Best NON-Metal Albums of 2010

[dorian gray]

Me too

 

[lurch70]

me three, he's like Dylan with a facial tick

 

[Disgustipated]

At the risk of sounding like a total fan boy, I'm very much happy that Liddiard is making an impression on you blokes. He is up there with the best songwriters of today, as far as I'm concerned. This is a nice little bit of background info for the album:

Australia's most celebrated contemporary songwriter has recorded his debut solo album. For the past ten years, Gareth Liddiard has been the driving creative force behind Australian Music Prize-winning band The Drones and a string of modern classics including 'I Don't Ever Want To Change', 'Sixteen Straws' and 'Shark-Fin Blues' - named the greatest Australian song ever written by a panel of musicians polled by Triple J. Recorded in an isolated mansion thirty minutes outside Yass, in country New South Wales, Strange Tourist captures Liddiard at his most naked, and his most explosive. Armed with just a guitar and a bottle of whisky, he makes surreal stories of tightrope walkers, down and outers, suicidal Japanese salary men and suburban radicals come alive like no one else could. Liddiard's interest in Australian history and folklore also makes a return on Strange Tourist, but this time it's mixed with a uniquely incisive take on current affairs and politics. The record contains one of his richest and most controversial songs to date, 'The Radicalisation Of D', loosely inspired by the incarceration of David Hicks in Guantanamo Bay detention camp in 2001. Recorded with another graduate of the Australian Music Prize, Burke Reid (the producer behind 2007 winner The Mess Hall's Devils Elbow and The Drones' fourth album Havilah), Strange Tourist is the latest instalment from one of Australia's most talented poets.

I seriously can't get enough of the album and I have no shame in promoting it so much. Everyone who hasn't, LISTEN TO IT FER FUCK'S SAKE. Then when you become obsessed with it, listen to The Drones, and become ever more obsessed with the man.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Goin' to see Sufjan Stevens tonight in Boston @ The Orpheum Theatre.


That Gareth Liddiard album is amazing. It's supplanted everything else as my AOTY now.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

JULIAN LYNCH - Mare....

....my AOTY thus far.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Ive been meaning to check that out.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Maybe not my #1 per se, but def top 5. And Tame Impala is up there too.

A lot of "really good" albums released this year but I have yet to hear something that completely kicks my dick in (but that's the way it usually is).

 

[Disgustipated]

Tame Impala won the J Award for Australian album of the year. Deservedly so. Did you end up seeing them, Dicky Boy?

 

[Krilons Resa]

 

[Disgustipated]

I just voted in the Triple J Hottest 100, and apparently these are my favourite 10 songs of 2010:

Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Interpol - Barricade
Kanye West - Monster {Ft. JAY-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver}
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl - Somebody To Love Me {Ft. Boy George & Andrew Wyatt}
Spoon - The Mystery Zone
Sufjan Stevens - I Walked
Tame Impala - The Bold Arrow Of Time
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

Although I did as principle decide to only vote for one song of each artist. More Sufjan would have been there. And Liddiard. And I'm fairly sure that if I could vote again now, only two or three of those songs would stay the same.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Top songs? Ehhhhhh, let's give it a shot.....

BROKEN BELLS - The High Road (probably my fave)
GORILLAZ - Stylo
TORO Y MOI - Still Sound
BALAM ACAB - Regret Making Mistakes
KANYE WEST - Monster (have every word of this memorized)
SHEARWATER - Hidden Lakes
ALCEST - Solar Song
PRINCE RAMA - Lightening Fossil
THE NATIONAL - England
MATTHEW DEAR - Little People (Black City)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - I Can Change
DUM DUM GIRLS - Rest Of Our Lives
DUM DUM GIRLS - Jail La La (catchy as FUCK)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Mr. Fingers
SLEIGH BELLS - Rill Rill
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - Round And Round
ZOLA JESUS - I Can't Stand
DEERHUNTER - Revival
LIL WAYNE - Six Foot Seven Foot
TOBACCO - Fresh Hex


Druggy hipster shit, basically....

 

[Krilons Resa]

Lil Wayne?

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Love that croaky rasp of his.

But mostly I dig that beat. THAT BEAT.

 

[MFJ]

Love that croaky rasp of his.

But mostly I dig that beat. THAT BEAT.

wayne is one fugly-ass motherfuggler

 

[rms]

who else is digging the new against nature's? I love all 3 this year, fucking awesome music

 

[Disgustipated]

Top songs? Ehhhhhh, let's give it a shot.....

*Top songs that were on this shortlist, anyway.

 

[Krilons Resa]

This chick is fucking amazing.

 

[Krilons Resa]

 

[Krilons Resa]

 

[Krilons Resa]

I'm gonna have to break the news to my wife that I'm in love with another woman.