en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices pimentogrove's Last.fm Journal http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal The Last.fm journal for pimentogrove. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. Memory Aid 13 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2013/05/07/5thrnz_memory_aid_13 Tue, 7 May 2013 20:28:37 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2013/05/07/5thrnz_memory_aid_13 Miles: Faint Hearted
Them Bird Things: Pachyderm Nightmares
Ashley Paul: Line The Clouds
Clouds: USB Islands
Grouper: The Man Who Died In His Boat
William Basinski & Richard Chartier: Aurora Liminalis
My Bloody Valentine: m b v
Actress: Silver Cloud
Ruffhouse: Strangers/The Domino Effect 12''
Autre Ne Veut: Anxiety
Alberich: Turned Back
John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts
Aki Rissanen, Robin Verheyen & Markku Ounaskari: Aleatoric
Demdike Stare: Test Pressings 1 & 2]]> Becoming 2012 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2012/04/12/5f41e0_becoming_2012 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:26:44 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2012/04/12/5f41e0_becoming_2012 January–November

Exceptional
Swans: The Seer
Julia Holter: Ekstasis
Jessie Ware: Devotion
Kreng: Works for Abattoir Fermé 2007–2011
Vatican Shadow: Ornamented Walls
Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti: Gramercy
Mike Shiflet: Merciless
Anna von Hausswolff: Ceremony
Helena Gough: Knot Invariants
Roman Catholic Skulls: Weathered
Giuseppe Ielasi: Untitled, 2011
Vazz: Whisper Not
La Bambola Del Dr Caligari: The Wrong Holiday

Nice
Actress: R.I.P
Chromatics: Kill For Love
Loren Nerell: Point of Arrival
Fay: DIN
Soap&Skin: Narrow
Grouper: Violet Replacement: Sleep/Rolling Gate
Vatican Shadow: Kneel Before Religious Icons
Daniel Menche: Guts
Verneri Pohjola Quartet: Ancient History
Burial: Kindred EP
Nina Kraviz: Nina Kraviz
Mirrorring: Foreign Body
Cicciolina Holocaust: Albeit Albeit
Eeliks:en: Suutre Teiter
Ingenting Kollektiva: Fragments of Night]]> 25 of 11 Scaled Up http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2011/12/15/58vg9g_25_of_11_scaled_up Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:05:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2011/12/15/58vg9g_25_of_11_scaled_up PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
Grouper: A I A: Alien Observer/Dream Loss
Jenny Hval: Viscera
Julia Holter: Tragedy
Gang Gang Dance: Eye Contact

Andy Stott: Passed Me By/We Stay Together
Dalglish: Benacah Drann Deachd
Kreng: Grimoire
Zola Jesus: Conatus
Leyland Kirby: Intrigue & Stuff vols 1–3

The Caretaker: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Leyland Kirby: Eager to Tear Apart the Stars
Kuedo: Severant
Laurel Halo: Hour Logic EP
Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow

Tom Waits: Bad As Me
Tindersticks: Claire Denis Film Soundtracks 1996–2009
Still Corners: Creatures of an Hour
John Maus: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Tori Amos: Night of Hunters

Maria Minerva: Tallinn at Dawn
Zomby: Dedication
St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
Burial: Street Halo EP
AIDS Wolf: Ma vie banale avant-garde]]> Sounds of '10 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2010/12/25/44djlx_sounds_of_%2710 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:58:32 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2010/12/25/44djlx_sounds_of_%2710 This is the incomprehensive reflection of the finest of this year's releases to have passed through me; mainly what I have caught from crisscross-references on paper and screen and from interesting users here in last.fm (TheBlackPope and SimiArbeit perhaps as the most stalked, even if not many explicit steals appear on the list).

In order of affection.
So much else goes unmentioned here.
Perhaps a rewind/fast-forward in blog form to be announced later.

Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me
Anna von Hausswolff, Singing from the Grave
Richard Skelton, Landings
Zs, New Slaves
Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma

Verneri Pohjola Quartet, Hot Pot Around the Sun
Helena Gough, Mikroklimata
Catherine Christer Hennix, The Electric Harpsichord
Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights
Islaja, Keraaminen Pää

LA Vampires & Zola Jesus, LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus
Various Artists, Bob Blank – The Blank Generation – The Blank Tapes NYC 1975–1987
Jennifer Walshe, Nature Data
Swans, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Greg Haines, Until the Point of Hushed Support

Zola Jesus, Stridulum II
The Knife, Tomorrow, In a Year
Pan Sonic, Gravitoni
David Sylvian, Sleepwalkers
Excepter, Presidence]]> 07_20 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2007/12/23/b6cdw_07_20 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:52:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2007/12/23/b6cdw_07_20 The top foam of the year, as listed for rockmusica.net:

1. PJ Harvey: White Chalk
2. Frida Hyvönen: Pudel
3. Rufus Wainwright: Release The Stars
4. Blonde Redhead: 23
5. Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall
6. Feist: The Reminder
7. Joanna Newsom: Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band EP
8. Björk: Volta
9. Burial: Untrue
10. Laura Veirs: Saltbreakers
11. Sigur Rós: Hvarf/Heim
12. Elliott Smith: New Moon
13. St. Vincent: Marry Me
14. Cinematic Orchestra: Ma Fleur
15. Radiohead: In Rainbows
16. Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position
17. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
18. Interpol: Our Love To Admire
19. Tori Amos: American Doll Posse
20. Beirut: The Flying Club Cup

And the few interesting Finns:

1. Mikko Innanen & Innkvisito: Paa-da-pap
2. Islaja: Ulual YYY
3. Eleanoora Rosenholm: Vainajan muotokuva
4. Pan Sonic: Katodivaihe]]> Everyone needs this http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2007/02/25/b6cdu_everyone_needs_this Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:37:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2007/02/25/b6cdu_everyone_needs_this The song The NeverEver blows you away, take my worth-a-penny-word for it.

Listen, ilona virostek on myspace.]]> the year 2006: precious waste of time http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2007/01/23/b6cdt_the_year_2006:_precious_waste_of_time Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:41:02 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/pimentogrove/journal/2007/01/23/b6cdt_the_year_2006:_precious_waste_of_time forced out of me for the finnish music website rockmusica.net

+ added links to my reviews at rockmusica.net (only in finnish though)
and there's a great review here of Joanna's Ys written by pe-tra.

1. Joanna Newsom: Ys
2. Tys Tys: Twisted Fingers Soft Light Blue
3. Tom Waits: Orphans
4. Joan as Police Woman: Real Life
5. PJ Harvey: The Peel Sessions 1991-2004
6. Emilie Simon: Vegetale
7. Thom Yorke: The Eraser
8. Anna Ternheim: Separation Road
9. Sparklehorse: Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
10. Regina Spektor: Begin To Hope
11. Beth Orton: Comfort Of Strangers
12. Jane Birkin: Fictions
13. Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid: The Exchange Sessions vol. 1&2
14. Susanna and the Magical Orchestra: Melody Mountain
15. Cat Power: The Greatest
16. TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
17. The Flaming Lips: At War With the Mystics
18. Matmos: The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
19. Placebo: Meds
20. Mogwai: Mr. Beast

and on hindsight i'd add sol seppy's "bells of 1 2" somewhere.
plus cat power'd deserve to be way higher.

and the only finns i found even remotely worth lavishing my time upon last year:

1. Ilmiliekki Quartet: Take It With Me
(actually the rest is futile after this..)
2. Joose Keskitalo: Kaupungit puristuvat puristimissa
3. Oddarrang: Music Illustrated
4. Magyar Posse: Random Avenger
5. Tommi Liimatta: Tropical Cocktail
6. Tuomari Nurmio & Kongontien orkesteri: Tangomanifesti

Joanna NewsomTys TysTom WaitsIlmiliekki QuartetJoan As Police Woman]]>