Wide phenomena show themselves in local caricature.

For instance I notice new colorcombinations used in fashion; associated with that seing are asian people; associated with all of that is traditional chinese art;

so they have a different sense of color-harmony over there, and it's slowly migrating over here; this brings a new question; why is their sense of color different? is it a nature/nurture thing? accidental? historical? all of it?

and then, does it mean something beyond that? what does it entail? does that mean their blue is not our blue? to what extent is color determined by association? what kind of syntax is at play? what about the associations to color in mythology?

and then use this whole framwork of questions, and apply it to their emotion; given this logic of different harmony and nature nurture, does this give an insight or frame to understand differences in emotion or facial expression? what about anime? classical music? etcetc.

so you just start from what seems like a caricature of something, and then you trace it and question it back and back; for instance the horizontal light in music videos.. why is that popping up in all our videos now? is it something to do with the technology, or the lighting in clubs, or does it affect our eyes in some special way associated with movement what..

you can do the same thing with "logical thinking" what's the etymology of the word logical, how did it develop, what are the foundations of logic, how does the underlying mechanism relate to the logic; zoom in - what is the simplest physical substrate to manipulate a bit of information; does this say something about reality, or logic? etcetc.

you can do the same thing with "love," what's the etymology of the word love, how did it develop, what do evolutionary psychologists say? what do they leave out? how can these chemicals relate a feeling? what different kinds of love are there? how's the dynamic? is it a system? what role does the body play in thoughts of love? what is the relation of love to hate, or love to disgust, can one love be opposite hate and another opposite disgust? etcetc.

this way of "thinking about stuff" is just to take some clue and explore it, let it grab you and take you for a ride into the millions of connections it has to other things and questions.. one might say it is to fall in love with clues.

like if you really love a girl you want to know everything about her, in all the different dimensions of her being; her past, her body, the way she reacts or responds in different circumstances, her family, her friends, what she cares about, how her surroundings are, etcetc.

sometimes, what the poet does, is skip this whole investigation and operate on the level of cues. the eyes know what is interesting before the intellect does. attention is moved there automatically.

well that's i guess some aspect of how "thinking about stuff" is just to take seriously and even "fall in love" with anything that holds attention that people notice but then pass over and forget as they keep to their daily rhythm.

but i'm all to aware that people who tend to have some sort of talent, when they try to explain it, butcher it completely, and i doubt i've done anything more than that here. it's never formulaic :\

anyway i don't think one can dissociate talent from habit. i'm writing my (obscure) masters next year and probably teaching some, so i don't think i'm wasting my talent ;)

no, you're just wasting energy

introducing.. reproduction

so u say itsa good no ??

Depends.. do you like chewing fog?

seeing hecker play live in a church was pretty awesome (i nearly fell asleep, in a good way)

in a chewing fog kind of way? man, that sounds awesomely awesome. the whole church-space with the.. wait, how did he play? how was the setup?

i suppose a laptop with a bunch of other equipment you can fiddle with; big-ass speakers in a church

Sweet. ^^

Yup def one of my favs

Struggling with Ravedeath since the day it was released. Harmoy in Ultraviolet beats it all the way, it's one of those albums you can't just listen to one or two tracks, I just adore going from Rainbow blood all the way to Blood rainbow.

Ha! I loved that title. It was how I found Hecker in the first place. For some reason I never really understood that album. Surely I have the respect now to go back and struggle a bit with his older material :)

yes

:D

One of the better albums this year imo must be:

Light bearer - Lapsus

[+] Because the album is huuuuge ! :D
In a more technical way there is Helhorse (Denmark) with the album "From Wolves and Vultures" which is quite good, but it's a lot less darker than Light Bearer.

Atlas Losing Grip sounds like AFI.. i'm not sure it's a bad thing, they're pretty ok i guess

i'm disappointed in music lately, too much hipster trash.. you know the mellow artsy electro-folk-pop with a vintage flavour stuff, either really mediocre or too experimental for the sake of it.

to give a better example, here's a music nerd on youtube reviewing this type of music 90% of the time: http://www.youtube.com/user/theneedledrop#g/u

his reviews are quite entertaining to listen, but i couldn't find something he recommended that i really like. and i'm not hating on indie music here, i'm a fan of the indie current from mid 00s, those with british or garage sound.. and not the 70s fake-nerds with a intended awkward fashion sense

fuck this spineless shit actually.. when is Tool releasing a new album?

Soon i believe, been waiting patiently.

either really mediocre or too experimental for the sake of it


fuck this spineless shit actually.. when is Tool releasing a new album?


oh the irony

if you think tool is too experimental, you haven't listened to a lot of music

too experimental for the sake of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnK8ksUWqTU

sounds interesting, but I haven't really gotten around to free jazz yet

Stuff I've listened to very recently (new and old):

- Portishead (very cool)
- 30 seconds to mars (my god how awful is this crap)
- ACDC - back in black (never actively listened to it before, but practically knew all the songs)
- Pearl Jam backspacer (really digging it)
- Sylosis edge of the earth (loving it, but prefer first album so far - only listed a couple of times)
- scars on broadway (cool, but it is very similar to soad)
- girltalk allday (freaking awesome, perfect for driving or running, mash up of all sorts of music)
- anamanaguchi (it is cool, but you can't really listen to too much without wanting to kill someone)
- exodus bonded by blood (it is cool, but not my sort of thing, i suppose)
- the best of blur (I'm lazy and didn't want to listen to all their albums, but hey! the greatest hits is great!)
- radiohead king of limbs (It's ok, I can listen to it, but nothing incredible)
-joy division (it's cool, but I expected more, it just kinda sounds old)
- Accept - Blood of the Nations (Like old school metal, surprisingly catchy)
- The strokes - angles (seems... good, but not "is this it?" must listen to it a bit more)
- lost prophets (guilty pleasure, they are awful, but I kinda like them)

Stuff that I have currently in my list to listen to:
- Arcade Fire - The suburbs
- Beady Eye - Different Gear, still speeding
- Bring me the horizon - there is a hell bla bla bla
- clutch - blast tyrant
- david guetta best of something or other
- foo fighters wasting light
- high on fire - snakes for the divine
- seether- finding beauty in negative spaces
- sieges even - the art of navigating by the stars
- the smashing pupkins - teargarden by kaleidyscope
- witchery - witchkrieg

And have added the two albums recommended above to the list.

Everytime that I don't mention an album means I've listened to everything.

I'm actively looking for more music so any recommendations welcome, I like addictive stuff :) Don't really listen to a genre, metal,rock,pop etc.

Yoga - Megafauna is worth checking out. Fantastic drone/dark ambient soundscapes with some black metal influence.

nice list, gonna try some

How u can put david guetta in there is kinda beyond me :)

I try to stay on top of trends, if merely to know.

I didn't mention that I also recently listened to Now 77 and Now 78. I only made it past 1 cd (out of 4). But hey, now I know.

he's not terrible as far as popular music goes, way worse songs were hits in the 2000 - 2010's

But the simple fact is he wouldn't mean a thing back when real music was still being made (pre 2000)

"The Suburbs" is really, really good imo.

Beady Eye is basically just Oasis without the guy. Which one is it?
Just the same old same old.

The suburbs is ok, some nice songs, but nothing that really grabs me, I've always liked the harder side of the spectrum. I'm still listening to them though, there are quite a few songs I like.

The Suburbs is my latest favourite.

I didn't really know Arcade Fire before this album and at first I was like "Hmmmmmm...", but it only took me a 2nd time listening to the album that I know this was special.

The more I listened to it the better it got.

Exactly the experience I had. :) It really is special.

If you have the opportunity to see them live, take it. It's almost a life altering experience. :)

Beady Eye is basically the old Oasis line up - Noel ( the talented one)

An update:

Got recommended this band "The pretty reckless". Read up about them online, seems they have this 17 year old chick tv star or something, so I thought it was going to be crap. Turns out it's really good! Love the hard rock sound.

It's the stand out album from the latest stuff I tried out, although I haven't listened to some stuff enough (like arctic monkeys, seether, lady gaga)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk1HOlkq_o

avicii - levels

Follow up:

The suburbs - Arcade fire (Started to really like it)
Sylosis edge of the earth (REALLY love it now, better than the first album)
- The strokes - angles (Also like it alot now, very calm and good for doing work or chilling)
- Bring me the horizon - there is a hell believe me ive seen it, there is a heaven lets keep it a secret (Really awesome, better than their older stuff, really like it)
- foo fighters wasting light (Good for easy listening, it's ok)
- the smashing pupkins - teargarden by kaleidyscope (Gave it one listen and it sounded amazing, but need to listen to it again)

Not previously mentioned and new on list:
- Arctic Monkeys Suck it and See (It's quite good, but not as good as their first 2 albums)
- Defeater - Lost Ground (Incredible album, got recommended it by some 19 year old chick, was surprisingly impressed)
- Skillex - All of it, it's awesome
- Lady Gaga - Born this Way (I think it's awesome, it reminds me of early michael jackson)

To listen to:
- Trivium - In Waves
- PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
- Kasabian - Velociraptor
- Incubus - If Not Now, When?

GAGA IS AMAZIN

she's the modern day Moe Zart!

Jay Electronica's debut album will be album of the decade.

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yeah, his debut album will be incredible

heard he got shot by a bazooka and worked in the fukushima plant

song & MV of the year so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjhCEhWiKXk

you win, thus far

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0yOXu-Mh8

this. clearly.

My Boyfriend Sent Me this Song and im like awh thanaakss babee <3 I REAlly love him but&#65279; Hee Dumped mee :(

cjstainton 6 hours ago




jesus christ

lol xD im betting the number of cases like that will increase throughout the year xD

amorphis' new album is scheduled on may 27th, probably one of the best this year

and i'm still eager to see the nightwish movie :o

going out in style from dropkick murphys

easily the best album of 2011

oh snap. i haven't even listened to a single song yet. gotta check it out.

u better!

Ulcerate - "The Destroyers of All" is AOTY so far for me.
http://youtu.be/9LUiZlpcJVA?hd=1

atlas losing grip reminds me of Rise Against. Nice stuff for this summer!

yeah, exactly.. that was escaping me earlier when i said AFI

old rise against yes, new rise against no.

right now, i'd give it to the latest and so i watch you from afar release.

this

grails! fuck yeah!

Yep, I'm enjoying grails a lot recently.

Thought this was a thread about either Bright Eyes/The Decemberists/Young The Giant/... and you will know us by the trail of dead/Mogwai/Okkervil River/Blackfield

Go away.

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome http://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/136094599/first...luppi-rome

or

Hanni El Khatib - Will the Guns Come Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUwBKWcE1GA

I'll vote when Tool releases their album.

emo shit

http://www.discogs.com/Demdike-Stare-Forest-O...se/2872902

Add as i remeber

Battles - Gloss Drop

Tyler the Creator - Goblin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98qCmhKy-c

Waiting for this to arrive right now!

I think Sweden have always been good at doing music, we have so many awards from good music for what I know.

only good swedish music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGPTpbuL6HE

Haha well ABBA sucks tho!

fuck you


abba rock

Yes, Sweden is good in everything.

OPETH, FUCK YEAH.

Yeah;)

New Arctic Monkeys album coming soon!

over rated band.

Three Trapped Tigers - Route One or Die

release date 30th May

stream album here

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=122&am...1&pb=1

WOO!

they sound as if they were trying too hard.

New Opeth's album comes out in fall. Until then any statement about album of the year is premature.

no it isn't.

\o/

really? cause last I checked Watershed was still by far their weakest effort and from the sounds of things nothing is going to be changing.

Must be your opinion since I loved it. (And it appears that many other people did too.)

On this note, I don't really like anything before still life, and didn't really like deliverance/damnation, but everything else I've loved!

My Arms, Your Hearse stands as their best, and shame that you didn't get into their earlier stuff because it is fantastic. Orchid especially. Deliverance I didn't get so much, but Damnation is great. Watershed was just.. ugh.

Opeth's weakest is still miles above 98% of music.

zzz

MY ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2010

Deerhunter - Halcyon digest

Maybe you should post this again after seven months or so.

not necessary.

Based on what I've heard in the live performances it'll be Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones!

Bon Iver - Bon Iver ... another contender.

Best one listed \o/

The Pretty Reckless - Light me up

The bands pretty good and the chick gives me a hard on.

I lol that some teenage american tv actress will perform like this:



Still gives me a hard on though.

SATAN :'((

gets all the dirtiest girls doesn't he

when listening to the music in this thread i find it too slow, or playful/noisy.

grouper alien observer - a i a
pretty good

also:
indian - guiltless
blood box - funeral in an empty room
roach & parnham - desert inbetween

A|A is a step in the right direction, didn't really like Way Their Crept. Dragging a dead dear up a hill is a constant in my car though.

i havent tried "way their crept", and also couldnt really get into "dragging up.." but it always depends on moods and "when,how, why"-did i find it. it just reminded me of fovea hex's "bloom" with some circulating drones. the voice also reminded me of my alltime favourite project "asianova".gonna check it again. i also loved the new illusion of safety record "busier than happy"- but dunno if ya know

Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones is now available to stream for free - listen, love & sing http://www.nme.com/news/frank-turner/56962?recache

"Lucy - Wordplay for working bees" is 2011s defining album for me until now.

genretag: Techno :)
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=8778

Wasn't aware of it, scoping it out now!

It's a very unusual techno record, not sure if that's your cup of tea :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvN4ztxAt84

Oh it is, don't you worry! I am a big fan of the dub-techno sound, Rhythm & Sound, Deepchord, the newer Shackleton sound.

I hadn't heard of Lucy before I heard his recent podcast on RA and I was so impressed :D

Oh ok cool :) There are alot of other "Lucy" acts out there too so I wasn't too sure.
Anyway yeah, Lucy's album is great, there is also a neat remix ep where Tommy Four Seven (who made a cool album on CLR too, called Primate), Truss, Peter van Hoesen and James Ruskin take on some of the album tracks, very interesting reworks.

Also some cool compilations are out on Ilian Tape with tracks by Jonas Kopp, Regen, Dario & Marco Zenker etc
VA - Because we do! (first compilation was called We like U)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEFh6gnBXu4

can you shed some light into how these tunes are made since you're in the know? I was under the impression they put all the samples together at the start and if it sounds cool to them they stretch it to like 10 minutes by adding an extra sample every 2 minutes or so.

I'm not a producer so don't ask me how they do it. Some sounds come from sample packs, some from field recordings they did themselves, some from songs, it mostly has to do with having a vague idea of what you want to create and then trying to transfer the sound from your head into your computer. Analogue equipment can be useful too but guys like Marcel Fengler don't use any hardware at all which I find pretty impressive.

This one samples Radiohead

going through this is pretty worthless right now, at least add genre tags or something ppl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raKcOtRn3yg

what

The ones I've listened to most are Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues, TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light, Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys and The Airborne Toxic Event - All at Once. Gave Radiohead's new one a go too but did not care for it.

Fuck you former me. I'm gonna listen to Jónsi, and if I get tired of it I want you to shoot me.

Jonsi's new album cheats by using Nico Muhly orchestration. Also, + for speaking to your old self - a healthy habit! :)

That kind of cheating should be encouraged. :)

:D

I found "Codes and Keys" to be pretty boring after listening two or three times. :(

I can relate. It's just one track that still get any play time here.

I expected a lot more from Mr. Gibbard.

Listen to "Frightened Rabbit". (:

Got halfway through a track when Spotify got sand in its vagina. Sounded nice though. Got something to look forward to when coming home from work.

finally my hardcopy has arrived as well. from sweden with love. all the way across the atlantic ocean and right into my cd player <3

http://i56.tinypic.com/2nu0e2w.jpg

The new Circle Takes The Square (Screamo) EP "Decompositions, Volume I, Chapter 1: Rites of Initiation",
and the new Collapse Under The Empire (Post-Rock) 'Shoulders and Giants" are awesome ! Try them out.

woah, someone listening to CTTS. I would never have expected that. :D


Free stream for the new ep: http://ctts.bandcamp.com/

edit: The new La Dispute album is supposed to be released this fall. I don't expect anything short of best album of the year. :)

I like the band, but I never got to figure why As the roots undo is considered such a classic.

btw this is awesome

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

These two Electro/Trance and Contemporary Classical tracks with musicvideo I find interesting. Same kind of "where are we going" theme.

http://vimeo.com/channels/hd#28299236
http://vimeo.com/23282730

Beirut - The Rip Tide

Had forgotten all about that. Streamed it somewhere earlier this month. Short and sweet.

Stop the presses!

Mastodon - The Hunter

OMF

Wolves in The Throne Room's latest is all I have really enjoyed that came out this year. Opeth's Heritage was an expected pile of shit. Need to check out more music, been slow about it this year.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS NOISE

So the new La Dispute album is available for free complete streaming now.

Just. Wow. This will need a few listens to really sink in but it already blows me away.

btw... free swedish punkrock sampler 2011. soooo good.

http://atlaslosinggrip.se/sampler/

download it nao!

the wombats :P

God yet another dull american teen band who sound like all the rest of them, its like they all have the same vocalist

who are you talking about?

This band, sound right out of a MTV show

now has to be between:

battles - gloss drop
feist - metals
giraffes? giraffes! - pink magick
panda bear - tomboy

new EITS and Mogwai are alright.

LULU IS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

what about Opeth - Heritage?