The Shiny New Album Thread

Priene said:

The Words That Maketh Murder is proper good. Whatever that instrument is that she's playing, I want one too.

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That's an autoharp. Doesn't she use it a lot on that whole album? They're kind of expensive, but not too hard to play.

K.L. Bennett said:

That's an autoharp. Doesn't she use it a lot on that whole album? They're kind of expensive, but not too hard to play.

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Guess I should look on the album notes. More to the point, can you get a left-handed autoharp? Goes off to google it...

Barry Adamson I Will Set You Free (2012)
Sample: Turnaround

(Barry has worked with Magazine and Nick Cave and been around a while. His latest album is great, but very light in comparison to his previous dark cinematic-inspired offerings. BTW, I bought this CD. That's right ... I went to a shop and left with an object. Beat that!)

Love Magazine - always have. The synthesizer in that sample sounds very Magazine! I have Barry's EP called The Negro Inside Me - if you've heard his version of The Man with the Golden Arm, it's something like that. Here's Busted from the EP - very bad-ass sixties slick.

I need to do some research . I'm stuck in the Evanescence side.

poetinahat said:

Love Magazine - always have.

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Never really knew much about Magazine at the time, except for 'Shot By Both Sides', but I spent much of my fourteenth year obsessed by the Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch EP.

It would probably be easier for me to list the albums I have that are MORE than two years old, lol. In fact, several of my favorite genres didn't even exist until around the turn of the millennium.

Very best new album: Nightwish's Imaginaerum. Actually, this is just plain the best album ever. (Released Dec. 2011)

Tyr's The Land of Thrym (Pagan folk metal from the Faroe Islands, released May 2011)

My Ruin: A Southern Revelation (Metal I can't classify, released Dec. 2011)

Within Temptation's The Unforgiving (March 2011)

Leaves' Eyes: Meredead (April 2011)

Epica's Requiem for the Indifferent (March 2012)

I'm always hunting for more new symphonic metal, but I haven't found that many of the new bands have as clear and true a sound as Epica and Nightwish. Hmph. In 20 years I'll probably be one of those lame old people saying "I remember when music was actually GOOD". Lol.

Chasing the Horizon said:

Very best new album: Nightwish's Imaginaerum. Actually, this is just plain the best album ever. (Released Dec. 2011)

Within Temptation's The Unforgiving (March 2011)

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I recently picked up those 2 CDs. Probably in the last couple of months. Very nice stuff.

And I'll raise you Within Temptation's "The Silent Force" which I bought 2 days ago. No idea when it was released, but it's just as good as "The Unforgiving" in my opinion. Maybe not as raw, emotion-wise, but still packs a punch.

Google-fu tells me "The Silent Force" was released in 2004. So yeah, not exactly a shiny new album... Just new to me.

Evolution By Paul Van Dyk. That album is amazing, which I should expect nothing less from an Electronic Dance artist as refined as him.

Carrie Underwood - Blown Away

Fantastic album. IMO it is probably her best.

Its such a shame that country music isn't that well recognised here in the UK.

Benedictum -- Dominion (released 2011). Though I only recently discovered this band, so it's all newish to me. Veronica Freeman is THE best singer I have ever heard. I'm obsessed with her voice. I swear, she sings the way I want to write—incredibly powerful, often rough, but capable of being melodic and even almost sweet at times.

Ego Likeness -- Breedless (released 2010). My favorite darkwave band.

Abney Park -- Ancient World (released 2012). Unclassifiable steampunk-themed rock FTW.

Its such a shame that country music isn't that well recognised here in the UK.

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I shall file immigration paperwork immediately. I've spent my whole life in rural America and country music is EVERYWHERE. *shudder*

Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury: DROKK, music inspired by Mega-City One (2012)
Sample: Lawmaster/Pursuit

This is for fans of Judge Dredd and 2000AD. It was released before the film Dredd and is not directly related. The album's good, very retro. Bit like Tron meets John Carpenter. (Geoff Barrow is of course from the band Portishead.)

Brad: United We Stand (2012)
Sample: Needle and Thread

Brad includes Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam and this is their fifth album. Great stuff, and has that Seattle sound I love. But I still think their debut album Shame (1993) is their best: 20th Century

This is a good thread as on Devil Ledbetter's recommendation I bought Smith Westerns last year.

I've been pleased with AC/DC's Live at River Plate, enough to write a review of it no less.

Kelly Clarkson - Greatest Hits

One word - amazing.

Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid,M.A.A.D City.

FINALLY,rap that displays storytelling ability and lyrical skill. It's a terrific album.

Chasing the Horizon said:

Ego Likeness -- Breedless (released 2010). My favorite darkwave band.

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Yay Ego Likeness!

One of their former members is a friend of mine


I'm into Native by One Republic. And in the still fairly new-ish category, Oceania by Smashing Pumpkins

Currently listening to the new Killswitch Engage album (Disarm The Descent) and The Living Infinite by Soilwork.

Plus some drum and bass from 2000 by Polar.

Just picked up Alkaline Trio's new album - My Shame Is True. Only listened through it once but there are some really stand-out tracks, and I suspect the rest will grow on me, as their songs tend to do.

Just Panic and Get It Over With by Derek Nicoletto. Very good EP. Great sounds from a great voice.