On October 26, 2018, I saw Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds perform at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It was one of the best shows I’ve seen all year. I’m not even a massive fan of Nick Cave. I’m pretty familiar with Skeleton Tree and Let Love In, but it’s kind of fringe from there on out. Regardless of my inexperience with his full catalog, I was fully dazzled, playing the songs I did know (bless the hits), along with Push The Sky Away stand out “Jubilee Street”.
At this moment in the show is when I decided, “wow – I’m really here for something extraordinary”. Just watch the video above and witness the grand build up and euphoric pay off at the end. Talk about energy, talk about showmanship, talk about brilliance. Luckily, Nick Cave recently released an EP of live cuts from a recent show in Copenhagen, which the video above is from as well. I’ve been listening to it nonstop, telling everyone about it.
Now I’m telling you, dear reader. Even if you’re completely unfamiliar with Cave’s work, I think you’ll probably enjoy this song.
With the end of the 10s rapidly approaching and with it, an inevitable decade-recapping list, I felt a deep inspiration to look back at my previous effort to summarize a decade’s musical output. I made a list of The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s back in high school. In the year 2000, I was but a fresh 8 years old, listening to the Indigo Girls, smooth jazz and Enya my parents played in the house. Not an ideal way to keep track of releases.
Eventually I came around to classic rock and then dived into the dungeon of indie rock, thanks to discovering sites like Pitchfork, Stereogum and other music blogs. I had a lot of catching up to do in listening to albums that were released pre-2007 while making the list in 2010, but I’d say that it was a pretty decent mirror to my personal tastes at the time, with a few minor exceptions. Looking back on it now, there are a few albums in there I don’t remember ever listening to, along with a few things ranked suspiciously high.
As a fun little project that took far too much of my time, I recreated the list to accommodate all the records from the 00s I’ve listened to since I published the original list. This process served as an ample distraction while my life hurtles at an uncomfortable speed toward “adulthood”. The end product is a winning Warm Visions bingo card: my useless knack for list-making, navel-gazing circle-jerkery, music that no one on the planet would consider unique or interesting in 2018 and beyond, and being approximately 8 years irrelevant are all present. Enjoy!
* indicates a record newly added to the list.
100. HEALTH – Get Color *
99. Studio – West Coast *
98. The Postal Service – Give Up
97. Colleen – Everyone Alive Wants Answers *
96. Kanye West – Late Registration
95. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine
94. The Tough Alliance – A New Chance
93. Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
92. Beck – The Information *
91. Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron & Fred Squire – Lost Wisdom *
90. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
89. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
88. The Killers – Hot Fuss
87. Life Without Buildings – Any Other City *
86. m83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
85. Sweet Trip – Velocity : Design : Comfort *
84. Smog – Dongs Of Sevotion *
83. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
82. Boris – Pink *
81. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
80. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 79. Beck – Modern Guilt
78. A Place To Bury Strangers – A Place To Bury Strangers *
77. Outkast – Stankonia
76. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
75. The Books – Thought For Food *
74. Sun Araw – Beach Head *
73. Animal Collective – Feels *
72. Portishead – Third
71. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism
70. Grizzly Bear – YellowHouse
69. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele *
68. Animal Collective – Sung Tongs *
67. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped *
66. Mount Eerie – Wind’s Poem *
65. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
64. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
63. Have A Nice Life – Deathconsciousness *
62. Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther *
61. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life *
60. Sleater-Kinney – One Beat *
59. Stars Of The Lid – The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid *
58. Arcade Fire – Funeral
57. Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
56. MF Doom – MM.. Food? *
55. Sam Amidon – All Is Well *
54. Songs: Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co. *
53. Flying Lotus – Los Angeles *
52. Broadcast – Haha Sound *
51. Sonic Youth – Murray Street *
Looking for a good wash of noise to cleanse yourself in? Boris’ 2005 album Pink, their best in my humble opinion, has a closer that will do it for you in spades. This 18-minute assault starts fast and then combusts into a raging, eternal flame of noise. Echoing for at least ten minutes is a spiteful shade, warming those who grant it access into their life.
One record I neglected to add to the Recommended Albums of September post from earlier this month was Mountain Man’s Magic Ship, their first record in over eight years. The trio of singers (Amelia Meath, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig & Molly Erin Sarlé) specialize in a blend of old time American & Appalachian vocal folk, the kind you might find in a Folkways compilation, and more modern songwriting tendencies. The split is about 50/50 between straight acapella + triple stack vocal harmony and one lead voice with backing vocals and instrumentation.
Most importantly for a vocal-based record, the three voices here mesh so seamlessly, yet have the ability stand out amongst themselves. The songs without any additional instrumentation hold their own amongst the more immediately approachable cuts, something that is not characteristic of recent trends in music at large. Usually the depth of the production behind the vocals and studio tricks are what pulls people in and shocks listeners, but in this case, the perfect harmony, evocative melody and simplicity of the lyrics keeps listeners easily entranced.
The song that jumped out to me on my first listen was “Moon”, a song that the group has been performing live since their first album Made The Harbor. It’s not the simplest song on the record (it features a great, shimmering guitar), but has one of the best melody + harmony combinations on the record and pulls yearnings for fall temperatures and cozy warmth out of my subconscious. There’s no one lead vocalist, rather all three combine together to tackle the melody, a rather complex and bounding one at that. All four voices (guitar included) cascade and shine throughout, achieving whatever cognitive affect is the opposite of whatever the olden folk thought was the “devil’s interval”. Just sublime euphoria.
I recently got the chance to see the group perform a few songs at a record store here in NYC, an event that was healthily attended by longtime fans. I’ve been to a few of this record store’s in-store shows and this was the best-attended by a long shot. The trio was charming, humble and hearing their voices work in tandem live was a very special treat to be a part of. After a humorous anecdote, Sarle said “alright get them laughs out – here comes a sad one” and played another personal album highlight, “Slow Wake Up Sunday Morning”. Like “Moon”, this one features a delicate guitar and lead vocals that ebb and flow like sunlight pouring through a window on a slightly cloudy day. It’s an achingly beautiful song, albeit a sad one.
The last song I’d like to focus on is one that hit me only recently and is coincidentally the last on the album. “Guilt” is a quick, stripped back closer with Meath in the lead spot singing about the feeling of stewing over mistakes and accepting your own flaws. It came on unexpectedly when I was in my office alone and I kind of broke down while listening to it. Not even a minute long, it tapped into however I was feeling that day with ease: “You can think about it / and be mean to your insides / and forget that you were 10 or 12 or even 25” is the lyric that really cut into me. On the surface, looking-past-lyrics level, it’s another old time folk tune melody and structure, but lyrically is embracing a very important mentality that more folks my age and younger should embody more often. It’s a perfect end to an album that prides itself on quiet vitality, finding power in harmony around us.
If you’re a fan of folk music, beautiful harmonies and an effortless sense of family and togetherness in music I haven’t heard on record since maybe Whitney’s debut in 2016, I implore you to check out Magic Ship along with Mountain Man’s 2010 debut Made The Harbor. If you’re like me, someone who just deleted most of their social media presence due to an overwhelming darkness pervading their life at all times because of it, this record hit the spot.
Ava Luna – Moon 2 [Western Vinyl]
Putting an impossibly complicated formula into a graphing calculator, exploding the screen and watching numbers big and small fly across the room and form new shapes in the air.
Christine & The Queens – Chris [Because Music]
Ultimate naked lip-syncing post-shower in a foggy mirror moment compilation.
Dilly Dally – Heaven [Partisan]
Inserting metal wires down your arms and legs, standing underneath a powerful magnet, ripping all of your skin off, then living your life as a skinless husk.
Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses [Sargent House]
An old abandoned farm house has black smoke billowing out of every cupboard, drain pipe, light fixture, crack in the floorboard and dusty appliance.
The Field – Infinite Moment [Kompakt]
Climbing a glacier and tapping into memories of its centuries-long, earth-carving journey.
Guerilla Toss – Twisted Crystal [DFA]
Strapping on a VR headset and putting a virus in your homeroom teacher’s computer allows you to avoid doing your homework for another night, but also causes your classmates to mutate into disfigured, flesh-eating cartoon characters.
Lonnie Holley – MITH [Jagjaguwar]
A breeze blows through the vast amount of forgotten corners and communities in the United States and out comes a low, rumbling, waveringly harmonious whistle.
North Americans – Going Steady [Driftless Recordings]
Jumping into a pile of leaves and staying there for an entire day.
Oliver Coates – Shelley’s on Zenn-La [RVNG]
Sitting in a video lab, you watch as 150 different alternate universes’ versions of yourself go about an average day and compare and contrast the results, overlaying each universe on top of one another to see how the paths eventually diverge and reconnect.
Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love [Warp]
Reading a specific passage of a cursed book found in a damp alleyway causes auditory & visual hallucinations and an intense desire to build monuments to an unknown deity.
Editor’s Note: This list was condensed into one post (it was originally 5 different posts leading up to #20 – #1 – how annoying!) and reformatted a bit on 9/20/2018. I’m thinking about revisiting this list, paring it down, and reflecting upon how my tastes have changed over seven years. For now, read what my high school self had to say about the albums of the 00s. He makes a good point that since I was 8 in 2000, I don’t have a complete grasp on the breadth of music that arrived in the decade, but rather the stray records I did happen to listen to that weren’t classic rock and anything Pitchfork said was good. Looking back on it now is entertaining to say the least, especially when I see all the records in the #100-#50 zone that I have no recollection of listening to.
Enjoy reading the original musings of a 17 year old on indie rock’s favorite albums.
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Happy (Late) Birthday, Warm Visions! You’re now one year old! Hooray!
To commemorate this fine occasion, I have compiled a Best of the 00’s list.
To be fair, this list can be late to the party. Considering I was 8 in 2000, I don’t think I had time to process all the music had come out since then. Now that I am older and have more time to validly waste, I can make lists like these. So I’ll be posting lists of 20 throughout this week, starting today! This will be nostalgia from 2009! How fun!
100. Lambchop – Nixon 99. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala 98. Interpol – Turn Out the Bright Lights 97. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 96. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular 95. Portishead – Third 94. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic 93. Spoon – Gimme Fiction 92. Rogue Wave – Asleep at Heaven’s Gate 91. Beirut – The Flying Club Cup 90. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning 89. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain 88. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker 87. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine 86. Kanye West – Graduation 85. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? 84. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand 83. Okkervil River – The Stage Names 82. TV on the Radio – Dear Science 81. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm 80. Explosions In The Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold, Dead Place 79. The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2 78. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere 77. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll 76. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House 75. Sigur Ros – Takk… 74. of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 73. Beck – Modern Guilt 72. Jason Mraz – Waiting For My Rocket To Come 71. Madvillain – Madvillainy 70. The Postal Service – Give Up 69. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head 68. Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow 67. Muse – Absolution 66. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People 65. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 64. The White Stripes – Elephant 63. Flotation Toy Warning – Bluffer’s Guide To The Flight Deck 62. CSS – Cansei de Ser Sexy 61. Beck – Guero 60. Alison Krauss & Robert Plant – Raising Sand 59. My Morning Jacket – Z 58. M83 – Saturdays = Youth 57. Hot Chip – The Warning 56. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell 55. MIA – Kala 54. The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free 53. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 52. My Dear Disco – Dancethink LP 51. Radiohead – In Rainbows 50. Kanye West – Late Registration 49. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out Of This Country 48. Deerhunter – Microcastle 47. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic 46. The Tough Alliance – A New Chance 45. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem 44. Gorillaz – Gorillaz 43. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam 42. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Source Tags 41. Sufjan Stevens – Michigan 40. M83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas And Lost Ghosts 39. Panda Bear – Person Pitch 38. Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals 37. Muse – Origin Of Symmetry 36. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 35. Outkast – Speakerboxxx / The Love Below 34. Daft Punk – Discovery 33. The Mars Volta – Deloused In The Comatorium 32. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism 31. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible 30. The Strokes – Room On Fire 29. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun 28. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago 27. Outkast – Stankonia 26. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes 25. White Stripes – White Blood Cells 24. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven 23. Björk – Vespertine 22. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend 21. Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica
Hit the jump for #20 – #1 + little album descriptions.
August, like July, was a month that found me in a state of stasis. I improved on the zero-concert total of July by going to three in August. I went on vacation with family and took everything super slow and easy, as summer was winding down. Music-listening wise, I was enraptured by the releases of the month, especially Mitski and Tirzah, both incredibly anticipated albums for me this year. After those two huge pillars of my listening, I had to search around for other great records of the month. I trusted in the greatness of Saintseneca with their new album Pillar Of Na, IDLES won me over for life with their unbelievable live antics, and the star-power behind Roy Montgomery’s album Suffuse (featuring Grouper, Circuit des Yeux, Julianna Barwick + more) was a no-brainer. I was so happy to find Steady Holiday and The Beths, both albums I’ve been enjoying more at the time of writing (September) than in the month they were released. Wish there was more from this month that grabbed and shook me, but I’m sure I’ll find more down the line. I’m only one guy, after all!
The Beths – Future Me Hates Me [Carpark]
The satisfying feeling of watching your close friends and family react negatively and shamefully after you say something really self-deprecating but actually very funny.
IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance. [Partisan]
A best friend duo of hulking, golem-like behemoths tend to the university’s garden and pummel racists and fascists on campus into garbage cans.
Mitski – Be The Cowboy [Dead Oceans]
Taking the moments from your past that hit you with waves of hotly embarrassing nostalgic memories when you lay in bed at night and recreating them as high-budget feature films with you playing every role.
Roy Montgomery – Suffuse [Ba Da Bing]
A series of arcane rituals to summon a great one are performed in a remote cornfield, shaking the sky and loosening the earth’s crust below.
Saintseneca – Pillar Of Na [Anti-]
A freak snowstorm in the dead of summer causes mass hysteria across the world, both causing an early start for those seeking the comfort of winter, as well as birthing a new cultish religion based around a supposed snow god.
Steady Holiday – Nobody’s Watching [Barsuk]
A sacred trickster bends time and space to plant pranks throughout the universe.
Tirzah – Devotion [Domino]
Drifting between lucid dream states and bleary, active consciousness while riding out snooze alarms in the early morning.
The new Mitski album, Be The Cowboy, is one of my favorite records of 2018 so far and it’s only been out for a little over two weeks. It exceeded all my expectations I had foolishly set about the record. It succeeds by packing a ton of great moments in as short bursts of prose, spanning 32 minutes over 14 tracks. Most of the songs are essentially choruses or verses – there isn’t much of a complicated structure here. That style fits this album perfectly.
One song that might get buried due to the overwhelmingly strong first half is the penultimate track, “Blue Light”, which comes on strong right out of the gate (“Somebody kiss me, I’m going crazy, I’m walking ’round the house naked”), but slowly strips away into an ethereal, wistful yearning: “Are you that blue light?”. The song ends with Mitski drifting away from reality and structure, cooing “do-do-do” into the ether.
The track is only 1:43 minutes and packs in so much meaning and lore to the universe of this album. I’ve had the latter half of the song stuck in my head for two days straight, pulsing like a deep-space SOS signal.
In my final semester of college, I had a free form radio show where I would focus on a specific theme every week, usually depending on my mood. Usually it was mostly a blend of indie rock, but occasionally I would go heavy on one particular theme. One week I did a full metal show (which inspired my last playlist, My Black T-Shirt) and one that was more calming, in an effort to ease listeners on campus with midterms and other worldly troubles.
This was in 2015 – a much simpler time. I thought now that everyone in the world that’s struggling would like to have a quiet friend to accompany them as they drifted off to sleep, one to walk with in an overstocked supermarket, one to have fill the room during a rainy day, and one to bring you back into existence after feeling like a bit of a smear on a lens.
I’d like to think that the songs I included here aren’t just completely brainless background tracks that anyone could find on a recommended “PEACEFUL SLEEP AMBIENT CHILL” playlist, but more things to put on that occasionally grab you with a sour note, an interesting refrain, or a blessed harmony. The playlist should flow in the order I’ve listed, so if possible, please refrain from putting this on shuffle. I playtested all of these friends myself, not an algorithm. I hope that makes a difference.
Are there any tracks that you think would fit swimmingly with this polite group of friends? Let me know! I’m always looking for new, welcoming bodies in my life. Hope you enjoy.
A bit late, but for a decent reason: nothing in July besides a handful of albums really grabbed me, shook me, piledrived me into the ground, turned me into soup, shot me into orbit, summoned me in a seance, or forged me into a sword this month. The seven I’ve listed here are by and far the best things that came out of this month, especially the Daniel Bachman album. It seems like this has been one of the rainier summers I’ve experienced in recent memory, and The Morning Star is just perfect to sit around in the humidity and watch a huge rainstorm come in. I know, I’ve done it a few times already this year!
On the flipside of that, Channel Tres is prime cool material for walking around on a pleasant summer evening. SALES is pretty flexible and Denzel Curry is for those times you need an amp up that’ll get stuck in your head. We’ve got a nice handful here, which feels perfect considering the gargantuan wave of albums coming this fall.
Channel Tres – Channel Tres [Godmode]
Driving to the club, down a palm-lined street at night in a very expensive car, but continuing to avoid reaching the club because the playlist you made is too good and you don’t want it to end so soon.
Daniel Bachman – The Morning Star [Three Lobed Recordings]
Sitting on an old, creaky porch during a sweltering, humid afternoon that’s still but not silent, you watch a massive storm roll in from the west, with thunder rumbling towards you in low, ominous vibrations.
Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love [Anti-]
A humanoid demon sent to Earth struggles at first to assimilate into daily Earthling life and find love, but eventually accepts their differences and forges on with scorched earth and numerous malevolent curses on unwitting souls left in their wake.
Denzel Curry – TA13OO [Loma Vista]
A tale in three parts of an accomplished warrior returning to the battlefield to once again eliminate his competition via body, mind and soul.
Ovlov – TRU [Exploding In Sound]
At the local punk house, the porch ashtray is overflowing and the backyard is a swamp.
Rosali – Trouble Anyway [Scissor Tail Records / Spinster Sounds]
Finding a long, glossy black feather amongst a grove of wildflowers.
SALES – Forever & Ever [Self-Released]
Walking aimlessly in the rain and making songs out of raindrops hitting your umbrella.
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