Monday, December 12, 2005  11:05 am 

some nice 2005 albums according to 1FG & 20JFS2

Ok, no tops or anything, just a lil’ list of things that we enjoyed this year…

-The Animal Collective- Feels (you listened Grass here and can enjoy Purple Bottle at Kill All Artists and Banshee Beat at Motel de Moka).

-Black Dice- Broken Ear Records (the DFA remix of Smiling Off, one of the tunes of the year, which we posted some time ago, can be found with The Man Who Stepped Into yesterday)

Black Mountain- Black Mountain (S2FG doesn’t agree on this one, make up yr mind by listening to Modern Music at Revolution in the Head)

-Bonny Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney- Superwolf (their ace cover version of getting jiggy while singing the national anthem R. Kelly can be enjoyed at suckapants)

-Burning Star Core- The Very Heart of the World (go there in this own blog)

-Caribou- The Milk of Human Kindness (Angel Twenty has up Brahminy Kite, and really didn’t like it, we did though)

-Coachwhips- Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger minge (just the name deserves a prize, they rocked out till they were no more, I Made A Bomb explodes at Vinyl Mine)

-Gang Gang Dance- God’s Money (can’t find anything from this haunted album out there, but enjoy untitled 1 from Revival of the Shittest at Unsound)

-Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom- Days of Mars (Black Spring is at the mighty Bumrocks if you’re wondering what all the fuss is about).

-Isolee- Wearemonster (we posted My Hi Matic in the olden days, check it out now at Can You See the Sunset from the Southside)

-Jackson and His Computer band- Smash (Robot it at Siart with TV Dogs)

-LCD Soundsystem- S/T (the definitive hit Disco Infiltrator can be danced at Badmington Stamps)

-Lightning Bolt- Hypermagic Mountain (they terrorised us with Dead Cowboy, which we posted back in the days, 2 Morro Morro land, which opens the album and slashes the dancefloor, is up there in Can You See The Sunset from the Southside )

*interlude 1*

Which brings us to Load Records, ah, Load Records, remember what we said about ‘em…Load make us horny with an adventurous and fiercely uncompromising musical remit that has room for the post-D&D heavy metal of lightning bolt and the unabashed noise of Prurient, check out the Native american enraged psycherock of the Usaisamonster (another of our albums of the year), Hospital’s devolutionist eel garage, Coughs’ no wave industrial ecologism, death metal jazz by Noxagt and Ultralyd, ah man, Load’s gotta be the best label of 2005 (we posted most of these). They also released recently Kites’ astonishing ‘From the Peace Trials’, which is early clicks and cuts wolf eyes meets stoner folk, truly mindbending and beautiful, a nice summary of the stuff that makes yr humble jazzfunkgreats warm in the belly and light in the head.

Thanks Load!!

We were going to post ‘Something About America’, a breathtakingly spaced piece of accoustic folk with a title that could also be the political summary of another bloody year, but you can find it for free (thanks again Load!) at their page,

Kites- Something About America

So instead will go for another tune which represents the savage downright painful face of this album…stabbed in face? nah. Exploded (warning, this ain’t for the faint hearted).

Kites- Exploded Face

-M.I.A.- Arular (Check out Hombre at Said the Gramophone)

-Mount Eerie- No Flashlight (breathtakingly beautiful The Universe is Shown in You Ain’t No Picasso )

*Interlude 2*

Phil Elverum’s gotta win the title to busiest man of the year (doing nice things, there’s a whole buncha motherfuckers who wont take a break from messing stuff up but we won’t even bother naming them, the motherfuckers), he not only released the beautiful album we have picked for this lil’ list, but also ‘Singers’, ‘The Drums of No Flashlight’ (not sure if this is quite out yet, Colin from Edgeworld doesn’t think so), and ‘11 old songs’, which is basically a collection of Mt. Eerie goes lo-fi drum machine and electronic melodies, quite lush I must say, and as wonderfully packaged as ever.

Mount Eerie- Great Ghosts

Actually it reminds me a bit of some of the lovely sounds that charismatic prince Simon Bookish told his stories about train wrecks and dwarfs and channel 4 documentaries over at the NOG Gallery in Brick Lane last saturday (I was in London for the weekend, seen?), very much looking forward to his album next year.

-Mu- Out of Breach (Manchester’s Revenge) (that hit Paris Hilton is available, again, at Moistworks)

-Ninja High School- Young Adults Against Suicide

*Interlude 3*

Ninja High School could well have released the most fun record of the year, a banging collection of old school lo-fi indie party tunes in which the Avalanches breakdance with Les Georges Leningrad, and the Beastie Boys get drunk and end up doing the calypso, we posted ‘em first in the olden days, we knew they were great, we suspected they were gonna be big, this version of it’s Alright to Fight included in a 7” they released in the Tomlab alphabet series, which could only be defined as ‘distorted reggaeton’ should rock any new year party worth it’s salt, it’s drugs or its whatevr. The fact that despite the fact I hate reggaeton with all my nicotine contaminated guts this track rocks is a demonstration of this band’s greatness the witness. Fitness.

Ninja High School- It’s Alright to Fight 7′ version

-Oneida- The Wedding (August Morning Haze is up there in Large Hearted Boy)

-Panico- Panico (Tigersushi gets down with South American punk, and this pops it’s pogoing head up, dance floor killers all over One Louder has Transpiralo up)

-Sufjan Stevens- Come On Feel the Illinoise (Beautiful Casimir Pulanski Day at Said the Gramophone)

-Test Icicles- For Screening Purposes Only (This time last year Genuine Guy a review of one of 20JFs2’s favourite live acts we never thought anyone would be foolish enough to take on, but bloggers have taken them to their ipod everywhere from Music For Robots, Central Village, Razorblade Runner, Big Stereo and Last Sound of The Summer)

-The Usaisamonster- Wohaw (Riff monster slays it at the Load Records sounds page )

-Vitalic- OK Cowboy (listen to My Friend Dario at Moistworks )

Best mix of the year goes to those two gentlemen Twitch and Wilkes aka Optimo DJs for the mindblowing Psyche Out. They have also made us bounce like motherfuckers in a couple of parties, looking forward to some more next year.

Best comp of the jahre goes to Mr. Lux Interior’s (best radio deejay ever, you should check out his yelping, yelling and brzzzzing) Radio Cramps Purple Knif Show, a collection of bizarro garage, surf, lounge and generally weird stuff which, for the way it sounds in most on the cases, must have been produced by serious nutcases on speed in their toilets, and is of course even better for it, for example check out this track by Sam Space and the Cadets, which seems to describe some weird alien encounter between high schools earthlings and Alvin and the Squirrels, we’ll probably play it in our new year party while we sit around sipping from our cocktails trying to look cool (we’ll look sorry afterwards).

Sam Space and the Cadets- Take me to the leader cha cha cha

This was originally recorded in 1984 and recently re-released by the legendary skydog records label. People don’t make music like this these days man.

Which makes me remember, later this week we’ll be publishing a list of top re-releases of the year according to Lord Nuneaton Savage…but this is enough for now…have a nice beginning of the week folks!

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