Best New Music - 2007

[Futureman]

It may be a little early for this sort of thread, but there's alot of great music that's been released already. Besides, I purchase a good deal of music based on threads of this sort. Sooooooo...

Here's sampling of early favs:

Low-Drums and Guns
Panda Bear-Person Pitch
Times New Viking-The Paisely Reich
Deerhoof-Friend Opportunity
Deerhunter-Cryptograms

[johansen smith]

Nah it's a good time for this, I almost made the same thread a few times myself. Ten from this year I'm digging

Au Revoir Simone the Bird of Music
the Bird and the Bee s/t
Bill Callahan Woke on a Whaleheart
Nicolai Dunger Hösten Och Harren
Electrelane No Calls, No Shouts
Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer
the Rosebuds Night of the Furies
Richard Swift Dressed Up For the Letdown
Times New Viking Present the Paisley Reich
Shannon Wright Let in the Light

[pabost]

Yeah, I think this year has been really strong so far.

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Les Breastfeeders - Les Matins De Grands Soirs
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Sloan - Never Hear the End of It

And I haven't heard a fraction of the records I'd like to hear.

[Lukas]

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Finches - Human Like A House
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Animal Collective - People EP
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Dan Deacon - Spiderman Of The Rings
Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid - Tongues

Looking forward to new recs from Jicks, Ladybug Transistor, Au Revoir Simone, Miracle Fortress, Feist, Think About Life...whatever I'm forgetting.

[otto midnight]

gentleman jesse & his men 7" is the best thing i've bought all year. i saw them last weekend and the songs that aren't on the record are at least as good. i can't wait to see them sunday.

[vesper]

Gonzales - Solo Piano


do you know what precisely the deal is with this cd's release? supposedly it actually it came out 2 years ago but to absolutely no acclaim. now all of a sudden people are taking notice...

great cd!

[pabost]

do you know what precisely the deal is with this cd's release? supposedly it actually it came out 2 years ago but to absolutely not acclaim. now all of a sudden people are taking notice...

great cd!

No, I'm not entirely sure, but I know it's finally getting a domestic release this April. I got hip to Gonzales' piano stuff based on his remix of Jamie Lidell's "Multiply." After keeping tabs on his stuff, I happened upon this cd in the used bin of my local record store. I was ecstatic.

[vesper]

that's the exact same way i came across it.

[Elijah]

!!! - Myth Takes
Dean & Britta - Back Numbers
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Kristin Hersh - Learn to Sing Like a Star
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
The Ponys - Turn the Lights Out
The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

[Lukas]

The Bird And The Bee - S/T is really great too.

[Joel]

It's not even April.

[Fiona]

It's not even April.
I'm surprised johansen smith hadn't started this thread by mid february, or at least selected 10 albums which were definitely going to make his top 5 at year-end ;)

[Joel]

I don't think I'm even finished with listening to records from last year.

[johansen smith]

I'm surprised johansen smith hadn't started this thread by mid february, or at least selected 10 albums which were definitely going to make his top 5 at year-end ;)
Ah, good times, good times. I should seriously work PR, "This is the band's most crucial, bone-smelting album yet! Eight stars!"

[Miss Tasty Princess]

I don't think I'm even finished with listening to records from last year.Ditto! I know of several things I still need to hear and the new Metalchicks album I ordered a few months ago from Japan only shipped this week (had to wait for Boredoms Super Roots 9 to be released so they could ship together).

[tinobeat]

jesus, you guys are slow. I'm working my way through the 2nd half of 2008, so I can start working on my "top 10 of '09" list.

[Lukas]

Ummm I started a similar thread over a month ago....where's my high-five?

[Futureman]

*high-five*

Sorry I stole your thunder, Lukas.

[Lukas]

whatever jerk. ;)

[Futureman]

I completely forgot:

Marnie Stern-In Advance of the Broken Arm

Not a flawless album, by any means, but one I keep coming back to.

[Joel]

i ain't making lists but the sapat, blues control and beach house lps i've bought in the past couple days are pretty damn great.

[Lukas]

beach house was last year. Although, the vinyl was released this year.

[pizzagratis]

Any way I can count Chain Gang as 2007 if I just heard em?

[A-Squared]

i ain't making lists but the sapat, blues control and beach house lps i've bought in the past couple days are pretty damn great.

It's a little too early for me to make lists too, but the Blues Control and Sapat records are fantastic and would be on a list if I had to make one.

[Joel]

last year, this year, don't matter. time is just, like, an abstract concept, man.

and oh yeah - p.g. six, "slightly sorry" is the JAM! or something. seriously great record by our pal pat and his heavy awesome friends (including Matador Direct's own Helen Rush!).

[earl grey]

and oh yeah - p.g. six, "slightly sorry" is the JAM! or something. seriously great record by our pal pat and his heavy awesome friends (including Matador Direct's own Helen Rush!).

yes! i quite like this as well.

[Futureman]

I'm going to add:

The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

and (at least for now)

Blonde Redhead - 23

[otto midnight]

the upcoming cococoma album on goner is gonna be fantastic. i can't stop listening to it.

[johansen smith]

gotta add these two to the list:
Chromeo: Fancy Footwork
Hilary Duff: Dignity

[Lukas]

Hilary Duff: Dignity

stop trying to be cool.

[johansen smith]

Well I know it doesn't contain any members of Dr. Dog so you probably haven't heard it yet.

[tinobeat]

meow meow! zingerz all around!

07 releases that have tickled my fancy more than a little:
Panda Bear
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Times New Viking
Nurse & Soldier
Group Doueh
Von Südenfed (Mouse on Mars w/ Mark E. Smith)
Dälek
Boredoms
Pissed Jeans
Love of Diagrams
MV+EE & The Bummer Road
Trans Am
David Vandervelde
Bill Callahan

[.:.impossible]

I'm thinking Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake From The River To The Ocean is going to make a few lists. This could go into the beautifully recorded albums thread as well...

and since it doesn't really matter what year it was recorded, I'll at Safe At Home by the International Submarine Band. Great record.

[Lukas]

Well I know it doesn't contain any members of Dr. Dog so you probably haven't heard it yet.
Thanks for bringin' the hurt! I think I'm missing their show tomorrow night URRH!

[Miss Tasty Princess]

It's not even April.Yeah? Well now it's May!

Can't stop spinning the new Sir Lord Baltimore album III Raw. Some of the songs date back to the never finished third album from the early 7T's and some are new (don't know which are which, though).

Also totally loving The Hidden Hand's The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote and, of course, Boredoms' Super Roots 9.

I'm sure there are several more but that's all that's popping into my head at the moment.

Oh, yeah: Lavender Diamond The Cavalry of Light EP

[Miss Tasty Princess]

A few more I've been diggin':

Big Business Here Come the Waterworks
Elekibass EVERYBODY! Come!! Let's get down!!!!
Killick Erik Hinds/Dennis Palmer/Bob Stagner A.S.A.P. Wings
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat An Interlude to the Outermost
Kittie Funeral for Yesterday
Portugal. The Man It's Complicated Being a Wizard
Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
The 63 Crayons Spoils for Survivors
Soft Mountain Soft Mountain
Television Personalities Are We Nearly There Yet?
Villains Drenched in the Poisons

[tinobeat]

The reissues were fantastic, but I had no idea Television Personalities were still at it! I take it this record is good, then?

[johansen smith]

I just got back from Best Buy and they're out of Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat ;_;

[Miss Tasty Princess]

The reissues were fantastic, but I had no idea Television Personalities were still at it! I take it this record is good, then?Yep. Dan's recorded two albums since getting out of jail. This one was recorded first but released second, for some reason.

I just got back from Best Buy and they're out of Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat ;_;Terrible band name (I've been told the Knights Templar were accused of the cat butt kissing in their secret rituals) but a very cool record. You can check out MP3s at www.AquariusRecords.org and at their MySpace (but I don't recall the URL). The music is dark, electric folk and the vox are reminiscent of New Zealand's Headless Chickens.

[A-Squared]

The list of things that have rocked my boat so far this year (in no order)...

Times New Viking - Present The Paisley Reich CD
Sapat - Mortise and Tenon CD
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror CD
Blues Control - Puff LP
Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now LP
The Cherry Blossoms - The Cherry Blossoms LP
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver CD

No clear-cut "best album" yet. Although the best record I've purchased this year is the Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall CD/DVD.

[Dean]

No clear-cut "best album" yet. Although the best record I've purchased this year is the Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall CD/DVD.

Amen on that. It's the first new CD I've bought in like three years. Still would have preferred a vinyl release, but that DVD almost makes up for it.

[MeetTheMets]

So far, I have really liked:

Modest Mouse
Dinosaur Jr
Panda Bear
Menomena
Deerhunter

(in that order)

But I am really looking forward to hearing the new !!!, Ted Leo, Bjork, matt pond PA, and Feist too...and Liam and Me...AND that Joanna Newsom, well, new song.

[jef]

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Times New Viking - Presents the Paisley Reich
No Age - Get Hurt 12"
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
Silver Daggers - New High and Ord
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Deerhoof-Friend Opportunity
Feist - The Reminder
Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love

[bitterfruit]

Times New Viking - Presents the Paisley Reich


I lovin' it.

[johansen smith]

that Times New Viking is the first thing in a long time (maybe ever) that I can remember the whole board digging.

[Paul]

that Times New Viking is the first thing in a long time (maybe ever) that I can remember the whole board digging. I HATE IT!

(just kidding)

[dola]

that Times New Viking is the first thing in a long time (maybe ever) that I can remember the whole board digging.


Yeah and I want the website, more shows and more everything right now but maybe it's like Of Mice and Men where you squeeze too hard and wind up with a dead rabbit.

[otto midnight]

that Times New Viking is the first thing in a long time (maybe ever) that I can remember the whole board digging.

so what is it about them that sets them apart from everyone else? i've seen them and i think they're ok but what do you think sets them apart? i guess i don't understand the hype and unanimity behind them. but i'm notorious for having bad taste so please, educate me. i am looking forward to seein them saturday even if i'm so poor i can only have 2 schlitz.

not even enough for a schiltzkrieg.

[Lukas]

they're pretty good. I don't listen to them regularly though.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Yoko Ono's Yes, I'm a Witch should've been on my list a coupla pages back.

[Paul]

Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

No, JUST KIDDING. These both suck. And I'm more than a little disappointed over the fact that the Art Brut one sucks, because I lurve them.

[tinobeat]

lookout johansen! Paul's out for the one-day snap judgement hyperbole award! watch yer back!

Spoon sounds like its gonna be a grower, like every other Spoon record. I have zero interest in Art Brut so I didn't even check it out...

[Paul]

Spoon sounds like its gonna be a grower, like every other Spoon record. I have zero interest in Art Brut so I didn't even check it out... Well, I just really don't like nu-Spoon that much. The '00s records aren't horrible per se, but they don't hook me like Telephono or Sneaks did. This one is just more of the same.

[johansen smith]

new Spoon is the closest they've come to making a proper follow-up to A Series of Sneaks, really great stuff. I can't imagine disliking songs like "Eddie's Ragga" or "Don't Make Me a Target," but I rarely understand Paul and vice versa I'm sure.

[ShadySides]

I just wish they'd start sneaking in Hall and Oates covers.

[johansen smith]

I wish that for every band

[Salman]

Been digging these a lot from 07:

Polyrhythm Addicts
Mira Calix
Panda Bear
Stars of the Lid
Fursaxa
Von Südenfed
Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid
The Ponys
Mary Weiss
Ghost
Dälek

[vesper]

Stars of the Lid


this would be high on my list if i had one. battles and von sudenfed will probably be way up there as well - right after i hear them, that is.

[Lukas]

The new Spoon record is really interesting. It's a much looser affair this time around compared to Gimme Fiction, and with titles like "Black Like Me" and "Don't You Evah" - you have to ask yourself wtf is going on? I feel like they are backing off from the media attention. They're receding back to obscurity, which isn't a bad thing if they make more albums like this....although, I wouldn't mind another Gimmer Fiction.

[tinobeat]

receding back into obscurity? huh? Its not like they made a Scott Walker record. Its pretty easy on the ears by any measure.

[Lukas]

I meant it on a mainstream level.

[johansen smith]

And another in the year of Big Surprises, I would never have guessed that MySpace Angle-Purveyors Tegan and Sara would release one of the year's best albums, but the Con has earned a spot on the year end list.

[yovan]

Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated

And I'm more than a little disappointed over the fact that the Art Brut one sucks, because I lurve them.

Oh No! Say it ain't so!

Yikes, I better lower my expectations. I was really looking forward to this...