Favorite Albums Of The (GASP) Decade???

[lordgalvar]

Oh, gridlink was great too
Thought it was longer ago!

[$harkToootth]

Oh, gridlink was great too
Thought it was longer ago!

I edited my post to give that album a "special" superlative

[Pepe]

Joey Alexander - My Favourite Things (2015)
Joey Alexander - Countdown (2016)
Joey Alexander - Eclipse (2018)
Jeff Beck - Emotion & Commotion (2010)
Randall Bramblett - The Bright Spots (2013)
Randall Bramblett - Juke Joint At The Edge Of The World (2017)
Corea, Clarke & White - Forever (2011)
George Duke (RIP!) - Déjà Vu (2010)
Field Music - Plumb (2011)
Field Music - Commontime (2016)
Foals - Total Life Forever (2010)
Foals - What Went Down (2015)
Joe Jackson - Fast Forward (2015)
Joe Jackson - Fool (2018)
Mutemath - Odd Soul (2011)
Trombone Shorty - Backatown (2010)
Trombone Shorty - For True (2011)
Trombone Shorty - Parking Lot Symphony (2017)

[lordgalvar]

Does shobaleader one count? Nothing new, just new arrangements I guess?
The del album third world vision was good too.
There was some good stuff out of Korea, but I can't remember the names

Spent most of the time looking for old demo tapes and stuff of bands that never really got releases (like the Bags)

[retinal orbita]

VEKTOR - 'Terminal Redux'

Can I just say, without trying to be a preachy fuck - just google the guy in Vektor. Riffs are sick or whatever but that dude seems like a real fucking pile of shit. That being said I loved Black Future hard when it came out so it was one of those instances where I had to choose "ethos" vs "sick shreds". Personally there's too many bands out there with sick riffs to be overtly loyal to a riff..... also very aware I have a record from Profound Lore on my list and I have heard a lot of chatter recently about that dude so..... not saying I have a flawless record but even still.....

U and I are getting our forum cards removed cause I still haven't listened to any of the latest SUNN post 'Soused'

I haven't either. I didn't love Soused and while I'm an admitted huge fan of everything up to and including "Monoliths and Dimensions" they have kind of lost me. Like no hate but I don't need it. Stephen O'Malley has been doing amazing collab stuff - I would count this one (https://trostrecords.bandcamp.com/album ... r-assembly) in that top of the decade maybe? Along with the other collabs he's done with Noble. All fuckin' slap hard.

I'm trying to process this HUGE process and sort of turning to my itunes library. Here's a cursory pass through? No reissues, no "lost recordings" just stuff made in this decade....

The Rita ‎– The Lilac Fairy DLP (Urashima, 2016) (plus many other The Rita contenders)
John Wiese - Deviate From Balance (Gilgongo, 2015)
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (Firehouse 12 Records, 2019)
Antedliluvian - Through The Cervix of Hawaah (NWN, 2011)
Barcelona - Extremo Nihilismo En Barcelona (La Vida Es Un Mus, 2015)
Zombi - Shape Shift (Relapse, 2015)
Paranoid - Satyagraha (Konton Crasher, 2015)
Full of Hell & Merzbow 2xCD (PL, 2104)
Incinerated - Lobotomize LP (Night Rhythms Recordings, 2017)
Oksennus - Sokea Idiootti DLP (Bestial Burst, 2016)
Burning Tree - Lammergyer LP (Utech, 2014)
Mutant Video - Vanity of Life LP (Iron Lung, 2017)

[Eivind August]

So many, will have to make a list later. But need to mention A Crow Looked At Me. Lost my mother to cancer some months prior, and that album really hit me hard. Such an honest look at loss. Skeleton Tree hit me in a similar way as well. Heartwrenching but beautiful.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzkNS4rits[/youtube]

[$harkToootth]

Can I just say, without trying to be a preachy fuck - just google the guy in Vektor. Riffs are sick or whatever but that dude seems like a real fucking pile of shit.

That wasn't preachy. Thanks for the heads up. I truly had no idea. Gross.

[$harkToootth]

Also, thanks for posting Eivind and Pepe! More stuff to look into!

@retinal -> Great call with 'Deviate From Balance'. Truly a magnum opus from a master. If I had to pick 1 THE RITA release... oph.... It would be BALLET FOOT POSITIONS. I have to find that one VOMIR collab. It was with this fine artist who added blast beats.

[coldbrightsunlight]

So many, will have to make a list later. But need to mention A Crow Looked At Me. Lost my mother to cancer some months prior, and that album really hit me hard. Such an honest look at loss. Skeleton Tree hit me in a similar way as well. Heartwrenching but beautiful.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzkNS4rits[/youtube]

2 good picks. The skeleton tree movie hit me like a truck.

One of the albums Falls of Rauros released this decade but I'm not sure which.

Kwintessens by Dodecahedron.

Grinderman 2.

A bunch of stuff

[retinal orbita]

@retinal -> Great call with 'Deviate From Balance'. Truly a magnum opus from a master. If I had to pick 1 THE RITA release... oph.... It would be BALLET FOOT POSITIONS. I have to find that one VOMIR collab. It was with this fine artist who added blast beats.

I’m an unabashed Wiese fanboy (obviously) but this is the best thing I think he’s done. I considered adding a Sissy Spacek release but there’s just too many to pick one. It might be “RIP” - or Wreck, or Duration Groups, Brath, the collab with K2, the collab with Smegma or maybe even Disfathom?

That wasn't preachy. Thanks for the heads up. I truly had no idea. Gross.

I can’t tell if they lack the social capital to make this “a thing” or thrash bros just don’t give a shit but it’s gotten literally no circulation. I know Wrest is sort of divisive in terms of “being cancelled” (to me, it’s a no brainer ) but this dude..... it’s so trashy

[$harkToootth]

I’m an unabashed Wiese fanboy (obviously) but this is the best thing I think he’s done. I considered adding a Sissy Spacek release but there’s just too many to pick one. It might be “RIP” - or Wreck, or Duration Groups, Brath, the collab with K2, the collab with Smegma or maybe even Disfathom?

There's just too many. If one is going to hard time picking a best from FULL OF HELL, THE BODY, and/or THOU... then you have no fucking chance picking a best SISSY SPACEK from this decade. I know for a fact I listened to 'Lead Their Exit' more than any other... what was that trio of tapes that came out in 2016??? The guy from LIARS did a few sets with them too. Those were phenomenal!!!

Tfw when no core group of cool friends to play noisy grindcore with on the reg / play lots of shows / have prolific output / and a small but dedicated fan base.

@retinal - I typed out a longer response to your other point but it read like I was tap dancing around an issue and the reality is, I agree with everything you are saying. I don't look to people who play, for lack of a better term, darker/heavier music to be role models but you need to have a bare minimum of human decency and cases like that, 100% violate my absolute bare minimum. Unacceptable.

[retinal orbita]

@retinal - I typed out a longer response to your other point but it read like I was tap dancing around an issue and the reality is, I agree with everything you are saying. I don't look to people who play, for lack of a better term, darker/heavier music to be role models but you need to have a bare minimum of human decency and cases like that, 100% violate my absolute bare minimum. Unacceptable.

I appreciate this - in this day and age it’s tough to know how to carry a balanced approach to navigating this often complex and horrific world we live in. My philosophy is to believe victims and survivors. Making some Voivod rip off riffs does not override that....

I had a whole other thing about Sete Star Sept releases and how hard it is to keep up with that but what can you do.....

[$harkToootth]

OMG they're another one. Can't keep up. They're probably all good (if that's your thing... it's my thing in case that wasn't *Matthew Perry like sarcastic intonation* adamantly clear), you can throw a dart at any of the releases and any one that the dart hits will probably rip.

It is tough to navigate these things. In the spirit of full transparency, my DRAFT response was more about WREST. I'll save that for PMs though.

I can’t tell if they lack the social capital to make this “a thing” or thrash bros just don’t give a shit but it’s gotten literally no circulation.

I think it is lack of social capital (if we mean the same thing? Sorry, semantics). Not social capital on the issue. Social capital for press on the abuser. Think about it, Man from niche metal sub genre abuses wife is not going to be a headline for everyone the way Chris Brown's (multiple ) assaults would. When WREST's story was a thing, not that this is "funny" but... the idea of 'canceling' an artist who's niche genre is encompassed of fans who have more than a hint of misanthropy... it's not going to happen. I hope I'm articulating myself properly here. I'm just trying to say that fans of depressive black metal (I include myself in this segment) are probably not listening to protestors, about anything, anyway.

Actually in that case... what are you going to do.... cancel his shows? LEVIATHAN has never played live. EDIT: Fact checked myself on this. He plays live now. At the time of case and trial, this was not the MO. Nope I was right the first time. Don't fact check on lack of sleep.

More for PMs. I don't want to upset anyone.

[$harkToootth]

2 good picks. The skeleton tree movie hit me like a truck.

One of the albums Falls of Rauros released this decade but I'm not sure which.

Kwintessens by Dodecahedron.

Grinderman 2.

A bunch of stuff

I would have never pegged you for a DODECAHEDRON fan... the more you know!
Thanks for contributing!

[$harkToootth]

Some of the other weird shit I was really into this decade. All three of these people are on my 'Dream List of Collaborators'
COUPLES COUNSELING - S/T -> https://boston.bandcamp.com/album/couples-counseling

JAMES K - Pet -> https://jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pet

ODWALLA88 - Earth Flirt

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIY6uICTUHI[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIY6uICTUHI