a bunch of shit you don't want a cheapshot at an average nhl player and jaga jazzist

boy i wish animal collective would get their act together and release another 8 albums in the last year and a half

quick reviews of shit you should skip

golden ages - whatever these jerk offs released

...ok enough with the atmospheric background noise play some music
no?
just wanna dick around on the synth and do weird one man chorus vocals?
not gonna try are you?

ok well play your queer techno hymn for all your cool friends who havent heard sigur ros yet. 2/10

errors - come on down
intros in music need to fucking go away, they basically punish their audiences now with non musical noise just to try and set some sort of mood but i really feel like it just takes people out of the music to begin with just to get to the fucking music that they are trying to get over in the first place, its like a movie has a person come out to tell a quick backstory before the movie starts and everyone walks out on it because the guy is stuttering and making racist jokes, and it turns out theres a reason for it, because they just released another electronic beat music album that royksopp and i am a robot and proud made 10 times now, but instead of doing a good job of sounding like those bands, they decided to go with the hybrid angle and in doing so successfully figured out how to sound exactly like every other band that had their mind blown by eits. 3/10 if they got rid of the intro


hermelin - st,
oh good mercury program changed their name. and got a little spacey. but not enough to actually not sound exactly like they already did.

but at the very least sounding like the mercury program is a very good start and they did have a great long intro that went nowhere, and actually brought in a bit of math rock and spacey rock parts that fit in rather nicely in parts that i didn't see coming
overall a 5/10 for now, but out of all the albums i'm talking about this is by far the best, and its gotten me to listen to it 5 times now, and its growing on me. and i started this paragraph thinking i'd just keep calling them dopplegangerous rotters, but i'm actually compelled enough to upload this album, because in its inability to try anything new it actually highlighted quite a bit that works for a reason, because its catchy and its good.
i came across it on a blog very similar to ours, so i wouldn't be shocked if some of you already have this and read the first half of my shit summary and thought i'm a witless hack, but please take the time and realize i got tired of a shitload of bands before it was cool to admit to it, ie torche



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horse stories - november november singing indy country with a thom yorke voice won't fool me. and congrats on writing a sad album that even i couldn't get into during the winter when i'm a coinflip away from carving "brooks was here" into my wall and taking the ol' plunge. more like yawny prince billie, more like iron&stopwhining, more like jason homolina, more like ben folds up a tissue and uses it to whipe his tears. search it out if you thought you needed a prequel to long december by the counting crows. or if you're pacing around wishing coldplay would sound less happy. 2/10


ok and now for the band that doesn't deserve to be in this motley crew of poo

jaga jazzist - one armed bandit, ANOTHER INTRODUCTION!!! yessss, mercifully this one is only 20 seconds long and sounds like a les paul song, yeah i don't even know where i got that one from.
it sucks to lump this band in with all these others because of how inventive and great they've been over time, but whatever its my blog and i'll smear shit together how i want to, and boy did i.
if anyone knows jazz its most certainly norway, they practically invented the stuff. its nice to see that some norwegians don't just sulk around burning churches and soloing in the snow, not that there's anything wrong with that, its just that if everyone is vorndaaangin' it tends to lose its appeal.
anyways new jazz with a post rock feel that doesn't get tiring or sound repetitive even though it is and is constantly making you enjoy it. 9 member act of various instruments and none are any good at hockey, much like most of norway TAKE THAT Ole Kristian Tollefsen!!!(see pic)
electronic jazz with brass and vibraphones and all other shit that no one really wants to hear in a screamo act just to give it an odd identity. i sincerely hope you guys have heard them before and are just skipping over what i'm typing here in order to click the dl, because this could be the best album of 2010 and its only in the middle of the shittiest month known to man, february is so fucking awful it should have a boring ncaa basketball tournament in it.

also the album leaf released another thing, if anyone wants it let me know, otherwise i'm just never going to listen to it like i have with all their other works for no reason what so ever.


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