Tom Whalen Poop ’12

Posted By: TomW January 25, 2013

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1. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
<< Am I old enough to miss being young? How it felt, how it sounded? Who of us ever thought a record would ever, ever, ever again sound like this, feel like this!?

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2. Burial – Kindred EP
<< Burial’s embrace of long-form, mixtapeish compositions, here and on Truant/Rough Sleeper, was as unexpected as it was revelatory. The texture of this music, both physical and emotional, is simply staggering. This guy’s like the Beatles to me.

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3. Action Bronson and Party Supplies – Blue Chips
<< It’s hard to pin down why Bronson’s playful horny chef routine pulled me in deeper than did the cough-syrupy, more classically street MC class of 2012… on second thought, I guess that’s not really all that hard to pin down at all.

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4. Craig Finn – Clear Heart Full Eyes
<< I am the perennial Finn fanboy, and 4 is my lucky number. The rest is sort of hard to explain.

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5. Cheap Girls – Giant Orange
<< It’s funny how old-fashioned terms “college rock” and “alt rock” seem now. I guess it’s also curious that, as I struggle for the appropriate modifiers to sum up the shamelessly simple pleasures of Giant Orange, “old-fashioned” seems strangely appropriate, and also somewhat poignant. Heck, they’re reissuing their old records on Asian Man!!

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6. Holy Other – Held
<< The pulsing, wordless cry is both Holy Other’s sonic signature and a flag marking its mournfully erotic sonic terrain. Take a look at the cover—that’s exactly what this album sounds like.

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7. Shigeto – Lineage EP
<< Producers doing more with less seems to be the order of the moment, now that the dubstep bubble has burst. Shigeto’s Lineage EP uses jazz hands and piano loops to channel RZA channeling Monk on 36 Chambers—quietly mournful, quietly bright.

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8. How to Dress Well – Total Loss
<< Tom Krell refined the overdriven Lynchian soul of his debut into straight-up cosmic art-school Boys II Men. An inspiring, incredibly heartfelt record.

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9. Chairlift – Something
<< The album as a whole is terrific, but “I Belong In Your Arms” and “Take It Out On Me” really make this one for me—two absolutely gorgeous tunes.

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10. Angel Olsen – Half Way Home
<< More uplifting than any album about death has any business being. A fine secular spiritual that is, I reckon, up many of my fellow Poopster’s alleys—check it out!


15 more

Ash Borer – Cold of Ages
Baroness – Yellow & Green
Burial – Truant / Rough Sleeper EP
The Caretaker – Patience (After Sebald)
Chromatics – Kill for Love
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Stops
Daughn Gibson – All Hell
High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Mean Jeans – On Mars
The Men – Open Your Heart
Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
Susumu Yokota – Dreamer



Praise the day, people.

TW, January 2013


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