Recomendar
Best of 2008, last 15 of 50
Dez 27 2008, 1h51
podcast @ http://www.submersibledirigible.com/blog/2008/12/22/submersibles-best-of-2008-podcast-the-last-15-of-50/
mp3 / aac / playlist
50. Growing - All the Way [The Social Registry]
Growing has been drifting slowly away from their minimal electric guitar drones, these days sounding something like a marauding, metallic sawtooth specter. All the Way, one of the group’s two releases for the year, is the best example of the Growing’s urgent, effects laden drone-rock.
49. Carlos Giffoni - Adult Life [NO FUN]
Much of Giffoni’s back catalog can be a rough listen, even for calloused ears like my own. Adult Life has its own rough edges, but its inviting synth melodies recreate and re-imagine electronic music’s unique beginnings, when compositions were blossoming in academic research laboratories around the world. Giffoni’s latest is a sort of avant-Tomorrowland, an album of unashamed early-electronic futurism.
48. Suishou No Fune - Prayer For Chibi [Holy Mountain]
Prayer For Chibi is the sort of dependable space psych that occupies the endless, soul sucking monotony of the cubicle existence. The album sounds to owe as much to Doom/Sludge luminaries like Sunn 0))) as it does to Kraut/Psych godparents Cluster or Can. Left this album out of my podcast mix, because it just doesn’t fit well in the format.
47. Wooden Shjips - Volume 1 [Holy Mountain]
An album of reissues apparently, with these songs appearing previously on limited release 7, 10 or 12 inchers. Basically, it’s the sort of garage psyche that worked so perfectly on their full length with Holy Mountain. These songs are infinitely re-playable, and provide enough variety so they’re showing something new with every listen.
46. Pocahaunted - Peyote Road [Woodsist]
Pocahaunted is tribalism recomposed for the 21st century. These two must compose all their music around campfires in full warpaint to achieve such a jarring, spiritual sound. I probably spent too much time this year chasing down their many releases, but I kept coming back to Peyote Road.
45. Peter Broderick - Home [Bella Union/Type]
It’s hard to believe the same man behind Float’s pop-minded contemporary classical could write this jangly, comfort album. Bright, charming songs, sunshine guitar, and soaring vocals made perfect for snuggling. A little too sweet for my taste-buds, but ultimately impossible to resist.
44. Ilyas Ahmed - Arroyo (Arroyo Series) [Digitalis]
More of the same is still awesome. Psychedelic, distorted songwriting, with dabs of dissonance and noise. It’s a tragedy this album is more widely available (yet).
dregs3
43. Head of Wantastiquet - Mortagne [Ecstatic Peace]
Sunburned Hand of the Man’s Paul Labrecque puts together an album of surprisingly lovely banjo/guitar pieces, worthy of the Fahey and Basho American Primitive tradition. This musical niche should get old, but it never does.
42. Excepter - Debt Department [Paw Tracks]
Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks proves freak-folk’s dying corpse can still take plenty of flogging. These genre stalwarts produce another album of warped, senseless hipster jams.
41. Barn Owl - Raft of Serpents [Root Strata]
Mechanized grasshoppers mating tones, in a the peaceful guitar forest would sound something like Barn Owl’s Raft of Serpents. I’m running out of ways to describe ambient psychedelics.
40. M. Jarvis & A. Jarvis - Jun [Ruralfaune]
Ruralfaune’s best release, by my estimation. Yet another album of psychedelic songwriting that leaves a vivid, soothing impression. Instrumental pieces and folk songs mix perfectly, with some eastern influences and electronic bobbles for good measure. Apparently I’m a fan of the genre.
39. steve gunn - Sundowner [Digitalis Arts & Crafts]
Steven Gunn is best known as a member of GHQ, but has been recently producing his own acoustic folk songwriting, and stepping away from his group’s hazier blend. “For the Horse, Etc.” was a fixture in my playlist. Gunn’s Sundowner was released on the new Digitalis Arts & Crafts sublabel, setting a high standard for the new imprint.
38. Boduf Songs - How Shadows Chase the Balance [Kranky]
Nothing much has changed in the three years since Boduf Songs released his first album. How Shadows… again creates an epic sense of scale, his deep, hushed vocals sounding like some really incredible secret. If it aint broke…
37. Ignatz - III [KRAAK]
Crackling, whispered songwriting — III is an album of prematurely aged, over-treated, dusty recordings exposed to electromagnetic waves and solar radiation. Its interference completements the neurotic electric guitar and whispered vocal folk textures at this album’s heart.
36. Lau Nau - Nukkuu [Locust]
Plucky, atonal incantations from Helsinki’s Laura Naukkarinen. Like Islaja, Lau Nau’s acid folk is an easy listen, despite its dissonance. Nukuu’s frosty acoustic melodies, carefree vocals, and electric guitar whiteouts, put together, epitomizes the best of Finland’s bizarre, woolen folk community.
mp3 / aac / playlist
50. Growing - All the Way [The Social Registry]
Growing has been drifting slowly away from their minimal electric guitar drones, these days sounding something like a marauding, metallic sawtooth specter. All the Way, one of the group’s two releases for the year, is the best example of the Growing’s urgent, effects laden drone-rock.
49. Carlos Giffoni - Adult Life [NO FUN]
Much of Giffoni’s back catalog can be a rough listen, even for calloused ears like my own. Adult Life has its own rough edges, but its inviting synth melodies recreate and re-imagine electronic music’s unique beginnings, when compositions were blossoming in academic research laboratories around the world. Giffoni’s latest is a sort of avant-Tomorrowland, an album of unashamed early-electronic futurism.
48. Suishou No Fune - Prayer For Chibi [Holy Mountain]
Prayer For Chibi is the sort of dependable space psych that occupies the endless, soul sucking monotony of the cubicle existence. The album sounds to owe as much to Doom/Sludge luminaries like Sunn 0))) as it does to Kraut/Psych godparents Cluster or Can. Left this album out of my podcast mix, because it just doesn’t fit well in the format.
47. Wooden Shjips - Volume 1 [Holy Mountain]
An album of reissues apparently, with these songs appearing previously on limited release 7, 10 or 12 inchers. Basically, it’s the sort of garage psyche that worked so perfectly on their full length with Holy Mountain. These songs are infinitely re-playable, and provide enough variety so they’re showing something new with every listen.
46. Pocahaunted - Peyote Road [Woodsist]
Pocahaunted is tribalism recomposed for the 21st century. These two must compose all their music around campfires in full warpaint to achieve such a jarring, spiritual sound. I probably spent too much time this year chasing down their many releases, but I kept coming back to Peyote Road.
45. Peter Broderick - Home [Bella Union/Type]
It’s hard to believe the same man behind Float’s pop-minded contemporary classical could write this jangly, comfort album. Bright, charming songs, sunshine guitar, and soaring vocals made perfect for snuggling. A little too sweet for my taste-buds, but ultimately impossible to resist.
44. Ilyas Ahmed - Arroyo (Arroyo Series) [Digitalis]
More of the same is still awesome. Psychedelic, distorted songwriting, with dabs of dissonance and noise. It’s a tragedy this album is more widely available (yet).
dregs3
43. Head of Wantastiquet - Mortagne [Ecstatic Peace]
Sunburned Hand of the Man’s Paul Labrecque puts together an album of surprisingly lovely banjo/guitar pieces, worthy of the Fahey and Basho American Primitive tradition. This musical niche should get old, but it never does.
42. Excepter - Debt Department [Paw Tracks]
Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks proves freak-folk’s dying corpse can still take plenty of flogging. These genre stalwarts produce another album of warped, senseless hipster jams.
41. Barn Owl - Raft of Serpents [Root Strata]
Mechanized grasshoppers mating tones, in a the peaceful guitar forest would sound something like Barn Owl’s Raft of Serpents. I’m running out of ways to describe ambient psychedelics.
40. M. Jarvis & A. Jarvis - Jun [Ruralfaune]
Ruralfaune’s best release, by my estimation. Yet another album of psychedelic songwriting that leaves a vivid, soothing impression. Instrumental pieces and folk songs mix perfectly, with some eastern influences and electronic bobbles for good measure. Apparently I’m a fan of the genre.
39. steve gunn - Sundowner [Digitalis Arts & Crafts]
Steven Gunn is best known as a member of GHQ, but has been recently producing his own acoustic folk songwriting, and stepping away from his group’s hazier blend. “For the Horse, Etc.” was a fixture in my playlist. Gunn’s Sundowner was released on the new Digitalis Arts & Crafts sublabel, setting a high standard for the new imprint.
38. Boduf Songs - How Shadows Chase the Balance [Kranky]
Nothing much has changed in the three years since Boduf Songs released his first album. How Shadows… again creates an epic sense of scale, his deep, hushed vocals sounding like some really incredible secret. If it aint broke…
37. Ignatz - III [KRAAK]
Crackling, whispered songwriting — III is an album of prematurely aged, over-treated, dusty recordings exposed to electromagnetic waves and solar radiation. Its interference completements the neurotic electric guitar and whispered vocal folk textures at this album’s heart.
36. Lau Nau - Nukkuu [Locust]
Plucky, atonal incantations from Helsinki’s Laura Naukkarinen. Like Islaja, Lau Nau’s acid folk is an easy listen, despite its dissonance. Nukuu’s frosty acoustic melodies, carefree vocals, and electric guitar whiteouts, put together, epitomizes the best of Finland’s bizarre, woolen folk community.
