The album haul so far this year (thoughts?)

[Jan]

The National ~ Boxer
Black Mountain ~ In the Future
Dawn Landes ~ Fireproof
Sons and Daughters ~ This Gift
Stars ~ Set yourself on fire
The National ~ Alligator
The National ~ Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
The National ~ The National
Driveby Truckers ~ Brighter than Creation's Dark
Asobi Seksu ~ Citrus
Alberta Cross ~ The Thief and the Heartbreaker
Blanche ~ Little Amber Bottles
Wayne Robbins ~ The Lonesome Sea
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ~ Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ~ Abottoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Made out of Babies ~ Trophy
Gutter Twins ~ Saturnalia
The Cardigans ~ Best of
Afghan Whigs ~ Black Love
Goldfrapp ~ Seventh Tree
Pelican ~ The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
R.E.M ~ Accelerate
The Duke Spirit ~ Neptune
We Are Scientists ~ Brain Thrust Mastery
The Breeders ~ Mountain Battles
The Raconteurs ~ Consolers of the Lonely
The Long Blondes ~ Couples
Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac super fancy edition
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Martha Wainwright - I know you're married but I've got feelings too
Portishead ~ Dummy
Death Cab for Cutie ~ Narrow Stairs
Gemma Hayes - The Hollow of the Morning
The Cars - The Best of the Cars
Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace
Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black LP
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
This Mortal Coil - Filigree and Shadow
Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend
Transformers Soundtrack
The Twilight Singers - The Twilight Singers performed by...
Spiritulized - Songs in A and E
Russian Circles - Enter
Slint - Spiderland
Pelican - Australasia
Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
Dananananaykroyd - Sissy Hits
Twilight Sad - Here it never snowed, afterwards it did
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Subways - All or Nothing
Red Sparrowes - At the soundless dawn

[eebs]

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what's the gutter twins album like - saw some on jools but forgot about it until i saw it on the list?

i'd recommend the new mudhoney album and i think you might like times new viking and kinski too.

[mr_j]

Gutter Twins sounds like Dust-era Screaming Trees meeting Afghan Whigs' 1965, with Dulli and Lanegan swapping vocal duties. it's dark, dark, dark--very bluesy, but very sultry and sexy, too.

[katie]

i don't get the fuss over the national's boxer. i listened to it a few times, mostly it just made me sleepy. people sure do love it, though. to each his own!

i, however, heart the following of your list:

stars - set yourself on fire
asobi seksu - citrus
the raconteurs - consolers of the lonely
anything sigur ros has ever done
mgmt - oracular spectacular

the rest of it, i mostly haven't heard so i should probably get on it. what are your faves of the list?

[airboy paul]

Sigur Ros and The National are the only ones I have/like from your list. My haul from this year so far is:

Motifs Matches
Antarctica Takes It! The Penguin League
Electric President You Have The Right To Remain Awesome Vol 2 & Good Ol' Boys
Magnetic Fields, The Distortion
Eels Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarieties
Eels Meet The Eels: Essential Eels 1996 - 2006 Vol. 1
Detektivbyrån Hemvägen EP
Ohbijou Swift Feet For Troubling Times
Kinit Her Menial As Archivists & Bone Marrow Artifacts
Eels Live And In Person- London 2006
Notwist, The Lichter
Yoyoyo Acapulco The Sudden Death Of A 7" Pet vinyl
Yoyoyo Acapulco the sudden Death Of A 7" Pet
Various Artists A Collection of Songs Vol 1
Breathe Owl Breathe Ghost Glacier ep
Syd Matters A Whisper & A Sigh
Ske Feelings Are Great
Breathe Owl Breathe The Fall Album
Breathe Owl Breathe Climb In
Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
Why? Alopecia
T-T, Chris Capital
Cloud Cult Feel Good Ghosts
Calexico & The Notwist Careless
Final Fantasy Has A Good Home
Choir Practice, The The Choir Practice
Real Tuesday Weld, The Real Tuesday Weld
Obi Creatures b-sides
Gibson, Laura If You Come To Greet Me
dEUS Vantage Point
Adem Takes
Enocksson, Erik Farvel Falkenberg
Lacrosse This New Year Will Be For You And Me
Syd Matters Ghost Days
Notwist, The The Devil, You + Me (ltd edition)
Get Well Soon Rest Your Weary Head And Get Well Soon
Efterklang Caravan promo
Get Well Soon You/Aurora/You/Seaside vinyl ep
Held By Hands Held By Hands
Orphans & Vandals Terra Firma/Christopher vinyl
Hjaltalin Sleepdrunk Seasons
National, The A Skin, The Night & The Virginia EP
Sons Of Noel And Adrian Sons Of Noel And Adrian
Various Artists Esopus- Good News
Yoshida, Yasushi Little Grace
Misophone Where has it gone, all the beautiful music of our grandparents? It died with them, that's where it went...
Enocksson, Erik With Its Dark Tail Curled 'Round The Garage
Piroth Prima Ballerina
Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Jonsson, Helgi Hrafn Aska
Electric President Sleep Well
Barzelay, Eef Lose Big
Why? Alopecia: The Demos!!
Jong Pang Bright White Light
Benni Hemm Hemm Murta St. Calunga



(too lazy to tidy it up from a copy and paste my excel list)

June was a crazy month where I spent more on cds than I had done for the previous five months! But am definitely loving 2008 so far.

[Jan]

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what's the gutter twins album like - saw some on jools but forgot about it until i saw it on the list?

i'd recommend the new mudhoney album and i think you might like times new viking and kinski too.

The Gutter Twins album is very good indeed, it very much the Lanegan/Dulli crossover that you would expect. Very dark and melancholy at the same time.

[Jan]

i don't get the fuss over the national's boxer. i listened to it a few times, mostly it just made me sleepy. people sure do love it, though. to each his own!

i, however, heart the following of your list:

stars - set yourself on fire
asobi seksu - citrus
the raconteurs - consolers of the lonely
anything sigur ros has ever done
mgmt - oracular spectacular

the rest of it, i mostly haven't heard so i should probably get on it. what are your faves of the list?

Oh, Boxer is a brilliant album in my opinion. Alligator is also very good. Out of that list, my favourites so far are:

The National ~ Boxer
Gutter Twins ~ Saturnalia
Pelican ~ The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
The Duke Spirit ~ Neptune
Death Cab for Cutie ~ Narrow Stairs - A stunning album. I was surprised at how good it is.
Twilight Sad - Here it never snowed, afterwards it did
The Breeders ~ Mountain Battles
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

[katie]

Oh, Boxer is a brilliant album in my opinion.

Death Cab for Cutie ~ Narrow Stairs - A stunning album. I was surprised at how good it is.

yeah, i have tried really hard to get into that album, but it just never resonated with me. i wanted to like it cause so many people whose opinion i respect were all, "OMG THIS ALBUM" but it just never got there for me. maybe i'll try again. (this happens every time someone brings up the album, tbh.)

and i haven't heard the death cab album, i hated "plans" which was their previous attempt, but their earlier stuff makes me melt. we do hear the song "i will possess your heart" on the sirius college rock channel a lot, and i do like it. loves me some ben gibbard. guess i'm gonna give this one a spin, i'll letcha know how it grabs me.

[Jan]

and i haven't heard the death cab album, i hated "plans" which was their previous attempt, but their earlier stuff makes me melt. we do hear the song "i will possess your heart" on the sirius college rock channel a lot, and i do like it. loves me some ben gibbard. guess i'm gonna give this one a spin, i'll letcha know how it grabs me.

I've got Plans, and I think its okay - the best song is obviously "I will possess your heart" - but their new album is such a leap forward. I was very taken aback with how good it is.

[katie]

I've got Plans, and I think its okay - the best song is obviously "I will possess your heart" - but their new album is such a leap forward. I was very taken aback with how good it is.

if i hadn't loved dcfc before, i think i would have liked "plans," but i felt like it had a bit of that "sell-out" quality to it. i hate when people say a band sold out, though, so i guess i'll say i felt like it took a step in the more commercial direction and focused a lot less on the lyrics than previous dcfc albums. gibbard's writing is one of the main reasons i love the band, he has a way of saying things that evoke a deeply emotional response from me.

i've got the new album now, gonna fling an ear around that today.

[James]

that must have taken ages to type in

what's the gutter twins album like - saw some on jools but forgot about it until i saw it on the list?

i'd recommend the new mudhoney album and i think you might like times new viking and kinski too.

The Gutter Twins album is very good indeed, it very much the Lanegan/Dulli crossover that you would expect. Very dark and melancholy at the same time.

have a look in the liner notes; I want to say Rick Nelson played on that Gutter Twins album...I know he was working with them on something...

[Jan]

Aye, he played viola on a couple of songs.

[Dogatron]

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

I just bought this after hearing 'Kids' playing in the record store. OMK it's insanely catchy.