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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I've heard that Agitated Radio Pilot album, and it is pretty good. Very melancholy--but I wouldn't call it freak folk by a long shot, dream-pop maybe, though that's not a perfect fit either. While I like the (double) album, it wouldn't make my top 20. It's worth a listen though.

I agree with you, It's not freak-folk at all. It's more ambient than anything. I like it as well, although the singer's voice is too soft. I guess, I just like my voices gruff.

A song from 2007 that I didn't hear until today that I definitely would have put on the list: Me'Shell Ndegeocello - "The Sloganeer: Paradise".

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Originally posted by JeffinNYC:
A song from 2007 that I didn't hear until today that I definitely would have put on the list: Me'Shell Ndegeocello - "The Sloganeer: Paradise".

yay for Me'Shell! absolutely love her! her 2007 album was a return to a funkier sound.

Two albums from '07 I've been listening to that would have definitely been high on my list.

Manogurgeil- Unirytmeja

This one is a prog album (closer to Canterbury, to be specific). It sounds quite a bit like The Soft Machine (especially 3rd), and some King Crimson. I feel like if Stereolab started playing proggier music like Manogurgeil, it would sound precisely like this album. Overall it's a pretty fun album to listen to.

Salle Gaveau- Alloy

I don't know what to say about this shit, but it's great. I saw somewhere they were called a chamber rock in opposition tango jazz, I'd say that's pretty close. The musicianship on this album is absolutely incredible. This probably would have been 1 or 2 on my list last year.

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Originally posted by grabblegarrr:
Manogurgeil- Unirytmeja

This one is a prog album (closer to Canterbury, to be specific). It sounds quite a bit like The Soft Machine (especially 3rd), and some King Crimson. I feel like if Stereolab started playing proggier music like Manogurgeil, it would sound precisely like this album. Overall it's a pretty fun album to listen to.

Hmm.. I'll grab.

I don't know why I didn't listen to Populuxxe by Cutting Pink With Knives more last year... superb jazzy, post-hardcore with some electro flourishes and all sorts of craziness. The only hardcore album my girlfriend actually wants to listen to... here's Drowned In Sound's review.. They have also released on DTRASH records who are quickly becoming one of my favorite labels.

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Originally posted by DrAwesome:
I don't know how I missed out on this for so long, but I have really been getting into Agitated Radio Pilot's "World Winding Down". It's an electronic inflected freak-folk album with vocals similar to Matt Berringer's (sp?). The album is very long (it's a double album actually) and there are a lot of instrumental tracks. It actually fills a similar place in my heart to "April", so if you like Sun Kil Moon than this is probably right up your alley.

Would have definitely been top 20 for me, maybe even top 15...

Been re-listening to this one lately, and it's sound really awesome, much better than I at first gave it credit for. What an incredibly beautiful album. Just gorgeous through and through and nary a sub-par song to be found. I'm gonna have to investigate these guys more, find out if they've made any other music.

the album by earthless is pretty awesome. they are a great live band as well. i wish i would have got into them last year, because they would have made me end of the year top 50 for sure.

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Turenne
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Posted 24 April 2008 04:28 AM Hide Post
I probably said it a while back, but Low's Drums & Guns would certainly be top five. I love that album so much.

Shad's The Old Prince would

I had it just a hair back...around 7th or 8th, but I'm with you...it's a really cool concept album.

Love the hard, either-or, left-right aesthetic that carries through all aspects from inset artwork to lyrics "Beatles and Stones" to the album's fantastic mix...the best Dave Fridmann's done since THE WOODS.

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Originally posted by krugulitis:
the album by earthless is pretty awesome. they are a great live band as well. i wish i would have got into them last year, because they would have made me end of the year top 50 for sure.

Earthless is definitely great.. "Sonic Prayer" came on shuffle yesterday and I was excited. I do prefer Sonic Prayer to Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky (which contains the track "Sonic Prayer" strangely enough) though.

I damn well forgot Scritti Politti and The Coral.
If they would just spend more time getting out of taxis with their tackle hanging out, I'd be more likely to have them foremost in my recall!!

I've been listening to Sandro Perri a lot lately, he's pretty great.

Pretty simplistic jazzy folk music with some avant garde touches here and there. Reminds me a bit of Tim Buckley.

Sandro Perri also is behind Polmo Polpo if anyone is familiar with that.