LBx wrote:

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!

I'm so geeked for that new record.

tommydski wrote:I missed the Les Savy Fav record. It totally passed me by. I just ordered it.

Definitely a good record, a few of the jams are quite a departure for LSF.

Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses
The Touch-Me-Nots - Chris Owen Said It, We Believe It...
Beasts of Bourbon - Little Animals
Greg Ashley - Painted Garden
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond

bluegreengold wrote:Islaja -- Ulual YYY

I forgot about this one! Yes, this record is haunting.

also the new wu-tang is pretty shoddy.

To my deep shame, I still haven't picked up the Neurosis CD. Big Business and Weedeater would be on my list as well. Also among my favorites this year:

Torche
Year Long Disaster
Baroness
The Next Hundred Years

My favorites from 2007, in no particular order:

LOW - Drums and Guns
CIRCLE - Katapult
SCOUT NIBLETT - This Fool Can Die Now
COLISEUM - No Salvation
ED ASKEW - Little Eyes (reissue)
JOANNA NEWSOM - Ys Street Band
ANGELS OF LIGHT - We Are Him
DEAD LEGS - Remnanants
HELLA - No 666 In Outer Space
and side A of the new SHELLAC

Edward wrote:It took a few listens, but Bill Callahan's Woke On A Whaleheart finally grew on me. I now think it ranks right up there with the best of his Smog albums.

Hey, I have somehow shared two of the same girlfriends as this guy.

I am not really into (SMOG) though. On paper, I should love him. It hasn't clicked so far.

Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks (Hydra Head)
Magik Markers - Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
Alasdair Roberts - The Amber Gathers (Drag City)
Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
Yellow Swans - At All Ends (Load)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future (Polydor)
Neurosis - Given To The Rising (Neurot)
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline (Kranky)
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom (Release The Bats)
Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (Table Of The Elements)
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
PJ Harvey - White Teeth (Island)
Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
Sightings - Through The Panama (Load)
Action Beat - Southern Tapes (cdr)
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond (PIAS)

hip priest wrote:Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)

Also

was the White Lichens thing this year? That was great.
and
Earth - Hibernaculum
Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No...
Leslie Keffer - Feels Like Frenching

tommydski wrote:

Edward wrote:It took a few listens, but Bill Callahan's Woke On A Whaleheart finally grew on me. I now think it ranks right up there with the best of his Smog albums.

Hey, I have somehow shared two of the same girlfriends as this guy.

I am not really into (SMOG) though. On paper, I should love him. It hasn't clicked so far.

I wonder if it's the same two girlfriends of his I'm connected to (albeit not romantically)? Nahh, probably not.

No joke, though. I am like two degrees removed from him through two different ladies.