Woods - Bend Beyond
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...svfgxg2k5.jpeg
Chill and summery.


Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin
http://www.officialcharts.com/media/...500&height=500
I would kill to see these guys in concert.

Some recent instrumental heavy psych/stoner rock from France...


Jagannatha - Jagannatha (2016)

http://www.muno.pl/static/obrazy/tex...cover_prev.jpg

Hand that Heals / Hand that Bites by We Will Fail

oh boy. so her last album, Verstorung was one of my absolute favorites of 2014, and now she's released this double album that I only just heard about today. I'm just about to start streaming it here and holy hell im excited. Verstorung still gets a great deal of play time from me, and it's every bit as mesmerizing as my first listen so I've got high hopes here.

Sun Kil Moon - Benji
http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_prod...1392821304.jpg
One of the few albums that has made me cry.

Though I kept to myself, and for the most part was pretty coy
I once got baited into clocking some undeserving boy
Out on the elementary school playground
I threw a punch that caught him off-guard and knocked him down

And when I walked away, the kids were cheering
And though I grinned, deep inside I was hurting
But not nearly as much as I'd hurt him
He stood up, his glasses broken and his face was red

And I was never a schoolyard bully
It was only one incident and it has always eaten at me
I was never a young schoolyard bully
And wherever you are, that poor kid, I'm so sorry

Be my baby, the very best of the Ronettes

Phil Spector is pure genious. I'm not a big fan of Motown girl groups, but the sound is incredible.

Bitchin Bajas - Bitchitronics
https://beatsperminute.com/wp-conten...chitronics.jpg
Not at all what I was expecting. I thought this would be frenetic and punky, not soothing and melodic.

^ @mordwyr regarding Benji: Carissa is one of the best songs I've ever heard. The feels.

I queued these today on Spotify:

This is growing on me. Hard. Could end up being one of my favorites this year. He also puts on an illustrious live show. His most banger beats end up on this record, and if you fancy his soul-crushing croon, you'll love it. His longest record to date as well.

Death Grips | Bottomless Pit
I already had this leaked to my ITunes but I find it easier saved to my Spotify. It blew my mind the first few times I heard it, but I haven't picked it up since. I don't know what this means, but I'm gonna listen to it again today. It's good though, I think.

Anohni | Hopelessness
Yet to hear this, but from what Pitchfork and various other professional critics have said, it's supposedly worth listening too. I loved I Am A Bird Now when she was still with the Johnson's. That voice though is the best instrument in whatever music she does.

Never fleshed out any of their other records in their back catalogue, but NME gave it a 5/5 so I must listen to it. I'm a slave to a few music critics, got a problem with that?

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515leFvfIcL.jpg
First listen. Really enjoyed it, though perhaps not as much as Violator.

@JTF lol downloaded all of those same albums today, yay for us Pitchforkers.

Live free or Pitchfork

I once saw a group on last.fm that read, "I'm so indie I sh*t pitchforks."


Just got back from a long day in Tokyo, and this came up...

David Bowie - Blackstar
http://cdn.zumic.com/wp-content/uplo...rt-500x500.jpg
I listened to this album the day it released, sitting on my sofa with my woman drinking beer and getting (my mind) blown.


Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fQxJwLMjL.jpg
My go-to drinking album.


Bon Iver - Blood Bank
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41p1Ymqq-yL.jpg
Everything Justin Vernon touches is gold.


Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues
https://commonfolkmusic.files.wordpr...s_hi.jpg?w=500
I rate it. Stays in rotation.


Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20151216222711
Released the same year my mom released me.


Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h1Idx5GrL.jpg
Ohdeargodno. This is no way for me to start my Sunday.


Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UHLKC4xzL.jpg
This, however, is.

http://s32.postimg.org/mzxg02xqd/image.jpg

New Radiohead albums get me in touch with all things Yorke.

Also seeing The Good Life next month, so naturally:

http://s32.postimg.org/530pcrged/image.jpg

Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport
http://www.filtersage.com/cover/musi...0107031459.jpg
Stays in rotation. Cool.


Beach House - Bloom
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120516202148
I love this duo. Their sounds always lift my spirits.


iamamiwhoami - Blue
http://static.wixstatic.com/media/77...aaee3c1271.gif
This isn't merely an audio album. It's got videos for each track, and they all go together in a full audiovisual album:




Operators - Blue Wave
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-00014...j-t500x500.jpg
One of them newfangled releases. Lots of energy.


John Mayall - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
http://www.whereseric.com/sites/defa...%20Clapton.jpg
Never gets old.


Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519INieOT3L.jpg
Must be cold up there in Wisconsin.


Son Lux - Bones
http://dis.resized.images.s3.amazona...40/100065.jpeg
I haven't heard an album of his I disliked.


The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61fKEhv78vL.jpg
My first encounter with The Chemical Brothers' music. I like it a lot! Getting more.


Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
http://cdn2.thelineofbestfit.com/ima...-and-girls.jpg
First encounter with this band. Great, soulful, rockin' tunes.


Supertramp - Breakfast in America
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-Pb5T%2B23L.jpg
An old favorite. Love "The Logical Song" and "Goodbye Stranger".

The Black Eyed Peas - Bridging the Gap
http://www.frurap.ru/uploads/posts/2...ng-the-gap.jpg
Another old favorite, back when BEP made music I like.


Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid
https://www.cmj.com/wordpress/wp-con...cL._SS500_.jpg
Keep in rotation.


Sam Amidon - Bright Sunny South
https://dump.bz/storage1/0913/V3cfZh...ToPDtkHYgC.jpg
Keep in rotation.


Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
http://cdn.albumoftheyear.org/album/...haped-pool.jpg
Oh very yes.


Mates of State - Bring It Back
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61S62S1SBYL.jpg
Keep in rotation.


Fatima Al Qadiri - Brute
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-00014...z-t500x500.jpg
**** the police.


Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1CuL1IgRQi...pringfield.png
Keep in rotation.


Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61U-l5GtpiL.jpg
This album has grown on me.


The Frames - Burn the Maps
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RN64R8Y9L.jpg
One of my favorite bands. Love them so much.


Tomita Isao - The Planets
http://eil.com/images/main/Isao+Tomi...ets+304693.jpg
Don't want to trample on Mr. Tomita's ashes, but this suuuuuucks.

ANOHNI - HOPELESSNESS
http://media1.fdncms.com/chicago/ima...?cb=1462822048
Since I fled America during the Bush administration, I don't really feel her hopelessness.


Keane - Hopes and Fears
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._and_Fears.jpg
An old favorite. Love this album. Good memories associated with it.


Ben Harper - Burn to Shine
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VYPGatMdL.jpg
Good ol' Todd introduced me to Ben Harper back in '99.


Erykah Badu - But You Caint Use My Phone
http://berkeleyplaceblog.com/wp-cont...e-my-phone.jpg
Better than I expected! Keep in rotation.

On to "C".


Disclosure - Caracal
http://www.kure.stuorg.iastate.edu/w...15-500x500.jpg
Dancey.


Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
http://cdn.albumoftheyear.org/album/...rie-lowell.jpg
One of my favorite artists.


Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Cassadaga.jpg
To me, Bright Eyes is looking out the ceiling-to-floor one-way window in the suite of the Prince Hotel, looking out over the city nightscape of Tokyo, tripping on a threshold level of LSD with my three best friends.

^Cassadaga is a fantastic album.

Pretty sure you already know it, but in case you don't:
Check out the four volumes of "Golden Years Of The Soviet New Jazz".

http://cdn.albumoftheyear.org/album/...haped-pool.jpg

A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead

yeah ok giving in to the zeitgeist early here. not really expecting much tbh but open to being pleasantly surprised.

first impression: the strings are hokey as hell

What's this? Victorian jazz fusion?

Aside from a few records you've mentioned in the past and especially Carrie & Lowell (yuck) you've got great taste in music. The one member closest to mine fasho.

Cool. Didn't know they had another one out. Their other releases are pretty cool, although Bargeld can be a little annoying.

I think I have a new favourite music video.

You fool, Carrie & Lowell is Sufjan's best.

The bottom one looks a little more like a moon shaped pool to be honest.

http://66.media.tumblr.com/2c2c5fd01...w9r4o5_500.gif

Sorry his best is Illinois

Carrie & Lowell
Seven Swans
Illinois
Age of Adz
Michigan
The other two

Illinois
Michigan
Seven Swans
Age of Adz
Enjoy Your Rabbit
A Sun Came
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sick029.gifCarrie & Lowell

You've prompted me to listen to Sufjan, thanks a lot asshole

http://s32.postimg.org/45bvvljad/image.jpg

You're welcome, now give Carrie & Lowell another chance you dick.

I didn't even realize it wasn't Radiohead until you posted this.

Just because I mention it in this thread doesn't mean I like it. I'll throw almost anything someone recommends in rotation, and then if I don't like it, I take it out. But I do love everything Sufjan Stevens has done, including Carrie & Lowell. :)

The records you pick out are usually the ones I pick out and end up enjoying.

*high five*

The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FxCPIuOcL.jpg
I think this album is excellent.


Caustic Window - Caustic Window LP
http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/20800/199f2ca5.jpg
This isn't for me at this point in my life. Taking out of rotation.


Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411M%2BwLCz6L.jpg
Keep in rotation.

Me too, I never liked any of their other releases though

Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...salt_cover.jpg
I dig this chick a lot.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com

I've posted this record before, but damn this has been in rotation the past few weeks. Love Robert Smith's voice, and the shoe-gazey sound sprinkled all over this record. 4.5/5