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CAB's best albums of 2010-2015?

Started by willbo, July 09, 2021, 08:05:02 AM

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willbo

Can I also hear some of your favourite records from this time frame please? It was a busy time for me, so I didn't get into much new music. I'm racking my brains to remember what I liked then.

I'm just browsing the Mercury Prize lists and Q albums of the year for that period to refresh me. I know I got into Nero and Modestep at one point and I tried to keep up with metal. Lianne La Havas I like...Anna Calvi I bought the albums of but never really listened to enough...I like Laura Mvula, FKA Twigs, Bat for Lashes and Wolf Alice who all came out around then...

MGMT - Congratulations I never got round to, though I meant to...Nick Cave released some good stuff then ...I know I listened to Lykke Li and Beach House at one point...I heard people like St Vincent and Metronomy on the radio...I like Julia Holter, and Haim and Foals I enjoyed having on in the background without really paying enough attention to.

SteveDave

Quote from: willbo on July 09, 2021, 08:05:02 AM
Can I also hear some of your favourite records from this time frame please? It was a busy time for me, so I didn't get into much new music. I'm racking my brains to remember what I liked then.

I'm just browsing the Mercury Prize lists and Q albums of the year for that period to refresh me. I know I got into Nero and Modestep at one point and I tried to keep up with metal. Lianne La Havas I like...Anna Calvi I bought the albums of but never really listened to enough...I like Laura Mvula, FKA Twigs, Bat for Lashes and Wolf Alice who all came out around then...

MGMT - Congratulations I never got round to, though I meant to...Nick Cave released some good stuff then ...I know I listened to Lykke Li and Beach House at one point...I heard people like St Vincent and Metronomy on the radio...I like Julia Holter, and Haim and Foals I enjoyed having on in the background without really paying enough attention to.

It's better than the first one. It feels more complete.

Egyptian Feast

Frank Ocean's Channel Orange is possibly my favourite album from that era, but there was a load of good stuff. Five off the top of my head:

of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
The Fall - Your Future, Our Clutter
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (and a bunch of others)
Bobby Conn - Macaroni

Another vote for Congratulations. One of the best 'difficult' second albums.

buttgammon

Although it didn't immediately jump out as a classic period in music, I started listing stuff and couldn't stop! Here's the first batch of stuff that came to mind:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal, Replica and R Plus Seven
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Actress - Splazsh and RIP
Real Estate - Atlas
Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
The first PC Music compilation
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream
Junior Boys - It's All True
Kölsch - 1977
Sinkane - Mean Love
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms, Era Extraña and Vega Intl Night School
Holly Herndon - Platform
Peaking Lights - Lucifer

The Mollusk

Quote from: buttgammon on July 09, 2021, 10:07:20 AM
Vega Intl Night School

One of the best albums of the last decade, in my opinion. Shits all over the previous two, a sensationally cool slab vaporwave-tinged psychedelic Italo synth pop gold. The last track "News From the Sun" is a fantastic homage to Prince and "Dear Skorpio Magazine" is ... UGH, it's out of this world, I could dance through a fucking brick wall to that banger.

Quote from: willbo on July 09, 2021, 08:05:02 AM
MGMT - Congratulations

Glad to see this getting its dues, although it is beloved in most indie circles I've encountered online, as is their most recent album "Little Dark Age" which is similarly excellent, if a little more inconsistent. "Congratulations" is certainly their best album (especially coming out of "Oracular Spectacular" which, outside of its catchy but sorta dated hit singles, is patchy at best), it's remarkably focused, tight and adventurous without ever dragging on or letting its self-awareness give it too much of a knowing wink.

Their timeline is pretty weird, since their four albums have been undeniably "meh", "YES!", "meh", "YES!" in succession. When they get it right though, they nail it.

buttgammon

Quote from: The Mollusk on July 09, 2021, 10:45:10 AM
One of the best albums of the last decade, in my opinion. Shits all over the previous two, a sensationally cool slab vaporwave-tinged psychedelic Italo synth pop gold. The last track "News From the Sun" is a fantastic homage to Prince and "Dear Skorpio Magazine" is ... UGH, it's out of this world, I could dance through a fucking brick wall to that banger.

I love pretty much everything he's ever done but that album is a real stand out. Half a decade on and I still play it all the time. I really hope he brings out another full-length soon.

El Unicornio, mang

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There



M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming



Caravan Palace - <|°_°|>



Haim - Days Are Gone



Arctic Monkeys - AM


Norton Canes

Tried to keep it to three per year... can't do it!


LoneLady - Nerve Up [2010]
New Young Pony Club - The Optimist [2010]
Twin Shadow - Forget [2010]

Austra - Feel It Break [2011]
Le Corps Mince de Francoise - Love and Nature [2011]
Mirrors - Lights and Offerings [2011]

Chairlift - Something [2012]
Pegasvs - Pegasvs [2012]
Policia - Give You The Ghost [2012]
Orbital - Wonky [2012]
Purity Ring - Shrines [2012]

Scanners - Love Is Symmetry [2013]
Soft Metals - Lenses [2013]
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine [2013]

Gazelle Twin - Unflesh [2014]
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project [2014]
Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso [2014]

Empress Of - Me [2015]
Lonelady - Hinterland [2015]
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs [2015]
Zhala - Zhala [2015]


(Shouldn't this be 2010-2014? Or are we going in groups of six years now?)

Pauline Walnuts

Bloomin' heck did Inga Copeland's Because I'm Worth It really come out in 2014?


I'm looking at the lists on this page, and going



While the 2005-2010 one was, nah, nah, and I liked that album, but I prefer the ones the made in the 90s. Low, Mogwai etc.

Captain Z

Was lucky enough to see Viscount Disco just before the release of their second album You.txt which is when they really took off, so that would have to go down as my favourite.

Eatmilk - Tutorial For Bezier Paths
Silicone Penguin Bubble - Tearaway Toys
Qud - Spec:tabular
Batman & Nightwing - Verify All Weapons You Have
Smashboard - Got, Got, Need
Uno dos Santos - Super Vector Bird

purlieu

2011-2015 as I posted the 2010 ones in the other thread.

Songs:
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Idlewild - Everything Ever Written
Chvrches - Every Open Eye & The Bones of What You Believe
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
Charli XCX - True Romance
Pure Bathing Culture - Moon Tides
Karl Hyde - Edgeland
Haim - Days Are Gone
Wire - Change Becomes Us
Roddy Woomble - Listen to Keep & The Impossible Song
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Therapy? - A Brief Crack of Light


Instrumentals:
36 - Void Dance
Motionfield - Luftrum
The Future Sound of London - Environments 4 & 5
Bedroom - Shade & System
Lumen Drones - Lumen Drones
HOLOVR - Holo Earth
Autechre - Exai
Nurse With Wound - Chromanatron
Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen

willbo

thanks... Sundfør, Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli xcx, m83, Purity Ring and Sharon Van Etten are all artists I already like but need to hear more of

Pauline Walnuts

If I had to choose one, I'd have to plump for Sky Ferreira-Roche's Night Time, My Time.

Wonder if she'll ever release another one.

chveik

Danny Brown - XXX
Swans - The Seer
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Forest Swords - Engravings
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2 Judges
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Arca - Mutant
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Mirel Wagner - s/t

I would second the mentions of Sinkane and Sharon van Etten, although would've gone for her 'Tramp' album.

A few others that spring to mind:

Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Phoenix Foundation - Fandango
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather

willbo

Sturgill I got into through Margo Price and I still need to get into his stuff properly

El Unicornio, mang

Quote from: Clatty McCutcheon on July 09, 2021, 12:28:53 PM
I would second the mentions of Sinkane and Sharon van Etten, although would've gone for her 'Tramp' album.

A few others that spring to mind:

Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Phoenix Foundation - Fandango
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather

Thinking about it now, might opt for Tramp instead also. Good call on Wild Nothing, love that album. And Sylvan Esso mentioned earlier that I forgot about.

The Mollusk

Very fucking cool how Scott Walker has made it into both of these very modern threads about very modern music, undeniably a genius and releasing some of his most remarkable work in the autumn (even winter) years of his career, also with basically zero regard for modern trends and standards, just doing his own thing in his own sweet time.

The Culture Bunker

Wild Swans - The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years
Turnover - Peripheral Vision
The Midnight - Days of Thunder
Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Ben Watt - Hendra

chveik

Quote from: The Mollusk on July 09, 2021, 12:39:41 PM
Very fucking cool how Scott Walker has made it into both of these very modern threads about very modern music, undeniably a genius and releasing some of his most remarkable work in the autumn (even winter) years of his career, also with basically zero regard for modern trends and standards, just doing his own thing in his own sweet time.

Bish Bosch was criticized as being too self-indulgent, i just can't see it, it's exhilarating and the lyics are incredible

sevendaughters

Was definitely feeling more refreshed about music this half-decade. I started touring a bit and seeing great bands on the regular, and even got a couple of records out in this window. Don't worry, I'm not hyping myself, just saying how I felt in the mix and part of what was happening to a greater extent.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
Bing and Ruth - Tomorrow Was The Golden Age
Bjork - Vulnicura
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Death Masks - Queen's Language
Deborah Kant - Terminal Rail/Route
Deradoorian - The Exploding Flower Planet
Facel Vega - The Body
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Vince Staples - Summertime 06
Tal National - Zoy Zoy
Torticoli - S/T

I'm sure some more will come to me, but these flew off the top of my head.

The Mollusk

Good shout on Deradoorian, that album is really overlooked and it's a stunning, organic piece of work from end to end.

I never got on much with "Mature Themes", finding almost half the songs to be plodding and/or half-baked. It seemed like the sketchy precursor to the magnum opus of "Pom Pom". Then again I felt the same way about "Bobby Jameson", not necessarily a bad listen but I only found myself wanting to revisit a handful of the songs.

Cunt's in my fuckin bin now though so it matters not.

Video Game Fan 2000

Seefeel's comeback record was good.

holyzombiejesus

I've been looking through the old end-of-year threads on here and, not that anyone's interested, my favourites are:

Widowspeak - Widowspeak
Wild Nothing - Gemini
Craft Spells - Idle Labour
Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts
Web of Sunsets - Room of Monsters
Real Estate - Days (& Atlas)
Micah Levi - Under The Skin soundtrack
Lightships - Electric Cables

Go-Kart Mozart - On The Hot-Dog Streets
Chain & The Gang - In Cool Blood
Pastels - Slow Summits
Bill Ryder-Jones - ABWBTMY
Mogwai - Les Revenants soundtrack
Nick Cave -  Push The Sky Away
Forest Swords - Engravings

Haiku Salut - Tricolore & Etch and Etch Deep
Matthew E White - Big Inner / Flesh Blood
Peals - Walking Field
Death and Vanilla - Death and Vanilla

The bold ones are probably my favourites. Captured Tracks released some really great records during this time and that Pastels album is still their greatest (even if SP is a fucking melt)

McChesney Duntz

Waffles, Mostly Waffles - Sing That One Leonard Cohen Song Twelve Times
Kennebunkport Greasejob - Self-Inflicted Cumshot Wound
(illegible) - (inaudible)
Gash Gravy and the Fash Navy - Hammacher-Schlemmer of the Gods
The Gay Popes - We Got Worms
Mucky Tenniscourtz - Anaphylaxis: Bold as Cheddar

Greg Torso

The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid
Franca Sacchi- En
Jim Haynes - The Decline Effect
Death Grips - Exmilitary
Neneh Cherry And The Thing - The Cherry Thing
Shit And Shine - Find Out What Happens When People Start Being Polite For A Fucking Change

sevendaughters

few more came to mind whilst having a stroll earlier

Aiden Moffatt and Bill Wells - Everything is Getting Older
Barn Owl - V
King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
Pat Jordache - Steps
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter 2 (really like Chapter 1 and 3, which came out in this period too)
Moonface - Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums
Obnox - Corrupt Free Enterprise
Sightings - Stavanger 30.4.2013
Totale Eclipse - 92

Those that have mentioned Sharon van Etten might also like Feist - Metals. A lot less 'itunes' than some of the earlier stuff you may have heard.

JaDanketies

A good time for post-black metal. Deafheaven's Sunbather, Oathbreaker's Eros/Anteros, Amen Ra released a bunch of records. That was pretty much all I listened to at the time. And Clipping., with CLPPNG. And post rock. Sigur Ros' Kveikur

The Beach Boys - Smile Sessions
Eliane Radigue - Transamorem - Transmortem, Feedback Works 1969-1970
Else Marie Pade ‎– Electronic Works 1958-1995
Sensations' Fix ‎– Music Is Painting In The Air (1974 - 1977)
John Hulburt - Opus III

The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2
Heidecker and Wood - Starting from Nowhere
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises, Among the Leaves, Benji
Real Estate - Days, Atlas
Trembling Bells - The Constant Pageant etc.
Sarah Davachi - August Harp, Barons Court
Pierre Bastien - Blue as an Orange