Albums of 2015

[Brett]

It's not too early for this, is it? Regardless, I'm doing it anyway. What's on the agenda for next year's music?

I know Panda Bear's Panda Bear vs. The Grim Reaper is finally going to be released on January 12/13. First single is "Mr. Noah," and it's kinda weirdly catchy:



Then there's the new Siskiyou album, Nervous, which is also rather long-awaited. It'll be out on January 20 and the first song's available for streaming. "Deserter":



There's plenty of stuff that I'm speculating about or am pretty sure is going to be released this upcoming year, as well, but I'm not gonna litter this first post with it.

[Heathen]

I thought about starting this thread. Mainly for this:

Mount Eerie had already promised that a new album called Sauna was on the way, and now Phil Elverum has detailed the impending collection. It will be out on February 3 through the musician's own P.W. Elverum & Sun label.

http://exclaim.ca/News/mount_eerie_details_sauna

[Malloy]

I thought about starting this thread. Mainly for this:

Mount Eerie had already promised that a new album called Sauna was on the way, and now Phil Elverum has detailed the impending collection. It will be out on February 3 through the musician's own P.W. Elverum & Sun label.

http://exclaim.ca/News/mount_eerie_details_sauna

[Heathen]

There's also a new Six Organs of Admittance in February, with a intriguing/might-totally-be-bullshit press release from Drag City

Ben Chasny's restless intellect has regularly guided the progress of his creation. A lyrical mastery of acoustic finger-picking would be enough to build a body of work for most musicians; this is just the stepping-off point for Ben. From the earliest days of private-press psych home recordings, Six Organs of Admittance has sought out alternative spaces in which to make music and challenge audiences to keep up with his rapid advances into new terrain. Over the last two years, Ben assembled a comprehensive system of musical composition. Designed to free sound and language from rational order and replace calculation with indeterminacy, The Hexadic System is a catalyst to extinguish patterns and generate new means of chord progressions and choices, and has resulted in the creation of a new Six Organs of Admittance album, Hexadic, coming February, 2015!

Hexadic sounds unlike anything else made this year, and generally unlike most other things made ever. The System builds all of the tonal fields, chord changes, scales, and lyrics on Hexadic, creating the framework of the songs with which musicians can engage. Yet The System is open; within the framework, Chasny's own personal aesthetics - such as the production mode of loud guitars, the order of songs, the editing of length, were all conscious decisions made to communicate the pieces. The exact same combinatorial patterns used on this record would generate infinite results, depending on the choices of the individual. Ben's years of study have produced an operational agent that has not only built all the songs on Hexadic but is also a system anyone can use to restructure their ways of habit.

With a desire to provoke the unconscious and spring past the strictures and limits of the conscious mind, this was the goal: to use the System to make heavy music with as few "heavy" signifiers as possible. The ones that are left: Volume. Distortion. Impact! This is Hexadic: the sound of the System in the hands of Six Organs of Admittance. Hexadic arrives February 17th as an album, with Hexadic book and card deck imminent!

and of course a new Desolate Shrine in January

[Heathen]

other 2015 releases that have been announced and that might be of interest to some people

Murder by Death
Father John Misty
Motorama
Rach Three
Sir Richard Bishop
Noveller
Sleater-Kinney
Kreng
Decemberists
Bob Dylan
José González
Disappears
BADBADNOTGOOD
Björk?
Boduf Songs
Deafheaven
Pond
Built to Spill?
Faith No More

[Alex]

other 2015 releases that have been announced and that might be of interest to some people

Murder by Death
Father John Misty
Motorama
Rach Three
Sir Richard Bishop
Noveller
Sleater-Kinney
Kreng
Decemberists
Bob Dylan
José González
Disappears
BADBADNOTGOOD
Björk?
Boduf Songs
Deafheaven
Pond
Built to Spill?
Faith No More

why are you doing this for us?

[Heathen]

I'm doing it for me.

[Alex]

but there's stuff on there that is not shrouded in the cool, dark, emotionally stunted evil of metal music

[Heathen]

I didn't say the list was for me.

[Alex]

ok

[Alex]

i'll chalk this up to a language barrier issue

[Heathen]

I won't let you ruin this thread, Alex.

[Alex]

hey i like music too

[Heathen]

I'll let Birds in Hell be the judge of that.

[Alex]

judgeship is a natural role for our gargoyle-resembling tastemaker

[Heathen]

Speaking of gargoyles, this is scheduled for February.

[Alex]

speaking of ugly genuises, birds in hell's hideousness has forced him to take refuge in the superiority of his opinions

[Heathen]

[Birds in Hell]

Speaking of gargoyles, this is scheduled for February.

speaking of ugly genuises, birds in hell's hideousness has forced him to take refuge in the superiority of his opinions

I'd like to imagine I am both more handsome and less rigidly dogmatic about my opinions than my internet reputation would appear to suggest.

[Alex]

Speaking of gargoyles, this is scheduled for February.

speaking of ugly genuises, birds in hell's hideousness has forced him to take refuge in the superiority of his opinions

I'd like to imagine I am both more handsome and less rigidly dogmatic about my opinions than my internet reputation would appear to suggest.

the second part might be true