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.