geez, this year is half over already! anyway, since it’s music season in chicago, i got inspired - here are my favourite songs released so far in 2008, if you care. not as many brilliant new albums as last year but some good stuff for sure.
and yes, you can commence making fun of me for being a list-making geek now.
playlist:
why? - “the vowels pt.2″ (from the new alopecia album , one of the most interesting albums i’ve heard in awhile)
noah and the whale - “5 years time” (from s/t ep. every song on it is better than good.)
british sea power - “lights out for darker skies” (from do you like rock music? they are the poor man’s arcade fire, it’s a fair album with a few really, really good songs like this one)
hot chip - “ready for the floor” (on made in the dark. it’s fun, dance-y, makes you want to shake your proverbial tail feather)
devotchka - “the clockwise witness” (on a mad & faithful telling, one of the best of the year so far. it’s an amazing album of weird gypsy music)
the mountain goats - “autoclave” (from heretic pride, mildly disappointing but i still heart john darnielle)
cat empire - “no longer there” (just released album of the same name in the states, touring in the fall. huzzah!)
wolf parade - “california dreamer” (on at mount zoomer. pitchfork loves these guys)
islands - “creeper” (on arm’s way. i surprised myself by really digging this whole album)
the indelicates - “sixteen” (from american demo, one of my favourites of the year. this album is SO AWESOME)
nick cave and the bad seeds - “hold on to yourself” (on dig lazarus dig, which i’m warning you is depressing. hey, it’s nick cave, what did you expect?)
the magnetic fields - “too drunk to dream” (an awesome song from the much anticipated and slightly disappointing distortion album)
vampire weekend - “i stand corrected” (s/t album. and yes, yes, they are riding the hype train. no, they aren’t brilliant but it’s fun summery light music)
my morning jacket - “aluminum park” (the second half of evil urges kicks ass. the first part is meh.)
james - “of monsters & heroes & men” (from hey ma. um, it’s james. their first album in 8 years. i love everything about it. you should too.)
the raveonettes - “sad transmission” (from lust lust lust - more spaced out 50’s music. must be played loud)
we are scientists - “that’s what counts” (on brain thrust mastery. well done geek rock.)
martha wainwright - “love is a stranger” (on i know you’re married. rufus’ little sister covering the eurythmics)
so there you have it. questions? comments? criticisms? threats?
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And “Sequestered in Memphis” by the Hold Steady. Makes me want to drink my proverbial tail feather off.
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Comment by daniel — June 9, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
This list should start and stop with Usher’s “Love In The Club”. Hands down.
Seriously, I’d probably have “Hurly / Burly” from Man Man, “Infinity Ytinifni” from These New Puritans, “Cassius” from the Foals, “Jenny Ono” from Pattern is Movement, “Drunken Sex Sucks” from Bum Kon, “Wolf Oo-Loo” from the Pubes, “Hang Them All” from Tapes n Tapes, and certainly not least, I think I should get to count “Academy Fight Song” by Mission of Burma because it was rereleased this year. I also hear the new So Many Dynamos album is off da hook, so to speak. I haven’t heard it yet though.