Rate The Last Album You Heard - General

[QUOTE=vagrant;33283641]mah nigga. heard this back in... grade 7 maybe? I couldn't comprehend music that heavy and noisy back then. it was amazing. then fact that there was no guitar and just a bass making those heavy a screeching noises jsut made it more mindblowing. haven't listened to this in forever but it's definitely a part of my earlier music experiences I have no shame in.[/QUOTE] This. The first time I heard it was on SSX On Tour, which is probably one of the things that has influenced my taste in music the most.

I thought the album got pretty boring pretty fast.

[QUOTE=Stizzles;33283693]This. The first time I heard it was on SSX On Tour, which is probably one of the things that has influenced my taste in music the most.[/QUOTE] My taste was dictated by Guitar Hero until about a year and a half ago. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I mean I wouldn't even be listening to music enthusiastically if it weren't for that game.

[img]http://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/0/9/7/309738.jpg?1031[/img] The Haunting Presence - The Haunting Presence (2011) Genre: Black/Death Metal 8/10 Unique Death Metal with bit of Black Metal elements mixed in. Kinda sounds ritualistic with the drumming. Sadly a bit short however. It feels like it's a bit off but overall rather interesting and original Black/Death Metal or whatever.

I don't think I've ever posted a review in here before... maybe I'll do one later.

-snip, wrong thread-

[QUOTE=Stizzles;33283693]This. The first time I heard it was on SSX On Tour, which is probably one of the things that has influenced my taste in music the most.[/QUOTE]Haha same. Those games had some pretty sweet tracks cannot lie

[QUOTE=Nibwoddle;33284381]My taste was dictated by Guitar Hero until about a year and a half ago. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I mean I wouldn't even be listening to music enthusiastically if it weren't for that game.[/QUOTE]This. And SSX3, that game got me into lots of new kinds of music too.

Dir en Grey - Dum Spiro Spero This shit is just amazing for me and is excellent music to walk to 9/10 - Could have officially been a bit better though

[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/847/themcrookedvultures.jpg/][IMG]http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2990/themcrookedvultures.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [b]Them Crooked Vultures[/b] - Them Crooked Vultures. [b]9.5[/b]/10 If you like Zeppelin and QOTSA, then you'll love this. The influences are obvious, but none of the songs are bad by themselves. The highlight (imo): [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZat5RwOHYc&list=FLBBPtxeGMvoC9qmWcAHGhwQ&index=9&feature=plpp_video[/media]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/KFnU0.jpg[/IMG] **** This is actually my introduction into the genre known as glitch. Glitch music is music where you keep checking to see if you ripped the CD onto your computer properly. Well this album is ambient glitch to be exact. Anyway at first these sound really jarring but then my ear started adjusting to the noise and I found really wonderful melodies and harmonies that almost evoke the atmosphere of the Beach Boys album of the same name. Cool listen.

[img]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4Nf9TYo3pyQAcW0jpljJ933EnY4PqgZNJM3UWI6FsJ2IL1QX9-nMNtdC0[/img] [b]Andrew Jackson Jihad[/b] 95/100 A Genre : Folk Punk, Folk Great album. In this album they experiment with more instruments than their debut People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World. Although many people think The Rabbit album is better than Knife Man, I personally disagree. This album has more songs on it and the quality is well improved. I also like the album far more instrumentally and each song feels more distinct than their debut. If this is your first listen to AJJ you might be turned off by the vocalist, which sounds like a whiny, skinny, white dude. This may be a make or break deal for some people and I personally like it. Makes it far more humorous and kept me smiling throughout the entire album. Only track I didn't like was Back Pack, where the lyrics seemed like they made no sense. My guess would be that he's singing about a person who died in him home and got blood all over his backpack and decided the backpack was more important. Best Tracks: American Tune, Distance, Zombies By The Cranberries, Sad Songs (Intermission), Big Bird Worst Track: Back Pack

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/folder13.jpg[/IMG] Greylag - The Only Way To Kill You (EP) 4.5/5 Genre: Indie-Pop/Folk, Acoustic, Country sounding~ I saw this local Oregon band last week and was really really surprised by their quality. Good song writing, although people would probably find it to be fairly generic maybe. I think it's very dramatic and powerful acoustic indie pop with clever lyrics. All the tracks on the EP are pretty good except for Goldmine, which I'm not very fond of. For a band's first release, this is pretty good and I'm looking forward to future releases. I uploaded a sample on youtube since they're so ~*~underground~*~. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf39xVJyVyM[/media]

[release] [img]http://www.shazamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/the-flaming-lips.embryonic.jpg[/img] [b]The Flaming Lips - Embryonic [/b] I never listened to The Flaming Lips up until about 8 months ago when in a mumuplayer I was in someone uploaded "Worm Mountain", one of the highlight tracks off of this album, and I was instantly drawn in by the uniqueness and volume of that track. I bought the album specifically for that song, and I did something I never do. I only listened to Worm Mountain over the past 8 months, even with the entire album being on my iPhone. One day, in math class waiting for it to end I had my iPod on shuffle and the opening track "Convinced of the Hex" came on and I was completely side-swiped by it's jazzy, funk, hazy live sound and I knew I had to listen to the entire album after hearing that track. Embryonic is one of my favorite albums ever. It's wild and crazy sounding, totally unique to me and is just remarkably made. My favorite tracks are at the very beginning starting with Convinced of the Hex, followed by The Sparrow Looks up at the Machine, then Evil, right after Aquarius Sabotage (crazy ass Harp distortion) and finally See The Leaves. This album grabs you, gets you drunk and then keeps you seduced and easily manipulated through out the whole thing. The production is something that really strikes me with it's live sounding vocals and strange volumes and use of distortion to create atmosphere. It's really like nothing I've ever heard before. The stunning quality of the album is consistent even up until the last track Watching the Planets which really is just booming and highly climactic. If you are into unique sounds and textures with great song-writing then this is a great place to look. The Flaming Lips' Embryonic is by far one of the best albums I have ever heard. [highlight]6,000,000/10[/highlight] [/release]

[IMG]http://vitalicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/washed-out-within-and-without-535x535.jpg[/IMG] 7.5/10//C+ Has some merit to it. Sounds a lot more refined than his older work. A few songs last a bit too long. It's one of those albums where you have to be in a certain mood to like it or else you'll get bored. Favorite would have to be "You and I" or "Soft"

[QUOTE=jlavender;33417546][IMG]http://vitalicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/washed-out-within-and-without-535x535.jpg[/IMG] 7.5/10//C+ Has some merit to it. Sounds a lot more refined than his older work. A few songs last a bit too long. It's one of those albums where you have to be in a certain mood to like it or else you'll get bored. Favorite would have to be "You and I" or "Soft"[/QUOTE] I liked that album, but something like "Air" are better at what they're trying to do.

I've bought both of these last two albums. And I don't buy [I]that[/I] much... What are the odds? lol

[release] [img]http://img15.nnm.ru/d/d/8/4/1/95b2b72a9e957601c046648e4cf.jpg[/img] [b]Planning for Burial - Leaving[/b] Genre: Drone, Shoegaze, Post-Rock, Enemies List-core This is a new favorite of mine to throw on when I'm feeling particularly down and out. It's the epitome of numb sounding drone mixed with regret, self resent and loathing made into music. It gets pretty loud at times, but it's the type of loud that doesn't change alter the mood, it's loudly depressing, to put it in words. While this may sound strange, it's very accessible and easily enjoyable. The two songs that go over 10 minutes (Leaving and Verse/Chorus/Verse) are, truthfully, unnecessarily long and are kind of hard to listen to as they barely progress as opposed to the songs in the rest of the album. The other seven tracks are great songs full of emotion and surprising catchyness. There's a bit at the end of one of the songs that is very similar to Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" with a computer exclaiming how he graduated from the same school as the woman who he, unknowingly to her, loved and in the past forty years he has not had a day where he has not thought of her and felt regret. It's a great album full of numbness and is perfect for the moody types out there. The last two songs do go on a bit long, but there's a really really fantastic album before those two tracks. [highlight]4/5[/highlight] [/release] Sample: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn6EKqxg9pY[/media]

[IMG]http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/08/coldplay-mylo-xyloto.jpg[/IMG] Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay It's actually a pretty decent album, I actually prefer this over their older albums. It's more upbeat and I'd classify this as more of a day album in the sense you can chill with it. Some songs give me a filler vibe as they seem kinda bland compared to their other songs. I'd highly recommend it. 7.5/10

[img]http://firstsongsideone.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/bunnys-caravan.jpg[/img] [B]A Bunny's Caravan - Draining Puddles, Recieving Treasures (4.8/5.0)[/B] I don't even know where to begin with this album, its one of the most phenomenal albums I've heard in a very long time. The actual musical content of this album isn't very strange but its hard to describe. For lack of a better term I would call it post-rock but if I had to go into detail.... Its like Sigur Ros violently molested Muse while GY!BE flew overhead with American Football and Moving Mountains on their backs. Thats right, the songs all have the dynamics of post-rock, the occasional absurdity of prog-rock, and the vocals and emotion of bands like American Football and Moving Mountains. All while occasionally dipping into a Godspeed like ambient interlude (most notably in the 15 minute closer but in other places as well, sometimes with vocals). So basically this album has everything going for it and it does just about everything right. My only problem with this album is really probably just me being picky but their use of samples is a little awkward sometimes, they use a Microsoft Sam sounding conversation in one song and it sounds a bit strange/out of place, they also use a radio or news clip in the last song which sounds pretty out of place too. The album might have been a little bit better if they had done away with the samples completely but honestly they don't effect the overall quality of the album at all. The album also drags a tiny bit in the middle, not to say that any of the songs are bad because they're all awesome but around track 4 or 5 theres a small dip in quality before the epic closer. Also its just an EP but its nearly 50 minutes so its extremely long for an EP and its the only album A Bunny's Caravan seems to have released in their short life, so all in all its definitely a unique listen if you like post-rock. [B]Tl;dr[/B] Get this if you like any kind of post-rock or would fap to the scene mentioned below: [quote=rokknroll4]Its like Sigur Ros violently molested Muse while GY!BE flew overhead with American Football and Moving Mountains on their backs.[/quote] [editline]1st December 2011[/editline] Or just listen [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKZJTw6uZd0[/media]

Cruising - Slices (Hardcore Punk) 9/10 Medusa and Guide To Incest are instant classics, just wish they'd kept up the power they had from those tracks. [img]http://www.forcefieldrecords.org/store/images/slices2.jpg[/img]

David Sylvian - Died in the Wool [IMG]http://www.borguez.com/uabab/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/David-Sylvian-Died-In-The-Wool-Manafon-Variations.jpg[/IMG] Made by the ex-vocalist of the band Japan who were pretty well-known - big influences on Duran Duran - the current keyboardist from Porcupine Tree, Richard Barbieri, used to play keyboards for Japan. He's also collaborated with Robert Fripp in his time and this is his latest album, it serves as a sister album to his other work Manafon, and the tracks are variations on songs from Manafon, which is apparently an attempt to get away from his 'pop roots' which I haven't heard so I can't say much. This is a work which I can't really classify because it seems to emphasise silence. its like at times the sounds actually have trouble escaping the silence which creates a lot of tension, and you sit there on tenterhooks waiting for his voice to come in and just fucking say something because you're getting impatient (his voice is amazing also). I REALLY like it though, its really eerie and odd and discordant. Disc 1 was pretty fantastic, Disc 2 was an 18 minute piece that to me was just kinda crap. Lots of strange noises leading into each other...for 18 minutes. Not worth it. Seemed like a bit of a throw-in that was kind of unnecessary and just made the album more padded. At its heart, its minimalism. A minimalistic album. 7/10

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/sntWj.jpg[/IMG] 4.89/4.98 Yeah it's a "best of" album. Yeah I know they're for plebs and 12 year old girls but these guys have a pretty big discography and I'd like to get a good look at it all before diving right through. This doesn't feel like a compilation album though. While Yo La Tengo love to dabble with different styles and genres (noise-rock, shoegaze, 60s pop, lounge pop, folk rock, psychedelic jams) at the heart of it all it's warm happy fuzzy indie pop music. So yeah I'll definitely get more albums by this band.

[release] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/folder15.jpg[/img] [b]*Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo[/b] Genre/Description: Post-Rock with singing at times, native American imagery, small points with sludge, Plains of the Purple Buffalo is one of the most exciting and innovative Post-Rock albums I've heard lately. The songs on the album aren't your normal "Tame build, tame build, tame build, EXPLODE" for Post-Rock. The "build" for most of these songs is just as exciting and interesting as the crescendos you'd find on other post-rock albums, and the climaxes to these builds are epic and booming. Personally, I think this is the best example of Third-Wave Post-Rock (too much hyphening) and I mean that by that it takes what was good about a band like Godspeed with it's beautiful interludes and incredible adrenalin pumping endings and the evolution of keeping the listener's interest up until the ending that bands like Mogwai have succeeded and bands like EITS have failed at. The album is a whopping 78 minutes and there are very few times on it that are not a pleasure to listen to. The song Wake is a little boring, and the lyrics on Conqueror in the beginning throw me off a bit with "Salty tear [i]water[/i] touches my skin...". If you have the patience and interest, go right now and listen to this. It's an amazing album full of adventure and emotion and a clear contender for album of the year. [highlight]5/5[/highlight] [/release] [editline]7th December 2011[/editline] Delicious Sample: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKiXGXpxZYI[/media]

[img]http://www.jezebelmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.jpg[/img] 4.5/5 ;_; beautiful

[release] [IMG]http://onethirtybpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/black-keys-el-camino-cover.jpg[/IMG] [B]The Black Keys - El Camino[/B] El Camino is the 7th Studio Release from American Blues-Rock Duo, The Black Keys. The albums stemming from their roots as Blues-Rock artist, is completely true to their roots and brings a sound that is very similar to what we've heard in previous albums. This album is definitely in my opinion is the year's best rock album Score: 10/10 [/release]

[QUOTE=vagrant;33621564][img]http://www.jezebelmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.jpg[/img] 4.5/5 ;_; beautiful[/QUOTE] Care to tell anyone what that is?

william basinski ? :/ Might help if we ask people to write a line or two about the album. Title etc at a minimum

[QUOTE=Godline;33629086]william basinski ? :/ [/QUOTE] There's more to an artist than just the name.

I go back on facepunch and i forget all username,password and email :( [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ABANeR4e3RM/TnqeFNCjsDI/AAAAAAAAALU/D_-ncrCjI58/s1600/Discipline.jpg[/IMG] King Crimson - Discipline 7/10 Fantastic album, this album is a good reminder as to why King Crimson can be described as the fathers of progressive music. Nearly every track on this album is unpredictable and crazy. However with that being said it's not their best album but one of their finest.