album playlist: 1008

albums i got in october ranked in three sections (good, mediocre, i dont get it)

GOOD/ ABOVE AVERAGE

mother mother - o my heart









emiliana torrini - me and armini



starflyer 59 - dial m



delta spirit - ode to sunshine
heartsrevolution/ crystal castles - split ep

MEDIOCRE

trail of dead - festival thyme ep
snow patrol - a hundred million suns
travis - ode to j. smith
the postmarks - by the numbers
aqualung - words and music
love is all - a hundred things keep me up at night
plus/ minus - xs on your eyes
kaiser chiefs - off with their heads

I DONT GET IT

jackie-o motherfucker - freedomland
extreme - saudades de rock
fucked up - the chemistry of common life
gregory and the hawk - moenie and kitchi
keane - perfect symmetry
tobacco - fucked up friends

album playlist: 0908

the good stuff:

megapuss - surfing



juno soundtrack



best fwends - alphabetically arranged



peter bjorn and john - seaside rock

man man - rabbit habits



the national - the virginia ep



metronomy - nights out



shugo tokumaru - exit



mediocre to above average:

thao with the get down - stay down we brave bee stings and all



frank sinatra - 20 classic tracks

i'm from barcelona - who killed harry houdini

tv on the radio - dear science



chairlift - does you inspire you



stars - sad robots ep

billy holiday - loveless love

final fantasy - spectrum 14th century ep

growing - all the way

erol sebadosh - our rooms at the end of the world


what were you thinkin':

ben folds - way to normal

of montreal - skeletal lamping

talkdemonic - eyes at half mast

the little ones - terry tales and fallen gates

red sparowes - aphorisms ep

land of talk - some are lakes

spinto band - moonwink

times new viking - rip it off

album playlist: 0808

so let's see what albums i got and listened to in august. i remember not digging a lot of the stuff i downloaded, so i guess i'll mention which stuff i like. i honestly don't know why some of these bands exists. it's like, somehow in their mind they thought that they're so hipster that making bad music is such an ironic and novel idea that some people might actually dig it...but of course, it's not my business to decide what your taste is like ;)

stuff i liked:

plants & animals - parc avenue (this album i thought is pretty solid, reminds me of midlake)



the tallest man on earth - self-titled ep (the man in the video looks like poo)



woodpigeon - treasury library canada

i cant find a damn video of this one song on the album "7th fret over andres". i thought it's such a good song and kinda reminds me of sufjan stevens.

cut copy - in ghost colours



kaizers orchestra - maskineri (so far i thought this album isnt as great as their previous albums, but i still like it)



woven hand - ten stones



department of eagles - in ear park

mediocrity?:

grand archives - the grand archives

the sea and cake - car alarm

parenthetical girls - entanglements

parts & labor - receivers

ra ra riot - the rhumb line

the verve - forth

the faint - fascinatiion


i don't get it:

the dead science - villainaire

bloc party - intimacy (this band's starting to get on my nerves. i wanna slash kele's tongue off)

los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster...

aids wolf - cities of glass (i've seen them before live, pretty terrific performance but this shit is just not my cup of tea)

album playlist: 0708

it's almost the end of july. i guess from now on i'm gonna try post albums i got for the past month. under the band name i'll post their myspace page and if i can find a music video, i'll embed with it.

i realized that lately most albums i listened to the past month are in the area of folk/ alt-folk/ singer-songwriter with somber/ melancholic/ poignant attitude. i dunno, i hate explaining what it is that i listen to.

air france - no way down

no opera - architecture, architecture

baccara - the very best of baccara





frightened rabbit - the midnight organ fight

this video is cute:



jape - ritual



kansas - the best of kansas



the last shadow puppets - the age of understatement

i'm not a fan of arctic monkeys and i dont know if i can be a fan of this album either.



laura marling - alas i cannot swim



liars - liars



mgmt - oracular spectacular

i have to admit they dont sound as horrible as they were when i saw them live opening for of montreal many moons ago. they actually start to sound pleasant to my ears.

electric feel on youtube >>



miracle fortress - five roses



noah and the whale - peaceful, the world lays me down



okkervil river - the stand-ins

shearwater - rook



sun kil moon - april



the tallest man on earth - shallow graves



titus andronicus - the airing of grievances

arms against atrophy >>

women - women