never posted this 2007 list; followed 2008 even less than 2007 so no list there.. anyway here's the belated 2007 storm of shit:
Albums/EPs
Sorcerer - White Magic (Tirk)
Cornelius - Sensuous
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
V/A - After Dark (Italians Do It Better)
Fennesz/Sakamoto - Cendre
William Basinski - El Camino Real
The Focus Group - We Are Pan's People
Ariel Pink - YAS Dudett
Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X (Self-Released)
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Windsurf - EP
Proswell - Bruxion Frog
Tracks
Trilogyy - Apocolypse Rock
Hatchback - "Carefree Highway", "White Diamond"
My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
Junior Boys - FM (Tensnake Remix)
Beanie Siegel ft. R Kelly - All the Above
T-Pain - (pretty much everything)
UGK - Int'l Players Anthem
Arcade Fire - ??? don't know what it's called.. hear it everywhere
Beck - Cellphone's Dead (Villalobos OR Allien Mix??)
Mixes
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
Lindstrom - LateNightTales
Dixon - RA Podcast
Henrik Schwarz - Live
G-Ha & Olanskii - Sunkissed
2006/re-released 2007
Studio - West Coast
Peter Bjorn & John - Writers Block
Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance
Haven't Gotten to Yet
Need More Time
ยต-ziq - Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation (someone's been listening to proswell, ffs! his most listenable album in a decade; kind of points to dubstep and weirdo mid-90s afx remixes (nav katze, a couple of the ventolin rmxs)
Live Awesome
Todd Rundgren
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti
Unknown Breakcore Acts somewhere in south sf?
Problems/Fence
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna (great melodies, too partridge family)
The Aliens (love the gross BTO honky tonk piano solos)
Kathy Diamond (vocals are kinda shite but maurice fulton's production is wonderful)
Les Savy Fav - (band sounds absolutely unstoppable when recorded properly. this album was not recorded improperly, per se, but it still sounds boring. lyrics, which were never their strong point, are even less consistent here)
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime - [concept sounds great and i do like the one track of the fire & ice ep that goes "lights off, lights, off" or whatever, but as much of a melancholy closet-goth drone soldier i am, this possesses neither the physicality of great techno nor the rapturous melodies/harmonies that embody the strand of this kind of music that stretches from cocteau twins through mbv through gas into fennesz and all in between. i really had my hopes up for this because i enjoyed the first ep immensely (still do) and i guess it's pretty lovely sounding, but it's so boring an uneventful.... i think he can do better (?)]
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - (bad vocals, annoying indie-style bark chanting, abundance of tired-ass disco cowbell... the last track is the definition of abysmal.. lol!! still though, i like the track that sounds like mnml tranced-up harmonia.. and the one about growing old is really nice and sad.. but again, this guy's vocals... and enough with the fuckin cowbell!
Destroy
Apples in Stereo (ouch, 0/0, really bad chessy awfulness!!)
Deerhunter (boring, lazy stoner crap, poor songwriting)
Reissues
Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti - Scared Famous
Young Marble Giants - 3cd thing that has almost everything (maybe it has everything?)
Old Not Reissued Just Hearing Now
Chris & Cosey - October Love Song (enough railing against cheese, this is innocuous C&C that melts the heart mcdonalds style)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - just the album with the toothbrush on the cover (definitely one of my favorite sleeves ever); just excellent not-so-shiny synth pop with all kind of weird-angles.... even the rap track is really good... just a marvelous album..
