My Favorite Albums of 2009
Artist SAMO4PREZ top albums of 2009
Ok, it has taken me a little while to post my top albums of 2009. I didn't want to, so I decided to post my favorite albums of 2009. Since I have been spending 14-18 hours a day in the studio painting or designing the next Veritas Fashion line, I have been listening to a shitload of tunes (new & old). My absolute favorite album of 2009 Say Hi- Oohs and Aahs, I bought it back in early March and listen to it on a weekly basis, if I am painting I place all of Say Hi and Say Hi to your Mom albums in the mix, I absolutely love Eric Elbogen. (He has been on tour with David Bazan)
Anyways, here are my favorite albums of 2009 in a random mish mash of genre and order.
Handsome Furs- Face Control
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5mbeXHOmo]
Fever Ray- Fever Ray
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-CpE73o2M]
Knaan- Troubador
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxmEd9lcn0k&feature=related]
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson- Summer of Fear
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodSpF8DOhk]
The Mountain Goats- The Life of the World to Come
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-zZJu6LKI]
Julian Plenti- Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1aoW6nPUrc]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4itzHRpltQ]
We Were Promised Jetpacks- These Four Walls
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz_iMjfsqV4]
Say Hi- Oohs and Aahs
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry6dBOsiwAQ]
The Dead Wheather- Horehound
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2L28uZ5RQ]
Dan Deacon-Bromst
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPddleVa6yg]
Passion Pit-Manners
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zherMkcXdo]
The Low Anthem-Oh My God Charlie Darwin
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qkGoqAZrqI]
The Avette Brothers-I and Love and You
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj8HDe5M-Jo]
Blakroc-Blakroc
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vtWNDI_EOI]
Coconut Records- Davey
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDVX6fRSr4]
Dan Aerbauch- Keep it Hid
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzcZkl2IBE&feature=related]
Timbre Timbre-Timbre Timbre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tfw8SqeFEE
Tiny Vipers-Life on Earth
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B6SQwF21c]
The Big Pink- A Brief History of Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiHVNfrstnc]
Bon Iver- Blood Bank
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic7Tfm3-Bs8]
Antony and the Johnsonc- The Crying Light
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcYaQR9ABCM]
Aceyalone- The Lonely Ones
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbqZsSYUreU]
Sunset Rubdown- Dragonslayer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcuQO6p3xmI&feature=related]
SAMO4PREZ vs The Chinon AVi
A viral video for Chinon USA from the 5D Studio B...
Here is a little video I put together for my friends at Chinon USA with a little help from DJ Qbert and Rhazel. I spent about 150 hours on this little viddy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Labes-ATw6w]
Touch Tongues Now!
This is about music. This is about sound. This is about rock and roll.
Honestly, I don't know how to even word this post. My words are failing my thoughts as my fingers try and move in a fluid motion across the keyboard.
This is about music.
This is about sound.
This is about rock and roll.
This is about everything I love,
everything that is music.
My headphones have been currently producing the sounds of; Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, Glasvegas, The Dead Weather, Sun Kil Moon, Smog, M83, TV on the Radio, Boards of Canada, Jonsi and Alex, Say Hi, Discovery and The Passion Pit all merging with my all time favorites Bowie, Lou Reed, The Velvets, The Dolls, The Smiths, T Rex, The Fall, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Clash, Mott the Hoople and a whole entourage of others. I create a playlist every drudging half asleep morning of music from my vast and undiscovered library of music that no longer pushes the closet or shelf space but external HD space (3 of them now to be exact) in order to awaken my soul by 12 O’clock.
Once again, a specific duo has absolutely blown my ears into absolute oblivion, to the point where I have to get up and dance singing and shaking to the music that they continue to create. Not long ago I wrote a post about "The Greatest Band you have never heard of" and they still are! This creative force in the shape of two individuals are no longer named "Street Hassle", but now "Touch Tongues" . Honestly, what the hell is going on in the music world when a force of nature like Touch Tongues isn't in everyone's playlist, headphones, IPod or whatever you use to fill your ears with waves. Last week they uploaded a new songs to their MySpace page that were recorded in a single weekend in a storage shed. "Instead of a garage band we're a mini-storage band" Pierre Krause (The wife) told the Dallas Observer in an article last week.
I know "The Dead Weather" album is brilliant, amazing, I can't stop listening to it myself. But "Touch Tounges" is raw, is real, is rock and roll, is right here in Dallas. This is what Art is all about. Being an Artist myself, to lock yourself in a mini-storage shed and kick out songs, on your own, at the brilliance they have done. This is what creating is all about, this is the life of artists, this is the life of stories, this is the life of a generation of middle fingers and change.
Pierre and I go way back, I consider her family. I have always, for the number of years I have known her, called her the second coming of Patti Smith. Not only as a vocalist, but as a poet, an absolutely brilliant poet. You can here bits of Patti in every breath of her vocals while husband Chris is banging out Johnny Thunders, Mark Bolan, Bernard Sumner and Lou Reed guitar riffs to her haunting, yet powerful vocals that even hint at a female Ian Curtis. The new songs have a Joy Division feel in the sound, which always brings me that excited, yet sorrowful feeling.
Do yourself a damn favor, listen, and go see a show. Bring a crew out, dress up, go to dance, go with the attitude of visiting the Manchester's Rafters Club on April 14th 1978 and witnessing Joy Division, or David Bowie performing Ziggy Stardust in 1972. If you go with an attitude of rock and roll history, "Touch Tongues" will be one of the best shows you have ever seen.
