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Bjork's sexiest and most esoteric album, which is saying something, and so much so that you can't even watch the best videos on Youtube without a sign-in. If only she didn't have the balls to wear that swan dress to Oscars, almost as if she doesn't even take the pompous glamour of that event seriously at all.
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Animal Collective presented a creative volatility which could frequently dip into chaos, with a lot of their early records drenched in crude samples and effects, taking an improvisational approach to noise-making, constructing low-fi "field" ecosystems of fuzz and blips and occasionally cohering into grooves or, if lucky, something even more transcendent. The band would be admirable on these terms alone. But with Campfire Songs, they revealed a secret weapon, mostly embedded in member Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), who provided a lovely sense of melody and musical structure which their early albums seem determined to evade. With Campfire, they wanted something warm, and they succeeded, with an intimate acoustic arrangement (although still cleverly edited and overdubbed, the band has always embraced digital cut-and-paste methods).
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.For me, the band's peak (or rather plateau) is the run of releases from autumn '04 to autumn '05, starting with Panda Bear's solo record (which as barely a half hour is really an EP) called Young Prayer, a complete musical cycle which serves as an epitaph for Lennox's deceased father. The next Animal Collective EP was Prospect Hummer, a gorgeous record which is still very much in the vein of Panda's sweet lyricism, and finally the proper record Feels, and it does. After this, the band had many other releases, dipping deeper into psychedelic electronica and back again, always showing a restless appetite, and even Panda Bear would make a record, Person Pitch, which is far more elaborately layered in electronic texture than Prayer, and which is the typically the album most cited by fans. I'll stand by my own selections.
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.Folks, I love too much. It's too much. I can't help that the page is already getting wonky because the site is simply incapable of containing my love. I was considering just reediting the whole thing, but I won't. I'm just going to steam ahead and try to keep it to a more reasonable '1 clip per post', and hope for the best.
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I'm just going to cheat here in order to keep honest. Joanna Newsom made a lot of great music this decade, and there's certainly nothing wrong with the lovely Milk-Eyed Mender and Ys, but my pick simply has to be this EP, one of her self-releases which I don't believe has been properly released since. This EP, as it is, is perfect as a true pearl. As such, I'm just going to post the whole thing here.
"Sprout and the Bean" was released on Mender with some slight enhancements. "This Side of the Blue" and "Bridges and Balloons" were re-recorded (inferior versions, imo). "What We Have Known" was also re-recorded but only released as a B-side. And astonishingly, the title "Yarn and Glue" remains only available on this hard to find disc.
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I'll just list a couple off the top of my head that I feel might not get a mention here.
Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Broken Social Scene - self titled
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland (yes a compilation, but whatever)
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lyre of Orpheus
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Libertines - Up the Bracket
Babyshambles - Down in Albion
The National - Alligator
Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Sourcecodes and Tags
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Kanye West - College Dropout
Mount Eerie - No Flashlight, Winds Poem, Lost Widsdom
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird