algroth Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 Carl Stone - Himalaya This right here's an album of three parts: the first three shorter tracks features what can best be described as an attempt to stitch together sounds and portions of innumerable sources into a sound collage recreation of the more rhythmic, highly kinetic West African music styles like fuji music, Afrobeat and the likes, all resulting into an utterly insane and kaleidoscopic but rather harmonious pluralist soundscape, every bit as groovy as it is sonically intriguing. The next two tracks follow in this pluralist line but seem to take a step back: the electro-disco-esque beat of "Kikanbou" acting almost as a "Halleluwah" backdrop for the ongoing kaleidoscopic maelström to develop atop of it, whilst "Fujiken (Final Section)" could well be a lost third side to Holger Czukay and Rolf Dammers' Canaxis 5, prioritizing a more distended sonic landscape and giving several vocal recordings a change to breathe and create a rather nostalgic and evocative effect in the dialogue that ensues. The final, title track, however, is an absolute beast: a yearning vocal perfomance from Akaihirume alongside a wonderful set of muted textures that recalls the likes of Coil's "Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)" and is every bit as effective, absolutely beautiful and transcendent. Overall one of the best and most intriguing albums of the year. My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 3776 - Saijiki Quite a lovely progressive/experimental pop album using the titular "saijiki" (per Wikipedia: list of kigo (seasonal terms) used in haiku and related forms of poetry) as a concept and as a springboard with which to fill the album with wordplays, puns, and a cadence across its 73-minute runtime that resembles the year cycle and so on. It's a near-equivalent of Boredoms and tommyfebruary6 collaborating on a J-pop Vision Creation Newsun. Just utterly delightful and creative. 1 My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 Richard Dawson - 2020 Richard Dawson moves away from the neo-medieval avant-folk of Peasant to a prog and folk-induced rock with this release, detailing experiences from several characters of contemporary Britain so as to paint a portrait of the sociopolitical climate, of the current-day anxieties that abound today and the likes. As a non-British person I'm sure to be missing a number of subtleties in his writing and stories, but can't deny the power of some of his imagery, plenty of these same experiences translating well beyond the UK ecosystem. Another in a strong of strong releases from Dawsom, which further cement him as one of the finest songwriters of this period. My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 I figured that now that I've published all of my yearly lists for the 2010s, I might as well share my top 10/20s of each year of the 2010s right here:2010: Autechre - Oversteps Honduras Libregrupo - Célula dormida Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me Yellow Swans - Going Places Beach House - Teen Dream Javiera Mena - Mena Dälek - Untitled Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky Rational Diet - On Phenomena and Existences LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 2011: Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges Cliff Martinez - Drive Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Thee, Stranded Horse - Humbling Tides Tom Waits - Bad As Me Natural Snow Buildings - Waves of the Random Sea Auktyon - Yula The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 2012: Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (performed by Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin / André de Ridder / Daniel Hope) Scott Walker - Bish Bosch Áine O'Dwyer - Music for Church Cleaners Death Grips - The Money Store Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city Swans - The Seer Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do El-P - Cancer 4 Cure Swans - We Rose From Your Bed With the Sun in Our Head Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man 2013: Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels Bear Bones, Lay Low - Occultciti Jon Hopkins - Immunity Tim Hecker - Virgins Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle - Perils from the Sea Melt-Banana - Fetch bvdub & Loscil - Erebus Autechre - Exai Fire! Orchestra - Exit! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away Julia Holter - Loud City Song Roly Porter - Life Cycle of a Massive Star The Haxan Cloak - Excavation Matt Elliott - Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart Mélanie de Biasio - No Deal Goldfrapp - Tales of Us Alameda 3 - Późne królestwo Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Pharmakon - Abandon Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven 2014: Swans - To Be Kind The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Zim Zam Zim Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali Flying Lotus - You're Dead! Sun Kil Moon - Benji Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 Honduras Libregrupo - Cinco Kasai Allstars - Beware the Fetish Richard Dawson - Nothing Important Angles 9 - Injuries Huck Hodge - Life Is Endless Like Our Field of Vision (performed by Talea Ensemble / JACK Quartet / Huck Hodge) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata Widdly 2 Diddly - LISA Soundtrack X.Y.R. - Arktika Ian William Craig - A Turn of Breath Fire! Orchestra - Enter United Bible Studies - Doineann Daniela Casa - Sovrapposizione Di Immagini DJ Rozwell - None of This Is Real The Body - I Shall Die Here 2015: death's dynamic shroud.wmv - I'll Try Living Like This Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Max Richter - From Sleep Moa Pillar - Humanity Áine O'Dwyer - Music for Church Cleaners Vol. II Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side of Tape Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do Charles Barabé & Wether - Huh? In Media Res - Triginta Septem Toby "Radiation" Fox - UNDERTALE Soundtrack Elza Soares - A mulher do fim do mundo Kamasi Washington - The Epic Lil Ugly Mane - Oblivion Access Rabit & Chino Amobi - The Great Game: Freedom From Mental Poisoning (The Purification of the Furies) 2814 - Atarashī hi no tanjō Holly Herndon - Platform Aïsha Devi - Of Matter and Spirit Elephant9 with Reine Fiske - Silver Mountain Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra - Galactic Parables: Volume 1 George Clanton - 100% Electronica 2016: David Bowie - Blackstar A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 Charles Barabé - Cicatrices Moor Mother - Fetish Bones Swans - The Glowing Man Angel-Ho - Red Devil Fishmans - Long Season '96~7 - 96.12.26 Akasaka Blitz Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Sofia Gubaidulina - Sonnengesang (performed by NDR Chor / ElbtonalPercussion / Philipp Ahmann / Christian Schmitt / Ivan Monighetti) Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree pilotredsun - Achievement Roly Porter - Third Law Angel Olson - MY WOMAN Full Blast - Risc Glenn Jones - Fleeting Mari Kimura - Harmonic Constellations 2017: Richard Dawson - Peasant LINGUA IGNOTA - All Bitches Die Blanck Mass - World Eater Giant Claw - Soft Channel Sly & The Family Drone & Dead Neanderthals - Molar Wrench Ill Considered - Ill Considered Kelela - Take Me Apart Ama Divers - Shadow Seeking Sun Jlin - Black Origami Björk - Utopia Impossible Nothing - Lexemenomicon The Body + Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light Damien Dubrovnik - Great Many Arrows Angles 9 - Disappeared Behind the Sun Chino Amobi - Paradiso Bedwetter - Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present. Iglooghost - Neō Wax Bloom The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding UUUU - UUUU Kink Gong - Tibetan Buddhism Trip 2018: Julia Holter - Aviary Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile JPEGMAFIA - Veteran Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha Richard Devine - Sort/Lave Tropical **** Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace Niño de Elche - Antología del cante flamenco heterodoxo Anguish - Anguish Kali Uchis - Isolation Current 93 - The Light Is Leaving Us All Kink Gong - Dian Long: Soundscape China / Destruction of Chinese Pop Khalab - Black Noise 2084 DjRUM - Portrait With Firewood Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic George Clanton - Slide Debby Friday - Bitchpunk Molchat doma - Etazhi Iglooghost - Steel Mogu Denzel Curry - TA13OO Kasper Bjørke Quartet - The Fifty Eleven Project 2019: Magma - Zëss : Le jour du néant Carl Stone - Himalaya The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery LINGUA IGNOTA - Caligula Hakushi Hasegawa - Air ni ni Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes Sofía Rei and JC Maillard - The Book Beri'ah Vol. 1: Keter Black to Comm - Seven Horses for Seven Kings Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana 33EMYBW - Arthropods Sly & The Family Drone - Gentle Persuaders Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising Sadaf - History of Heat Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love 3776 - Saijiki Swans - Leaving Meaning. Richard Dawson - 2020 Yugen Blakrok - Anima Mysterium Zonal - Wrecked My overall trajectory as a music listener through this decade was an interrupted one following a general disappointment and saturation in the early 2010s which saw me take a step back and return to my comfort zone for a few years before slowly opening up to the new currents much later in time. What I felt back in the early 10s was that the music scene at large, both on a mainstream and underground level, were still figuring out what the next wave was, and in doing so latching on to several ideas and fads that ultimately remained that. I still have very little love for that period, as reflected by the fact that despite having listened to over 70 albums for each year from 2010 to 2012 I've struggled to build a top 10 I felt at all comfortable with for that period. I'm happy to have taken the time to explore the decade deeper since, as I feel the medium ultimately did find its course and I've found plenty to love since. Looking at this list I reckon all years from 2014 onwards are pretty even, but I'd probably reckon 2016 and 2019 landed the best lists. Anyone here have a personal list of favorite albums of the decade? My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gorth Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 On 12/26/2019 at 6:52 AM, Raithe said: Tim Minchin I still remember seeing him live in Melbourne last year. A fantastic experience.(warning -profanity in the video lyrics) Spoiler 2 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 1 My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Not music per se, mostly a case study on Robert Fripp's personality, and really, quite a neat watch. It very accurately describes why he's such a fascinating artist and at the same time such an oppressive personality. My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Because sometimes, you just have to return to those parodies.. 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Classic Coldcut mix madness RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 1 Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 On 12/29/2019 at 2:47 PM, algroth said: 3776 - Saijiki I don't understand a word of Japanese, but I'm a half-hour into this and enjoying it immensely. Anyhow, I noticed The Comet is Coming in your Best-of-2019 list, and I concur that they're pretty great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Caution, might make you cry like a little girl. 1 1 Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 8 hours ago, Keyrock said: I like that a band with a name like The Incredible Bongo Band is being republished by Mr Bongo. I don't think I own any records from the label but I do have a few DVDs they've put out. My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algroth Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 This man is music's Ansel Adams. My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Deffell Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 it makes me feel better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Deffell Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 and that makes me sad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Going back to my childhood... "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComradeYellow Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 This is American culture in a nutshell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 This would have been one of the greatest rock shows of all time! "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 I've already posted a few of these (might be a duplicate, who cares? Too good not to share)... " Alhazred Said that is not dead which can eternal lie! The Arab said that is not dead for even death may die. For even death my die, my dear, for even death may die! Alhazred said that is not dead which can eternal lie. And on his own he penned a tome that is called the Al Azif! The howling devils sang to him with fiendish songs of grief. With fiendish songs of grief, my dear, with fiendish songs of grief! The howling demons sang to him with fiendish songs of grief. Then Unseen Demons killed him dead on a dry Damascus lawn! His words live on for strange aeons, the Necronomicon. The NECRONOMICON, he wrote the Necronomicon! His words live on for strange aeons, the Necronomicon. " “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Finally, I don't have to play that "find the fave Pentatonix in the song/video" game (not that I don't still love the group minus Avi, too). That beautiful, deep voice all by itself. And so far I love his style. I could lie in a grassy field or a forest and listen to it on headphones for a few hours... “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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