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Good Morning, Montana. Add this to your list:

M83.

First dozen I thought of:

Boris – Smile
Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
Leviathan – Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Times New Viking – Rip It Off
Sahg – II
The Goslings – Occasion
Unearthly Trance – Electrocution
Portishead – Third
Genghis Tron – Board Up The House
Evangelista – Hello, Voyager
Prurient – And Still, Wanting
John Zorn – The Dreamers

TRIM(SKI) - SOULFOOD VOL. 3
GHENGIS TRON - BOARD UP THE HOUSE

THERE'S A LINK FOR THE TRIM SOMEWHERE, ELECTRONIC THREAD I THINK.

The Sword - Gods Of The Earth is the only thing I've kept coming back to so far this year. Love it.

I wanted to like the Louris record but it just isn't doing it for me. The more I listen to it, the more MOR its sounding. Not bad in the least, its just not doing much for me. I did just score a promo of the "Acoustic Vagabonds" disc though. I'll be spinning that soon.

I am way behind on listening. Haven't heard the Portishead, Patton or Malkmus yet.

I haven't heard any of these, but I've been looking forward to all of them. If this is on the money, Dread enters the go-to sanctum.

Can vouch for #1 and #2.

want that. seen it at a decent price? i keep seeing eighteen squid, and i ain't talkin bout calamari

Vinyl is 13.99 on Amazon.co.uk

new M83 sounds like ordinary '80s synth pop.

Thanks for saving me an hour of my life.

badboy. ta!

i'm only halfway through, but that epic, spacey quality is gone.

I didn't like the last one much anyway. If it sounded more like the first I'd be interested.

it's nothing like the first album. it's not very good, i don't even see Montana liking it.

although i kind of like track #8, "Highway of Endless Dreams" and track #10 "Dark Moves of Love"

I like the Howlin' Rain, Dirtbombs, Earth, and Boris records.

other than the new Boris, Clinic, Times New Viking and R.E.M., I've found 2008 to be pretty shitty so far

HLLLYH is spectacular. Start to finish. Even "Kingdom Come".

I've found 2008 to be less 'shitty' than Accelerate, that's for certain.

Probably not. My tastes in music are sometimes so vastly different from people here that sometimes I feel like I shouldn't even post. However, there are a number of people here who have praised Elbow's latest, and a few actually responded to my posting of the BRS album... so maybe not all hope is lost. When it comes to my "safer" musical endeavors though I generally won't even talk about them.

EDIT: I'm only on track 6 of the new M83, but I don't think I'll be listening to this again. A shame, I guess... but it's never like I was a big fan anyway. I just love Moonchild and Don't Save Us from the Flames a lot.

well that smarts

I like this M83 more than their others. I thought the last one had a couple mind-bending tracks and a whole lot of filler. This record has more of a narrative, more vocals, more Pretty In Pink (record and movie). I love the poppy stuff like "Kim & Jessie." Pairs nicely with Neon Neon. It's like the bliss-out ambient version of that record.

I'll actually probably give it another shot. I generally never really like things on first listen anyway, even by artists I have previously really enjoyed. Heck, two of my top three so far this year wouldn't have even made it had I kept that sort of mentality.

I guess I have to listen to now.

but the guy can't write pop melodies. it's a failure.

2008 is already off to a great start for me; I've already heard like 20-plus records, and that seldom ever happens with me this early into a year. Still need to give several more listens before I can really judge, but so far:

1. Meshuggah - obZen
2. Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
3. Bob Mould - District Line

... have clearly emerged as the three favorites.

Others I'm enjoying:

To-Mera - Delusions
Boris - Smile
Black Mountain - In The Future
Foals - Antidotes
Saviours - Into Abaddon
Leviathan - Massive Consipiracy Against All Life
The Sword - Gods of the Earth

So far on this M83 (track 2) I already like it better than any other M83 album. He's writing pretty good pop melodies, I think. It sounds like old Slowdive mixed with New Order. This works pretty perfectly. I love this kind of shoegaze-y super emotional pop shit though, so I don't know.

HOLY SHIT

What the fuck.

Can't say I dsagree with the MOR vibe. Chris Robinson and his team really fucked up that record. Still the songs underneath that candy coating are pretty good as evidenced by the acoustic EP being excellent.

Don't worry, it's been replaced with solid hooks and memorable melodies.

Bright Blue Dream is really great

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Thx for the link. I'm a few songs in and so far this sucks a giant pair of donkey balls. I hate it when bands move away from their strengths for the sake of being "different"(see Air). Unless you're Pink floyd, Neil Young, Bowie or Radiohead, you have to know your limitations.

Sometimes you are what you are.


Edit: I'm crushed. This album sucks. And it has this awful candy coating sheen over everything. I had such high hopes for this. Looks like the last two are the best M83 is going to offer. That's pretty good I guess, since those are outstanding.

scha·den·freu·de (shäd'n-froi'də) pronunciation
n.

Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others

my favorites of the year in some kind of order, sorta:

Beach House - Devotion
British Sea Power - Do you like rock music
Vampire Weekend
Atlas Sound - let the blind do their thing
Kelley Polar - hold on while the sky is falling
Los Campesinos! - Hold on now, youngster
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Ruby Suns - Sea Lion

while i'll admit this new M83 is a big change and not as great on the whole as the last 2, there's still a handful of great songs on here for me.

not that great. just some fairly decent ones. considering their track record, it's not good enough.

Wow. I really do not understand the hate for this M83 record at all.

great songs through first listen of it:

Kim & Jessie
Graveyard Girl
Highway of Endless Dreams
Dark Moves of Love

if this came from a different band or wasn't released under the name M83, i have a feeling people would be liking it a lot more.

I really think this is better than the last one, and a step behind Dead Cities. There isn't any "In Church" or "Run Into Flowers." Those two songs prompt me to lose my mind and drift into high school moods, though. This could get to that level. It sounds like what M83 has been all along, they're voices have drifted out of the fog now.


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I would say that You Appearing, Skin of the Night, Couleurs are all good as well

Jimmy and I will agree, surprisingly. This album is not up to M83 standards.

i'm sure the M83 will get a lot of supporters, i think there are some decent songs, but they're just okay songs that sound like better songs.

that, and because it doesn't have an interesting new take on the '80s sound, i think it's a big failure (despite the craftsmanship)

there's only a couple of songs that are 80's-ish for me, and that's simply the choice of synth sounds. as much as i love their previous 2 albums, i can appreciate the more fully fleshed songwriting on this record. there was always a couple tracks on the other records that didn't do a lot for me.

like i said, not gonna say it's an amazing album or anything (way too soon anyway), but i'm not disappointed with it either, it's too different of a sound for them to fully digest yet.

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Am I the only one who's not deeply in love with the new British Sea Power and REM albums? I like the song Waving Flags, but both of these albums, as a whole, don't do alot for me.

Here are my top 4 disappointing albums so far for 2008:

1) Louis XIV

2) Black Crowes

3) Supergrass

4) Portishead

I don't think anyone is "deeply in love" with the new R.E.M.

I think those that like it are very pleased with its sound and ability to actually be fun.

And I have never heard the BSP record, so I guess i am not deeply in love with it, either.

Yay, Louis XIV! Good stuff. I still don't understand how the fuck it got the lowest rating of the year on Metacritic. Insane.

Awesome.

I'm really excited to hear this now. Too bad I used rapidshare on porn already, now I gotta wait a couple hours.