Favourite album of the year?

goo

So far, obviously...
I thought it was late enough to start thinking about this, and also I wanted to talk about the new Lightning Bolt record without starting a thread just for it.

I've really loved some albums this year; Animal Collective's "Feels", British Sea Power's "Open Season" and, like I mentioned earlier, Lightning Bolt's "HyperMagic Mountain".

Anyone have any favourites? (dumb question...)

Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Domotic - Ask for Tiger
Xiu Xiu - La Foret
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Oneida - The Wedding
Silver Mt Zion's - Horses in the Sky

Winter Slide

Have to be Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning for me. With an honourable mention for Editors, Back Room

Tyrrial

Sigur Rós - Takk

johnny_ultimate

Brendan Benson - Alternative to Love or Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman

ratboy

Winter Slide wrote:

Have to be Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning for me. With an honourable mention for Editors, Back Room

Seconded with the bright eyes album, absolutely brilliant.

The Free Man

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
System Of A Down - Mesmerize
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

possibly more, i cant think now. thats just what i listened to mostly this year

Pacifico

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois:Come On Feel The Illinoise

No contest really!

Actually, there is: The Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree

The Weatherman

CocoRosie - Noah's Ark

eclectichoney

illinois - sufjan stevens... the man is *perfect* in every way

John

goo wrote:

Silver Mt Zion's - Horses in the Sky

I agree with that. In addition I think the following are great:

The Angels of Light - The Angels of Light Sing "Other People"
The Hafler Trio and Jonsi Birgisson - Exactly As I Do
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
The Dirty Three - Cinder
Black Sun Productions - Operett Amorale
Larsen - Play
Coil - ...And the Ambulance Died in his Arms
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Foetus - Love

John

I absolutely adore it. I listen to it a lot. I've a couple of his other releases and they're all pretty magical in my opinion.

Rhyme

Freddy77 wrote:

Ok, thanks for the output.

Output?... input

eclectichoney wrote:

illinois - sufjan stevens

Seconded

Darcy16

Don't Believe the Truth is really good, i have to say

arbeitsscheuer

James Blunt - Back To Bedlam

HarryHoudini

Has to be Sufjan for me too, purely based on the amount of time I've spent listening to this album. Roll on October 14th!!!

eclectichoney

october 14th dammit!! not the 24th :rolleyes:

whiskeyman

Back To Me - Kathleen Edwards
Cold Roses - Ryan Adams

PiE

Nothing's really grabbed me by the balls and made me listen to it endlessly since Picaresque... so I guess it's gotta be Decemberists - Picareaque for me. Even though I totally over-listened to it and can't listen to it much anymore.

Haven't heard the new Silver Mt. Zion, that could change things. Also waiting for Menomena and 65dayofstatic's new records. Impatiently.

goo

PiE wrote:

65dayofstatic's new record

I hadn't heard about this, thanks a million. I love "The Fall of Math"

treefingers

decemberists - picaresque
sufjan stevens - come on feel the illinoise
andrew bird and the mysterious production of eggs
the boats - we made it for you
animal collective - feels
super furry animals - love kraft


was bloc party this year or late 2004? if it was this year then this album too. i didn't expect to still be listening to it over half a year later to be honest....

Creamy Goodness

hmm not many that i've listened to endlessly this year.

ben folds - songs for silverman
bright eyes - I'm wide awake, It's morning
idlewild - warnings/promises

that's it really

rose of jericho

Frank Black - Honeycomb

Scratch Acid

Boredoms - Seadrum/House of Sun
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Unsane - Blood Run

The new deerhoof should be pretty nice also.

tywy

stars - set yourself on fire, I think it was released in 2004 in canada but i only heard it the day before I went to see them in the sugar club.

What other albums.....

Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow.

I could probably think of a few more.....

John

tywy wrote:

Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender

Forgot about this one. Good album but not for the faint of ear.

tywy wrote:

Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow.

I've only heard bits of this live. How does the new full band sound on the record?

Dave

Has to be silent alarm for me, and the futureheads self titled album.

Closing Doors

HarryHoudini wrote:

Has to be Sufjan for me too, purely based on the amount of time I've spent listening to this album. Roll on October 24th!!!

Does he have a myspace or somewhere you can listen to stuff online? (google didn't come up with anything for me :eek: ). The sheer volume of people raving about him has me intrigued...

As for me....

Stereophonics: Language.Sex.Violence.Other.
Guggenheim Grotto: Waltzing Alone
Kate Earl: Fate is the Hunter

And I'm very much looking forward to the release of Bell X1's "Flock" and Gemma Hayes's "The Roads Don't Love You"

Winter Slide

SebtheBum wrote:

James Blunt - Back To Bedlam

Really???? I know people must be buying but I thought they were all taking the piss. At Electric Pinic there were lads with t-shirts that said 'James Blunt must leave' and on the back it said 'in a body bag'. So jealous!

I thought Warnings/Promises was last year but if its '05 thats also up there

whiskeyman

Closing Doors wrote:

Stereophonics: Language.Sex.Violence.Other.

oh, forgot about this one. Brilliant album.
I never really got into the phonics before, but I got this after hearing some of the tunes on it.
Have since seen them live and got most of their other albums.
Cant believe I never picked up on them before

Sweetness!

Bloc Party Silent Alarm, best album of the year!

Jonny Arson

More Adventurous by Rilo Kiley is the clear winner for me.

Fingers crossed the new Franz Ferdinand album will make my top 5 list for this year. What date is it out? This Friday?

bugler

No one else has mentioned it yet..

The National - Alligator.

Outstanding.

tywy

yeah that's a class album!

tywy

John2 wrote:

Forgot about this one. Good album but not for the faint of ear.




I've only heard bits of this live. How does the new full band sound on the record?

Devendra is really good on record with the band. Long haired child is defo a stand out track

Ooly

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
John Frusciante/Josh Klinghoffer - A Sphere in the Heart of Silence
Hal - Hal
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

secret_squirrel

Winter Slide wrote:

I thought Warnings/Promises was last year but if its '05 thats also up there

I third this - its their best yet and it was 2005.

Hard-Fi are getting major playing time from me atm - dont know if they will last tho...

radiospan

Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
M.I.A. - Arular
The Chalets - Check In
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Sigur Ros - takk...

LCD and Vitalic too

PiE

Pretty sure 'More Adventurous' was released in '04, good album though.

goo wrote:

I hadn't heard about this, thanks a million. I love "The Fall of Math"

Yup should be out October/November last I heard. They're playing Cork and Belfast next month too, no Dublin gig announced as yet so looks like I'll be making a long trip one way or another.

endoftheline

art brut
the magic numbers
the futureheads
the arcade fire
fred-makin music so you don't have to

honourable mention to the rulers of the planets latest offering too.

treefingers

i think 65 days of static's irish gigs have been postponed...


and i completely forgot about wolf parades new album. that deserves a mention too....

PiE

treefingers wrote:

i think 65 days of static's irish gigs have been postponed...

Aye, read that last night after posting here. They can't afford to come over

Miguel_Sanchez

bugler wrote:

No one else has mentioned it yet..

The National - Alligator.

Outstanding.

Just got introduced to The National recently. I've only heard 'Cherry Tree' - must check out Alligator too. They're like some kind of brilliant cross between Tindersticks and American Music Club.

My albums:

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Sigur Ros - Takk

Atrocity

my two favourite albums of the year:

roots manuva - awfully deep

beck - guero

Fidelista

In a below avaerage year for albums I would say EELS- Blinking lights and other revelations. Yes it is a double album, but there are a few artists who can pull it off, and E is one of them( Dave 'Funnyman' Grohl is not ). It is an album that captures the scope of a person's entire life. from birth to death and all the highs and lows in between.
Class.

dalk

Nominated by various people:

The Go! Team - Thunder, lightning strike
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

They were all released in '04 (as far as i can remember)...

Jonny Arson

dalk wrote:

Nominated by various people:

The Go! Team - Thunder, lightning strike
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

They were all released in '04 (as far as i can remember)...

More Adventurous was released in Ireland this year.

Atrocity

Fidelista wrote:

In a below avaerage year for albums I would say EELS- Blinking lights and other revelations. Yes it is a double album, but there are a few artists who can pull it off, and E is one of them( Dave 'Funnyman' Grohl is not ). It is an album that captures the scope of a person's entire life. from birth to death and all the highs and lows in between.
Class.

that guy is a legend.. the album is brilliant and i salute your good taste

brian crackout

the new Weezer Record, 'Make Believe' is actually very good and wel worth a listen.it has some really catchy and well written songs, notably ' The damage in your Heart', 'Hold Me' or 'This is such a pity'.

just dont approach it with the attitude that 'its not the Blue album or Pinkerton so therefore its sh1t', thats the same predictable way that so called 'Real Weezer Fans' always receive a new weezer record.
'Make Believe'- my album of the year.

ghostdancer

Ryan Adams - Cold Roses

Royale with Cheese

I think it might have been released in 2004, but Arcade Fire's funeral wins it by a mile for me. Also the Futureheads album is brilliant but I'm fairly sure that was 2004 as well. Electric Six's new album is actually very good, it's just not getting any airplay.

lordgoat

years been pretty ****e for albums, got M.I.A yesterday and it's very hit and miss but i do love Bucky!