General Music Discussion Thread (a.k.a. indie lovefest)

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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the fiery furnaces is quite awesome.

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I listened to this album like 7 times in a row last week. really great.

I don't really consider myself a huge fan of Of Montreal-ish type music, but Hissing Fauna....is also amazing I think.

also I think the new The New Pornographers is great, maybe not as good as Twin Cinema.

Ga ga ga ga ga ga and Boxer are the best albums by Spoon and The National I think.

I'm seeing Interpol, Spoon, and The New Pornographers in the next 2 months, so I'm excited to hear a lot of this live.

it's been out for a while, but the new Modest Mouse is really good, though probably short of a couple other albums. I saw them in Boston couple months ago, great show.

[Jack of Arcades]

I'm warming up to the National.

The best album this year might be Battles, though.

[nath]

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saw this album mentioned in an interview with Simian Mobile Disco so i finally went out and found it and WOW is it good.

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Yeah, I haven't been able to take this off for the last two weeks.

[mason55]

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saw this album mentioned in an interview with Simian Mobile Disco so i finally went out and found it and WOW is it good.

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Yeah, I haven't been able to take this off for the last two weeks.

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haha kurosh asked from music recs so i named some of the artists on that comp and he came back and was like "wtf is that garbage"

[Fedfan691]

I just got back from the download festival in boston and will be softly crying myself to sleep tonight.

While I do like modest mouse alot as well as band of horses, the band I really wanted to see was Wolf Parade. I had seen sunset rubdown in NYC and they were amazing, and I was expecting similar from Wolf Parade. So after apollo sunshine (not good), bang camaro (surprisingly awesome), and band of horses (very good) finish their sets, I'm pumped for wolf parade to come out.

However something is obviously wrong from the beginning. They start with a new song, and throughout the whole thing the band drowns out spencer's voice, so much so that you can't hear him at all. So naturally when the song is over I yell "we can't hear you spencer." I'm like 10 feet from him so he obviously hears me and says something like "sorry, I don't know what to tell you." They play five new songs and two old ones (I'll believe in anything and Shine a light) and the whole time the band drowns out the vocals, spencer completely and almost completely for dan. My friends and I were super bummed we basically watched instrumental versions of a bunch of songs we hadn't heard and two we had.

When the band was going through soundcheck a download festival guy came on and told them they basically had to start then as they were running late, and it seems like the band was pissed off the whole set and didn't feel like correcting what was obviously a huge sound issue.

So obviously really disappointing, but Modest Mouse did put on a really sick show and the event as a whole was well run. <font color="#666666"> </font>

[Claunchy]

Ugh, Wilco/Dr. Dog and The National/St. Vincent are both playing shows on the same night in my city. LOL PREDICAMENTS.

I have seen none of these bands/artists live before.

[Claunchy]

I am currently leaning towards the National/St. Vincent show right now, but I feel sorta wrong about it.

[Jack of Arcades]

As you should! Wilco all the way! Have you HEARD kicking television?

[Quinn Warren]

Well Radiohead appears to be getting a run for their money from this band called Animal Collective.......


Strawberry Jam was leaked a while back (comes out Sep. 10th, I believe)

It's really good.

[Jack of Arcades]

It has like 4 great songs.