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Dec. 23rd, 2004 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Lullatone Little Songs About Raindrops (Audio Dregs) Listen to a sample
Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands (Young God)
Hypo Random Veneziano (Active Suspension)
Animal Collective Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
Konki Duet Il Fait Tout Gris (Active Suspension)
cLOUDDEAD Ten (Mush)
Anne Laplantine Dicipline (Tomlab)
Black Dice Creature Comforts (Fat Cat)
Panda Bear Young Prayer (Paw Tracks)
Alejandra and Aeron Scotch Monsters (Softl)
Twins Singing in the Twins Wonderland 4 (EVP Hong Kong)
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Date: 2004-12-23 01:21 pm (UTC)A real late addition on my list would be Louis Philippes (http://www.louisphilippe.co.uk) new album. Just a prime example of fine art listening and excellent pop! Technically it'll be out in 2005.
Wonderkids of 2004 were Ariel Pink (featured song: For Kate I wait (http://www.paw-tracks.com/arielpink.mp3)) and Khonnor (featured song: Megan's Present)
Looking forward to Otto Spooky and the "Moral Values tour" of the U.S. ;)
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Date: 2004-12-23 02:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-23 02:12 pm (UTC)i did enjoy their vampire martial arts movie though.
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Date: 2004-12-23 02:20 pm (UTC)Antonio
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Date: 2004-12-23 02:22 pm (UTC)Francesco
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Date: 2004-12-23 04:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-23 04:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-23 05:34 pm (UTC)'Cos I likes to dance.
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haircut louis 2005
Date: 2004-12-23 05:44 pm (UTC)erik
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Date: 2004-12-23 06:20 pm (UTC)Best sleeve of the year was Mu's Paris Hilton (http://www.substrata.com.au/A557D8/substrata.nsf/Titles/RMOE-64K9S7?Open):
Re: haircut louis 2005
Date: 2004-12-23 06:31 pm (UTC)Rewr
Date: 2004-12-23 07:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-23 08:46 pm (UTC)What do you think of bands like Acid Mothers Temple and the Boredoms? Nagisa Ni Te? I think it's been an exceptionally strong year for Japanese psychedelic and folk-oriented music.
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Date: 2004-12-23 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-23 09:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-23 10:55 pm (UTC)brilliant trees and wolf
Date: 2004-12-23 10:55 pm (UTC)young patrick astray
erik
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Date: 2004-12-23 11:11 pm (UTC)Talking of 'reassuring', a retro purchase I may shortly make is the Wire DVD On the Box (1979) (http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=RA1F9rb9iP&EAN=843190000050#REV).
More music...
Date: 2004-12-23 11:30 pm (UTC)I'm not surprised that you left out the recent Brother Danielson album, Brother is to Son, but you may want to check it out. My pick for one of the best of this year. That coupled with Destroyer's Your Blues. Momus, have you listened to Dan Bejar? Lyrically gifted man that Destroyer!
Re: brilliant trees and wolf
Date: 2004-12-24 02:14 am (UTC)For your visual and aural pleasure: Khonnor!
Hope this link works. This is Megan's present (http://www.dotshop.se/ds/genm3u.m3u?tid=159&f=ds.m3u) and our hero on MTV (http://www.mtve.com/thisisourmusic/site.php?episode=e02&file=guide4.php).
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Date: 2004-12-24 02:17 am (UTC)Re: brilliant trees and wolf
Date: 2004-12-24 08:21 am (UTC)http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/magazines/news/index.jsp?portals=2534202&magazines=10719222&news=14713763
erik
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Date: 2004-12-24 11:48 am (UTC)sine waves and toy xylos
Date: 2004-12-24 01:06 pm (UTC)This issue with deceptive simplicity is interesting to me... Shawn once said in an interview that simple things are cute, and in the fashion of parodoxes, I think there is another, more base type of cute that is based on the cornucopia model.
For instance, I remember getting Lullatone's 'Computer Recital' and an Of Montreal album in the same package one day, and showing my mum. The Lullatone cover was simply a blue sky with a mini-title and drawing of a baby rain cloud. The Of Montreal cover showed limey moustachioed dogs, balloons, red mounds, a headdress, patterned sweater and pinstripes. My mum commented on the Of Montreal cover but not 'Computer Recital' and that made me feel sorry for the Lullatone CD...
My point is that while there's a lulla-cute which is unassuming, shy, innocent and friendly, there's also a Of Montreal cute which is all about trying really hard to please, being really eager in a way perhaps even younger than the Lulla-model, eager to make the viewer smile, perhaps out of sheer force.
There's a passage in Computer Recital that makes me think of puffball creatures waddling home from school! I think you need to be sophisticated to really appreciate deceptively simple music like Lullatone's.
I'm going through a singing badly fun-phase!
records of the year
Date: 2004-12-24 03:48 pm (UTC)I also have you to thank for getting me into the last Hypo album : I'd read a lot about it and been really intruiged, but it was your review which made me buy it (because I consider you to have impeccable taste).
I am really looking forward to hearing your new album (I have been a fan of your music since "Murderers the hope of woman", and your music has really been very influencial on my taste in music).