where the fuck's the running best of 2015 thread you bitches
 

currently being aurally massaged by newies


russell haswell - as sure as night follows day [diagonal] (new 12" on emego is mental too)


laurel halo - in situ [honest jon's]


f ingers - hide before dinner [blackest ever black]


oneohtrix point never - garden of delete [warp]

Right here, that's where.

I am looking forward to Garden of Delete so much. OPN has been by far my favourite musician for quite a long time now.

yeah it's a really great record, he's pushing forward at an incredible rate at the moment.

I gave it a few proper spins recently.

I am not sure. I mean, it's WAY better than R Plus 7, but on the other hand, I really dislike the way he's moved in the past 2 records. I certainly know it's a deliberate attempt, but basically every track contains a million great ideas, that are just roughly outlined, and when it starts building up energy by repetition, then Lopatin suddenly breaks it all down and starts a new set of ideas. Which completely ruins the energy for me.
However, there are still many great tracks there.

I really like Garden of Delete.

I can see where _slavo_ is coming from, but from what I can tell after a few listens, if you just play the album and don't even pay attention to when/where individual songs stop and start, it does appear to be held together by some kind of overarching theme. I particularly like the second half, which has some really jubilant moments. It almost works like a single, twisted, labyrinthine track.

I'm definitely into it. In a year already packed with incredible electronic records by Hudson Mohawke, Nosaj Thing, Squarepusher, Prefuse 73, Aphex Twin/AFX, Four Tet and Botany, it stands out as pretty phenomenal and unique album.

New Squeeze album came out Tuesday. I haven't heard it yet, but I predict it'll either be good or bad.

I'd like to correct my previous statement. After several listens, I'm deeply in love with G.O.D. now. I like how the patterns encrypted in the songs nicely reveal themselves after a couple of spins.

Ok, I'm trying to kind of retroactively assemble a list of the albums I've picked up over the course of the year that have at least qualified as "good". At the moment, I'm still missing tons of shit, and there are probably quite a few errors in chronology (I tried to order them in ascending chronological order by release date and month... haha!), and there are a lot of definite grey areas.

For instance, Garden of Delete is set for a November release date, but I have a promo of it... same went for Deerhunter's Fading Frontier.. I heard these albums long before they dropped, but for continuity's sake I am trying to list them in the proper month.

Also, none of it matters and it's a huge waste of time, so there's that. But y'know... What the hell.

JANUARY:

1. Viet Cong - Viet Cong **
2. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper *
3. Disappears - Irreal
4. Death Grips - Fashion Week
5. Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth **
6. Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt 2 EP *
7. Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$ **
8. Björk - Vulnicura
9. Pond - Man, It Feels Like Space Again *
10. MCFERRDOG - Lawd Forgive Me*
11. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love *
12. Future Brown - Future Brown
13. Vic Spencer - The Cost Of Victory
14. Chief Keef - Nobody
15. Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun*
16. Siskiyou - Nervous
17. Beat Spacek - Modern Streets

FEBRUARY:

1. Jack Name - Weird Moons *
2. Rone - Creatures
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise
5. Aphex Twin - Strepsipster (?)
6. John Tejada - Signs Under Test
7. Grooms - Comb The Feelings Through Your Hair
8. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late *
9. Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD - SOUR SOUL
11. Dan Deacan - Gliss Riffer
12. Six Organs of Admittance - Hexadic
13. Torche - Restarter
14. Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program - Other Worlds *
15. Ibeyi - Ibeyi
16. Purity Ring - Another Eternity

MARCH:

1. Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin
2. Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke - Behold
3. Lotic - Heterocetera EP
4. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly **
6. Action Bronson - Mr. Wonderful *
7. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
8. Eric Holm - Andøya **
9. Broken Water - Wrought
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet & Other Distress
11. Dick Diver - Melbourne, Florida
12. Wand - Golem
13. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire *
14. Death Grips - The Powers That B (Ni**as on the Moon/Jenny Death)
15. Broken Water - Wrought
16. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015
17. Clark - Flame Rave
18. Andrew Hung - Rave Cave: Level 1 EP
19. Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home

APRIL:

1. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons **
2. Doldrums - The Air Conditioned Nightmare
3. The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ
4. WEED - Running Back
5. Curren$y - Pilot Talk III *
6. Tyler the Creator - Cherry Bomb

MAY:

1. Perfuse 73 - Rivington Não Rio **
2. Snoop Dogg - Bush
3. Blur - The Magic Whip *
4. Faith No More - Sol Invictus
5. The Soft Moon - Deeper
6. Raekwon - Fly International Luxurious Art (FILA)
7. Squarepusher - Damogen Furies *
8. Oddisee - The Good Fight
9. Knxwledge - Hud Dreems *
10. Jim O'Rourke- Simple Songs ***
11. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last ***
12. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
13. Pigeondust - Moon, Wisdom & Slackness *
14. A$AP Rocky - At.Long.Last.A$AP *
15. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
16. Inkswel - Super Foods Vol.1
17. Inkswel - Super Foods Vol.2

JUNE:

1. Jamie xx - In Colour
2. Hudson Mohawke - Lantern **
3. Nosaj Thing - Fated **
4. The Body/Thou - You, Whom I Have Always Hated (split)
5. Todd Treje - It's It's Remix Time Time
6. SP-MOLD - midden
7. Pete Rock - Petestrumentals 2
8. Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
9. Killah Priest - Planet of the Gods
10. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
11. DJ Koze - DJ Kicks 50
12. KONE - Yellowstone *
13. Vince Staples - Summertime '06 *
14. Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Money
15. Trembling Bells - The Sovereign Self *

JULY:

1. RP Boo - Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints *
2. Sightings - Amusers and Puzzlers *
3. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons to Die II
4. Four Tet - Morning/Evening **
5. Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumentals 2015
6. Chief Keef - Bang 3
7. Wilco - Star Wars *
8. Tame Impala - Currents *

AUGUST:

1. Dr. Dre / Various - COMPTON: A Soundtrack By Dr. Dre
2. AFX / Aphex Twin - Orphaned Deejay Selek (2006—2008) *
3. FKA Twigs - M3LL15X EP

SEPTEMBER:

1. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
2. Travi$ Scott - Rodeo
3. Low - Ones and Sixes
4. Botany - Dimming Awe, The Light Is Raw **
5. Underachievers - Evermore: The Art of Duality
6. Battles - La Di Da Di *
7. Ought - Sun Coming Down
8. Survivalized EP - Survival Knife

OCTOBER:

1. Girls Names - Arms Around a Vision
2. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier **
3. Blackalicious - Imani Vol.1
4. Deafheaven - New Bermuda

NOVEMBER:

1. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete **

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Damn there is a lot missing though. Hmm.

yeah this is the exact problem I had with the warp full-lengths he's done, he seemingly stumbles onto these great ideas then dumps them altogether, which I totally understand is the point of what he's doing but it can be frustrating when it's surrounded by unadulterated fluff.


ANYWAY haven't heard anyone talking about the new sun araw record on here, it's a beast. trio setup with cameron stallones, alex gray (d/p/i, dreamcolour), mitchell brown (gasp, professor cantaloupe)

I have really loved Lydia Lunch Retroviruses Urge to Kill -album. Haven´t heard all the original versions, but these versions just rule!

Gotta hear that new Sun Araw.

i was talking to cathal from girls names at a wavves gig years ago

that neighba really likes his lo fi

The new Girls Names is fun. Good old gritty punk. Not as good as, say, Viet Cong's album, which is as far as I can tell the "Reflecting the Light" or "9 Songs" of this year, but it's pretty awesome nonetheless.

Speaking of Wavves, those motherfuckers have a new album out as well. I've never really listened to a lot of Wavves, but whenever I do I enjoy what I hear.
Anyone have anything to say about the new album?

Deerhunter has made another classic. Cox doesn't sound like Julian Casablancas for the first time since Micro-Castle, and it's refreshing. The album feels like REM, the Smiths, and other famously poppy bands with famously dark lyrics.

It's just another solid gold beauty. They've got a better track record than Pavement at this point. I really am glad they've been able to hang around even when contemporaries like Animal Collective and No Age have lost so much of their early momentum. I'm not sure Animal Collective has much of a future at all, and it doesn't help that Panda Bear is having such a nice solo career.

http://www.anothertimbre.com/extinguishment.html

at83 ‘Extinguishment’ by Fraufraulein (Billy Gomberg & Anne Guthrie)

note: the youtube excerpt does this no justice. it's some of the best sound art i've ever heard.. very painting-like

I don't know what the hell you people are talking about. I'm going back to my scotch.

severian how do you listen to tame impala like what the fuck?



BAM. gutted electronics from actress.

I never really have before honestly. I heard one of their earlier albums... Lonerism maybe... And I liked the Tame Impala guest spot on Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends...

I just decided to try the new album after hearing a ton of really good reviews.

It's alright. There's something Flaming Lips-y about TI. I like space rock and psychedelia. But I'm really not a fan. I just happen to think Currents is fairly good. They're certainly nothing special, that's for sure. But not everything has to be awesome. It's just a good alt rock album, in an era when there aren't many.

I'd rather be listening to Actress, and I do listen to Actress. A lot. So, quit busting my balls.

Speaking of that Romantic Psychology record... I need that fucker.

Richard Papiercuts - If

Great songs, great ideas and made by a great guy. For some reason it also reminds of the record this forum's Diesel could potentially come up with if he was working with other musicians rather than solo.

You're probably looking at something like:

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Holly Herndon - Platform
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Lonelady - Hinterland
Blanck Mass - Cruel Sport
Viet Cong - S/T
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Kamasi Washington - The Epic

I know most of you here are American so you won't know much about Lonelady but seriously, check that record out!

Spray Paint- Punters On A Barge LP/ Dopers LP
Bjork - Vulnicura LP
Frau - Mira 7"
Ivy - Cat's Cause(...)7"
CCTV - 7"
Broken Water- Wrought LP
Shopping- Why Choose LP
L.O.T.O.I.O.N. - Digital Control And Man's Obsolescence LP
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect LP
Cuntz - Force The Zone LP
Gun Outfit - Dream All Over LP
Wymyns Prysyn - Head In A Vice LP
Nurse - 7"/ Demo cs
Uniform - Demo cs
The Bug - Demo cs
Acrylics - Lovely's Slideshow cs
Mystic Inane - Ode to Joy 7"/ Eggs on a Plate 7"
Slum of Legs - Doll Like 7"

this neighba know what he talkin bout

Nice list overall, though there's no way Eearl S. is going to be one of my top picks.

That Viet Cong LP is even better now than it was at the beginning of the year.

But regarding Blank Mass, why pick the cruel sport EP over the Dumb Flesh LP? Just curious.

AE_LIVE_DUBLIN_191214
Lambkin/Pisaro - Schwarze Riesenfalter
Eva-Maria Houben - Air - works for flutes and organ
Timekeepers by Marcus Schmickler and John Tilbury
Jürg Frey - Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014
Michael Pisaro - A Mist is a Collection of Points
I hope you like the universe by Joda Clément
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Sneeuwstorm by Rutger Zuydervelt
The Quantum Loonyverse by Cylob
Nice Weather for War (Kye 38)
Fraufraulein - Extinguishment
Eric La Casa - Soundtracks
Jazz Jaguars: Twilite
Pole - Wald

Tracks:

AFX "umil 25-01"
AFX "oberheim blacet1b"
Laurel Halo "Nebenwirkungen"
Ron Morelli "A Gathering Together"
user18081971 "5 7z [sole transfer]"
Greg Stuart & Ryoko Akama "e.a.c.d."
Aphex Twin "Diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13"
Joseph Kudirka "Beauty and Industry"
Earl Sweatshirt "Solace"


still too early for a definitive list... it takes years to discover and spend time with everything released over the course of a year.

Hell yeah Richard D James songs!
I'm oddly fond of "midi pipe1c sds3time cube/klonedrm" from the Orphaned Deejay Selek record. Also "bonus EMT beats" and "serge Fenix rendered 2"...
And the computer controlled acoustic experiments EP is just full of deliciously weird ass shit, but it's hard to pick a single track from that one.

I actually had a song list I was pretty stoked about, but I somehow deleted it over the summer, and it's been difficult to replicate.

But as far as song go, these are a few of the ones I've jotted down since lapping the original list:

DJ Koze - XTC
Joanna Newsom - "Sapokanikan"
Joanna Newsom - "Anecdotes"
Cities Aviv - "Isolation Quarters"
Caural - "I grab the microphone & Fuck it up"
Botany - "Bad CGI"
Four Tet - "Evening Side"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "I Bite Through it"
Sleater-Kinney - "Price Tag"
Todd Terje - "Strandbar (Eric Duncan remix)"
Todd Terje - "Inspector Norse (Pepe Bradock remix)"
The Flaming Lips - "Atlantis" (Donovan cover)
Kanye West - "All Day"
Wilco - "EKG"
Wilco - "You Satellite"
Hudson Mohawke - "Scud Books"
Hudson Mohawke - "Ryderz"
Drake - "6man"
Kool Keith & L'Orange - "Twenty Fifty Three (feat. Mr. Lif)"
A$AP Rocky - "Excuse Me"
Viet Cong - "Continental Shelf"
Viet Cong - "Pointless Experience"
Hot Chip - "Huarache Lights"
Siskiyou - "Deserter"
Lupe Fiasco - "Mural"
AFX / Aphex Twin - "midi pipe1c sds3time cube/klonedrm"
Deerhunter - "Snakeskin"
A$AP Rocky - "Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2"

i picked Diskhat ALL prepared because it's the most fully fleshed-out track on the album, and it's got a dope, brooding vibe.

Orphaned Deejay Selek is super playable, I'd def. choose another couple tracks from it, "simple slamming" and "NEOTEKT72" are my other two favorites, along with the opening track.

but the AE_LIVE shit is just insanely good. super fluid and CHOCK full of details... it really sounds alive. can't get over it

Dammit! I still haven't sat down for a good listen to AE_LIVE. I keep getting distracted by other shit. It's going on my to do list for TODAY though.

I'm also starting to obsess over what my end of the year list is going to look like. There's been some recent activity (specifically from Joanna Newsom and Oneohtrix Point Never) that has forced me to rethink what I assumed my top 10 would look like.

No ultra clear number 1 album either. Very strange for me, that. I almost always know what's going to take the top spot before starting the list.

probably best to not stress over a well-defined/ultimate list... you're always gonna hear something later on that will change your perspective, placing albums in order is sorta ridiculous. there's still a month to go, in my experience some of the best stuff comes to light months, even years later.

it's nice to have a list for reference, however.

I know but it's really a labor of love for me. Yeah, it stresses me way the fuck out sometimes, and there's no rational explanation for that other than that I'm kind of a crazy neurotic.

So i liked Planet of the Gods and especially No Cities To Love otherwise this wasn't much of a a year for me for new releases. I DID make it to some really kick ass shows this year.. strong possibility i will be going to see the Dead ON NEW YEAR'S EVE at the house that Magic and Kareem buily

Man, the year is turning out to be much less thrilling in hindsight than it was at the start. If I had to draw up a top 10 for the year right now it would probably be:

Hudson Mohawke - Lantern
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Perfuse 73 - Rivington Não Rio
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Eric Holm - Andøya
Botany - Dimming Awe, The Light Is Raw

... Or some other obvious choices like Jim O'Rourke's Simple Songs, Squarepusher's Damogen Furies, Deerhunter's Fading Frontier or the latest S-K. All great records, but I was hoping for something to really put my balls in a vice here in the home stretch.

Kasami Washington's the Epic deserves a spot too.

But what's irritating is that I could have made this list (with the exception of Newsome and Oneohtrix) back in the first half of the fucking year!

Björk - Vulnicura
Lady Lamb - After
Julia Holter - Have you in my wilderness

Marianne Nowottny - Dark Souls Need Light

http://feedingtuberecords.com/releas...ls-need-light/

I forgot:

Heather Woods Broderick - Glider
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (not usually a big fan but this album is pretty great)

Hecks yeah! Also, if you ever see her wearing a beautiful bracelet which has blue stones on it, ask her who gave it to her...

You're like the only person I've heard talk about Disappears here (apart from the obvious SY connection).

I have been a big fan of their since the start, but I didn't get into Irreal for some reason. I need to go back to it. And I haven't heard the Live record, but I'm dying to.

Would you mind terribly telling me the names of a couple of these? Most of them are obvious, but two in particular look very familiar and yet I can't place them.

The one with the weird plastic covered hand coming up from under the water?
The one with the cow skull and the flowers coming out from its head?

I swear I know what these are, but I can't place either one.