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It's A Half Time Report Type Thing
Posted by lovelyian on 30 June 2009 - 9:18am.
Glastonbury's done, Wimbledon is wittering on, nowt's on telly and there's occasional bursts of sunshine, it can only mean one thing - we're halfway through the year. Hurrah!
So, in the spirit of these things of looking forward and looking back, what have been your favourite albums/ content format solutions of 2009 so far?
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it might help if I suggest stuff
Here goes:
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Royksopp - Junior
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
The Rakes - Klang!
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Peaches - I Feel Cream
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Jack Penate - Everything Is New
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
DJ Hell - Teufelswerk
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Tiga - Ciao!
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
Little Boots - Hands
Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
Graham Coxon - Spinning Top
oooh
Super Furry Animals too
My Favourites
haven't been released yet
looking forward to
Duckworth Lewis Method
new Squeeze
new Prefab Sprout
new Jeff Lynne
There's a new Prefab Sprout LP?
Hmmm...
Yeah Prefab Sprout
http://www.prefabsprout.net/
Where it says its a 'lost
Where it says its a 'lost masterpiece'
erm..
nothing so far.
Oh..actually
Grizzly Bear - Vecktatimest
not usually my thing but I enjoyed for some reason
Three So Far....
Bill Callahan's latest.
Bonnie Prince Billy's latest.
Super Furry Animals' latest.
How about
Beyond the Wizards sleeve
New U2 (sorry..but it made me rediscover them)
New Fall Out Boy (very late last year release)
Empire of the sun
St Vincent - Actor
The Decemberists (err..was that last year)
Malibu - RoboSapiens (could also be last year but this year for me)
Agree with quite a number of lovelyians
A few
M Ward
Vetiver
Camera Obscura
Great Lake Swimmers
Admittedly not all time classics but all very good in their own ways.
Thanks...
you just reminded me Vetiver are coming to my little town in September... must buy ticket.
Here's mine
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Little Boots - Hands (no, I'm not taken in by the hype, but I am a child of the 80's which might explain which I love it)
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Metric - Fantasies
Once again I have to say
Matraca Berg - South Of Heaven
Not available in the shops / on-line yet, only through gigs and she's gone back to the States. But it's due out soon and highly recommended.
"Tale To Tell" by The Mummers
This is a very special, magical album. It won't be for everyone, but it's worth a listen.
It's like plunging into the world of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or Alice in Wonderland - it seems made for the theatre. It begins with the dawn and ends on a night bus.
Fans of Mercury Rev, Bellowhead and Bjork might want to give it a try. And anyone else.
Unfortunately the track on the Word CD is the one that doesn't quite fit with the rest of the album.
It's all on Spotify.
New Albums/ Old acts
eels - hombre lobo
british sea power - man of aran
jeffrey lewis - em' are i
and from the end of last year
eagles of death metal - heart on
So I've enjoyed a new album every two months. I think I'm having a bit of a Stimpy just lately...
The new...
Madness album, approached it with some trepidation, but am loving it! Also, if I can include a gig? Went to see CS&N last night, and it was brilliant stuff! Band were great, as were the vocals, Crosby especially. Only downside was we arrived late 'cos we thought there would be a support, and ended up missing some songs!
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
seems to be in heavy rotation at the mo.
Want to say Doves latest but I really haven't engaged with it yet. Having said that, I am usually a year behind before I get into an album: anyone heard of this great album by a guy calling himself Bon Iver? I am playing that a lot.
I've enjoyed this lot
Lisa Hannigan
Dan Arborise
Andrew Bird
Madness
M. Ward
Graham Coxon
Woodpigeon
The Low Anthem
Jacaszek
Great Lake Swimmers
Bob Dylan
Secret Machines
Teitur
Camera Obscura
Buddy & Julie Miller
Cara Dillon
Animal Collective
TV on the Radio
Plus lots of The Pentangle and Nick Lowe...
The new one from
Conor Oberst is rather good. Otherwise all pretty dull I'd say. Looking forward to the new one from Stackridge in a few weeks and, of course, to the mad and destructive Beatle-fest in September.
a word sort of year
Mulatu Astake and the Heliocentrics was duly investigated after a David Hepworth tweet and the cd taster. Solid rotation since!
Sparrow and the Workshop's short player is enchanting
Fanfarlo also wonderful in a kind of more agreeable arcade fire kind of way
British sea power - man of aran
a word sort of year
Mulatu Astake and the Heliocentrics was duly investigated after a David Hepworth tweet and the cd taster. Solid rotation since!
Sparrow and the Workshop's short player is enchanting
Fanfarlo also wonderful in a kind of more agreeable arcade fire kind of way
British sea power - man of aran
Excellent to see Belbury Poly
...mentioned in the opener. I read about them in a fanzine, believe it or not -- who knew *they* still existed -- and it sounded good, so I took a punt and bought that album online. Great stuff.
Mine would be
1. Fever Ray -- Fever Ray
2. Hombre Lobo -- Eels
3. The Horrors -- The Horrors
4. One -- Ben Klock
5. Baby It's Cold Inside -- The Fun Years
6. The Drive -- Pixel
7. Death of a Typographer -- Byetone
8. The Eternal -- Sonic Youth
9. Touchdown -- The Brakes
10. Persona -- Mokira
For me I would say
Gretchen Peters - One to the heart, one to the head.
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Dark was the night - double cd charity thing - really excellent.
Dave Alvin and the guilty women
Candi Staton latest (sorry, at work and cant remember title)
Looking forward to new Tom Russell and deluxe edition of Peggy Suicide although I guess this would not be classed as new.
Deluxe 'Peggy Suicide'!?
Blimey - how long is that gonna be? The original is already a whopper! (Love it, was playing it
in the car only yesterday...)
Already on the list but confirmed at the weekend...
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound.
That'll do for me.
Deluxe Peggy
Comes out in September - second disc of stuff left off original cd plus b sides etc. Seems like it has been in the pipeline as long as the Neil Young archives.
Will keep
a (third) eye out for that then...
Great..
to see Sonic Youth getting a few mentions - because they got a mighty kicking off the Massive when they appeared on Jools Holland earlier in the year - for, generally, being ugly, old and not melodic enough - unlike Richard Thompson (who can be melodic, I suppose).
Not vintage
So far I don't think it's been a vintage year but...
Enjoyed so far:
Willie Nelson & Asleep At the Wheel - Willie & The Wheel
Devon Sproule - ¡Don't Hurry for Heaven!
Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Looking forward to:
Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend
Nick Lowe's new album (oops sorry - probably another 5 or 6 years for that one!)
Not a great year yet for me....My top are
Willie Nile - House of a Thousand Guitars
Manics - Journal for Plague Lovers
Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
And most disappointing was The Decemberists, loved all previous stuff but thought much of the new CD was pants.
Not a bad year so far for me
Iggy Pop "Préliminaires"
A Camp "Colonia"
New York Dolls "Cause I Sez So"
Sonic Youth "The Eternal"
Robyn Hitchcock "Goodnight Oslo"
Super Furry Animals "Dark Days Light Years"
The Woggles "Tempo Tantrum"
Eels "Hombre Lobo"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "It's Blitz"
The Warlocks "Mirror Explodes"
The Who "Sell Out" Deluxe Edition
The Soundtrack of Our Lives "Communion" (UK release in August)
Also, looking forward to the "Peggy Suicide" deluxe edition and listening to the new Madness one, I really liked "Wonderful" so can't wait to hear "Liberty..."
Not sure this year will beat 2008 as that was a great year - Sparks, Eagles of Death Metal, Charlatans, The Fall, Fleshtones, Graham Day & The Gaolers, King Kahn, Ministry, Paul Weller, Dirtbombs, Matthew Sweet, Wire all released excellent records.
Oh yes,
forgot the Dolls album. That was excellent. As was Morrissey's latest. His best yet I reckon.
I forget a lot of things these days.
Dolls
A great example of a classic band getting back and managing to produce some truly excellent new material.
Considering there's only two of the original band left and they are knocking on a bit, they can still rock.
2009 - not brilliant
Excellent
The Leisure Society
Fanfarlo
Felice Bros
Disappointing
Doves
Morrissey
Jason Lytle (not a bad album but I miss the Grandaddy players; this sounds like a demo album)
Looking forward to
The Low Anthem
Fanfarlo bargin
The latest album, with four bonus tracks, is available as a download from:
http://www.fanfarlo.com/
for $1 until the 4th July!!