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Title: New Releases For 2015
Post by: 6 on January 01, 2015, 10:50:10 AM
What have you just bought? What are you looking forward to? Suggestions for other pirates? No list limit. No post limit. Re-issues are fine. If you like it and it's out this year then post it and if you didn't like something tell us why.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: Deep Funk on January 01, 2015, 12:15:07 PM
Faith No More
Since discovering the album "Angel Dust" and finding a fellow Rock & Metal fan in school I look forward to this album in particular. Everything else in music is a surprise for me. This year I will make Classical Music a bigger part of my listening playlists.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MuppetFace on January 01, 2015, 09:46:34 PM
Some upcoming albums I'm anticipating in 2015 so far:
Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (got this on vinyl even though I've already heard the leak --- really good IMO). The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear The Soft Moon - Deeper Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love Chance the Rapper & the Social Experiment - Surf Death Grips' The Powers That B ...?? Meow the Jewels ...?? New Kendrick Lamar
Edit: Oh, yeah, and Mount Eerie's Sauna album. New Kanye West
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on January 02, 2015, 05:19:34 PM
The multi-award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet will have an album of Smetana quartets out in April.
Possibly in the summer, the Pacifica Quartet/Marc-Andre Hamelin recording of the Dvorak and Ornstein quintets (which I saw them perform live in November 2013).
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: knerian on January 02, 2015, 05:29:40 PM
The multi-award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet will have an album of Smetana quartets out in April.
Possibly in the summer, the Pacifica Quartet/Marc-Andre Hamelin recording of the Dvorak and Ornstein quintets (which I saw them perform live in November 2013).
Who's releasing those? I like Hamelin's solo Ornstein CD.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on January 02, 2015, 07:38:35 PM
Who's releasing those? I like Hamelin's solo Ornstein CD.
PHQ is always on Supraphon.
Not sure who would release the Hamelin/Pacifica Quartet stuff. Hamelin records for Hyperion, but the Pacifica stuff I have (their complete Shostakovich quartets is totally worth owning) is on Cedille. Either way, it's likely to be available as a hi-res download.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: 6 on January 02, 2015, 09:24:43 PM
(http://i62.tinypic.com/25jdxk9.jpg)
This is out in a month. I was a fan of his soundtracks before I realised it. Those sparse electronic themes seem inseparable from the visuals he created.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MattTCG on January 02, 2015, 10:29:29 PM
Punch Brothers have a new one out shortly. It has my interest.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: knerian on January 03, 2015, 12:04:29 AM
Not sure who would release the Hamelin/Pacifica Quartet stuff. Hamelin records for Hyperion, but the Pacifica stuff I have (their complete Shostakovich quartets is totally worth owning) is on Cedille. Either way, it's likely to be available as a hi-res download.
What do you think of Hyperion's Hamelin's sound? I love his playing but I find a lot of the solo piano recordings sound either vieled, laid back, I don't know how to describe it, sounds very toned down, like it's being recording in a big space, even his studio stuff. Even on his music that is supposed to be percussive it's not percussive at all. This in my mind is not a positive, I'm not saying he has a mellow tone, I think it's the recording/mastering took all the bite out of the piano. I don't know anything about recording/mastering, I may be describing it inaccurately, but for example if you hear a Richter's Phillips authorized recordings, prokofiev, beethoven, it sounds like the opposite, maybe too harsh, but I kind of prefer that sound, sounds a bit more real. I'm not talking about their difference of tone or piano either, anyone else hear this?
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: anetode on January 03, 2015, 01:16:23 AM
PJ Harvey's going to be recording her new album starting in mid-January live in an art installation. If you're in London you can come in and see her and the band at work.
What do you think of Hyperion's Hamelin's sound? I love his playing but I find a lot of the solo piano recordings sound either vieled, laid back, I don't know how to describe it, sounds very toned down, like it's being recording in a big space, even his studio stuff. Even on his music that is supposed to be percussive it's not percussive at all. This in my mind is not a positive, I'm not saying he has a mellow tone, I think it's the recording/mastering took all the bite out of the piano. I don't know anything about recording/mastering, I may be describing it inaccurately, but for example if you hear a Richter's Phillips authorized recordings, prokofiev, beethoven, it sounds like the opposite, maybe too harsh, but I kind of prefer that sound, sounds a bit more real. I'm not talking about their difference of tone or piano either, anyone else hear this?
A lot of Hamelin's Hyperion recordings have been recorded at Henry Wood Hall in southeast London, which is big enough to fit a regulation basketball court. I don't find the sound problematic.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: The Alchemist on January 03, 2015, 02:16:37 PM
I am looking forward to TOOL's new album, it was supposed to be released by the end of 2014, but I am hoping it is released in 2015. It should be, but knowing TOOL, ya never know. :)p2
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: knerian on January 04, 2015, 12:35:33 AM
A lot of Hamelin's Hyperion recordings have been recorded at Henry Wood Hall in southeast London, which is big enough to fit a regulation basketball court. I don't find the sound problematic.
Ah that would explain the spaciousness. It's not problematic, I just prefer a bit more bite to piano sound.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: takato14 on January 04, 2015, 01:23:08 AM
Whatever Infected Mushroom is working on... nothing has been announced yet but a new album every 2 years seems about normal.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MattTCG on January 04, 2015, 06:53:56 PM
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: 6 on January 08, 2015, 06:52:56 PM
Led Zeppelin announce 40th anniversary remaster of Physical Graffiti
From the Guardian...
"The Led Zeppelin reissue programme continues next month with an anniversary special – the new edition of Physical Graffiti arrives on 23 February, almost exactly 40 years after the album was first released – on 24 February 1975.
As with the first five albums in the Zeppelin reissue series, Physical Graffiti will be available in assorted formats of varying deluxeness, from a remastered version of the original album on two CDs at the bottom end, through to a super deluxe box containing the original album and a companion disc on both CD and vinyl, plus a hardback book, download card, and art print.
Fans’s interest will once again be centred on the unreleased tracks on the companion disc. This time they are:
Brandy & Coke (Trampled Under Foot – initial rough mix) Sick Again (early version) In My Time of Dying (initial rough mix) Houses of the Holy (rough mix with overdubs) Everybody Makes It Through (In the Light early version/in transit) Boogie With Stu (Sunset Sound mix) Driving Through Kashmir (Kashmir rough orchestra mix)
Everybody Makes It Through is described as “strikingly different” to the finished version of In the Light.
Physical Graffiti was a huge hit, going platinum 16 times over in the US, and is widely regarded as one of Zeppelin’s greatest albums for its variety of moods and styles, from the Eastern tinged epic rock of Kashmir, through the blues of In My Time of Dying, to the heavy funk-rock of Trampled Underfoot. On its release, Rolling Stone said the album “only confirms Led Zepplin’s preeminence among hard rockers”, though the magazine’s reviewer claimed Kashmir and In My Time of Dying – two of the group’s best-loved songs – “succumb to monotony”."
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MuppetFace on January 09, 2015, 05:33:39 PM
I am looking forward to TOOL's new album, it was supposed to be released by the end of 2014, but I am hoping it is released in 2015. It should be, but knowing TOOL, ya never know. :)p2
I read about it. I believe it when I can listen to it. When it arrives I hope for two things in particular. 1. Tool still understands the concept of dynamic range in music. 2. Tool actually applies number one to nail its unique sound in the realm of Prog-Metal-Rock-Fusion awesomeness.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: anetode on January 14, 2015, 05:16:32 AM
The Prodigy release a new album after a six year hiatus. The single Nasty is out on 9 Feb; The Day Is My Enemy follows on 30 March
If this single is a good indication, they still have their Punk Big Beat attitude.
I was almost expecting a transition into Industrial in the song.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MuppetFace on January 18, 2015, 02:21:28 PM
Bjork - Vulnicura Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$ Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom
The new Bjork already (!!!) leaked but the files are really low quality. Still, I can tell this album is going to be amazing.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MuppetFace on January 18, 2015, 02:24:03 PM
Also the new Mount Eerie is going to be stunningly beautiful. iTunes has previews up for all the trax, and now there's a video for "This."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Jp0-lVvrw
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: ericfarrell85 on January 18, 2015, 05:45:04 PM
Muppet,
I've sort of wondered about this for a little while. When you listen to music, critically that is, do you have the lyrics in front of you or do you try to decode what is being said? Also, how many spins do you give an album before coming to a rating?
Personally, I seldom reach definite conclusions after single listen (there are singularities of course) and even say someone like Phil Elverum is not always transparent and a lyrics helper goes a long way. Just wondering what your methods are. Thx.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MuppetFace on January 19, 2015, 02:59:14 AM
I've sort of wondered about this for a little while. When you listen to music, critically that is, do you have the lyrics in front of you or do you try to decode what is being said? Also, how many spins do you give an album before coming to a rating?
Personally, I seldom reach definite conclusions after single listen (there are singularities of course) and even say someone like Phil Elverum is not always transparent and a lyrics helper goes a long way. Just wondering what your methods are. Thx.
I almost alway listen first w/o having lyrics in front of me, usually while I'm taking a walk in the early morning (my favorite time to listen). For some projects, I'll look at the lyrics shortly thereafter. Especially if there's something particularly witty or clever I want to recite later. Other times I like to leave the lyrics somewhat mysterious, and I've gone years without knowing exactly what is being said.
"The Moon" by The Microphones is a perfect example of the latter. For a while I could barely make out the lyrics, but gradually I came to understand bits and pieces, and I feel like the song is more meaningful because I'm sort of coming to understand it on my own. I only recently went back and checked them out in print (after hearing "Moon Sequel" from the Mount Eerie Dawn release --- the lyrics of which are much clearer and not buried in the mix). It fleshed out my appreciation for the track, but I feel like it was almost meant to be somewhat muddled and difficult to make out in its entirely, even if I get the overall gist of the story.
I actually don't like assigning number ratings to albums (ex. "this is a 9 out of 10" or whatever). My numbered lists at the end of the year are only half serious: the top 50 or so are basically the things I listened to the most / found the most personally rewarding or significant at that time. The others are more or less just listed in whatever order I feel like on a whim. I guess I view albums as something you can always come back to---even years later---and appreciate in a new light. Plus different albums serve different functions for me and take on certain connotations. For example, I only realized later that some albums came to define my college experience. At the time they didn't have that significance.
Music and our appreciation of it is never something that occurs in a vacuum.
Plus I don't think I could rate something like Lil Ugly Mane on the same scale as The Habibiyya unless there was a fairly limited (and ultimately superfluous) ratings parameter like how much I enjoyed listening to each in a given time frame. Which only really gives people an idea of my listening habits at a given time and not so much the music itself, as I tend to go through cycles of listening to certain genres a lot more over others.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: x838nwy on January 19, 2015, 09:12:43 AM
usually while I'm taking a walk in the early morning (my favorite time to listen).
Totally agree with the whole "scoring" scales and honestly music is just too personal a thing that one can find oneself agreeing with a familiar reviewer on one album but one another…
But an important question is - as someone whose opinion I value quite greatly and someone who's actually interested in the music - what's your portable setup of choice? Sorry if you've mentioned it in other places, but I don't seem to recall...
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: shipsupt on January 19, 2015, 06:58:39 PM
I rarely get into lyrics. Typically for me the words becomes another instrument in a song. I enjoy hearing the singer, but it's more rare that I "engage" with the lyrics. I find songs that I pay attention to, or actually learn lyrics for, are pretty special to me because they stand out from most everything else I listen to..
If that makes any sense? Maybe I'm just weird?
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: Deep Funk on January 20, 2015, 07:55:38 AM
I rarely get into lyrics. Typically for me the words becomes another instrument in a song. I enjoy hearing the singer, but it's more rare that I "engage" with the lyrics. I find songs that I pay attention to, or actually learn lyrics for, are pretty special to me because they stand out from most everything else I listen to..
If that makes any sense? Maybe I'm just weird?
Same here. When lyrics are really good or central to the music like in the XX they become memorable. Yesterday I listened to Ben Harper's live cover of Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Child", he gave me the chopping down mountains with the edge of my hand feeling.
I usually first try to identify the hook and when there is a story to the song I pay a bit more attention. Music where the lyrics really matter like Bob Dylan, Dire Straits and Kate Bush really reward you for listening.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: Sorrodje on January 20, 2015, 04:32:37 PM
I rarely get into lyrics. Typically for me the words becomes another instrument in a song. I enjoy hearing the singer, but it's more rare that I "engage" with the lyrics. I find songs that I pay attention to, or actually learn lyrics for, are pretty special to me because they stand out from most everything else I listen to..
If that makes any sense? Maybe I'm just weird?
Wow. I could have written this. Same here.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: anetode on January 20, 2015, 08:07:26 PM
Nice. I wonder when the hi-res/redbook versions will drop, original launch date? I was planning on purchasing, but I'm not feeling the itunes route. Still pumped that there's new Bjork...
* EDIT: Just read that the CD/Vinyl will still be out in March.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on January 22, 2015, 09:06:29 PM
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MattTCG on January 27, 2015, 03:58:00 PM
I recently discovered Moorer. It's a little more country than I usually like but I find myself enjoying her older stuff.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: 6 on February 24, 2015, 05:46:35 PM
Finally! Something to get properly excited about. (http://i62.tinypic.com/dc800x.jpg) Godspeed You! Black Emperor Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
Released March 30th
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light! (excerpt)
Reminds me of Earth and that's very good thing. Bring on the tour! :)p1 Edit; Damn, I'm going to be in the Caribbean when they're playing. It's a tough life... :)p8
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: 6 on March 03, 2015, 06:38:42 PM
I come bearing gifts.
(http://i61.tinypic.com/124hlc7.jpg)
Relapse Records are celebrating 25 years with a sampler of over 180 tracks...free! It includes artists such as Mastodon, High On Fire, Torche, Neurosis and Baroness.
I made a small donation, but one can pay nothing or whatever.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: 6 on March 30, 2015, 04:05:45 PM
Following up their abosolutely crushing Empress Rising Monolord are releasing Vænir. Out April 28th on Ridingeasy Records.
(http://i57.tinypic.com/w7c39i.jpg)
Monolord - Cursing The One
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on April 29, 2015, 05:37:16 PM
Out May 12, Pavel Haas Quartet plays Smetana.
Also out May 12, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris
May 26, Joshua Redman with The Bad Plus
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on April 30, 2015, 06:42:15 PM
June 23: Richard Thompson, produced by Jeff Tweedy.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: 6 on June 20, 2015, 03:28:42 PM
(http://i62.tinypic.com/qp00eb.jpg) Goatsnake Black Age Blues
https://www.youtube.com/v/-kvdZFVZE6Q
Danzig would be turning in his grave if he didn't already walk with the undead.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on July 09, 2015, 03:25:06 PM
New Jason Isbell on 7/17 (note that as of this week, release day in the US is changing from Tuesday to Friday).
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: keanex on July 09, 2015, 05:37:54 PM
Jamie xx - In Colour
Phenomenal electronic album for those that like the likes of Four Tet.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: drfindley on July 09, 2015, 10:19:40 PM
So many great albums/EPs have come out this year:
Torres - Sprinter Sharon Van Etten - I Don't Want to Let You Down Other Lives - Rituals Courtney Barnet - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I just sit Sufjan Stevens - Carrier & Lowell
Alright albums this year: Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves The Decembrists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World Amos Lee - Live at Red Rocks
I'm stupid excited for a new Jason Isbell album, his last was a favorite of mine.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on July 10, 2015, 12:18:26 AM
I'm stupid excited for a new Jason Isbell album, his last was a favorite of mine.
If you're in SoCal, he's playing at the Wiltern on 8/12.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: jacal01 on July 13, 2015, 09:34:46 PM
If you can wrap your head around a mash-up between the Archies ("Sugar, Sugar") and Broken Social Scene, then there's a newly released collaborative effort between Andy Kim of Archies fame and Kevin Drew, which seems so incongruent on the face of it as to bugger the imagination.
I haven't yet heard it, but I'm intrigued enough by my memories of pop insensibilities ("Sugar, Sugar"?!) and most importantly, enough of a Kevin Drew/BSS fan that I've popped for it. I'm actually hopeful of the combo. But then I've been known to go off into the esoteric weeds.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: drfindley on July 13, 2015, 10:55:31 PM
Oooohhhhh. Two tantalizing classical releases scheduled for March.
(1) Hyperion will have a recording by Stephen Isserlis of the Prokofiev and Shostakovich cello concertos. :)p1
(2) A recording of Arvo Pärt choral music by The Tallis Scholars. :)p7
Thanks for mentioning the Tallis Scholars Arvo Pärt album! Listened to some samples last night and will definitely have to pick up a copy.
I have a couple of their older albums but never thought the recording quality was quite up to par with material like Magnificat, under Philip Cave (Linn), the Trinity College Choir, under Marlowe, or even certain Chanticleer and recent LA Master Chorale albums. This release sounds wonderful though. If you happen to have any other choral recommendations in this vein, I'd be much obliged.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on July 17, 2015, 03:28:00 PM
Thanks for mentioning the Tallis Scholars Arvo Pärt album! Listened to some samples last night and will definitely have to pick up a copy.
I have a couple of their older albums but never thought the recording quality was quite up to par with material like Magnificat, under Philip Cave (Linn), the Trinity College Choir, under Marlowe, or even certain Chanticleer and recent LA Master Chorale albums. This release sounds wonderful though. If you happen to have any other choral recommendations in this vein, I'd be much obliged.
Two that I'm planning to check out this weekend: Polyphony's new recording of some 20th Century American choral works on Hyperion (I got sick of Randall Thompson after I sang so damn much of it in high school, but I think I'm ready for some more now), and a Latvian Radio Choir recording of the Rautaavara Missa a Capella on Ondine (available at Pro Studio Masters).
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: drfindley on July 17, 2015, 09:35:41 PM
Currently listening to:
Wilco - Star Wars Iron & Wine - Sing into my Mouth Tame Impala - Currents Jason Isbell - Something more than Free
Good gravy that's a bunch of new releases.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: burnspbesq on July 18, 2015, 02:26:11 PM
The long-awaited (at least by me) recording of the Ornstein piano quintet by Marc-Andre Hamelin and the Pacifica Quartet will be a September release on Hyperion (probably available for download around 8/28). It's paired with the Ornstein quartet, which I don't know.
I saw them perform the Ornstein quintet here in OC in November 2013 and was completely blown away.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: MattTCG on July 25, 2015, 11:03:27 PM
The new James Taylor is very well recorded and a good album. "Before This World."
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Post by: jacal01 on August 24, 2015, 06:22:08 PM
Of Monsters And Men's new Beneath the Skin release is pretty good.
Title: Re: New Releases For 2015
Post by: Psalmanazar on September 01, 2015, 02:29:33 AM
Tau Cross - Tau Cross is very good. Rob Miller still sounds great, especially on Hangmans Hyll.