Gimme some music reccomendations!

[Karl_b]

Have you ever listened toIllinois? Probably his best and the easiest to start with.

[INTORRESTING]

Have been listening to We were dead before the ship even sank by Modest Mouse.

Johnny Marr co wrote a few tracks and is of course playing guitar.

liking tracks 1,2,3,6,7 and 13 - 12 is pretty cool too.

 

It has a nautical theme and was originally envisioned as a concept album about a boat crew that dies in every song

[El Rojo]

 

I didn't think The Walkmen could beat their last album but listening to Lisbon I might be wrong.

Karl I've never fallen for Sufjan but I'll give the new one a go.

 

Stranded, Blue As Your Blood, Juveniles and Angela Surf City are the standouts for me. I think You & Me eclipses it slightly as an album though.

[INTORRESTING]

YouTube - Kieran Leonard - Jerusalem @ The Gaslight 15.03.09

 

YouTube - OEDIPUS REX - KIERAN LEONARD & THE HORSES (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

 

Also loving the first few tracks of the new arcade fire album - not sure on the rest of it as yet.

[Thants]

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Buy the BSP album today. The vinyl comes with a LTD free EP CD, download link, and poster and 2 vinyl gatefold and beer mat! Well it did in my shop.

 

I've never been a huge fan but on first listen I really liked it.

 

 

OK so I've given you 3 tracks, the pop synth is released next month (but a video was released yesterday - what a cracker!), the 2nd is a fine fine piece of ambient techno from on of last years great albums, and this came out today. TODAY.

 

Thants - on the ball, at your service, sexy as muffins.

[chauncey]

^^^^^^

 

very underrated band

 

The debut and Do You Like Rock Music are superb. Downloading the new one as I type.

 

Anyway, Guided By Voices:

 

 

They've recorded millions of albums but check out Bee Thousand, it has this magical lo-fi sound to it (not to everyone's taste admittedly) and Noel Gallagher could have learned a thing or two about putting Beatles influences to better use from these guys.

[Karl_b]

Been a bit quiet on the old music front again this year but I love the new Joy Formidable track, A Heavy Abacus.

 

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The Bill Wells and Aidan Moffet album is great if wholly melancholic.

 

If You Keep Me In Your Heart

 

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The new Bon Iver, My Morning Jacket and Pete and the Pirates albums are all top notch too, well worth checking out.

 

Bon Iver - Calgary

 

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My Morning Jacket - Wonderful (The Way I Feel)

 

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Pete and The Pirates - Half Moon Street

 

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[Thants]

I'm no hip hop fan but I've just been in my local record shop listening to this. I believe they call it DOPE.

 

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Some more

 

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And he's on Subpop. TK meets Paul.

[kop]

I need some recommendations. Something new, like 2011 but not necessarily December 2011

[Karl_b]

Been a while since this was bumped so here goes.

 

The new Marnie Stern album is streaming on her website; it has the usual guitar tapping, wailing and interesting arrangements but it's a little more poppy and accessible than some of her earlier stuff. Track 4, Nothing Is Easy is the stand-out for me, so far.

 

I really like the new Everything Everything album (The Prof probably felt a cold chill at this), it's a great slice of modern indie-pop.

 

Everything Everything - Radiant

 

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The new Villagers album is probably my favourite of the year so far. Starts off with a folky intro, builds to something bigger than that, well written and has great harmonies throughout.

 

Villagers - Earthly Pleasures

 

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The first time I heard Dutch Uncles' single Flexxin I thought it was something new from Hot Chip or a homage to that long lost forumite, The Rasher. It's neither. Anyway, I bought the album off the back of that one track, once I found out who it was by, and it's had me dancing around like the skinny white indie nerd I am. A bit like the video for the aforementioned single:

 

Dutch Uncles - Flexxin'

 

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Caught this on Marc Riley earlier and I'm blown away by it, it's absolutely stunning. Never heard anything of this girl before but I'll be checking her out.

 

Soap&Skin - Sugarbread

 

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Finally, I want to plug a band a few mates of mine are in, Early Cartographers. They're a 'folk collective' based here in Sheffield, put together by some of the best amateur musicians in the city as a bit of a side project but I think there's something about them to go a little further. They've had a few plays on 6Music and they're very good live. Anyone in Sheffield should check them out. Listen to their EP through the link above.

[Karl_b]

This seems as good a place to post a recommendation as anywhere. The new Uranium Club record arrived with me this week and I absolutely freaking love it; it's full of post-punk energy, a bit weird (part way through it becomes a concept album about a wall appearing in the middle of a town) and fun as hell. The album opener "Small Grey Man" is one of the best singles I've heard in a long, long time and I've been a bit obsessed with it since hearing it on Marc Riley's show a couple of months back.