Album Of The Day Thread

[Sergio Mendacious]

Boris Midney is a genius
 

 

[Frankie Crisp]

Blaze Foley - Sittin’ by the Road. It flies by and is wonderful.

 

Edited February 6, 2024 by Frankie Crisp

[Devon Malcolm]

I mean, you could pick any YLT album but this is still stunning.

[Sergio Mendacious]

Special shout out to 25:46

[Sergio Mendacious]

A toofer!

 

Edited February 9, 2024 by Sergio Mendacious

[Chest Rockwell]

Sky 3. Instrumental prog noodling that is mostly really nice to listen to and one really shit track. I've been enjoying this album a lot this week -

 

[wordsfromlee]

Mannequin Pussy are one of those bands who's name I see about all the time but never actually checked out. So with them releasing a new record on Friday, I thought it would be a great opportunity to give them a go. 

What an album to start with! A noisy and energetic mix of HAIM and Pixies. It's not too soft for people who like hardcore music, and not too noisy for people who don't like heavier music. It straddles all the lines perfectly and while it encompasses a lot of different sounds, they all fit together really well and nothing outstays its welcome. I'll definitely be going through their back catalogue off the strength of this.

FFO: Pixies, HAIM, Hop Along, Bully

Lee's Rating: 4 THUMBS UP

 

[SuperBacon]

Absolutely one for this thread.

 

[wordsfromlee]

Been revisiting some favourites of my teenage years and as much as I love this record, I'd give anything to hear a version of this produced by Ross Robinson and without the distraction of the newly release PS2.

 

[BrodyGraham]

I only discovered these a couple of years ago but they've got new stuff coming out and thus I'm revisiting this. It's not a perfect album but it straddles the line between punk and indie rock perfectly.

On 3/4/2024 at 5:53 PM, wordsfromlee said:

Mannequin Pussy are one of those bands who's name I see about all the time but never actually checked out. So with them releasing a new record on Friday, I thought it would be a great opportunity to give them a go. 

What an album to start with! A noisy and energetic mix of HAIM and Pixies. It's not too soft for people who like hardcore music, and not too noisy for people who don't like heavier music. It straddles all the lines perfectly and while it encompasses a lot of different sounds, they all fit together really well and nothing outstays its welcome. I'll definitely be going through their back catalogue off the strength of this.

FFO: Pixies, HAIM, Hop Along, Bully

Lee's Rating: 4 THUMBS UP

 

I agree on Mannequin Pussy as well. Really good. My daughter's starting to spread her wings when it comes to music and has decided that The Last Dinner Party are 'Her Nirvana' as it were. I was ready to play her that new MP album to see what she thought of that until my wife pointed out that: a) The Album's a bit filthy. B) My daughter is 10. C) The band are called Mannequin Pussy.

[SuperBacon]

Going through one of my "twee indie that I like to listen to at midnight" and this is currently favourite. 

Just a beautiful gentle, pretty album. Their album Late Developers from last year is well worth checking out as well.

Edited March 21, 2024 by SuperBacon
Spotify link didn't work. Hello Chest, hope you're well.

[wordsfromlee]

30 years old today. Still great.

 

[Donald J Trump]

On 3/21/2024 at 12:33 AM, SuperBacon said:

Going through one of my "twee indie that I like to listen to at midnight" and this is currently favourite. 

Just a beautiful gentle, pretty album. Their album Late Developers from last year is well worth checking out as well.

You've likely checked it out already, but if you enjoyed this album I'd recommend Tigermilk. I wouldn't normally use this word to describe an album but it's just bliss. I also really like the description of "gentle" and I'd say it applies to both albums. Late Developers reminded me of Dear Catastrophe Waitress, just in terms of the boldness of some of the songs compared to their more mellow stuff. Really pleased that nearly 3 decades on theyre still releasing music regularly, and their gigs are just the nicest gathering of people, aside from me obviously. 

[SuperBacon]

I've been listening to this album a lot recently and have decided it's the saddest album ever.

I think I'm going through delayed grieving from last year and it's been a very cathartic help. I can't make it through without bawling my eyes out, but that's OK! 

Beautiful, beautiful album. Love you Sufjan. Thanks.

[wordsfromlee]

Never really been one for Springsteen in the past. I've heard all the big songs and I don't mind them, but never found myself enjoying it enough to bother to delve any further. Anyway, after hearing that he made an entire album on just an 4-track TEAC cassette recorder (yes, please!), I read up on the making of Nebraska. Read a bunch of interviews and articles on the story of the recording and release of the record. I gobbled it all up loved it, but I was really hesitant to actually put it on and listen to it - I knew I wasn't particularly a fan of his music and I'd built up the hype in my head so much from all the reading I'd done. I was worried it would end up being a massive let down.

Safe to say, I loved it. If he'd just dialled down the reverb on the vocals a little bit on a couple of the tracks (I found it a bit grating after a while at a couple of points), it would probably be a 10 out of 10 for me. Either way, it's very, very good, and easily my favourite stuff I've heard from him.

I wish more big artists of his size would take risks like this more often.