/mu/ is so shit now, no-one shares albums, at least not any new finds. It's filled with shitty fucking cutesy games like "if /mu/ was a ____", "if you get dubs say a genre you like" or some shit like that.
Let's get an actual album thread
>post your favourite album
>post your most recent purchase
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
>pic related
>Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
>Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
>>48285512
>sigur ros
>unknown
>not valtari or kveiker
Well at least you have good taste.
Also, pic related.
>Blondie - Parallel Lines
>Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
>>48285512
>purchase
lol you're fucking dumb
>>48285512
>>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
>pic related
>Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
>Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
...
These are good albums but m8 are you serious
>>48285594
>>48285606
first album is
>your favourite album
second is
>most recent purchase
and only third is
>generally unknown
>>48285624
but that's not generally unknown either.
>post your favourite album
atm pic related
>post your most recent purchase
Boris at Last: Feedbacker
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
The Notwist - Close To The Glass
>>48285624
The thing is there was so much hype over that Cloud Nothings album when it leaked and for about a month surrounding the release but whatever this thread should be interesting so I'll join in
>pic related
>f(x) - Red Light
>Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
>>48285624
Thanks man, I did make my list p vague.
And I've seen Cloud Nothings on a thread like once, hence why I put them here
>>48285512
>Pic Related
>The Dave Brübeck Quartet - Take Five
>You Slut! - Critical Meat
>>48285512
>>post your favourite album
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
>>post your most recent purchase
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (CD)
>>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
Jane - Berserker. It's a Panda Bear project and sound like Person Pitch before Person Pitch, but nobody ever seems to talk about it.
>>48285512
btw i Here and Nowhere Else is in literally every AOTY thread
>Children of God
>I've bought like 15 on my last streak, my fave out of those is Replica by OPN
>Lowercase - Kill the Lights, I never see them here but they are wonderful
also >>48285722
>post your favourite album
Strand of Oaks - Pope Killdragon
>post your most recent purchase
Dry the River - Shallow Bed LP
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
Allo Darlin' - Europe, I don't see it discussed hardly ever.
OP Here,
Since Cloud Nothings are too popular I'll say Zeus! - Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEdQ3KWVzdc
>Kinski - Alpine Static
>Boris - Akuma No Uta
>Robert Wyatt - Shleep
favorite
>pic related
most recent "purchase"
>eisley - the valley
needs more recognition
>pic related, even though it was discussed a few times but I still feel not many of you guys heard it, and it's fucking amazing
>post your favourite album
"The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)" - The Dear Hunter
>post your most recent purchase
"Beak>" - Beak>
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
"2 A.M. Wakeup Call" - Tweaker
>>48285605
>not torrenting then buying if you like an album
faggot
>>48285512
If you think you're contributing more with this thread, you're not.
Sigur Ros are an overrated 3rd Wave Post Rock band that completely fit the archetype of ''crescendo-core'', if it wasn't for hype journalists like pitchfork the band would have been forgotten a long time ago.
>pic
>Chewing on Tinfoil - Marrowbone Lane (which still hasn't fucking arrived)
>Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
>Really anything by any member of Tally Hall
>>48285885
how is this not overrated? i get it rec'd by so many people who seem to like the same shit as i do but i can't get into it
>>48286049
but it's not the records fault that you can't get into it
the album itself is great
>>48285997
I don't, I want a thread where I can find music easier than I have recently on this board.
Don't you think P4K hyped them up for a reason? Jonsi is a fucking talented singer, and sorry I like something you don't, that's the story of /mu/ lmfao
>>48285512
Good point, OP — but replace "it" with "white" and you'd sound very racist.
I never saw this album posted here. Masterpiece.
>>48286086
So what you're saying is: ''I want a thinly veiled /r/ thread as I'm too basic to look for music myself''.
What a great music contribution.
>>48286086
P4k loved Agaetis Byrjun and since then they've been like 'ehhhh they're good we'll give them something in the 7s.'
>>48286114
>white's filled with shitty fucking cutesy games like "if /mu/ was a ____", "if you get dubs say a genre you like" or some shit like that.
>>48286140
No point in arguing man, you're the only person who's decided "fuck this guy he's contributing nothing to /mu/! all these other threads are SO worthwhile and this one, about music and sharing albums, is the fucking vermin of /mu/ how dare he want to find albums in a quick manner, I have no idea how busy his life is so I must judge him on using quicker methods!"
>>48286277
No you see that's a strawman.
What I'm saying is you're requesting albums (and we have a board for requests - /r/) so you're really not contributing anything more musicially than Kpop threads, in all honesty.
>>48286314
and you are contributing even less than him
>>48286314
Cut the shit GJ, everyone knows /r/ only works for porn
>>48286314
I'd much rather use /mu/ because it's used for music yknow
>>48286314
just shut up GJ
we all know /mu/ knows more about music than /r/
you just don't have another argument
This thread seems kind of derailed.. That being said in another thread somebody mentioned drive like jehu, them and polvo appeal to me. Both those bands make me miss brainiac though.
>>48285594
shut up
> Favorite album
The National - The National
> Purchase
White Reaper - White Reaper (Cassette)
> Generally unknown album
Gillian Welch - The Harrow & the Harvest. I found it here, but alt-country/ folk threads are incredibly rare it seems.
>Red House Painters
>John Frusciante - The Empyrean
>This Town Needs Guns - Animals
> fav album
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
> most recent purchase
pic related
> Generally unknown album
Orphan Songs - Orphan Songs
>>48287998
>This Town Needs Guns - Animals
I thought this album was talked about all the time. Though I might just be thinking of just when their other album came out.
>>48288384
I never see that one mentioned but I may be wrong still one of my faves.
>>48288443
I've actually been meaning to start listening to them for like a year or two. Might start now. Do you reckon starting with Animals or their new one is smarter?
>>48288540
Either way is a good start. Different vocalists though because the original left. Both are very solid albums
Heres one from Animals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dLdNrv-seg
Heres one from their newer one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFhIS3ksZZw
>>48288612
Aight, I'll start with their first one. Thanks anon.
Fave album is pic related, although I'm starting to worry that it doesn't have enough real variation in some of the songs (When You Sleep esp.) for me. I've long since unpacked all the noise and sound layers, and I'm starting to wonder if there's really as much underneath as I once thought.
Most recent purchase was Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom. Really good, although it's definitely very dense, like the avant-folk shit she incorporates. Tbh, at the moment I've only gone through the first disc, but Baby Birch kills me with the way that she escalates it over the course of nine minutes until she breaks into this bluesy shuffle at the end.
Wish people would talk more about Wussy or Natural Snow Buildings: they both have their respective fanbases, and Robert Christgau plugs Wussy whatever chance he can get, but I really feel as if they both ought to be more popular. The problem with Natural Snow Buildings is that their best album, Dance of the Moon and the Sun, was a 500-copy limited release that somehow made its way online. Plus, they're drone/freak folk, which puts a lot of people off. Wussy's issue is that their strength is in songwriting, not sonically standing out, which makes them fade into the background for a lot of people. That being said, their last album Attica, which was really good, was reviewed highly by P4K, so maybe they'll eventually receive some of the acclaim they deserve.
Future Days, I guess.
The last thing I downloaded was Brendel's rendition of the Beethoven piano sonatas.
God, Time and Causality by John Fahey needs more love.
>>48288643
>Have One On Me
Goddamn I want that on vinyl so bad. Though from your description you got it on CD? My favorite track is probably '81 because of it's poetry and simplicity, though every single track is fantastic. It's a breathtaking album (which is dangerous, cause 2+ hours is pretty long to be breathless).
>favorite album
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#oo
>recent purchase
Exuma - Do Wah Nanny
>needs more recognition
Everlovely Lightningheart - Cusp
>>48286277
I see threads like this like.... 60% of the time. Summer/mu/ is basically:
Generals
Trollthreads
Threads identical to this one.
The only difference is you're complaining about how this generic and easily avoided waste of space never happens.
>>48288816
Hidden. GTFO.
>red house painters - red house painters i
>wilco - summerteeth
>his name is alive - mouth by mouth
>>48288876
Mark Kozelek is life,
>>48288891
fo sho. it's a shame so many people listened to benji and dismissed him as meme-folk or w/e. benji isn't even that bad, it's just super sincere, sometimes uncomfortably so
>>48285512
This album is one of my favorite albums as well.
>>48286148
Exactly this.
Which, despite my love of sigur ros and my general dislike for p4k, is pretty accurate. A good song here, a good song there...the best thing they've produced since Agaetis Byrjun is Valtari, by far
>>48289168
I have to disagree with you there.
Every single release of sigur ros after Agaetis Byrjun have been at least an 8/10. each one of their albums was full of wonderful tracks
Takk... was their greatest release in my opinion, not agaetis. the atmosphere of Takk is so much more heavenly
>>48288643
It's like you listen to Have One on Me and No Provenance and you're like "damn, this is really good!" and then Baby Birch comes in, it's completely flooring
>>48289004
Yeah Benji got a lot of my friends into his music and I enjoyed it but yeah people dismissed it without listening to albums like April or Red House Painters.
>>48285512
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
>Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
have you spent any time on /mu/ this year?
>pic related
>grandaddy-under the western freeway
>pic related again, imo it should be mucore
>>48289206
I certainly enjoy Takk and certain songs off of Med Sud and kveikur, but Agaetis Byrjun and Valtari are their artistic heights.
>>48289325
That album is already sub mucore.
>>48289325
>have you spent any time on /mu/ this year?
Same goes for you, The Monitor is way more popular than Here and Nowhere Else here buddy
>>48289206
Takk is pretty fun to listen to but () and Valtari got me through some pretty hard times especially Valtari which makes it my favorite album I think Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust is underrated because it is actually a very nice fun album that makes me feel pure joy.
>>48289405
Oh wow, I completely forgot about (), it absolutely deserves recognition alongside AB and valtari
>>48289335
opinions. i think Takk was their best release
>Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
>NLDW
>Radicalfashion - Odori
>>48285512
Recently picked up No Age - Nouns on vinyl and I want the new Cloud Nothings.
>post your favourite album
Pic
>post your most recent purchase
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
Fennesz - Endless Summer
It's not exactly unheard of on here but I feel like it should be talked about more
>fav
pic related
>recent purchase
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
>unknown thing
Don't Stop or We'll Die - Gorgeous. It's the best comedy music related thing I've ever heard.
>>48285512
>Implying I have a FAVORITE album
>buying music
>pic related
>>48292466
>not buying music
I hope you die alone and poor
>post your favourite album
pic related
>post your most recent purchase
Weezer(blue album) - Weezer
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
John Cage Meets Sun Ra - John Cage & Sun Ra
>>48292484
you're actually right, but what can I do, I make a 100$ a month man, I can't afford to spend my money on music.
>>48293117
Don't say as if your pleb wage applies to everyone on this thread. Criticising OP then getting all personal contradicts your point.
>>48285698
I love Beserker, and I agree there needs to be more discussion on it, its a fantastic album
>favourite album
The Beatles - s/t
>most recent purchase
St. Vincent - s/t
>unknown/needs recognition
Lotus Child - Gossip Diet (pic related)
>>48293179
I didn't try to make any point, I said it jokingly.
lrn2humor
>Rhythm - Luke Vibert
>Highlight track : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIb9CmIkW_I
>Down-tempo, vocal samples...
>Favorite album
Radiohead - Amnesiac
>Most recent purchase
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
>Needs recognition
Anything by Matt Elliott/The Third Eye Foundation. I've seen Drinking Songs posted a few times but his other stuff is really great too.
