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    2013 in records so far

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I'm surprised the Christopher Owens solo album came and went so quickly.

    His band, Girls, seem to be well loved by critics. This album didn't seem so different to go from critic adulation to disappearing almost immediately.

     

     

    Ones I have that haven't been mentioned. Not saying they are the best, but not talked about too much:

     

    Starflyer 59 - IAMACEO

    Eisley - Currents

    Christopher Owens - Lysandre

    Ducktails - The Flower Lane

    Eels - Wonderful, Glorious

    I gotta say, I like Girls (and also the band Girls) but Owens' debut never warmed to me. Smith Westerns' 2013 album did remind me a bit of the retro '70s glam of Girls 2011 effort, especially a track called Foolproof.

    Dream River

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Couldnt agree more.  Then he repeats it 3-4 times as if he keeps ordering.  He's one of a kind.  I cant get past the first song to really listen to the rest of the album closely because that opening track is so stunning.

    Try to make it to the third track "Small Plane" next listen :-). He's smart to keep it to 8 tracks, consequently there isn't a minor one in the bunch.

    Deer Tick - Negativity

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Ha! I just logged in to post about this album and it's the top post. It's so seventies who'd have thought?!!

     

    It kind of rocks, they were getting into a slump musically I think and now they broke free of the mold by their own design. Trash is a righteous monster.

    2013 in records so far

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I'm surprised the Christopher Owens solo album came and went so quickly.

    His band, Girls, seem to be well loved by critics. This album didn't seem so different to go from critic adulation to disappearing almost immediately.

     

     

    Ones I have that haven't been mentioned. Not saying they are the best, but not talked about too much:

     

    Starflyer 59 - IAMACEO

    Eisley - Currents

    Christopher Owens - Lysandre

    Ducktails - The Flower Lane

    Eels - Wonderful, Glorious

    A tentative Girls' fan, I've found not a single song enjoyable on the Owens' solo record, I have to say. Girts always outbalanced near-breakdown emotion with lots and lots of rich (sometimes fun/retro) instrumentation or screeching guitars, the stripped back sound leaves only the pitiful bones. I was also quite disappointed with Kurt Vile's and The National's release. 

     

    The Ducktails albums however charmed me significantly. I'd also like to reiterate the love shown for Laura Marling (my no.1), Vampire Weekend, Foxygen, Jim James, Phosphorescent, Pure Bathing Culture, Savages and My Bloody Valentine.

     

    Just as I'd hoped, few of the albums on my list were mentioned, lots of meat to pick of the bones of this thread. Vice versa, none of these albums of my top ten received a shout...

     

    The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

    Yo La Tengo - Fade

    Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat

    Tunng - Turbines

    Villagers - Awayland

    Torres - Torres

    The Men - New Moon

    Mikal Cronin - MK ii

    Now Watching

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    This thread is nice for recommendations of documentaries, but how do you guys feel about recent movies (2013)? I feel very disappointed so far, the only real highlight for me was "Mud", some Southern American images that served as poetry at least, which is more than can be said about most releases this year. I miss the time when the choice was between two world-class films like There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men when you were asked to sum up your year in movies;

    Now Reading in the New New New Year

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted · Edited by a-me-with-a-you

    Still reading The Stand.

     

    The book hit a lull what with all this Gramma Abby stuff.

    Stick around, along with The Dark Tower books, it's his best book and I've read quite a few (ten-ish). You'll be sorry when it's over trust me. 1100-page books are bound to hit a slump, me I've been reading The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (the brilliant Michael Chabon) and although it's a mighty good book I've had the challenge of getting over a mid-book slump. All but a few long books have this caveat. (even a Hundred Years of Loneliness, and Marquez is elite-elite). 

     

    I've donated Ask The Dust and The Sun Also Rises to a friend of mine, I'm really inclined to use these two books as a judge of someone's soul/character, I'd have a hard time relating intellectually with somebody who doesn't empathize with the characters of these books or understands them. Stop me when I'm evolving into someone pretentious. (It might be too late, I've cancelled a date with a nice-looking girl recently because she liked Bon Jovi, and when I say nice I mean really nice). 

     

    Oh, I also have a book to recommend,Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.

     

    I'm not sure how to plug this to those who don't know him, let's see. It's a tale about the Johnny Appleseed of Rabies, an absolutely despicable anti-hero who you absolutely root for somehow. It's a time-travel story told by two dozen witnesses but never the main character himself. It's a dark comedy about the disconnect in a technologically plugged in but emotionally plugged out society. If you do know Palahniuk, you'll know the incredible gift for concisely summarizing psychological mind-benders in under ten words is still alive and well and his finger is still on the pulse of an lsd-trip for the average Joe. 

     

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    2013 in records so far

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    How do you respectable folk feel about 2013 so far, music-wise? Wanted: Preliminary top 10's. Reward: a validation of your opinion (perhaps). Possible risk: a classic ViaChicago burn about your guilty pleasure. Daredevils, go ahead.

     

    The only album I'm going to nominate myself so far (even though I have a top 25 all made up which I won't reveal out of fear of coming across as the motivation for launching this thread out of narcissism) is Dawes' Stories Don't End, as the 'best album to listen to when you're drunk alone", as a step down from 2011's release yet still miles above most in the genre. Especially the title track is melancholy by way of piano goodness. N.B. I discovered them through this site, so thanks for all the drunken blues everyone.

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