The 2012 Music Thread!

[ROC]

New David Byrne/St. Vincent track here. It's properly different, to the point that it might lose me a little bit (I'm not as crazy as I want to be in Byrne's collaborations.) But it's fucking David Byrne and St. Vincent and that's a great thing.

[SRN]

I haven't head St. Vincent at all but I am proper David Byrne/Talking Heads fan so I am definitely looking forward to the collaboration. If I understand correctly, an entire album is going to come out of the team-up?

[RPS]

Anybody else love the new Hot Chip album?

[Cactus Drags]

I heard they have done a dubstep song, or they've incorporated dubstep or something else to do with dubstep. Is this accurate? I'm intrigued, but also lazy and cheap.

[METALMAN]

I've had the Hot Chip album on at work. It is nice, but nothing really sticks out apart from this one song that I really like and will probably get at some point. I didn't notice anything dubsteppy.

[Lineker]

Fleetwood Mac reuniting for tour next year, reveals Stevie Nicks.

[HC]

Fleetwood Mac reuniting for tour next year, reveals Stevie Nicks.

[SRN]

No, HeadCheese, no.

[METALMAN]

Where's Christine McVie :/

[Lineker]

Jon Lord died

[SRN]

Exactly, and it sucks.

[Crybaby Bunting]

New Baroness is fantastic (as expected) new Diablo Swing Orchestra is still growing on me and I can't work out if the new Beach Boys album is cringe-worthily bad or whether it's actually pretty good.

Pretty good year so far methinks. I hope that the Frank Ocean and Tyler the Creator albums live up to the hype.

[thatshortguy]

Looks like we'll get new Coheed & Cambria this year. "The Afterman: Ascension (Part 1)" comes out this October. The second part follows in February. This will be their first with Zach Cooper on bass. Josh Eppard returns to drums for the first time since "From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness" seven years ago.

[Rich]

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[Matt]

That sounds awesome even if the sound quality doesn't sound too great, Only Revolutions was great but I'd like them to go back to a bit of a heavier sound, this sounds like they are.

They played a few new songs at Download too that sounded cool.

Edit: And as you probably know they're going to be releasing two albums in a short space of time

[Rich]

There's fucking bagpipes and shit.

And yes, new album available to order from 17th of September, so I would imagine an October/November release.

[GA!]

MON THE BAGPIPES!

[RPS]

TNGHT EP is fantastic. I didn't think I'd like it, but it sounds modern, fresh and interesting. The whole wonky sound is great and probably one of the most interesting subgenres to pop up in electronic music recently.

The Frank Ocean album is masterful and definitely a highlight of the year. I don't know if it is a modern classic, but I enjoy it a lot.

[SRN]

I am so very behind on new music; I finally got to sit down yesterday and listen to Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE. Honestly, I liked the sound of it, him and The Weeknd are definetely doing some interesting things with R&B at the moment but all-in-all the album dragged on. 17 songs and interludes was just a little too much for me (plus, the Andre 3000 verse on Pink Matter was dreadful). I enjoyed nostalgia, ULTRA. a lot but Frank Ocean seems to have this need to overcompensate and while I still like his music and enjoy both the mixtape and the album, I am still not entirely hooked. However, Frank Ocean is probably the only Odd Future guy I'll regularly keep updated on, fuck the rest of the guys.

Still in the books to listen to is Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music, Sun Kil Moon's Among the Leaves and Guardian Alien's See The World Given to a One Love Entity.

[METALMAN]

I agree. Frank Ocean is nice but the rest of Odd Future bore me.

The two songs Underworld made for the Olympic Opening Ceremony are among the best I've heard all year. They're a pretty special group. It's amazing that a couple of guys who knock up tunes in their garden shed made such a massive sound.