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Has anyone posted this yet? Great track from Actress. It's listed as a single but it's nearly an hour long, so, ya know.

I like this a lot. There´s some mid-80s The Cure in it...and even a bit of Boomtown Rats. But in a fresh and cool way.

Some faves of the year

Water Damage - In E
Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
The Sleevens - S/T
Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
Yasmin Williams - Acadia
Maya Shenfeld - Under The Sun
Laurel Halo - Octavia
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin - Activate
Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame
Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free
Fur Trader - Executionland
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Somesurprises - Perseids
Sunshy - I Don't Care What Comes Next
High Llamas - Hey Panda
Fuckwolf & Green Milk From The Planet Orange - Let's Split
Psychic Graveyard - Wilting
Big Mess - Heroic Captains of Industry
Uranium Club - Infants Under the Bulb
A Country Western - Life on the Lawn
Elaine Mitchener - Solo Throat
Winged Wheel - Big Hotel
Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe
Shop Regulars - S/T
Terry Gross - Huge Improvement
Chimers - Through Today
Hélène Vogelsinger - Ethereal Dissolution
Ruth Goller - Skyllumina
Writhing Squares - Mythology
Champaign Dub - Rainbow
Corridor - Mimi
The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Rhapsody
Entropy (DE) - Dharmakaya
Friko - Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here
Hayes Noble - As It Was, As We Were
Julie - My Anti-Aircraft Friend

Some prf/prf-adjacent faves

Deep Tunnel Project - S/T
Mint Mile - Rough Rider
The Conformists - Midwestless
Ogive - Opalescentia
Shellac - To All Trains
Three Grebes - You Were a Joy
Neal Markowski - Auditor/Wailer
Sugar Horse - The Grand Scheme of Things
Stomatopod - DrizzleFizzle
The Feat - Schemes For Decades
Weaklung - Smiles For Your Loved Ones
American Motors - Content

Some comps and stuff

90 Day Men - We Blame Chicago
Funk Tide - Tokyo Jazz Funk From Electric Bird 1978-1987
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears
American Analog Set - New Drifters
The Children's Hour - Going Home
gnac - Friend Sleeping
Sanillum - Vol 1
Love Child - Never Meant To Be 1988-1993

Some jack tracks

D'Julz - Raw Toolz 1
DJ Sneak - Chicago House / Getting Ghetto
Unlimited Touch/Louie Vega - Music is My Life
Demuir - Teachin Folk
Paul Najera - Got to Groove
Danny Tenaglia Presents George Vidal - Out From Obscurity
Kingpen Cartel - Long Dark Night of the Soul ep

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 4:42 pm Julie - My Anti-Aircraft Friend

Hear me out: the 2020s version of early Interpol

* fashion conscious
* art ambitions (“design-collective”)
* urban coastal art scene
* adept band with their own identity still mining a newly nostalgic sound - replace Sonic Youth/MBV with Joy Division, Deftones with Echo & the Bunnymen - there is a generic component that is important to this
* production just this side of alternative radio - early 2000s thing was every band claiming to sound like a mix of SY/MBV and never quite delivering - julie the same, but aside from the shoegaze boy girl stuff you get heavy indebtedness to 2-3 decade old modern rock radio
* and they are beautiful of course

If this sounds like a complaint, I like them. I meant to see them in Houston but couldn’t swing it. Them there was an unrelated shooting outside or something, can’t remember if it was canceled but not sad I didn’t go.

I’m just now kind of seeing how older dudes were responding to Interpol when they first came out. I was way into their first lp in the early 2000s and didn’t quite understand the BUT JOY DIVISION response aside from the vocal similarity, but 20 years and a million records later, I see what (the dudes) were saying! Yes it’s definitely been done before.

There are a couple bands I listen to that I probably think about more than I actually listen to them and julie is one. I probably should have started a thread to post this but don’t want to encourage a bitter dog pile - not what this is about.

The album isn't tip-top, but on the album, this ultra-chill tune by New Zealand's Kimbra rounds off the year nicely.

penningtron wrote: Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:33 pm New Arcwelder. what fuckin' year is it. I don't even think I was looking for this but it's pretty enjoyable!

Must say I have continued to enjoy this one too.

Crossposting from the listening thread – on second thought, this chill sultry dubby album out of Melbourne is certainly worth a damn:

Dovira wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 12:51 pm

penningtron wrote: Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:33 pm New Arcwelder. what fuckin' year is it. I don't even think I was looking for this but it's pretty enjoyable!

Must say I have continued to enjoy this one too.

Holy smokes. Xerxes is one of my all-time faves, thx for this.