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Text: Top 10 LP’s of 2009

Beyond the first 3, it gets complicated.  It gets into albums that are great, but not perfect.  These first 3, are perfect.  If you want to know more about them, follow my tags, I’ve posted plenty from each of them this year.


  1. Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
    Going labelless allowed them to stretch out their progressive tendencies again.  Simultaneously, this is their most accessible and pop-hook-driven album.

  2. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
    There’s a cacophony of internet bloggers who’ve probably already told you plenty about Natasha Khan’s wonderful music.

  3. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
    French shoegazey post-punk black metal.  I’m surprised it exists, too.  Blending those influences was clearly such a feat that it tore the band apart just as they finished their first and only full-length.  Not to worry, the many echoes of this project will continue in the members’ other projects (Alcest, Les Discrets, Peste Noire, Lantlos), but this melting pot is perfect, possibly moreso for not being muddled by followup albums.
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fleetfootedfox 17 Dec Tags 6 Notes
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Kittens Ablaze - Strobelight

thesixtyone - a music adventure

fleetfootedfox 20 Aug Tags
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Eighty-one Seconds mix

(reposted in case you ran into password protection - fuck you very much, mediafire)

So here’s my response to YewKnee’s mix.  I changed the requirements, after Inky’s recommendation - my upper limit is the eponymous Eighty-one seconds.  That resulted in more Songs (less intro’s and outro’s) than the 60 second limit.  Well, I could’ve had more songs under the minute mark, but it would’ve swayed the mix heavily in the grindcore/powerviolence direction.  At 81 seconds, you get a pretty nice cross section of my musical taste.  Enjoy:

  1. Kittens Ablaze - Liarbird
  2. Coalesce - Where Satires Sour
  3. Why? - Deceived
  4. Mike Keneally - I Will
  5. AFI - Initiation
  6. Capsule (Florida) - Sepsis
  7. Capsule (Japan) - Runway
  8. Prefuse73 - Hairy Faces (Stress)
  9. Kid Koala - Page 42
  10. The Knife - The Cop
  11. Crom - The Nightbreed (reprise)
  12. Torche - Little Champion
  13. The Vandals - Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies
  14. Cloud Cult - It’s What You Need
  15. Monsters Everywhere - circles [reprise]
  16. Dredg - Stamp of Origin: Take a Look Around
  17. …And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead - An August Theme
  18. Mount Eerie - Do Not Be Afraid
  19. The Forms - Stel
  20. Death Cab For Cutie - Little Boxes
  21. Oh No Oh My - The Bike, Sir
  22. Týr - Grímur Á Miðalnesi
  23. Blacktusk - Witch’s Spell
  24. Melvins - Skweetis
  25. Army of Flying Robots - The Great Silver Jumpsuit Fiasco
  26. Tom Waits - Let Me Get Up On it
  27. Nine Inch Nails - A Violet Fluid
  28. The Kronos Quartet - Winter- Full Tense
  29. Arch Enemy - Demoniality
  30. 16 - Fucked for Life

Total Running Time: 29 minutes, 37 seconds

fleetfootedfox 25 Jul Tags
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On first listen to the “Hot Litter” EP, I thought Kittens Ablaze were silly, possibly a one-man-basement-band project.  They have a genius logo:

It wasn’t until SXSW that I realized that they’re actually a serious band, with 5 members playing multiple instruments each, and that the great songwriting isn’t haphazard or accidental.  They’re like a funner, punker version of The Arcade Fire, but that’s really not the description they deserve.  Just listen to them, dammit.

fleetfootedfox 2 Apr Tags
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