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There’s a good 20-30 minute playlist I’m sure. The whole lot is very smart. And I felt the same with the last Tool and also Nick Cave.

LetMeSleep wrote:ITS STILL GOING AND HAS A FEW MORE TRACKS.

Where’s that Tool meme with The Rock.

Exact same feeling I had

bodysnatcher wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:ITS STILL GOING AND HAS A FEW MORE TRACKS.

Where’s that Tool meme with The Rock.

Exact same feeling I had

Sounds like too much of a slog for me

I like a couple of songs, but I generally don't find Lana Del Rey's music that interesting or compelling, and this album doesn't change that.

LetMeSleep wrote:Man this Lana Del Ray album goes on a bit.

I mean it's no Nick Cave but yeah.

theplatypus wrote:I like a couple of songs, but I generally don't find Lana Del Rey's music that interesting or compelling, and this album doesn't change that.

#MeToo

durdencommatyler wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:Man this Lana Del Ray album goes on a bit.

I mean it's no Nick Cave but yeah.

I did include NC in my comment.

I have always been interested in checking out new albums that interest me and have actively done so for the past few years. I've just had a count through my "2019" albums folder and I have 128 albums in there. Far out.

I have a few still to listen to but have listened to most. I really should keep an excel spreadsheet going or something.

LetMeSleep wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:Man this Lana Del Ray album goes on a bit.

I mean it's no Nick Cave but yeah.

I did include NC in my comment.

I was agreeing with your comment.

This came out earlier in the year, but I just recently found out about it. Min is a live composition for electronics and synthesizer by Sam Shalabi. He normally works with oud, guitar, patchwork compositions, and large ensembles, so this more minimal approach is relatively new for him.

The albums that I still listen to regularly;

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs
Tedeschi Trucks Band - High & Mighty
Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY (by far my favorite release of the year)
The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger

Discoveries of the year, Marcus King Band and Ocean Alley.

Whatever criticisms of the Lana Del Rey album I've heard, and some are probably perfectly valid, I just can't get over how pleasing it is to my ears. Some of the downright prettiest melodies I've heard in a long time, and not "pretty" in the damning-with-faint-praise sense -- I mean stuff that feels, to me, really and truly elite from a compositional standpoint. I can't bring myself to care to analyze it beyond that. It's just beautiful music.

There have been a few other albums that have stuck with me this year (Weyes Blood, Springsteen, Angel Olsen), but mostly I've spent the year listening to a lot of old jazz, even more than usual. That's where the mystery is for me these days

surfndestroy wrote:The albums that I still listen to regularly;

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs
Tedeschi Trucks Band - High & Mighty
Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY (by far my favorite release of the year)
The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger

Discoveries of the year, Marcus King Band and Ocean Alley.

I discovered Marcus King this year too! Got to see him twice, including a show where he played only material around his first album. They are a killer band and I am looking forward to El Dorado in January.

Somehow I've forgotten to post about my favorite find of 2019, Kiefer Shackelford, who performs under the name Kiefer. He makes a jazzy kind of instrumental funk/hip-hop driven by piano and bass synthesizer. He put out two EPs this year, Bridges and Superbloom.

Bridges


Superbloom

Michael Kiwanuka's new one "Kiwanuka" is a really tough one to beat. Sturgill is right up there though.

top tier, in alphabetic order:

Bill Calahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Bill MacKay - Fountain Fire
Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm
Fire! Orchestra - Arrival
Glen Hansard - The Wild Willing
Gong Gong Gong 工工工 - Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏 (幽霊リズム)
Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die II
John Zorn - Nove Cantici Per Francesco D'Assisi
Leonard Cohen - Thanks For The Dance
Mark Lanegan Band - Somebody's Knocking
Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
Matmos - Plastic Anniversary
Not Waving/Mark Lanegan - Downdwelling
Pharmakon - Devour
Pile - Green And Grey
Steven R. Smith - A Sketchbook Of Endings
Teeth Of the Sea - WRAITH
The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
The Quiet Temple - The Quiet Temple
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
Uboa - The Origin Of My Depression
Ustad Saami - God is not a terrorist
Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit!


Also good, in alphabetic order:

Abul Mogard - And We Are Passing Through Silently
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah - Al Hadaoui
Bersarin Quertett - Methoden und Maschinen
federico mosconi - dark not dark
Full Of Hell - Weeping Choir
ILL CONSIDERED - V
Jesca Hoop - STONECHILD
Jozef van wissem & Jim Jarmusch - an attempt to draw aside the veil
Julia Kent - Temporal
Julia Reidy - Brace, Brace
Kel Asouf - Black Tenere
Kirin J Callinan - Return To Center
LINGUA IGNOTA - CALIGULA
Lighting Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Lustmord - First Reformed
Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier - Corpse Flower
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Pan-American - A Son
Purple Mountains - S/T
Richard Hawley - Further
Richard Youngs - Dissident
Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold
SPAZA - SPAZA
Steve Moore - Beloved Exile
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
The Dead C - Rare Ravers
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
Tinariwen - Amadjar
Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope
Ulaan Passerine - New Evening
VA- Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990
Xylouris White - The Sisypheans

Forgot about the national, that would be in the second tier too

What was a good loud, aggressive rock album from this year? Preferably not metal

I guess the Black Midi album sort of counts, but I'm looking for something more visceral, less cerebral