Albums you are looking forward to in 08!!!

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Did they add the "selected by" part so that it will sell more?
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Sonic Youth Sets Track List for Starbucks Comp
 
 May 21, 2008, 4:40 PM ET
 Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
 
 Sonic Youth has finalized the track list for its compilation "Hits Are for Squares," due June 10 exclusively in Starbucks stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., as well as online.
 
 In addition to the exclusive Sonic Youth track "Slow Revolution," the limited-edition CD features Sonic Youth songs, handpicked by Radiohead, Chloe Sevigny, Dave Eggers, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Beck, Flea, David Cross and other enthusiasts. Participants have also written about their selections for the liner notes.
 
 "I guess, for some, Sonic Youth represents something that they don't really equate with Starbucks," Moore told Billboard last year. "But I kind of like the absurdity of it. Sonic Youth has always, in a way, made itself available to the super mainstream."
 
 "In a way, Sonic Youth has a branded name," he continued. "People know the name, but not necessarily our music, which might be a little too outsider for some. And when they do hear a little something, it doesn't tell the whole story. I thought it would be interesting to have a CD available in a store like Starbucks where the casual consumer can sort of have access to [our music] more readily."
 
 "From my experience nothing gets you going like putting on 'Teenage Riot' at full volume ... 0 to 60, standing still," Vedder writes of his choice. "Play it twice and you will have cleaned the house and shoveled the walk. In a car you'll find yourself doing 95 and getting pulled over before the first chorus."
 
 Sonic Youth has a few shows lined up this summer, including a July 4 gig with the reunited Feelies at New York's Battery Park.
 
 Here is the track list for "Hits Are for Squares:"
 
 "Bull in the Heather," selected by Catherine Keener
 "Sugar Kane," selected by Beck
 "100%," selected by Mike D
 "Kool Thing," selected by Radiohead
 "Disappearer," selected by Portia De Rossi
 "Superstar," selected by Diablo Cody
 "Stones," selected by Allison Anders
 "Tuff Gnarl," selected by Dave Eggers and Mike Watt
 "Teenage Riot," selected by Eddie Vedder
 "Shadow of a Doubt," selected by Michelle Williams
 "Rain on Tin," selected by Flea
 "Tom Violence," selected by Gus Van Zant
 "Mary-Christ," selected by David Cross
 "World Looks Red," selected by Chloe Sevigny
 "Expressway to Yr Skull," selected by Flaming Lips
 "Slow Revolution," exclusive new Sonic Youth recording

[azaghal1981]

I wonder if he does Fela songs live.
 
 
  There are many I'd love to hear.

[azaghal1981]

This should be good:
 
 Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh duo album out on Drag City july 22nd!
 
 Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh are known to open-eared music listeners for their collaborations with other artists â?? artists with names such as Ghost,
 Espers, Damon & Naomi, Fursaxa, Tom Rapp, Lukas Ligeti, Bert Jansch, among many others. By collaborating with each other, they've made one of the most
 beautiful recordings either one of them has yet participated in.
 
 They first met at a festival in the United States in 2006. Batoh presented Helena with a handmade bamboo instrument; short on spare celli, she gave him
 a copy of her solo CD. Afterwards, they stayed in touch. At some point Helena suggested an improvised musical collaboration. Batoh wrote back and said:
 "Actually I'm too busy now to think about music...if my idols Moondog, Henry Cowell or Toru Takemitsu wanted me, I'll refuse their orders."
 
 Several weeks later he had a change of heart. He contacted Helena and said that he felt they should record not improvisations only, but songs as well. Helena
 made a demo of some Scandinavian folk songs that she remembered in her spirit from growing up in northern Sweden, thinking that maybe they'd record one.
 
 The recording session was held in Tokyo over four days in December 2007. For instruments fans, this session might be a treasure. So many strings were used:
 6- and 12-string guitar, banjo, cello, hurdy-gurdy, harp, contra bass, chappa Tibetan bells, Kin (Buddist metallic bowl), timpani, bass marimba, vibraphone,
 thunder sheet and on and on.
 
 Six of the traditional Swedish traditional tunes were reconstructed, along with Batoh's arrangement of "Death Letter," a classic Son House delta blues song.
 Additionally, a European medieval tune was addressed in their own arrangement and expressions. "Zeranium," a dreamy folk tune that Batoh wrote for Damon
 & Naomi (they didn't use it), was re-arranged for this session as well.

[azaghal1981]

New Lil Wayne is finally out and about.
 
 
 Haven't listened yet.

[SPARX]

http://www.dandywarhols.com/ts/?account_id=75183

[azaghal1981]

Enjoying this Instruments album a lot so far.
 
 
 Many  similarities to Circulatory System stylistically.

[xneverwherex]

Originally posted by SPARX:
  http://www.dandywarhols.com/ts/?account_id=75183

Love their new album! theyre back in fine form.

[azaghal1981]

Mastering on the new Deerhunter makes it almost impossible to listen too. Talk about gross over-use of compression...

[BookerT]

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  Mastering on the new Deerhunter makes it almost impossible to listen too. Talk about gross over-use of compression...

new deerhunter, already? watch out for scotland yard, yo.

[brennser]

looks like we'll see a new Crooked Fingers album later this year which is a good thing
 
 http://www.myspace.com/crookedfingers

[azaghal1981]

Originally posted by BookerT:
   

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  Mastering on the new Deerhunter makes it almost impossible to listen too. Talk about gross over-use of compression...

new deerhunter, already? watch out for scotland yard, yo. [/b]

I'll keep a lookout.
 
 For the dubstep/minimal tech fans:
 
 2562 - Aerial is a great hybrid of the two genres so far.
 
 
 Review from indietorrents:
 Over a succession of rhythm melting vinyl releases for Tectonic, SubSolo and Philpot, Dave Huismans has asserted himself as the leading practitioner of
 forward thinking dancefloor motions currently in operation. Under the' Dogdaze, A Made Up Sound and his revered 2562 moniker Huismans has shocked the now
 merged techno and dubstep fraternities with a brilliantly consistent stream of bare bones riddims encompassing brittle 2-step, lurching techno and bass
 driven dub with a fractured brokenbeat aesthetic that sounds quite unlike anything else being produced today. Aerial is Huismans' massively anticipated
 debut album and contains some of the most deadly material produced under his 2562 guise, formed into a coherent statement of ten tracks set to detonate
 headphoness and Soundsystems around the world this summer. This CD edition pulls together four tracks previously dispatched over the course of three individual
 12"s released in the last year, plus six sparkling fresh productions primed to dub the world into submission. The set skanks into view with 'Redux' plumbing
 the depths of a breezing downtempo dub cut in the finest Rhythm & Sound styles, and clearing the airspace for the snaking syncopations of 'Morvern'. From
 here there's a run of tracks culled from recent releases, ready to educate unblessed ears with some bass stepping sanctification, but the real treats for
 those who've been paying close attention come in the form of the stunning 'Basin dub' composed from delicate blue chords and a double-timed rhythmic intuition
 that couldn't have come from anyone else, followed by the equally crushing 'Greyscale', realisng many a technoXdubstep nerd's wet dream with a sacred stylistic
 blend of Burial, Basic Channel and T++ that leaves us floored. Finally another new effort 'The times' signs off the album with some moody and expansive
 dub chords whipped into spectral plumes over a coma-slow riddim that brings us full circle and ready for repeat. This album follows in the massively revered
 tradition of dub experimentation and rhythm science laid down in the lineage stretching from Lee Perry through King Tubby, Scientist, Steve Gurley, Dillinja,
 Photek, Rhythm & Sound, Kode 9 and Burial, so all we can say is that if any of those names have remotely affected you in any way you really need to check
 this album out. Without doubt one of the albums of the year - absolutely mighty.

[xneverwherex]

Has anyone heard the new Fratellis album "Here We Stand"?

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
  Has anyone heard the new Fratellis album "Here We Stand"? or the new We Are Scientists "Brain Thrust Mastery"?

I'm listening to the Fratellis album as I write. It's exactly what you would expect from the band that did Costello Music. They certainly didn't get all Kid A on us. But you know what, it's a fun album and will be played a lot in the car this summer.

[xneverwherex]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
   

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
  Has anyone heard the new Fratellis album "Here We Stand"? or the new We Are Scientists "Brain Thrust Mastery"?

I'm listening to the Fratellis album as I write. It's exactly what you would expect from the band that did Costello Music. They certainly didn't get all Kid A on us. But you know what, it's a fun album and will be played a lot in the car this summer. [/b]

oohhh glad to hear it. i was just listening to their single. i used to love costello music but i think i played it to death.
 
 im listening to we are scientists right now (why i edited the message) and i must say i just love this album as much as their last album. keith and chris seem to be two of the most likeable people ever. must pick this one up soon. am heartbroken that i cant see them in ny, but i should be able to see them again soon and i did get to see them in december so i cant complain too much.

[azaghal1981]

New Of Montreal in October.
 
 Hopefully this blog post means a return to form. The last three albums were good but Of Montreal are at their best when they're at their most absurd (Coquelicot, Gay Parade).
 
 i've finished the new album. i've been working on it for over a year. it's mastered and ready to go.
 it won't come out till october though. i am very happy with it. i worry that some people are going to misunderstand it. there's nothing i can do about that
 though, now, it is done. anyways,i didn't create it to give people something to like. i created it because i was compelled to.
 
 it is possible to view this album as one long composition, with lots of different movements, or just as a collection of pop songs. i wanted to make an album
 that was unpredictable and, at times,startling, yet always hummable and catchy. some of the transitions are intentionally awkward. i did this to keep the
 listener off guard and to dismantle people's perception of how an album is supposed to be constructed. i am so bored with art that makes sense and "works".
 i wanted to do somethings that didn't "work". very few things pique our interest while they are working as we expect them to, things are far more interesting
 when they are not working. shocking people though, just for the sake of it, is so mundane. nothing on Skeletal Lamping was intended to shock. i just feel
 that,in most contemporary songs, you can basically finish the artist's sentences,musically and lyrically. i wanted to make an album where that was not
 possible.
 i wanted to make a record that could truly surprise a listener. to create something that was, in turns, enraging,joyous,discomforting,playful,lovely,unpleasant,freaky,mesmeric...something
 that came close to capturing the labyrinthine complexity of this human consciousness.
 
 i spend most of my time in a state of mild confusion and pensiveness. i imagine most people do too. this record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling,contradicting,disturbing,humorous...fantasies,ruminations
 and observations to the surface, so that i can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head. hence the title, Skeletal Lamping. Lamping
 is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where, hunters go into the forest at night,
 flood an area in light, then shoot,or capture,the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places.
 this album is my attempt at doing this to my proverbial skeletons. i haven't yet decided if i should shoot or just capture them though.