Sean Price - Monkey Barz

SHAWN PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

sick raps dude

Serge Gainsbourg - Confidentiel

Album mentioned in glerp's Elek post. Simple instrumentation consisting of an upright bass and Elek's siq guitarin coupled with Gainsbourg's signature prose and voice makes for one of the chillest albums ever.

ye-ye

Skip Bifferty - Skip Bifferty

With a band name and album cover as terrible as these, this has to be some A+ psychedelic rock/pop. Spacey as fugg. I love this.

guru

Elek Bacsik - Nuages

I came across this album after hearing the mind blowing guitar work on Serge Gainsbourg's Confidentiel. This is an album of well-chosen jazz standards arranged and played to perfection. Listening makes me hungary (lol) for more. Also, this guy plays bebop violin, what the hell.

Django Reinhardt's his cousin who cares?

Jacques Brel - Brel (Les Marquises)

Jacques Brel's 1977 comeback and final album is an amazing one. His compositions are more varied here than any prior release, ranging from somber ballads to sarcastic psychedelic pop. His vocals are as incredible as ever, which is shocking considering he recorded this album with only one lung. His prose is still top notch, I just wish I knew the French language myself so I wouldn't have to rely on shaky English translations which probably are missing a lot lost in translation.

orly

Nomo - Invisible Cities

Fela Kuti inspired fusion. I'm turned off by most contemporary jazz but this one really keeps me listening.
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Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress

Riffin as hell punk. This shit is so hard. I think members of this band went on to make Drive Like Jehu, but this is better than Drive Like Jehu.

asdf

Central Fires EP

I can't find a picture of them live so here's their probably random MySpace pic.

Anyway, Central Fires are a band from our very own Birmingham, AL. This is their new EP. Download it. It's fucking awesome. I don't know how to describe it other than that. It's like really dense post-hardcore that's occasionally heavy, occasionally dream-like. I don't know. It's good as hell. I think I remember seeing someone say this is for people who like Isis and Smashing Pumpkins. Now that I think about it, if those two fused together, this would sound kind of like that.

herio

The Gerogerigegege

"JAPANESE ULTRA SHIT BAND"

ONETWOTHREEFUUAUUAYEYAHHAUYGYAIUOFEUIFYEAAHYEFAUFHEHYAY

UURURAGH

Planks

Heavy as fugg crusty/sludgy hardcore. Their full length self-titled LP was produced by James Plotkin of Khanate, so you know iss gonna bring the \m/

Also, these dudes have all of their shit up for free download (lol) on their MySpace.

Planks
Split w/ Tombs<-- Tombs at their most bm, GIDDIT

James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing

Stunningly beautiful & ethereal pieces for 12-string acoustic guitar. The title track is one of the best things I've ever heard. Definitely give it a listen if you're a fan of stuff like John Fahey or Jack Rose or Sir Richard Bishop or etc. etc. but chances are if you like them, you've probably already heard this. Whatever.


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Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud

Jazz album with harp.

Megaupload

Country Teasers - "Satan Is Real Again," or, "Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts"

To be honest I don't really know what to classify this as, but to me it sounds like post-punk at its core with copious amounts of noise and dissonance and a strangely unique country influence, all the while retaining a quirky catchyness about it. It also has a kind of Brainbombs-ish filth about it. Rules. Also there are awesome lyrics like:

"Women are the Germans of humor,
and I believe that it is also true,
that we are the Hitler of comedy,
and everybody else is a Jew"

so good

Chappaquiddick Skyline - Chappaquiddick Skyline

Chillin' melancholic lush alt-countryish pop tunes from Joe Pernice of Scud Mountain Boys and Pernice Bros. fame. Fans of early American Music Club/Summerteeth-era Wilco need apply.

heow

Jellyroll Rockheads - Wake Up, Music

Discography comp of this fun as hell Japanese hardcore band. Fast as shit punx with intense vox for fans of stuff like Scholastic Deth. Actually this shit might be better than Scholastic Deth.

no skate no thrash

Venice Is Sinking - Azar

So I've been going through this year's AthFest lineup (Athens, GA) to try to find some sort of reason why I should go other than to drink. I've found a few pretty decent bands that don't sound like they should be playing shit like this. Anyway, this band is more than just decent, they're incredible. Venice Is Sinking play indie that's kind of like a blend of Arcade Fire, Beirut, Red House Painters, and some other retarded namedrop I can add. I guess I'll throw in the term "slowcore" to entice you like it enticed me on their last.fm page, even though there's not a hint of slowcore anywhere in this album.

is cool

AsbestosDeath

AsbestosDeath was composed of the future members of Sleep + Thomas Choi, who would go on to be a founding member of Noothgrush. This sounds far more like Grief than it does Sleep. This is their "discography:" four songs.

deth

Sleep - Jerusalem

Dopesmoker - Now with 6x MORE SCROBBLES

Therefore, better than Dopesmoker.

5/5 To Every Composer Sporting A Powdered Wig

You guys probably already have all of this but I just made this post on a local board and I guess I'll just copy and paste it here



DL

Absolutely monumental work. Each piece is sung in Polish from texts dealing with seperation, the most startling and heartbreaking of them being the second piece, which was found scribbled on the wall in a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish mother as a parting message to her son.

also


DL

Everyone needs sum Philip Glass.


DL

Say what you will about the movie, but the soundtrack is still the best stand-alone OST that I've ever heard. Ranges from brooding ambient, soaring post-rock, to minimalist Erik Satie/Philip Glass-ish piano pieces.


DL

Perfect rainy day music.


DL

Mindfuck of an album. Slowly transforming minimalist music. It relies on the same motif for its entire 58 minute duration, but it's way more accessible than that sounds. Manages to remain entertaining throughout and there are always new impressive melodies popping up. I wish I was technically savvy enough to be able to admire all the experimentation with "rhythmic patterns" and "tonal cycles" but frankly you don't need to know any of that shit to think this is awesome.

Xhol Caravan - Electrip

Yes, that album name is retarded. Yes, that album art is doubly retarded. Who cares? This shit rules. Jazz with strong psychedelic and krautrock influences. My binge continues.

ja

Amon Düül II - Yeti

I can't stop listenin to this fuggin album. New favorite krautrock album. Progressive psychedelic rock and improvisation at its finest. Do you like guitars? this album is guitars

eye-shakin king

Molehill

Molehill was a sludge band in the early 00's here in our very own Birmingham, AL. Alas, I probably liked Nickleback and Linkin Park during those days. Anyway, this is basically just massive amounts of EHG worship, but is that ever a bad thing? Riffs galore. Dirty Southern sludge right here.

Comfort Measured In Razor Lines

Molehill

NoMeansNo

One of my favorite bands ever. Formed in 1979 and still actively performing live and producing quality new material, NoMeansNo is quite simply one of the wittiest, funnest, most interesting and unique bands in punk. Over the 30 years of their existence, they have never once released the same album twice and they haven't released any duds either for that matter. Core members brothers Rob and John Wright are possibly the two best instrumentalists in the genre (bass and drums respectively), and their often humorous vocal tradeoffs are key to their ever evolving sound. Here's a few of my favorites.



Their most well-known and highly-regarded, and also my personal favorite. Wrong is probably NoMeansNo's most straightforward punk release, though it has several funk and jazz moments that allude to their later work. If you don't like "It's Catching Up," "The Tower," or "Rags 'n Bones," there is something wrong with you.

Be strong, be wrong.


0 + 2 = 1 was their next album after Wrong, but it's a huge departure from that sound. It's slowed down for the most part, and it's far weirder than Wrong. A lot more noise and funk is present here and there are even some things that would not sound out of place on an early Primus album, but it's all still catchy as fugg. And John Wright still rips it up.

If every third animal in the world is a beetle, then maybe every third person in the world is a
DUMB FUCK


Sex Mad LP + the You Kill Me EP. Early NoMeansNo when Rob had some kind of weird throat problem and John took over most of the vocal duties. Probably the strangest album in their discography. About half of it is just drums and bass, but the Wright bros manage to keep it intresting with bizarre melodies and equally bizarre lyrics and vocals.

Dad, no!

Skywave

Echodrone

Synthstatic

Skywave were a fucking great noisy lo-fi shoegaze/dream pop band from the early 90's. RIYL: Alison's Halo, A Place To Bury Strangers (share members), Bee Thousand-era Guided By Voices.

Born Against - The Rebel Sound Of Shit And Failure

Classic hardcore material that everyone should have. Political, pissed off punx that were probably one of the most exciting bands in the early 90's hardcore scene with inventive guitarwork, often experimental song structures, and some of the siqqest vokills there are.

up tha