MGMT - Congratulations Vampire Weekend - Contra
The Roots - How I Got Over
Mark Sultan - $
The New Pornographers - Together
Jason & The Scorchers - Halcyon Times
Los Lobos - Tin Can Trust Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
Crystal Castles - S/T
These two albums are fantastic, just thought they should be mentioned again.
I think you should check out Transference by Spoon, This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem, Brothers by The Black Keys, Teen Dream by Beach House, Astro Coast by Surfer Blood, and Big Echo by The Morning Benders. I think you'll enjoy those albums, although some of them may be a tad on the too pop-ish side for you.
Alpha Rev - Greatest Thing Ive Ever Learned Guster - Hanging Up on the Sun Eric Hutchinson - Before I sold Out
and been listening to a lot of David Gray lately...always liked his stuff.
The Black Keys
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Vampire Weekend
The Dead Weather
Arcade Fire
Band of Horses
Avenged Sevenfold
Against Me
Anberlin
Muse
Kings of Leon
Metric
Not to derail this thread but can someone recommend some good jazz bands out there? More instrumental I think but I am open to whatever.
A jazz band i just discovered that i am really enjoying right now is 'inhabitants' from vancouver. I wouldnt say that they are typical jazz, but that is the category they seem to fall under and have basic jazz elements. They have a really cool almost ambient sound and in some ways remind me of godspeed you! black emperor. if you are downloading the music off itunes dont confuse them with the spanish(?) band also called inhabitants.
EDIT: As to the original post .. May have been mentioned already, I also enjoy the most recent albums from:
-The XX
-The Soft Pack
-Sleigh Bells
-Black Keys
-LCD Soundsystem
-Arcade Fire
-Blitzen Trapper
-Wild Beats
Like Fleet Foxes? try: Local Natives
Feeling open minded? try: The Books
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Watch MGMT's video for the title track to Congratulations. It features Ben Goldwasser and Adam VanWyngarden walking through a desert with some sort of sad creature that's part dinosaur, part bird and part dog. This video actually makes me really sad for some reason.
This should be one hell of a weird video to watch while stoned out of your brains.
I've been enjoying Mumford and Sons a lot recently:
Picked up "the cave' (really like it), and 'little lion man' (absolutely love it) off itunes. Listened to the rest of the album and was rather disappointed that the rest of the songs don't share the same tempo.
The album by Them Crooked Vultures is great, top to bottom. Good to see Mr. Grohl back behind the drum set...
Rose Hill Drive, sort of garage-band-meets-blues. A number of good tracks on their two studio releases, but mostly they're a touring band. Unfortunately youtube is filled with crappy video shot on cell phones.
Picked up "the cave' (really like it), and 'little lion man' (absolutely love it) off itunes. Listened to the rest of the album and was rather disappointed that the rest of the songs don't share the same tempo.
Really? I quite like the album although Little Lion Man is easily the best song on the album. I mean how can you not tap your foot to that song. I hear what you are saying with the tempo though.
Picked up "the cave' (really like it), and 'little lion man' (absolutely love it) off itunes. Listened to the rest of the album and was rather disappointed that the rest of the songs don't share the same tempo.
I quite like White Blank Page as well.
I'm just disappointed I found out about these guys after their Montreal show already sold out....
A jazz band i just discovered that i am really enjoying right now is 'inhabitants' from vancouver. I wouldnt say that they are typical jazz, but that is the category they seem to fall under and have basic jazz elements.
