Erstwhile Fleet Fox Father John Misty has a great thing going with his album I Love You, Honeybear. Uncomfortably cathartic, especially "The Ideal Husband." I can't stop listening to the new Sleater-Kinney. The more I listen to the new Belle and Sebastian (Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance), the more I like it; it's another reboot for them like Dear Catastrophe Waitress was. I heard the lead single from the new Courtney Barnett album and liked it a lot, though I think I liked the album title itself even more: Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.

New Mountain Goats coming in March, a concept album about Saturday morning pro wrestling. There's supposed to be new Radiohead soon. That long-rumored Wrens comeback is finally supposed to come out. This year is gonna be a year.

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I am enjoying all those as well as the Decemberists, JD McPherson, Gaz Coombes, Waxahatchee, Dengue Fever and the Woodlands EP. The Mountain Goats have such an impressive discography.

Have yet to hear the new Mark Ronson or Bagels' avatar.

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New Modest Mouse in March

New Dance Gavin Dance in April

New Slaves, Silversun Pickups and Mumford & Sons sometime this summer or later.

Maybe Straylight Run can get back together finally.

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crazy mish mosh of late 60s sounds...Byrds, Brian Wilson, late Beatles, others.

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I rely on XRT for new music. I'm really digging this new Who song, Eminence Front.

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Modest Mouse better be good we have waited too long for a stinker.

I enjoy the songs currently on Spotify. I'd say 3 of the 4 are good and the 4th is average or above.

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Not as good as Fear Fun album but better than most stuff coming out these days. If you haven't tried Fear Fun give it a spin.

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Love what I've heard (Lampshades on Fire).

New Built to Spill in April.

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"True Affection" off I Love You, Honeybear. I love how the electronics just wash over me.

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Yeah that one really comes out of left field. It sounds good but he hasn't done anything like that before that I had heard before. I gave Fear Fun another spin this morning and I still
find it superior to Honeybear. Tempted to see Father John in concert.

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squarepusher's got an album called "damaging furries" (damogen furies?) or something coming out on 4/20, which again idk if that means that he's a pothead and/or if he's a hitler fan.

they released one track from the album, which hey you know say what you will but at least it's not a one-man-band miles davis tribute album or anything. here's the track if you want it without going through the bullshit of a faux-artistic web2.5 page @squarepusher.net.

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Giving it a listen this morning.

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Interested to hear your take. It's a bit different.

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ironically enough, this song doesn't quite make me want to yell out "RINSE IT OUT SELECTA!!!!!!" it has a nice little boards of canada impression at the end after the guy stops singing. oh lol i thought i was gonna get dayvan cowboy's ending or the drummy part of hell interface's colonel abrams remix when they teased the aggro drums but for a second circa 2:50 in the john misty stuff.

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The beginning is very Boards of Canada. Sounds like it was sampled from some PBS special circa 1983 called Science: The Road to a Better Tomorrow or something.* I have a thing for little vintage-electronic flourishes in my rock music. The Commodore Amiga or whatever it was at the end of "Let Down" is another good example.

*Come to think of it, have you seen Look Around You? Yeah, that.

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I only listened to Fear Fun a couple times, and it has been awhile. I may listen to that again next to round out my thoughts.

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oh fucking hell there's 18 more aphex twin unreleased soundcloud tracks bringing up the total to 173. this is never gonna end, is it?

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oh yeah i've seen that. shit, when you talk about little vintage-electronic flourishes in your rock music for some reason a trans am album called futureworld or something came into my mind.... do you have a soft place in your heart for old thrill jockey stuff? i only knew about them because they released mouse on mars' miun nigging domestically and because everyone used to say that they like tortoise because that made you seem deep and worldly. then they had a split remix 12" with autechre and they got thusly validated.

and i have no idea what happened to tortoise over the last 10-15 years but i'm sure whatever they're doing is still the modern day equivalent of saying you liked poi dog pondering in the 90s,

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Please don't compare Tortoise to Poi Dog Pondering, the equivalent of throwing Talking Heads in a blender with oatmeal.

As for Tortoise, John McEntire produced a Broken Social Scene album a few years ago. David Pajo recently tried to commit suicide.

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that tortoise/poi-dog-pondering thing was what we call "bait" around the old country, and i got the quasi/spiritued rebuttal that i was looking for. hey man i've got a cd copy of TNT somewhere so i might have to listen to that again soon to see how it's aged compared to me over the years.

also there's something oddly poetic about those two lines that comprise your second paragraph in a cause/effect type of way.

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Yeah, definitely listen to TNT. It's one of my favorite albums. "Swung from the Gutters" and "Jetty" are monsters.

Anyway, 2015, here's some of the new Mountain Goats. It's about Chavo Sr., not Jr.

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"Holy Shit" is easily my favorite song off of I Love You, Honeybear - after one playthrough. It sticks out.

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boy it's amazing to see how token/niche songs about wrestlers has changed over the last 20-25 years, eh? the only difference is i know i've seen this one live and i'll end up being quite surprised if i ever see the mountain goats doing chavo live... but hey life still has the capability to surprise me, so who knows?

these mountain goats guys are a pretty good band but is considered tryhard to do the wrestling thing? or is it deliciously random and thus inherently human? idk the storied history of the mountain goats but i've heard their name before. this song here reminds me of when phish has lyrics to be honest.

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I'll admit that the wrestling album requires an understanding of the whole John Darnielle mythos that most people aren't going to have. Basically, if some non-established songwriter came out and said "I had an abusive stepdad so I watched wrestling on TV to escape from it, but not the WWF, I mean the shitty low-budget on independent TV channels," then yeah, I think it would be a little try-hard, but coming from someone whose life story we fans have pretty much put together across his oeuvre, then okay, I'll hear you out on your Chavo Guerrero concept album, because this could be a nice piece of a greater whole. And hey, you gave us "No Children," so it's the least we can do.

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My Morning Jacket- Waterfall 5/4/15

http://pitchfork.com/news/58618-my-morn ... decisions/

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fock this club. I should manayer.

I heard that they had so much material that they did two albums worth and the other disc will be out later. Tempted to
check them out in Milwaukee.

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I've decided that I Love You, Honeybear is by a margin the best record of this year and last year combined. Maybe the best since Titus Andronicus with The Monitor. Insta-classic.

Not ready to go that far but it's right up there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3DgcECSn8 I really like this new My Morning Jacket.

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i'm all tingly awaiting the new Sufjan Stevens. apparently more like his older stuff.

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