The Futureheads - Christmas Was Better In The 80s. I wish they had gone all out and called it Christmas This Year Is Terrible, oh well.
Mark Fell - Multistability and UL8. Makes my brain go wonky. I have't heard electronic music that makes me feel like this in years. I can't tell which album I like more yet. At least one is an album of the year for me. Inspiring.
semi-randomly binging on the music in the of best of the year lists that are showing up around the net. Feeling slightly underwhelmed. Haven't found metal, bat shit crazy psychedelic or slit your wrists depressing music. But I have found some stuff I liked:
Pan Sonic - Gravitoni. I overdosed on them around 2005. Glad to be reminded to listen again. The track Trepanointi makes me think of electronic doom metal. Shit is ruling my world and killing my eardrums.
Perfume Genius - Learning. For my tastes Perry is the standout song. The way all the noises and voices in the climax intermingle is a magical sound combination. I hear what sounds like human voice crossed with horse neighing and I don't even know - it's wild. The song Gay Angels is a lofi ambient hymn. For the proper songs I think Daniel Johnston meets the piano heavy Cat Power songs like Names or I Don't Blame You. Most of those aren't for me. Mr Petersen was a wonderful sucker punch to the gut that I'm probably never going to listen to again, but it was good to hear.
Robyn - Bodytalk. We Dance to the Beat is an early favorite. The song with Snoop Dog is cracking me up. Arpeggios in every song is awesome and also cracking me up.
Zs - New Slaves. tiny mix tapes had this as #1 on their list. I think they were taking the piss. I was bored. BUT Listening to the whole album at 1/4 speed with VLC player while cleaning the house was quite good, especially the title track. It becomes gothy ambient doom techno apocalypse noise. The silly free jazz stuff now sounds incredible. Fog horns of war.
From the New Weird Australia Volume One compilation. This really reminds me of parts of the Akira OST by Geinoh Yamashirogumi. I can't remember who mentioned the New Weird Australia compilations originally (I'm sure it was someone here), but thank you. Enjoying the first volume very much indeed and looking forward to listening to the next ones.
the ARRIVALS-volatile molotov 12" also, the record came with a download card...when its easier for me to google 'arrivals molotov mediafire zip' than it is to use the 'official' download site, somethings wrong.
Friend of mine sent me Ed Rush And Optical's entire KISS FM Virus set from March 2000 and I haven't stopped listening to it since. I miss the days of proper rinseout, amen-break laden, technical, futuristic, dark, inhumane, mechanically meticulous rip-the-fuck-out-of-your-eardrums drum and bass, so this is a very nice present for me. I suspect I'll still be listening to it a month down the line.