a frankly unnecessary thread for me to post abt avant/weirdo songs from the past year

hatchback - zeus and apollo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2RkfFDCrWc

all celestial visions. i felt like this album was moving parts of my brain around.

oneohtrix point never - replica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwi7d0f91Y

this was maybe the lopatin thing i've enjoyed most since the chris de burgh thing, so squelchy and alien but based around that piano loop. something kindof anachronistic about it. i saw him live and this stuck out both times (although i fell asleep standing up the first time) and then the second time his visuals were these, like virtual sculptures, pyramids with eyes, not the fuzzy static i expected but gleamingly virtual and untouchable. i felt like that when i heard this the first time. first you see the hand play the piano, then you see the same thing again. it made sampling seem weird again for me. time repeating maybe. time out of joint.

regal safari - only

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bgp1wpdMY

this was v pretty

La Lechuza - Trampolin (Spotify link)

Not to be confused with La Lechera, La Lechuza brought out a 2011 album of Godspeed-affiliated chamber post-pop that the world received with apathy. The album as a whole is indeed kind of bland (I haven't listened to it in months) but "Trampolin" is an awesome clattery epic of melodic percussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opNf23OE-Bs

If you're following this thread, you probably know this one already.

sleep over - casual diamond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_L_NN7sS_Y

swooned so hard for this one: a tune as light and slippery as silk and yet all the instruments still buckle at the knees in an effort to carry it forwards. only the one echoey snare drum that sounds like something off an early ar kane record shows any sort of resilience

julia holter - try to make yourself a work of art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5QVDdThdw

still trying to get my head round this album, but this is the closest there is to a regular song on it - a rattling alarm sounding inside the queasiest of fever dreams. apparently she's buddies with linda perhacs and they're working on a record together?

motion sickness of time travel - day glow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGaMgo38TtA

spent more time falling asleep to this one album than anything else this year; tried listening to it in other -busier- situations and it hasn't really worked for me but if you want something that, when left to work undisturbed, will just slowly accrete like soft snow on the inside of your gnarled old skull, then this is pretty neat

I just downloaded the Julia Holter and Motion Sickness of Time Travel albums off Boomkat yesterday! Haven't listened to them yet though.

good choices imo. holter is the more immediately intriguing one, but they both need their own time and space to really come to life in

La Lechuza - Trampolin (Spotify link)

Not to be confused with La Lechera, La Lechuza brought out a 2011 album of Godspeed-affiliated chamber post-pop that the world received with apathy. The album as a whole is indeed kind of bland (I haven't listened to it in months) but "Trampolin" is an awesome clattery epic of melodic percussion.

haha! maybe when real ilx comes back i will rebrand as la lechuga
this thread is intriguing to me but it's a little impenetrable tbh
i already like some of the stuff here but the rest is new (to me) and there is so much of it!

i guess 100% silk is something i should have been paying attn to but wasn't this year.

i feel like there was potentially a lot of stuff i would have liked on that hipster house thread partic as the john talabot remix of cheaters was like top five for me this year but atm its not accessible on google cache

this reffing what i think it's reffing or is this some general cultural thing i'm unaware of

it was a reference to the dj short novel

i really like the trampoline song

I'm going flog Gazelle Twin here, for those who missed it on the Knife-y sandbox thread. Brighton's Elizabeth Walling seems pretty comfortable / flattered with the ubiquitous Karin Dreijer Andersson comparisons.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaabsQo-uA

The entire The Entire City streaming on Gazelle Twin's site.

Again, with energy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaabsQo-uA

That Julia Holter album is brilliant, couldn't recommend it enough.

Feel like Ryan Garbes "sweet hassle" full length fits in with this thread. He is a dude from Wet Hair.

looking forward to diggin into this thread

just as soon as i burn out on the tpain album
so like friday

## golden retriever - subsidence (nna tapes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVPOWz_AW9E

adding a bass clarinet to the usual dreamy synth gives a fullness to these dudes cosmic meditations. really happy this is up on youtube, eerie and spare and bright.

## craft spells - after the moment (captured tracks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5v_XhoO-4

ok this is just fun indie stuff but its such a jam

## laurel halo - constant index/actress violet remix (hippos in tanks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t20RZyVfMk

someone mentioned this already on ilm but it deserves a place itt

## ben fleury-steiner - white embers (low point)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCVnNBiXoMY

composed, in the best way

## teams vs star slinger - punch drunk love (mexican summer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx8DRVesi30

how this wasnt a big hit or at least a modest blog hit is beyond me, the whole record is fantastic and conceptually playful and bangin

i was really stoked when i downloading widowspeak album after hearing harsh realm but the rest was so disappointing; so bland, no exceptional lead guitar, just dragging its feet in an unremarkable way. great song, though

what laurel halo stuff did you like this year if not logic? that youtube is fantastic

the FRKWYS vol. 7 she collaborated on is my fave thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S7aFTb-J9Q

but i also preferred her tape on nna, 'antenna'. generally i liked her more ethereal, ambient stuff to the beat driven work on 'hour logic'. this is also p good imo:

laurel halo - supersymetry (physical therapy remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U95DEt6mvg

have you heard blondes? feel like you or plax might be into them
this is released on the same label that did that frkways i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMKK8bRzNfU

i hadnt heard that track before! 'touched' was on my best of list last year but i missed the second 12" they did on RVNG intl.

dunno how avant/weirdo this is really but I got pretty into the Gatto Fritto album over the course of the year

great thread, thanks, lots of good recommendations itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3X1ric_zoI

also since we're talking frkwys the blues control/laraaji (vol. 8) has been heavy rotation for me

http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/blues-control-laraaji-awakening-day

holy other - touch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3qlkOBd9o

holy other remind me of a lot of stuff i've loved from the last couple years, the burial four tet collab and how to dress well in particular. parties through smoke, the gutted aftermath. i mean its sortof a cliche, the fractured voices struggling into language, the looming bassline, but it has a silky sensuality you don't always get with this. a grim, broken glamour.

Think I already posted elsewhere but the Sapphire Slows album on NNF is one of the best things they've released this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7_PVqJ61k

i'm kinda into these guys' laurel halo remix that u posted but this one just kills it imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rrH4jrhqoE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69SE09wfcek

Really liking a lot of this Blondes stuff tbh

^ Meredith Monk samples on that track too apparently btw

This doesn't fit in with any of the other music on this thread but it suits the title I think. Except it's me posting.

This is a link to a download and pay what you like split album by Desert Island Dicks and Where Woodwose Walk called Clearance Sale

They're both from Glasgow and I found it through the Zavvi/Amoebic Industries bandcamp. Here's some blurb:

Desert Island Dicks and Where Woodwose Walk team up to reflect on the ongoing global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s.

Across ten tracks (including one collaboration) named after British retail chains that went into administration following the crisis, the two groups use noise, drones, field recordings, sampling and live instrumentation to explore connections between the current malaise and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Train sounds, Cisco Houston, news reports, Woolworths, Zavvi, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?", corporate malfeasance and T.S. Eliot all come together for the first time in what critics are already calling "Capitalist Realism in a disused arms factory". The two groups have pledged to make an accompanying follow-up album in the event of a double-dip recession.

natural snow buildings - this ice fortress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlGHPMvUWM

youtubers itt killin it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8

Still discovering new stuff and throwing my draft EOY ballot into disarray...

The Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir album is very pretty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUt_1-rSTiQ

As is The Advisory Circle album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuckyVN5dsQ

http://soundcloud.com/corpse-lights/youplayaarp

i like these guys. more explicitly indebted to anco than most stuff in this vein. its got this eerily unhurried vibe, even as the vocalist chokes and splutters away.

lee noble - youre privilege (bathetic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mNYIC9OWKw

spent some of the money my dad sent me on this record i like how little it presumes, how resolutely minor and low key a record this is, how it fades and stutters and never quite works up the courage to ask for yr attn

stephen mathieu - dawn (12k)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FOeWzXTdo

dreaming