Aja on 17/12/2008 at 04:07
fuck now i need to change my list.
again
edit - also it was more of a joke, man
Jason Moyer on 17/12/2008 at 04:21
2008 was a year of importing Kinks CD's, but there were a few new things I liked. There's more "new" stuff I'm listening to, but some of it was released in 2007 apparently. Anyway:
NIN - Ghosts I-IV
The Fireman - Electric Arguments
Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir
The Faint - Fasciination
Ladytron - Velocifero
Niobe - Radioersatz
Angel Dust on 17/12/2008 at 05:46
Quote Posted by fett
Nuno is the shit on this record, and FINALLY shows off his piano chops on a few songs. Check out a few tracks at (
http://extreme-band.com/site/) http://extreme-band.com/site/. To really appreciate these guys, you have to see them live though IMO.
Fat chanche of that happenning over here though. :(
Nice stuff from what I've heard, although Cherone is still a cheesy bastard, I'll be picking this one up for sure! Also isn't that the drummer from one of Nuno's side projects? I think remember him from Satellite Party also.
Tonamel on 17/12/2008 at 06:45
The problem with lists like these is that I can never remember what albums I've bought have also been released in the past year.
This bears investigation.
Fingernail on 17/12/2008 at 07:48
At the beginning of "he doesn't know why" someone is frighteningly out of tune in the harmony. So it's not "perfect". But it is enjoyable. I worry that they're totally going to fail producing a follow-up that is in any way different and exciting. It's a bit like Beirut for me, in that it's a totally one-colour album, really.
Aja on 17/12/2008 at 08:55
In a recent interview Pecknold was explaining how he was disheartened that the album was finished in February but didn't come out until something like eight months later. He claimed they were a different band by that point, and that they still hadn't reached the place they wanted to be. So the next album might be different.
And their worst out-of-tune notes are on the song Sun Giant, at the start of the EP. But with nearly every other indie-rock band I know of, Fleet Foxes' singing still compares favourably. Pecknold projects better than any of his indie-folk peers, and for once the lead singer of an indie band doesn't sound like some random kid who got stuck doing vocal duty.
Fingernail on 17/12/2008 at 09:51
I guarantee nothing on the album or EP is as bad as what happens here: (
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s6HvhZ6hHNs)
I really felt for them, they look pretty shocked when the instruments come in. These things happen, it's just very unfortunate it was on TV.
Aja on 17/12/2008 at 10:55
That wasn't really a case of pitch-control, they just started on the wrong note (kinda ended on the wrong note too, but oh well). Their appearance on Letterman (linked in my original post) is note-perfect.
Fingernail on 17/12/2008 at 11:25
Well, probably because that song doesn't start with an acapella verse - much less risky. Like I say, it's very easy to do (if you don't have perfect pitch I guess), you can hear them begin to drift (Pecknold tries to hold it together while the backing singers are doing more to distract him than anything).
This year I sort of enjoyed Third but it didn't overwhelm me in the way it has some others. Perhaps I can't view it in proper context, I was too young for Portishead's other albums at the time, so I can only look back on that stuff.
Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! was pretty good, but it doesn't have any of my favourite Nick Cave songs on it.
I haven't heard it all and I certainly didn't and won't buy it but from what I have heard of it, I can fairly confidently assert that Razorlight's Slipway Fires must be the musical nadir of 2008. That or the Kaiser Chiefs. Truly banal music in both cases.
fett on 17/12/2008 at 13:03
Quote Posted by Angel Dust
Fat chanche of that happenning over here though. :(
Nice stuff from what I've heard, although Cherone is still a cheesy bastard, I'll be picking this one up for sure! Also isn't that the drummer from one of Nuno's side projects? I think remember him from Satellite Party also.
Yeah, Cherone hams it up as usual, but I find it fits their smart-ass, snarky vibe. Kevin Feriggo (sp?) was with Nuno in Dramagods and with Nuno and Perry Ferrell in Satellite Party. I loved Greary, but this guy is great.
