Rate the last album(s) you listened to

[Vastardikai]

King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists
9-10

How the fuck do you take an Acoustic Guitar and make it heavy? Then again, this is the front man of the Melvins, who helped pioneer Grunge and Sludge Metal. He does whatever the hell he WANTS to do.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Smiths - The Sound of... 8/10

I still think Morrissey is a tosser, but the Smiths have got some tunes.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Shivkumar Sharma - A Morning Raga Gurjari Todi 8/10
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Ali Akbar Kahn/L. Subramaniam - Duet 9/10
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century 8/10
Xenia Pestova/Pascal Meyer/Jan Panis - Stockhausen: Mantra 7/10

[mitch_h]

Zig Zags - Zig Zags - Cool album, thrashy garage rock, Ty Segall crossed with Motorhead.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations 8/10
Ravi Shankar - A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga 8.5/10
Tapiola Sinfonietta/Stefan Asbury/Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies No. 1-3 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Duhks - Beyond the Blue 7.5/10 (I need more time to really digest the record, but I like it)

Nikhil Banerjee - KPFA Berkeley 1967 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Madras 1964 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Patdip/Pahadi Dhun 8.5/10
Kala Ramnath - Touching Air 8/10
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers! 8/10
Wiener Symphoniker/Vladimir Fedoseyev - Weinberg: Requiem 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Trio Wanderer - Saint-Saens: Piano Trios 1 and 2 7.5/10
Black Prairie - Fortune 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Zakir Hussain/Ustad Alla Rakha - Tabla Duet: Unique Tradition - Rare Combination 8/10

Down - Purple EP Part 2 7.5/10
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' 7/10

[el bobbo]

I am listening to the new Jenny Lewis album "The Voyager" because I am a woman on her period. I give the album 9/10 only because I was pissed off at my boyfriend while listening to it.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Hilary Hahn - Bach: Partitas for Solo Violin 9/10
Ali Akbar Khan - Signature Series Vol. 2 8.5/10
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager 8.5/10

[Sepholio]

Godsmack - 1000hp 8.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Florestan Trio - Dvorak: Piano Trios Op. 65 and Op. 90 8/10
Vladimir Ashkenazy/Georg Solti/CSO - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos 8.5/10

[el bobbo]

Spoon - They Want my Soul. 9.3/10

[The Condor]

Yesterdays- Pennywise 7.7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

LaSalle Quartet - Schoenberg/Berg/Webern/Zemlinsky: Complete String Quartets 8/10

King Crimson - Red 7.5/10 (it loses .5 for vocal tracks)

[The Mask]

Red is a classic, even if I only ever listened to it once.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I have to say, you can really hear how Tool and bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have been influenced by King Crimson. When you listen to Frame by Frame on Discipline, you can hear the kind of intricate interplay that Tool have in their songs, and on One More Red Nightmare, off Red, you can hear where SGM stole their sound.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Ramnad Krishnan: Vidwan - Music of South India 6.5/10

I just can't get into it.

[KIRA]

Tom Waits- Blood Money 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Vasily Petrenko/RLPO - Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 6/No. 12 7.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

People seem to have been neglecting this thread during my hiatus, so here are a few of the albums I've been listening to:

Nasum - Helvete 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Afternoon Ragas 8/10
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft 8.3/10
Weather Report - Weather Report (1971) 7.5/10
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come 7.9/10
King Crimson - Lark's tongue in Aspic 8/10
Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem 8/10

[The Mask]

Love teen town

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Steve Earle - I Feel Alright 7/10
Mamani Keita - Kanou 7.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Finally finished:

Gyorgy Ligeti - The Ligeti Project (5 CD boxset) 7.9/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3 8.9/10

I really like it, but something stops me from giving it a 9 or more. I'm definitely going to buy his other self-titled albums and So.

[Fignuts]

Jaz Coleman & London Philharmonic Orchestra- Pink Floyd Symphonic-

10/10

Absolutely fucking gorgeous. If you have any love for Pink Floyd at all, get this shit now.

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[El Vaquero de Infierno]

OMD - Architecture and Morality 8/10
Revocation - Existence is Futile 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain 7.5/10
Ali Akbar Khan and Asha Bhosle - Legacy: 16th-18th Century Music From India 7.9/10

[The Mask]

Niche market for that last one

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

That is how I roll: Esoteric, Eclectic, Awesome.

[The Condor]

Bad Religion- No Control: 9.4/10

Amazing punk album

[The Condor]

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog- Come Poop With Me: 7.6/10

Certainly an acquired taste and only for fans of the character from his NBC Conan days. I like it.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Mina - Il Cielo in una Stanza 7/10

[Clerk]

Never heard about them albums. Must be how irrelevant they are

[NoyaPerez20]

Teddy Thompson - Separate Ways

Pretty good British folk songs. Cheered me up often when I had a bad mood.

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60YyMExsh8

[Blue Demon]

Pink Floyd - The Endless River 7.5/10

Not bad, but I was hoping for better. Maybe I was hoping for too much. :-\

[Fignuts]

Bush - The Sea of Memories 7/10

Best album since Sixteen Stone, imo.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky 7.5/10
I doesn't touch Jane Doe or their subsequent albums.

King Crimson - Beat 7/10
Not as good as Discipline or Red; its immediate predecessors.

Prince - 1999 8/10

Machine Head - Unto the Locust 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Insomnium - Across the Dark 8/10
Boris - Smile (Japanese version) 7.8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 7/10
Blonde Redhead - Barragan 7/10
Goldner String Quartet/Piers Lane - Pierne: Piano Quintet in E Minor/Vierne: String Quartet in D Minor 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World 7.5/10
Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas 9/10
Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov - Carl Maria von Weber: Sonatas for Piano and Violin/Piano Quartet 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco De Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco Live 8.5/10
Peter Gabriel - So 8.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Dr. John, the Night Tripper - Gris-gris 7.5/10
Punch brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues 7.9/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Replacements - Hootenanny 8/10
Not as good as Let it Be/Tim/Pleased to Meet Me, but it grows on me with every listen.

Matthew Good - White Light Rock & Roll Review 6.5/10
It doesn't touch Avalanche; in some ways, it is a disappointment.

[Chimera]

Forbidden Sin - Call to arms.

10/10. A monster of an album. My favorite track is no doubt "Civilian Casualties".

[Blonde Moment]

The Harvest by Stoned Jesus
8/10
Stoner/Doom Metal

Give a listen to it now at
https://stonedjesus.bandcamp.com/album/the-harvest
And throw some money at them later

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

L. Shankar with Zakir Hussain and Vikku Vinayakram - Raga Aberi 9/10
Slayer - Seasons in the 7.5/10

I think I need to listen to the Slayer album a bit more before I truly begin to appreciate it, but I've mostly been listening to Shankar.

[Shisen Kopf]

I disagree with your Slayer rating. I'm not a fan of that one 6/10 at best. Totally agree with the other rating though. Spot on. It's good to listen to while preparing chutney to go with the curry and Naan bread

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Don't hate, Shisen; Shankar is pretty bad arse.

Kate Bush - The Dreaming 7/10
Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 8/10
Toumani Diabate - Djelika 8/10
L. Shankar - Eternal Light 8.3/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Wayne Shorter - Juju 7.5/10
Parliament - Mothership Connection 7.5/10

[Shisen Kopf]

Adhyapayana Yashodhar -- "Curry me Home to Kolkata" 8/10 not as good as his acclaimed 1998 album "forehead dotting" but some of the best sitar/metal ever recorded

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Currently listening to Hariprasad Chaurasia's Four Dhuns record; check it out, Shisen, it is pretty good.

[GD]

@ElVaq RACIST!

[Shisen Kopf]

Currently listening to Hariprasad Chaurasia's Four Dhuns record; check it out, Shisen, it is pretty good.

Stop making up artists Vaq. Not cool. :'(

[Bobholly138]

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Pigface-FOOK 10 outta 10. Forgotten how great this was until the other day.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Four Dhuns 8.3/10
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis 7/10

[Shisen Kopf]

was listening to the soundtrack to the great Indian movie "Poo". Its kinda shitty.

http://imovies4you.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/poo-tamil-movie.jpg

[Blonde Moment]

Just started listening to some of Hariprasad Chaurasia music and I find it is something to listen to after a long stressful day at work. Thank you for making me aware of this artist.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

:cool:

[GD]

ElVaq is serious.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I've got a couple of Nikhil Banerjee albums coming soon, and this upcoming weekend I'm finally going to listen to my Ravi Shankar/Ali Akbar Khan live album; tasty shizzle, people.

Succumb to the raga!

[Shisen Kopf]

Boojie Babu - his new cd "Slur my pee" gets 6.5/10 Effort wasn't there like his other stuff.

[GD]

Drake's "retail mixtape" If You're Reading This It's Too Late - 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa 8/10
L. Subramaniam - Ragas Sarasvatipriya/Vasantapriya/Sivapriya 7.8/10
Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Galina Ustvolskaya 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan in Concert 1972 9/10
Kurt Masur/New York Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Symphony 13 "Babi Yar" 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Bjork - Vulnicura 8.5/10
Dr. John - Gumbo 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Amjad Ali Khan - Raga Bhairav 8/10
Rahul Sharma - Native Signs 8.5/10

[rad dggy dg]

I listened to One Direction LIVE

[rad dggy dg]

4/7 stars

[GD]

Thom Yorke's Tommorow's Modern Boxes - 7/10

It grows on me every time I listen to it. It's weird as fuck.

[The Condor]

The new Modest Mouse album...

Upon first listen I really liked it, but upon subsequent listens I have cooled to it. Track 6 is killer.

6.6/10

[Choviko Man]

nick carter im taking off 10/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Herbert von Karajan/Berliner Philharmoniker - Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies 9.5/10

Beethoven kicks yo' arse, son.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colours 7/10

Nikhil Banerjee - Raga Hemant 8.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Kyung Wha Chung/Krystian Zimerman - Strauss/Respighi: Violin Sonatas 8/10

Phil Collins - No Jacket Required 6.7/10
It has grown on me as I've continued to listen to it over the week, but it remains an above average album at best.

[Shisen Kopf]

No Jacket Required is an excellent album. Granted it is not as good as Face Value but it is excellent. 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Vilayat Khan - Raga Jaijaivanti 8/10
They Might Be Giants - Flood 7/10

[Fignuts]

Florence + The Machine- How Big How Blue How Beautiful 7/10

Still good, and still a blast to listen to Florence sing, but on the first spin, no songs really stuck out the way the tracks on previous albums did. Maybe I just need to relisten to it, but at the moment it's their weakest outing so far. But like I said, still well worth a listen if you liked their previous stuff.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Peter Gabriel - Us 8/10
Abdel Gadir Salim - Nujum Al-Lail (Stars of the Night) 7.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood 7.5/10
Panjabi MC - The Album 7.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Bageshri 8/10
Kiranpal Singh - Moments in Time 8/10
Patricia Petibon - Nouveau Monde 7.5/10


I've also been listening to Kiran Ahluwalia's Beyond Boundaries, but I only started yesterday so I'll wait until next Friday to pass judgement.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Kiran Ahluwalia - Beyond Boundaries 8/10
Clutch - Blast Tyrant 8/10
Steve Earle - El Corazon 7.5/10

[GD]

Wow! I haven't heard any new album since Drake's "retail mixtape".

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Wayne Shorter - The Soothsayer 8/10
Rush - Permanent Waves 8/10

[GD]

Dear El Vaq, do you (like) listen to music exclusively or in the background?

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

What now?

[GD]

Do you take out the time to listen to music exclusively or do you listen to it while attending other matters :?:

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

A bit of both. At the moment most of my listening is while I'm travelling back and forth to work, which usually takes around an hour each way on the bus.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Tarun Bhattacharya - Sargam 8.8/10

Cristina Branco - Post-Scriptum 8/10

Marc-Andre Hamelin - Dukas: Piano Sonata/Decaux: Clairs de Lune 7.7/10
I think I need to listen to last album several more time before I will begin to fully appreciate it.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Kala Ramnath - Kala 8/10
Om - Advaitic Songs 7/10

[GD]

iTunes Music and Spotify have made me lazy. I don't listen to entire albums anymore.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire 8/10
Jeff Beck - Truth 6.7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Wu Man - Chinese traditional and contemporary music for pipa and ensemble 8/10
Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang 7/10

[Miotch]

Dr. Dre - Compton: A Soundtrack

9/10

[GD]

Haven't a heard single album in a while :(

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Tarun Bhattacharya - Raga Basant Mukhari 8.5/10
Kuniko Kato - Iannis Xenakis 7.7/10

[GD]

Wonder if people still maintain music libraries on their computers with respect to streaming services...

[GD]

The New Classic by Cal Chuchesta - 100/10

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[GD]

For El Vaquero de Infierno

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[El Vaquero de Infierno]

What is not to love about Ravi Shankar? He's a musician that those not used to Indian classical music can listen to, as he plays like a rock musician (with serious swagger).

I bought another one of his albums, along with several other Indian classical albums, this week, including Aashish Khan and Allah Rakha's Live in Los Angeles 1968 record; I hadn't heard of Aashish Khan until a few nights ago, and he is pretty great on the Sarod, but he is the son of Ali Akbhar Khan, so he should be.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Torche - Harmonicraft 7.5/10
Chilingirian Quartet - McEwen: String Quartets Vol. 1 7.5/10

[Emperor Smeat]

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 4 out of 5

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Vilayat Khan - Live in Mumbai: Raga Jog Kauns 8/10
Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha - Live in Los Angeles 1968 8.7/10
Ella & Duke at the Cote D'Azur 7.7/10

[Blonde Moment]

Ghost BC - Meliora - 9/10 \m/
Awesome album

[Bobholly138]

For the first time since 2008 I bought a CD

Metallica Master of Puppets-The last Metallica album that is worth listening too. Too bad Burton died while they were on tour for this album. Since then they have been shit.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Amjad Ali Khan - Shuddh-Sarang/Piloo-Kafi 7.5/10

High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Kathryn Tickell and The Side - Kathryn Tickell and The Side 9/10

Ghazal - The Rain 8.3/10

[GD]

Attempting to listen to the curated playlists in the "For You" section of Apple Music. Apple has done a humongously bad job at the UI. Spotify's weekly discover playlists are ridiculously good.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Niyaz - Nine Heavens 8/10
Tarun Bhattacharya - The Exotic Santoor (Raga Charu Keshi) 8/10


Off to rock four Indian classical concerts, this weekend, in London. Awesome.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

It has been two weeks since I lasted posted my latest albums, so:

Miles Davis - Miles Smiles 7.5/10
Boris - Heavy Rocks (2011) 8/10
Shiv Kumar Sharma - Raga Puriya 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Misra Kafi 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 1 8.5/10

Ranjani and Gayatri - The Awakening 7.5/10

I think they are far better live than recorded.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Kiran Ahluwalia - Wanderlust 7.3/10
Aashish Khan and Zakir Hussain - Golden Strings of the Sarod 8.8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Dr Dre - 2001 6.9/10
This is the first time I have heard the album since I bought it the first time round in 2000; it has got some tunes, but it doesn't touch the Chronic and the OTT gangsta stuff borders on self-parody.

Camille Thomas and Beatrice Berrut - A Century of Russian Colours 8.5/10
Funkadelic - One Nation under a Groove 7.3/10

Geza Anda and the Camerata Academica des Salzburger Mozarteums - Mozart: The Piano Concertos (8 CDs) 9.3/10
I have been listening to a new CD each week for the past two months; tasty stuff. I don't have other recordings of these works (except concertos 20 and 21) to judge against, but I have no complaints regarding the performances.

[GD]

Listening to "To Pimp A Butterfly". So far so good. This d*ck ain't free...

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Spirit of India: Ravi Shankar Plays Ragas 8/10
Cynic - Focus 7/10

[OssMan]

COCKSURE BY LAURA STEVENSON... REALLY GOOD

[GD]

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 9/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Friedrich Kiel Complete Piano Quartets 8/10
Kayhan Kalhor/Erdal Erzincan - Kula Kulluk Yakisir Mi 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Shivkumar Sharma/Hariprasad Chaurasia - The Valley Recalls Vol. 2 8/10
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Zakir Hussain - Essence of Rhythm 8/10
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye 8/10
Maurizio Pollini/Quartetto Italiano - Brahms: Piano Quintet 8/10

[GD]

Miss cassettes

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[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Trap Them - Blissfucker 8.3/10
Niyaz - The Fourth Light 7.8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Shri Lalgudi Jayaraman - Violin 8.3/10
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence 7.7/10
Kiranpal Singh - Raga Shree 7.5/10
Patricia Petibon - La Belle Excentrique 8.5/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Clutch - Psychic Warfare 8.3/10
Sukshinder Shinda - Collaborations 7/10

[Schlomey]

Wilco - Star Wars - 8/10

Took me 3 listens to really get into this album and now it's finally clicked. Really great record with legs that makes you work for it.

[Locke]

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

I wasn't really impressed but I think I was supposed to be. I could never get over how I thought the title was inspired by that show Pimp My Ride with Xzibit.

[Locke]

El Vaquero de Infierno listens to a lot of music.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

You're damn right I do.

[GD]

Damn Spotify. Want to contribute to this thread.

[Schlomey]

Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere - 9/10

Quickly becoming one of my favorite albums to listen to in the morning over coffee. Acoustic/Folk boring white guy music yes but that's just me. If you like Ryan Adams you will without a doubt like this guy...If you don't like Ryan Adams (1. fuck you), then don't even bother.

[Locke]

Damn Spotify. Want to contribute to this thread.
What's holding you back?

[Locke]

"The New Release" by Primer 55. Someone gave this to me yesterday and it sucks. Too bad it's the only thing I have to listen to for the next week also.

[drave]

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The Sword Apocryphon - 9/10 - Easily one of the best albums I have recently heard. This is the first track I heard, and my "music in the morning".

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Shye Ben Tzur/Jonny Greenwood/The Rajasthan Express - Junun 7/10
Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Darbari Kanada 8/10
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues 8/10
Kishori Amonkar - Ragas Shuddh Kalyan/Suha 8/10
Kartik Seshadri - Sublime Raga(s) 8/10

[Schlomey]

I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty (9/10)

This album is pretty brilliant but sometimes can be muddled in its own self-misery. I can't tell if I should be taking his heartbreaking approach to songwriting as serious or as satire because on one song he is singing about hatred and intense personal feelings and the next song sounds like an absolute parody of itself (bored in the usa specifically)....

Notwithstanding, I love the album and I love that it makes me think even if at times I get disconnected due to his intensity.

[Schlomey]

Neko Case - The Worse Things Get The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You. --- This was a shockingly good and heartfelt. She sounds like an edgier mix of Tori Amos and Jenny Lewis. 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Neko Case - The Worse Things Get The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You. --- This was a shockingly good and heartfelt. She sounds like an edgier mix of Tori Amos and Jenny Lewis. 8/10

Check out her Fox Confessor Brings the Flood album; a cracking record. :cool:

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Ulcerate - Vermis 7/10

Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted 7.3/10
I prefer Dead Certificate and The Predator.

[Schlomey]

Shearwater - Jet Plane And Oxbow - 10/10

Lyrically and musically I think it's perfect (for me). Its very visual and expressive and brings loads of complexity. The lead singer sounds like a mix of The National and Morrissey. If you like The National check out this album. I've listened through this album about 10 times from start to finish over the last week and every time I hear it I feel something different and learn something about it. Good sign of a complex, smart album.

Hot Tracks: Only Child, Quiet Americans & Pale Kings

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Kathryn Tickell Band - Instrumental 8/10

Bahauddin Dagar - Raga Puriya Kalyan 7.3/10

[Schlomey]

Volcano Choir - Repave (2013) - 9/10

When my anxiety levels are at a high this is an album I'll be turning to. So peaceful and nearly perfect. Like Bon Iver.

[GD]

I am considering getting back into the vinyl game so that I can listen to entire albums again. Didn't someone make a thread about vinyl gear?

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Eric Dolphy - Last Date 8.5/10

Joanna Newsom - Divers 7.3/10

[GD]

Jesus, El Vaq. How do you find the time?


Side note: I've been listening to Ok Computer and Kid A on loop. Planning to revisit In Rainbows.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I have an hour+ commute to and from work, plus I listen to music at work when I'm not dealing with the public.

Find that time, Dave.

[GD]

Are you aware of Podcasts?

[Schlomey]

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago - 9/10

This album is really amazing. Mellow as fuck, but amazing. And just one dude doing all this shit in a cabin the woods. PrettyCool.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Tarun Bhattacharya - Transcendence 8/10
Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe - Lera Auerbach: 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano 8.3/10

[road doggy dogg]

Are you aware of Podcasts?

Why would he listen to podcasts when it's quite clear he is content listening to music instead?

[GD]

I don't know. Diversify his portfolio?

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I think my taste in music is diverse enough, without podcasts.

[road doggy dogg]

Against Me! - 23 Live Sex Acts: 9/10

was perusing the used CD store and saw this... didn't even know it was a thing. A lot better than Americans Abroad! imo, cranking it in my car felt like I was at an actual AM! show and it made me super want to go see them again and I love them

Walking is Still Honest fav song ever

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Rashid Khan - Khyal 8/10
Hariprasad Chaurasia - Rag Bhimpalasi 8/10
Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Djivan Gasparyan - I Will Not Be Sad In This World 8/10
Djivan Gasparyan - Moon Shines at Night 7.9/10

[Shisen Kopf]

I haven't liked Hariprasad Chaurasia since he sold out and went pop. 3/10

[GD]

In Color by Jamie xx - 8/10

[Schlomey]

Nada Surf - You Know Who You Are (2016) - Just released today March the 4th, 2016
9/10

This album tastes just like 1996. Stay with me. Every song falls into that unoffensive, middle of the road, could be on the radio, could be on any TV show soundtrack category...well I guess that is a lo of categories. But it just screams mid-to-late 90's. And of course that is why I love it.

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The Smiths - The Queen is Dead 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Aashish Khan - Sarod, The Sound of Mughal Court 8/10

[Shisen Kopf]

Aashish Khan---- Aashish Kabobin' 7/10. Good not great.

[Schlomey]

Brian Fallon - Painkillers (2016 solo album debut came out today 3/11/2016) 5/5

Ok here is the deal. I know a little bit of Gaslight Anthem stuff but I am not the super fan that knew I was listening to the front man's solo debut album this morning when I put on the new release list on Spotify. This new album just blew me away. I've been through it 3 times already today (and now back cataloging the Gaslight shit)....

Lyrically it has pockets of absolute brilliance where you hear a line that gets right in that sweet spot and you have to say...fuck...that is fucking good.

I say this album is 10% Ryan Adams Alt Country style and 90% good-era Bruce Springsteen sounding..vocally and with some of the instrumentation choices (I heard a damn xylophone a few times)....

I will say it is NOTHING like a Gaslight album minus the growling vocals of course. I love love love this album. It is easy, accessible, perfect for many moods and times of day...basically I am currently over the moon for it.

5/5 - album of the year so far for me.

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Zakir Hussain - Selects 8/10

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Ram Narayan - Ragas Alhaiya Bilaval and Mishra Bhairavi 8/10
Estrella Morente - My Songs and a Poem 7/10

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Emilia Amper - Trollfageln 7.8/10
Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff 7.5/10

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party - Love and Devotion (2CD) 7.8/10

[Schlomey]

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Call It What It Is (2016)
Grade: B-

[GD]

M3LL155X by FKA twigs - 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Deftones - Gore 8/10
Gaurav Mazumdar/Jayanthi Kumaresh - Walking Together 7/10

[Schlomey]

Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope - A-

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope - A-

If you haven't already, check out Regina "Soviet Kitsch" album. For me its her best album; its rawer than "Begin to Hope", so that is something to be mindful of when you first hear it.

[Schlomey]

I listened to Soviet Kitsch in part today as well as her latest release "cheap seats" ....i'm really getting in to her lately.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

N. Rajam - Radiant 7.5/10
Emily Portman - Coracle 7.5/10

I think with both I need to spend more time with them.

[Schlomey]

Eric Clapton - Pilgrim - 5/10 (not bad but that horrid-dated early 90s sound)
Eric Clapton - Back Home - 8/10
The Fratellis - Costello Music - 9/10

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Andrew Hill - Point of Departure 8.3/10
Ajoy Chakrabarty - Raga Khamaj 7/10

[GD]

Kill the Witch - Single by Radiohead - 8/10

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Jean-Louis Matinier/Marco Ambrosini - Inventio 8.5/10

The New Pornographers - Electric Version 7.5/10
I like it, but there is not enough Neko Case for me.

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Nils Okland Band - Kjolvatn 8/10
Kalyan Mukherjea - Raga Shuddh Kalyan 7.5/10

[GD]

A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead - 10/10

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Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi 8/10
Punch brothers - The Wireless (EP) 7.5/10
Zakir Hussain/Alla Rakha - Tabla Duet (Live album) 7.7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Wo Fat - The Black Code 8/10
Hariprasad Chaurasia - Rag Ahir Bhairav 7.5/10
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon 8.3/10
Gopal Shankar Misra - Out of Stillness 7/10
Anouar Brahem - Barzakh 8.5/10

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L. Shankar - Who's to know 8.8/10
All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates this Nature 7.5/10

[Shisen Kopf]

Milind Kapil Uppuluri Abhyagni Mukherjee Subhadra Meghashyam Gutala--Baati Days, Curry Nights 3.5/7 not spicy enough

[GD]

I found a couple of Indian Metal records from ze closet. Might give them a listen in the near future.

[Locke]

Blood Orange ~FREETOWN SOUND~

Recognized a KRS-One sample from the Ghetto Music Blueprint album. I kinda fell asleep during my listen and I don't think I recognized that the Hadron Collider song with Nelly Furtado on it that I got on a cassette at his show was on the album. I was really excited for this because I love everything that Dev Hynes has ever done. The album is long and I feel like I will have to listen to it at least 10 times before I start to "understand" it.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Gorguts - Obscura 7/10
Kaushiki Chakrabarty - Kaushiki 8/10

[Shisen Kopf]

Gorguts - Obscura 7/10
Kaushiki Chakrabarty - Kaushiki 8/10

Lol

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John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Tapes 8/10
Robert Randolph and his Family Band - Colorblind 6.5/10

[Rebirth]

New Nonpoint Album is tits. 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Spiro - Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow 6/10
Manilal Nag - Dawn Raga: Lalit 7.5/10

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Nails - You'll never be one of us 8/10
20 mins of untempered, unrelenting rage and aggression. Delicious.

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 9.5/10
Amazing.

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Sara Watkins - Young In All The Wrong Ways 7.5/10
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino 7/10
Adrian Belew - Twang Bar King 7.3/10

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Paco De Lucia - Fuente Y Caudal 8.7/10
Arve Henriksen - The Nature of Connections 7.5/10

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Gaza - He is never coming back 7.5/10
Tegan and Sara - Love you to death 7.7/10

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Kathryn Tickell - Debateable Lands 8/10
Sultan Khan and M.S. Gopalakrishnan - Raga Bhoop and Dhun 8/10

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Rokia Traore - Ne So 7.7/10
Seven Sisters of Sleep - Ezekiel's Hags 7.5/10

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Pete La Roca - Basra 8/10
Giuliano Carmignola - Haydn: Violin concertos 7/10

[Schlomey]

Banks & Steelz - Anything But Words
10/10
The lead singer of Interpol and the "head rap guy" from Wu Tang? Together? Fuck. Yes. Such a great album.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound 9.3/10
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks 9/10

It has been an awesome week of music.

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Devon Sproule - Don't Hurry for Heaven 7.7/10
Archie Shepp - Fire Music 7.3/10

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Nailbomb - Point Blank 8/10 (technically I've listened to it before, but that was 12+ years ago)

Dr. N. Ramani - Classical Karnatic Flute 8/10

Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan - The Wind 8/10

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Chilingirian Quartet - McEwen: String Quartets Vol. 2 7.7/10
James Brown - Payback 7/10

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Thord Svedlund/Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra - Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 7.5/10

Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz 7/10

[Outsider]

Green Day - Revolution Radio 7/10

Couple of standout tracks, a few good tracks, a couple of dull tracks.

[Shisen Kopf]

http://geekologie.com/2015/02/05/terrible-album-art.jpg

3.4/7

Needed more horns

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Francoise Hardy - La Question 8.5/10
Touche Amore - Stage Four 8.7/10
Grant Green - Green Street 7/10

[Shisen Kopf]

No, you've got it all wrong

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Hannah James - Jigdoll 8/10
Meshuggah - The Violent Reason of Sleep 7.7/10

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Dorothy Ashby - Afro-Harping 7/10
Budhaditya Mukherjee - Rag Ramkali/Rag Jhinjoti 8/10

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Trap Them - Crown Feral 7/10
Herbie Hancock - Crossings 8/10

[Anybody Thrilla]

Natas - Doyoubelievengod 7/10

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Peter Gabriel - Up 8/10
Lady Maisery - Cycle 8/10
Murray Perahia - Bach: Goldberg Variations 8.5/10

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Norma Jean - Polar Similar 7.5/10
Aksak Maboul - Un peu de l'ame des bandits 8.3/10

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Metallica - Hardwired...to self destruct 7.7/10
Laura Nyro - Eli and the thirteenth confession 7.5/10

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Meshuggah - I 7/10

Hindustani Classical Vocal 3CD boxset 8/10

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Yes - Close to the edge 8.7/10
Roxy Music - For your pleasure 8/10

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Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the yard 7.5/10
Don Cherry - Complete communion 7.5/10
Retrospect Trio - Henry Purcell: Ten sonatas in four parts 7.5/10

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Neil Young - On the Beach 8.5/10

[A.J.K]

would post mine but i know i'll get made fun of for my choices

[The Gooch]

Black Sabbath - Live Evil
Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio circa 1982 (Mob Rules Tour). Just awesome that RJD does his take on the old Ozzy Sabbath greats like Ironman, War Pigs, Black Sabbath and N.I.B.

Definite 9/10 Hard album to find unless you order through Amazon. Haven't checked if you can stream on YouTube.

[Seanny One Ball]

Michael Jackson - Dangerous

8/10

[Blonde Moment]

would post mine but i know i'll get made fun of for my choices

This about sharing music with fellow posters.
If they don't like it they just won't check it out.
It's cool

[A.J.K]

Blood On The Dance Floor - Epic, All the Rage, Bad Blood, Evolution, Let's Start a Riot, Anthem of the Outcast, Scissors, Cruel Pornography.

Jeffree Star - Beauty Killer

10/10

[Bobholly138]

Stereo MCs-Connected 6 outta 10
All I had from them was Connected. But found the CD for 50 cents. Not a bad album. Would work great for background music at a party.

RannSack-Live at the Days Inn in McComb MS-8 outta 10
From the late 90s this is another Mid MS classic rock cover band. Found this Cd at a junkstore and it looked so cheesy had to get it. Their cover of Funky Town is so bad it is great.

[Seanny One Ball]

Harry Chapin - Essentials 9/10

It's worth buying for W.O.L.D and 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas but it is a majestic album that takes your body and mind through just about every possible type of good mood.
Obviously Cat's In The Cradle is on there too but that's a given.

[Bobholly138]

Dead Kennedys-Frankenchrist 10/10

This was the DKs at their peak. Goons of Hazzard,Jock-o-rama,MTV get off the air and Stars and Stripes of Corruption are hardcore classics. Plus how can you not love an album that included a Giger poster of a landscape made of penis?

Only drawback is this album is one of the major reasons why the Parental warning stickers on records got started. FUck you Tipper fuck you with Merc's snack pack smelling midget cock.

[GD]

I am a bit surprised that y'all get the time to listen to albums in their entirety. I barely have the time to listen to new tracks.

[Swiss Ultimate]

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One of my favorite weird poppy indie albums of all time. 5/5

[Schlomey]

The Afghan Whigs - In Spades - 9/10
Brilliant new album. Buy it this coming Friday. I pre-ordered it from Sub Pop and they gave us the digital copy 2 weeks early. It is the fucking tits. Big'uns.

[Ezra]

The Avalanches. Where have you been all my life. :heart:

[Fignuts]

Radiohead- A moon shaped pool 9/10

Best album since OK Computer, imo

Metallica- hardwiref 5/10

Dunno, just sounded really generic. Nothing really grabbed me at all.

[GD]

What about In Rainbows? You can't possibly ignore one of the greatest Radiohead albums of all time.

[FakeLaser]

2017 releases:

Arca - Arca 6/10
Arcade Fire - Everything Now 4/10
Avey Tare - Eucalyptus 6/10
Aye Nako - Silver Haze 7.5/10
Blanck Mass - World Eater 7.5/10
Bonobo - Migration 8/10
Boris - Dear 7/10
Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder 7/10
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 6/10
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illustrations 7/10
Ex Eye - Ex Eye 7.5/10
Floating Points - Reflections/Mojave Desert 8/10
Forest Swords - Compassion 8/10
Future Islands - The Far Field 6/10
Great Grandpa - Plastic Cough 7.5/10
Guerilla Toss - GT ULTRA 7/10
Heaven In Her Arms - White Halo Cassette 8/10
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN 9/10
Laurel Halo - Dust 8/10
Meat Wave - The Incessant 6/10
Mike Cooper - Raft 9/10
Milk Music - Mystic 100's 6.5/10
Norska - Too Many Winters 7/10
Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One 9/10
Pallbearer - Heartless 8.5/10
Parlor Walls - Opposites 8/10
Pharmakon - Contact 8/10
Pile - A Hairshift of Purpose 7/10
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 9/10
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural 7/10
Shabazz Palaces - Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star 8/10
Sheer Mag - Need To Feel You Love 7/10
The Spirit of the Beehive - Pleasure Suck 7/10
Tall Friend - Tawl Friend 7.5/10
Toro y Moi - Boo Boo 7/10
Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy 8/10
Uniform - Wake In Fright 9.5/10
Vatican Shadow - Rubbish of the Floodwater 8/10
Washed Out - Mister Mellow 6/10
Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm 8/10
White Suns - Psychic Drift 8/10

[GD]

Radiohead - OKNOTOK 8/10
The xx - xx 7/10
Neutral Milk Hotel - in the Aeroplane Over the Sun 8/10
Death Grips - The Money Store 7/10
James Blake - The Color in Anything 7/10
Kendrick Lamar - Damn 8/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I've been listening to a lot of the stuff being posted on Stoned Meadow of Doom's youtube page (https://www.youtube.com/user/StonedMeadowOfDoom93), for the last couple of month. The new Elder album, Reflections of a Floating World, has been kicking my arse, for the past couple of weeks.

I have been listening to too many albums in the past 7-8 months to list them all, but a selection:

Varttina - Viena 8/10
Percival - Eiforr 8/10 (Witcher 3, hollah!)
Thor & Friends - self-titled 8/10
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops 7.5/10
Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity - 7/10
Elder - Dead Roots Stirring 8.5/10
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 9/10
Kansas - Leftoverture 7/10
Code Orange - I Am King 7.5/10
Chris Thile/Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer - Bach Trios 8/10
Kala Ramnath - Samwad 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Malgunji 8/10
Peter Gabriel - Security 8.7/10
Genesis - Duke 8/10
Genesis - Abacab 8.3/10
Phil Collins - Face Value 7.5/10
Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going 7/10
Cobalt - Slow Forever 7/10
Tigran Hamasyan - Luys I Luso 8/10
El Camarón de la Isla and Paco De Lucia - Cada Vez Que Nos Miramos 7/10
Rush - A Farewell to Kings 8.3/10
Lowrider - Ode to Io 8.5/10
Fejd - Storm 7/10

So many more....

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Sasquatch - III 7/10
Miles Davis - Nefertiti 7/10
Emilia Amper - Lux 7.7/10

[Schlomey]

MY TOP 9 ALBUMS OF AUGUST 2017:

9. Gogol Bordello - Seekers & Finders (Gypsy-Punk)
8. War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (Rock)
7. Tyler Childers - Purgatory (Country)
6. Brand New - Science Fiction (Emo Rock)
5. Steven Wilson - To The Bone (Rock)
4. Dead Leaves - Vultures (Emo Rock)
3. Randy Newman - Dark Matter (Pop)
2. The Accidentals - Odyssey (Pop-Rock-Folk)
1. Iron & Wine - Beast Epic (Folk - Singer Songwriter)

[Locke]

"Worry" by Jeff Rosenstock, great, A

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Cursive - Happy Hollow 8/10
Patrick Ball - Celtic Harp Vol. 1 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Truls Mork - CPE Bach Cello Concertos 7.5/10
Genesis - Invisible Touch 7.7/10

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Kuniko Kato - Bach: Solo Works For Marimba 7/10
Rick James - Come Get It 7/10

[Schlomey]

Looming - Seed
Officially comes out 9/29 but they are streaming it on SoundCloud.
9/10
I just love their sound. The female lead singer has a unique voice and can write a decent song.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Sun Ra - Supersonic Jazz 7.7/10
Talking Heads - Fear of Music 7/10
Yes - Fragile 8/10
Ram Narayan - Rag Shankara 7.5/10
Hall & Oates - Private Eyes 7.7/10

[Schlomey]

The new Margo Price album is streaming on NPR and I gotta say, I dislike modern country music..so much...especially "bro-rap country" like that kermit the frog sounding motherfucker Luke Bryan. Margo is TRADITIONAL country (which i love because it takes me back in time to the 80s and 90s in my house). The duet with Willie Nelson made me tear up..at work..like a legit boss haha.

Her first album was an A...this one is also an A...maybe A+ after a few more listens.



Also steaming is William Patrick Corgan - Ogilala. Billy...its fucking billy..stop being a douche. The album is also great. It is sparse, mellow, acoustic-piano stuff with some orchestral help. Surprisingly good. Solid B

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Sleep - Dopesmoker 7/10
Omnia - Naked Harp 8.3/10
Henry Cow - Unrest 7.5/10
Shubha Mudgal - India Mystica 7/10

[Impeccable]

So I moved to France and its like the late 90s / early 2000s has just hit here.

Listening to Indochine who are an angst / emo band. They were around in the 80s and changed their image in the late 2000s to go all emo, basing themselves off brit emo band Placebo. Their latest album, 13 is pretty decent. I'd give it 3.5 out of 5.

Also listening to a band called BB Brunes who remind me of the mid 2000s British indie scene. Their latest album is called Puzzle. I really like this one. 4 out of 5

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Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer - Bass & Mandolin 8/10
Black String - Mask Dance 7/10

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Black Label Society - Stronger than death 7/10
Trio Mediaeval - Aquilonis 8/10

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Converge - The Dusk In us 7.5/10
Eivor - Slor 7.7/10
Fallow - Trelu 8/10