Manny Calavera
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It's time. We only have a few weeks left in December and whatever is on the horizon is already available for your consumption in some form. This thread usually dies a swift death, however I've noticed an influx of music-loving members so I think this may have staying power this year. I guess we'll see. So, for today at least, here are my ten favorite things of the year 2007:
Black Mouth Super Rainbow: Like a mutant Flaming Lips, BMSR does sunny, electro-tinged pop from deep within a rotten forest. A really great group of guys doing indescribable, messy, airy music. Their "Dandelion Gum" album is one of the best albums of the year, but I listed the band as member Tobacco's music videos (which can be seen on YouTube or purchased on DVD via their website) are really amazing in their own right and need to be seen.
Deerhunter "Cryptograms": This album had a lot of marks against it (for me). It was so incredibly hyped, the last album was **** and the band is full of posturing cunts (see: the dissolution of the band a few months ago). However, this ended up being my early candidate for long-player of the year. For the uninitiated, an obnoxiously simple breakdown: MBV + Sonic Youth.
The Field "From Here We Go Sublime": This is the first electronic record since SAW 85-92 that has struck me as emotive and grandiose while remaining firmly planted in the realm of traditional dance and electronic music. As close as trance gets to shoegaze.
**** Buttons "Bright Tomorrow" 7": This was the release of the year for me and I'm dreading the eventual LP as I know it can't manage to be as "perfect" as this single. Bloody, blissed-out yet somehow coming off as triumphant, the A-side "Bright Tomorrow" is pitch-perfect build with the B-side, "Little Bloody Shoulder", being a thudding, tribal wind-down from the high of the feature. You can scour for the limited edition picture disc or download it from either eMusic or iTunes.
Panda Bear "Person Pitch": My favorite member (Panda Bear) of my favorite playing band (Animal Collective) emulating my favorite musician (Brian Wilson). I couldn't have expected an album this good. Definitely my pop album of the year and, despite being a compilation of older work rather than a full-fledged new album, it's worth a look by everyone.
A Place to Bury Strangers "A Place to Bury Strangers": The loudest band in New York! That's what they say at least (a friend gave me APtBS-branded earplugs they handed out for free at a show she attended). If Joy Division and Interpol formed a giant Voltron-esque robot that stomped around Tokyo and sprayed contaminated blood in the open wounds of orphans it would sound...nothing like this. I'm not sure where that was going. Anyway, a depressing drone washed away by angry and violent distortion. The self-titled debut is amazing and the first-ever album to make me purchase a piece of musical equipment (a pedal from band leader Oliver Ackermann's Death by Audio).
A Sunny Day in Glasgow "Scribble Mural Comic Journal": This album has been a grower in that I loved it at the beginning of the year and now it's found itself among my very favorite albums of the year. Incredibly cute (without being Asobi Seksu sacchariney) electro-tweegaze, nothing else like this really arrived this year with even the poppiest of the noisy albums (see: Black Moth Super Rainbow) being downright frightening. This is the album I've gifted to people the most this year.
Supersilent "8": Rune Grammofon's best release of the year and, finally, a true follow-up to "6". Describing Supersilent borders on pointless (improvisational electronic new jazz?) so if you're not familiar with the band check out "6", the band's most accessible work.
The Twilight Sad "Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters": This album could have easily been overly melodramatic and nauseating. However, Max Richter's wonderful production and the blistering guitar really turn it into something special. James Graham's working town Scottish accent is really beautiful trying to shout over the waves of guitar-noise. Probably the most accessible album on this list, even if it does have its feet planted firmly in shoegaze.
Wolves in the Throne Room "Two Hunters": The most organic metal you'll ever listen to. Despite the fact they deny the moniker, I think that, with the move to Southern Lord, Wolves finally went the nu-gaze direction that they've been hinting at for awhile now. It's all very ethereal and you don't have to be a genre-fiend to enjoy this album.
Black Mouth Super Rainbow: Like a mutant Flaming Lips, BMSR does sunny, electro-tinged pop from deep within a rotten forest. A really great group of guys doing indescribable, messy, airy music. Their "Dandelion Gum" album is one of the best albums of the year, but I listed the band as member Tobacco's music videos (which can be seen on YouTube or purchased on DVD via their website) are really amazing in their own right and need to be seen.
Deerhunter "Cryptograms": This album had a lot of marks against it (for me). It was so incredibly hyped, the last album was **** and the band is full of posturing cunts (see: the dissolution of the band a few months ago). However, this ended up being my early candidate for long-player of the year. For the uninitiated, an obnoxiously simple breakdown: MBV + Sonic Youth.
The Field "From Here We Go Sublime": This is the first electronic record since SAW 85-92 that has struck me as emotive and grandiose while remaining firmly planted in the realm of traditional dance and electronic music. As close as trance gets to shoegaze.
**** Buttons "Bright Tomorrow" 7": This was the release of the year for me and I'm dreading the eventual LP as I know it can't manage to be as "perfect" as this single. Bloody, blissed-out yet somehow coming off as triumphant, the A-side "Bright Tomorrow" is pitch-perfect build with the B-side, "Little Bloody Shoulder", being a thudding, tribal wind-down from the high of the feature. You can scour for the limited edition picture disc or download it from either eMusic or iTunes.
Panda Bear "Person Pitch": My favorite member (Panda Bear) of my favorite playing band (Animal Collective) emulating my favorite musician (Brian Wilson). I couldn't have expected an album this good. Definitely my pop album of the year and, despite being a compilation of older work rather than a full-fledged new album, it's worth a look by everyone.
A Place to Bury Strangers "A Place to Bury Strangers": The loudest band in New York! That's what they say at least (a friend gave me APtBS-branded earplugs they handed out for free at a show she attended). If Joy Division and Interpol formed a giant Voltron-esque robot that stomped around Tokyo and sprayed contaminated blood in the open wounds of orphans it would sound...nothing like this. I'm not sure where that was going. Anyway, a depressing drone washed away by angry and violent distortion. The self-titled debut is amazing and the first-ever album to make me purchase a piece of musical equipment (a pedal from band leader Oliver Ackermann's Death by Audio).
A Sunny Day in Glasgow "Scribble Mural Comic Journal": This album has been a grower in that I loved it at the beginning of the year and now it's found itself among my very favorite albums of the year. Incredibly cute (without being Asobi Seksu sacchariney) electro-tweegaze, nothing else like this really arrived this year with even the poppiest of the noisy albums (see: Black Moth Super Rainbow) being downright frightening. This is the album I've gifted to people the most this year.
Supersilent "8": Rune Grammofon's best release of the year and, finally, a true follow-up to "6". Describing Supersilent borders on pointless (improvisational electronic new jazz?) so if you're not familiar with the band check out "6", the band's most accessible work.
The Twilight Sad "Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters": This album could have easily been overly melodramatic and nauseating. However, Max Richter's wonderful production and the blistering guitar really turn it into something special. James Graham's working town Scottish accent is really beautiful trying to shout over the waves of guitar-noise. Probably the most accessible album on this list, even if it does have its feet planted firmly in shoegaze.
Wolves in the Throne Room "Two Hunters": The most organic metal you'll ever listen to. Despite the fact they deny the moniker, I think that, with the move to Southern Lord, Wolves finally went the nu-gaze direction that they've been hinting at for awhile now. It's all very ethereal and you don't have to be a genre-fiend to enjoy this album.
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