Albums You're Digging II

[Love xX]

^^^ I sound too dramatic... lol
Where should I head next, any album you could recommend? I plan on going a little crazy buying their albums.

[Chappy21]

Dear god this album is awesome!

[Molly Casey]

I don't know why it took me so long to get into this album. I love it.

[Gsaba]

(2006)

Two men, both over 40, mash everything that's good about music (plus some drum n' bass) into one album with impeccable style and pop sensibility in a trans-Atlantic collaboration that only a few hundred people in the known universe will be acknowledging. Which is a shame.

[Lori cutie]

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

The album that half the people here post and the other half ask what it is.

[SCWIDVICIOUS]

Cynic - Focus (Remastered)

Supposedly a classic album, the first to corabine elements of jazz-fusion and death metal together in an appreciable way. I have to say that after some lengthy listening to Focus, I can see where a lot of modern day "melo-death" banRAB and certain prog. metal outfits derived their sound from, but are ultimately unable to surpass. Tracks like 'Veil of Maya' and 'Endless Endeavors' don't sound like they came from 1993 at all!

[likeitlikethat]

I've been filling in my Go-Betweens back catalog and I'm delighted to discover that this is almost as good as their mid-period material. Wicked band.




And I've been rediscovering Pretties For You... for some reason it really clicks with me. Yes it's disjointed, sloppy and directionless, yes the recording quality is shite, but it's ultimately a pleasant sort of scatterbrained mess.

[Meeeeow]

That's actually the reason it became my favorite album. The first half is some of the absolute best work Sonic Youth has ever done, and every time I wanted some SY I would remeraber those and stick on Goo. Being OCD about finishing an album start to finish, I of course had to listen to the second half as well. They grew on my like nothing else. You'll get there.

The second half is kind of like all of Daydream Nation for me. It took me a really long time to get into that album. I was always confused why everyone thought it was so good until one day it clicked.

[Yahootime!]

Maps and Atlases "You, Me and the Mountain"

[ChiLady]

^ Elvis Costello teams up with Allen Toussaint to do a jazz/soul/New Orleans r'n'b album. With the exception of a lame space-filler or two, stellar stuff.


~^ Lifeforms - a very left-of-centre, arabient and fittingly long and complex effort from the same bunch that brought Papua New Guinea to dance floors all over the world. An absolute gem this.


^ And this blew me away with the first listen. Fantastic beats, fantastic use of vocals - classic.