Can we just do another music thread?

[Feytalist]

Good for them.
I hope they'll menage to publish more music in the future. Also: it wouldn't be the first time I link to a piece, which was featured in this thread before.

Word.

Last I heard they were working on material for a new album. They actually recorded a few sessions with my old choir, so it should be suitably epic.

Also, if you're interested, you might find this amusing.

[dehro]

A few friends of mine did exactly this: windows down, speakers on full volume, elbows out the windows, king Julian on the radio and headbanging Jim Carrey style. This might have had some context, but it doesn't need any.

good to know I'm not alone

[JoshL]

Drinking much, random song DJing (as I often do). Faulty would be pleased...it's turning into a Coil heavy mix.

[OhJohnNo]

R.I.P Chi Cheng.

[Dimonite]

ASKDFLASEFIV I CAN'T EVEN. I can't even.

[Radar]

ASKDFLASEFIV I CAN'T EVEN. I can't even.

AGUOISIOBLHOAEIUGEL indeed. They have a really, really well polished technique. What I don't understand is 300 views and over 13000 positive ratings. How on Earth is that possible?

[Dimonite]

AGUOISIOBLHOAEIUGEL indeed. They have a really, really well polished technique. What I don't understand is 300 views and over 13000 positive ratings. How on Earth is that possible?

The video came out about 4 hours ago, and youtube's view counter doesn't handle heavy traffic that well. It'll catch up in a day or two.

[Ebon_Drake]

R.I.P Chi Cheng.

Damn, I knew he'd been in a coma for ages but I always hoped he'd fully recover. RIP.

[Chromascope3D]

So the new Phoenix album, Bankrupt!, is out. I like it, I think it's pretty good. Granted, it's not as impressive as their last album, but was anyone honestly expecting it to be?

[Forrestfire]

Out of curiosity, is there a term for when a song's music stops, but the lyrics continue? I realized just now that I really like the effect that this has on the song, but I don't know if it's a thing or if it's just something that's done.

A good example of this can be found at 3:14 of this song.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I rarely break out my 10/10 score for any song but, damn, I think I found one. I won't say what it is here because I know OJN lurks here and he's not ready yet. Little does he know his entire training has been leading up to this one song.

Well, he knows now.

[JoshL]

Out of curiosity, is there a term for when a song's music stops, but the lyrics continue? I realized just now that I really like the effect that this has on the song, but I don't know if it's a thing or if it's just something that's done.

I'd call it an a capella break, and often done for dramatic purposes in a song. A similar common technique is to drop most (but not all) the instrumental sounds and let the voice carry over a minimal backing (see the break in almost every vocal dance electronica song ever...or sometimes break, and let the voice be the first instrument that returns as part of the build-up). As for a western classical theory term for it, not sure. But if you say a capella break, most people will know what you're talking about.

[OhJohnNo]

I rarely break out my 10/10 score for any song but, damn, I think I found one. I won't say what it is here because I know OJN lurks here and he's not ready yet. Little does he know his entire training has been leading up to this one song.

Well, he knows now.

Damn you. Now I'm in anticipation.

[WoodStock_PV]

ASKDFLASEFIV I CAN'T EVEN. I can't even.

That was pretty awesome, great technique and all.

Well since I'm here I'll post a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBVBRr4ScpQ

Good day to all.

[Sgtpepper]

Anybody enjoy volbeat? Or Tool?

[Amidus Drexel]

Anybody enjoy volbeat? Or Tool?

Tool's good. I can't say I've listened to much Volbeat. What song(s) would you recommend?

[Weezer]

A few days ago the band Savages released their debut album and I've fallen in love. They're old school post-punk that's very reminiscent of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees and Joy Division. Here's my favorite song from the album (though the spoken word bit is different on the album), but they're all good. Anyone else hear about them yet?

[OhJohnNo]

That was completely awesome. Want the album.

[Weezer]

That was completely awesome. Want the album.

It's definitely worth getting, one of those albums that just lept right into me, if that makes any sense.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

So what are everyone's 2013 "Album of the Year" shaping up to be?

Me? It's a tough call. I loved that James Ferraro mixtape "Cold". The new My Bloody Valentine was surprisingly not disappointing. Gucci Mane's "Trap God 2" was about as brilliant as you'd expect. Still, in the end, I have to give this to ex-GY!BE collaborator Rob Mazurek's new album with his jazz octet "Skull Sessions". Utterly fantastic album, that.

NOTE: Though if this Ghostface Killah album continues the way it's going that'll be in the top five.

[Tebryn]

Eisley's Currents so far. Not surprised really, they improve with each album.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Come to think of it Debashish Bhattacharya's "Beyond the Ragasphere" would make a top five spot. And not just because it features The Mahavishnu Orchestra's own John McLaughlin on it.

Though that does help.

[Faulty]

I have no idea, but my list is thus far looking like:

My top 10 (alphabetical order):

Alberich - Guard Tower: Cassette Works, Vol. 1
Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio
Buke and Gase - General Dome
Christopher McFall - Quivering Into Your Blood Night Radio
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Prurient - Through The Window
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
회사AUTO - ストリート知性dream​.​boxx

Runners up:
Akitsa & Ash Pool - Arraché A La Mort, Forcé A Vivre Et Mourir A Nouveau / Ripped From Death, Forced To Live, And Die Again
Hair Police - Mercurial Rites
Inga Copeland - Don't Look Back, That's Not Where You're Going
Jar Moff - Commercial Mouth
Kevin Drumm - Tannenbaum

[Raistlin1040]

In no order and without any weight assigned, the albums I've most enjoyed so far this year are

True Romance - Charli Xcx
Just Movement - Robert DeLong
Heartthrob - Tegan and Sara
The Next Day - David Bowie
The Terror - The Flaming Lips
Elephant Stone - Elephant Stone

[Weezer]

I'd say I've listened to three albums from this year that I would call amazing: Holy Fire by Foals, Smile That Wont Go Down by Filthy Boy and Shut Up by Savages. Interestingly enough two of the three were debut releases.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Pff, I can't even START thinking about that until november at least...

[OhJohnNo]

Savages got "single of the week" on iTunes last week. The reviews were the reason the plebs shouldn't be allowed to comment on music.

[Weezer]

Savages got "single of the week" on iTunes last week. The reviews were the reason the plebs shouldn't be allowed to comment on music.

I can't even imagine how that went...

[Ebon_Drake]

I didn't think 2012 was too great for music, but 2013 has been fantastic so far. I'd say my top 5 as of now are:

Foals - Holy Fire
The Besnard Lakes - Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO
Atoms For Peace -Amok
My Bloody Valentine - mbv (mainly a nostalgia thing; Loveless is probably my favourite album of all time)
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law

For some reason I've got round to picking up Savages' album yet, but I saw them live a couple of weeks ago. They were rather good, to say the least.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I didn't think 2012 was too great for music

I disagree with every fibre of my being. One of my all time favourite albums (Top Ten, at least) came out in 2012.