One of the best records I've heard this year so far.
At times it sounds like Chrome if they were fronted by Andrew Eldtritch, formed a garage punk band and they were produced by TV Ghost.

It also sounds fantastic if you play it at 33 rpm.

The new Tindersticks record is really nice.

This is probably my favourite track from it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx-K...eature=related

the men - open your heart - the best rock album ive heard for aaaages.

^i'll give it a listen. soon.

 

http://www.nitetripper.com/

Lotus Plaza's new album is pretty rad. I really like the guitar arrangements on this record. I think it's better than Atlas Sound's last album. Another solid release from Kranky they've put out some really nice records this year. I have also really enjoyed the new grouper collaboration and Windy & Carl which have been put out on the label.

cute boy kissing booth - spring break!
i like it a lot it is very microphones on heroin reading too much camus for their own good

I think/hope I mentioned this too. Far better than Parallax, as you said. That album was a massive disappointment, especially after Logos.

are you the inspiration behind "hayden reads a poem"?

it is hayden that speaks in that song

sweet

now i can put a voice to his posts

i am sam's inspiration for everything
derek's too

yeah hayden is also on the new uuuuuu tape

DUE OUT SUMMER 2012

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

i am a spoken word artist for hire put me on your ambient/drone tapes i will say something about drugs or something

Black Breath-Sentenced to Life

Swans-We Rose from your Bed with the Sun in our Head

Insect Factory - Melodies From a Dead Radio (Fabrica Records)

An intriguing title is a great start, and from the very first track, Melodies from a Dead Radio delivers on its promise. One would imagine said melodies to be static-filled, ghostly, out of focus, difficult to comprehend. The shortwave radio burst of “Globes” is a series of words that sounds like ignition, a spark struggling to break through. Warbles and drones surround the transmission, choking it into non-existence. Perhaps Jeff Barsky (Insect Factory) is trying to say something about the difficulty of saying something: the intentional message lost in the debris. On “Radio Forecast”, the album’s standout track, waves and drones meander, meet and strike up a conversation, establishing a semblance of form before the locusts descend. The last third of this track sounds like the artist’s nom-de-plume: an insect factory at the meat of its production schedule, shedding wings to meet a quota as antennae fall all around. This is where Barsky is at his finest: adding layer upon layer until all the levels are in the red. The beauty of the track is that both form and chaos grow at equal levels: tempo and rhythm linked to volume and mass. The second side of the LP – Fabrica’s first foray into the vinyl format – sounds more like the amplified production of ants than the hive communications of bees. The hinted-at melodies are more apparent, the interference less defined. In “New Incision”, notes blink on and off like fireflies, backed by gentler drones, eventually giving way to filtered tones and quieter beds. The album’s brief coda, a mirror to the opener, provides the set’s clearest example of tune, a vaguely Indian guitar melody tailed by distant bells, yet still fuzzy around the edges, still distant and detached like a song shot into space and forgotten. What’s in a name? In this case, the name is simply the abbreviation for the sound. (Richard Allen)
http://acloserlisten.com/2012/03/17/...-a-dead-radio/

Though not yet released, this is obviously going to be one of the coolest archival releases of the year:

 

http://mute.com/can/announces-the-lo...ease-june-19th

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4CtY...ature=youtu.be


Looks like Can is getting into the deluxe reissue with bonus tracks game as well w/ a 2CD version of Tago Mago w/ live tracks:
http://mute.com/can/tago-mago-40th-a...-2cd-edition-2
also mentions a remastered vinyl box set, vinyl only live album, etc...

de la soul's plug 1 & 2 present.. first serve


hear the single, it's excellent!
http://soundcloud.com/firstserve/de-...lug-1-plug-2-1

This is the band, I´m going to listen much more in the near future (I have now only Monster Movie and I believe it´s not really their greatest album although it´s quite good. I have listen some material from youtube that´s far more interesting).

I have been enjoying the new Dan Sartain record this week. Clocks in under 20 minutes but is good nonetheless. There is some filler but the best tracks (Swap Meet, Indian Massacre) are damn catchy, Ramones inspired punk at its best.

Track from the LP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIFMjqLykac

I personally like everything up to Flow Motion, at which I percieve things to get a bit spotty. There are many bootlegs online from various years, not sure how much will overlap with this official set, sounds like it might be all new, but who knows? Dig deep!

Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier - An Age of Wonder

*starts clapping*

http://jesuislepetitchevalier.bandca...lter-press-lsr

I will :). I think I start from Tago Mago (there seem to be 40th Anniversary Edition in my local library.)

graham coxon's A+E is pretty good

I frankly wasn't into it. My boyfriend was all over it last week, but I didn't hear anything that particularly caught my fancy. Not bad but not good and way too reliant on nostalgia.

Already released this year:
Pharaoh Overlord: Lunar Jetman
Gunn-Truscinski Duo: Ocean Parkway


Upcoming (hopefully) great stuff:
Can: The Lost Tapes
Scott Walker's new album
Om: Advaitic Songs
Sigur Rós: Valtári
Mission of Burma: Unsound

You should by Tago Mago, Future Days, Ege Bamyasi and Soundtracks. All of them are excellent albums. I found Can about ten years ago accidently when I was trying to find band formed by two guys who left Kraftwerk (which really was Neu, but at the moment I couldn't remember the correct name).

Django Django is good too

Sun Araw's new collaboration with the congos is pretty rad. It's basically Sun Araw laying down these weird space dub beats and sounds with congos providing vocals. The sounds Sun Araw makes are really interesting, they vary so much. It's a cool record, it has really nice vibes to it. This is my personal favourite track from the record http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oox_24v3B0c

http://www.thefader.com/2012/04/18/s...-york-mixtape/

this fucking rules

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to pad_023 again

Haha I won't post any recommendations for a while

im obsessed with it

Ok, another archival thing I'm excited about, coming soonish:



alt-tuning guitar genius

and this:



another reissue of Sleep's Dopesmoker

New Actress and Le1f's mixtape are both fucking awesome

Just listening to the new Actress now. So far pretty impressed.

and this:



Jimmy Page's early 70's avant/prog unused soundtrack for legendary occult movie on one side and some related tracks on the flipside, 1st time officially released, available only thru his newish website, vinyl only. I've heard some bootleg extracts which are kinda cool and kinda spotty, still curious about this. Va Va Va Doom! (maybe more proto-goth actually).

Different from the Bobby Beausoleil soundtrack actually used on the film which was released as a deluxe multi-disc package w/ extras a while ago, which had it's moments.