Another great year for music and another difficult one to whittle down a huge list of albums that came out and try and make a top ten , my list was in the Burroughs stage (chicken scrawl on scraps of paper) for quite some time I even make a graph (above) but as you can see i kinda got distracted one track mind and all.
As with last year my list is no order apart from alphabetized
Department of Eagles - In ear park
Album always makes me think of a log cabin with a roaring fire , love the sound of the album if you have not checked it out do so.
Department of Eagles - Around the Bay
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Down I Go - Tyrant
sounds like Henry VIII’s syphilitic ulcers bursting, Ivan the Terrible beating his pregnant daughter in law and causing her to miscarry, Turkmenbashi’s 12 metre high gold statue of himself rotating to face the sun, Israel growing at the expense of others, mass graves being filled with murdered Cambodians, Romanians queueing for bread. Great record from the lads from London, a treat for the mind and the ears.
Down I Go - Saparmurat Miyazov
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Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
beautifully messy coherent package
Flying Lotus - Testament (feat Gonja Sufi)
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Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill
this album just washes waves of dream-pop over your soul.
Grouper - Fishing Bird (Empty Gutted in the Evening Breeze)
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Krallice - Krallice
Not gonna be everyone's cup of tea this one,black metal quartet fronted by Mick Barr and Colin Marston, progressive as it is heavy just epic.
Krallice - Wretched Wisdom
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Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
Second year in a row making my top ten list for the future Mrs ctrl/alt/delete (oh yes she will be mine) a much more concentrated album then her first, and the odd pop hook thrown in too for good measure.
Marnie Stern - The Crippled Jazzer
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Restiform Bodies - Tv loves you back
This album got lodged in my brain since i heard it amazing , music and lyrics in one mindfuck of a package
Restiform Bodies - Opulent soul
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Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan
the music is more song-based and accessible than its predecessors, a smorgesboard of sounds including but not limited to surf rock, Persian, Arabic, Indian, death metal, film music, electronic music
Secret Chiefs 3 - Kemuel
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Starfucker - Starfucker
A jovial and upbeat album that got me through many a morning
Starfucker - Rawnald Gregory Erickson The Second
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Why? - Alopecia
How could this not be on my list, like a musical Woody Allen self deprecating rant ,a growth music for the band in sound and scope and the album gather then many a new fan and enabled them to play two shows in Dublin.
Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
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Ones that just barely didnt make the list:
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blues, Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You, Adebisi Shank - "This is the album of a band called Adebisi Shank", Theses Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove, Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins - Clutch of the Tiger, Sbach - Sbach, The Mae Shi - Hllyh, Earth - the bees made honey in the lion's skull, No age - Nouns, Gang Gang Dance -Saints Dymphna, Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing, Cloud Cult - Feel good Ghosts....., Racebannon - Acid or Blood, Make Believe - Going to the bone church, Harvey Milk - "life.....the best game in town", John Zorn - the dreamers
top 3 E.P of 2008
Past Lives - Strange Symmetry
Maps and Atlases - You and me and the mountains
Animal Collective - Water curses
Albums Im looking forward to in 2009
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavillion (who isnt)
GOBLIN COCK - Come With Me If You Want To Live (Lord Phallus returns)
DIRTY PROJECTORS - tba
PAST LIVES - tba
DAN DEACON - Bromst (a more mature sound from Mr Deacon by all accounts)
BATS - tba
MASTODON - Crack The Skye
LIGHTNING BOLT - tba
ZOMBI - Spirit Animal
Albums of the Year 2008 (ctrl/alt/delete)
Marnie Stern Covers "Don't Stop Believin'"
The beautiful (is it really obvious i have a huge crush on her?) Marnie Stern shredding her way through Journey's Don't Stop Believin'
buy her new album "This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That" here
Marnie Stern - Don't Stop Believin'
Transformer
New Marnie Stern music video for the song "Transformer" off her new album This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That which is out 7/10 on Kill Rock Stars.
Giggity Giggty goo
Woh the gigs are coming thick and fast over the next couple of month and May in particular is shaping up to be packed to the gills. To try and keep our pudginess down im going to post a link to vids instead of post the vids in a hope of keeping out bandwidth down. without further a do some class up coming gigs.
Le Loup Thu 21 February Crawdaddy
Le Loup is an American indie band founded in late 2006 in Washington, D.C. by Sam Simkoff (keyboard/banjo). The band also includes Christian Ervin (computer), Michael Ferguson (guitar), Nicole Keenan (keyboard/French horn), Dan Ryan (bass), Robert Sahm (drums), May Tabol (guitar) and Jim Thomson (guitar). The group has drawn comparisons to Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, The Books and Animal Collective.
le loup "i had a dream i died"
Menomena February 29 The sugar club
Menomena are an experimental rock band from Portland, Oregon, made up of Brent Knopf on guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel; Justin Harris on bass, guitar, baritone sax and alto sax; and Danny Seim on percussion. All members of the band share singing duties.
Menomena - Rotten Hell
Ballroom #74: Kling Klang (Rock Action) Friday, 28 March in the Lower deck.
Kling Klang are a five piece kraut-punk band from Liverpool, consisting of four synth players and a drummer.Formed in mid 1999, as a 3 piece using only cheap synths and old drum machines, in 2001 they became a 5-piece outfit
click herehere to see there video for there awesome tune Heavydale
been dieing to see theses guys live so im mega physed about this and its in the lower deck too happy days.
Foggy Notions Presents: Deerhunter Thursday, 08 May Whelans
Deerhunter began in 2001 with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock.Their live performances almost always leave audiences polarized, and have been referred to by Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs in NME as bordering on "a religious experience."
Deerhunter "Lake Somerset"
Foggy Notions Presents: Health Friday, 09 May Whelans
HEALTH are an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. HEALTH have been described as having "artfully crafted noise and raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum skills that are borderline insane
Health - "Heaven"
Foggy Notions Presents: Man Man Sunday, 11 May Whelans
Based out of Philadelphia, PA, Man Man is an experimental indie band that incorporates Eastern European and circus-esque styles in their music, creating a unique sound. The band consists of Honus Honus (lead vocals, piano, organ, persussion), Pow Pow (drums and other various percussions), Cougar (trumpet, guitar, percussion), Sergei Sogay (bass, synths, percussion), and Chang Wang(sax, percussion).
Their style has been compared to a mixture of Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, and Captain Beefheart. Man Man is known for their distinctive live shows where the members of the band dress in white tennis outfits and don war paint. During their sets the band does not take breaks between songs in order to keep a constant energy level
Man Man - Feathers and Engrish Bwudd (Live)
Yeasayer Tue 13 May Whelans
Yeasayer (pronounced "yay-sayer") takes place in the future, somewhere in the Middle East where citizens wear turquoise robes, live in crystal towers, and overindulge on Peter Gabriel albums.
Yeasayer- 2080
Marnie Stern 16th May new upstairs room in Whelans
released one of my favorite albums of last year shes just amazing and very easy on the eyes.
Marnie Stern "Every Single Line Means Something"
FOREVER Presents: Ween Saturday, 17 May The Village
what can i say about Ween apart from go see
Ween - Baby Bitch
there a few more gigs coming up i just cant find any info on them at the moment so no kids, the ex and jandek are all playing dublin in the next couple of weeks i just dont know where or when as of yet when i find out you will know.
The Redneck manifesto have been add to the Battles/liars gig in Vicar street on May 15.
And bats Tomorrow for free in tower records at 3
and of course the sugarlips gig in the boom boom room click here to find out more
more videos cuz im bored
Marnie Stern - Vibrational Match
Can't Tell Me - Kanye West Will Oldham and Zack Galifianakis (yes you are reading this right)
