good albums so far this year?
 

I'm a little behind the times. What's out there?

I think there's already a long thread on this. BUT here's my votes so far, based on things I've actually repeatedly and consistently listened to:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care
Beck - One Foot In The Grave (Deluxe Reissue)
Nels Cline - Coward
DOOM - Born Like This
Minty Fresh Beats - Jaydiohead (mixtape)

...it's been a bit of a slow Q1 in my opinion. But there's some stuff coming on the near horizon that I'm excited about. We'll see.

That thread is for GREAT, this one's for merely GOOD.

Can a bad albums thread be far behind? What about undeservedly hyped? Where can I write about Wavves?

Albums I really enjoyed so far, in alphabetical order - with a little stylistic description if you don't know the bands :D:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion ([experimental] electro pop - of course!)
Bibio - Vignetting The Compost (folk / electronica; though a bit boring sometimes, there's some nice things on there)
Black Dice - Repo (experimental / electronic ?)
Cercueil - Shoo Straight Shout (french electropop)
Clark - Growls Garden EP (electronica; the title track is fantastic)
Dälek - Gutter Tactics (hip hop / noise)
DOOM - Born Like This (hip hop)
Emeralds - What Happened (drone / ambient)
Excepter - STREAM 58 (experimental, messy electronic)
K-Branding - Facial (noise)
Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective (noisy pop)
Mi Ami - Watersports (noise rock / tribal etc)
Mountains - Choral (folk / ambient)
Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (abstract hip hop ? ;every review I read of it seems to find it meh, but I find it amazing)
Psychic Ills - Mirror Eye (psychedelic rock)
DJ Signify - Of Cities (instrumental hip hop; really really neat)
Telepathe - Dance Mother (electronic pop; yep!)
These Are Powers - All Aboard Future (electronic / noise rock)
Wavves - Wavvves (lo-fi punk; yep too!)
WEAVE! - WEAVE! (punk/funk)
WYLD WYZRDZ - Light Upon Light, Wave Upon Wave (folk / ambient; really great stuff, and it's available for free, you should check it)
Yagya - Rigning (ambient techno; though those 90's electro sounds can be quite boring)
Zu - Carboniferous (noise rock / jazzcore / etc)

Oh and by the way, if we had a bad albums thread, the two worst things I've heard this year are the Birdy Nam Nam album (worst album I've heard in a while actually... it has nothing good, it doesn't even make you want to shake your head - which is a shame for a dancefloor techno album) and the Neon Indian EP (though I like the way the vocals sound, I just don't like this kind of MGMT-like pop).

sonic youth
doom
animal collective
and hopefully dinosaur jr

From what I've heard (haven't heard the SY one yet)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
Wavves - Wavvves
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

and if you're looking for a few cheap laughs

The Lonely Island - Incredibad

Fever Ray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAzlNJonO8

yeah, the fever ray album is good, though it seems a bit overrated; I mean, it's good, but I don't think it's genius as some say it is. Maybe I haven't listened to it enough. "If I Had A Heart" is really a fantastic track though.

One Foot In The Grave got reissued? Awesome!

bat for lashes - Two Suns
Lady Sovereign - jigsaw
ulan bator - soleils
The Invisible - s/t
Pj+Parish
Soap & Skin- lovetune for vacuum

a bunch more already mentioned

Well, "genius" may be going a bit far... that's probably why I try to avoid reviews (of films, music, books...) because the "professional" critics always manage to sound like fucking idiots, whether they have good OR bad to say.

I actually just discovered the Knife about 6 months ago... and have only heard their Deep Cuts album, and now this Fever Ray release, both of which I love even though they're totally different. I still have to check out Silent Shout.

are you calling SYRfox an idiot???
bahahahahahahaha

seriously just listen to this and you shall be fixed.

I ain't no professional critic :D

Green Magnesium : yeah, The Knife rules. And yeah you should really check Silent Shout, it's their best imo (actually I don't like the first ones that much, but Silent Shout is a modern classic). "We Share Our Mothers' Health" is super catchy

And by the way, I listened to Fever Ray once more and it's actually even better than I thought it was. So not genius, but really good :D

If he's a professional critic... then yes ;)

And fox, I really have been meaning to scoop up Silent Shout... but it keeps getting put on the back burner in favor of other stuff. Really glad I found Fever Ray though.

The PJ Harvey/John Parish is a good one to. Good call, nicfit.

Thanks for the recommendations. I've checked out a few bands and I really like some of this stuff.

animal collective - merriweather post pavillion
six organs of admittance - rtz
psychic ills - mirror eye
zu - carboniferous
ac newman - get guilty
john frusciante - the empyrean
mass of the fermenting dregs - world is yours
emeralds - what happened
it hugs back - inside your guitar
blackout beach - skin of evil
mono - hymn to the immortal wind
wolves in the throne room - malevolent grain
pocahaunted - passage
experimental dental school - forest field
sir richard bishop - the freak of araby
wavves - wavvves
suishou no fune - gold labyrinth
tim hecker - an imaginary country
i.u.d. - the proper sex
eat skull - wild and inside
blank dogs under and under
daniel higgs - hymnprovisations for banjo

awesome cover

new experimental dental school????? yeah??????