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The Music Tapes- For Clouds and Tornados

Oh man, I am seeing the elephant six guys (including Scott Spillane and Julian Koster and maybe, only maybe, jeff mangum) in brooklyn in march for two nights. Been continuing my obsession with all things elephant six with my favorite album by the music tapes :]

From ping pong percussion to the singing saw to the strings, banjos, accordions, to julian koster's thin and haunting vocals, this album is straight experimentation but with a beauty and dissonance and desperation in it. this album has most of the music tapes best songs including "Majesty," "Freeing Song for Reindeer," "Manifest Destiny," and "The Minister of Longitude." Nothing ever like it, nothing that will ever come close to it :tramp:

I agree that album is awesome and I'm extremely jealous you get to see all those awesome Elephant 6 musicians in March, I live near Brooklyn and would love to see that, if I wasn't in school 6 hours away...

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This has always been one of my favorite albums, even though electronica is not what I normally listen to. Most of the songs are very catchy, at least for me, and kind of... well, in absence of a better word, I will say, mysterious :D

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Fredrik - Na Na Ni (2009)

My brother intoduced me to this band a while ago and Im so glad he did since this is some really great experimental folk pop from Sweden.

I really like that album cover. Great use of color!

^ You should check the album out. It's really great and quite catchy. Their newest one is also great but not quite as catchy but more experimental and ambientish.

I dig Na Na Ni. I heard Black Fur on a comp Canwll Corfe made and I fell in love.

Empire! Empire! (I was a Lonely Estate) - What it Takes to Move Forward (2009)

I was looking at some Mineral video on youtube and I saw someone recomending some bands and he had like a list of five bands that he thought are worth a listen. I listened few songs from all of those bands and sadly this was the only band that I liked from those bands..

I looked under every stone in search for this album and I gave up. Then I went into Spotify and I was amazed to find this album there. I listened to the album straight through (with additional commercials of course) and I fell in love!

I would post the album cover and a song from the album but apparently I have no human rights :D But if you do check this band out listen to How to Make Love Stay or An Idea is a Greater Monument than a Cathedral

wowowowow.
You're an idiot and here's why:
If by 'his early stuff' you mean The College Dropout, then you must have only listened to the first track We Don't Care, and assumed the rest of the album followed suit. I guess you didn't get to here the ultra-raw Never Let Me Down


Way to jump on the bandwagon to make your 'edgy' opinion sound more credible. The whole album is 'really intense'. Just like Graduation. It doesn't really make sense to like one and not the other. Plus, Monster is the only song on the album where he comes off as only an 'okay' rapper. That track is saved by the guests.

I dig 808s, but it doesn't even compare to his albums other than Late Registration which is admittedly not great. Even the songs where he's joking around he sounds super-passionate. And the there are many tracks on MBDTF that are much more 'beautiful' than 808s (All of The Lights for example).

Bottom Line: 808s isn't nearly as good as his other releases, and saying so is just for the sake of being controversial.

SJP Looks like a boiled horse.