Tame One-Acid Tab Vocab
This was probably my favorite thing released this year. At first his flow got on my nerves, but after a minute it all makes sense, and you realize he's just a mush-brained genius. But the absolute deal sealer on this one is the BEATS whoa doggy! Where in the hell did these come from?
Highlight tracks-Molly, Ooops, and Suede Adidas. Still haven't picked up the Tame/Del release from last year, but if it's half as good as their collaboration on this, then it's gonna be a doozy.Get Wet
El Perro Del Mar-S/T
Every once and a while Starbucks will turn me on to a band that ends up being one of my favorites at the time. El Perro Del Mar was that band last year. We play that song "Coming Down The Hill" and I would always wonder to myself who the hell it was. After a couple of weeks I checked her out. She has a new ep out, and an album after this one, but for me this album just straight does it. One of the best breakup albums ever. Her voice is super haunting and full of emotion. She is what I hoped Bat For Lashes would sound like.
Vivian Girls-Everything Goes Wrong
What's worse than when an undeserving band get's over-hyped? When a fully deserving band gets slighted for not meeting an impossible mark. Case in point: The Vivian Girls. In 2008 they couldn't be touched, people treated them like The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were chicks. But when they dropped this album everyone was like, "eh, it's good" it's nothing mind blowing. Well they were never mind blowing to begin with. They are a minimalist outfit who deliver a very specific product. And they delivered the goods goddamn it! Everyone digs how Ramones albums all have a different angle. That's what sets "albums" apart from "a good collection of songs". Albums in some way have a cohesiveness, and they created a singular album, while maintaining their identity.....and besides it fucking rocks!Everything Goes Wrong
Prefuse 73-Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Guilermo Scott-Herren is one of my picks for musician of the decade(Im not the only one who thinks so). More so than any other artist I think he represents what music should sound like in the future. That's why it took me a minute to get on the Flying Loutus train. Prefuse has been doing him better than himself for waaaay longer. This isn't my favorite Prefuse record, that would be Sercuirity Screenings. But it is pretty damn far up there on the list. Any of his albums are perfect starting off points, but I might even say this would be the best to start out with just because all of his styles are on display here, fully realized. Although it would have been nice to have a collaboration like the one with Kazu from Blonde Redhead, or his work with School of Seven Bells. But I'll live.
Touch Midas
Broadcast & The Focus Group-Investigates Witchcults of the Radio Age
When I first heard the title to the new Broadcast record I thought to myself, "these dudes must be taking the same shit i'm taking....Ive been meaning to investigate witch cults for a minute now....maybe this cd will help." I don't have any pertinent information to share on the subject, but I will say that this album is the shit. I love to watch bands grow and become whole other beasts than they were before. Broadcast had retro-hip, synth-pop, electro-joy, whatever-hyphen down on lock. And then they say to themselves, "let's totally alienate all our too cool for schooler's and drop some occult drenched seance shit. with totally relevant allusions to the current state of Consciousness expansion." Effectual music for the Unaffected.Wee G'z Bored
Herbie Hancock-Maiden Voyage
Maiden Voyage was probably the first jazz song I could pick out and distinguish from the rest. And over the years this album just doesn't lose any punch, you've got some of the most important jazz musicians ever laying it down for Blue Note, with that signature Blue Note sound. Surely music to quell the tempest.
Band of the Year
Best Coast!!!!!!
Lazy westcoast potheads. Yup, sums it up right there. Simply put, the absolute crystallization of the coolest chick ever, and the coolest band. So good I went back and gave Pocahaunted another try. So good, im going to see them twice next week.....once at a Creperie(is it a word? a place to get crepes). All year they would just hit you with a tape here, seven inch there. Made the year fulfilling. A lil' taste
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Favorite Movie of the Year
I can't really think of a movie that has impacted me this hard. It just tore my head off as far as making a movie that could stand up next to Rembrandt's as far as artistic weight. I don't know the words to describe this movie....maybe they are in French, anyways this is the only movie that even crosses my mind anymore. Well this and Gummo, but that's a given.
Favorite Weed Strain of the Year
This ones hard cuz I didn't really pay too much attention, plus if it's really good then you definitely can't remember. I think we smoked a lot of Trainwreck? But who really knows? It's still a purdy picture.
ps-I pilfered all of the links used above.....SQUATTER'S RIGHTS!
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