The new A-Frames is good.

The new Unsane is well, and Unsane record.

Can't really think of anything else.

My band put out a record.

Shipping News Flies the Fields

Pajo s/t

Sicbay Suspicious Icons

Mogwai Government Commissions

Bonnie "Prince" Billy Summer in the Southeast

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney Superwolf

Medications All Your Favorite People in One Place

Pit Er Pat Shakey

Lungfish Feral Hymns

Bastro Antlers: Live 1991

i'm really into this new 12", Supersonic Mezze, by the French electronic artist Subjex. the B side in particular just fucking kills it! what an awesome, awesome record. it just rules http://subjex.free.fr/DISCOG.htm

i have a lot of favorite new songs from this year (Mahjongg's "The Rabbit" comes to mind) but as for actual whole releases -- great from beginning to end -- i can't honestly say i've been enthralled by anything. (the new Broadcast, for instance --- sometimes i think is their absolute worst, and sometimes i like it a lot. Colleen's The Golden Morning Breaks is good background listening, but i rarely actively listen to it. the new Smog has some great songs, but it's hardly his best work. Sharon Jones' Naturally has at least a couple AMAZING songs, like "How Long Do I Have To Wait For You?", but on the whole it doesn't hold a candle to Dap Dippin' With..., etc., etc.) plus i have yet to hear the new Vashti Bunyan record (i love that first lp that was reissued a year back), AFX's Analord records (at least a few of which a probably good), and tons of other shit by artists whose previous work i thoroughly enjoy (Silver Jews, Pierre Bastien, Autechre, Lungfish, etc.)

oh, and i haven't even bothered with the new Crooked Fingers. anyone like this? (didn't seem that interesting to me from a production standpoint, and i already own LOADS os EB's music, so...)

Eksvplot wrote:i'm really into this new 12", Supersonic Mezze, by the French electronic artist Subjex. the B side in particular just fucking kills it! what an awesome, awesome record. it just rules http://subjex.free.fr/DISCOG.htm

Thanks for this. It's good stuff. I got a link to THIS site from the one above, and it's made my day!

Peripatetic wrote:Bonnie "Prince" Billy Summer in the Southeast

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney Superwolf

Bastro Antlers: Live 1991

Yes,

Plus:

Pelican The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

Tar Babies Face The Music / Respect Your Nightmares

Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn

The New Pornographers Twin Cinema

Bitter Tears The Grinning Corpse Who Went To Town

Fripp & Eno The Equatorial Stars

and not new but just acquired

Stephen Stills Manassas

Rimbaud III wrote:

Eksvplot wrote:i'm really into this new 12", Supersonic Mezze, by the French electronic artist Subjex. the B side in particular just fucking kills it! what an awesome, awesome record. it just rules http://subjex.free.fr/DISCOG.htm

Thanks for this. It's good stuff. I got a link to THIS site from the one above, and it's made my day!

yeah, they've got some good free stuff on Bedroom Research. i like the Deework album best so far. btw, if you haven't heard Subjex's "Interstella" 7" on Planet Mu, i recommend picking it up. the b-side, "funkynightmare", is the bee's knees. you can download it from Bleep by going here http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=ZIQ060 and checking out track seven.

his new 12" should have better distro next year, but i got it in a couple of weeks off of french site called alapage.com

cheers.

fuck! can't believe i forgot this one:



it's such a good album! my favorite LP of the year, hands down. (which sorta makes up for the disappointment that was Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings' Naturally.)

this is the way modern funk traditionalism should sound. a lot of awesome production choices that compliment the songs without being too distracting or retro-cheesy.

it's funky as hell but it's also got a cool jazzy/soundtrack vibe to it that gives the instrumentals a breezy flow.

i have yet to see the El Michels Affair on anyone's Best of 2005 list, which is just silly.

Mayfair wrote:

Please tell me what i am missing.It flys right by me.
I love (smog), I love Bill, what the hell is wrong with me?

And which Jandek album would you recommend for a complete asshat like myself?

Thank you.