I just want to use this forum to declare that Windhand is the greatest thing I've heard this year. Better than Deafheaven, and my album of the year. Thanks for introducing me to them.
Not a huge metal fan, but I do give the major ones that you guys review a few listens. After one play of Orchard I bought this album. It reminds me of doom, of course, but also Alice in Chains in a few places. My number one for the year is probably Sigur Ros, but this is top five, and I think I like it better than Deafheaven.
Looking back at Kveikur a few months after release, it is still awesome. still better than Von, and Valtari, and I just think all of the others are too hard to rank after that, except that AB will always be the best.
The lawyer on the sports talk radio commercials I hear says you should avoid electronic communication while going through a divorce.
I guess this is why... you end up on the wrong end of stereogum.
1. Tunnel 2. Darkness 3. Born to Run 4. Nebraska 5. Wild, Innocent, E Street Shuffle 6. Rising 7. The River 8. Born in the USA 9. Magic 10. Seeger Sessions
Every single one of them is good. I think the easiest starting point would be "Return to Cookie Mountain" because it's the best mix of their styles "Dear Science" and "Desperate Youth" are great but not as much of a mix of genres. "Nine Types of Light" was great but much more low-key than the others. The "Young Liars" EP is also great, just really short.
well, you recommend the one that'll be more palatable first. Nebraska is the one that kind of sounds like a few other indie acts and has been covered by Arcade Fire. Therefore it's the perfect first listen.
Plus, and I can't emphasize this enough,there aren't saxophones on it, which I think date certain songs to modern listeners who are hearing them for the first time.
In this vein, I also recommend Tunnel of Love as a good early listen.
I might be alone in thinking this, but Tunnel of Love is genuinely my favorite. Nebraska's great, but it loses the plot sometimes. Darkness on the Edge is number two. Born to Run has some great tunes but i can barely listen to tenth avenue freeze out and a few others. You shouldn't skip songs on an eight song album.
yeah it's so gen y in film. godard and tarantino are totes gen y.
and chemical brothers for that matter. and beastie boys and puff daddy. they're all gen y right?
sampling isn't new, ri-ri, it's just an unasked for, and lied about sample.
anyone could have told he was a portishead fan by listening to his old music. doesn't mean he gets to sample it without asking. that shit died out with paul's boutique as far as i'm concerned.
My favorite part of this album was the list in the liner notes of other cool shit. But Panda Bear did that first, and with a more interesting list.
Definitely some good songs on this album, but it all kind of sounded the same by four tracks in or so. They should've made one great ep and called it a day.
I like how the associated graphics pick up right where they left off in the mid-90's too.
This song could go in shuffle and not stand out at all with their other stuff. It's also great. Only Mazzy Star can spin gold out of an acoustic strum and a voice and a flute or something and make it sound shoegaze.
I have to agree; I'm one of the biggest FutureSex fans there is, and I don't enjoy large portions of 20/20 at all. The last song is still stellar, however.
Penny Sparkle is not their best... I once heard it compared to the xx demos. Not too far off, if you think about it, but there are still a few good songs. The lyrics verge on horrible sometimes on that album though.
23 though, I have probably listened to even more than Misery. 23 is an excellent album and there is not a bad song on it, I believe.
Leaving out the album with the bull and the self titled because I haven't heard them, I 'd go
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Hey, I liked the song "Start a War" when I heard it on Friday Night Lights and the movie "Warrior" (it's really good! and on Netflix!)
That being said, I'm with KidChair in that I just can't get pumped for this stuff anymore. EXCEPT, the first song, On Sight, which is good running music and apparently a Daft Punk track according to the liner notes.
This is good, but the three album stretch from Homogenic to Medulla is even better. Volta is the only album of hers that I really have trouble getting all the way through. Even though she always changes styles, Bjork is remarkably consistent in terms of quality.
This is one of my personal top ten albums. I'm positive it's better than any other album connected with Animal Collective, and better than everything else put out in the first decade of the 2000's, save maybe five albums.
This thing is a behemoth.
One song that I can't get enough of is "Face to Face." Does anyone know what the sample says in it? Because I vacillate between "Mr. Furlong" and "Mr. Foot-Long."
Don't you just think it's mindblowing that Daft Punk currently have a huge legitimate HIT on their hands? I mean they've always had catchy stuff and I feel like anyone on Stereogum has known about them for like a decade plus, but I've never thought of them as hitmakers.
Is it Pharrell's presence that got them onto the radio? Because I would love to hear another guest vocalist's take on that song to see how it would play.
I love "Robot Rock" every time I hear it until I realize that it's not going to change at all. The Alive version is better in this regard, because the riff is undeniable.
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