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Tooth
Album by Raime

https://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/tooth

Late 80’s vibe. Think Sonic Youth’s debut remixed for On-U Sound and/or World Domination Enterprises. This sound was great then and it’s great now. Hits the ****ing spot.

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RR7349
Studio album by Survive

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22430-rr7349/

You batting triple zeros with the ladies moving quick though because the triple sixes be up on ya. No luck with the f uck until the Ultraman lunchbox became oh yeah that was me no it wasn’t you goddamn phony. Or was it? God it felt good, short lived though it was. Grades never suffered. Hair down so long past your ass puffy with pride until she became a rape victim cliche and shaved for battle. Love. All. The. Time. What do you call a naked black man at a funeral? His name, motherf ucker. Be sure to tell her Satan.

But first review this song cause it's a top 10 song.

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2028677)

Review this.

2002-2008 - GU.rar (66,68 MB) - uploaded.net

Password: 88nsm

The Opeth review is coming. I haven't forgotten.

Happy New Year or whatever day it is when you finally got the f uck around to reading this and welcome to the lamp lighter top ten albums of the year 2018

NUMBER TEN

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And Nothing Hurt is the eighth studio album by Spiritualized.

Sometimes a comeback album is like I think even the critics want the nostalgia to ring true so bad there’s a loud echo of love there but there’s something missing like Jarboe. I’ve loved Spiritualized since Spaceman3. Jason Pierce’s voice is still tender and fragile now with just a touch of rasp. One time and it’s hard to swallow this but over three decades ago I was out west sitting in a river with a waterproof Walkman listening to this song

and my boyfriend came up to me and he was so tall and strong and we made out while the water rushed to cover us and that song played and Jason Pierce that’s what he means to me. Those moments, usually drug induced, when it doesn’t matter anymore that it’s not ok. You’re just twirling around completely absorbed by the now.

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Thank you to everyone who voted, reads, and always please feel free to contribute

Everyone welcome!!!

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Number Nine
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Iridescence
Studio album by Brockhampton

There is indeed a chain from Wu Tang to Odd Future to Brockhampton. It’s the disintegration of barriers. Surprise attacks. Love. Fierce even violent and even hateful love. This is music that gives me hope. We’re queer. We’re different. We’re the same. Stupid and smart. Brilliant like Licensed to Ill. Ready to party. It’s ****ing life bitches. Genital warts and all. I love this because what this album says to me is that the wildness and righteousness of youth will not be defeated. Hope springs eternal.

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Thank you to everyone who voted, reads, and always please feel free to contribute

Everyone welcome!!!

Too bad you couldn't have competed against all the good journals back when this section was actually active but nice job anyway.

Number Eight

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Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Studio album by Sophie

At first I told Ant that this wouldn’t make my top ten but would make my top twenty-five if I were making one. Now I wonder if this shouldn’t be number one. A brilliant pop record is probably the most elusive pot of gold at the end of the longest rainbow over the roughest seas. Simultaneously avant garde dance floor popping booze selling and mdma infused. It’s got to be the future as it should be and really will be and is now as we soldier on unaware of Derrida‘s metaphysics of presence. And yes that’s really what’s on the table here.

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Too bad you couldn't have competed against all the good journals back when this section was actually active but nice job anyway.

I’ve read those back in the day journals. This is the best journal in Music Banter history, by far.

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Number Seven
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Stadium
Album by Eli Keszler

https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/stadium

Keszler isn’t just a virtuoso regarding the way he maneuvers the mechanics of his instruments but a virtuoso at handling the physics of sound. Revolutionary of the 21st Century he’s left the 4 minute / 3 minute miles behind and left us googling wtf was a mile. There aren’t many who can escape Schoenberg’s finality of tonality limitations dead end but there’s a Lazarus of Bethany (Bathory?) Award for some. Perhaps time will tell us.

Spoiler for sputnik:

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Laika - first and I believe the only dog so far murdered in space

Number Six
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strie - perpetual journey

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Olga Wojciechowska creates an incredible tribute to Laika under the alias Strië.

Instantly unassailable.

Nothing to add from my original post introducing this record.

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I’ve read those back in the day journals. This is the best journal in Music Banter history, by far.

:rofl:

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:rofl:

It’s more than a journal. It’s your guide to enlightenment.

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Number Five
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Angelika Niescier, Christopher Tordini & Tyshawn Sorey -The Berlin Concert

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This is an absolute must for fans of free jazz. It’s Ganelin Trio level good.

Number Four
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God's Body
Album by Jachna / Mazurkiewicz / Buhl

There’s this thing some of you might know about with Sketches of Spain where the trumpet is used as a transcendental spiritual device. This goes further with the transmigration. One note can change, maybe even destroy, your life (or lives).

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2029698)

I’ve read those back in the day journals. This is the best journal in Music Banter history, by far.

This is the What Is OH Listening To? thread + blurbs. I do the same thing in the actual Listening threads. Lots of people do. And why are your entries in bold? It just looks weird.

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2029726)

This is the What Is OH Listening To? thread + blurbs. I do the same thing in the actual Listening threads. Lots of people do. And why are your entries in bold? It just looks weird.

You’ve done a great job. Especially for a man feeling around in the dark but now I’ve lit your way.

I like this journal. I didn't post in mine as much as I wanted to this year but I'm happy with it. 2019 will be a better year.

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I thought it was solid but it didn't live up to their 2016 release.

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I like this journal. I didn't post in mine as much as I wanted to this year but I'm happy with it. 2019 will be a better year.

You’re a talented dude. I’m looking forward to your 2019 music and whatever you write.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2029748)

I thought it was solid but it didn't live up to their 2016 release.

In what way do you feel like it falls short?

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Number Three
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Bad Luck - Four (Origin Records, 2018)

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2008426)

The Free Jazz Collective: Bad Luck - Four (Origin Records, 2018) *****

Bad Luck - Four (Origin Records, 2018)

http://store.badluckband.net/album/four

Personally, I feel a big Ganelin influence kind of mating with a creepier fusion era Miles.

5/5 serious contender for top ten AOTY

highest recommendations

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Originally Posted by free jazz collective blog

Welch’s tone moves from gorgeous to scolding to Pharoah Sanders cries. Icasiano can do it all with his drum kit: bombast, light touches, dense unrelenting low patterns, sermons of light and darkness. The six compositions here are sometimes smooth, sometimes angular, sometimes a cross between tight metal and prog rock; at other times they invoke the patient, caressing ethereality of Sigur Rós, with Welch’s soaring tenor playing the role of the untranslatable, invented language.

Number Two
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YoshimiO, Susie Ibarra, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe‎– Flower Of Sulphur

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YoshimiO, Susie Ibarra, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe‎– Flower Of Sulphur

Released yesterday. I am so excited about this! Number 1 AOTY contender 5/5 unassailable all that.

I’ve had the good fortune of seeing YoshimiO twice. Once in Tokyo with OOIOO and once in Florida with only about 15 people in attendance playing an improv with Kawabata Makoto. Both experiences were amazing but the latter is one of the most precious memories of my life.

Susie Ibarra, a huge fan of Sun Ra, has an astonishing resume and is one of the greatest percussionists of all time.

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens

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Good lord, can music get any cooler?

There’s a damn good chance you heard it first.

Snap

It’s hard to believe there’s still one higher.

Thanks OH. The 2019 album is gonna be awesome.

I just started Flower of Sulphur. Super great so far. I love the ritual vibe.

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Thanks OH. The 2019 album is gonna be awesome.

I don’t doubt it.

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I just started Flower of Sulphur. Super great so far. I love the ritual vibe.

Dude, there’s so much **** here:

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With only days to spare, here are my top 50 releases of the year. These are mostly albums, but includes a few EPs, too- also, while Coltrane and Prince's albums this year aren't really new recordings, they are newly discovered and therefore count. Don't @ me if you disagree. Oh, and if an artist released more than one thing that I consider to be a part of a series (see: Thou, Iglooghost) I just stuck them together.

These are all good, if not great albums, though for different reasons. If the genres they're tagged as pique your interest, even if they're not in my top 20, you should still listen.

Enjoy.

1. Tomb Mold, “Manor of Infinite Forms” (death metal)
2. John Coltrane, “Both Directions At Once” (jazz)
3. Brandi Carlile, “By the Way, I Forgive You” (country, americana)
4. Imperial Triumphant, “Vile Luxury” (experimental metal, blackened death metal, jazz)
5. Jeff Rosenstock, “POST-“ (pop punk, indie rock)
6. Obliteration, “Cenotaph Obscure” (cavernous death metal)
7. Portal, “Ion” (experimental metal, cavernous death metal)
8. Rolo Tomasi, “Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It” (mathcore, metalcore, pop rock)
9. Earl Sweatshirt, “Some Rap Songs” (hip hop)
10. Mitski, “Be the Cowboy” (power pop, indie rock)

11. Prince, “Piano & A Microphone 1983” (blues, pop, solo piano)
12. Robyn, “Honey” (dance pop)
13. Body Void, “I Live Inside a Burning House” (doom metal, sludge metal, crust punk)
14. Grouper, “Grid of Points” (ambient, solo piano)
15. Makaya McCraven, “Where We Come From” (jazz, instrumental hip hop)
16. Ben Lamar Gay, “Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun” (jazz, spoken word, experimental hip hop)
17. Infernal Coil, “Within a World Forgotten” (war metal, deathgrind)
18. Vince Staples, “FM!” (hip hop)
19. Sleep, “The Sciences” (doom metal)
20. Thou, “The House Primordial / Inconsolable / Rhea Sylvia / Magus” (sludge metal, dark ambient, atmoblack, folk rock, grunge)

21. Ripped to Shreds, “Mai-Zang” (death metal)
22. Sumac, “Love In Shadow” (post-metal)
23. ROSALIA, “El Mal Querer” (flamenco, pop)
24. Cult Leader, “A Patient Man” (mathcore, slowcore)
25. Neckbeard Deathcamp, “White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers” (black metal, noise)
26. Armand Hammer, “Paraffin” (hip hop)
27. The HIRS Collective, “Friends. Lovers. Favorites” (grindcore)
28. Schnell, “Live at Sowieso” (avant garde jazz)
29. Margot, “Busy & Lonely” (americana, folk)
30. Bog Body, “Through the Burial Bog” (death metal, doom metal)

31. Freddie Gibbs, “Freddie” (hip hop)
32. Binker and Moses, “Alive in the East?” (avant grade jazz)
33. Mortuous, “Through Wilderness” (doom metal, death metal)
34. Iglooghost, “Clear Tamei / Steel Mogu” (wonky, breakcore, IDM)
35. Tony Molina, “Kill the Lights” (power pop, psychedelic rock, pop punk)
36. Sepulcher, “Panoptic Horror” (crossover thrash, cavernous death metal)
37. Sectioned, “Annihilated” (mathcore)
38. The Myrrors, “Borderlands” (psychedelic folk, krautrock)
39. Gaerea, “Unsettling Whispers” (black metal)
40. Duval Timothy, “2 Sim” (ambient, spoken word, field recordings)

41. Messa, “Feast for Water” (doom metal, post-metal)
42. boygenius, “boygenius” (indie rock, folk)
43. Spiritflesh, “Spiritflesh” (techno, dark ambient, industrial)
44. Anna von Hausswolff, “Dead Magic” (experimental, doom folk)
45. Primitive Man / Unearthly Trance, “Split” (harsh noise, sludge metal)
46. Beta Boys, “Late Nite Acts” (punk)
47. Feminazgul, “The Age of Men Is Over” (atmoblack)
48. Beach House, “7” (indie rock)
49. Warthog, “Warthog” (hardcore punk)
50. Leon Bridges, “Good Thing” (RNB, pop)

I can’t wait to start going through all the absolute gems I’m sure are in there. As I start knocking out ****loads of stuff in there I haven’t heard I’ll get back at you with thoughts. That’s a lot of listening right there, son. 2018 was mos def quality and mother****ing quantity. Thank God I can listen to music at work.

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Number One
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Susana Santos Silva - All the Rivers – Live at Panteão Nacional (Clean Feed, 2018)

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Susana Santos Silva - All the Rivers – Live at Panteão Nacional (Clean Feed, 2018)

Those who take interest in how the musicians of Evan Parker: September Winds dealt with the challenges and unique opportunities of recording in an empty water reservoir will likely find themselves intrigued with the challenging acoustics of Lisbon’s Church of Santa Engrácia where this brilliant and beautiful work was recorded. Also like September Winds, All the Rivers is contemporary classical third stream free jazz. Dig on it when you get the chance.

5/5

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Igreja de Santa Engrácia
Panteão Nacional

I just ****ing love this more and more with every listen. It makes me feel like I’m making some kind of heroic journey on some sort of aggressively uninhabitable planet on another end of the Milky Way and this is the record I have on repeat blasting in my spacesuit as I soldier into the abyss as the unknown ****ing hero of nowhereland and a billion years later a distant descendent will find my remains with this record still playing and it’ll think goddamn son that’s some seriously really ****ing good music this guy died to.

Thanks, bruv. Can’t wait to hear what you think. 2018 was a special one, for sure.

Some jelly mother****ers in this bitch - goddamn

I have scouted the path of your salvation and lit the lamp offering you safe passage but you insist on remaining stuck and drowning in the quicksand of your sorry ignorance. Now I know how God feels when I reject the universe.

^^^^^^

Obviously, this wasn’t intended for you. But we’ll have a fight before too long probably

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Thanks, bruv. Can’t wait to hear what you think. 2018 was a special one, for sure.

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Some jelly mother****ers in this bitch - goddamn

Ja we're so jealous of [?] that we're being honest with you about how we view your journal.

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Fucking ingrate.

Your daughter doesn’t mind.

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Ja we're so jealous of [?] that we're being honest with you about how we view your journal.

I can’t belittle you on knowledge or taste because you know your **** for real for real but your journals are just stunted unfinished non-starters. Also, I don’t think you’re jelly. Mord isn’t either. Bat and elph are though.

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you you your your you’re

Way to handle criticism, Chula.

I'm just here for the popcorn.

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How the **** can I be jealous of anyone's journal?

https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...t-schemes.html

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Way to handle criticism, Chula.

Journal of the Year, bitch

Do yourself a favor and bow down to YOUR master.

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Journal of the Year, bitch

Kinda like Tool winning 3 Grammys.

Goddamn she is ****ing hot