Sorry if I negatively primed you. Let me know what you think after you listen.

2/16/2012 6:37:04 PM

Quote :

"Listening to this new Shearwater album. It has some okay tracks, but overall kinda meh in my opinion. If you like the National, you may appreciate this album more, and I'd recommend giving it a try. "

i like everything they've done since rook, but can see why others wouldn't. "you as you were" is probably my favorite track on the new one.

2/16/2012 6:51:29 PM

Giving the new Grimes a listen right now.

2/17/2012 1:38:47 PM

I somehow completely missed out on her the last time around. giving her previous album a listen now. into it

2/17/2012 1:50:17 PM

^I don't hate it, but it's a little "hip" for me...

Anyway, this -

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/skrillex-lyrics-pages

2/17/2012 3:43:32 PM

favorite Grimes tracks are "Symphonia IX" and "Genesis"

2/18/2012 12:06:25 AM

not sure where to post this, but I kind of want what Grayson was shooting up when he decided U2 junior, aka Ghetters of the Dreamo would be a good band to fill in for even the Light Pines...

2/18/2012 2:51:07 AM

And here I was thinking Grimes was a rap artist.

2/18/2012 9:19:48 AM

second song from the men's new album is out. really looking forward to this one.

http://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/the-men-ex-dreams

2/19/2012 12:58:52 PM

Really into Be Strong from The 2 Bears (featuring one of the dudes from Hot Chip) and Glass Swords from Rustie (a 2011 release) right now.

2/19/2012 5:16:24 PM

Since I like to complain and all, the Sacred Bones releases have always kinda annoyed me. (same font and wording on every album; blatant record label logo, etc)

2/19/2012 6:59:42 PM

That's one of my favorite things about them.

Also, the Dead Oceans label rules.

2/19/2012 7:20:09 PM

What does Dead Oceans do, aside from sign the Explorers Club, which is just ridiculous mashups of the Beach Boys/Ronettes, etc.

2/19/2012 7:38:36 PM

Only a quarter of the way through the new Flashbulb...but I'm reeeeeeeally enjoying.

2/20/2012 2:11:32 AM

^^ I meant the actual "Dead Oceans" labels they put on the records.

I miss when all of the records on a certain imprint had the same label, and when those labels were worth looking at.

2/20/2012 10:34:19 AM

Well, Subpop does that as well, but it's kinda meh, really.

2/20/2012 10:37:54 AM

Right, but the Sub Pop label (or the Jagjaguwar label, for another example) is pretty boring.

The Dead Oceans label looks awesome. I'd post one, but I'm at work and I don't think there are any sitting around.

2/20/2012 11:27:37 AM

kind of glad i had lowered expectations for the new andrew bird. i like it, and i'm sure it'll grow on me since all of his albums do. there's some seriously good violin. i swear i read something a few months ago about how it was going to be more pop oriented. it's definitely not. there are throwbacks to lyrics in a couple of his older songs too, which i think is kinda neat.

2/21/2012 7:45:19 PM

2/21/2012 7:59:21 PM

I like the new Frankie Rose.

2/22/2012 12:03:22 AM

Took a listen to the Frankie Rose album yesterday after the review was posted. Really dug the track Night Swim. They are playing an all girl band show in DC that I'll probably check out.

2/22/2012 10:00:01 AM

^, ^^

I'm into it as well, but I am probably the biggest sucker in the world when it comes to music like this

2/22/2012 1:51:10 PM

I've only heard a couple of Frankie Rose songs, but they all seemed like an inferior blend of her old bands.

2/22/2012 2:52:09 PM

^

2/22/2012 3:06:38 PM

oh snap this is annie clark on one of the new andrew bird songs

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

2/22/2012 3:21:10 PM

Pretty sure it doesn't take much to put out a better album than the Vivian Girls, so I call bullshit on that statement.

[Edited on February 22, 2012 at 4:01 PM. Reason : La Sera is also really, really bad.]

2/22/2012 4:01:06 PM

I have to say, the shittiest show I've ever seen was Vivian Girls and Ariel Pink (this was before Before Today came out, I wanna say 2009) at 506.

In the words of Ben Folds, it was like the battle of who could care less. Two bands that just did not give a shit and it showed.

All that being said, I don't hate Vivian Girls' albums. They're aight.

[Edited on February 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM. Reason : .]

2/22/2012 4:15:14 PM

Quote :

"I've only heard a couple of Frankie Rose songs, but they all seemed like an inferior blend of her old bands."

i think she takes a lot of risks on this record that other bands she's been in aren't willing to take. great album. probably will try to catch her show at 506 in april.

2/22/2012 6:20:08 PM

^^ Not Vivian Girls so much as Dum Dum Girls/Crystal Stilts. I like Vivian Girls' albums, though.

2/23/2012 6:08:16 PM

new spiritualized track. looks like dr john is on this album as well.

http://fatpossum.com/news

2/24/2012 10:37:40 AM

new fanfarlo streaming on npr:

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146812221/first-listen-fanfarlo-rooms-filled-with-light

2/24/2012 1:40:17 PM

^^i dig it.

2/24/2012 6:39:10 PM

Has anybody mentioned Porcelain Raft? I'm liking that album.

2/24/2012 9:56:50 PM

^i like some songs on it.

this robin pecknold demo that came out last week is really pretty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BXt4Zw9wXc

2/25/2012 6:05:00 PM

i agree, that's beautiful

2/25/2012 6:26:14 PM

^^^Porcelain Raft- "Shapeless and gone" is an awesome song

2/26/2012 1:47:25 AM

figured this doesn't warrant its own thread, but are any of you on soundcloud? i've used it for a while but just started an account and would be interested in following some of you. i guess if you are, PM me your user name or something? i don't want to turn this thread into "post your soundcloud account" for the next page. i don't really care whether or not you follow me.

2/27/2012 12:17:52 AM

Everybody cares. It's like Twitter. People like to be followed!

No, I don't have soundcloud.

2/27/2012 12:21:18 AM

new Andrew Bird

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/26/147047574/first-listen-andrew-bird-break-it-yourself#playlist

2/27/2012 8:25:29 PM

i think people who already like andrew bird will really enjoy that album (with the exception of NumbWall), but everyone else will think it's pretty meh. danse carribe, lazy projector, near death experience experience, lusitania, and hole in the ocean floor are all pretty outstanding in my opinion. i could do without give it away and eyeoneye. the filler instrumental tracks seem better than usual on this too.

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 8:41 PM. Reason : .]

2/27/2012 8:37:41 PM

yeah after i posted i thought this might have already been posted or leaked and listened to, went back to read, and saw his review. I've listened to half of it, and thus far i'm very pleased. Desperation Breeds was a nice opener and got me excited for the rest. Danse Carribe is so far my favorite.

2/27/2012 8:58:41 PM

speaking of his review

Quote :

"He also recycles way too many riffs and instrumental elements from his back-catalogue, particularly the recent Norman soundtrack he composed."

i noticed this too, but it's nothing new. he reworked 2 songs from weather systems and put them on the mysterious production of eggs and armchair apocrypha, and he took an old bowl of fire song and put it on noble beast. i don't have a problem with him pulling material from the norman soundtrack on this one. i doubt many people even listened to that. haha, he even took darkmatter from armchair apocrypha and put that on norman. at least he's just plagiarizing himself and not someone else, right?

and that annie clark duet god damn rules

2/27/2012 9:34:22 PM

Wanted to see if anyone's listened to the Perfume Genius album. I've heard maybe 2 songs and it sounded pretty solid, but I'm mentioning it because I saw the review today was quite positive...

2/27/2012 10:17:23 PM

^^ yeh, i really do love that song ("Lusitania"). i still haven't warmed to the rest of the album though.

2/28/2012 12:31:03 AM

i've had grimes - "genesis" stuck in my head the past 2 days

help

2/28/2012 6:59:01 PM

^^ yeh the grimes cd ain't bad

diggin the new lambchop also

not so sure about the perfume genius yet...gonna give it a few more listens before i make a real decision though

2/28/2012 9:01:46 PM

Quote :

"Wanted to see if anyone's listened to the Perfume Genius album. I've heard maybe 2 songs and it sounded pretty solid, but I'm mentioning it because I saw the review today was quite positive..."

they opened for Beirut, fwiw.

i only saw the latter half of their set, but it was good

2/28/2012 9:24:09 PM

Quote :

"i like everything they've done since rook, but can see why others wouldn't. "you as you were" is probably my favorite track on the new one."

never mentioned fact:

Jonathan Meiburg from Okkervil River & Shearwater went to high school here in Raleigh. (i think, Millbrook)

2/28/2012 9:30:04 PM

I like Memoryhouse's EP but this new album sucks.

2/29/2012 1:18:05 PM

^^ interesting. i didn't know that.

it's weird to me how different his vocals sounds in OR versus shearwater. I fucking love the way he sings on such OR songs as 'Lost Coastlines'-- low, deep, and soulful. His shearwater singing is too high-pitched and theatrical for me.

2/29/2012 1:39:04 PM