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Brother Ali - Shadows On The Sun

Valen Hsu Lu Yuen - Sea of Tears (aka Tear Sea)

i didn't like this much when i first got it, but after my trip, i really love it now

Mando-Pop (Female singer) - she apes Kate Bush a bit, which i find irritating, cos she ought to just stick to her own delivery style

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Flower Travellin' Band - Satori

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World's End Girlfriend - Seven Idiots

This is like, huh... what... wow...

Just listen to it


world's end girlfriend - Les Enfants du Paradis (MUSIC VIDEO) - YouTube

Christ, I haven't listened to this in years. Great album, definitely due a spin.

You had me at "Spacemen". Downloading this album, and excited to add another excellent space rock group into my collection.

Oh man... You'll love them. Their sound has been described as minimalist psychedelia. I think there's a lot of appreciation for them round these parts.

Pay particular attention to the 17-minute live version of Rollercoaster, it drags you down the rabbit hole.

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Some very addicting Pop Punk/Indie Rock. Not too much to say about it, I just really dig the songwriting. Pretty much all the songs on here are catchy as hell, but particularily the song "I Don't Believe You", which Violent and Funky posted. Really catchy chord progression, and I love the female back up vocals.

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Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (2012)

Following the success of bands like Ghost, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, and Blood Ceremony comes yet another band bringing back an old school sounding doom metal sound with a modern touch. Pallbearer are probably the heaviest out of the ones I've listed, they remind me a lot more of Cathedral or Candlemass, with a touch of stoner metal thrown in. Strangely enough they also showcase some NWOBHM influences that you don't often see in this genre, so that's pretty cool. Definitely an album I think we'll still be talking about later on towards the years end.

Awright so 90s throwback bands generally turn me off in a big way but I decided to listen to the new one by Cloud Nothings.

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I listened to it and kind of cringed at some of the vocals and other parts but... I listened to it again. And then again. And again. And I will listen again soon.

This means I'm fully digging it.

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Oliver Nelson - Skull Session

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The Men - Open Your Heart
This is fantastic. Just great punk, garage, indie. Whatever you want to call it, it's just great rock that gets to the point. Noisy and manly and, awesome basically.

I want to give this one another try, because the style is right up my alley and the songwriting itself is (from what i've heard from it) good, but I just can't get past those vocals. It sounds like he's trying to be as off tune as possible.

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Rainer Maria - Past Worn Searching

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Some damn good Indie/Emo stuff.

Danny Baranowsky-Super Meat Boy OST
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great soundtrack for a great game

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holy **** some of the songs off of this are incredible

Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal - Music - Kanto Wild Pokémon Battle - YouTube

Pokemon Gold & Silver Music - Route 42 / 43 / 44 / Gyarados Lake - YouTube

Pokemon Gold & Silver Music - Surfing Theme - YouTube

That looks like that stupid face guy from Nick Jr. (do they still use that guy?)

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Twin Sister - Color Your Life

Highly addictive. Only 6 tracks, so it definitely leaves you wanting more. The way I would describe it is modern Velvet Underground with Nico (only this girl's voice is much more soothing and charming...Nico was kinda gruff sometimes). Plenty of awesome psychedelic moments, too. Can't wait to hear more from these guys.

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Boris - Boris At Last ~Feedbacker~

Absolutely phenomenal, best drone album I have ever heard. Definitely going to try and get hold of the LP at some point.

Is this the one you told me I'd really hate?

It certainly reminded me of the background noises in a steel factory...

Certainly was, it's still amazing though

Feedbacker is my fave drone and Boris album. I've only heard about 8 Boris albums though (I count 11 live albums and 27 LPs).

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When I had the album on vinyl there was no 'Charged GBH' on the cover. They will always be plain old GBH to me and it still sounds like walking on cracked chavs heads with jack boots. Lovely.

Like what I hear up there^^^ JH, any band that gets me pumped that fast is ****in awesome

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Never had heard of them, but really cool alternate rock.

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So far my favorite Squarepusher album

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h[TR]ip hop at its finest imo, will have banging your head in no time.

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Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West

The BEST alternative rock. Shame their follow up wasn't as good, but it was hard to follow Future Perfect anyway

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Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune

I think Air does a great job when they have a focus. That's very clear with this album. While still not as great as some of their earlier work (it's hard to top 10,000 Hz Legend or Talkie Walkie) its DEFINITELY better than some of their later work (which just tends to drone on pointlessly while taking old ideas and trying to pass them off as new). This actually sounds fresh and despite a few boring patches (that I'm sure were just meant to fit the narrative of the film), I think they should keep heading in this direction. It also makes me want to watch the remastered film as well. I saw the original, and it's pretty creative despite being more than 100 years old...I think this soundtrack could add a new element to it.

Very good "retro" traditional doom/heavy metal album. I was very disappointed with another "retro" album similar in vein released this year: "Possession" by Christian Mistress. Very sloppy.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor-F#A#∞
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This is now tied with Takk... as my favorite post-rock album. It's ****ing beautiful.

Ufomammut-Lucifer Songs
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And this is an awesome stoner metal album, where the only actual problem IMO is that it's too short. Thanks for mentioning these guys in one of your journals, Janszoon! :D

Listened to that album yesterday. Great. Just downloaded the Pallbearer album as well, hopefully it lives up to the hype.

Listening to Labor Days at the moment, then Oneirology, pretty tough to top.

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Grimes - Visions

This album is probably my favorite so far of 2012. I can't stop listening to it. It's crazy electro pop indie, but the vocal hooks in this are AMAZING. I love this girl's high pitched voice, too.

^ It's completely average in my view. The production can be nice at times, but some of the songs are terrible. Nowhere near my favourites of the year. Her voice is incredible though.

I think there are enough highly addictive songs to put it above average at least. I haven't heard many albums this year that keep me coming back for more, so that alone bumps it to my favorite of 12 so far.

I suppose that is something worth noting (how often you come back to it).

I have listened to Heems - "Nehru Jackets", Big K.R.I.T. - "4Eva N A Day", Perfume Genius - "Put Your Back N 2 It" and Young Fathers - "Tape One" more often (or have more scrobbles, which can be misleading due to amount of tracks). But I think I rate quite a lot of these albums ahead of Grimes - Visions, even if I have only played them once.

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Ohhhh man.... This is a good album. I love the relaxing, spacey, jazzy beats, and the lyrics are amazing, and heartbreaking.

Well, I'll just have to check some of these out then. I haven't listened to any of them.

Glad you hear you like it! It's funny, the shortness is my only complaint about that album too. :laughing:

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Had to listen to the new leaked Mars Volta album, needless to say, I ****ing love it. I have only made it to the 6th track, but that's because I usually restart it.

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Been revisiting my Hawkwind album collection for the past while, and this gem from 1990 strikes me quite well among them on the cosmic grind scale. Opening number 'Images' in particular is the best 9 minutes of space-punk-prog. bliss I've had the pleasure of hearing as far back as I can remember. :D

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What the ****. Why has no one ever told me how brilliant this album is. It's just...so good.

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nothing short of a masterpiece

almost as good as their IRS stuff