Music Banter - Last album you bought, downloaded or listened to

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Howard the Duck

04-11-2012 08:55 PM

Tad - Inhaler
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
Big Black - Atomizer
Shellac - At Action Park
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos (replacement), The IVth Crusade
Genesis - Invisible Touch, We Can't Dance (completist freak)
John Lennon - Mind Games (last d/l didn't work)
Big Audio Dynamite - This is Big Audio Dynamite (Deluxe)
Blancmange - Mange Tout (Deluxe)

(last one I wanted to get as a teen, but didn't manage to)

Van Halen - Women & Children 1st, Fair Warning, Balance (completist freak 2)

Zer0	04-12-2012 04:48 PM

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Mirrorring - Foreign Body (2012)
A collaboration between Liz Harris (aka Grouper) and Jesy Fortino (aka Tiny Vipers). If you're already familiar with Grouper you won't be disappointed but there's a nice acoustic folk element here that makes this album sound warm and more accessible. It's a very isolating listen as something about the music seems to pull you into some sort of eerie psychedelic world, in a way similar to Flying Saucer Attack's album Further. Could very well be one of the best albums I've heard so far this year.

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Blood Red Shoes - In Time To Voices (2012)
On the other hand this just sounds dull and uninspiring. I liked their previous albums Box Of Secrets and Fire Like This but this album just doesn't register with me. It really sounds like they have run out of ideas and have grown tired of what they do. There are a couple of decent songs here but that's certainly not enough to save this album from mediocrity.

Sneer

04-12-2012 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Zer0 (Post 1177333)

Great album, in my top 5 of the year so far. Have you heard We Make Life Sad by Nicholas Szcsepanik? It's one hell of an ambient album and probably my top 2012 release thus far.

Yuh, this year's been all about ambient/drone releases for me so far.

Zer0	04-12-2012 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Sneer (Post 1177346)

Nope, but I certainly will investigate it. Thanks for the rec. It's been a strange year so far, I've been disappointed by quite a few albums that I'd been looking forward to or that I thought might be worth checking out. Maybe it's a sign that I need to find new sources.