from about minute 17 or so on sunshrine is my favorite james blackshaw moment.

now announced:
June 16, 2009, Prague, XT3 club: THISQUIETARMY (drone/ambient/shoegaze) + NADJA (drone/doom/shoegaze) + AIDAN BAKER (ambient/post-rock)

FUCK ME RUNNING. I'm soooooooooooooo there!

I'm jealous. Would kill to see that show.

I like Aidan Baker. He's talented as hell. Nadja is the last remaiing post-sludge band (Isis, Jesu, etc..) that I'm still interested in.

Anyways, the new Intelligence LP is awesome, no surprise there. Its called "Fake Surfers". Make me miss A-Frames slightly less.

I really want some new Warmer Milks. "Soft Walks" was a magestic sounding record, a southern rock epic prog drone mastepiece. I am very glad they made that record, it was very ambitious and they pulled it off. But, I heard the Milks are once again a whole new animal in thier latestlive incarnation. At SXSW, they did a five-synth lineup ding some blackened primordial folk-noise dirge. The noise-folk dirge is nothing new if you've heard "Penetration Initials" sigle or the "Radish on Light" lp, but I am ecstatic to hear the damage these cats can do with motherfucking five synthesizers.

Also, new Tyvek and Blues Control records on Siltbreeze, too much excitement folks.

Just listening to it streaming on the Kompakt website - it's not exciting me all that much, especially the cover of Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime, which is, frankly, rather irritating. I prefer From Here We Go Sublime.


EDIT - I actually forgot I was listening to the new one for three or four minutes. I stopped what I was doing, heard this music, and thought, "oh, what's this?", thinking it was just something playing in the background somewhere. You could play it in a chill-out bar and people could chat over it quite happily without it disturbing them. :(

You don't hafta totally miss the A Frames. They've released a couple things this year--a 10" and a 12"--under the AFCGT collaboration with the Climax Golden Twins. It's certainly a more improvisational style, but it is pretty great!

I like the new The Field, especially from "Leave It" on. Two first songs are cool but not much more, but after that it gets really good

I have the full length. Its awesome, but a different band all together.

fixing it: the new Pterodactyl is fantawesobulous. Can't get it out of my head. Share the Shade is one fantastic song; Old Clouds is one other. I wasn't too impressed with their first one (maybe I should listen to it more...), but this one is really great. Like Abe Vigoda meets Oneida maybe? It rules anyway

This may be old news, but I just found out about Cymbals Eat Guitars, and am really enjoying it. Some might say it's derivative, but it has a Pavementy/Yo La Tengo/Built to Spill sound, so in my opinion as long as it's derived from good things...

Wasn't this 2008?

You know, it was released like December 31st 2008 or some nonsense. I'm counting it as a 2009 album since there's no possible way anyone could have even heard the album until 2009. He may have "finished" it and started selling it on the last day of 2008 but there's no way it could have reached anyone's hands until 2009...

Ah right aha.

Adam Cooley, listen to Peaking Lights - Imaginary Falcons. It was released this year on Not Not Fun.

Oh and your list has a lack of UUUUUU :(

I'll probably throw su aside on there. I feel weird throwing friend's bands on there, but I guess I do have a couple on there already now that I'm looking at it...

Yeah! I'm sure the new Scissor Shock will be on mine! aha!

Shannon Wright "Butterfly Girls" September 2009

new wolf eyes is great. dom fernow sold it to me, saying "i dont sell the jams man, i sell the monolithic songs".

Which new Wolf Eyes? There's probably been at least 30 releases this year already.

yeah derek, peaking lights - imaginary falcons cs [not not fun, 2009] is fucking great.

New sunn's out. It's great.