Rimbaud III wrote:Here Come The Waterworks - Big Business

I second the Big Business recommendation. I love that fucking record.

And allow me to add:

High On Fire-Death is This Communion
DOA-Punk Rock Singles
Dear Landlord/Chinese Telephones split 7"
The Copyrights-Make Sound
Pig Destroyer-Phantom Limb

Low's Drums and Guns is the only one I liked a lot that hasn't already been mentioned. It took awhile to grow on me though...

Islaja -- Ulual YYY

Powerhouse Sound - Oslo/Chicago Breaks 2CD

a Jooklo Duo cdr i swiped of the internet

the new 6 Organs - Shelter From The Ash

Expo '70 - Animism

a few Heavy Winged releases

Qui

Neil Young - Massey Hall '71

C'mon - Bottled Lightning Of An All Time High

I really dug Grinderman, Von Sudenfed, the Unknown Instructors, the Nastasia/White, Shellac, the Conformists, that Group Inerane lp, BP, the Brotzmann /McPhee/Zerang/Kessler disc...a bunch more things as well but the Powerhouse Sound album Breaks:Oslo/Chicago and the Mingus w/Eric Dolphy Cornell 1964 those are probably the best two albums I heard this year.

Especially that Powerhouse Sound record I can't believe more folks aren't into that one (well I mean I can believe it...y'know what I mean)

the Classical wrote:Especially that Powerhouse Sound record I can't believe more folks aren't into that one (well I mean I can believe it...y'know what I mean)

did you bring this one up in the the Ken Vandermark thread or another one? someone did and it is the only reason it came to my attention.

this album is aces... cheers.

LBx wrote:a few Heavy Winged releases

yes! if i had to pick one, it would be "feel inside" on aRCHIVE. speaking of aRCHIVE, the Gosling's Grandeur of Hair is fantastic, but that probably came out in '06.
i also dug the self titled album by Wooden Shjips, and 'world turns on it's hinge' by Ash Pool.

LBx wrote:

the Classical wrote:Especially that Powerhouse Sound record I can't believe more folks aren't into that one (well I mean I can believe it...y'know what I mean)

did you bring this one up in the the Ken Vandermark thread or another one? someone did and it is the only reason it came to my attention.

this album is aces... cheers.

Yeah it might have been me I've been talking it about for awhile. Love it. I really want to see them live, I heard they were great at P-Fork.

I liked Patton Oswalt's Werewolves and Lollipops funny! the "63 year-old woman gives birth" bit is nauseating and hysterical.

also, that Of Montreal Record, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? half hit me. as in, half of it was not great, but the other half was incredible. I really didn't like any of their other discs (far too twee and cutesy), but holy hell, that is one bitter bitter glam album. I like the mix of home recorded destroyed funk and weird, almost embarrassingly personal angry songs. The disparate elements really work. I found myself both repulsed and drawn to it. nice job! that run of songs from track 3 to "the Past is a Grotesque Animal" is just shambles. fucking not crap. oooh-oooh-oh!

Bottomless Pit's Hammer of the Gods is sooo good. It's a shame that I had already spent so much time (I mean a lot of time) with the ep that is half of the record. it was a little disappointing that HotG (oddly enough, it's what I call brian orchard) didn't feel new. Still, I can't fault them for not having very many songs for such a young band. If I could tack on the unwavering mix of joy and sadness that ep gave me last year, it'd easily be the best thing.



also, I have found that I really like some depressing music.


keep it dismal, 2008!

kerble wrote:I really like some depressing music.


keep it dismal, 2008!

keep your ears open for the new Holy Sons album then. i've noticed you're a fan. get down in '08!