current favorite albums

[rapoon]

^ nice eaglet.

was listening to him on soundcloud. got to "flotus" and kept hitting repeat.

seen this site? thefindmag
i just found it a few days ago.

[gbaplayer]

Scar Symmetry - The Singularity Part I: Neohuman

This CD kicks ass.

[CStarFlare]

I am ping ponging between Anathema's Distance Satellites and Shining's Blackjazz.

Distance Satellites isn't a perfect album, but its peaks are really impressive. First I've heard from them, and I clearly need to go digging.

Blackjazz strikes a perfect balance between "this is getting a bit too extreme for me" and "holy shit, I love that riff."

[spadgy]

Been away from this thread for a while, and these days I'm back to buying 3 - 5 or more records a week, so I'm not going to bombard you all with tonnes of ragga, dancehall, jungle, breakcore and balkan stuff.

But I did just recently get this reissue. It's been a long time since I bought me some straight edge hardcore, but this LP is a treasure. Spirit by Up Front. This band are really fucking serious about being your friend. They will be fucking nice to you, and you will be nice to other people? Alright?



It's got me listening to heaps of hardcore and thrash. Deep Wound, Angry Samoans, Spermbirds, Youth Brigade and SS Decontrol all over my ears this week.

[DestroyTheCore]

Vinyl reissue time!

Boards of Canada - Hi Score EP (2014 Edition)
Deepchord - dc07/dc08/dc09 [remastered]
Deepchord - dc10/dc11/dc12 [remastered]
Deepchord - dc13/dc14/dc16 [remastered]

[lilmanjs]

Vinyl reissue time!

Boards of Canada - Hi Score EP (2014 Edition)
Deepchord - dc07/dc08/dc09 [remastered]
Deepchord - dc10/dc11/dc12 [remastered]
Deepchord - dc13/dc14/dc16 [remastered]

You actually got Deepchord stuff? Heard so many complaints on discogs it isn't even funny. Current favorite album is Dublicator - Chord Center. Once again its the time of year where it starts to get colder around here, and for some reason that gets me to revisit this album. A shame it never got a physical release.

[DestroyTheCore]

Vinyl reissue time!

Boards of Canada - Hi Score EP (2014 Edition)
Deepchord - dc07/dc08/dc09 [remastered]
Deepchord - dc10/dc11/dc12 [remastered]
Deepchord - dc13/dc14/dc16 [remastered]

You actually got Deepchord stuff? Heard so many complaints on discogs it isn't even funny.

The vinyls actually came out last year. As for the complaints you have heard about, these come from the fact that the label made preorders available on their Bandcamp page and delayed everything for months without any updates on the situation. It took a while for the products to come out, but they eventually arrived.

They have announced so many releases but they can't keep a promise. They have lost most of their fanbase's trust, even mine.

[soprano1]

^ nice eaglet.

was listening to him on soundcloud. got to "flotus" and kept hitting repeat.

seen this site? thefindmag
i just found it a few days ago.

Hey there, thanks for the site, i have been listening to Nujabes discography, and some of those tunes really click with me. Never thought i would be listening to jazz and hip hop at my age
Any more stuff besides the site you think i should listen?

[Obiwanshinobi]

The Land of Rape and Honey by Ministry. So fierce. Ferocioulsy monotonous, up there with the original Killing Joke album.

P.S. God's Own Medicine by The Mission - snappy writing, isn't it? Not sure if I'd call it "well written" right now (too much alcohol), but I can tell someone's got a thing for writing them lines...

P.P.S. Heard some of the latest Simple Minds album on the radio. I could... tell it was Simple Minds.
In other news, when radio played songs from Crystal Palace by Deine Lakaien, I wasn't crazy about it (heard better sung Veljanov albums), BUT - much like their debut - it comes on its own when listened to as a whole. Their most "synth pop" album perhaps, but all the better for it. Nah, you must listen to it all. Where would I be without those guys? New Order bakes the cake.

P.P.P.S. Holy fuck, Simple Minds are incredible. Am I, like, what, 6 again?

[BIL]

OL GRANNY next door's away for the weekend so I'm bangin my head to Maiden's KILLERS.

Much like irl, PAUL DIANNO CAN'T STOP DOING CRIMEZ. He just keeps getting into wacky situations, inimitably howled and rasped over pummelling NWOBHM goodness! RIP Clive Burr \m/

"I CANT SPEAK FRENCH SO I COULDNT EXPLAIN AND LIKE A FOOL I STARTED RUNNIN' AWAY"

"THEY SAY I KILLED A WOMAN, AND NAW IT ISNT TRUE / THEY JUST TRYIN'A FRAME ME, AND ALL BECAUSE OF YOU"

"EXCITEMENT / SHAKES ME / OH GOD HELP ME WHAT HAVE I DONE? / OOOH YEAH... I'VE DONE IT AGAIN!"



Fuckin rawks. scintillations.

[Necronopticous]

大森靖子
洗脳

[JBC]

Perturbator - Dangerous Days
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Warpaint - self titled

& Live - The Turn, which features their new lead vocalist who is much better on the album than he was in preview material. If it's the same guy at all, this one doesn't sound like Rob Thomas & is actually pretty good. It also doesn't hit me like he's trying to be Ed Kowalczyk.

[drauch]

Perturbator - Dangerous Days

I've been rocking all of his stuff lately at work. Becoming a big favorite. Crank it up and imagine dark, rainy streets amidst a scummy metropolis to drown out my bosses' 4-non Blondes on loop and his endless farts and burps that seem to emit nonstop. Wish I could hire Rick Deckard to bust through the office door and retire him while I get lost in a haze of cybernetic sick beats.

[DestroyTheCore]

Just got on vinyl:
Fennesz - Venice (10th Anniversary Edition)
SND - Tplay

So good...

[Astraea FGA Mk. I]

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978-1990 [8CDs Box Set] Original Japanese Edition



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Spoiler

Blessed with one of the loveliest voices in the industry and a talent for creating theatrical, affecting songs, Kate Bush is the Stanley Kubrick of recorded music. Her lifelong career has resulted in only seven full-length studio albums and one official live release. And much like Kubrick's films, each of those albums is an impassioned, singular work of artistic vision crafted by a perfectionist. This Woman's Work, released by EMI in 1990, collects Bush's first six studio releases supplemented by two full-length discs of bonus material. Manufactured and released simultaneously in the U.S., Canada, and Japan, the Japanese release is the collector's best bet for superior packaging and sound quality. It features two substantial booklets: one comprised of 26 color photographs spanning Bush's career and the other, titled "This Woman's Work, 1958-1990: The Biographical Notes of Kate Bush," a 28-pager in Japanese only. Additionally, a detailed singles discography (1977-1986) is included in The Dreaming booklet. Beginning with her auspicious 1978 pop release, The Kick Inside, through her glossy 1989 production, The Sensual World, Bush's studio releases are presented here adorned in their original British cover art with lyrics (in English and Japanese) and detailed song-by-song personnel included. The collected works and supplemental photographs are an elegant testament to Bush's unique vision and eclectic talents. The musical range and time span of the material also convey a fascinating evolution of those talents.

Highlights from Bush's albums are numerous. In short, 1980-1985 stands as her most creative period, yielding Never for Ever, The Dreaming, and Hounds of Love. Never for Ever displays an uncanny leap (from Lionheart) in Bush's writing and performance skills. On compositions like "The Wedding List," "Delius (Song of Summer)," and "Breathing," she lays down fertile groundwork and sows the seeds that grow into trees on The Dreaming and Hounds of Love. The Dreaming is Bush's most accomplished and progressive work to date. Startling and even overwhelming at times, the album is rife with experimentation. Bush's vocal delivery and lyrics transcend anything she has done before or since. From the otherworldly darkness and bewildering rage of "Get Out of My House" to the quirky, fairy garden sounds of "Suspended in Gaffa," The Dreaming is a display of the artist at full tilt, all synapses firing toward a thematic, visionary end. Hounds of Love is Bush's most commercially successful album, and for good reason. Part pop, part prog rock/art rock, Hounds hits all corners of Bush's fan base. A slickly produced, mature, and personal work, the album is actually a sort of heightened, warmer continuation of The Dreaming. Featuring the driving, upbeat radio hits "Hounds of Love" and "The Big Sky," the moody, nightmarish sounds of "Waking the Witch," and the heart swelling on the lilting "Morning Fog" and "Watching You Without Me," Hounds is a reflection of the matured artist on the verge of introspection and assessment.

The bonus discs included in the box set are the main draw for hardcore fans. While this material certainly has its moments, there's really nothing substantial here for the casual listener to warrant purchase of the set. The spare and sedate Vol. 1 (1980-1989) is comprised of previously unreleased material, much of which has since been made available (at least for a limited time), and previously available work that had been long out of print. The highlights here are the vocal workouts: "December Will Be Magic Again" (1980), "Under the Ivy" (1985), the doleful, a cappella "My Lagan Love" (1985), and the sublime "Handsome Cabin Boy" (1986). Vol. 2 (1979, 1985-1990) is much livelier than its companion, due in large part to the rollicking concert recordings and the general upbeat quality of Bush's songs. The 1979 performances at Hammersmith (taken from her On Stage EP), baring Bush early in her career, are an entertaining and refreshing contrast to the later, slickly produced recordings on Hounds of Love, The Sensual World, and their subsequent remixes. At the same time, it is this slick, polished gloss that makes her later work so successful. Thankfully, the remixes of 1985-1990 recordings are not the standard, annoying dance mixes so prevalent in the market at the time. That said, they also aren't particularly interesting, with the pleasant exception of "The Big Sky [Meteorological Mix]." This eight-minute remix features effective, pronounced percussion and a playful midsection with characters commenting on the shapes of clouds. Other highlights include the energetic "Ken" (from the comic strip film GLC), "Wuthering Heights [New Vocal]," and the dramatic "Experiment IV." The bonus discs include lyrics but not track-by-track personnel.

I remember listening to Hounds of Love while building LEGO on Christmas day when I was 5. I've just rediscovered Kate Bush with this set. Check out her music videos on youtube, they are brilliant and ahead of their time. Kate Bush makes Lady Gaga look like a no-substance amateur.

[Tregard]

Perturbator - Dangerous Days

I've been rocking all of his stuff lately at work. Becoming a big favorite. Crank it up and imagine dark, rainy streets amidst a scummy metropolis to drown out my bosses' 4-non Blondes on loop and his endless farts and burps that seem to emit nonstop. Wish I could hire Rick Deckard to bust through the office door and retire him while I get lost in a haze of cybernetic sick beats.

Thanks both for mentioning this guy - just checked out his bandcamp and immediately threw down some dollars. Awesome stuff!

[lilmanjs]

Echo Delta - Digital Lifeforms. Pure, smooth no nonsense Dub Techno that does a lot with not much in the way of sounds. I'm quite loving this.
Textural Being - The Sixth Gap. Supposed to be his last release under this name, but a vinyl came out later. Still this is absolutely amazing. The reshapes sound more like new tunes, and The Sixth Gap pt, 2 is a real chill moving almost Ambient Techno type tune. Remixes are fantastic as well.

[tommyb]

Sunn O))) & Scott Walker - Soused. Fantastic avant-garde album that really showcases the best of both parties, in my opinion.

Godflesh - World Lit Only By Fire. One of the heaviest, grooviest records I've heard in a long time.

[Marc]

Killer Be Killed - awesome stuff. First time Max Cavelera has sounded genuinely fierce in years.

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish. Still an amazing album, I actually prefer it to Siemens Dream. Shame the band have never hit these heights since.

Prick - The Wreckard. Off-kilter weird industrial stuff, CD is quite rare and cost me a pretty penny. You may have heard their one single 'Animal' on MTV back in the '90s.

[JBC]

Perturbator - Dangerous Days

I've been rocking all of his stuff lately at work. Becoming a big favorite. Crank it up and imagine dark, rainy streets amidst a scummy metropolis to drown out my bosses' 4-non Blondes on loop and his endless farts and burps that seem to emit nonstop. Wish I could hire Rick Deckard to bust through the office door and retire him while I get lost in a haze of cybernetic sick beats.

Thanks both for mentioning this guy - just checked out his bandcamp and immediately threw down some dollars. Awesome stuff!

Out of all the acts producing stuff like this these days Perturbator seems to be the hardest. More intense than Power Glove even. My favorite track so far is 'Humans Are Such Easy Prey'. So badass.

[BIL]

Fuck me, you guys weren't kidding. Dangerous Days is amazing. Blasting it hard right now. Instantly brings to mind roaming a burning gas station in a trucker hat and raybans wasting killer cyborgs with a sawed-off and pipebombs. My mullet is electrified.

[drauch]

Can't remember, but the dude(s) that always do his album covers are fucking killer. That one with the cyberpunk chick's ass gives me an augmented boner for miles of wet city streets.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Checking out NPR's top metal albums of 2014. I liked the list last year. This one seems to be pretty good too. It's really weird that the decidedly un-metal NPR comes up with a great list like this.

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/30/372467357 ... ms-of-2014

[Rob]

I don't know about the others, but Morbus Chron and Thou are two of my favorites. Indian's From All Purity another great one from '14.

Lately been listening to Thou's other albums (Tyrant & Summit).

[Tregard]

I've been rocking Dangerous Days for, well, days now. I love it, though I have one criticism: I know his raison d'etre is pounding skinjob-on-your-tail synth-horror, but I wish he would slow it down a bit more often, because when he does he brings the Vangelis vibes as well as anyone I've heard. In fact his output sounds exactly like what would have happened if Vangelis had spent his days recording soundtracks for grubby straight-to-vhs mutant cop thrillers instead of more artistic fare like Blade Runner.

I love that there's a whole sub-genre of this stuff. I've been exploring, and LazerHawk seems to be a strong contender. Skull and Shark is excellent; it doesn't have quite the same brutish feel, but it has some wonderful melodies and nails the atmosphere. The art isn't as strong, but by checking out some of his videos on YouTube I've actually ended up getting into some surreal old animations by a guy called Vladimir Tarasov. The more I dig into this niche the more awesome I find.

Seems to be another dude called Mega Drive who I haven't really explored, and I also need to check out Power Glove.

[drauch]

As I was reading your post I was about to mention Lazerhawk, but I see you did! Was listening to that earlier today, and really, I think he's a bit more consistent than Perturbator--at least on Skull and Shark. Check out the YouTube channel New Retro Wave if you haven't already. I guess "Retro Wave" is what the sub-genre is sorta being defined as now, which I guess is kind of fitting. Mega Drive and Power Glove are pretty good as well, although I'm not crazy about tongue-in-cheek video games references like the power glove, but the name Mega Drive alone without the reference does seem sort of fitting.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Nobody does the synthy stuff better than Futurecop! I like Neon Workout too.

[jonny5]

When you guys talk about Powerglove, do you mean the speed metal cover band or these guys?

http://powergloveaudio.bandcamp.com

If you like those guys or Lazerhawk, you need to check out Dance with the Dead

http://dancewiththedead.bandcamp.com

All 4 albums are killer, not a bad song on any of them!

Thanks for mentioning Perturbator, never heard of them. Sounds good

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Still loving some shoegaze.

Sway
Tamaryn
Cheatahs
Seasurfer
True Widow

[Eaglet]

Been going over some of last year's best albums this last month and found a new apprecation for Madlib and Freddie Gibbs' "Cocaine Piñata".
This is some real shit. Awesome album all around.
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Uno