para-para-parrotdies

Not including singles and/or EPs: Air - Le voyage dans la lune Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself Blondes - Blondes The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald) Chairlift - Something Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Field Music - Plumb Ital - Hive Mind Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance Krzysztof Penderecki/Jonny Greenwood collaboration The Men - Open Your Heart Monolake - Ghosts Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It Scuba - Personality Sharon Van Etten - Tramp Shangaan Shake compilation Tindersticks - The Something Rain Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake

haha I see the Scuba album didn't make it anywhere ;) Great shoutout for the Blondes album btw. One of the few 2012 albums I've been enjoying.

Enjoy :thumbsup: [ame=http://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/chromatics-kill-for-love-album]CHROMATICS / KILL FOR LOVE (Complete Album) by JOHNNY JEWEL on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free[/ame]

So it's almost April... meaning 1/3 of the year has already gone by. It's definitely been a slow year for music but here are my 5 favorite albums so far (in alphabetic order): Beach House - Bloom Chromatics - Kill For Love Grimes - Visions John Talabot - fIN Julia Holter - Ekstasis Also special mention for Burial - Kindred EP. It's not an album but it's undoubtedly the best music release so far :love: And also 5 worst albums (in alphabetic order): Lana Del Rey - Born to Die of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks The Shins - Port of Morrow Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror Tennis - Young & Old

This is on the money. A bit long but great album. :thumbsup: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbx8qRg6tPE]CHROMATICS "LADY" - YouTube[/ame]

Better not let your girlfriend see that she's #3 on the priority list :P But yeah, vinyl is the way to go. Better sound quality and idk there's something about having a physical copy of your favorite music.

The new song is called Ekki Múkk. Hoppípolla is their most famous song; you might have heard it on various commercials: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnAwPeqrdAk]Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla - YouTube[/ame] Echoing everyone so far, Ágætis byrjun is undoubtedly their best album (in my top 10 albums of all-time). However, I would probably start off with Takk... as it's more accessible.

I think The Shins' decline started after this laughable scene from one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziwr4f5eR0M]The Shins - Garden State scene - YouTube[/ame] I'm glad Zach Braff's career tanked.... just because I hate the film so much.

Terrible album cover :thumbsdown: Wonderful album :thumbsup: Easily the best of 2012 so far.

On the Sea is such a lovely song :love: Perfect weather for this album too :love:

This is currently one of my contenders for worst album of 2012 (other albums under consideration: Born to Die, Paralytic Stalks, Reign of Terror). Seriously... the more I listen to it, the more I dislike it.... a band on autopilot.

Beach House - Bloom

Still early to say but this is quite possibly my favorite album of 2012 so far (discounting Burial's Kindred EP). So lovely :heart:

So the new album leaked. First impressions: :dance:

Yes. I never really understood this argument. I mean TKOL is only like 5 min shorter than In Rainbows and it's about 7 min shorter than Amnesiac. The Strokes' Is This It is like 35 min long but no one complains it's too short. Nick Drake's Pink Moon is 28 min, the Pixies' Surfer Rosa is 33 min... the list of albums goes on and on. This fact makes me irrationally sad. I'm watching these videos on Youtube and there's just a sea of camera phones. Back in my day, there were no camera phones (or cell phones for that matter!) so the people who were at the shows were big fans who just wanted to enjoy the experience. They had to be huge fans because an online ticketing system didn't exist - you had to camp outside the record store just for a chance to get tickets.... especially if a big band like Radiohead came to town. Thus, the audience was self-selective: only hardcore fans would bother to camp outside for tickets. In this era, a large portion of the audience are simply people who want to brag they were at a gig and upload their photos to Facebook, Twitter, and whatever big social media network you kiddos have these days. You have more and more people just talking through live performances or drunken idiots shouting during inappropriate times because they're not really fans. That makes me sad more than angry.

:nod: This is the correct response.

Worst Radiohead album opener and even worse live.

Why aren't you partying in a forest at 3 am?

The entire album is available now btw. Early verdict: Huge :thumbsdown:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu57i3r7Tyg]Massive Attack - Unfinished sympathy - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y]Lou Reed - Perfect Day - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk]4. How To Disappear Completely - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs]A Change Is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke, 1963 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1PPGlqVWXc]Bjork Isobel Post - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q11ium_-Lv8]The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - YouTube[/ame]

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Ok, time to get real: I'm not really feeling any of these new songs. Granted, the studio versions might be better and I suspect someone will point out many IR songs also sounded like works in progress when they debuted. But there's something different about these new songs. It seems Radiohead is trying too hard to stray from "conventional" song structures recently. There's too much tinkering that I think is negatively affecting the songs. Skirting on the Surface sounded great when Thom played it by himself but the full band version sounds cheesy (same goes for Supercollider to an extent). Identikit sounds incredibly messy vocally and Cut a Hole is kind of boring. I sincerely hope these songs don't give a glimpse of what we can expect for LP9. Moreover, I will be incredibly upset if they ruin The Present Tense by giving it the TKOL treatment with the emphasis on beats and rhythms. The poor quality soundcheck on Youtube already sound like one of the best Radiohead songs ever..... like a mix between Arpeggi, There There and How to Disappear Completely. The Latitude version is one of the most affecting songs I have ever heard - it is currently in my top 10 list of RH songs. As lame as it sounds, I will be irrationally sad if The Present Tense ends up sounding like what Skirting on the Surface or Supercollider have become.

Seriously, what a great day for Radiohead fans: 1) East Coast dates 2) Jonny Greenwood album streaming on NPR 3) The Amazing Sounds of Orgy and Skirting on the Surface

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