indiecontextual #17 - we build things high
it was the last and most exciting show of the year! erin's top 25 albums of 2005. just fit in 22 on the show, and there's actually 26 on the list. more just seems to keep finding its way in to the limits i set. but i like abundance, and i really like every one of these albums.
ERIN'S TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2005:
#1. wolf parade: apologies to the queen mary (modern world)
this is the greatest band in the universe. they top all lists of everything. they drink all the beer. they have kindly devoted generous portions of their lives to making music that makes me ecstatic. every sound they make proves boredom wrong. proves silence a sucker.
#2. sufjan stevens: illinois (come on! feel the illinoise!)
this is the sound of life. it's sad, it's pretty, it's in middle america (or somewhere down there) and it's in you, in me, what's the difference. focusing on one place, sufjan has made the sound of everywhere.
#3. animal collective: feels (purple bottle)
i freak out. freak. out.
#4. wintersleep: wintersleep (jaws of life)
this album is like a really good relationship. dynamic and intimate. it rocks and it whispers and its liner notes consist of a storybook about a boy who lost his heart. he lost his heart!
#5. the white stripes: get behind me satan (my doorbell)
jack white bends space and time with his mouth and eats rock and roll with his feet and kicks it all out with his hands. 5th incredible album by prolific and diverse genius and his sweet rockin sister.
#6. why?: elephant eyelash (gemini)
why? why? why? oh, is life difficult, say it in a new way and tell the story, i never expected, the kind of thing never really described quite and then you know you're still alive, and mix some genres in the notebook, i'm hooked.
#7. clap your hands say yeah: clap your hands say yeah (over and over)
dude, the name says it all. do it. it just sounds good. it mumbles jagged like that. there's cynicism, there's lethargy, there's some kind of driving force shouting all the time, all the time and it's worth it.
#8. broken social scene: broken social scene (it's all gonna break)
this was number 2 on my canadian list, but wintersleep beat it out in the final count, because when it comes down to it, broken social scene is so fucking hip and you love the edgy majesty of it all, but it might just flake out on you on a couple tracks where it's just too thinly and coolly sweet to really mean it. wintersleep will never let you down. but, this one can make your hair dance without you. you might not even notice. unreal.
#9. BARR: beyond reinforced jewel case (like, i used to like)
this is shouted to the point in your face, drummed in, self-conscious, world aware, ok. words matter. and that you shout them too.
#10. sunset rubdown: snake's got a leg (i'll believe in anything, you'll believe in anything)
oh! wolf parade side projects make me ecstatic too! sunset rubdown is just like that, kind of dark and slowing down, but getting intense and turning you on, and being weird, in a hot way.
#11. MIA: arular (bingo)
do you have any crazy techno? yes!!! it almost makes me dance, but more makes break words and say something to get someone thinking. when you're using language might well play it. play it.
#12. woody whatever: the great pop (just enough rope for you)
rocks subtle sweet like a beatle in tragic love with the modern world and not coming out of the garage except to be just like you.
#13. lcd soundsystem: lcd soundsystem (disco infiltrator)
this is hot.
#14. bright eyes: digital ash in a digital urn (goldmine gutted)
yes, I like this one better. it's got like low-fi techno through which to hear some sad and honest poetry, this is an intimate thing, this is not always not ever pretty, i like it a little dirty, the speakers, the beating of yr sticks and pen and machines and heart. it's all heart and machines, heart and machines. yes I like it better.
#15. bright eyes: i'm wide awake it's morning (landlocked blues)
okay, it's possibly the most beautiful thing ever, oh the poetry. but if you know the depths, it's so cleaned up, and yeah, honest and heartfelt and simple and like a heart wide open to everyone, like a wedding a little more formal than i always like, even though meaningful so much.
#16. architecture in helsinki: in case we die (frenchy, i'm faking)
people yelling things together and overtures of pop. it's like a party with some nice people, they're so nice.
#17. the most serene republic: underwater cinematographer (relative's eyes)
we should all sing along, i think we are in this band, i feel like i'm in it, but, just in the background. there's alot of layers and sounds to get along with.
#18. beck: guero (hell yes)
hell yes. and all those things he does. this one does alot of moves, maybe the maturing of all those older moves. this one doesn't grab me by the insides like alot of his earlier masterpieces, and much of the above, but it can certainly rock through you and it does follow.
#19. the decemberists: picaresque (16 military wives)
these guys are so dramatic it's not the top of my favourite adjectives, but they rock the pop truly, and get the depths of it. the depths.
#20. chad vangaalen: infiniheart (after the afterlife)
pained whispers with force. nicely too. intensity in the quiet, like it rocks through sleeping headphones.
#21. new pornographers: twin cinema (twin cinema)
pop is never too sweet when it's not produced like candy.
#22. sleater-kinney: the woods (entertain)
sleater-kinney got electrocuted by guitar rock. this can break your speakers, don't argue with them.
#23. the feminists: she could be
i like intense indie pop rock. let's yell and tap our feet, or you could dance.
#24. ok go: oh no
oh a pop record with all the best edges.
#25. deerhoof: the runners four
sometimes it feels like very small fairies are telling it like it is. they know a thing about it. you could learn to make a mistake. and speak a new. i can't do it every day or else i would be more avant garde, i like those pop records more often. but it's significant.
#26. sigur ros: takk. . .
hits and lifts up overtop like flying carpets you can sleep on. exciting new interpretation of relaxation.
#number in order of bestness in my authoritative opinion. artist: album (song played on show)
things it makes me say
ERIN'S TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2005:
#1. wolf parade: apologies to the queen mary (modern world)
this is the greatest band in the universe. they top all lists of everything. they drink all the beer. they have kindly devoted generous portions of their lives to making music that makes me ecstatic. every sound they make proves boredom wrong. proves silence a sucker.
#2. sufjan stevens: illinois (come on! feel the illinoise!)
this is the sound of life. it's sad, it's pretty, it's in middle america (or somewhere down there) and it's in you, in me, what's the difference. focusing on one place, sufjan has made the sound of everywhere.
#3. animal collective: feels (purple bottle)
i freak out. freak. out.
#4. wintersleep: wintersleep (jaws of life)
this album is like a really good relationship. dynamic and intimate. it rocks and it whispers and its liner notes consist of a storybook about a boy who lost his heart. he lost his heart!
#5. the white stripes: get behind me satan (my doorbell)
jack white bends space and time with his mouth and eats rock and roll with his feet and kicks it all out with his hands. 5th incredible album by prolific and diverse genius and his sweet rockin sister.
#6. why?: elephant eyelash (gemini)
why? why? why? oh, is life difficult, say it in a new way and tell the story, i never expected, the kind of thing never really described quite and then you know you're still alive, and mix some genres in the notebook, i'm hooked.
#7. clap your hands say yeah: clap your hands say yeah (over and over)
dude, the name says it all. do it. it just sounds good. it mumbles jagged like that. there's cynicism, there's lethargy, there's some kind of driving force shouting all the time, all the time and it's worth it.
#8. broken social scene: broken social scene (it's all gonna break)
this was number 2 on my canadian list, but wintersleep beat it out in the final count, because when it comes down to it, broken social scene is so fucking hip and you love the edgy majesty of it all, but it might just flake out on you on a couple tracks where it's just too thinly and coolly sweet to really mean it. wintersleep will never let you down. but, this one can make your hair dance without you. you might not even notice. unreal.
#9. BARR: beyond reinforced jewel case (like, i used to like)
this is shouted to the point in your face, drummed in, self-conscious, world aware, ok. words matter. and that you shout them too.
#10. sunset rubdown: snake's got a leg (i'll believe in anything, you'll believe in anything)
oh! wolf parade side projects make me ecstatic too! sunset rubdown is just like that, kind of dark and slowing down, but getting intense and turning you on, and being weird, in a hot way.
#11. MIA: arular (bingo)
do you have any crazy techno? yes!!! it almost makes me dance, but more makes break words and say something to get someone thinking. when you're using language might well play it. play it.
#12. woody whatever: the great pop (just enough rope for you)
rocks subtle sweet like a beatle in tragic love with the modern world and not coming out of the garage except to be just like you.
#13. lcd soundsystem: lcd soundsystem (disco infiltrator)
this is hot.
#14. bright eyes: digital ash in a digital urn (goldmine gutted)
yes, I like this one better. it's got like low-fi techno through which to hear some sad and honest poetry, this is an intimate thing, this is not always not ever pretty, i like it a little dirty, the speakers, the beating of yr sticks and pen and machines and heart. it's all heart and machines, heart and machines. yes I like it better.
#15. bright eyes: i'm wide awake it's morning (landlocked blues)
okay, it's possibly the most beautiful thing ever, oh the poetry. but if you know the depths, it's so cleaned up, and yeah, honest and heartfelt and simple and like a heart wide open to everyone, like a wedding a little more formal than i always like, even though meaningful so much.
#16. architecture in helsinki: in case we die (frenchy, i'm faking)
people yelling things together and overtures of pop. it's like a party with some nice people, they're so nice.
#17. the most serene republic: underwater cinematographer (relative's eyes)
we should all sing along, i think we are in this band, i feel like i'm in it, but, just in the background. there's alot of layers and sounds to get along with.
#18. beck: guero (hell yes)
hell yes. and all those things he does. this one does alot of moves, maybe the maturing of all those older moves. this one doesn't grab me by the insides like alot of his earlier masterpieces, and much of the above, but it can certainly rock through you and it does follow.
#19. the decemberists: picaresque (16 military wives)
these guys are so dramatic it's not the top of my favourite adjectives, but they rock the pop truly, and get the depths of it. the depths.
#20. chad vangaalen: infiniheart (after the afterlife)
pained whispers with force. nicely too. intensity in the quiet, like it rocks through sleeping headphones.
#21. new pornographers: twin cinema (twin cinema)
pop is never too sweet when it's not produced like candy.
#22. sleater-kinney: the woods (entertain)
sleater-kinney got electrocuted by guitar rock. this can break your speakers, don't argue with them.
#23. the feminists: she could be
i like intense indie pop rock. let's yell and tap our feet, or you could dance.
#24. ok go: oh no
oh a pop record with all the best edges.
#25. deerhoof: the runners four
sometimes it feels like very small fairies are telling it like it is. they know a thing about it. you could learn to make a mistake. and speak a new. i can't do it every day or else i would be more avant garde, i like those pop records more often. but it's significant.
#26. sigur ros: takk. . .
hits and lifts up overtop like flying carpets you can sleep on. exciting new interpretation of relaxation.
#number in order of bestness in my authoritative opinion. artist: album (song played on show)
things it makes me say
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