stick this in your playlist. shortlist oct 05.
quick and dirty style now. bam.
shortlist october 2005
1. Abandoned Pools - Army of Me
2. Apollo Sunshine - Phyliss
3. Bloc Party - Luno (vs. Death From Above 1979)
4. Cloud Cult - Training Wheels
5. Decomposure - Whose Side Are You On?
6. Eisley - Head Against the Sky
7. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
8. Franz Ferdinand - This Boy
9. Girlyman - This Is Me
10. Lake Trout - Riddle
11. Little Big Town - Good As Gone
12. Metric - Handshakes
13. Pharrell f. Gwen Stefani - Can I Have it Like That
14. The Posies - All in a Day's Work
15. Spoon - My Mathematical Place
16. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
17. Thee More Shallows - 2am
18. Troubled Hubble - Ear, Nose & Throat
Okay. Abandoned Pools. Thought you could disappear did you? Thought I'd just welcome you back with open arms after making me wait four or five years for new music? Well. I guess you're right. Jesus christ this song rocks. APOLLO SUNSHINE! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY HOUSE?! This Bloc Party remix of the remix album isn't really a remix I guess. I think DFA79 put new instrumentation on it? Regardless, much edgier and rockier. Complete other end of the spectrum now, Cloud Cult's submission for this month is a beautiful, serene track that just makes me feel warm. It's about being told you CAN do it. Then the static hits and you're in Decomposure territory, where glitch and pop are fused and everyone's happy. Really, try not to dance listening to this song. You can't. And whoa, Eisley has a new song out of nowhere. And it's... dare I say... rocking? I do dare. This sure is a rock-infused shortlist this month. Lots of raaar guitars going on from top to bottom. Except Fiona Apple, whose new album starts off with this track that sound reminiscent of a toy shop, or at least the kind of music they play in movies when there's a toy shop. Lots of little flourishes that make it sound really sweet and playful. Rock rock rock rock Franz Ferdinand. Rock rock rock rock this song. Rock rock rock. Not-rock: Girlyman. Still awesome, pretty, relaxing: Girlyman. This closer track is alatyr's favorite. And then, oh, I don't know how about WE ROCK OUT AGAIN. It's Lake Trout, holy crap do I love this album? I think I DO. Definite top-10 album right here. Thank you guys so much for putting out something that lives up to Another One Lost. Little Big Town is, uhm, well I guess I bought a country CD. But they're like the Nickel Creek kind of country; swell harmonies, a little bit of twang I guess. Nothing wrong with that. And then there's Metric. Guess what? Give up? Oh yes it ROCKS. I'm digging pretty much everything I hear from Metric at some level or another, and while every track isn't spectacular, there's good stuff on everything that Emily Haines touches. Shifting gears. Yes, that's Pharrell you see. Why? Because I like the Neptunes' stuff. And this qualifies under that rule. Brewhah. Hey what a surprise, another track from The Posies hits the shortlist well after it should have. Oops... anyway. Class, repeat with me: "this track rocks!" In a rock sort of way. With guitars. Going Brahahhh brahh rahhhh. *rock hand* Spoon is a strange phenomenon. I never really "got" them or listened at all, but then like eight months later I'm finding this album coming up on shuffle a lot, and damned if it isn't pretty durn good. I like the piano-driven swing of this one. I'm really just a sucker for 3/4 time, that's what it is. And really, what would a shortlist be without Sufjan Stevens these days? I think the thing that impresses me the most about this track is how it changes from part one to part two without really being overt about it. I didn't really notice it for a while, that's for sure. Fantastic album, nearing the epic but settling for the expansive. And now a dark and claustrophobic track from Thee More Shallows, another unquestionable top album for me this year. My god. The bells get me every time in this song. It sounds so... paranoid. Evil. Monstrous. And let's close it out with one more \nn/ ROCK \nn/ song, this one from Troubled Hubble. It reminds me of... hm.... damnit what is it. It definitely reminds me of something from a decade ago. And yet with a modern flair. Great, straightforward track with a lot of....
ROCK.
shortlist october 2005
1. Abandoned Pools - Army of Me
2. Apollo Sunshine - Phyliss
3. Bloc Party - Luno (vs. Death From Above 1979)
4. Cloud Cult - Training Wheels
5. Decomposure - Whose Side Are You On?
6. Eisley - Head Against the Sky
7. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
8. Franz Ferdinand - This Boy
9. Girlyman - This Is Me
10. Lake Trout - Riddle
11. Little Big Town - Good As Gone
12. Metric - Handshakes
13. Pharrell f. Gwen Stefani - Can I Have it Like That
14. The Posies - All in a Day's Work
15. Spoon - My Mathematical Place
16. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
17. Thee More Shallows - 2am
18. Troubled Hubble - Ear, Nose & Throat
Okay. Abandoned Pools. Thought you could disappear did you? Thought I'd just welcome you back with open arms after making me wait four or five years for new music? Well. I guess you're right. Jesus christ this song rocks. APOLLO SUNSHINE! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY HOUSE?! This Bloc Party remix of the remix album isn't really a remix I guess. I think DFA79 put new instrumentation on it? Regardless, much edgier and rockier. Complete other end of the spectrum now, Cloud Cult's submission for this month is a beautiful, serene track that just makes me feel warm. It's about being told you CAN do it. Then the static hits and you're in Decomposure territory, where glitch and pop are fused and everyone's happy. Really, try not to dance listening to this song. You can't. And whoa, Eisley has a new song out of nowhere. And it's... dare I say... rocking? I do dare. This sure is a rock-infused shortlist this month. Lots of raaar guitars going on from top to bottom. Except Fiona Apple, whose new album starts off with this track that sound reminiscent of a toy shop, or at least the kind of music they play in movies when there's a toy shop. Lots of little flourishes that make it sound really sweet and playful. Rock rock rock rock Franz Ferdinand. Rock rock rock rock this song. Rock rock rock. Not-rock: Girlyman. Still awesome, pretty, relaxing: Girlyman. This closer track is alatyr's favorite. And then, oh, I don't know how about WE ROCK OUT AGAIN. It's Lake Trout, holy crap do I love this album? I think I DO. Definite top-10 album right here. Thank you guys so much for putting out something that lives up to Another One Lost. Little Big Town is, uhm, well I guess I bought a country CD. But they're like the Nickel Creek kind of country; swell harmonies, a little bit of twang I guess. Nothing wrong with that. And then there's Metric. Guess what? Give up? Oh yes it ROCKS. I'm digging pretty much everything I hear from Metric at some level or another, and while every track isn't spectacular, there's good stuff on everything that Emily Haines touches. Shifting gears. Yes, that's Pharrell you see. Why? Because I like the Neptunes' stuff. And this qualifies under that rule. Brewhah. Hey what a surprise, another track from The Posies hits the shortlist well after it should have. Oops... anyway. Class, repeat with me: "this track rocks!" In a rock sort of way. With guitars. Going Brahahhh brahh rahhhh. *rock hand* Spoon is a strange phenomenon. I never really "got" them or listened at all, but then like eight months later I'm finding this album coming up on shuffle a lot, and damned if it isn't pretty durn good. I like the piano-driven swing of this one. I'm really just a sucker for 3/4 time, that's what it is. And really, what would a shortlist be without Sufjan Stevens these days? I think the thing that impresses me the most about this track is how it changes from part one to part two without really being overt about it. I didn't really notice it for a while, that's for sure. Fantastic album, nearing the epic but settling for the expansive. And now a dark and claustrophobic track from Thee More Shallows, another unquestionable top album for me this year. My god. The bells get me every time in this song. It sounds so... paranoid. Evil. Monstrous. And let's close it out with one more \nn/ ROCK \nn/ song, this one from Troubled Hubble. It reminds me of... hm.... damnit what is it. It definitely reminds me of something from a decade ago. And yet with a modern flair. Great, straightforward track with a lot of....
ROCK.