These are the best albums I just found out about from the Best of 2008 list reading, with some bonus Worst of The Best Of at the end.
Tricky- Knowle West Boy
School Gates - Tricky
Never put thought into tricky beyond his additions to Massive Attack cause everything else was eh. This one's pretty good, with a minimum of focus on him vocally, from skittish freakout Gnarl's style, to a Bon Jovi esque soundtrack for a gun fight, it threw me, but if this is what he's been doing all along I should've been listening.
School of Seven Bells- Alpinisms
Connjur - School Of Seven Bells
Electro-Pop emphasis more to the pop, like indie pop, not pop pop. oh fuck it. Really solid effort that warrants repeat listening.
Blitzen Trapper- Furr (version with bonus tracks)
God + Suicide - Blitzen Trapper
Spanning from whatever the kinda country will oldham makes, psyche noise freakouts, to REM style jangly shit. “I can live with god and suicide”they sing, “I can live with Blitzen Trapper” I respond.
Absentee- Victory Shorts
We should never have children - Absentee
If the dude from Magnetic Fields had a side project. Maybe that's what this is i don't know.
The Gaslight Anthem- The '59 Sound
The Backseat - The Gaslight Anthem
Have you been thinking to yourself "I really like the killers but it's not cool to like them. If only there were an alternative!" These are your boys. Springsteeny, with other songs flogging molly Lite and radio friendly "punk" that's not cheesy.
Tindersticks-Hungry Saw
Yesterdays Tomorrows - Tindersticks
Don't fix what ain't broke. More melodrama from the crooniest of crooning men and his band of doom gloomers.
Butch Walker-Sycamore Meadows
The Weight of Her - Butch Walker
This dude rules it. Every album influences planted firmly on sleeve, but he does everything so well it doesn't matter. Witty lyrics and just solid pop rock. He's from Atlanta, and we all like liking things from near us. I think i stole that from Chunk.
Worst of the Best Of 2008
The Hold Steady? Again? WTF? I'm sick of hearing about this band more than I don't wanna listen to their tunes. I don't understand the appeal at all.
Both Crosses - The Hold Steady
Frightened Rabbit- Midnight Organ Fight
Twist - Frightened Rabbit
The lead dude manages to combine the whining of adam duritz with the throat warble of john popper . Nopers on this shit.
4 comments:
I love December. everyone turns into Rick's and makes lists.
Someone should make a good Tindersticks playlist/comp.
I like School of Seven Bells one goody!
i accept your challange on the tindersticks comp, rick. any rules on length? i try to keep my mixes to 12 songs/50 mintues these days.
sounds good, just get the essential shit.
i really like the concept of this post. a good deal of my listening for the early months of the last few years is culled from best of lists from the previous year.
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