Amon Tobin - Bricolage

IDM? I actually have a terrible time classifying this

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The Cockmariners Best Albums of 2010

Spoon - Transference



good rock music.
????
what do you say about Spoon
get their other albums
this is included because Who Makes Your Money is the greatest song

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Caribou - Swim



[01:09] Doug: I expected nothing less
[01:09] Kiza: caribou is dope electronic music that doesn't sound like electronic music
[01:10] Doug: that's
[01:10] Doug: fucking accurate
[01:10] Doug: thanks

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Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma



everyone already has this?
okay ):

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Four Tet - There Is Love In You



Four Tet is pretty cool. Samples and electronic chillll warm, for electronic music. used to be Fridge

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Tame Impala - Innerspeaker



I have no idea what to say about this because I have not been listening to the hype
but Kiza says it's proggy/trippy

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Gorillaz - Plastic Beach



couldn't leave this one out without shouting out to Franc who runs a terrible blog don't visit it

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Yawning Man - Nomadic Pursuits




man is this roundabout or what
might as well have been alphabetical
uh if you like yawning man get this
it is more yawning man
less dawn
but still yawning man

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fuckin' DID IT.

The Cockmariners Best Albums of 2010

The Roots - How I Got Over



5 stars out of 5

sparse piano-y beats (live as usual) "a bloo bloo" lyricism of the best kind

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Curren$y – Pilot Talk



5 stars out of 5

swag swag swag swag swag swag

probably the best way to describe this, Curren$y is dope, that Wiz Khalifa-brand of southern rapper obsessed with weeeeeeeeeeeeed

weeeeeeeeeed

hedonistic as fuck but also chill as fuck and the production by Ski-Beatz is crazy good

check out "breakfast" for a sample


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Earl Sweatshirt – EARL




get

this

this is an acquired taste

"Earl puts the ass in assassin
and puts the pieces of decomposing bodies in plastic
puts em in a pan and mixes it up with scat
then gobbles it up like fat black bitches and catfish"

yeah

this is all fantasyland violence with the Slim Shady LP as an obvious predecessor and it'd be terrible and stupid if the music wasn't actually so good

fantastic kinda lo-fi beats with crazy synths and shit

and Earl, who is 17 and talks about raping and murdering women but with mad rapping skills

don't call it horrorcore

and fuck steve harvey

FREE EARL


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Freddie Gibbs – Str8 Killa



classic southern hip-hop subject matter and delivery packaged in the form of a bunch of dope songs

not much to say other than get it son

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Das Racist – Sit Down, Man



um

tongue in cheek stuff

nothing like Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (which WAS awesome)

approach with a sense of humour

they're actually pretty good rappers, check out "Hahaha JK"

internet as FUCK

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Big Krit – Krit Wuz Here



more southern hip hop

repping Mississippi

a little too long but still good

soulful shit motherfucker

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Top 25 of 2010 Part 2

Nosaj Thing – Drift Remixed



huge ups to everyone on this album for making such varied tracks. this actually made me finally get a Dorian Concept album. fuck yeah electronic music

bleep bloop

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Mass of the Fermenting Dregs – Some Japanese Shit



I have heard this called too many things
I've heard it called shoegaze, post-rock, metal, punk, dreampop, and alternative rock.
there are guitars so it is guitar music.
that's about all I am willing to explain about these guys other than their 09 album was better and they are all japanese


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Emancipator – Safe In The Steep Cliffs



Abra called this hip-hop earlier
I laughed in her face
down-tempo to the core, Emancipator has a warm homey feeling to him. the majority of his music feels too under-produced to be called instrumental hip-hop, and it's hard to call a guy with this many samples IDM or something like that. He's like 22, and he is a boss. I do recommend this.

get it

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The National - High Violet



deep voiced Matt Berninger rocks the baritone yet again. Seems like The National can't make a bad record. overall solid, and a worthy addition to their discography.

looowwwww



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Dessa – A Badly Broken Code



actually found this lady because of an NPR article my mother was listening to
she wanted me to let her listen some more
my mother is a pimp
and Dessa, being female, is insane.
I am joking not all females are insane just most of them
she's a pretty conscious-rap rapper, and what Kiza identifies as "backpacker shit"
friend of P.O.S. (yeah right P.O.S.) and Doomtree member, Dessa seems to craft her lyrics from stone, into which they are set forever. I'm pretty sure she's happy with how she writes, and I'm happy with how it sounds.
everyone is happy but kiza
):


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Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers



post-dubstep or something man I am not sure
it's the and dude
no one likes ampersands

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your go, K

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

look I know you have this I just

look calm down

calm down motherfucker

sit down, man

I'm actually hoping this gets taken down.

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65daysofstatic - Escape From New York

man how dope is 65

man are we busy or what get back to us in a week or whatever

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upload some toe, doug

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Colour Haze - Colour Haze

I sit myself high upon a mountain top an d I look far, far across the hills
I'm so loaded, man, so deep and full, with all the love and all that is real
We gotta cry out and reach out and turn our twisted minds
And feel the connection that is between you and all that is alive

To be with the smallest and biggest without fear and without pride
I went through the chappel of dangers a few hundred times
And I had to work so hard to keep my love and intuition
And not to loose my guts and not to loose my mind
I reach out, a step foeward, I stumble and I fall
All my greed and longing wasn't for the real at all

SO REACH OUT, REACH OUT get a hand brothers and sisters
Grow on your kindness, love harmony and peace
Empty yourselves of everything, gain in loosing, thriving your freedom
I tried, but I'm sure you will

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Wisp - Honor Beats

wonerful wisp
again

one of his earlier releases
get the other two (shimmering hour and we miss you) before this one

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Top 25 of 2010 Part 1

Check it yo

this isn't in any particular order

Sungrazer – Sungrazer



Dope motherfucking stoner rock. This is really Doug's album but I've listened to it a few times. Riff-based, melodic stoner rock with ridiculous guitar tone just all over your ears. Kyuss influence all over this but it's stoner rock so I guess that's expected. Vocalist is not really Garcia-style stoner rock kinda shit; more "pretty" if you want. Sounds a bit like Lil B

ha ha just kidding

get it or be a lady

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The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt



DOUGLAS GUEST WRITIN' WHAT WHAT

so I'm not cut out for this writing shit, but Kiza and Kristian (The Tallest Man On Earth) certainly are. The simple visual imagery is just for story-telling. First time I heard this guy, I didn't seem to enjoy anything but his guitar-work (which is fabulous, might I add) until I got more into hip-hop.

That's right. Jay-Z and Nujabes got me into Dylan-vox folk.
The lyrical content is pretty absurd here, so you have to pay attention to get the stories, and recognize when he's just rambling about how much he's walked around and seen everything. After that, and the odd voice, The Tallest Man On Earth is incredibly happy music. Being able to hear the artist smile is one of my favorite qualities in music, and you'll never here this guy sing without emotion.

gettttttt

oh and King of Spain is immaculate

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The Black Keys – Brothers



The best blues-rock album of 2010 and probably just the best straight up rock album of 2010. The Black Keys, until Attack and Release, were getting stale, what with their 3 or 4 lo-fi blues rock albums. I mean it was good, but that shit was getting MAD OLD

but then Attack and Release came with it's flashes of psychedelia and Danger Mouse production and breathed life into the project. even so, it was lacking a certain something; it just felt uninteresting at some points. Brothers is the intersection of the psychedelic side of the black keys and the blues rock side and it's fucking great, man. Fantastic, mature songwriting mixed with varied instrumentation and just fucking

the fucking BLUES, dude
there's a big soul influence in the record too
it's great you should get it

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Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy



Man I really don't want to talk about this album

Y'all know about it already

fucking

Columbians know about this shit

fuck

alright alright

the checklist of awesome things about this album:

fucking massive choirs and shit
crazy clever lyricism
dope ass producers fucking everywhere (Kanye basically invited all the dopest motherfuckers ever to Hawaii and let them be awesome with him)
even with all the producers here Kanye's at least co-producing every song here
Justin Vernon
NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT POWER
Raekwon's verse at the end of "Gorgeous"
the fact that All of the Lights features like 10 or twenty different musicians and singers and you can't even tell if any of those motherfuckers are on there at all
Pussies in sarcophagi
Nicki Minaj on Monster
fucking crazy ass instrumentation (strings, pianos, vocoders, guitars, fucking choirs, synths, fucking everything shit man)
the pronunciation of "ridiculous" on So Appalled
the ridikalus beat on So Appalled
the vintage Kanye production on Devil In A New Dress that you only realise is not vintage Kanye production at all but Bink production after reading the liner notes
the chorus of Runaway
the 3-minute vocoder solo in Runaway
falling in love with pornstars
Kanye turning "Woods" into the tribal auto-tune america-choir of Lost in The World
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA

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Big Boi – Sir Lucious Leftfoot



The second-best hip hop album of 2010. Crazy ass production (Big Boi co-produces on around half of the songs). Big Boi rapping in top form. This shit was delayed WAY TOO FUCKING LONG

fuck Jive Records

no three stacks on here because of Jive Records

fuck them

fuck Steve Harvey too

basically this is just some dope-ass rhymes and dope ass beats

funky motherfucking shit

musically adventurous

crazy ass album

fuck

i mean this is really good guys

get it

big boi was basically like yo fuck all this other shit here's the funkiest shit fucking ever

and then he dropped this

(if you want a preview check out Shutterbugg or Fo Yo Sorrows)

get it fucker

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James Blake – CMYK



What up it's James Blake

i've already talked about James Blake on here already

but basically:

minimal dubstep (or post-dubstep if you want to just shit all over everything) with chopped up vocal samples (from both 90s and 00s r&b and his own vocals)

piano too

crazy melodic and crazy experimental

his full album is dope as fuck too but it wasn't "released" in 2010 because you're all criminals

CMYK is more dancey (insofar as James Blake can be dancey) and synthy

Klavierwerke is more personal piano works filtered through a scratchy ass laptop mic and
Blake's own minimal arrangements

good shit yo check that shit


got 3 maybe 4 more parts for ya'll now sit down before I kill your whole family

Fridge - Happiness

weird electronic music I found a million years ago

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65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time

65 is still good yo

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Venetian Snares - Hospitality

it's 5 in the morning.
like an alarm clock being woken up at 5 am
the alarm clock is actually being woken up.

remember kids, you thrive on the music, we thrive on the comments we get. any attention to know ANYthing reads our blog is enough.


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Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

aoty
forgot to put this on the list

get vbr

harps
this is two hours long, by the way

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Band - Album

2011 what what what

get weed erry day

not saying anything because there's no way this isn't on watch
not sure if this is what I wanted in a Kampf album
I will listen again in the morning

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Rooftops - A Forest Of Polarity

don't download this album motherfucker

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Wisp - The Shimmering Hour

jesus Wisp is good
subtle
good to be back, 2011

get dat 320

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