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Low - Ones and Sixes (2015)

This is a great autumn album. Perfect for a chilly stroll through a park or whatever. And I like that there is a decent variation in the track listing, as opposed to a non stop barrage of slow-core moodiness. Thanks for the rec bob.

Lasso - The Dig Lasso

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Ali Farka Touré - The River (1990)
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Ho99o9

Dead Bodies In The Lake

Dope experimental group I found. They mix old school horror punk with horrorcore rap and industrial music.

Probably in my top 5 albums of the year so far.

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Fred Frith - Live In Japan

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Fred Frith might be my favourite musician and guitarist, but since his output is pretty big I keep rediscovering stuff I haven't listened to for a long time.
This live album has some fantastic prepared guitar improvisations. As always with Frith the free improvising is very thoughtful, entertaining and often extremely beautiful. I haven't listened to this album in over three years and it blows me away how good it is.

I got the Arctic Monkey's first album "Whatever People say I am, that's whan I'm not," and it's clear to see why this album did so well; it's one of my favorite from them as well.

__LP (2012) by Whatever Brains

Wow. What a great band. I really don't want to make comparisons but for the sake of getting the point across, this release sounds like the best elements of The Blood Brothers, Primus, Wavves, and Pissed Jeans strung together. That really doesn't do it enough justice though. Some tracks will sound more like bright surf rock, others have circus tunes running in the background. It's just an all around great album. Highly reccomend if you're into experimental punk or garage.

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Count Bass D - Dwight Spitz (2002)

When I was listening to it I thought "Super heavy Madvillainy influence on this dope ass album"... But this shit was released before Madvillainy. That's a madness. Regardless, I said it reminded me of that masterpiece, so listen to it yesterday.

why is no one talking about this?????????????????????????????

I'll try to remember to add it to my list. What is it exactly?

Because it's pretty derivative, mediocre pop? I can't fathom why this has so much hype or has been received like it has.

Listened to it quite a few times. Really good shit.

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I'd call it an experimental pop album, some truly superb tracks throughout with a lot of variety.

lol derivative??!?! Did you actually even listen to the album or just try one of the singles and think that's enough to give a summation of the entire thing? I have never heard a pop album that sounds like this the whole way through, it's brilliant.

yay we agree on a 2015 pop album!

Heard a few tracks, not the whole thing. Sounded to me as if she'd basically taken some 90s pop cliches and mediocre, amateurish guitar parts and removed any of the edge that Visions had. I mean stuff like California is just pure flimsy tripe. It's pretty much on the same level as any manufactured pop album around right now, but for some reason the fact she created all herself seems to elevate it somehow. I just think it's boring and amateurish, basically.

You can probably guess that I dislike what I've heard.

Jesus Christ the ****ing ignorance in this post is astounding

California is an excellent diss song and sounds the way it does for a very good reason

So yes you did exactly what I initially said: you checked out a couple singles and assumed that's what the whole album sounded like so you decided to go on MusicBanter and ended up making yourself look like a fool. The variety of the tracks is part of what makes it such a superb album, but clearly only listening to the most mainstream track on the list is more than enough to make a dumbass statement like what I bolded. ffs

I've listened to 5 or 6? Honestly I was going to listen to the album but I really couldn't stand what I heard. I also don't buy this idea that California being ironic or a statement excuses the fact that it isn't very good. Realiti's okay but I preferred the demo she released. Also strongly dislike Scream, Belly of the Beat, and am completely passive to the singles in that they did nothing for me. It's not a dumbass statement, it's just an opinion.

How does Grimes' new album compare to Visions? If it's at all similar I'll just hop on the "meh, this isn't awful but it's overhyped as hell" train now.

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Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi (2015)

This is a melting pot of metal, ambient, and post rock. Not my metal album of the year yet, but it's definitely quite high up there based on the first listen.

It's worse. Far less of the interesting appeal or edge. It's basically pure pop that's poorly realised. But defer to Frownland for a balanced argument.

Cannot believe we are on a dedicated music forum and we have someone judging an entire album off of barely a third of the track listing, it numbs the **** out of my brain right now

I prefer Art Angels to Visions personally. They're not all that similar

I'll give it a shot.

Well, did you listen to Metal Machine Music all the way through? Just know that if you skipped one second of that album, you are entirely unqualified to voice your opinion on the record until then. Every. Single. Second. Also, if you don't post a video of yourself listening to every second of that album to prove it to us, we will only ridicule you as being a liar going off of an uninformed opinion. The logic in this paragraph is only about half as ridiculous as you are being right now.

Well I spoke on what I've listened to, and what I listened to failed to impress me enough to listen to the whole thing.

I think we both know there's a huge difference between MMM and an album with 14 unique tracks that most of which are completely unique within the context of the album

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Trouble Salad - Rejsekammerat
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Sure, this could be considered shameless self promotion, but if this album were made by someone else I'd still feel the same. It's amazing enough that I can wipe away the idea that I made it while listening, and see it as just some other incredible album I've come across. Awe inspiring arctic ambient soundscapes, chilling melodies, and an overwhelming feeling of tranquility throughout.

Forget it was made by me and download it

LOL SOMEONE hasn't listened to MMM all the way through. How you can you realistically say that there's a huge difference between the two when you literally do not know a single glib about what you are talking about?

So you're saying you do not grasp that the tracks on Art Angels vary far more than the tracks on MMM?

Or we can even turn to albums we both have certainly listened to the whole way through, hell even my own album "For Now"...it's nothing like an album with more traditional songwriting.

I haven't listened to that album yet so I wouldn't know. I've listened to all of Metal Machine Music, though, so my opinion of that album will always be superior to yours, regardless of what you think.

You realize I'm mocking you, yes? It wouldn't be the first time someone got up in arms because I made a post with the same terrible logic that they did.

Of course I realize that, and admittedly I'm backtracking a bit to clarify but I still stand by my main point. I believe that if someone absolutely despises the first 5 minutes of MMM then there's nothing on the rest of the album that will change their mind. However a 5 minute chunk of Art Angels is going to be quite a bit different from any other 5 minute chunk you pick because imo it has a ton of variety in sounds, song structures, and melodies. So the idea I presented about judging the whole album based on a short sample applies to some albums but not others.

20+ minutes is a fairly big sample though, which is how much of Art Angels I've listened to. My clause is I'm judging it on that basis. This is from someone who dug Visions.

I have no words for someone that "dug" Visions and can't even give the next album a fair, full listen-through. Guess you need more time to finish your 40th album of the year

If you haven't listened to the whole album, you have no idea what it encompasses and therefore and banned from speaking on it. I say this semi-seriously with regards to MMM because the album has much more variety than you seem to give it credit for. And since it's from a five minute listen, I'm honestly not that surprised.

I was just disappointed thoroughly so I didn't get through it. Maybe I'll give it another go but all the way through I was thinking, "I could be listening to Visions here, or a better pop album".

Well on this we just fundamentally disagree, I've skimmed through in 1-2 minute bursts and I don't hear much difference at all between minute 5 and minute 50.

I haven't listened to it enough times to say how much actual variety it has, but it definitely never uses the same idea twice.

I thought the beginning of To the Lighthouse was boring. I read the first five pages then skipped to the last five pages and noticed they were both written in English. Yup, the whole book is boring, then.

Okay now this post was laughably bad at best regardless of intention

It's all about textures, man. New ones every second.

That's how funny you sound to people with working ears.

Good stuff. Ty Segall is the man. Can't wait until Broken Bat starts releasing more material.