Machinefabriek and 9 other artists

[Good Intentions]

8 Iggy Pop 7
I was listening to The Idiot for some reason.

Because it is a masterpiece, perhaps. Shit, I think I might put it on now.

[Trousers and Pat]

Yeah I think that was it.

[Nick Ink]

1 Chihei Hatakeyama 72

My most listened to artist over the last 12 months, according to lastfm. This weekend gone, I had a run through his albums. He's in that same little niche of drone/field recording that I love so much, with Lawrence English, Fennesz, Jasper TX and Tim Hecker.

2 Robyn Hitchcock 54
I got hold of some rare stuff and live tracks. I also spebt a couple of days' worth of bus commutes digging the Soft Boys two original albums. Underwater Moonlight should've been in that thread we had for perfect albums.

3 Relmic Statute 40
It's a humble little album in many ways, but Morning Tapes on the impeccable Hibernate label, is full of small revelations, and one of my top 5 or 10 of the year so far.

4 The Books 26
The very odd Music For A French Elevator album. I'm a bit unsure about The Books and their direction right now. Things I'm hearing from the new one sound like a bit of a rehash of old ideas, or else a move away from the collage stuff that was so original about them in the first place. The samples seem a bit samey.

5 Clem Leek 17
Two EPs of piano, static and various super-subtle electronics. Like miniatures sitting somewhere between the Satieisms of Goldmund and the loops of William Basinski. Excellent stuff, especially Through The Annular.

5 Rene Hell 17
Can't quite get a handle on this yet, but it's either goodish or very good. Rooted in dubstep, but veering quite a long way off track and into ambience.

7 Simon Scott 16

I've been listening to his Traba EP over and over the last couple of days, and it made me go back to 2009's Navigare album, which I really didn't give a fair crack of the whip for no reason I can think of. It's fantastic, a kind of grandchild of Loveless, I suppose, but married into the Fennesz family and lost its looks and gone a bit weird.

8. The Boats 14

9 Yeah Yeah Noh 12
The only representative of my mid-80s indiepop aint noise pollution revival. I sometimes think Yeah Yeah Noh were the best band that ever walked the earth. Fall fans ought to hear the When I Am A Big Girl mini-album, at least. The second (and sadly, last) album, Cutting The Heavenly Lawn Of Greatness, Last Rites For The God Of Love is more ambitious, and another contender for the perfect albums thread.


9 Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek 12
Vibraphones-ahoy!

[davy]

A summary of what's been in heavy rotation for me so far in 2011:

Orange Juice (the box set, the glorious box set)
Cerys Matthews (mostly the first two solo albums)
Darren Hanlon (all albums, with a strong emphasis on 2010's I Will Love You At All)
Mason Jennings (my seasonal binge)
Nightmares on Wax (I made a mix, which always boosts the numbers)
Fleetwood Mac/Lindsey Buckingham (The first 4 LB FM records + LB's first few solo records)
Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers (in preparation for the new one coming out NEXT WEEK)
.O.Rang/Talk Talk (the former might be my favorite discovery of the year)

I'm thinking the next band I want to explore exhaustively is Madness. I realized recently that I've liked pretty much everything I've ever heard by them, and the recent super-deluxe reissue campaign really cinches it. I downloaded Absolutely a few days ago to give them a sort of test-drive, and it was predictably awesome, so here we go...

[Nick Ink]

I loved Absolutely and 7! I was one of those kids in Baggy Trousers  Actually, if I may indulge, Madness at the Brighton Centre was the second ever live band I saw (after Showaddywaddy, of course - Romeo Challenger did a ten-minute drum solo, I think you'd have dug it davy), supported by the uniquely abysmal Joboxers. It was all very exciting, but a small group of skinheads started a punch-up halfway through and Suggs, declaring them to be 'fuckin' doughnuts' took the band off, never to return. Adam & The Ants were next, I seem to remember....

Anyway, thanks for reviving this thread, davy. My lastfm 'last 7 days' shows this:

Tim Hecker - 79
The new album, Ravedeath, 1972, is fantastic, and quite a noisy affair too.
Deaf Center - 30
Owl Splinters leaked and sounds great. Silly name though - always reminds me of 'Owl Stretching Time', one of the original suggestions for a title for Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Stephan Mathieu - 25
This is A Static Place, a really lovely, hour-long drone album, with lots of spine-tingling old 78 samples, hammered out until they're smooth and shiny.
Celer - 12
Mostly, the two long sides of Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy. Been in quite a Celer mood recently.
Ø - 10
This is Mika Vainio's latest release - a really cool minimal EP
Fabio Orsi - 8
Orsi's latest is uncharacteristically dynamic and noisy, and I'm still not sure what to make of it all.
Mike Shiflet - 6
Probably mostly the tracfk, 'Pink Meadow', which sounds like its title.
Hakobune - 6
Layers of guitar noise, a bit like some of Chihei Hatakeyama's stuff
Lawrence English - 3
This is 'Site-Listening: Brisbane', an excellent 20-minute piece made up mainly of field recordings from, well, Brisbane. Along with Seaworthy & Matt Rosner's 'Two Lakes' (Tereil and Meroo, for anyone who cares), it's one of two albums I've been listening to recently to feature Australian birdsong rather heavily - could this be the sound of '11??

[Nick Ink]

The essential releases of 2011 so far, in approximate order of essentialness....

Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place (12K)
Deaf Center  Owl Splinters (Type)
Isolee -  Well Spent Youth (Pampa Records)
Twells & Christensen - Coasts (Digitalis)
Ø - Heijastuva (Sahko Recordings)
Machinefabriek + Gareth Davis - Grower (Sonic Pieces)

[davy]

If I incorporated all of his projects, Greg Dulli would be 3rd all-time on my last.fm list.

[Babar]

Top 10 arranged by play time because that makes more sense.

Pizzicato Five               33
I like them best when they play lounge music. I only have a compilation cd that always quenches my P5 thirst. Anybody got a rec for their more lounge-y stuff. Like, a whole album with music to drink martinis to without any hyper J-pop dance songs? Davy, you like P5.
GusGus                      16
Chill-out electronica, does the deed.
Digable Planets            15
Classic.
Can                             8
Soundtracks is great. I get myself acquainted with about one Can album per year 'cause I don't want to spoil their whole discography too soon. I had Monster Movie through Future Days minus Soundtracks. "Mother Sky" is right up there with "Halleluwah" as a quintessential Can jam where every band-member gets a chance to show off their talent.
De La Soul                  12
Not their old school stuff but the very good The Grind Date from 2004. MF DOOM kills it on the last track.
Milton Nascimiento        15
Touching up on my Portuguese.
Elliott Smith                 14
XO
Duke Ellington               7
Album he did with Max Roach and Charles Mingus. I'm usually not that into piano-based jazz but that dynamic trio peeked my interest. The album isn't remarkable but certainly not bad.
Dungen                        4
Lou Donaldson               2

[Nick Ink]

Can                             8
Soundtracks is great. I get myself acquainted with about one Can album per year 'cause I don't want to spoil their whole discography too soon. I had Monster Movie through Future Days minus Soundtracks. "Mother Sky" is right up there with "Halleluwah" as a quintessential Can jam where every band-member gets a chance to show off their talent.

Got me listening to this too now. Loop did an awesome version of Mother Sky on their Collision 12 back in the day - TSKS will second my strong recommendation for Loop's albums.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Indeed.

Th' Faith Healers cover of "Mother Sky" on Lido is also pretty righteous.

[Trousers and Pat]

last seven days:

1 kazuki tomokawa 33
I got a copy of blue ice pick, taking my time, listening on the way home from work
2 kan mikami 17
I've been listening to this great live album from 1977- much higher quality recording than the other one I've heard. yoisho yoisho is a beautiful, slow song.
3 clams casino 15
see hip hop thread
4 white leopards 12
i've been listening to this self-titled album.  droney synth stuff from LA... I like their cover art aesthetic
4 squadda b 12
I smoke because I don't care about death is still my favorite mixtape of the year.
6 momus 11
7 women 8
7 svarte greiner 8
9 the smiths 7
10 gate 6
Listening to republic of sadness from last year. I was pleasantly surprised, it's like dance music, old man techno, or the music I always think radiohead should be but they never are.
10 tyler, creator 6
A walk in my old neighborhood with the album that was my lovely little soundtrack back then

** as I finish typing this I realize I have mikami and white leopards playing at the same time. It's *amazing

[Babar]

Most listened to in the last month

Arranged by playing time rather than play counts

1. Ennio Morricone        102

Il maestro Morricone, there is no one like him. The best thing is I've listened to about 3% of his works which means I will always have fresh never-heard-before Morricone listening material to listen to until I reach retirement. This one in particular I've played over and over again, from a film I've never seen, Il Mercenario.

2. Paco de Lucía            46

The flamenco guitar virtuoso. Dude has serious skills. Apparently I also love flamenco music. Ahhh, the handclapping mmmm.

3. Ludwig van Beethoven     24

The Seventh Symphony up in this bitch. Especially the most popular movement, Allegretto. Was used to great effect in the crazy japanese 4 hour opus of weirdness Love Exposure.

4. The Beatles              32

John. Paul. George. Rings.

5. Can                     13

Can never cease to amaze. It's been Soon Over Babaluma mainly lately.

6. Bill Elm & Woody Jackson           16

The soundtrack from Red Dead Redemption. I don't think I've heard a better video game soundtrack that wasn't composed by Nobou Uematsu. Really good stuff.

7. France Gall                    26

The young girl Serge Gainsbourg wrote a song about enjoying sucking dicks for disguised as a song about a girl enjoying aniseed lollipops. If you haven't heard the story, check this out. Besides that, she's a good pop singer.

8. Animal Collective                10

I listened to Feels all the way through for the first time in maybe 4-5 years. I liked it.

9. Tom Waits                    19

Rain Dogs. Sorry Tom Waits lovers, I'm not yet sold on him. I haven't given up though.

10. Cliff Martinez                       16

The soundtrack from Drive. He didn't write all the music, only the atmosphere music and not the electro-pop nuggets.

Yay!

[Nick Ink]

Bringing back this thread, because I like reading it and I hope some people will post updates

8. Animal Collective                10
I listened to Feels all the way through for the first time in maybe 4-5 years. I liked it.

Something about Bees - I always come back to that track.

My lastfm top 10 for the last month:



1) Bob Marley & The Wailers 107
I'm not sure what triggered it, but I've been on a bit of a dub/reggae thing the last few weeks, and it certainly goes well with the nice Spring weather just arriving. Rastaman Vibration and Burnin' are my 2 favourite Bob albums, but I'm trying to get a bit more inside a couple of the others now. These albums were always on at a pub I used to drink at back in the day - sublime sunny afternoons in the garden with a beer and a couple of doobies going around, Bob on the speakers.

2) Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services 77        
I'm also still intrigued with last year's big discovery, Ghost Box ( I made, if I say so myself, a couple of staggeringly good mixes on the topic, which should still be avaialable), and these numbers are from Black Mill Tapes, mainly the newest one, Volume 3. The usual Ghost Box feel is prominent, perhaps leaning more to the creepy sci-fi synth side. The groop have a fantastic bandcamp page with a ton of streaming stuff.
 


3) Zammuto 57
I think edison liked this one too. It's the new album from The Books' Nick Zammuto, his brother and some other blokes. It's kind of unlike anything else I've heard, apart from the more manic, percussive side of his previous band that is. Chaotic, full of dinvention and hooks and utterly beserk. Not really out until the end of April so I wouldn't know of course, but I predict it will be one of the better albums of 2012.

4) Emptyset 52
The new album Medium, which I know Killdozer liked too, is a rather austere assault of bass and minimal beats, like some of Mika Vainio's stuff, but a bit deeper. You can hear bits on boomkat.

5) The Congos 43
This was recommended by lots of people in the dub thread, and it's been a big hit. EI even caught one of the kids singing 'you keep on knockin' but you can't come in' the other day.

6) Belbury Poly 42
More Ghost Box. New album is okay, maybe not blow you away great, though I need more time on it.



7) Gultskra Artikler 36
The part-reissue, Abtu/Anet, a psychedelic mess of samples, folk tunes, musique concrete and weird instruments. Soundcloud preview here

8) Broadcast 35
Mainly the early material on Work and Non-Work, which is better than I remembered. MOre than a year since Trish passed away now, which still makes me a bit mopey when I think about it.

9) NHK'Koyxeи 34
Another Killdozer tip, and more interesting 2012 twisted techno.

10) Black To Comm 31
10) Machinefabriek 31

[Thermofusion]

"Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services" is maybe the most thoroughly Ghost Box band name of all of Ghost Box

[edison]

3) Zammuto 57
I think edison liked this one too. It's the new album from The Books' Nick Zammuto, his brother and some other blokes. It's kind of unlike anything else I've heard, apart from the more manic, percussive side of his previous band that is. Chaotic, full of dinvention and hooks and utterly beserk. Not really out until the end of April so I wouldn't know of course, but I predict it will be one of the better albums of 2012.

I haven't heard the album yet - I think I just made positive comments about the preview tracks when Nick posted his mix a little while ago - but definitely plan on picking it up in London in a few weeks! (it comes out on the 10th)

I like this thread too, and will do my best to participate.

[mountmccabe]

I will participate! Also for the last month:

1) Duncan Sheik - 72 Not a "Barely Breathing" in sight (well, maybe one but I don't think I finished the song and thus it shouldn't've scrobbled); I have listened to Spring Awakening a few times and sure, it has issues but due to some really good structuring it is easy enough to know what is going on from just listening to the music so I keep coming back to it.
         
2) The Gandalfs - 50 If I go back 6 months this is only up to 55. I think there was a night or two of excess.

3) Johann Sebastian Bach - 25 Mostly the cello suites, which work very well for background filtering music while I read on the bus.
         
4) The Joy Formidable - 22 I am quite excited to see this Welsh trio again next week!

5) Black Lips - 21 I guess I kind of have ignored them in the past so this is some catching up. They are playing Coachella (again) and I think "Oh Katrina" caught my ear, along with remembering that they are part of the amazingness that is the Almighty Defenders. End result: they have some great songs but by and large I am not that moved.
         
6) Jules Massenet - 19 This is all Manon, which I hope to see in the next couple weeks. I am surprised that this count is so low.

7t) The Magnetic Fields - 18 They have the new album and I quite enjoy it ("Andrew In Drag" is my favorite) and I am finally getting to see them live in a couple weeks.

7t) Codeine - 18 Yeah, many of my top listens are bands I am going to see soon. Mmm, Codeine.
         
7t) Thomas Adès - 18 This was mostly The Tempest, which is part of the Met's 2012-13 season what got announced a month ago. If last.fm captured streams from NYPhil's app this would be a couple spots up because I have listened to their broadcast of "Polaris" a couple times, too.
         
10t) Andrew Lloyd Webber - 16 I believe this was all Jesus Christ Superstar, in the lead up to seeing the new (and rather bad, if still enjoyable) Broadway production of the work.

10t) A Place To Bury Strangers - 16 They are opening for the Joy Formidable; this will be my first time seeing them since moving to NYC. This also reminds me that I have yet to hear their latest EP, so maybe I should get on that!

[Thermofusion]

   7t) Thomas Adès - 18 This was mostly The Tempest, which is part of the Met's 2012-13 season what got announced a month ago. If last.fm captured streams from NYPhil's app this would be a couple spots up because I have listened to their broadcast of "Polaris" a couple times, too.

Fuck yes dude The Tempest kicks so much ass. Man. Although at times it's like you can actually hear Cyndia Sieden's vocal chords shredding themselves, and you physically sit there cringing and you're like Ades why are you doing this to her man, I hope you promised to pay for her inevitable surgery

[edison]

So this was last week - guess I didn't do a whole lot of computer listening:

1 Lambchop 19
This is one listen to the first part of the career mix I posted the other day, which I'm pretty happy with (not to toot my own horn or anything). I saw them in Karlsruhe last Wednesday and they were very good as usual, although I l did leave with three minor regrets/complaints: 1) I missed William Tyler (a string section would have been nice, too, but they did a good job reworking the arrangements) 2) I also want to see "rock Lambchop" one day - aka the kind of line-up that played the Merge festival and brought down the house, but this was pretty much the opposite of that (all slow and quiet songs except for "Up With People", pretty much everything acoustic) 3) It worked more or less, but I'm not a big fan of the "first, we play our entire new album, then we throw in a couple of old songs and covers at the end" approach to their setlist. Both covers (Brian Wilson's "Guess I'm Dumb" and Bob Dylan's "I Threw It All Away) were the lowlights of the set and could have been replaced by far greater songs, starting with "The Gettysburg Address", the only song on the written setlist that wasn't played! But there was a magnificent version of "My Blue Wave", so, you know, can't stay mad at them for that.

2 Odonis Odonis11
Checked this out of curiosity - it's a Toronto punk band, I think, that's playing here in late April. I can't say I remember much after one listen, but it sounded fine and I'll try to go and see them.

3 Bowerbirds 8
New record - Depending on my mood I'll find this band very enjoyable or grating - I'm not quite sure where I stand on this.

4 Machinefabriek 6
This must have been my first listen to the new one, Colour Tales, which I ended up getting in the mail last week after it was delayed for a couple of months. Though a full length album it doesn't sound like a likely career highlight in the way that Dauw and Marijn did, but still plenty intriguing, with some unexpected sounds (did I hear drums?) that I'll be looking forward to investigating further soon...

4 Robert Pollard 6
Sampled Mouseman Cloud on Spotify - seemed unremarkable (nothing bad, but nothing really good either), but I'll wait for more detailed expertise in the GBV thread, I suppose.

6 The Men 3

7 Chairlift 2

7 Grimes 2
This was also a "let's check this out to see if I want to go the live show" thing, but as the number of plays attests I found myself quickly put off by her voice and aesthetics. I'll try to listen to the entire album some other time to make sure I'm okay with not going, though. (Opening band for her show is Doldrums, is that worth checking out?)

9 Giant Giant Sand 1
One listen for a preview track of the forthcoming album of the giant version of Giant Sand - a song I heard twice last year when I saw a Howe solo set and a band set in a festival, but which sounds much better here with the horn section and the fuller arrangements. Davy, in case you missed this: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-download-giant-sand-becomes-giant-giant-sand-on-forever-and-a-day-20120330

9 The Ex 1

9 Xiu Xiu 1
Not like you would guess from this, but Always is by far my most listened to (new) album of the year at this point. Pretty much every song is great, and there's an amazing wealth of detail in the lyrics, arrangements and production (courtesy of Greg Saunier) - my favorite is "Smear The Queen", the duet with Carla Bozulich. I saw them live a little while ago for the first time - though the venue was woefully unsuited to them (a small photography gallery in which dozens of people were cramped in a very tiny space, where you could see nothing of the band if you weren't standing right in front of them), it was still a pretty intense experience.

[Nick Ink]

1 Daphne Oram 65
This was all from the Oram Tapes Vol.1. A consistently brilliant and trippy exploration of synthesised sound that still feels kind of subversive today.
2 Machinefabriek 39
This was mostly the new Colour Tones release that edison talked about. Of course, it's excellent, but also a bit of a departure with a lot more variation and structure than most of his releases. I also listened to the very long 15/15 piece a couple of times.
3 Claro Intelecto 35
Partly the recent Second Blood ep, and partly the new album, out on Delsin later this month. I've loved Claro Intelecto since his Neurofibro LP on Modern Love in 2004, and this new stuff is fantastic - cavernous production with lots of pretty synth pads and string sweeps. I think killdozer should check it, maybe BAoH. The ep is definitely worth hearing too, I should add.
4 Stars of the Lid 24
Lots of Avec Laudenum going on recently.
5 LHF 19
Keepers Of The Light - this is two and a half hours of dubstep from a mysterious collective including Amen Ra, Double Helix, Low Density Matter and No Fixed Abode. There's a lot to take in here, but my first impressions were pretty good.
6 NHK'Koyxeи 18
This was a tip-off from Killdozersnakeboy, and it's really good. Groovy minimalist beats with spare use of painterly electronics. I seem to be listening to a lot of dance music this year.
7 The Focus Group 16
Hey Let Loose Your Love! My daughters like these Ghost Box albums actually - I think the cartoonish melodies and attention deficit magpieisms of it appeal to them.
8 Bob Marley & The Wailers 15
Nester's been in regular rotation the last few months. Those 5 albums between 73 and 77 are kind of perfect really.
9 King Midas Sound 13
I quite often come back to this album from a couple of years ago. It has an atmosphere all of its own.
10 Trixie Smith 12
20s blues about sexual politics, domestic abuse, labour rights and drugs, and the first recorded instance of the phrase "rock and roll".

[mountmccabe]

   7t) Thomas Adès - 18 This was mostly The Tempest, which is part of the Met's 2012-13 season what got announced a month ago. If last.fm captured streams from NYPhil's app this would be a couple spots up because I have listened to their broadcast of "Polaris" a couple times, too.

Fuck yes dude The Tempest kicks so much ass. Man. Although at times it's like you can actually hear Cyndia Sieden's vocal chords shredding themselves, and you physically sit there cringing and you're like Ades why are you doing this to her man, I hope you promised to pay for her inevitable surgery

Haha, yeah, that is some amazing singing. I see a lot more Ades scrobbles in my future as New York City Opera is presenting a new production of Powder Her Face in February 2013.

[mountmccabe]

I will do this again, showing my last month


1. Richard Wagner - 94 I have been listening a lot before seeing the Ring Cycle, which started on Saturday.

2. Ludwig van Beethoven - 34. This is just the Diabelli Variations, one time through. Though I did stream a few symphonies via the NYPO app from their Modern Beethoven Festival with David Zinman. His approach works great with the (in my mind) lesser sypmhonies, the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 8th... but his 3rd and even most of that 7th left me flat. It's crazy to think, my classical music listening took off the summer of 1997 when I was staying at my friend's house for summer break and listening to his CDs and came across C. Kleiber conducting LvB's 5th and 7th. There are so many CDs - even with performances of those same symphonies - that could've been there and who knows where I would be now.

3. Screaming Females - 28. Their new one, Ugly is fantastic

4. Afghan Whigs - 25. Probably not seeing them at ATP but they are playing an NYC date so I am excited.

5t. Johann Sebastian Bach - 23. I added a few of the English Suites (played by Gould) to my bus listening.

5t. John Adams - 23 - I finally got a copy of The Death of Klinghoffer and have been working my way into it. (And the ENO co-pro should be coming to the Met for 2013-14.)

5t. M.I.A. - 23. I really have no explanation for this. Not knocking M.I.A. but I can't remember this at all.

8. The Tet Holiday - 22. My friend in SF's band; these plays are almost all from their new demos.

9t. The Dandy Warhols - 21 They are playing some shows again and they are awesome.

9t. The Magnetic Fields - 21 They have a lot of songs about the moon.

9t. Erin McKeown - 21 Another upcoming show; she is playing as part of the Roots of American Music Festival via Lincoln Center Out of Doors in August.

[Nick Ink]

I will do this again, showing my last month

Good idea. Me too.

1 Actress 115
'R.I.P' - one of my favourite electronic records this year. A few soundcloud clips can be found here.
2 Karen Dalton 92
'1966' - a new discovery. This is all from '1966', a collection of home recordings. Apparently, she hated the studio, and whilst I've dug up a couple of other releases, I'm a bit wary of where to go next. Anyone in the know on Karen Dalton? Where's Andrew when I need him?
3 Black Dice 74
The new one - at first, I wasn't sure, but now I'm a convert. Every single person I know IRL who's heard it thinks it's utter garbage, and yet, in furtive, solitary moments I find myself hiding in bushes or lurking on towpaths, sticking the oily earbuds into my grimy ears and closing my gummy eyes for the pleasure off one more dirty liaison with 'Mr.Impossible'.
4 Steinbrüchel & Cory Allen 42
'Seam' - One of the best ambient releases this year. Another one is 'Two + Twenty Two' by Cory Allen & Marcus Fischer, so, a good year for Cory Allen really.
5 Gareth Dickson 40
Hey edison - did you go to see this fellow?
6 NHK'Koyxeи 30
'Dance Classics Vol.1' - another one of the albums of the year so far, and full of addictively odd skittering beats and squirming organs (now there's a band name!)
7 Machinefabriek 29
'Colour Tones' - pieces "based on the colour themed fairy tales of Latvian writer Imants Ziedonis", apparently, and very nice they are too. 'Red' and 'Blue' are streaming over here
8 Shackleton 23
'Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs' - these plays are all in the last couple of days. I haven't really got my head around this album yet - it's vast, but I really like what I've heard, especially the 'Music For The Quiet Hour' disc, which is a total trip.
9 The Congos 21
'Heart Of The Congos' - this is a family favourite chez Ink right now - "You keep on knocking but you can't come in!"
10 The Cure 19
See above - the girls still beg me to play their self-curated Cure mix on a regular basis. I might have to put 'Carnage Visors' on next time just to put an end to it.
11) Roy Montgomery 19
Sometimes you need a bit of Roy, don't you? Just not those tracks he sings on maybe.

[elpollodiablo]

Obligatory photo of Black Dice show

[nicoinfurs]

1   The Mountain Goats    109
2   Joanna Newsom    48
Rediscovered Ys.
3   Bardo Pond    34
4   Beastie Boys    32
5   Big Star    24
Somehow Big Star always end up in my weekly charts. Always.
6   Repulsion    19
7   The Locust    18
Stumbled on their famous "vocal warmup" video on YouTube and felt like putting the Peel Sessions on again.
8   Akira Yamaoka    17
Listening to the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack to make up for the fact that I cant play the actual game because of exams.
9   Daniel Johnston    16
9   Akron/Family.           16   

[edison]

5 Gareth Dickson 40
Hey edison - did you go to see this fellow?

Not yet! It's on May 22. I should get myself more acquainted with the album.