Cheers.

agreed.
all of their material is pretty much great. double nickels and all three post mersh compilations which contains all of their albums except fro double nickels, three way tie, and ballot result.

double nickels is great but not one of my favorites, it's just too long and i don't like the production... too stiff. three way tie and the post mersh stuff are my favorites. ballot result is... uh... not my thing. but yeah it's nice how you can get all their albums in just a few albums. all their ep's were amazing.

i HIGHLY reccomend their documentary, we jam econo.

they're a big influence on me, musically, all the musicians were brilliant.

genteel, do you like wire? the first 3 wire albums are basically my favorite albums by any band. id' really like to get some more "art punk" (like early the fall and swell maps, too -- any reccomendations?).

you've seen the we jam econo doc, right fugazifan? holy shit it's good.

oh and trust me on this new solo album, fugazifan -- it's by far watt's best solo album EVER, he said he's been listening to minutemen for the first time since d. boon died. it's like minutemen except a lot more abstract.. like i said, double nickels era meets doc at the radar station era beefheart. it's fucking goooooood. i will bet you a hundred dollars it will be your favorite album of the year, or at least up there. SO FUCKING GOOD. i am literally happy as hell to hear it.. it seriously makes me want to stop everything i'm doing and record a new album. it's THAT inspiring.

Yeah, Wire and much of Colin Newman solo is some of my favourite music.

Oh and thanks to you both.

yeah, we jam econo is one of my favorite documentaries. such inspiring and interesting people.
whats crazy about the minutemen is the amount of quality work in five years. they barely have a song that i dont like and they have like over a hundred.

what i think is brilliant about double nickels is the amount of song to great song ratio which is almost equal. i never get bored and i like all the songs. its just incredible how they could record so many song sin such a small amount of time and unlike other bands in that scene, all of the songs stand for themselves and dont rehash other ones.

couple o' things:

New Kurt Vile 7'' called In My Time. Worth checking out. Cleaner (more generic?) than his other stuff, but this guy is still so consistently good.

Raspberry Bulbs, comprised of one of the dudes from Bone Awl, is making tapes that sound like Bone Awl but way more crust punk with some actual singing...kind of. But it's fucking awesome. Get the Lone Gunman one first.

The new Total Abuse record is where it's at, extremely lo-fi blend between hardcore and noiserock with some power electronics thrown into the mix.

really into the new not breathing - christy cores... excellent electronic stuff. cool as hell. just a really good sound to it. dark.

Cleric - Regressions

put out on Web of Mimicry,:

http://www.webofmimicry.com/catalog/...products_id=85

When we here at WoM ran across Cleric's music it almost seemed as if some kind of prophesy was being fulfilled. The music registered in our minds as a kind of missing link, like an inevitable stage in metal-oriented music that has needed to happen for a long time now. Yet somehow the seat of that destiny has remained ever vacant until this particular band came along. Like everything good, it took the tireless commitment of people unifying behind a vision which for some reason always ends up having to fight against every stream, every atrophy, every regression into easy answers, in order to reach its goal. There's no accounting for how "niche" bands are perceived, even when they are fulfilling a destiny as clear as the one Cleric has taken on. It's for this reason that lowly WoM is once again graced by one of the finest and well-honed musical expressions to emerge from any music scene in the last decade.

A four piece from Philadelphia, Cleric's music mixes elements of grindcore, avant garde composition, doom and... something else entirely? Influenced by other metal pioneers such as Meshuggah, Converge, Fantômas, and Neurosis, their music zeroes in on a level of brutality and experimentation that a single band rarely maintains even for a few seconds. In their six years since inception, Cleric has released a number of EPs and a 12" picture disk through Sound Devastation Records (UK), all of which (for their very high quality and unique & intricate sounds and artwork) have garnered praise and die-hard underground accolade. Having been around awhile, and taken a lot of shit & not given up & built themselves up internally to handle whatever bullshit this world flings their way, this band is just beginning its walk down their shining path.

Another amazing release on Sublime Frequencies:

Group Doueh - Beatte Harab

wonderful Saharan psychedelia!

havent heard the new group doeh yet but i have been meaning to. their previous albums have been fantastic.
the new swans is so good.

yep love group doeh, will check out thanks!

anyone mention laetita sadiers the trip...beautiful album...
she had to cancel her show in dublin tonight due to the completly stupid unirish amount of snow we are getting. gatwick airport closed so she couldnt get over. gutted but returning in february.

also another great album to check out is not squares - ok yeah......great rockin band from belfast.

Condominium's ''Gag'' 7'' is amazing.

Can we talk abut My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy?
That album is fuckng excellent.

Yep, I love that album, mentioned it a few pages back.

That Group Doeuh album is fucking fantastic btw. Thanks for reccomending it earlier, Marolo.

Okay, my top 50 of 2010, though it'll change by this time next week I'm sure.
1. mike watt - hyphenated man
2. ikonika - contact love want have
3. autechre - move of ten
4. sun city girls - funeral mariachi
5. honey ride me a goat - udders
6. group inerane - guitars from agadez volume 3
7. alex smoke - lux
8. steve reich - double sextet/2x5
9. michael yonkers - lovely gold
10. toshimaru nakamura - egrets
11. stereolab - not music
12. daniel higgs - say god
13. scuba - triangulation
14. group doueh - beatte harab
15. trumans water - o zeta zunis
16. ariel pink - before today
17. master musicians of bukkae - totem two
18. druid perfume - tin boat to tuna town
19. neil young - le noise
20. shed - the traveller
21. blank dogs - land and fixed
22. mass of the fermenting dregs - zero comma, irotoridori no sekai
23. daughters - daughters
24. univers zero - clivages
25. not breathing - christy cores
26. shugo tokumaru - port entropy
27. mount kimbie - crooks & lovers
28. skream - outside the box
29. laetia sadler - the trip
30. arandel - in d
31. mark mcguire - living with yourself
32. tungs - sleeping
33. war on drugs - future weather
34. bruce haack - farad
35. gate - republic of sadness
36. thee oh sees - warm slime
37. shortstuff - summer of shortstuff
38. maribor - atrocitiy exhibition
39. squarepusher - shobaleader one
40. keith fullerton whitman - generators
41. messenger girls trio - excelsior salon
42. dead c - patience
43. zs - new slaves
44. fred frith - ragged atlas
45. ceephax acid crew - united acid emirates
46. jack rose - luck in the valley
47. redshape - red pack
48. infinite body - carve out the face of god
49. sigh - scenes from hell
50. oren amrbarchi/jim o'rourke/keiji haino - tima formosa

Where's Extra Life - Made Flesh? That's probably my favourite from the whole year.

Women - Public strain
Beach house - Teen dream
Abe Vigoda - Crush
Shipping News - One less heartless to fear
Bill Callahan - Rough travel...

are the new records i listened to the most this year.

It's great, isn't it? Quite different from their other two.

Some of my favourites this year:

Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadez Vol 3
Group Doueh - Beatte Harab
Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Ghédalia Tazartès - Ante-Mortem
Konono Nº1 - Assume Crash Position
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus EP
Stretta - a funneled stone excellent modular synth goodness, you can download it for free on his website
T++ - Wireless
Ecstatic Music Of The Jemaa El Fna
Autechre - Move of Ten

swim by caribou is a super excellent album and it hast been mentioned yet if im not mistaken.
deffo in my top 10 of 2010 ..
atsonicpark you deffinetly should check that one out!

I really want a full-length from them. Sooo fucking good. As usual no one seems to care outside of the Terminal Boredom universe.

Really? I thought it was a HUGE step down from secular works. I probably would've still put it near the bottom of my list, but for some reason I thought it was a 2009 release anyway. But yeah, there were some breathtaking musical moments, but the vocals dominated the disc. It kinda seems like they're going through the Thinking Plague/Henry Cow type thing, which I respect, but their music doesn't move me like those bands did.

It's a shame. This band are REALLY something.

I like it about 10x more than Secular Works! Blows my mind with every listen. Complex, cathartic, emotional with barely any wasted song time (unlike Secular Works I think).

A top 15, as it looks today.

1. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
2. Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
3. Fursaxa - Mycorrhizae Realm
4. Autechre - Move of Ten
5. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
6. Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect
7. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
8. Philip Jeck - An Ark for the Listener
9. Mike Watt - Hyphenated-Man
10. Bo Becker - Octodurum
11. Yellow Swans - Going Places
12. The Fun Years - God Was Like, No
13. The Dead C - Patience
14. Ariel Pink - Before Today
15. Gate - Republic of Sadness

I mean, how could you hate the low-budgeted cruddiness of this music video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWPA46uw0-M

@atsonicpark

40. keith fullerton whitman - generators

HOLY SHIT there's a new KFW???

Shipping News - One less heartless to fear

what...new shipping news??????? oh that has really made my day!!!!

Current Top 10

Deep Magic - Soul Vibration
Gate - A Republic of Sadness
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generator
Bee Mask - Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico
Rene Hell - Porcelain Opera
Deepchord presents Echospace - Liumin
No Fun Acid - This is No Fun Acid 3
Lace Bows - Glitter Pulse
Peter Wright - Dissolving Into Light
Garden Sound - Black Summit

His real number 1 is UUUUUU - The Astral Travels of course. I told him not to though because I'm modest.

I actually had this at about # 28, but I don't want to put friend's bands on my list, nor do I want my friends to put my stuff on their list (though I doubt anyone would). Hence why no Ruryk was on there either.

This is all I've heard, save for Ariel Pink whom I've never been a fan of, on your list this year. I'm so fucking behind on 2010 releases, I've got some catching up to do.

My top 5 are probably, in no particular order, Ikonika's, SCG, Crystal Castles, Salem and Caribou.

my list:


50. Skullflower - Strange Keys To Untune Gods' Firmament
49. Rangers - Suburban Tours
48. Vandermark 5 - The Horse Jumps and The Ship Is Gone
47. The Young Gods And Dalek - Griots and Gods
46. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
45. Belle and Sebastian - Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
44. Group Doueh - Beatte Harab
43. The High Confessions-Turning Lead Into Gold
42. Faust - Faust Is Last
41. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
40. The Roots - How I Got Over
39. Autechre - Oversteps
38. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
37. Gate - A Republic of Sadness
36. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here
35. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
34. MGMT – Congratulations
33. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
32. Catherine Christer Hennix- The Electric Harpsichord
31. Mark Mcguire - Living With Yourself
30. Mogwai - Special Moves
29. Dead C - Patience
28. Caribou - Caribou Vibration Ensemble featuring Marshall Allen
27. Lean Left - The Ex Guitars Meet Nilssen-Love & Vandermark Duo vol. 1
26. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble-Miles Away
25. Steve Reich - Double Sextet 2x5
24. Caribou - Swim
23. Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues
22. Disappears - Lux
21. Neil Young - Le Noise
20. Liars – Sisterworld
19. Rhys Chatham - The Bern Project
18. Women - Public Strain
17. Laurie Anderson- Homeland
16. Zs - New Slaves
15. Glenn Branca - The Ascension: The Sequel
14.Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
13. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra-Kollaps Tradixionales
12. Wovenhand - Threshing Floor
11. The Ex - Catch My Shoe
10. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
9. The Bad Plus - Never Stop
8. Jaga Jazzist - One Arm Bandit
7. Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
6. The Fall – Your Future, Our Clutter
5. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
4. Yellow Swans - Going Places
3. Stereolab - Not Music
2. No Age – Everything In Between
1. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

kinda a thin year for me as far as listening to "new" stuff... but here's the shortlist off the top of my head...

Flower-Corsano Duo - You'll never work in this town again
Chris Corsano Band - High & Dry
Jailbreak (Chris Corsano/Heather Leigh) - The Rocker
Richard Youngs - Inceptor
Bill Orcutt - Way Down South
Keiji Haino/Oren Ambarchi/Jim O'Rourke - Tima Formosa
Lee Ranaldo/Ulrich Kreiger - Fathom
The Dead C. - Patience
James Blackshaw - All is falling
The Thing w/ Otomo Yoshihide - Shinjuku Crawl
Seijaku (Keiji Haino's new band!!!) - Mail from Fushitsusha
Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley

Late change: replace Peter Wright - Dissolving Into Light with Sundrips - Arrays