(Un)Official L33tist Music Thread.

[YI]

The new D.I. is fucking class. I admit to only hearing a few old album recordings and their "Live At A Dive" CD, which is class. But yeah. I fucking love the new album.

And The Dean Malenko's may be one of my favourite bands ever.

[IAceI]

New InMe album wins all

I absolutely wub it.

[Guest Ringmaster]

I hereby proclaim Caribou the great big Canadian break out band of the year. It's original, it's unpretentious and it sounds fresh.

I love it.

[YI]

I hereby proclaim Caribou the great big Canadian break out band of the year. It's original, it's unpretentious and it sounds fresh.

I love it.

Edited September 5, 2007 by YI

[Guest Ringmaster]

On first listen, the new Band of Horses is disappointing. I loved the first track which was released a while back, but the rest of the album kinda feels meh and there's a lot of strange country-tanged songs in there, it feels wrong. I'll give it another try, but whatever for now.

The new PJ Harvey is great, though. Like it loads. It's very different from her average stuff too, it consists of piano ballads for the most part. Still great though.

[IAceI]

After a few more listens I've decided that the InMe album is the best thing ever in the whole wide world.

[YI]

Band Of Horses finally leaked. Good stuff. I'm not happy the bloke that looks like my dad left though.

As for InMe. Probably not a top 10 album for the year, but definately a top 50, maybe a top 20. There's no 'weak' tracks, there's just a few that aren't particuarly exciting. "Soldier", "In Loving Memory", "Far Reaching", "Raindrops On Stones", "Myths And Photographs" and "Cracking The Whip" are awesome. A lot of the 'quieter' songs miss the mark slightly, IMO.

[Guest Ringmaster]

New Hot Hot Heat has leaked.

I'm psyched for this one.

[TheRyno]

Horse The Band > Band of Horses

[probablyoliver]

bloke called DJ Egadz added me on myspace just now. I chuckled at the name and then listened, turns out he's pretty cool. Just downloading the only album of his I can find right now, The Cardboard Box. I'm hoping it'll be good.

[YI]

I'm sitting here desperately waiting for the new A Wilhelm Scream and Streetlight Manifesto albums to leak.

Been giving the demo version of JEW's new album a spin. Nothing groundbreaking, but JEW exactly how I love them, which is awesome. Some great tracks on here, "Let It Happen", "Chase This Light", "Feeling Lucky", "Big Casino" and "Stop" (which I hope actually ends up on the album under a different name, as it doesn't appear to be on it).

As far as other stuff. "This Is The Enemy" by 50 Lions is some solid hardcore punk.

"Help Wanted Nights" by The Good Life seems like a solid little indie album too.

"People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World" by Andrew Jackson Jihad is fucking brilliant.

Edited September 11, 2007 by YI

[Steeb]

Mute Math, Crystal Castles and Does It Offend You, Yeah? are amazing.

That is all.

[Liam]

YI, in his sig, told me to listen to Freak Kitchen.

I did, and they were good.

[YI]

YI, in his sig, told me to listen to Freak Kitchen.

I did, and they were good.

[Liam]

YI, in his sig, told me to listen to Freak Kitchen.

I did, and they were good.

It better have been "Move". Or the self-titled.

And

I got thier discography, and checked out some of it. Not sure which albums they were off though.

[Steeb]

HIM & Foo Fighters leak? Time to let my non-L33tist reign!

[fineintent]

I don't know if anyone else has bought it, but Kano's new album London Town is one of the biggest wastes of talent I've ever heard. To put it in perspective, Kano emerged out of the grime rave scene about 4 years ago and was pure hype - lyrically on point and had sharp, fast delivery. Now on his second album, he's biting Jay-Z and spitting on slow, hip-hop beats. I don't understand - but I suppose no black artist in England is making the music they were signed for (see Ms. Dynamite, So Solid Crew, Dizzee Rascal, Craig David).

Good grime sells - the chart successes of Pow!, Stand Up Tall, Dizzee Rascal and Wiley's first albums prove that. I don't understand why 679 would choose to water down the (at one time) most promising MC in the scene; UK Hip-Hop doesn't sell. People don't want to hear cheap immitations of US artists.

If anyone was interested in this album, pick up Tinchy Stryder's album which is now available nationwide (the production on this unreal) or Skepta's album which comes out on the 24th for actually exciting grime music.

Tracks to listen to from London Town:

The Product

Buss It Up (feat. Vybez Kartel) - which has been around for about a year anyway

Grime MC - the secret track and, although its insulting, probably has the best production on the album outside Buss It Up

This is the Girl (feat. Craig David) - a really good pop RnB song.

Edited September 12, 2007 by fineintent

[YI]

The new Sugababes song is brilliant.

That is all.

The 4 new Babyshambles songs sound very good. A lot easier accessible to the first album songs. "The Lost Art Of Murder" being a particuarly good song.

Edited September 12, 2007 by YI

[Guest Ringmaster]

I've been really digging The Tough Alliance and the Chromatics lately, both of which are electro-popish indie. They're pretty good and Steeb has assured me the chick from the Chromatics will make his EWB women, purely based on the fact she cries after/during sex. And she's hot. I'm waiting Steeb :@

Also, I bought the hyper-mega-deluxe-whatever edition of Young Marble Giant's Colossal Youth and while I was always being an elitist and going "this will never sound better than on vinyl" while listening to the deeply, deeply aged vinyl endlessly, they CD is far superior, and it's awesome.

[YI]

Finally got my hands on some Action Design material (Featuring the lovely Agent M, formerly of Tsunami Bomb). The new EP, "Into A Sound", which features new versions of tracks on their self-titled EP, however it doesn't have the song which used to be on their website...which pisses me off, as it was an awesome song...which I want in file form. A good indie-pop EP with a twinge of Blondie.

"Worst Band Name Ever" by Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start, is a fucking classic. Brilliant album.

I can't believe I missed the release of the new Modern Life Is War as well. I've been dying for "Midnight In America" to leak for so long, but in waiting for AWS and Streetlight, I kind of forgot about it. Fucking brilliant hardcore punk album, they've definately hit the spot again. "Screaming At The Moon", "Night Shift At The Potato Factory" and "Fuck The Sex Pistols" are right up there with the awesomeness that is "D.E.A.D.R.A.M.O.N.E.S".