Album Of The Year, And It's Only May
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New mastodon is the album of the year so far for me..
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
It does, and being a thing of such wonder I was a bit alarmed they'd put it on as the first track but the whole thing flows really well as an album. and Anne's voice sounds great
It is very good, I usually don't listen to this kind of music but listened to it twice
However an album of the year should be more innovative/original imo.
yeah, kinda. but I don't think it's terribly apparent what the influences are here, they've got their own sound and it's far from derivative
you've just been distracted by the fact the arrangements are more interesting than most people bother with - plenty tunes there too. It is really pretty, no crime in that, and lastly why not? Xylophones are very cool. although they don't actually give me goosebumps, I like 'em.
great album, great cover.
you need this in your life because it's a thing of beauty, and it's out this week
http://www.mortonvalence.co.uk/
That doesn't look like RUNNIN RIOT new CD to me?
Refused as fuck
"ethnic pakistani tosser"
the bagle delivers.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
May is surely peculiarly late to be declaring the album of the year?
I've listened to it a bit more, and I think that the first 3 songs are brilliant, the middle is pretty lame, and then the end is really good
i can see why a lot of people will like it, but it just doesn't do it for me, there isn't really anything new or innovative about it, it's just 'nice'
i can see why a lot of people will like it, but it just doesn't do it for me, there isn't really anything new or innovative about it, it's just 'nice'
cliche as it might be, you should go and see them live: they're fantastic and everything should click nicely into place...
That's why I like Mastodon. In some ways they echo a lot of other bands both of the stoner rock genre and the more metal end of grunge, but they also bring something really fresh and powerful that I've not quite heard before.
Blood Mountain and the newie are both stonkers. Leviathan's a bit more growly metal though...
Blood Mountain and the newie are both stonkers. Leviathan's a bit more growly metal though...
cliche guevara
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On the d/l now as it seems to have a fair few good words said about it. Although I doubt it'll be album of the year seeing as Brand New have a new one coming out next month.
I'm looking forward to the Alpha and Horace Andy album. Might even be a bit like having Massive Attack back 
I'm looking forward to the Alpha and Horace Andy album. Might even be a bit like having Massive Attack back
i hadn't even heard of that
it won't be like massive attack cos there is no hiphop in there but i really want to hear what they come up with
I also want to know what happened to the congo natty album that was meant to be out htis summer
There's a sample track which sounds like massive's dubbier stuff
Alpha were a triphop/coffee table band affiliated to massive's own label. Dunno if you know them. They weren't bad.
Alpha were a triphop/coffee table band affiliated to massive's own label. Dunno if you know them. They weren't bad.
i use d to annoy the fuck out of my gf when i lived in italy singing 'somewhere, not here' to her
the album was ok as well
I'll find the linky with the sample track. 'ang on a jiffy
cliche guevara
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Listened to this a couple of times last night. Very good album, although when the second track came on I thought that the Beautiful South had reformed.
and some of it sounds like coldplay
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
As you get older everything sounds like something you've heard before, not least because it does.
Only with rock, I find. But it's a very limited form.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
the illusory thrill of newness only really comes when you're first discovering music - an idea pushed forward by music press ideas of it's importance (although to be fair, even they've given that one up)
truth is music is a tradition and it goes back to the cave, it's progress forward is driven mostly by technology and, in honesty, it's pace is glacial.
It's increasingly difficult to do anything that sounds like nothing you've ever heard before and in and of itself acheiving that is pretty redundant unless you find something to say with it.
The more music you've heard the easier it is to place something new within a context, rubbing off it's shine of 'newness' - that doesn't make it redundant.
...and there are entire genres where the whole point is that it isn't really something radically new. Like punk or blues. Maybe even the majority of rock music. what keeps it interesting is the detail - what's being said, the attitude, the mix
Morton Valence sound OK, but on the rare occasions I'm seduced by that kind of romantic, classic pop thing it has a bit more quirkiness to it, like say Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts, or early Cardigans. (Or the Beach Boys, to state the obvious.) Morton Valence remind me of weak-orange-squash stuff like The Leisure Society, the Free French, Rialto, My Life Story and Lightning Seeds.
Morton Valence sound OK, but on the rare occasions I'm seduced by that kind of romantic, classic pop thing it has a bit more quirkiness to it, like say Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts, or early Cardigans. (Or the Beach Boys, to state the obvious.) Morton Valence remind me of weak-orange-squash stuff like The Leisure Society, the Free French, Rialto, My Life Story and Lightning Seeds.
Did you check out the MP3 link I posted above?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I'm giving this a go. It's a bit like a more balanced animals that swim on first listen. Not sure yet.
soz, it didn't work i'm assuming cos of china, and i didn't
