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June 30, 2010
Five Albums You Should Be Listening To Right Now
This week's curators: Carlye Wisel and Donald Rasmussen.
Every two weeks, titans of the mediasphere give Nerve their music recommendations. This week: Carlye Wisel and Donald Rasmussen of the video blog Big Ugly Yellow Couch.
1. DOM, Sun Bronzed Greek Gods
This album is a fucking jam from start to finish. With songs like "Bochicha," about singer Dom's questionably legal cat, and, "Living In America," about how sexy it is to reside in the States, we're not sure what's more entertaining — the faded, dreamy-pop vibe that makes Sun Bronzed Golden Gods downright perfect for summer, or the sheer nuttiness of its themes.
2. Twin Sister, Color Your Life
We recently shot a Couch Session with these guys that turned out to be one of our favorites. That's probably the best part of running a stripped-down video-session site: seeing the songs you love — in this case, "Lady Daydream" — reinterpreted in a completely different way that somehow still makes perfect sense. Revisiting this EP after having them in our home has made us fall for these songs all over again.
3. Punch Brothers, Antifogmatic
There are few things more beautiful than Chris Thile's music. One of these things happens to be his face. But, besides being the bona fide Jude Law of the mandolin community, Thile has come so far with his band's recently released sophomore album that Punch Brothers can barely be called a post-Nickel Creek project any longer, managing to retain an emotive romanticism in all of their songs.
4. Seabear, We Built A Fire
We Built A Fire feels like the best winter, spring, summer, and fall days all put together into a kind of seasonal song cycle. "Cold Summer" and "Leafmask" are especially built for those quiet moments, with singer Sindri Már Sigfússon's voice carrying you away from the campfire, up through the rising smoke and into the night air.
5. Hall & Oates, The Very Best Of
Unhealthy obsession, guilty pleasure, and awkward passenger-seat dance party all rolled up in one. If both of us are in a car, there's a 90% chance we're listening to "Private Eyes" and doing something embarrassing.
Commentarium (15 Comments)
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........*snortle* huh? wuh? is that hall and oates? oh man i must have faded once this list started. Thank goodness for that little pep talk at the end, i may have lapsed into a coma otherwise.
h & O are so underrated, agreed on that call. I'm going to download the punch brothers as well.
I have an undying love for Hall and Oates. Those before and after photos make me sad though. But not quite not as sad as the crowd that came to see them in Coney Island last summer.
Twin Sister has only gotten better since their days as Vampires
twin sister is the only good one on this list
Typical boring hipster music. Wake me up when there's something with some balls playing.
Oh look, someone else reads Pitchfork... eh.. cool.
Again, can you lose the laughably pretentious title. "...Should Be Listening To Right Now" - Oh, God!!!
why do people always get so agitated when someone lists music that they personally like?
To all the people who are dismissing this list as 'boring hipster music' and the like. Did it not occur to you that the writers of this list might actually be enjoying these albums, and might want to recommend them to other people? You know, to help support bands they think are talented but not widely circulated? Not everyone listens to music just because they think it's cool, if you dismiss recommendations as such, you are just as bad, if not worse. If you don't like that style of music, that's fine, but you don't need to be a dick just because someone recommends something that isn't your thing.
To all of the people who are dismissing this list as 'boring hipster music'.
Thanks.
No seriously, thanks, for making an attempt at trying to hold the usually fabulous writers here at Nerve to a standard of quality, and reminding them that people come to them for cultural idioms.
The world is full of knock-offs, and unfortunately, most of these albums are such. All I really hear is a bunch of Jesus and Mary Chain clones, faux-psychedelia, and poorly executed Appalachian music.
Oh, and Hall and Oates, the trendiest shit group out there really. It's funny that it's somehow cool to like Hall and Oates, considering how liking them was bred out of making fun of them and their terrible music. Oh the irony! Well, I suppose that is how our pop culture operates isn't it?
I've loved Hall and Oates since they were on the AT40 in the 80s. They wrote some GREAT songs. So suck it.
You gotta admit... "Private Eyes" is hella catchy!
Wow, all these bands are lyke sooooo fake. Jesus and Mary Chain were lyke the first people to ever sound anything like this. You peices of shit have opinions on music that don't match my own? Poseurs. Who do you think you are? All of you are trying to lyke impress people with alll your obscureee bands. Its not because you actually like the music riughht? Because even though lyke hall and oates has been around for 40+ years they're totally like a shit band and no one could ever like them for their music. All these bands are lyke knock-offs and have no real talent like what so ever. Even though I've never produced an album or picked up an instrument I'm lyke an expert on who's real and who's not. I mean, because I started lyking obscure music before any of you peices of shit.
These bands are impressive, thankyou for sharing.
FUCK OFF.
Love me some hall & oates. I honestly don't care if you sit there and jab at the artists that aren't up to your music par, but don't bash H&O when you too often find yourself getting down to "you make my dreams come true". It's just cheesy goodness. Can your soul get any blacker?