http://escho.bigcartel.com/product/v...xlp-l-preorder

this will make the list

...then this Fall they sold preorders for a Squier version for half the price of the "Pawn Shop" version released in the Spring. Behind on production, just rolling out now. This is much closer to the original from the 60's, want one myself but kinda broke for now.

One of the best guitar records released this year, superb! Cosmic americana, the solos remind
me of Tom Verlaine.

My top 13 albums this year:

- Robedoor – Primal Sphere (Hands in the Dark)
- Esmerine – Dalmak (Constellation)
- Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus (ATP Recordings)
- Tim Hecker – Virgins (Kranky)
- Special Request – Soul Music (Houndstooth)
- Alveol – No Point In Holding On (Dewtone)
- Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe (Dead Oceans)
- Bibio – Silver Wilkinson (Warp)
- Oneothrix Point Never – R Plus 7 (Warp)
- Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety (Software)
- Logos – Cold Mission (Keysound Recordings)
- Lustmord – The Word as Power (Blackest Ever Black)
- Pinkunoizu – The Drop

That Robedoor album is really good, always surprised those guys aren't bigger, they have been releasing killer stuff for years. I saw them in London recently and only about 40 people were there.

already posted this elsewhere, forgotten a loaddd of stuff (dalglish, broadcast, ielasi/jaeger, robedoor!!) but yeah

1. my bloody valentine - m b v
2. autechre - exai / l-event
3. the dead c - armed courage
4. keiji haino, jim o'rourke, oren ambarchi - now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery
5. main - ablation
6. laurel halo - chance of rain
7. body/head - coming apart
8. ensemble pearl - s/t
9. logos - cold mission
10. kevin drumm - tannenbaum
11. factory floor - s/t tied with wolf eyes - no answer : lower floors
12. huerco s - colonial patterns
13. evol - proper headshrinker tied with shampoo boy - licht
14. daniel menche - marriage of metals / vilke
15. james ferraro - nyc hell 3am
16. bardo pond - peace on venus
17. keith rowe & graham lambkin - making a
18. the knife - shaking the habitual
19. okkyung lee / c. spencer yeh / lasse marhaug - wake up awesome
20. richard youngs - summer through my mind
21. merzbow - takahe collage / cat's squirrel (with oren ambarchi)
22. ÄÄNIPÄÄ - through a pre-memory
23. rene hell - vanilla call option
24. jandek - song of morgan
25. bruce russell & lasse marhaug - virginia plane
26. compound eye - journey from anywhere
27. ron morrelli - spit
28. russell haswell & yasunao tone - convulsive threshold
29. magik markers - surrender to the fantasy
30. no age - an object
31. mainliner - revelation space
32. secret boyfriend - this is always where you've lived
33. emptyset - recur
34. thee oh sees - floating coffin
35. gardland - syndrome syndrome
36. the fall - re-mit
37. miles - faint-hearted
38. alan licht - four years older
39. gate - moths
40. sightings - terribly well
41. okkyung lee - ghil
42. rashad becker - traditional music of notional species vol. 1
43. cuntz - aloha
44. cindytalk - a life is everywhere
45. dj rashad - double cup
46. exhaustion - future eaters
47. dalhous - an ambassador for laing
48. bill orcutt - a history of everyone / the raw and the cooked (with chris corsano)
49. heatsick - re-engineering
50. AP musik - MU3

and fucking lustmord, damnit. brainbombs....

not getting the widespread OPN love, big fan up until this point but the newie felt hollow, vacuous, not only conceptually but musically too. it seems flat, where his prior stuff, even replica, felt shapely and dense. r plus 7 may be ostensibly dense but fundamentally it's just a fucking cavern. perhaps incomplete.

logos, though, hot diggity.

was this any good? i didn't listen to it because it got shat on nearly everywhere. their first album is still one of my modern rock favs

I first thought that but revisiting it a month later, it really clicked for me.
His synth sounds are so lush and organic. But in terms of hollow and vacuous I'm pretty surprised you but the James Ferraro album in yr list because I thought that pretty accurately described his new release haha

But in all seriousness I haven't really finished catching up yet to post my favourites but this album is a fucking blast. Stoner desert blues...



https://soundcloud.com/miemusic/sets...ask-at-huggie/

I am a sucker for this kind of stuff, so awesome, thanks for the heads up.

yeah it got a lot of hate, and ranking it that highly does seem a bit exorbitant (after 20 it's like completely arbitrary) but I did really enjoy it, seems quite disembodied and fragmented in a way which really accentuates both their endearing minimalism and their songwriting abilities. closer to weirdo rippers in that sense, although some of the poppier songs on here (the second and third tracks, running from a go-go etc.) really benefit from this new approach. closer to post-rock in its traditional, original sense ie the british approach of the early 90s: stripping rock down to its constituent parts and leaving it just floating about in the ether, letting each individual element breathe. some of it doesn't work, especially the more mechanical songs (especially lock box) but it's really good to here them challenge themselves like this in terms of process, and I think the strides made here will be consolidated and wholly capitalized on on their next LP or whatever. so yeah, more a process piece than anything else but interesting and overall 'fun'/'yipee' nonetheless.

the difference for me lies in that ferraro is attempting to convey a certain coldness, it's a consciously bare album in accordance with its subject matter. it's a dark, bleak record and he imbues more coherent song structures with that intricate sound design he gave the similarly hollow and vacuous far side virtual with. conversely, lopatin seems to be trying to use this dull palette to illustrate something altogether more grand, as in that which we have purportedly relegated to the perfunctory and heartless is far more glorious than we give it credit, but it feels half-baked and thereby undermines what he's attempting to do. on a purely aesthetic/musical level, something like the back half of zebra or along give off that same intoxicating sense of stasis that made the earlier stuff so insanely awesome, but the rhythmic approach just sounds like amateur hour glass or reich.

so I don't know whether I can truthfully relegate a musical piece to the level that I have solely on the basis that it doesn't fulfill its intentions, but when it is ostensibly that bound up in conceptualism I don't think it can be wholly overlooked; that is, ferraro totally succeeds and lopatin falls a bit short.

plus I simply don't enjoy it as much as returnal, betrayed in the octagon, ruined lives et al. in fact that's probably it, when I think about it. they strove for emotional resonance and they delivered in spades, whereas r plus 7 goes a more oblique route so as to harness that same effect and in my mind just doesn't hit it, at least not as deftly/powerfully.

where is Yeezus in your lists?

should be #1

yeah.

#51 dude, #51!

1. The Dead C - Armed Courage
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
4. His Electro Blue Voice - Ruthless Sperm
5. Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
6. Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil
7. Iceage - You're Nothing
8. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
9. Arca - &&&&&
10. Prurient / Vatican Shadow - Through the Window / Remember Your Black Day
11. Dean Blunt - The Redeemer / Stone Island
12. Factory Floor - Factory Floor
13. DJ Rashad - Double Cup / Rollin'
14. Sandwell District - Fabric 69
15. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
16. V/A - Dokument #1
17. Forest Swords - Engravings
18. Pharmakon - Abandon
19. Danny Brown - Old
20. The Flaming Lips - The Terror
21. Bill Orcutt / Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - A History of Everyone / The Raw and the Cooked
22. Pete Swanson - Punk Authority
23. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
24. Fire! Orchestra - Exit
25. Pusha T - My Name is My Name
26. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus 7
27. Kelela - Cut 4 Me
28. Logos - Cold Mission
29. Stellar OM Source - Joy One Mile
30. Death Grips - Government Plates
31. V/A - Night Slugs Allstars Volume 2
32. Autechre - Exai
33. Okkyung Lee / C. Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee & Lasse Marhug - Ghil / Wake Up Awesome
34. Bill Callahan - Dream River
35. Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors
36. The Body - Christs, Redeemers
37. Tim Hecker - Virgins
38. Melt-Banana - Fetch
39. Ty Segall / Fuzz - Sleeper / Fuzz
40. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
41. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
42. Machinedrum - Vapor City
43. ASAP Rocky / ASAP Ferg - LongLiveASAP / Trap Lord
44. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
45. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. 1
46. James Holden - The Inheritors
47. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons to Die
48. Savages - Silence Yourself
49. Julia Holter - Loud City Songs
50. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety

Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a pretty daze
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is beauty
Alela Diane - About farewell

1. John Parish: Screenplay
2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Push the sky away
3. Risto II
4. Body/Head: Coming Apart
5. Lee Ranaldo & the Dust: Last Night On Earth
6. Thurston Moore/Loren Connors: the Only Way To Go Is Straight Through
7. Chelsea Light Moving
8. Jimi Hendrix: People, Hell and Angels
9. Radiopuhelimet: Ei Kenenkään Maa
10. Dumb Numbers
11. Mulatu Astatke: Sketches Of Ethiopia
12. Black Sabbath: 13
13. John Fogerty: Wrote a song for Everyone
14. Kauko Röyhkä & Narttu: Pois Valoista
15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Live from KCRW
16. the Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun - Hyde Park Live