Happy New Year! 2011 in music

[grace_fully]

ooh boy i have not been around at all. just in the nick of time -- i wanted to share a bunch of great albums that came out this year. i spent a lot of time in my car this year and listened to a LOT of stuff. oddly, my favorites are okkervil river, decemberists, my morning jacket, and m83 -- none of which i'd ever listened to before. all four of

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[big_heart_june]

[grace_fully]

HI JUUUNE. oh boy. do i miss you like what! happy new year, girlie, i hope things are going well and looking splendid!

[earthquakedream]

I so so so love your taste. Took Wilco, Florence, and Black Keys. ALSO A++ taste on The Decemberists, girl, that album is the fucking bomb, and Mariner's Revenge always makes me happy with how disturbing that shit is. I might take more music later, but for now I'm gonna roll around in what I have. ♥ Happy New Year, you!

[grace_fully]

OMFG by the time that song gets to its end i am like howling lyrics that do not even exist, it makes me so crazy. i have been trying to figure out what it even is? polka? some sort of hebrew bar mitzvah type deal? i don't know but it FEELS GOOD INSIDE

i have a few more albums to put up but my cd drive is no longer functioning so i might have to wait until i get an external. i have to say i really really really love m83. it is not at ALL what i gravitate toward but i really just respect it so much that i love to listen to it too. if that makes sense.

happy new year, meg!

[earthquakedream]

that's how SO MANY decemberists songs make me feel. i went to a concert a couple years ago, before they released the hazards of love, and listening to the culling of the fold for the first time made me fucking crazy with glee. he was climbing up this rope ladder on the side of the stage and hanging off and singing so fucking beautifully i just wanted to die. i will never forget what an awesome experience that was, even though my sister was being a spoiled little brat through the whole thing.

okay not only is that song fucking amazing it makes me want to write fic based off it. uuuugh I LOVE. so downloading m83 next :D

i hope you get the CD drive thing figured out soon because WE ALL NEED MORE GOOD MUSIC. you're the coolest.

[lexzilla]

LOL you are me with Mariners Revenge! Although that whole album is pretty damn perfect and my favourite song on it changes every other week <3

[grace_fully]

SAME! lately i have been listening to "we both go down" on repeat because WHAT. the beauty. ugh. i feel so silly that i've only just started listening to these guys -- but ain't it the way, sometimes?

[dr_ducktator]

Bad. Ass. Thank you.

[grace_fully]

haha you are welcome! if you like 80s ish sounds try m83. it's like if fleet foxes were an 80s band. i am SO OBSESSED. hardcore rec. i posted a youtube vid higher in the comments. nyg.

[dr_ducktator]

I have an m83 album "Before the Dawn" but haven't had a chance to listen beyond a cursory go.

[shoelacedreamer]

Oh goodness, THANK YOU for this musical bounty! Most of these are albums that I dawdled on purchasing and so this post feels like Christmas all over again. :)

I hope you're having a lovely New Year thus far.

[grace_fully]

you are welcome! i love to share and yap about music and i wish i had more time for it.

only a couple days in and the new year is doing its restoring-hope thing, so yay! hope you are starting off fresh and frisky as well ;)

[shoelacedreamer]

I've been really out of the loop with music this year--point of fact, I only heard about the Tegan & Sara Con demos album when you mentioned it in this post. I kind of wish I still worked at my local indie book/music store, because I was much more up to date with the new stuff.

I'm currently loving the Black Keys album, so thank you again!