Yesterday

Elliott Smith - XO
Swans - The Seer
Run The Jewels - RTJ2
Swans - To Be Kind
Opeth - Heritage
White Suns - Totem
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Candy Cigarettes And Cap Guns
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain
Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Microphones - The Glow Pt.2
Death Grips - Niggas On The Moon
PINK GUY - S / T
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island

This might be favorite Death Grips release, just hoping disc two is better so that "The Powers that B" becomes my favorite DG record.

Anywho

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Yeah I loved the glitch vibe it had.

Just for whatever it's worth, you can get around the censorship by putting [COLOR= "Black"][/COLOR] (with no spaces) around a letter. It's the same principle as italicizing one letter - you only get censored if there's no formatting between letters, but that formatting doesn't have to actually do anything. So setting the color of one letter to black or setting the size of one letter to 2 will avert the censorship but your text will look the same because those are the defaults.

For example: F[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck off.

Not sure if it would work in an image url, though.

Exactly. The image URL gave me asterisks, which meant it wouldn't display my picture properly.

If you don't have an 8-track tape player yet (and you're not already aware of this) you can look forward to the program changes which often occur in the middle of songs. Sometimes the song fades out before the change and fades back in after the change, and sometimes the change happens abruptly without warning. One of several reasons I gave up on the format rather quickly back in the day.

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Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives (2005)

I guess this is all right, but, actually, I don't really know. I mean, I think I'm losing or have lost my grip on hip-hop. There used to be a time when I'd eat up Outkast, 2Pac, and Eminem, but now I can barely comprehend what is being said in rap. The only track I understood on this album was Track 4. I dug Track 5, but only because of the imagery. I think rap and I are about to part ways. I still like a bit of rap embedded in other music, like Speakerboxx or Hokey Fright, but an album of nothing but rap--I don't get it anymore.

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Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (1990)

I'm not giving up on rap, nor do I despise it. Although this is my first time to listen to this album (I thought it appropriate considering all the racial unrest Stateside now), I get this.

That to me is a case of liking a great album more than a far worse one :) And I did warn you! :P

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Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were (2014)

I really liked this sound.

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Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend

So I was partway through the opening track and I was positive that Electric Wizard's "Time to Die" was much, much better than this. So I started reviewing it a bit in this thread. Then about 7 minutes into the first track I wasn't so sure. The vocals start off somewhat subpar to Electric Wizard (but let's be honest, if any metal band is put up to the standards of EW, it's an impossible leap to bound over), but they quickly get better. Throughout the album, the vocals get heavier, the guitars get more dreary, and my opinion of the album increases.

It's definitely going to take a couple of listens because of how much I fucking love "Time To Die," but this may be one of my albums of the year.

That album is so fantastic. Electric Wizard have been on my list forever but I haven't heard anything of theirs yet.

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2014)

A seven-man rock band that makes some ridiculously good psychedelic rock.


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Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

26 years later, what's different? It's still black vs police, police vs black.


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Aesop Rock - Labor Days (2001)

This is an amazing album, but, again, it doesn't touch me the way other genres do. I think I'm losing my connection to hip-hop. Just trying to be honest with myself and respect the music for what it is, not trying to make it mean something to me it can't. Anyway, as William Shatner said, "At my age, I need serenity". There were two standout moments for me on this album, though.

First, on "No Regrets", when he says

"I've never had a dream in my life
Because a dream is what you wanna do but still haven't pursued"

Yes. So true.

Second, on "Daylight", when he says

"Life's not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy"

Yeah.

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Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll

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Nine Lashes - From Water To War

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Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

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BadBadNotGood - BBNG2

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Flying Lotus - You're Dead

"Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests" cracks me up every time.

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Giraffage - Needs (2013)

I love everything about this album because I dig electronica and dreampop so much.


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Brian Eno - Nerve Net (1992)

Good but fails to move me. I'm not a robot.

The new Pat The Bunny album is good so far.

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dead gaze - the pride of calling panther lake!

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friendo - new demos 2011

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tearjerker - strangers

archibald slim - he's drunk!
grandemarshall - 800

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Shellac - Dude Incredible (2014)


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Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007)
First time listening to this one.


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The Skull Defekts - Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown


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Quilt - Held in Splendor (2014)


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Purling Hiss - Weirdon (2014)


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Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (2014)


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Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust (2014)
There are a few murky songs that have brought the experience down for me each time. But maybe I'm letting it cast too big of a shadow on the entire album. There's quality stuff to be found - it's just less varied than his last two so it's easy to feel just one mood from the whole thing, if that makes sense.

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Sunset Mountain by Geotic

wow really pretty vocal ambient. apparently its the 2nd part of a 3 album series so ill be checking the rest out for sure (the third doesn't come out until 2015 tho). all 3 use just one instrument which is p cool.

Starting off the day with some Acid King after jamming over their albums for an hour last night.
It's a Busse Woods and Zoroaster king of day.

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Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (2007)

Meh.


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Steffi - Power of Anonymity (2014)

I'm sure this sounds great in a club when you're tripping, but just to listen to this sober? No, thanks.


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Tony Allen - Secret Agent (2009)

Afrobeats forever!


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Aesop Rock - Skelethon (2012)

All right. I'm done with Aesop Rock for the time being. He's good hip-hop, but you have to think hip-hop is good first. Way too much chest-thumping for me. I think I've lost my taste for hip-hop.

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Easily my favorite Ratatat album and possibly their best in my opinion.

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Madvillain - Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix

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Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now

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BadBadNotGood - III

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Can - Tago Mago

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Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else

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Could Nothings - Attack On Memory

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Liars - Mess

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Swans - To Be Kind

I just bought the new swans and pete ubu today. Haven't listened to either yet.

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Seefeel "Quique"

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John Cage & Steve Reich "3 dances & Four Organs"

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DREAMCRUSHER "INCINERATOR"

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I appreciate it for what it is, and I like the more organic take on electronic music- it all feels very real, like the artist stole snippets of time and space and put it all together. I like the jazzy samples and some of the songs are truly gorgeous. But it's just so looooong. I mean I know it's an experimental electronica album and all, but God, I was falling asleep. Maybe I'm missing something, but I really don't intend to listen to it again. I'm off to more interesting ambient records.

Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
Sonic Youth - Goo
Run The Jewels - RTJ2
Death Grips - Exmilitary

Shellac - Terraform
Elliott Smith - Either / Or
Radiohead - Kid A
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Can - Tago Mago
Swans - To Be Kind
Earl Sweatshirt - EARL
Tyler, The Creator - BASTARD
QOTSA - Like Clockwork...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa - Dual Identity

Some incredible sax heavy free jazz. It's really great on all fronts, but the dual (yep) alto saxes really stand out on this record. I'm thinking Matana Roberts fans will dig this record.

Which record do you prefer? I'd go with the latter.

This album and Polyfusia are fantastic records. I feel like Quique is a near perfect melding together of early-90's post-rock and IDM.

Personally Attack On Memory is probably better overall, but the high points on HANWE are to me much higher like Psychic Trauma for example.

Went on a bunch of binges today

Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - In My Head
Black Flag - The Process Of Weeding Out
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Mac Demarco - 2
Run The Jewels - RTJ2

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Danny Howard - BBC Radio 1's Dance Anthems Ibiza (2014)

This guy is The Music Ninja's artist in residence this month, so like I did with Fei-Fei, I decided to check out his mixes.

40 well put-together tracks. Certainly a dance party!

I love how they mastered the "noise" rock sounds for Attack on Memory, but made it even LOUDER for Here & Nowhere Else. For that alone, I enjoy that record more. Not to mention, they put on one hell of a badass show.

I approve.

Too much Radiohead at once.

Ha haven't listened to them in a while so I went on a binge.