The Alternative Music Thread, Part 2 Options

[Fall of Reach]

yep. so far i've devoured I Speak Because I Can and A Creature I Don't Know.
she's amazing! and she's playing the Opera House next year...
...though i'm curious now as to whether the man that brought that to my attention is interested in going or...

NEVERMIND

[Jonnycondom]

Alright, here goes, my top three favourite songs of 2011!

(to be fair, deciding this was really hard and I'm sure I'll change my mind tomorrow, but these are the three I've enjoyed the most)

At number 3..



At number 2..



(seriously listen to this with headphones, it's fucking beautiful)

and at number one.. my favourite come back of the year and my favourite song to dance to, ALL THE TIME




COMING SOON

MY TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2011

BE EXCITED.

[Fall of Reach]

i finally sat and listened to Ancient Lasers debut EP today.
it is very, very good.
it's also one of my sweet-as FREE finds from BandCamp: http://ancientlasers.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-lasers-ep

[Jonnycondom]

[u]MY TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2011 BEGINS [b]

I will try to post two a day or something, well more realistically it might be two every few days as I don't get on my laptop much these days.

This was tough to decide, but unfortunately some of these albums just didn't make the cut even though I loved them dearly..

Ryan Adams, PJ Harvey, Iron and Wine, Lykke LI, Strokes, Yuck, Friendly Fires, The Rapture, Explosions In The Sky, The Horrors, Gang Gang Dance,

anywho..



COMING IN AT NUMBER TEN..


ST VINCENT - STRANGE MERCY


A very good, interesting, and messed up album. I ain't no journalist so I can't really explain the many bizarre sounds going on all at once. Just listen and love..




NUMBER NINE..


ACTIVE CHILD - YOU ARE ALL I SEE

Just beautiful, basically

[Jonnycondom]

COMING IN AT NUMBER EIGHT..

WALLS - CORACLE


Really lush, dreamy soundscapes. Perfect for when you're hungover anyway.



Number 7..


METRONOMY - THE ENGLISH RIVIERA

Just really fun, intelligent indie pop music.

[Astron]

Jesus I don't buy nearly enough albums to make such a list.
I mean I've done quite well this year but that's only by my standards.

[Jonnycondom]

The list continues..


AT NUMBER 6..







BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIX


I've never really paid attention to this band until this year. This album is guaranteed to whack a smile on your face. Near perfection indie pop.





NUMBER 5..

RUSTIE - GLASS SWORDS

If you like dance music in any way, you need to hear this. It's like a journey listening to this, a journey of SICK beats.

Just listen to this..



oh man that beat which comes a third of the way through is ridonkilous.


NUMBER 4


ANTLERS - BURST APART

Thankyou Fall OF Reach for introducing me to this quite wonderful album..





NUMBER 3


BON IVER - BON IVER


A pretty much remarkable return for one of the best singer songwriters around today..




top two coming soon!

[BillyBuddSailor]

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIX


I've never really paid attention to this band until this year. This album is guaranteed to whack a smile on your face. Near perfection indie pop.

They've been a sort of hit and miss. While Shuffle and Lights Out, Words Gone are top notch, the rest of the cd is alright....

[Jonnycondom]

NUMBER TWO..



SBTRKT - SBTRKT

Probably the obly album which gets near enough to summing up music "now".

It's hard to pick a song to represent the whole album really since they all sound so different, but fuck it, have this one









NUMBER ONE!!!





I thought their first album was just okay. The second was amazing. The third, just a league of its own (although some people still prefer the second) and now they are quite easily one of the best and most interesting bands of our country.

This whole album is full of so many beautiful moments, beautiful weirdness, beautiful lyrics.

just amazing.


It is of course...





WILD BEASTS - SMOTHER


Seriously just listen to this. If you have a heart, it should break right about now..






I hope you enjoyed my countdown.

If any of you want any further reading, this is my favourite music website and their top albums of the year..

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4144253...f-the-year--5-1

This post has been edited by Jonnycondom: Dec 16 2011, 15:35

[Fall of Reach]

yAy! Antlers (my pleasure JC) and Wild Beasts!

this week i found Laura Veirs



her album July Flame (which is the only one i have so far) is so lovely.

[Fall of Reach]

Olympic Swimmers:



lovely little band from Glasgow.

[Jonnycondom]

That Olympic Swimmers song is lovely


Here are a band to look out for in 2012. They are called Friends, and because of this they are a pain in the arse to Google.

[Jonnycondom]

Hi music fans, how we all doing?

I'm gonna kick off the year with this stunning song I heard on the radio earlier..



like seriously, how amazing is that? So much atmosphere.


On the album front, The Maccabbes have a new album out on Monday and I have read a lot of positive reviews I'm sure most of you know of them, but if you don't, here is their new song from said album.

[Fall of Reach]

Hi music fans, how we all doing?

i'm alright sir. how goes yourself?

my current infatuation:



well, that and Deadbirds, but pffffffffffffft, finding any vids for them.

[memmett]

I can't remember if I've posted this song in here before :/
But oh well.

A little old now, but listened to this album again today and remembered how good it is:

[rustyrio]

I found this in my travels recently, and thought it was quite cool. And probably best described as 'alternative'.



However, I now have a problem... this song has totally reminded me of something else, but I just can't put my finger on what it is.

I remember seeing an animated video for a really cool song and it's totally bugging. The video/song was about a man feeling like a cog in a big machine, but he tries to break out. And I think he experiences what it's like out of the machine and it's not that good and ends up just going back into the machine. And all of the scenes kinda blend together.

And to make things worse, my memory of it is so sketchy that I'm not even sure that it was a person, or even a stick figure. It might have been a robot or something completely random. But man oh man is it really bugging me! I think the song was kinda similar to the one above and possibly similar to Kristian Leontiou's vibe.

I also have a memory of there being other videos/songs by the same person, and there was one/two about someone sailing down a river which was quite possibly a love story.

ARGH! Please someone help me remember.

[Jonnycondom]

I honestly don't have a clue Ross, I'm sorry

anyway, thanking you and Memm for contributing to the thread I enjoyed both the songs in completely different ways. Memm's song allowed me to bring out the inner "film soundtrack emo" in me (This is by no means an insult Memm, just sayin that song sounds like it would be perfect in a movie soundtrack is all) What's with the panda dying on the front cover?! Bit harsh.

The picture of the sad robot is a bit glum. I just wanna go hug him. Is the robot standing on the left bullying him? I enjoyed the assorted bleeping noises in the song anyway and computerised voices of course.

FOR, that song is divine! Do they have an album? And for you I have this song which I heard on an episode of "Parenthood" the other day. Really nice vocals, kinda Ryan Adams esque so I thought you may like..



oh yeah, one of my favourite scottish bands The Twilight Sad are back!

Here is their new excellent song..





This post has been edited by Jonnycondom: Jan 7 2012, 10:45

[rustyrio]

OK, I'm still stumped on the 'cog in a machine' one, but I had a brainwave that led to me finding the 'river' one.

A bit silly really... I mentioned Kristian Leontiou - it's the band that he's now in! One eskimO.



I'll keep thinking about the other one because I'm sure it's connected in some way...

[Fall of Reach]

yo JC, that JBM track is rather lovely i'll have to get that one.

Clams Casino have an album and an EP, and that track.

these 2 links are from Clams' twitter:

album: http://hulkshare.com/10nsi8mxqvzw
i'm god: http://hulkshare.com/4be6a01p53r2

and this is the Rainforest EP:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2cgsoeb5ipbbs50

[Fall of Reach]

k. that band i mentioned a couple of posts back, Deadbirds?
the album has dropped as a free download.

my tumblr: http://hotgogdamn.tumblr.com/post/15549924...m-free-download

i would recommend it to anyone. it's rather excellent.

This post has been edited by Fall of Reach: Jan 9 2012, 04:17